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Plot Summary:
Gungrave is a Japanese animated television series based on the video game of the same name, created by Yasuhiro Nightow. The series is directed by Toshiyuki Tsuru, from a screenplay by Yousuke Kuroda, and produced by Madhouse Studios. The series follows Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowell as they rise through the ranks of the Millennion crime syndicate. Gungrave aired on TV Tokyo from October 6, 2003 to March 29, 2004, totaling twenty-six episodes. Like the Gungrave video game, and its sequel Gungrave: Overdose, the series' music is provided by Tsuneo Imahori; this also includes the series' opening theme. In 2003 Geneon Entertainment, formally Pioneer Entertainment, announced the license of Gungrave in North America. On July 3, 2008, Geneon Entertainment and Funimation Entertainment announced an agreement to distribute select titles in North America after Geneon ceased distribution of their own titles in October 2007. While Geneon Entertainment will still retain the license, Funimation Entertainment will assume exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles. Gungrave was announced as one of the several titles under the agreement on December 30, 2008. As of November 26, 2010, Funimation has fully licensed the anime series. The anime series returned to US television on May 11, 2011 on the Funimation Channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, manga, neo noir, adult anime, perverse, seinen
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Double the Girls, Double the Guns!! For Mikura, danger is routine and killing is just like breathing. Sleek and sexy, she was born with a gun in each hand and a smile on her face. She specializes in taking risks, but things get a little too hot when her company takes a kidnapping job. The target is a wealthy baseball team owner named Momokichi, but he turns out to be a powerful underworld boss. Mikura and her team are beset by countless heavily armed bodyguards and Momokichi's vicious daughter, Momomi. She's used to getting her way, and with world-class marksmanship skills, she may be the perfect match for Mikura!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, hentai, adult anime, adult animation, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, humorous, disturbing
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, manga, adult anime, seinen, silent, silent film
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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 Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, exciting, captivating, yaoi, bleak, humorous, yuri, noir, adult animation
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, yuri, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, yaoi, gothic, tension, neo noir
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Sawa may seem innocent and naive, but don’t be fooled. She is a cold-blooded killer, and if you’re on the wrong side of the law, you may be her next target. Not content to just watch as the imperfect justice system lets more and more criminals go loose every day, a detective decides to train the young Sawa to be his instrument of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, hentai, adult animation, adult anime, controversial, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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During Prohibition, the law held no power and the mafia ruled the town. The story takes place in Lawless, a town thriving on black market sales of illicitly brewed liquor. Avilio returns to Lawless after some time away, following the murder of his family in a mafia dispute there. One day, Avilio receives a letter from a mysterious sender, prompting him to return to Lawless for revenge. He then infiltrates the Vanetti family, the ones responsible for his family's murder, and sets about befriending the don's son, Nero, to set his vengeance in motion. Killing brings more killing, and revenge spawns more revenge. How will the 91-day story of these men guided by a tragic fate end? (Source: Crunchyroll).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspense, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, ambiguous ending, crying, sentimental
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, manga, shounen
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New Fist of the North Star: The Cursed City (2003)
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In the 21st century, a nuclear war turned most of the Earth's surface into a desert wasteland, which also resulted in the contamination of the Earth's water supply. A man named Sanga has built the fortified haven of the "Last Land", where he rules as its dictator by monopolizing the city's uncontaminated water supply. When he learns that the neighboring residents of Freedom Village are trying to dig up a well for their own, Sanga sends his underlings to sabotage their effort. Kenshiro, master of Hokuto Shinken, gets involved in the conflict between the two regions after saving Tobi, an informant hired by Freedom Village.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, manga, exciting, bleak, bloody, adult animation, splatter
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, retro, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating, manga
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The Skull Man (2007)
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Otomo City: where freedom and justice have atrophied to the bone; where conspiracy rules the day and death stalks the night... Death in the form of the Skull Man, a literal Grim Reaper whose skeletal grin presages grisly mayhem and murder, even to the monstrous mutants that haunt the city's underworlds! To investigate a bizarre slaying, journalist Minagami Hayato and photographer Kiriko Mamiya must stalk this ultimate predator, through a festering cadaver of a city where the corruption flows in rivers as deep and foul as the sins of the reigning elite, and unearth a secret so shocking that an entire city has been turned into a tomb to contain! In a nightmarish necropolis where nothing is as it seems, vengeance comes in the form of a living Death's-Head!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, scary, rough, serious
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17 years ago, immortals first appeared on the battlefields of Africa. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, manga, tense, bleak, super sentai
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Shiki Tohno is a boy who, after an accident as a child, is able to see strange lines coming from objects and people. He has to wear special glasses to stop seeing them. If he cuts some of these lines, he destroys people connected to them. One day he meets a woman called Arcueid and together they start a journey that's going to reveal some secrets of his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, manga, tense, neo noir
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Heat Guy J (2002)
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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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Black Lagoon (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, psychological, manga, adult animation, adult anime, seinen, realistic
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Elfen Lied (2004)
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The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this dangerous power, they have been captured and isolated in laboratories by the government. Lucy, a young and psychotic Diclonius, manages to break free of her confines and brutally murder most of the guards in the laboratory, only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along to a beach, where two teenagers named Kouta and Yuka discovers her. Having lost her memories, she was named after the only thing that she can now say, "Nyuu," and the two allow her to stay at Kouta's home. However, it appears that the evil "Lucy" is not dead just yet.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, bleak, manga, seinen, psychological, semi serious, mind twisting
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
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Mars. Days before Halloween 2071. Villains blow up a tanker truck on Highway One, releasing a deadly virus that kills hundreds. Fearing a bigger, even more devastating biochemical attack, an astronomical reward is offered for the arrest and capture of the person behind the destruction. On the space ship "Bebop," Spike Spiegel and his crew of bounty hunters (Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed and Ein) are bored and short of cash. But with the news of the reward, everything changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, witty, adult anime, adult animation, exciting, surreal, manga, serious, suspenseful
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In the year 199X, human civilization has been all but destroyed by a nuclear holocaust. In an age where the strong rule over the weak, the survivors of the fallout struggle over the remaining supply food and water left. Kenshiro, successor to an ancient, deadly martial art known as Hokuto Shinken (Fist of the North Star), wanders the wasteland with seven scars in the shape of the Big Dipper on his chest. This infamous style uses the body's hidden 708 pressure points to destroy opponents from within and allows practitioners to unleash 100% of their humanly strength. Accompanied by a young thief and an orphan girl, this messiah brings justice to this lawless world with the strongest fist in the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, adult anime, apocalyptic, adult animation, shounen, brutal
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, mecha
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Jormungand (2012)
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Jonah is a child soldier and the newest bodyguard for Koko, an international arms dealer with an entourage of hired guns. The cold-blooded kid hates Koko’s line of work, but following her into the darkest corners of the black market might be the only way he can find those responsible for his family’s slaughter. Besides, his employer isn’t like most merchants of death. She uses guile and cutthroat tactics to keep her clients armed to the teeth—all while cultivating her own warped plan for the future of world peace. With the CIA desperate for her capture, assassins eager to collect her head, and the potential for every contract to end in ultra-violence, Koko and her comrades in arms bring the boom to every corner of the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, seinen, manga
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Twenty years ago, Shokichi Komachi was part of the Bugs 2 mission to Mars that discovered Terra Formars, human-cockroach hybrids that resulted from a terraforming accident. Shokichi was one of only two survivors. Now, the AE virus that came from Mars is raging wildly on earth. Shokichi boards the spacecraft Annex 1 to go back to Mars to find a sample in order to create a vaccine. They will face an unanticipated accident, a multinational conspiracy, and even more advanced Terra Formars.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, serious, suspenseful, exciting, futuristic, adult anime, brutal, ecchi, splatter
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Cowboy Bebop (1998)
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In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters (also referred to as "Cowboys") chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada
Duration: 650 min
Plot tags: anime, futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, neo noir, serious, stylized, manga, tragicomedy, ambiguous ending
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s-CRY-ed (2001)
Plot Summary:
The aftermath of a mysterious environmental catastrophe has left the land in complete desolation! While mankind has been able to rebuild the city, the catastrophe has caused some humans to undergo genetic mutations granting them special powers and abilities. These genetically enhanced humans are known as Alters. Kazuma has spent his entire life in the wastelands relying on his special powers to survive, but when a secret organization called ‘Holy’ threatens to take away his freedom, he will be left with a choice to join or die. His fight to seek the truth behind the ‘Holy’ will rage and consume humanity and Alter alike!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 629 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, manga
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Berserk (2016)
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Spurred by the flame raging in his heart, the Black Swordsman Guts continues his seemingly endless quest for revenge. Standing in his path are heinous outlaws, delusional evil spirits, and a devout child of god. Even as it chips away at his life, Guts continues to fight his enemies, who wield repulsive and inhumane power, with nary but his body and sword—his strength as a human.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, manga, adult animation, humorous, seinen, saga, biting, suspenseful, rough
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Claymore (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue for picking up a stray child and almost losing herself to her youma side by "Awakening", she is constantly assigned rather dangerous missions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, manga, adult anime, spectacular, psychological, brutal
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Devil May Cry (2007)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the demon hunter Dante who himself is half demon and half human.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 288 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic, manga, adult anime, perverse, shounen
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Hellsing Ultimate (2006)
Plot Summary:
Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, have long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from the creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing, controls her own personal army to eliminate the undead beings, but even her highly trained soldiers pale in comparison to her most trusted vampire exterminator — a vampire by the name of Alucard. Along with Integra's mysterious butler and Alucard's new vampire minion, Seras Victoria, the Hellsing Organization must face not only regular ghouls and vampires, but a rivalling secret organization from the Vatican, and Millennium, an enigmatic group of madmen spawned by a certain war over 50 years ago... A bloody battle between monsters is about to begin. The dead are dancing, and all hell is singing.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: anime, gothic, atmospheric, stylized, dark fantasy, intense, brutal, manga, scary, adult anime
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Hellsing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Vampires exist. It is the duty of Hellsing, an organization sponsored by the British government, to hide that frightening fact and protect the blissfully unaware populace. Along with its own personal army, Hellsing also has a few secret weapons. Alucard, an incredibly powerful vampire, has been controlled by Hellsing for years. Although he dislikes being a servant to the Hellsing family, he certainly enjoys his job as Hellsing’s vampire exterminator. Seras is a fledgling vampire and a former police woman. Although reluctant to embrace her new self, she is still a valuable member of the organization. Integra Hellsing, the current leader, is usually fully capable of fulfilling her duty, but lately, vampire activity has been on the rise. Unfortunately, the cause is more alarming than anything she could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, gothic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, dark fantasy, manga, scary, brutal, humorous
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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