Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for the dark category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| A Kite | Rent | See Kite |
| B | ||
| Basara | Buy | See Legend of Basara |
| Bubblegum Crisis 2040 | Buy | See Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 |
 Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 |
Buy |
Six years after the earth quake that destroyed most of Tokyo, a group of vigilantes have appeared to counter the threat of boomers gone mad. Can they stop the force behind the berserk boomers before it's too late? |
| D | ||
 Devilman Lady |
Fudo Jun is a beautiful supermodel who is idolized by many. She also has a dark secret that not even she knows about at first, for within her veins run the genes that hold the next step in the evolution of mankind. The same blood as the beastlike superhumans that terrorize the city. Unlike the rest of them, though, Jun has managed to hold a tenuous grip onto her humanity, and she is recruited by the mysterious Asuka Ran, member of a secret organization within the government, aimed at controlling, if not eliminating, these berserk destroyers of mankind. Jun, as Devilman Lady, must now exterminate her own kind, but how much longer can she keep her sanity in a situation she never chose in the first place? |
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| G | ||
 Gosenzo San-E |
Buy |
Gen, looking exactly like Tenchi minus the ponytail, has just lost his mother. As such, his grandmother and head of the Hiraga clan has him move in with her and her mysterious maid Beth on their estate in rural Japan. Jennifer Collins is an American grad student researching the Hiraga clan curse that kills its family members at a young age, all except for Gen's grandmother. Add to the mix a teacher who looks very much like Gen's mother, the school nurse who "instructs" girls sexually, and the nurse's daughter who's Gen's classmate and embarrassed over her mother's actions and you've got an errie yet interesting story. What is Aqua Permanence? Does it provide long life? And why does Beth think Gen has it? |
| J | ||
| Jin Roh | Buy | See Jin-Roh |
 Jin-Roh |
Buy |
In an alternate world, around 1960, Japan suffers serious civil disorder. The Capital Police with their deadly Panzer Cops are the solution but few like them, even among the police. Conspiracies are brewing and at their center is Fuse, the lone wolf. |
| K | ||
 Kite |
Rent |
Orphaned at a young age, her parents victims of a brutal double murder, Sawa was taken in by the detective assigned to her case. Not content to just watch as the imperfect justice system lets more and more criminals go loose every day, he decides to train her to be his instrument of justice. After all, who'd suspect a pretty college student of being a deadly vigilante! Now she must decide between her allegiance to her guardian and her loyalty to her one and only friend, a fellow sword of justice. |
| L | ||
| Lain | Rent | See Serial Experiments Lain |
 Legend of Basara |
Buy | Far in the earth's future, mankind's civilizations have collapsed. Japan has reverted to ancient traditions, living in tribes and worshipping the old gods. In a remote village, two twin children—a boy and a girl—are prophecied to save the land from an approaching age of tyranny and oppression. Tatara, the boy, is brutally murdered by the evil Red King in a village raid. His sister, Sarasa, takes up his quest to stop the Red King. |
| M | ||
| Masquerade | Buy | See Gosenzo San-E |
| P | ||
 Perfect Blue |
Rent |
Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually-charged murder mystery, Mima`s life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucination merge into a terrifying world where innocense is lost and dreams become nightmares. |
| S | ||
| SEL | Rent | See Serial Experiments Lain |
 Serial Experiments Lain |
Rent | Lain Iwakura thought she was an ordinary 13-year old junior high school student until the day she received an e-mail from a classmate who committed suicide a week earlier. The e-mail claims that her classmate’s soul had become a part of the wired world. Interested in the contents of the e-mail, Lain gets herself a new Navi (personal computer) so she can research for details regarding the e-mail’s significance. As Lain becomes more involved in the activity of the wired world, she finds herself becoming increasingly well known by online users despite not having been in the wired world for too long. |
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