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Acquired Taste: These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind. FLCL, Di Gi Charat, & Serial Experiments Lain are examples of such titles.



Title Rating Synopsis
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Armored Trooper Votoms 1: Uoodo City
Rent For 100 years the star systems of Gilgamesh and Balarant have been locked in a war whose cause was long ago forgotten. Now, an uneasy truce has settled across the Astragius Galaxy. Chirico Cuvie, a special forces Armored Trooper pilot, is suddenly transferred to a unit engaged in a suspicious mission to steal secrets from what appears to be their own military! Chirico is betrayed and left to die in space, but he survives and becomes a renegade, hunted by the army and by criminals alike. Taking refuge in the poluted hell-hole known as Uoodo City, Chirico is driven by a haunting image of a mysterious and beautiful woman, his sole clue to unravelling a conspiracy so complex that he cannot even guess at its depths.
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Excel Saga Rent See Heppoko Jiken Animation Excel Saga
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Heppoko Jiken Animation Excel Saga
Rent

If you're into weird anime, then Excel Saga is right for you. Join Excel, the indestructible agent of the mysterious ACROSS organization, as she survives (or not) every episode the creators and animators can think up. Parodies are abundant and the storyline is almost none-existent, but if you have a twisted mind, this series is for you.

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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.
Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (1989) Rent See Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV)

Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV)
Rent Labor: A robot specifically designed for construction work. Labors allow dramatic advances in construction--but also in crime. To combat these new labor crimes, the police created a special unit: The Patrol Labor. And thus, the birth of "Patlabor"!
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MiniPato
Rent Only available as part of the Ultimate Edition(of Patlabor WXIII), these three theatrical short cartoons bring the real Patlabor stars back one last time, albeit in quite a different manner. Goto, Nagumo, and the rest have become super-deformed CGI puppets, and each of the shorts is a self-referential “instructional video” that gleefully shreds apart the Patlabor mythos. Goto talks at length about just how stupid the concept of a “Revolver Cannon” really is, Shige speculates on ways to sell more “Patlabor” merchandise by making the Ingrams transform, and Nagumo reveals the ludicrous truth behind Special Vehicles' mysterious source of income. MiniPato is one big in-joke, but folks in the know will find it hilarious, and it represents the first time Mamoru Oshii has written comedy since the Patlabor TV series ended over a decade ago.
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NieA Under 7 Rent See NieA_7

NieA_7
Rent

Mayuko Chigasaki is a young woman struggling to make it in life. Early every morning, she delivers newspapers in her small town of Enohana. She attends a cram school in Tokyo by day, taking the bus and the train to get there. After school, she works at a local small eating establishment where she is the delivery girl. In the evenings, she works at the local (old) bath house in exchange for living in a small room above the facility. So in addition to school, she has three part-time jobs.

NieA_7: Domestic Poor Animation Rent See NieA_7
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Patlabor OAV Buy See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba
Patlabor Superdeformed Rent See MiniPato
Patlabor: The Mobile Police TV Rent See Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV)
Patlabor: The Original Series Buy See Kido Keisatsu Patoreba
Patlabor: The TV Series Rent See Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor (TV)
Release Year
2002(1) 2001(1) 1998(1) 1990(1) 1989(2) 1988(1) 1986(1) 1985(1)
1984(1) 1983(2) 1982(1) 1981(1)
Type
OVA(2) TV(5)
Setting
Modern(3)
Keywords
Action(4) Adventure(1) All Ages(1) Artificial Girls(1)
Artistic(1) Classic(1) Drama(3) Mecha(4)
Parody(2) Police(1) Romantic Comedy(1) Slice of Life(2)
Surreal(1) Violent(1) Weird(1)
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