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 deal in might and magic will fall into this category. Inuyasha and Tenkuu no Escaflowne are a couple of titles which fall into this genre.
Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for the dark category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| B | ||
 Biohunter |
Rent | A strange virus attacks the human genetic code and transforms people into monsters with demonic powers. One such monster is stalking the streets of Tokyo, ripping open young women and devouring their livers. A famed psychic holds the secret to the identity of the monster. Now it's up to two molecular biologists, Koshigaya and Komada, to reach the psychic and his beautiful daughter, before it's too late! The Demon Virus is out to conquer the world...Only the Bio Hunters can stop it! |
 Boukyaku no Senritsu |
Buy |
Over a hundred years have passed since humanity lost the war to a strange race of beasts that they call Monsters. The remaining survivors live in constant terror, fear and denial, as they are forced to offer their children in tribute to appease and feed the needs of their inhuman Monster conquerors. But not all of humanity has surrendered completely. A small group called the warriors of Melos still fight on, inspired only by a vision of a young lady known as the 'Melody of Oblivion', remembering an almost forgotten legend that if she is found and freed, then the monsters can be defeated. |
| H | ||
 Highlander: The Search for Vengeance |
Rent |
Colin MacLeod, the immortal Scottish Highlander, travels with the wise-cracking ghost Amergan in search of the immortal despot Marcus Octavius, who killed his lover on the Celtic plains centuries earlier. Time has past and the once great city of New York is now submerged under water, with only one dominant fortress towering over the sea - the fortress of Marcus Octavius. MacLeod is torn between saving the survivors of New York and hunting down his nemesis. |
| Highlander: Vengeance | Rent | See Highlander: The Search for Vengeance |
| I | ||
 Ima Soko ni Iru Boku |
Rent | It doesn't look like this is going to be a great day for Matsutani Shuzo, nickname "Shu". The schoolboy has just lost a kendo fight in his dojo, and the girl he intended to impress walked away with his victorious opponent who even gave him a lecture after their fight. Depressed he retreats to the industry sector of his hometown, climbing up an old factory chimney, the "tower of courage" for his gang. To his surprise he meets a strange girl with blue hair and blue eyes up there... but then time stops for a moment - and shortly after this, he and the girl are attacked by huge mechas. Moments later he finds himself in a place he's never seen before, and his nightmare begins in a fortress named Hellywood where all values of humanity appear to be lost. And yet, Shu tries to plead for his ideals... |
 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. |
| M | ||
| Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| N | ||
| Now and then, here and there | Rent | See Ima Soko ni Iru Boku |
| T | ||
| The Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| X | ||
 X (Movie) |
Watch | Based on the hit manga "X" by CLAMP (still going; known as "X/1999" in the US), this movie is of Kamui and the world's fate: will Kamui choose to save our world, or destroy it, and begin it anew? |
| X/1999 | Watch | See X (Movie) |
| インタールード (Japanese) | Buy | See Interlude |
| 今、そこにいる僕 | Rent | See Ima Soko ni Iru Boku |
| 忘却の旋律 (Japanese) | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
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