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Swordplay/Modern Titles

Swordplay: (Story/Location) A subcategory of "Action". This is about the art or skill of wielding a sword, esp. in fencing. Entries in this category should contain the use of swords to a large extent in scenes.

Modern: (Setting) These are titles which have a modern feel to them; the story takes place in the present day (of the creation of this anime), give or take a few years.

Title Rating Synopsis
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.hack Rent See .hack//SIGN

.hack// Intermezzo
Watch Mimiru and Bear meet up at a reopened dungeon known to have given rise to legends in the past. But rather than collect treasures and experience points, Mimiru has come to see a past experience that she had with powerful Longarm character, Mimika.

.hack//SIGN
Rent It's the near future, and there is only one video game, called "The World." In the virtual reality of "The World", all sorts of people play. However, once a character named Tsukasa is unable to log out, and weird events start happening, "The World" starts to seem much more mysterious than anyone ever thought.
A

Air TV
Buy

Kunisaki Yukito is a traveler, ever seeking the 'girl in the sky' from a legend passed down in his family. His journey takes him to a small seaside town, where he meets Misuzu, a girl who seems eager to become his friend. A story spanning a thousand years begins to unfold against the background of their peculiar relationship.

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Blood + Rent See Blood Plus
Blood Night Rent See Blood Plus

Blood Plus
Rent Saya Otonashi lives peacefully with her adoptive family in Okinawa. The man that she proudly calls dad has adopted both her, her younger brother Riku and her troublesome older brother Kai. In the past year the four of them, once strangers, have formed a close loving family, but Saya wonders why she does not have any memories older than a year. Everything changes with the appearance of a monster called a Chiropteran. At school one night, a teacher is murdered before her eyes and Saya is attacked by a murderous creature. A mysterious young man carrying a cello appears and saves her, but he hands her a strange sword and tells her to fight. Why does her dad know so much about these monsters? And who is this cello player named Haji, someone who is now following Saya around - insisting on serving her?
Blood TV Rent See Blood Plus
C
Cast Away - Airan Island Buy See Nagasarete Airantou
Crow Buy See Karas
D
Drift off to Blue Orchid Island Buy See Nagasarete Airantou
H
Hack Sign Rent See .hack//SIGN

Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Verite
Rent This new series starts as a remake of Hanaukyo Maid Tai but soon goes beyond that storywise, so in a way you may also see it as a sequel.
Hanaukyo Maid Team La Verite Rent See Hanaukyo Maid Tai La Verite

Honoo no Labyrinth
Rent Galan is a strangely troubled university student who is a big samurai fan, and when a fellow student, the lady Natsu gives him an ancient Japanese short sword as a gift, he can only geek-out with joy. And when the lady Natsu invites him to visit her hometown, a traditional Japanese village located in Russia, Galan can only answer yes. But what Galan has not yet been told is that his college lady-friend is a princess in the village and her gift is a betrothal heirloom.
Genre
Action(5) Comedy(5) Drama(12) Horror(1)
Mystery(2) Parody(2) Romance(5) Romantic Comedy(5)
Suspense(2) Tragedy(3)
Setting
Fantasy(4) Historical(1) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Classic(1) Kawaii(2) Silly-funny(5)
Surreal(3)
Keywords
Adventure(4) Animals(1) Competition(1) Computers(2)
Dark(1) Dating Sim Spinoff(4) Depression(3) Ecchi(2)
Epic(1) Fan Service(6) Fighting(2) Fragmentary(1)
Friendship(1) Harem(4) High School(4) Magic(2)
Martial Arts(2) Mecha(1) Music(2) Ninja(2)
Occult(1) Pantsu(2) Samurai(2) Sequel(1)
Shinigami(1) Supernatural(4) Vampires(1) Video-game inspired(2)
Violent(3) War(2) Yuri(1)
Type
OVA(6) TV(8)
Release Year
2007(1) 2006(3) 2005(2) 2004(1) 2003(2) 2002(4) 2000(2) 1992(1)
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