Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for the dark category.
Acquired Taste: These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind. FLCL, Di Gi Charat, & Serial Experiments Lain are examples of such titles.
Titles that deal in might and magic will fall into this category. Inuyasha and Tenkuu no Escaflowne are a couple of titles which fall into this genre.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| . | ||
 .hack//Liminality |
Rent | After a freak accident playing the most popular online RPG, known as "The World." Mai finds out that her life has changed after surviving the game, only to fall into a mystery on WHY? |
| A | ||
| A Traveller's Diary | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
| Angel Sanctuary | Rent | See Tenshi Kinryouku |
 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 | ||
 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. |
| H | ||
| Hack Liminality | Rent | See .hack//Liminality |
| L | ||
 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 organisation known as the "Seventh Moon", Ritsuka decides to join forces with Soubi and investigate the truth behind his brother's death. |
| M | ||
| Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| N | ||
| Narutaru | Rent | See Narutaru ~Mukuro naru hoshi Tama taru ko~ |
 Narutaru ~Mukuro naru hoshi Tama taru ko~ |
Rent | While on a summer vacation at her grandparent's island residence, Tamai Shiina discovers a strange creature in the shape of a star. She discovers it is a ryu (a dragon). She names it Hoshimaru and returns home with it. Hoshimaru has many abilities including the power to fly, allowing Shiina-chan to "air surf" from time-to-time. He mimics a backpack so that Shiina can carry him everywhere she goes. |
| S | ||
| Shadow Star | Rent | See Narutaru ~Mukuro naru hoshi Tama taru ko~ |
| Shadowstar Narutaru | Rent | See Narutaru ~Mukuro naru hoshi Tama taru ko~ |
| T | ||
 Tenshi Kinryouku |
Rent | Setsuna Mudo struggles with the realization that God is asleep and that he is in fact the reincarnation of the most powerful angel in heaven. By the director of Saber Marionette J. |
| The Diary of Tortov Roddle | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
| The Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
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