Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.
Surreal: (Style) Anime that have the "intense irrational reality of a dream" qualify for this category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| B | ||
| Beyond the Clouds | Rent | See Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho |
| C | ||
 Cossette no Shouzou |
Rent | "Who loves me so much that he would forsake his own dear life... could it be you?" |
| D | ||
| Double Wish | Watch | See W - Wish |
| G | ||
 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence |
Buy |
A sequel to the famous Puppet Master movie of 1995, Batou and Togusa now investigate the strange rebellious murders of sex robots against their masters. During their investigation, they encounter dangerous hackers, crazy Yakuza, and even bits of the Major materialized from the net. Batou is a living doll. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and memories of a woman named, Motoko. When the boundary between humans and machines has infinitely blurred, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is a promiscuous story of a lonesome "ghost" of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity. |
| I | ||
| Innocence | Buy | See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence |
 Interlude |
Buy | For a close-knit foursome of high school friends, life is all about sleeping in class, strawberry milk, and after-class karaoke. However, our unnamed main protagonist is troubled by nightmares of death and disaster. Only when he begins to realize that his memories of people and events are different from those of Tamaki Maiko (named "Tama-chan" by her friends, "Mai-chan" by herself), Chimu and Harusa, his three female friends, does he begin to wonder. Later, when the waking dreams start.... a short moment of him seeing something that noone else sees....an attractive young lady, who stares back at him in amazement from an empty subway station, does he begin to wonder about his sanity. That evening, the four encounter and follow a shadow with no person, only to encounter a gang of stumbling zombies. And then he wakes up that morning from yet another bad dream, but the threads of reality have become a bit too frayed, and he begins to see a way in which he can travel over to the reality of his nightmares. |
| J | ||
| Jing OVA | Avoid | See King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven |
| K | ||
| King of Bandit Jing in 7th Heaven OVA | Avoid | See King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven |
 King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven |
Avoid | Jing, the young King of Thieves and his feathered-friend Kir are back for three more episodes. It appears that their luck has run out and they have been sent to the world's most maximum security prison from which no one has ever escaped. But what of the story that a great treasure can be found within the walls of the prison named Seventh Heaven? Can it be true that a current inmate has mastered the skill of stealing other people's dreams and sealing them in such a way that they can be shared with others. How treasured are a person's dreams, and what price would one pay to experience someone else's dreams, or could it all just be a nightmare? |
 Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho |
Rent | In an alternate reality, Japan is divided between the 'Union' (which has occupied the Hokkaido island) and the US-Japanese Alliance. Three mid-graders grow up in the northern province of Honshu, near the border between the two antagonistic forces and in the shadow of a strange spire that towers over the entire region. While the three teenagers work hard on their dream of building an aircraft to visit the spire on the Union side of the Tsugaru straits, time and school draw the three apart from one another. |
| L | ||
| Le Portrait de Petite Cossette | Rent | See Cossette no Shouzou |
| M | ||
 Madlax |
Rent | Madlax is a professional killer. Margaret is a young girl with no memory of the past. Who are they and why are they connected? |
| MADLAX | Rent | See Madlax |
| O | ||
| Odorobou Jing in Seventh Heaven | Avoid | See King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven |
| P | ||
| Petite Cossette | Rent | See Cossette no Shouzou |
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