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Great Pretender anime cover
2020ONA23 episodes

Great Pretender

Self-styled “Japan's greatest swindler” Makoto Edamura is mainly targeting elder people and occasional foreign travelers. But when he tries to...

MARRIAGETOXIN anime cover
2026TV13 episodes

MARRIAGETOXIN

For centuries, the deadly arts have been perfected by those known as the Masters. Among them, the Poison Masters of the Five Great Families hold...

Black Lagoon anime cover
2006TV12 episodes

Black Lagoon

Okajima Rokuro is a Japanese businessman in a town full of Japanese businessmen. His normal day consists of social drinking with clients and being...

TRILLION GAME anime cover
2024TV26 episodes

TRILLION GAME

Old schoolmates Haru and Gaku will do anything to achieve success. And success to them means earning a trillion dollars! But to do so, they’ll...

Monster anime cover
2004TV74 episodes

Monster

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a renowned Japanese brain surgeon working at a leading hospital in Germany. One night, Dr. Tenma risks his reputation and...

ODDTAXI anime cover
2021TV13 episodes

ODDTAXI

A taxi driver's ordinary conversations slowly connect to a missing person case.

SAKAMOTO DAYS anime cover
2025ONA11 episodes

SAKAMOTO DAYS

When Sakamoto meets Aoi, the convenience store clerk, it’s love at first sight — and just like that, he retires. Sakamoto gets married, has a...

City Hunter anime cover
1987TV51 episodes

City Hunter

Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People...

Akiba Maid War anime cover
2022TV12 episodes

Akiba Maid War

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 anime cover
2002TV49 episodes

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 anime cover
2015OVA1 episodes

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...

PSYCHO-PASS anime cover
2012TV22 episodes

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...

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 anime cover
2026ONA10 episodes

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 pulls you back into Night City, where lives become entangled to the extreme. Weak, a washed-up cyberpunk legend, is now...

Lycoris Recoil anime cover
2022TV13 episodes

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...

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You anime cover
2026TV12 episodes

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You

Sasaki is an overworked salaryman drifting through the corporate grind, sustained by cigarettes and the cheerful service and smile of Yamada, the...

Trigun anime cover
1998TV26 episodes

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...