Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.
Surreal: (Style) Anime that have the "intense irrational reality of a dream" qualify for this category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| . | ||
| .hack | Rent | See .hack//SIGN |
 .hack//SIGN |
Rent |
It's the near future, and there is only one video game, called "The World." In the virtual reality of "The World", all sorts of people play. However, once a character named Tsukasa is unable to log out, and weird events start happening, "The World" starts to seem much more mysterious than anyone ever thought. |
| A | ||
| A Traveller's Diary | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
 Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
Rent | This anime by Kunio Kato shows the surreal journey of a stranger, traveling on a Dali-like pig with giant legs and leading us in to an unconscious mixture of nightmare and dream. |
| B | ||
| Bebop | Buy | See Cowboy Bebop |
 Boukyaku no Senritsu |
Buy |
Over a hundred years have passed since humanity lost the war to a strange race of beasts that they call Monsters. The remaining survivors live in constant terror, fear and denial, as they are forced to offer their children in tribute to appease and feed the needs of their inhuman Monster conquerors. But not all of humanity has surrendered completely. A small group called the warriors of Melos still fight on, inspired only by a vision of a young lady known as the 'Melody of Oblivion', remembering an almost forgotten legend that if she is found and freed, then the monsters can be defeated. |
| C | ||
 Cowboy Bebop |
Buy | Jet and Spike are a couple of bounty hunters just trying to make ends meet, they both have pasts to run from. Can they, and their ship the Bebop, run fast enough. Just how Vicious will it get. |
| E | ||
 Ergo Proxy |
Rent |
Sometime in the distant future, Humanity has managed to survive, but only in isolated cities and through the use of cloning and robotic servants called ‘autoraves’. Life in the cities are strictly controlled by management dedicated to preserving their 'utopian' way of life. But something is causing the ‘autoraves’ to become independent and is driving them to seek to escape the city. Real Mayer, a female inspector from the Citizen Information Board, learns that the awakenings of the ‘autoraves’ is caused by an encounter with something called a Proxy. In seeking to learn more, Real stumbles into a secret that management is desperately trying to hide and will go to any lengths to keep suppressed. |
| Excel Saga | Rent | See Heppoko Jiken Animation Excel Saga |
| F | ||
 Fushigi no Kuni no Miyuki-chan |
Watch |
When Miyuki-chan wakes up late for school one morning, strange things begin to happen. Things involving scantily clad women in a weird world where nothing is quite as it should be... |
| H | ||
| Hack Sign | Rent | See .hack//SIGN |
 Heppoko Jiken Animation Excel Saga |
Rent |
If you're into weird anime, then Excel Saga is right for you. Join Excel, the indestructible agent of the mysterious ACROSS organization, as she survives (or not) every episode the creators and animators can think up. Parodies are abundant and the storyline is almost none-existent, but if you have a twisted mind, this series is for you. |
| I | ||
 Interlude |
Buy | For a close-knit foursome of high school friends, life is all about sleeping in class, strawberry milk, and after-class karaoke. However, our unnamed main protagonist is troubled by nightmares of death and disaster. Only when he begins to realize that his memories of people and events are different from those of Tamaki Maiko (named "Tama-chan" by her friends, "Mai-chan" by herself), Chimu and Harusa, his three female friends, does he begin to wonder. Later, when the waking dreams start.... a short moment of him seeing something that noone else sees....an attractive young lady, who stares back at him in amazement from an empty subway station, does he begin to wonder about his sanity. That evening, the four encounter and follow a shadow with no person, only to encounter a gang of stumbling zombies. And then he wakes up that morning from yet another bad dream, but the threads of reality have become a bit too frayed, and he begins to see a way in which he can travel over to the reality of his nightmares. |
| J | ||
| Jing OVA | Avoid | See King of Bandit Jing in Seventh Heaven |
| K | ||
 Kiddy Grade |
Buy |
Lumiere (young purple-haired girl) and Eclair (red-haired older girl) are ES-members (Ecounter of Shadow-Work) of GOTT (Galactic Organization of Tariff and Trade) who do underground works to regulate the economy and safety of the Galaxy. Like all ES members, Eclair and Lumiere have special powers. Lumiere can control any form of computer technology, even from a great distance. Eclair can turn lipstick into a deadly weapon and when she wears it, she becomes super strong and exceptionally fast. They are accompanied by a GOTT auditor named Armblast as they accomplish various missions successfully. However, their past comes back to haunt them and soon Lumiere and Eclair find themselves in the fight of their lives. What is the secret of thier past? What is GOTT doing? Will Eclair and Lumiere be able to live normal lives? |
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