Sci-Fi: (Setting) Self-explanatory. Anime of this category should contain Science-Fiction elements.
Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| B | ||
 Blassreiter |
Buy |
In the near-future in a unnamed town in Germany, there have been incidences of dead bodies transforming into strange creatures and coming back to life to wreck havoc and kill innocent civilians. These mutant monsters have an ability to merge with cars and vehicles that makes them both very fast and dangerous. A secret SWAT team named XAT is specially equipped with armored cars and combat motorcycles to deal with these monsters. Then suddenly normal people begin transforming into monsters. With all these monsters and heavily armed soldiers running around, you know that a battle royal is brewing. |
| G | ||
| Ghost in the Shell | Rent | See Koukaku Kidoutai |
 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 | ||
 Ima Soko ni Iru Boku |
Rent | It doesn't look like this is going to be a great day for Matsutani Shuzo, nickname "Shu". The schoolboy has just lost a kendo fight in his dojo, and the girl he intended to impress walked away with his victorious opponent who even gave him a lecture after their fight. Depressed he retreats to the industry sector of his hometown, climbing up an old factory chimney, the "tower of courage" for his gang. To his surprise he meets a strange girl with blue hair and blue eyes up there... but then time stops for a moment - and shortly after this, he and the girl are attacked by huge mechas. Moments later he finds himself in a place he's never seen before, and his nightmare begins in a fortress named Hellywood where all values of humanity appear to be lost. And yet, Shu tries to plead for his ideals... |
| Innocence | Buy | See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence |
| K | ||
 Koukaku Kidoutai |
Rent |
In the future, a department of cybernetically enhanced cops race to find the true identity of the mysterious 'Ghost hacker' ("Ghost" in this 'era of AI' being the name of what we might rather call "soul" today) known only as the "Puppet Master". |
| N | ||
| Now and then, here and there | Rent | See Ima Soko ni Iru Boku |
| S | ||
 Silent Mobius |
Watch | The Attacked Mystification Police Department, a team of seven female fighters, all being super-humanly skilled (technology and magic), all having some background story of their own, united for one goal: To protect post-SilentCrisis Tokyo against those "Lucifer Hawk", creatures from some parallel world, whose lower forms hunt and eat people, while the higher ones can be quite charming on occasion, if this suits their intentions ... you'll learn how these things all started, where the characters came from, why the Lucifer Hawks are here at all - and why it is so important that this Katsumi Liqueur, an office worker from Hawaii, join the AMP ... |
 Silent Mobius The Motion Picture 1 |
Watch | Just a few days before a new building named "Spires" in Tokyo is to be opened for public access, the "Attacked Mystification Police" Department locates the presence of a Lucifer Hawk there - one of those monsters from a parallel world against whom the AMP had been formed by chief Rally Cheyenne. |
| Sky Blue | Watch | See Wonderful Days |
| T | ||
 Trinity Blood |
Rent | Post Apocalyptic Earth. Humans are not the only intelligent species on this planet now, they share it with Vampires (Aka Methusula). The vampires appear to be bloodthirsty villans, but appearances are deceiving. Sometimes though a vampire gets out of hand and it takes the Catholic stronghold called the Vatican to identify and eliminate these threats. Enter Father Abel Nightroad, humble priest with a large appetite. All by himself he takes on these vampires and lives. How? Just what does Abel hide behind those glasses and how is he able to control some of the world's oldest technology? |
| W | ||
 Wonderful Days |
Watch |
In the year 2142, the survivors of the devastated earth have retreated to an isolated high-tech colony called “ECOBAN”. But their continued survival is dependent on the efforts of the “diggers” - those 2nd class citizens who harvest the critical energy supplies, while struggling to survive in the squalor and the pollution outside of the city. At a time when dwindling energy reserves and rebellious strike activity of the diggers have raised tensions to a boiling point, an ECOBAN police officer finds herself fighting an intruder who has managed to sneak into the very heart of the city’s computer core. Officer Jay is shocked to discover that the intruder is Shua, her childhood friend and someone who died some ten years ago. |
| イノセンス GHOST IN THE SHELL（仮題） (Japanese) | Buy | See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence |
| サイレントメビウス | Watch | See Silent Mobius |
| サイレントメビウス／THE MOTION PICTURE | Watch | See Silent Mobius The Motion Picture 1 |
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