Fantasy: (Setting) Titles that deal in might and magic will fall into this category.
Surreal: (Style) Anime that have the "intense irrational reality of a dream" qualify for this category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| A Traveller's Diary | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
 Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
Rent | This anime by Kunio Kato shows the surreal journey of a stranger, traveling on a Dali-like pig with giant legs and leading us in to an unconscious mixture of nightmare and dream. |
| B | ||
 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. |
| C | ||
| Crow | Buy | See Karas |
| I | ||
 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. |
| K | ||
 Karas |
Buy |
At a future time in the city of Shijuku, a series of strange murders befuddle the police. The victims were attacked in a public place and their bodies were drained of their fluids and are badly desiccated. But just out of sight of everyone, a strange battle goes on. The previous Karas has gone renegade and begins to take revenge on those he used to protect. A new Karas, the guardian of the town, has been chosen and the battle between them has begun. |
 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. |
| 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 organization known as the "Seventh Moon", Ritsuka decides to join forces with Soubi and investigate the truth behind his brother's death. |
| M | ||
| Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| N | ||
 Natsu no Arashi! |
Watch |
Hajime Yasaka meets an older high school girl named Sayoko "Arashi" Arashiyama in an old town coffee shop. "Arashi" happens to have a secret that Hajime learns one fateful summer vacation. And thus began an unforgettable summer of adventure. (Source: ANN) |
| S | ||
 sola (TV) |
Rent |
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. |
| Summer Storm | Watch | See Natsu no Arashi! |
| T | ||
| The Diary of Tortov Roddle | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
| The Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| そら (Japanese) | Rent | See sola (TV) |
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