Mystery/Dark Titles

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

Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.

Title Rating Synopsis
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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?
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Black Jack (movie)
Buy Based on the manga of Osamu "God of Comics" Tezuka, this movie follows the exploits of Black Jack, the infamous renegade surgeon who sells his remarkable medical skills to the highest bidder. He gets called upon to do research connected to a disease contracted by Super Humans, a new breed of humanity who have potential both physically and intellectually beyond the normal capabilities of ordinary humans.
C

Chaos;Head
Rent Nishijo Takumi is your typical ↗NEET. He lives on top of a building inside of a ocean container box. Inside is his computer, bottles of soda, and tons of action figures from his favorite anime girl Seira. That's his whole life. One day while chatting online with his friend 'Grim', another user named 'Shogun' starts messaging him. He sends Takumi a bunch of links to pictures of people being murdered. Later that evening, Takumi walks down a hallway and sees the murder being commited by a pink haired girl who turns and says, "I wanted to see you". Troubled, he runs away carrying one of her daggers. The next day at school he sits down and his friend greet him. His female friend who has pink hair is the same girl he saw that night...
D

Death Note
Buy Light Yagami (Or Raito) is an ace student who`s bored out of his mind. One day he finds the Death Note - a notebook held by a shinigami (or Death God). With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create a perfect world - A world without crime or criminals. However when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer.
G

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
Hack Liminality Rent See .hack//Liminality
Hell Girl (season 3) Watch See Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Nekogoroshi-hen
Rent After losing their bets in club games, Keiichi and his group wind up having to walk around town in cosplay attire. They decide to wander to an abandoned town called Yagouchi and debate over whether or not to look into a mystery surrounding a haunted quarry.
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Innocence Buy See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

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

Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae
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Jin Roh Buy See Jin-Roh

Jin-Roh
Buy In an alternate world, around 1960, Japan suffers serious civil disorder. The Capital Police with their deadly Panzer Cops are the solution but few like them, even among the police. Conspiracies are brewing and at their center is Fuse, the lone wolf.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade Buy See Jin-Roh
K

Kurozuka
Watch A story of obsessive love and constant pursuit told over a 1000 year period. Escaping from a brother who had just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune, along with his servant, comes across a house in the middle of a desolate mountain. Oddly enough, only a young woman lives there, who seems to possess a very dark and ominous past.
Genre
Action(4) Comedy(1) Cyberpunk(1) Drama(14)
Horror(8) Romance(3) Suspense(6) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(7) Historical(1) Modern(10) Sci-Fi(4)
Demographic
Seinen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(7) Artistic(1) Classic(1) Creepy(6)
Surreal(9) Weird(7)
Keywords
Adventure(3) College(1) Computers(1) Depression(1)
Epic(1) Fan Service(1) Fighting(1) Friendship(1)
Gun-action(2) High School(6) Middle School(1) Ninja(1)
Occult(5) Otaku Theme(1) Police(2) Psychics(5)
Samurai(1) Sequel(3) Shinigami(1) Slice of Life(3)
Soul Mates(1) Spiritual(4) Stalking(1) Supernatural(7)
Swordplay(1) Underworld(2) Vampires(1) Video-game inspired(3)
Violent(5)
Type
Movie(4) OVA(4) TV(9)
Release Year
2009(1) 2008(3) 2007(1) 2006(3) 2005(2) 2004(4) 2003(2) 1998(1)
1996(1) 1993(1)
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