Supernatural/Dark/Adventure Titles

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Supernatural: (Story/Location) Titles of this category are relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe (especially God, or a god, demigod, spirit or devil), departing from what is usual or normal (especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature or attributed to an invisible agent, like a ghost or spirit). Contains subcategories of more specific types: "Angels", "Deities", "Shinigami", and "Vampires".

Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.

Adventure: (Genre) Titles where the characters are involved in an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.

Title Rating Synopsis
A
A Traveller's Diary Rent See Aru Tabibito no Nikki

Aru Tabibito no Nikki
Rent This anime by Kunio Kato shows the surreal journey of a stranger, traveling on a Dali-like pig with giant legs and leading us in to an unconscious mixture of nightmare and dream.
B

Boukyaku no Senritsu
Buy Over a hundred years have passed since humanity lost the war to a strange race of beasts that they call Monsters. The remaining survivors live in constant terror, fear and denial, as they are forced to offer their children in tribute to appease and feed the needs of their inhuman Monster conquerors. But not all of humanity has surrendered completely. A small group called the warriors of Melos still fight on, inspired only by a vision of a young lady known as the 'Melody of Oblivion', remembering an almost forgotten legend that if she is found and freed, then the monsters can be defeated.
I

Interlude
Buy For a close-knit foursome of high school friends, life is all about sleeping in class, strawberry milk, and after-class karaoke. However, our unnamed main protagonist is troubled by nightmares of death and disaster. Only when he begins to realize that his memories of people and events are different from those of Tamaki Maiko (named "Tama-chan" by her friends, "Mai-chan" by herself), Chimu and Harusa, his three female friends, does he begin to wonder. Later, when the waking dreams start.... a short moment of him seeing something that noone else sees....an attractive young lady, who stares back at him in amazement from an empty subway station, does he begin to wonder about his sanity. That evening, the four encounter and follow a shadow with no person, only to encounter a gang of stumbling zombies. And then he wakes up that morning from yet another bad dream, but the threads of reality have become a bit too frayed, and he begins to see a way in which he can travel over to the reality of his nightmares.
J

JoJo`s Bizarre Adventure 2
About a hundred years after his cataclysmic battle against one of the Joestar family, the vampire Dio has been fished out of the ocean and freed. Thus begins the adventure for Jotaroa as he learns from his grandfather of a long running family feud with Dio, a feud which has taken the life of father. The Joestar family has been cursed with a special terrifying psychic ability which allows them call forth a spirit warrior (they call them STANDs) to fight on their behalf. An ability which may permit them defeat Dio.
M

Matantei Loki Ragnarok
Rent Mayura is missing a magical talking doll and is drawn to visit a strange detective agency, where she meets Loki and his personal assistant Yamino. The deceptively short and childlike Loki tells Mayura that it is not the outward appearance, but rather the inner skills and abilities of a person that make a great detective. The three start a friendship in adventure as they unravel a series of mysteries, bound in magic and ancient lore, to find the truth behind the strange events that seem drawn to them.
Melody of Oblivion Buy See Boukyaku no Senritsu
T
The Diary of Tortov Roddle Rent See Aru Tabibito no Nikki
The Melody of Oblivion Buy See Boukyaku no Senritsu
The Mythical Detective Loki Rent See Matantei Loki Ragnarok
W

Wind: A Breath of Heart TV
Watch Soon after their mother has been reported missing, a teenage Okano Makoto and his younger sister, Hinata, return to the city of their birth where life appears to be peaceful and everyone possesses some individual supernatural ability without questioning its origin. Their father died when they still were little kids.
インタールード (Japanese) Buy See Interlude
忘却の旋律 (Japanese) Buy See Boukyaku no Senritsu
或る旅人の日記 Rent See Aru Tabibito no Nikki
Genre
Action(4) Drama(1) Horror(3) Mystery(2)
Romance(1) Suspense(1)
Setting
Fantasy(5) Modern(1) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
All Ages(2)
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Artistic(1) Creepy(2) Surreal(3)
Weird(2)
Keywords
Animals(1) Fighting(1) Friendship(1) High School(1)
Magic(1) Occult(2) Psychics(1) Sequel(1)
Vampires(1) Video-game inspired(2) Violent(1)
Type
ONA(1) OVA(1) TV(5)
Release Year
2004(3) 2003(2)

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