2002/Sci-Fi/Drama Titles

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Sci-Fi: (Setting) Self-explanatory. Anime of this category should contain Science-Fiction elements.

Drama: (Genre) Titles that show a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces. See also: "Action Drama".

Title Rating Synopsis
A

Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai
Buy Sasshi is having a bad summer vacation. First, his old house is demolished in the recent Abenobashi Shopping district redevelopment plan , and his best friend, Ayumi, is moving away to Hokkaido. Investigating, the duo find that the Abenobashi district is constructed as a cross with a different animal guarding each pole in the market. Unfortunately, with Ayumi's family leaving, the last guardian will fall and something terrible may happen to Abenobashi.

Argento Soma
Buy The death of his girlfriend during the reactivation of “Frank”, an alien creature, has left the brilliant college student, Tukuto Kenishiro with nothing in his life but a deep desire for revenge. But the repeated attacks of strange off-world creatures has forced the Earth Special Defense team to enlist and depend on the X1 (the renamed “Frank”) as their critically important weapon of last resort in the defense of Pilgrimage point, an rural area in Montana where all of the attacking aliens appear to be targeting. The latest replacement member to the defense team is a moody and silent pilot named Ryu Soma, a soldier with no clear past but with an apparent undying hatred of the X1 alien.
Armitage III: Dual-Matrix Rent See Armitage: Dual Matrix

Armitage: Dual Matrix
Rent

Naomi Armitage, her husband Ross, and their daughter Yoko are spending a nice, quite life in a nice part of Mars with new names. Unfortunately, troops have raided a Third Type facility slaughtering not only the Armitage robots, but killing the human staff as well. Now Naomi must cast off her duties as wife and mother and resume her role as unofficial detective. With political debate heating up over the issue of robots being given the same rights as humans, things have never been more dangerous for Naomi nor her family.

B
Big O Rent See Bigguou

Bigguou
Rent Japan does it's version of Batman: The Animated Series with Roger Smith playing the part of Bruce Wayne. Roger lives in a domed city known as Paradigm City. Apparently some 40 years ago, something happened which caused everyone to lose their memories. Sometimes people begin to remember and problems are caused because of this.
C

Chobits
Buy One fateful night, Hideki was walking home from his new job when he discovered a very cute persocom in the trash. Hideki names his new persocom Chii, but what he doesn't know is that Chii could possibly be one of the legendary "Chobits" - persocoms with their own personality instead of merely an installed operating system.
D
Digimon 03 Buy See Digimon Tamers
Digimon Season 03 Buy See Digimon Tamers

Digimon Tamers
Buy Taking place in a world where the previous two seasons were simply TV shows, Digimon Tamers is about ten-year-old Takato Matsuda and him and his friends' digital adventures.
F
Figure 17 See Figure 17 - Tsubasa & Hikaru

Figure 17 - Tsubasa & Hikaru
Agent DD is a member of an alien police force transporting six Magyua eggs. The Magyua are an intelligent but extremely violent life-form used as biological weapons. While transporting the eggs, DD gets in an accident and heads towards the nearest life supporting planet--Earth. DD lands to safety in Hokkaido, Japan, but during the landing the eggs awaken. DD manages to destroy one of the Magyua, but the other five escape to different areas of Hokkaido. DD fuses with the Liberus--a mobile bio-liquid metallic battle suit and sets out to recapture the other five Magyua. Somehow, a 10-year-old girl named Tsubasa comes into contact with DD`s spare Liberus suit and now she too has the ability to fuse with the Liberus suit and gain super powers!
G

G-on Riders
Rent In a near future time when alien attacks have become a common event, a secret (Japanese) organization called the GRA (GRAND RIFUREKUTO AMUDO, Grand Reflect Armor) has developed a very effective defense. Using a technology developed by Dr Sanada Mio, which she calls the 'G-On', certain young students wearing glasses (hence the "G" in the title) are able to harness their strong feelings and manifest those abilities and weapons that prove effective against the alien attacking units. The GRA has sponsored an elite high school to help identify and develop the students who have this ability in the hopes that they can defend not only Japan, but also the earth from the alien invaders.
G-on らいだーす (Japanese) Rent See G-on Riders
Ghost in the Shell TV Buy See Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX
Genre
Action(9) Action Comedy(1) Comedy(3) Cyberpunk(4)
Mystery(3) Parody(1) Romance(5) Romantic Comedy(1)
Suspense(3) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(2) Historical(1) Modern(2)
Demographic
All Ages(1) Children(1) Kid at heart(1) Seinen(1)
Shoujo(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(4) Artistic(2) Kawaii(2) Silly-funny(2)
Surreal(3) Weird(1)
Keywords
Adventure(3) Artificial Girls(4) Bishoujo(1) Bishounen(2)
Computers(2) Dark(2) Depression(1) Ecchi(2)
Elementary School(2) Epic(1) Erotic Comedy(1) Evang*lion Clone(2)
Fan Service(2) Fighting(3) Fragmentary(1) Friendship(4)
Gun-action(2) Harem(1) High School(1) Magic(1)
Mecha(9) Music(1) Pantsu(1) Police(1)
Sequel(2) Shounen Ai(1) Slice of Life(1) Soul Mates(1)
Spiritual(1) Swordplay(1) Time Travel(1) Violent(4)
War(2)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(2) TV(10)
Release Year
2003(3) 2001(2) 2000(1) 1999(1)
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