Acquired Taste: (Style) These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind.
Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.
Surreal: (Style) Anime that have the "intense irrational reality of a dream" qualify for this category.
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 .hack//Liminality |
Rent | After a freak accident playing the most popular online RPG, known as "The World." Mai finds out that her life has changed after surviving the game, only to fall into a mystery on WHY? |
| 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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| H | ||
| Hack Liminality | Rent | See .hack//Liminality |
| 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 organization known as the "Seventh Moon", Ritsuka decides to join forces with Soubi and investigate the truth behind his brother's death. |
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 Texhnolyze |
Rent | The city of Lux is caught in a gang war between rival factions. Ichise is a young street fighter forced into the conflict, rising in importance after his crippled body is "texhnolyzed" with advanced implants. He is aided by his sexy doctor, a mysterious psychic girl named Ran, and mafia boss Oonishi. Together they must resolve their destinies and save the city from outside influences with unknown motives. The Class are super-texhnolyzed beings playing god with Lux and its precious resource Lafia - the key to integrating humans and texnolyze. Mysterious travelers from the surface world also have violent plans of their own. Time is running out. |
| The Devil Lady | See Devilman Lady | |
| ラブレス (Japanese) | Buy | See Loveless (TV) |
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