Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.
War: (Story/Location) Titles of this category should cover the events of a war as significant element of the storyline (even if the actual conflict doesn't get that much airtime). The opponents should be nations at least (alien races, star systems, parallel universes etc. are fine as well); conflicts between smaller organizations would rather be categorized as "Fighting".
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| D | ||
| Das wandelnde Schloss | Buy | See Hauru no Uguko Shiro |
| H | ||
 Hauru no Uguko Shiro |
Buy | Early 20th century technology meets magic in a Western (probably French) country where Sophie, a young woman, is living and running a hatter shop. One of these magic users, the "Witch of the Wasteland", puts a hex on Sophie, making her instantly age by 70 years and unable to tell anyone about the reason. On her search for help Sophie ends up living in the moving castle of the infamous wizard Howl, together with his apprentice boy Marker, fire demon Calucipher, and the living scarecrow Turnip Head. And with time she is getting more and more dragged into a conflict of powerful wizards and a dreadful war. Will Sophie be able to break her curse, and what about the other inhabitants of this castle? |
| Howl no Ugoku Shiro | Buy | See Hauru no Uguko Shiro |
| Howl's Moving Castle | Buy | See Hauru no Uguko Shiro |
| I | ||
 Ima Soko ni Iru Boku |
Rent | It doesn't look like this is going to be a great day for Matsutani Shuzo, nickname "Shu". The schoolboy has just lost a kendo fight in his dojo, and the girl he intended to impress walked away with his victorious opponent who even gave him a lecture after their fight. Depressed he retreats to the industry sector of his hometown, climbing up an old factory chimney, the "tower of courage" for his gang. To his surprise he meets a strange girl with blue hair and blue eyes up there... but then time stops for a moment - and shortly after this, he and the girl are attacked by huge mechas. Moments later he finds himself in a place he's never seen before, and his nightmare begins in a fortress named Hellywood where all values of humanity appear to be lost. And yet, Shu tries to plead for his ideals... |
| M | ||
 Mononoke Hime |
Rent |
A young man, cursed with death for saving his village, leaves home to find where the curse originated from. Doing so takes him into the middle of a conflict between man and nature, an unmoving rock between two unstoppable forces. But can he save those he loves and respects while removing his curse? Will he be forced to side against his friends? |
| N | ||
| Now and then, here and there | Rent | See Ima Soko ni Iru Boku |
| P | ||
| Princess Mononoke | Rent | See Mononoke Hime |
| R | ||
 Rahxephon |
Buy | In the year 2015 Tokyo is covered by an inpenetrable barrier created by the Mu, mankind's enemy. 17 years old Kamina Ayato, high-schooler and hobby-painter, lives in Tokyo with his mother Maya. After a surprising air battle two "guys from the government" ask the boy to follow them, when a mysterious woman appears and knocks them out. But why do these guys have thick, blue blood? "I'll tell you if you join me", this woman offers to Ayato, who decides to run away into a subway. |
| RahXephon TV | Buy | See Rahxephon |
| S | ||
| Saikano - OVA | Rent | See Saishuuheiki Kanojo - Another Love Song |
 Saishuuheiki Kanojo - Another Love Song |
Rent | This OVA retells parts of the Saishu Heiki Kanojo TV series from the perspective of Lt. Mizuki (Chise's superior officer and fellow Ultimate Weapon), thus giving the audience more insight into the events behind the scenes. |
| Saishuuheiki Kanojo OVA | Rent | See Saishuuheiki Kanojo - Another Love Song |
 Silent Mobius |
Watch | The Attacked Mystification Police Department, a team of seven female fighters, all being super-humanly skilled (technology and magic), all having some background story of their own, united for one goal: To protect post-SilentCrisis Tokyo against those "Lucifer Hawk", creatures from some parallel world, whose lower forms hunt and eat people, while the higher ones can be quite charming on occasion, if this suits their intentions ... you'll learn how these things all started, where the characters came from, why the Lucifer Hawks are here at all - and why it is so important that this Katsumi Liqueur, an office worker from Hawaii, join the AMP ... |
| もののけ姫 | Rent | See Mononoke Hime |
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