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Sci-Fi/1988/Action Titles


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.



Title Rating Synopsis
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Akira
Rent In yet another post-apocalyptic future, a young biker becomes the subject of a bizarre project known only as "Akira," apparently designed to bestow unstoppable pychic powers on youths, intended to be exploited as living weapons. Directed and created by OTOMO Katsuhiro.

Armored Trooper Votoms: Red Shoulder Document - The Roots of Ambition
Rent Certain officers of the Melkian Space Force High Command are suspicious about a newly formed elite unit, known as "the Red Shoulders". The unit is shrouded in such top secrecy that even they know virtually nothing about it, except that it consumes tremendous amounts of resources and requires an amazing number of replacement soldiers. Colonel Peruzen, the Red Shoulder's commander, is uncooperative, pointing to evidence of fatal security breaches. Rumor has it that he is conducting bizarre research in hopes of creating "unkillable" soldiers. Meanwhile, a new batch of recruits arrives at the Red Shoulders' training camp--including one Chirico Cuvie...
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Gunbuster Buy See Top wo Nerae!
Gunbuster: Aim For The Top! Buy See Top wo Nerae!
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Kido Keisatsu Patoreba
Buy In the future, (I guess now the past because it is set in 1998) great advancements are made with the creation of Labors, giant robots designed for construction. With the increased use of Labors, Labors crimes also skyrocketed. To combate this threat, Tokyo formed the Special Vehicals Section 2 and gave them Patrol Labors or Patlabors.
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Patlabor OAV Buy See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba
Patlabor: The Original Series Buy See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba
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Starship Troopers
Watch An anime adaptation of the classic science fiction novel. "Plotwise, this OVA is considered the most accurate adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's novel, despite the fact that many liberties were taken with characters and events." (Anime News Network)
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Tokyo Project Avoid See Toukyou Vice

Top wo Nerae!
Buy Enthusiastic but inept, Noriko is chosen to join the crew of the starship Exelion to fight the aliens who killed her father. Friendship and love clash with the realities of war and lightspeed travel.

Toukyou Vice
Avoid One night at a club during a concert, a man comes up to Junpei and hands him a floppy disk and he dies. Junpei takes it to a friend of his who runs a private detective agency. Later that day Junpei gets into an accident with a military helicopter. What was on that disk that is worth killing people for?
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Uchuu no Senshi (Japanese) Watch See Starship Troopers
宇宙の戦士 (Japanese) Watch See Starship Troopers
Release Year
1989(2)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(5)
Setting
Keywords
Acquired Taste(1) Classic(3) Comedy(2) Cyberpunk(1)
Dark(1) Drama(1) Mecha(4) Mystery(1)
Sequel(1) Supernatural(1) Violent(1) War(1)

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