| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
 Appleseed (2004) |
Rent | It`s 2131 A.D.. Deunan Knute had been a soldier in the battlefields for most of her life. When the World War ends, she`s transported to the city of Olympus to live peacefully and finds out that, in an effort to protect the human race from future wars, humans have created the Bioriods, a geneticaly enhanced race of people that have restrained feelings and therefore cannot hurt each other. |
 Appleseed 2 (2007) |
Watch |
Produced by John Woo and directed by Shinji Aramaki, Appleseed Ex Machina (2007) ranks as the most elaborate, stylish, and violent of the three adaptations of Masamune Shirow's manga. When it was released in 1988, the original Appleseed felt like a summary of anime's past, while Akira pointed the way to the future. The second Appleseed (2004), also directed by Aramaki, was an unimpressive motion-capture CG feature that borrowed elements from other sci-fi anime. In this latest incarnation, Deunan, Briareos, and Tereus of the E.S.W.A.T. team are charged with preserving the peace of the city-state of Olympus, a hi-tech paradise on a largely ruined Earth. Screenwriters Kiyoto Takeuchi and Todd W. Russell have given the story a contemporary twist, adding attacks by "cyborg terrorists" and an effort by the ruler of Olympus to control a world-wide satellite surveillance system. When cyborgs and human launch coordinated attacks on the government headquarters in Olympus, Deunan, Briareos, and Tereus swing into action against a mysterious enemy. The plot has little in common with the earlier films: the Appleseed technology that was at the core of the story isn't even mentioned. The look, tone, and characters in Ex Machina recall Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, rather than the original Appleseed. Not surprisingly, the elaborately choreographed fight scenes reflect Woo's signature style, with slo-mo martial-arts combat, close-ups of falling shells, dynamic camerawork, and all-out gun battles. But the weightless movements of the motion-capture characters and the limited rendering of the skin textures gives Appleseed Ex Machina the feel of an extremely elaborate computer game. Despite the limits of the mo-cap technology, Appleseed Ex Machina is a fast-past, take-no-prisoners cinematic adventure that will delight action-movie fans as well as anime lovers. (Rated PG-13: violence, violence against women, profanity, grotesque imagery, potentially offensive religious imagery.) |
| Appleseed Saga Ex Machina | Watch | See Appleseed 2 (2007) |
 Appleseed XIII |
Watch | The series will not be a sequel to the two previous computer-animated movies, but a new retelling. The story follows the exploits of the ES.W.A.T paramilitary unit member Deunan and her combat cyborg colleague Briareos at the city of Olympus after world war V. |
| Appleseed: Ex Machina | Watch | See Appleseed 2 (2007) |
| Aquarion | Watch | See Sousei no Aquarion (TV) |
| Aquarion - the Movie | Unevaluated | See Gekijouban Aquarion |
| Aquarion of Creation Saint | Watch | See Sousei no Aquarion (TV) |
 Arc the Lad |
Rent | Elk, the youngest member of the Hunters Guild, finds himself propelled into an odyssey across an apocalyptic world in search of the enigmatic outlaw known as Arc the Lad. Together with the mysterious Lieza and the powerful warrior Shu, Elk must defeat a sinister organization that's creating half-human monsters and find his way to Arc, whom Elk believes responsible for the destruction of his village. |
 Arcadia of My Youth |
Buy | Set against the conquest of Earth by an alien empire. Captain Harlock, together with those who will become his lifelong friends, battle against tyranny no matter what the cost. |
 Arei no Kagami: Way to the Virgin Space |
Watch | The story follows Daichi Meguru and Mayu, a young boy and a pilot, as they flee their war torn planet and into space. Upon their ship a stowaway android named Zero joins their quest as they travel through Halley's Mirror. |
 Argento Soma |
Buy |
The death of his girlfriend during the reactivation of “Frank”, an alien creature, has left the brilliant college student, Tukuto Kenishiro with nothing in his life but a deep desire for revenge. But the repeated attacks of strange off-world creatures has forced the Earth Special Defense team to enlist and depend on the X1 (the renamed “Frank”) as their critically important weapon of last resort in the defense of Pilgrimage point - a rural area in Montana where all of the invading aliens appear to be targeting. The latest replacement member to the defense team is a moody and silent pilot named Ryu Soma, a soldier with no clear past but with an apparent undying hatred of the X1 alien. |
| Argevollen | Rent | See Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen |
| Aria | Rent | See Aria the Animation |
| Aria 3 | Buy | See Aria the Origination |
Sci-Fi: (Setting) Self-explanatory. Anime of this category should contain Science-Fiction elements.
