TV/Action Drama/Modern/Action Titles

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TV: (Type) All anime series done for TV should go into this slot.

Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.

Modern: (Setting) These are titles which have a modern feel to them; the story takes place in the present day (of the creation of this anime), give or take a few years.

Action: (Genre) 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
1
13 vies (French) See Ningen Kousaten
A
Alastor`s flame haze Buy See Shakugan no Shana

Area 88 (TV)
Rent Shin Kazama is a gifted pilot with a bright future, a beautiful Fiancee and a job with a prestiguous airline until a treacherous act of betrayal rips his world apart and sends him to the barren desert of the war-torn Kingdom of Aslan. He must now use his superior skills to become a cold-blooded aerial killer; and with every kill, he paints a trail of blood in the sky back to the life that was stolen from him. This is Area 88. In the desert the souls of men are either consumed by the fire or reborn from the ashes...

Ayashi no Ceres
Rent Twin brother and sister Aki and Aya Mikage are about to celebrate their 16th birthdays. Earlier on, Aya had visited a psychic and was told the fated day when the moon and stars of 16 would meet is coming, and that all hell and doom would break loose. Mysteriously their grandfather invites them over for a "birthday party" and gives them a gift which brings out new powers. Now suddenly the entire Mikage family wants Aya killed since "she will bring them nothing but harm." Aki is no longer allowed to see Aya. Along with that, an ancient legend of a Tennyo (girl from the heavens) is said to have come down to Earth and bathed in a river. A nearby fisherman spotted her and stole her hagoromo (feathered robe) that was hanging on a tree nearby. Without it she could not return to her home in the heavens, and was forced to marry the man and have his children.
B
Battle Vixens (manga title) Rent See Ikki Tousen

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon S
Rent The Sailor senshi return to battle a third wave of dynamic foes, this time attempting to avert a vision of apocalypse in the form of the mysterious Silence.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailorstars
Buy Usagi and her friends come of age, and for the first time she finds herself without her brave knight Tuxedo Mask to rescue her. Instead, the three mysterious Sailorstarlights enter the scene, and the terrible Sailorgalaxia menaces the senshi from above, their strongest foe yet.

Black Lagoon
Buy Okajima Rokuro is a much abused and bored Japanese Salary-man who is sent by his company to a forsaken corner of South East Asia to hand deliver a disk with secret company files. The cargo ship on which he was traveling on is attacked by pirates riding on a torpedo boat named “Black Lagoon”. The three pirates somehow know all about his mission and decide to take him hostage for ransom as well. Later when Rokuro is surprised to find out that his company will not pay a ransom and he learns that he has been ‘written off as a business expense’, he just snaps and loses it. But the company is not done yet with him as they have hired a group of mercenaries to find the pirates, recover the disk and kill everyone involved in this sordid event.
Blood + Rent See Blood Plus
Blood Night Rent See Blood Plus

Blood Plus
Rent Saya Otonashi lives peacefully with her adoptive family in Okinawa. The man that she proudly calls dad has adopted both her, her younger brother Riku and her troublesome older brother Kai. In the past year the four of them, once strangers, have formed a close loving family, but Saya wonders why she does not have any memories older than a year. Everything changes with the appearance of a monster called a Chiropteran. At school one night, a teacher is murdered before her eyes and Saya is attacked by a murderous creature. A mysterious young man carrying a cello appears and saves her, but he hands her a strange sword and tells her to fight. Why does her dad know so much about these monsters? And who is this cello player named Haji, someone who is now following Saya around - insisting on serving her?
Blood TV Rent See Blood Plus
Boondocks See The Boondocks
Brave Police J-Decker See Yuusha Keisatsu J-Decker
Burning Eyes Shana 2 Buy See Shakugan no Shana II
Genre
Action Comedy(1) Comedy(28) Cyberpunk(1) Drama(26)
Horror(3) Mystery(9) Parody(6) Romance(11)
Romantic Comedy(1) Steampunk(1) Suspense(7) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(9) Historical(1) Sci-Fi(12)
Demographic
All Ages(5) Children(2) Kid at heart(1) Seinen(1)
Shoujo(4) Shounen(7)
Style
Acquired Taste(6) Creepy(4) Kawaii(1) Moe(2)
Silly-funny(1) Surreal(4) Weird(4)
Keywords
Adventure(13) Animals(2) Artificial Girls(1) Bishoujo(1)
Bishounen(1) Coming of Age(2) Competition(7) Dark(8)
Dating Sim Spinoff(1) Deities(1) Depression(2) Ecchi(9)
Elementary School(2) Epic(2) Erotic Comedy(1) Fan Service(7)
Fighting(17) Friendship(3) Gun-action(11) Harem(5)
High School(13) Lolicon(4) Magic(6) Mahou Shoujo(4)
Martial Arts(9) Mecha(6) Middle School(2) Ninja(2)
Occult(3) Pantsu(3) Pervert(1) Police(7)
Psychics(2) Sequel(8) Shoujo Ai(1) Shounen Ai(1)
Slice of Life(3) Soul Mates(1) Spinoff(1) Spinoff-Sequel(1)
Spiritual(1) Sports(11) Supernatural(8) Swordplay(2)
Tenchi Clone(1) Vampires(1) Violent(12) War(1)
Yaoi(1) Yuri(1)
Type
OVA(1)
Release Year
2008(7) 2007(10) 2006(12) 2005(15) 2004(9) 2003(12) 2002(10) 2001(2)
2000(2) 1999(3) 1998(4) 1997(4) 1996(5) 1995(5) 1994(3) 1993(1)
1992(1) 1991(1) 1990(1) 1989(1) 1985(1) 1984(1)
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