Dark/Drama/Action Drama Titles

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

Drama: (Genre) Titles that show a state, situation, or series of events involving interesting or intense conflict of forces. See also: "Action Drama".

Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.

Title Rating Synopsis
A
A Kite Rent See Kite

Akagi
Rent On a cold and stormy night, Shigeru Akagi crawled out of the ocean, stumbled into a dingy waterfront Mahjong parlor and into a rough Mahjong game. Nangu was in heavily in debt and had been offered a chance to gamble away his debts by the yakusa. If that did not work, they had made sure that his life insurance policy would more than cover what he owed them. That evening’s tiles had not been kind to Nangu and with nothing left to loose, he decided to take a chance and let the thirteen-year-old Akagi play in his place. The events of that evening are still quietly spoken about and of how a rank-beginner beat the yakusa rep (or professional) player. It was that night that the legend of Akagi - the genius or monster of the Mahjong game - was born.
Android Kikaider: The Animation Buy See Jinzo Ningen Kikaider
Artificial Humanoid Kikaider: The Animation Buy See Jinzo Ningen Kikaider
B

Baburugamu Kuraishisu
Rent

Chronicles the battles of the Knight Sabers, a female band of mercenaries who take jobs that inevitably lead to their fighting "boomers", androids designed with military purposes in mind. Can these girls manage their careers and thier lives as Knight Sabers? Will Geneon stop making bad business decisions?


Black Jack (movie)
Buy Based on the manga of Osamu "God of Comics" Tezuka, this movie follows the exploits of Black Jack, the infamous renegade surgeon who sells his remarkable medical skills to the highest bidder. He gets called upon to do research connected to a disease contracted by Super Humans, a new breed of humanity who have potential both physically and intellectually beyond the normal capabilities of ordinary humans.
Blood + Rent See Blood Plus
Blood Night Rent See Blood Plus

Blood Plus
Rent Saya Otonashi lives peacefully with her adoptive family in Okinawa. The man that she proudly calls dad has adopted both her, her younger brother Riku and her troublesome older brother Kai. In the past year the four of them, once strangers, have formed a close loving family, but Saya wonders why she does not have any memories older than a year. Everything changes with the appearance of a monster called a Chiropteran. At school one night, a teacher is murdered before her eyes and Saya is attacked by a murderous creature. A mysterious young man carrying a cello appears and saves her, but he hands her a strange sword and tells her to fight. Why does her dad know so much about these monsters? And who is this cello player named Haji, someone who is now following Saya around - insisting on serving her?
Blood TV Rent See Blood Plus
boku no katsu seni kanojo no... A tradgic Love Story w/ a VERY odd twist!
Bubblegum Crisis Rent See Baburugamu Kuraishisu
Bubblegum Crisis Mega-Tokyo 2032 Rent See Baburugamu Kuraishisu
C

Chaos;Head
Based on a Japanese visual novel developed by 5bp and Nitroplus, Chaos;Head is a delusional murder mystery story, with strong elements of gore, psychology and science fiction. The game uses a feature called a "delusional trigger", which allows the player adjust the ‘realness’ or ‘surrealness’ of the perspective of the main character, which affects the storyline.

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.
Genre
Action(27) Comedy(2) Cyberpunk(6) Horror(13)
Mystery(7) Parody(2) Romance(11) Suspense(11)
Tragedy(11)
Setting
Fantasy(20) Historical(3) Modern(18) Sci-Fi(21)
Demographic
Children(1) Kid at heart(1) Shounen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(10) Artistic(3) Classic(4) Creepy(10)
Kawaii(1) Moe(1) Surreal(12) Weird(9)
Keywords
Adventure(9) Animals(1) Artificial Girls(1) Bishoujo(1)
Bishounen(2) Coming of Age(3) Competition(2) Computers(2)
Dating Sim Spinoff(2) Depression(4) Ecchi(2) Epic(4)
Evang*lion Clone(1) Fan Service(4) Fighting(4) Fragmentary(3)
Friendship(2) Gun-action(10) Harem(1) Hentai(1)
High School(6) Live Action(1) Magic(6) Martial Arts(1)
Mecha(8) Middle School(2) Music(2) Occult(3)
Otaku Theme(1) Pantsu(1) Police(6) Psychics(6)
Samurai(1) Sequel(2) Shinigami(1) Shounen Ai(3)
Slice of Life(3) Soul Mates(3) Spiritual(4) Sports(1)
Supernatural(13) Swordplay(5) Time Travel(2) Underworld(1)
Vampires(7) Video-game inspired(4) Violent(18) Vulgar(1)
War(4) Yaoi(3) Yuri(2)
Type
Movie(13) ONA(1) OVA(8) Short(1)
TV(26)
Release Year
2008(5) 2007(6) 2006(5) 2005(6) 2004(6) 2003(3) 2002(3) 2001(2)
2000(4) 1999(3) 1998(6) 1997(3) 1996(2) 1995(2) 1993(2) 1992(1)
1991(2) 1989(1) 1987(2) 1986(1) 1985(1) 1984(1)
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