Great Pretender
Self-styled “Japan's greatest swindler” Makoto Edamura is mainly targeting elder people and occasional foreign travelers. But when he tries to...
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MARRIAGETOXIN
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Black Lagoon
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ODDTAXI
A taxi driver's ordinary conversations slowly connect to a missing person case.
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City Hunter
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Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves...
GetBackers
Ban Mido and Ginji Amano run a freelance business of recovering anything lost or stolen from a client—and they claim a 100% success rate. They...
One-Punch Man: Road to Hero
OVA bundled with the 10th volume of the One Punch Man manga. It features an original story by the series' mangaka, ONE, about the secret story of...
Monster
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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...
Lycoris Recoil
“LycoReco” is a café with a traditional Japanese twist located in downtown Tokyo. But the delicious coffee and sugary sweets are not the only...
Trigun
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Maid-Sama!
Being the first female student council president isn't easy, especially when your school just transitioned from an all boys high school to a co-ed...
Planetes
In the year 2075, mankind has reached a point where journeying between Earth, the moon and the space stations is part of daily life. However, the...
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