Suspense Titles

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Suspense: (Genre) An anime title that gives you a "pleasant excitement as to a decision or outcome" should be in this classification.

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Koukaku Kidoutai 2: Innocence
Buy A sequel to the famous Puppet Master movie of 1995, Batou and Togusa now investigate the strange rebellious murders of sex robots against their masters. During their investigation, they encounter dangerous hackers, crazy Yakuza, and even bits of the Major materialized from the net. Batou is a living doll. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and memories of a woman named, Motoko. When the boundary between humans and machines has infinitely blurred, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is a promiscuous story of a lonesome "ghost" of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity.

Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX
Buy TV series about a future world where cyborgs are mostly relied on by both humans and life itself. An exciting anime of sci-fi, and the series providing the background for the "Puppet Master" movie from 1995.
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Lost Chapter of the Stars Watch See Seikai no Danshou

Lostorage incited WIXOSS
Watch Homura Suzuko has moved back to Ikebukuro after being away for several years. But she can't find her childhood friend, Morikawa Chinatsu, and is having trouble fitting in. She decides to try out the popular cardgame, WIXOSS, in an effort to make friends at school--but finds herself entrapped in an otherworldly competition with deadly implications.

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.
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Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi Buy See Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai

Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust
Rent Rune Balot goes to a casino connected to the October corporation to try to wrap up her case once and for all.

Meitantei Conan
Rent High School student Shinichi Kudou was a virtual Sherlock Holmes, who the Tokyo police regularly turned to for help in solving baffling cases. But then he accidentally learned too much for his own good about a murder case, and was caught by the villains. They poisoned him and left him for dead, but the "poison" had an unexpected effect--rather than killing him, it caused Shinichi to revert to the appearance of an elementary school boy! He retains his skills as a brilliant detective, however, and since that incident has managed to become adopted by his former girlfriend and her less-than-exemplary private detective father. With them he carries on his passion, and searches for clues to a possible antidote to the poison he was forced to swallow.
Mermaid Forest Rent See Ningyo no Mori
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Buy See Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED
Mobile Suit: Gundam SEED Buy See Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED

Monster
Buy The Japanese Neurosurgeon Dr Kenzo Tenma had everything going for him in his position as lead surgeon of neurosurgery at a hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. His genius as a surgeon had attracted not only the attention of the director of surgery at the hospital, but also an engagement to the beautiful Eva, the director's daughter. On one fateful dark evening, he defies the instructions of the director to abandon his current patient, a 12-year-old gunshot victim, to an almost certain death and refuses to performs surgery to save the life of the town mayor. He does what does what he thinks a true doctor should do and his young patient survives, the mayor dies, and in his decision, he has ignored the politics at the hospital, sacrificing all of his successes.

Mousou Dairinin
Buy An elementary school kid who has worked hard to earn the title of "shounen bat" or "little slugger", but there is someone who is now going around attacking (apparent) strangers on the street at night with a golden baseball bat and has somehow been tagged with the same nickname. Are these two events related? Two police detectives who are tasked to investigate the attacks find themselves entangled with more strangeness that any normal person might expect to encounter.

Munou na Nana
Rent 'Talenteds' are humans with paranormal abilities; and 'Enemies of Mankind' are Talenteds who use those abilities for evil purposes. After humans defeated the Enemies in a costly war, all Talenteds must undergo rigorous training in remote locations so that their abilities will never be used for nefarious purposes. Nevertheless, those in power distrust them and will go as far as assassinating suspicious ones. One day, at a special school on a remote island, two new students arrive--Kyouya Onodera, a guy with a quietly hostile aura and another secret ability, and Nana Hiiragi, a girl who can read minds.

My Home Hero
Unevaluated Tetsuo Tosu, a 47-year-old office worker, and his wife, Kasen, love their daughter Reika more than anything in the world, even though she has been through a rebellious phase. So when Tetsuo visits Reika after she's started to live on her own, and she won't explain how she got bruises like she's been beaten, he decides to hide and find out what's going on. Enter Reiko's boyfriend, Nobuto Matori, a brute who has beaten his ex-girlfriend to death and has ties to the yakuza. After he sees that Nobuto is the one responsible for the wounds on Reika's face, Tetsuo ends up killing the man. And so begins the fight of wits over life or death between "a normal, weak, middle-aged man" who is prepared to do anything to protect his family, and the fearless fighters from the underworld.
Genre
Action(36) Action Comedy(2) Adventure(13) Comedy(3)
Drama(46) Horror(13) Mystery(19) Parody(2)
Romance(7) Tragedy(5)
Setting
Cyberpunk(2) Fantasy(17) Historical(3) Modern(32)
Sci-Fi(29)
Demographic
Children(1) Kid at heart(2) Seinen(12) Shoujo(3)
Shounen(5)
Style
Acquired Taste(5) Artistic(2) Creepy(7) Dark(22)
Fragmentary(3) Kawaii(1) Silly-funny(1) Surreal(7)
Weird(5)
Characters and Their Abilities
Bishoujo(2) Bishounen(1) Kemonomimi(1) Ninja(1)
Vampires(1)
Story Elements and Location
Boys Love(1) Coming of Age(3) Competition(2) Depression(3)
Elementary School(1) Epic(2) Fighting(7) Friendship(7)
High School(10) Isekai (Other World)(2) Magic(4) Martial Arts(1)
Mecha(5) Middle School(1) Music(1) Occult(4)
Otaku Theme(1) Police(7) Psychics(6) Slice of Life(3)
Soul Mates(3) Spiritual(4) Supernatural(13) Swordplay(3)
Time Travel(1) Underworld(1) War(4) Yuri(1)
Keywords
Anthology(1) Assassin(s)(1) Computers(2) Dating Sim Spinoff(1)
Gun-action(14) Live Action(1) noitaminA(2) Prequel(1)
Reboot(1) Sequel(3) Spinoff(1) Spinoff-Sequel(2)
Video-game inspired(3) Witchcraft(1)
Potentially Objectionable
Bondage(2) Ecchi(2) Fan Service(7) Hentai(4)
Incest(1) Pervert(2) Stalking(1) Violent(22)
Vulgar(2)
Type
Movie(11) ONA(3) OVA(10) Short(1)
TV(40) TV Special(1)
Release Year
2023(3) 2022(1) 2020(3) 2019(3) 2018(1) 2017(2) 2016(3) 2015(2)
2014(2) 2013(4) 2012(5) 2008(2) 2007(1) 2006(2) 2005(5) 2004(8)
2003(6) 2002(8) 2001(4) 2000(5) 1999(3) 1998(4) 1997(1) 1996(1)
1995(1) 1994(2) 1993(1) 1992(2) 1991(1) 1986(1)
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