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2004/Mystery/TV/Adventure Titles

Mystery: (Genre) The old "who-done-it" type titles should go here.

TV: (Type) All anime series done for TV should go into this slot.

Adventure: (Genre) Titles where the characters are involved in an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.

Title Rating Synopsis
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Agatha Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple

Agatha Christie's famous mystery solving characters of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are animated for the first time. In this adaptation, a 16-year old girl named Mabel (Maybelle) West finds herself working with Hercule Poirot on mysteries as well as with her great aunt, Miss Marple. Through this, she learns of life and the art of being a great detective.

Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple See Agatha Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple
I

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
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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?
M

Mousou Dairinin
Buy An elementary school kid who has worked hard to earn the title of "shounen bat" or "little slugger", but there is someone who is now going around attacking (apparent) strangers on the street at night with a golden baseball bat and has somehow been tagged with the same nickname. Are these two events related? Two police detectives who are tasked to investigate the attacks find themselves entangeled with more strangeness that any normal person might expect to encounter.
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Odorobou Jing in Seventh Heaven Avoid See King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven
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Paranoia Agent Buy See Mousou Dairinin
R
R.O.D. The TV Buy See Read or Die - TV

Read or Die - TV
Buy

Drawing on the success of the first ROD, the story continues. Yomiko "The Paper" Readman has gone missing for some four years now, but her best friend from school Nenene (Say that 3 times fast) still believes she's alive. An accomplished author, Nenene and her 3 bodyguards, who have special paper abilities of their own, go between Japan and Hong Kong looking for Yomiko. On occasion the bodyguards earn side money from accepting contracts to recover uncommon items and research exceptional situations, which always seems to involve people with special powers and abilities.

Read or Die the TV Buy See Read or Die - TV
ROD TV Buy See Read or Die - TV
Rosen Maiden Buy See Rozen Maiden

Rozen Maiden
Buy A very young and spoilt Sakurada Jun has became very bored during the absence of his parents, and despite the loving concerns of his older sister, he stops going to school, stops caring about other people and lives only to surf the internet for mail-order bargains - well, a special bargain box arrived, and it contains a very cute "antique doll", but it was an item that he learns that he could not return, and can not ignore, and that would forever change his life.
Genre
Action(5) Comedy(1) Drama(3) Horror(2)
Romance(1) Steampunk(1) Suspense(2)
Setting
Fantasy(4) Historical(1) Modern(3) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
Style
Creepy(2) Surreal(2) Weird(1)
Keywords
Artificial Girls(1) Dark(2) Fighting(1) Friendship(1)
High School(2) Occult(1) Sequel(1) Supernatural(3)
Video-game inspired(2)
Type
OVA(1)
Release Year
2005(2)
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