Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for the dark category.
Action: Lots of shooting, explosions, and the like. Contains subcategories of more specific types such as Gun-Action, Martial Arts, and Swordplay; see also: Fighting.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| D | ||
 Devilman Lady |
Fudo Jun is a beautiful supermodel who is idolized by many. She also has a dark secret that not even she knows about at first, for within her veins run the genes that hold the next step in the evolution of mankind. The same blood as the beastlike superhumans that terrorize the city. Unlike the rest of them, though, Jun has managed to hold a tenuous grip onto her humanity, and she is recruited by the mysterious Asuka Ran, member of a secret organization within the government, aimed at controlling, if not eliminating, these berserk destroyers of mankind. Jun, as Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer can she keep her sanity in a situation she never chose in the first place? |
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| 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. |
| L | ||
 Loveless (TV) |
Buy | Twelve-year old Aoyagi Ritsuka lost his only kin when his brother, Aoyagi Seimei, was killed under mysterious circumstances. One day, he meets Wagatsuma Soubi, who claims to know his brother. It turns out that Soubi and Seimei used to be a fighting pair, whereby Soubi was the "Fighting Machine" and Seimei was the "Sacrifice". Now that Seimei is gone, Soubi 'belongs' to Ritsuka who will become his new "Sacrifice". After learning that Seimei was killed by an organisation known as the "Seventh Moon", Ritsuka decides to join forces with Soubi and investigate the truth behind his brother's death. |
| M | ||
 Mononoke Hime |
Rent |
A young man, cursed with death for saving his village, leaves home to find where the curse originated from. Doing so takes him into the middle of a conflict between man and nature, an unmoving rock between two unstoppable forces. But can he save those he loves and respects while removing his curse? Will he be forced to side against his friends? |
 Monster |
The Japanese Neurosurgeon Dr Kenzo Tenma had everything going for him in his position as lead surgeon of neurosurgery at a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. His genius as a surgeon had attracted, not only, the attention of the director of surgery at the hospital, but also an engagement to a beautiful Eva, the director's daughter. On one fateful dark evening, he defies the instructions of the director to abandon his current patient, a 12-year-old gunshot victim, to an almost certain death and refuses to performs surgery to save the life of the town mayor. He does what does what he thinks a true doctor should do and his young patient survives, the mayor dies, and in his decision, he has ignored the politics at the hospital, sacrificing all of his successes. | |
| P | ||
| Princess Mononoke | Rent | See Mononoke Hime |
| S | ||
 sola (TV) |
Buy |
Sola's story revolves around Yorito Morimiya, the main protagonist, who is a young boy attending high school. He loves taking pictures of the sky at any time of day and any time of the year. One day, Yorito decides to take a picture of the sunrise overlooking the bay, but is deterred when he meets a strange girl trying to force a vending machine that stole her money to give her what she tried to buy — a can of tomato juice. Yorito helps her with forcing the machine while attempting to strike up conversation with her, despite it being four in the morning. Yorito tells her why he is here, but by the time he has forced the can out of the machine, the girl has mysteriously vanished. |
 Speed Grapher |
Rent | In a world very much polarized between the fantastically wealthy and desperately poor, Tokyo has become a city of pleasure, with hidden and secret fantasy clubs ready to indulge any sinful desire. Saiga, a photojournalist with a history of photographing live-action-deaths on distant battlefields, is now chasing after leads in the multiple assassinations of major political leaders. One day, he is asked to cover a secret society called the “Roppongi Club”, and succeeds in sneaking in undetected. Having reached a deep inner chamber of the club, he comes across an initiation ritual, where a goddess descends from above to give the innate a kiss of acceptance. The goddess, a girl named Kagura, gives him the kiss instead, bestowing on him a special ability, and asks that he help her flee from her circumstances. But the Roppongi Club does not intend to permit their goddess to escape, and their members have abilities of their own. |
| T | ||
| The Devil Lady | See Devilman Lady | |
| そら (Japanese) | Buy | See sola (TV) |
| もののけ姫 | Rent | See Mononoke Hime |
| インタールード (Japanese) | Buy | See Interlude |
| スピードグラファー | Rent | See Speed Grapher |
| ラブレス (Japanese) | Buy | See Loveless (TV) |
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