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Plot Summary:
A police officer that nearly meets a violent death is turned into a cyborg with superhuman strength, speed and reflexes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cyber, adult anime
Best tv shows and movies like 8 Man After (1993):
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Crying Freeman 2: Shades of Death, Part 1 (1988)
Plot Summary:
With the blessing of the 108 Dragons, Yo and Emu marry and receive new names, Ron Tayan and Fu Ching Ran. The elders send them to Macau to find out who's behind a new attack. Fu is kidnaped; at the same time, Baya San (the huge granddaughter of the 108 Dragons' aged leaders) demands to be the next head of the gang, not Ron. The childish Baya San has joined forces with the Macau gang, in league with the American mob. A surprise visitor from the US arrives where Fu is being held captive. Can Ron rescue her, find the traitor within the 108 Dragons, defeat his enemies, and bring discipline to Baya San? He must still face the angry and deadly girlfriend of the American visitor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: anime, crying
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A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set a few years before Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, A.D. Police chronicles the tales of Mega-Tokyo's special police division designed to control rogue Boomers in the city. A.D. Police Officer Kenji Sasaki faces a major dilemma: he loses another partner to a rabid boomer. A day after he's sent off-duty, he receives a new partner in the form of German cop Hans Kleif. Funny thing is that Kenji sucker-punched Hans at a bar the night before. Not only does Kenji face the everyday task of controlling Boomers, he has to learn to adjust with his new partner.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Dominion Tank Police (1988)
Plot Summary:
Leona Ozaki joins Newport City's infamous Tank Police division. With aid of Al and her newly built mini-tank, Bonaparte, she wages war on Buaku and his cohorts, the Puma Sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, manga, adult anime, cyberpunk anime, cult film
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009-1 (2006)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate world, the Cold War has continued to persist for 140 years. As a result, the world was divided into two factions: the West Block, and the East Block. As the Cold War drags on, the tension between the two factions, as well as the amount of nuclear weapons they have, rise. Mylene Hoffman is a female cyborg who is a spy for the West Block. Together with three other agents, Mylene partakes in various missions issued by her superiors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, mecha, seinen, ecchi, visually appealing
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Angel Cop (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the late twentieth century, the Secret Security Force was formed to stop the actions of the communist terrorist group known as the Red May. Angel, a beautiful, yet cold woman, has recently joined the small anti-terrorist group. But her first mission will be a true test of skill, for members of the Red May are being found dead, murdered by gruesome methods. Who is causing these murders? And why? Written by Chuck "Dark-Side" Williamson.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, manga, cyber, adult anime, bloody, controversial
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Crying Freeman 1: Portrait of a Killer (1988)
Plot Summary:
Emu Hino, a 29-year-old virgin, witnesses a mob hit and fears that the killer will now find her and kill her. Indeed, he sets out to do so; he's Yo Hinomura, a talented potter and artist who's been conscripted against his will to be the prime hitman for the 108 Dragons, a gang within the Chinese Mafia, who are determined to push aside Tokyo's local crime lords. He breaks into her house, and she asks that he make love to her before he kills her; she connects to his inner self, and he becomes her protector. Now he must defend her against the local crime gang, who have connections with corrupt Tokyo police. Will Yo and Emu make it out alive, and will the 108 Dragons triumph?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, adult anime, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, adult animation
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Silent Möbius (1991)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic Tokyo, several policewomen fight a monster. One of them, Katsumi Liqueur, remembers where she saw it before... Katsumi Liqueur, an American-born woman of Japanese descent, travels to Tokyo to visit her mother, Fuyuka, who is sick in the hospital. She takes a shortcut through an alley after her taxi gets stuck in traffic, only to encounter a monster and two policewomen fighting it. Later, she meets their chief, Rally Cheyenne, who, it seems, has been expecting her, though Katsumi has never met her before. The policewomen want Katsumi to help them fight the monster, but Katsumi, who does not want to believe in magic, resists.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyber, cyberpunk anime
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Patlabor: The Mobile Police (1989)
Plot Summary:
Patlabor: The TV Series is an anime television series, created by Headgear, animated by Sunrise, and based on the Patlabor anime franchise. With success of the first movie, Patlabor became one of the first OVAs to be ported to TV. Originally planned for 24 episodes, the series was extended twice. First to 36 episodes, to cover the conflict with Schaft, and then to 47 episodes in order to conclude the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, adult anime, futuristic, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, slapstick, super sentai
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Mazinkaiser SKL (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mazinkaizer SKL (マジンカイザースカル Majinkaizā Sukaru?) is a Japanese OVA spinoff of Go Nagai's Mazinkaiser, which was in itself a spinoff of Mazinger Z. The first episode was released on November 27, 2010 and was first screened on November 27, 2010. It also has a novel adaptation serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Hobby Magazine and a manga adaptation published in the mobile phone magazine Shu 2 Comic Gekkin. Like Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen, characters and references to other works of Go Nagai appear in this series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1992)
Plot Summary:
An adolescent with the ability to control a looming war-golem becomes entangled in the Experts of Justice's fight against the infamous group Big Fire.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, futuristic
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Violence Jack: Hell's Wind (1990)
Plot Summary:
The survivors of Kanto's Hell Earthquake built a new city and christened it "Hope Town". However, this peaceful town becomes a nightmare when it's raided by the motorcycle gang, "Hell's Wind". They abduct the women while the remaining townsfolk are left helpless against them. Meanwhile, a boy, Saburo, meets Jun. Jun's lover was previously murdered, and the duo help one another to fight against Hell's Wind. The battles are getting more and more difficult, but with the appearance of Violence Jack, the citizens seem to gain the upper hand against Hell's Wind.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, bloody, ecchi
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Ex-Arm (2021)
Plot Summary:
2014: Akira Natsume seems to almost have a phobia of electrical devices while also being very good at diagnosing them. He resolves to change himself for the better and get a girlfriend like his older brother did. …But then Akira suddenly dies in an accident. 16 years later a special policewoman and her android partner retrieve and activate a highly advanced AI and superweapon called EX-ARM and put it into full control of their ship as a last resort. Turns out the AI is actually just Akira’s brain!.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, entertaining, ecchi, seinen
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Silent Möbius 2 (1992)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother Katsumi wants nothing more to do with this horrible place known as Tokyo. Forced into staying an infuriated Katsumi returns to AMP HQ where chief Rally Cheyenne pleads with her to stay and join the team. However, her pleading falls on deaf ears as Katsumi exclaims that she wants nothing more to do with them, leaving to find another way home. Meanwhile the Demons taking over Tokyo begin their final move against humanity and the AMP. They realize that the key to opening their demon world lies within Katsumi. Her unwanted abilities mean everything to them and without her their plan would fail. The stage is set once again on the destroyed Tokyo Bay Bridge. Will Katsumi choose her destiny and defend her new found friend or will she fall to the weakness and despair within her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Bubblegum Crash (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Bubblegum Crisis. The original Knight Sabers have mostly moved on with their lives, until a paramilitary group commits a number of daring thefts, as a cover for their real objective - a new AI program that promises to revolutionize Boomer design.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha, cyberpunk anime
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Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Solid State Society 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
A new 3D version of Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, captivating, suspense, cyber, visually appealing, cyberpunk anime
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Armitage III (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2046, a cop and his female android partner called Armitage, part of the latest android line known as "class III" models that look, act and feel human, investigate illegal manufacture of class III androids on colonized Mars.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, mecha, manga, cult classic, cyberpunk anime
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Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the city of Oedo 2808a.d., three Cyber criminals are given two choices, to either rot in jail or to join a special force of the Cyber Police to get possibly one more chance at freedom ever again. For each criminal apprehended, and for each successful mission done, the state will agree to reduce their sentences. Lead by Hasegawa, the new recruits: Sengoku, Gogul, and Benton will bring some hard justice to Oedo and possibly taste freedom again.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, manga, mecha, adult anime, neo noir, seinen, detective, cyberpunk anime, vintage
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Mad Bull 34 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Rookie Police Officer Daizaburo "Eddie" Ban joins New York's 34th precinct where he is partnered up with John Estes, also known as Sleepy to his friends and Mad Bull to everyone else. Mad Bull usually solves crimes using extreme violence and very unpoliceman-like behaviour which always gets him in trouble with the 34th precinct and his partner Daizaburo. Despite Mad Bulls questionable methods for solving crime he always has a good reason for what he did and together him and Daizaburo try to make New York a safer place for everyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, adult anime, splatter
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Goku: Midnight Eye (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, Goku, a former police detective turned private, is investigating a mysterious string of apparent suicides of a special police unit investigating a ruthless weapons merchant. In his aggressive style, Goku almost joins that list, but he mysteriously survives and receives a cybernetic eye by parties unknown that can literally control any computer in the world. Now, he has a score to settle and is armed with what he needs to accomplish that.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anime, manga, mystic, adult anime, neo noir, adult animation, cyberpunk anime, 2d animation
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Real Drive (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the "Net society" that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or "Metal" for short — was developed. People's personal memories are reduced to information and placed within "protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves" called bubble shells online. The result was a virtual "explosion" of creative freedom as people felt safe enough to explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This "friction" between the Metal's alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as "cyber divers" must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, cyber
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2045, after global capitalism has defaulted, Japan's elite Section 9 begins conducting covert cyber operations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, seinen, futuristic, psychological, mecha, 3d animation, computer animated, cyberpunk anime
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Appleseed (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the futuristic city of Olympus, built on the ashes of the third world war, a police officer and her cyborg partner fight terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, mecha, manga, cyber, adult anime, adult animation, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Heat Guy J (2002)
Plot Summary:
Heat Guy J is a 26 episode science fiction anime series created by Escaflowne director Kazuki Akane and Satelight. Heat Guy J was licensed and distributed in the U.S. in 2003 by Pioneer. It was re-released by Funimation Entertainment in the fall of 2009. The first 13 episodes of the show also was broadcast on the cable channel MTV2. A one volume manga was created based on the series, and was licensed and distributed by TOKYOPOP. The show was picked up for a UK DVD release by Manga Entertainment starting in March 2006. It was packaged in double DVD sets to make up for the long delayed release of the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, neo noir, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, cyber, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Genocyber (1994)
Plot Summary:
As the nations of the world begin to merge, world peace is threatened by the private armies of individual corporations. The Kuryu Group has just discovered a weapon that will tip world power in their favor. The Genocyber: a nightmarish combination of cybernetics and psychic potential. Many desire to control this monstrosity, but can its hatred be contained... Battle erupts, and the cyberpunk world of the future is about to explode with violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: anime, adult anime, mecha, adult animation, cyber, manga, brutal, seinen, psychological
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Armitage III: Polymatrix (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ross Sylibus is assigned to a police unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have links to the victims. To stir things up more, every victim is found to be an illegally made third-generation android.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cyberpunk anime
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Battle Angel Alita (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Hunter Warrior and cyborg healer named Ido formerly lived in the floating land of Zalem, the paradise that hovers above the refuse heap of Scrap Iron City in which he now resides with his former lover, Chiren. In his travels as a bounty hunter — killing spine thieves in a world in which human nerve tissue has become the most precious commodity — Ido one day discovers and repairs the remnants of a cyborg whom he names Gally. Though possessing the body of a young woman, Gally now embodies Ido's most sophisticated and lethal cybernetic skills. The preternaturally strong, amnesiac Gally begins to forge a life for herself in a world where every day is a struggle for survival. Based on the first two volumes of the manga.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, manga, cyber, rough, mind bending, mecha, seinen, bleak
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopia riddled with corruption and cybernetic implants, a talented but reckless street kid strives to become a mercenary outlaw — an edgerunner.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, cyber, futuristic, tragic
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Parasite Dolls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Beauty is only skin deep, but when you can’t see beneath the skin, how can you know what you’re really dealing with? In a world where perfect androids called Boomers have infiltrated every aspect of society, it’s the job of Branch to maintain peace between the people and the plastic. Unfortunately, not all boomers are created perfect, and when boomers go bad, people die. The thin blue line that separates man from machine is about to meet its most horrifying test in Parasite Dolls.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, cyber, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective, mecha
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Appleseed (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, computer animated, mecha, stylized, futuristic, adult animation, cyber, apocalyptic, manga, sincere
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the future when technological enhancements and robotics are a way of life, Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 take care of the jobs that are too difficult for the police. Section 9 employs hackers, sharpshooters, detectives and cyborgs all in an effort to thwart cyber criminals and their plans to attack the innocent.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, cyber, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, stylized, philosophical, adult animation, psychological