TV/Modern/Adventure/Action Titles

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

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.

Adventure: (Genre) Titles where the characters are involved in an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.

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
B

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.
Burning Eyes Shana 2 Buy See Shakugan no Shana II
E

El Cazador de la Bruja
Watch El Cazador is the story of a girl named Ellis, who finds herself on the run from so-called Bounty Hunters, due to her being a suspect in a murder and she now has a million dollar (dead or alive) bounty on her head. She meets up with a hunter named Nadi who has a change of heart, chooses to forgo the bounty and offers help her in her pursue the truth as to her past. Now both of them are being targeted by the Hunters and their quest for the lost truth as to Ellis' crime begins.
F
Flame Haze 2 Buy See Shakugan no Shana II
Futakoi 2 Rent See Futakoi Alternative

Futakoi Alternative
Rent Having dropped out of college, Rentarou has settled on running private detective agency, with the assistance of Souju and Sara, two twin high school students. While Rentarou is out dealing with an angry issue of trying to explain how his cat ate a Yakuza bosses favorite bird, Souju is making croquettes at a local shop, and Sara sets off an explosive device in the office to help a new client escape from a group of heavily armed and murderous debt collectors.
H

Hanada Shounen-shi
The story revolves around a teenage brat of a boy named Hanada Ichiro. He is a menace in the area in which he lives in and one day, he gets knocked down by a car when he`s up to his dirty pranks. And after that accident, apart from getting a nasty scar, he is now able to see ghosts and is able to CONVERSE with them as well. And then they begin to appear to ask for favors of him.
I
Initial D - Project D (stage 4) Buy See Initial D - Stage 4

Initial D - Stage 4
Buy Takumi is now a member of the "Project D" racing team, a group that is intent on setting speed records for all of the mountain roads in the area. The team is headed the elder Takahshi brother, with Takumi and his supercharged(actuall­y it is N/A racing engine with an 11K redline)86 being the downhill driving specialist, while the younger Takashi brother and his FD turbo car being the uphill specialist.
Initial D Fourth Stage Buy See Initial D - Stage 4
J
Juuni Kokuki Buy See Twelve Kingdoms
L
Lupin III Part III See Rupan Sansei Part III
M
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Rent See Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha

Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
Rent Takamachi Nanoha is a 3rd grader elementary school girl, who lives with her parents and her older sister and brother (last seen in Triangle Heart). One day after school, she hears a voice in mind, which leads her to rescue a small animal (a ferret?) in the forest. The animal is actually an archeologist-mage from another world, named Yuuno-kun, who is attempting to recover 21 dangerous Jewels Seeds that are scattered across the Earth. Yuuno had been fighting a loosing and desperate battle with a magic beast that emerged from an activated Jewel Seed, and he asks for Nanoha's help (and magic) in assisting him to defeat the beast and in recovering the other Seeds. So, with Yuuno-kun's help, and by activating the magic in the jewel's raging heart, Naoha can transform into a magic girl, complete with a magic-power-staff, to save her city from the dangers of the Jewel Seeds.
N

Ninku
During the war, a hundred ninja warriors fought against the corrupt imperial Army and almost annihilated it. In the end, the Ninku were defeated, scattered to the winds and the Imperial Army was able to write them into the history books as being evil villains who dared to defy authority. But a few Ninku still survive and struggle to gather together their lost comrades. Looking like a child, Fusuke is the former captain of the first Ninku division and a master of the wind arts, who is searching for his mother who was taken during the war. Along his way, he encounters Aicho and Touji, both who were former Ninku captains with abilities of their own. But the army considers any living Ninku to be a threat and is committed to seeing to their destruction, to the last man.
Genre
Comedy(6) Drama(2) Mystery(2) Parody(1)
Romance(1) Steampunk(1) Suspense(1)
Setting
Fantasy(4) Historical(1) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
All Ages(2) Children(1) Shounen(1)
Style
Creepy(1)
Keywords
Animals(1) Artificial Girls(1) Competition(1) Elementary School(1)
Epic(1) Fan Service(1) Fighting(3) Gun-action(3)
High School(1) Magic(1) Mahou Shoujo(1) Martial Arts(1)
Occult(1) Police(1) Sequel(4) Slice of Life(1)
Spinoff(1) Sports(1) Supernatural(1) Swordplay(1)
Violent(2) War(1)
Type
Release Year
2007(3) 2006(1) 2005(3) 2004(3) 2003(2) 2002(2) 1996(1) 1995(1)
1985(1) 1984(1)
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