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Adventure/TV/Dark Titles

Adventure: (Genre) Titles where the characters are involved in an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.

TV: (Type) All anime series done for TV should go into this slot.

Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.

Title Rating Synopsis
B
Basara Buy See Legend of Basara

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

Chrno Crusade
Buy In the year of the lord 1928 AD, in a city of Brooklyn very different from our own, the prosperity of the decade has also summoned an evil that can not be fought with normal weapons. The Magdalan Order has evolved to specialize in exorcisms of poltergeists and demonic apparitions, through whatever means required, including, (but not limited to) the use of holy water and fully automatic weapons firing blessed silver rounds. The young Christian warrior-priestess, Rosette Christopher and her assistant, the daemon Chrno are ready to take on any evil opponent, no matter what kind of damage and destruction they cause, their efforts are all in the name of the holy order.
Chrono Crusade Buy See Chrno Crusade

Claymore
Rent Set in a mideval time, the Yoma (demons) have been feeding upon the humans. They have become so skilled that when they feed upon a person completely, they can assume the form, mannerisms, and memories of the people they kill. This allows them to blend into society where they cannot be found. Whenever these Yoma appear the Claymore follow. This is a group of young girls dressed in armor and sporting large 'Claymore' swords. Their job is to hunt down and kill all of these Yoma. Half Human and Half Yoma, these 'girls' only live to kill demons. Possessing super speed, strength, and healing abilities, they hunt down Yoma for any village that can pay the price.
D

Death Note
Buy Light Yagami (Or Raito) is an ace student who`s bored out of his mind. One day he finds the Death Note - a notebook held by a shinigami (or Death God). With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create a perfect world - A world without crime or criminals. However when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer.
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.
F
FMA Buy See Hagane no Renkinjutsushi
Full Metal Alchemist Buy See Hagane no Renkinjutsushi
Fullmetal Alchemist Buy See Hagane no Renkinjutsushi
H

Hagane no Renkinjutsushi
Buy

Edward and Alphonse Elric are brothers who were born with an extraordinary gift for the magical science known as alchemy. Their father, also very gifted in the craft of alchemy, disappeared leaving their ordinary mother to raise them in the country. But when their mother passed away, the boys vowed to learn the arts of alchemy to the fullest. The goal -- to bring their mother back to life, one of two things Alchemist are forbidden from doing. They attempt to bring back their mother with devistating consequences. Edward loses an arm and a leg and Alphonse loses his body, his soul sealed into a suit of armor by Edward at the last moment. For all of this, the thing they created wasn't even human and didn't live long.


Heat Guy J
Buy Daisuke and his partner J work in the special crimes department. Tasked with a large job of preventing crimes before they happen, Daisuke goes around the city trying to find who is smuggling illegal androids and mutants into the city. Now this would normally be dangerous as these crooks are very powerful themselves but Daisuke has an ace up his sleeve, Heat Guy J or Android J.
I
Infinite Ryvius Buy See Mugen no Ryvius

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

JoJo`s Bizarre Adventure 2
About a hundred years after his cataclysmic battle against one of the Joestar family, the vampire Dio has been fished out of the ocean and freed. Thus begins the adventure for Jotaroa as he learns from his grandfather of a long running family feud with Dio, a feud which has taken the life of father. The Joestar family has been cursed with a special terrifying psychic ability which allows them call forth a spirit warrior (they call them STANDs) to fight on their behalf. An ability which may permit them defeat Dio.
Genre
Action(11) Action Comedy(2) Comedy(2) Cyberpunk(2)
Drama(6) Horror(6) Mystery(3) Parody(1)
Romance(2) Suspense(1)
Setting
Fantasy(10) Modern(2) Sci-Fi(6)
Demographic
All Ages(1) Shoujo(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Creepy(2) Surreal(5) Weird(5)
Keywords
Bishoujo(1) Bishounen(2) Depression(1) Elementary School(1)
Epic(1) Fan Service(1) Fighting(1) Friendship(1)
Gun-action(1) High School(1) Magic(1) Mecha(3)
Middle School(1) Occult(3) Otaku Theme(1) Psychics(1)
Sequel(1) Shinigami(1) Supernatural(5) Swordplay(1)
Vampires(1) Video-game inspired(2) Violent(5)
Type
OVA(1)
Release Year
2007(1) 2006(3) 2004(4) 2003(6) 2002(2) 2000(1) 1999(1) 1998(1)
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