Akira
It's the year 2019, thirty-one years have passed since the start of World War III. A top-secret child with amazing powers of the mind breaks free...
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TRIGUN STAMPEDE
Vash the Stampede’s a joyful gunslinging pacifist, so why does he have a $6 million bounty on his head? That’s what’s puzzling rookie reporter...
Akudama Drive
Many years ago, a Great Civil War ravaged Japan, leaving the country fragmented between two regions: Kansai and Kanto. In Kansai, a group of six...
Texhnolyze
In a man-made underground society, descendants of a banished generation vie for control of the crumbling city of Lux. Ichise, an orphan turned...
DEMON LORD 2099
The cyberpunk metropolis Shinjuku—a massive city-state bedecked with neon signs, towering skyscrapers, and the latest cutting-edge technology. It...
Gurren Lagann
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BANANA FISH
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino...
Neon Genesis Evangelion
In the year 2015, the Angels, huge, tremendously powerful, alien war machines, appear in Tokyo for the second time. The only hope for Mankind's...
Parasyte -the maxim-
They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites,...
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...
Trigun
Vash the Stampede is a wanted man with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. The price on his head is a fortune, and his path of...
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
In a very different Tokyo from the one we know today, the totalitarian government rules with an iron fist. But a group called "the Sect" is...
INUYASHIKI LAST HERO
Ichiro Inuyashiki is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world...
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Memories
Memories is a compilation of three standalone short films encompassing different genres. Magnetic Rose — a science fiction tale that tells a...
Casshern Sins
In the distant future, where cyborgs and humans struggle to survive after the war which destroyed the world, a being in white suit awakens. His...
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
This is the story of a man who has yet to realize what destiny holds in store for him…. In the distant future, mankind has lived quietly and...
Toward the Terra (TV)
In the future, humans are living on colonized planets and are controlled in every aspect of their life by a system of computers. Evolution has...
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