THE GHOST IN THE SHELL
The year is 2029. In near-future Japan, where the world has become highly information-intensive, with a vast corporate network covering the...
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Ghost in the Shell 2.0
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PLUTO
A murder occurs in an orderly world where robots are unable to kill humans. The robotic Europol investigator Gesicht takes the case, but the...
PSYCHO-PASS
Justice, and the enforcement of it, has changed. In the 22nd century, Japan enforces the Sibyl System, an objective means of determining the...
INUYASHIKI LAST HERO
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 pulls you back into Night City, where lives become entangled to the extreme. Weak, a washed-up cyberpunk legend, is now...
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Akira
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Time of Eve
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