Drama: (Genre) Titles that show a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces. See also: "Action Drama".
Surreal: (Style) Anime that have the "intense irrational reality of a dream" qualify for this category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
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| A | ||
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Adolescence Mokushiroku |
Rent | Utena arrives at Ohtori Academy possessing a very mysterious past. She is presumed to be a boy by many and seems to have a past relationship with Touga. After seeing that he wears a ring she questions of it. Getting a mysterious answer leads her to Anthy Himemiya,the Rose Bride. She unknowingly becomes involved in the Student Council's duels for the Rose Bride. Yet, she seems intrigued about Anthy and her past. |
| Adolescence of Utena | Rent | See Adolescence Mokushiroku |
| B | ||
| Beyond the Clouds | Rent | See Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho |
| C | ||
| Chiyoko Millenial Actress | Buy | See Sennen Joyu |
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Clannad (Movie) |
Watch | Clannad is set in a high-school located in some Japanese town. Okazaki Tomoya is a third-year student who is just coasting in school and haunted by nightmares since his mother died in a car accident when he was little. After losing his sports scholarship at high school (due to getting severely hurt in a fight with his father), he just goes to school to get away from him. |
| G | ||
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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. |
| H | ||
| House of Blocks | See La Maison en Petits Cubes | |
| I | ||
| Innocence | Buy | See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence |
| K | ||
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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 | ||
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La Maison en Petits Cubes |
An old man lives in a town that has become submerged in water. As the water rises, he's forced to build additional levels onto his home with bricks (cubes) in order to stay above water. One day, the old man accidentally drops his favourite pipe into the lower levels of his home, and decides to rent scuba diving equipment in order to go searching for his pipe. As he descends through his sunken home, the old man recalls memories of the past in each room. |
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| M | ||
| Millennium Actress | Buy | See Sennen Joyu |
| R | ||
| RahXephon - Harmonic Convergence | Watch | See RahXephon - Tagen Hensoukyoku |
| RahXephon - Pluralitas Concentio | Watch | See RahXephon - Tagen Hensoukyoku |
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RahXephon - Tagen Hensoukyoku |
Watch | This movie retells a condensed version of the RahXephon TV series with many side characters missing and focussing on a somehow modified main story with additional yet not always compatible background informations. |
| RahXephon The Movie | Watch | See RahXephon - Tagen Hensoukyoku |
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