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.
Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for the dark category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| Android Kikaider: The Animation | Buy | See Jinzo Ningen Kikaider |
| Artificial Humanoid Kikaider: The Animation | Buy | See Jinzo Ningen Kikaider |
| E | ||
 Elfen Lied |
Rent | Kouta has moved back to his childhood town to start his first year in college, and his female cousin, Yuka, has set him up to live in a big ten-room vacant house. Later on that night, the two encounter a naked girl with horns wandering on the beach. She appears to be very innocent and very helpless, so Kouta takes it upon himself to take her home to keep her safe, unaware that his guest has just escaped from an experimental lab and that both the police and military are searching for her, with orders to shoot on sight. |
| Elven Song | Rent | See Elfen Lied |
| J | ||
 Jinzo Ningen Kikaider |
Buy | Based on the 70's live-action TV show, Dr. Komyoji is working in his lab when there is a horrible accident. Soon after, Jiro is a human-looking male who awakens with no memory of who or what he is. Meanwhile, Komyoji's daughter Mitsuko attempts to discover what her father was doing and stumbles upon his android project. Jiro is in fact the battle android known as Kikaider who is equipped with a malfunctioning conscience circuit known as Gemini. Is he a mad machine or is he something special? Why does Professor Gil want Jiro dead? |
| K | ||
| Kikaider: The Animation | Buy | See Jinzo Ningen Kikaider |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| そら (Japanese) | Buy | See sola (TV) |
| エルフェンリート | Rent | See Elfen Lied |
| ラブレス (Japanese) | Buy | See Loveless (TV) |
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