Dark/Gun-action Titles

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

Gun-Action: (Story/Location) A subcategory of "Action". Entries with this keyword should contain the use of firearms (that are small enough to be handled by one or two persons).

Title Rating Synopsis
A
A Kite Rent See Kite
B

Blassreiter
In the near-future in a unnamed town in Germany, there have been incidences of dead bodies transforming into strange creatures and coming back to life to wreck havoc and kill innocent civilians. These mutant monsters have an ability to merge with cars and vehicles that makes them both very fast and dangerous. A secret SWAT team named XAT is specially equipped with armored cars and combat motorcycles to deal with these monsters. Then suddenly normal people begin transforming into monsters. With all these monsters and heavily armed soldiers running around, you know that a battle royal is brewing.
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
E

Elfen Lied
Rent Kouta has moved back to his childhood town to start his first year in college, and his female cousin, Yuka, has set him up to live in a big ten-room vacant house. Later on that night, the two encounter a naked girl with horns wandering on the beach. She appears to be very innocent and very helpless, so Kouta takes it upon himself to take her home to keep her safe, unaware that his guest has just escaped from an experimental lab and that both the police and military are searching for her, with orders to shoot on sight.
Elven Song Rent See Elfen Lied
G
Ghost in the Shell Rent See Koukaku Kidoutai

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Buy A sequel to the famous Puppet Master movie of 1995, Batou and Togusa now investigate the strange rebellious murders of sex robots against their masters. During their investigation, they encounter dangerous hackers, crazy Yakuza, and even bits of the Major materialized from the net. Batou is a living doll. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and memories of a woman named, Motoko. When the boundary between humans and machines has infinitely blurred, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is a promiscuous story of a lonesome "ghost" of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity.
GS Girl Buy See Gunslinger Girl

Gunslinger Girl
Buy Welcome to the Social Welfare Department, also known as Section 2. On the surface, the workers of Section 2 travel from hospital to hospital looking for little girls that have been in serious accidents and are in danger of dying. The MUST not have any surviving family. They take the girls to their special hospital and cure them. Their TRUE purpose is much more sinister. Section 2 is the home of a bunch of Ex Intelligence and Military Personnel and the Gunslinger Girls. Little Girls who have been Altered by Technology to have faster reflexes, perfect hearing and eyesight, and nearly indestructible bodies. They are the assasins of the government, working in the shadows to ensure that the politicians are happy, and therefore no one knows of their existence. Each girl is paired with a handler to which they have sworn absolute loyalty, and are officially known as Fratellos. But technology has a price, and it's something that each little girl has to pay. And sometimes the price can be high.
Gunslinger Girls Buy See Gunslinger Girl
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...
Innocence Buy See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
J
Jin Roh Buy See Jin-Roh

Jin-Roh
Buy In an alternate world, around 1960, Japan suffers serious civil disorder. The Capital Police with their deadly Panzer Cops are the solution but few like them, even among the police. Conspiracies are brewing and at their center is Fuse, the lone wolf.
Genre
Action(9) Action Comedy(1) Cyberpunk(3) Drama(10)
Horror(2) Mystery(2) Romance(2) Suspense(6)
Tragedy(2)
Setting
Fantasy(4) Modern(2) Sci-Fi(8)
Demographic
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Artistic(1) Classic(1) Creepy(3)
Moe(1) Surreal(2) Weird(2)
Keywords
Adventure(2) Computers(1) Epic(1) Fighting(2)
Fragmentary(2) Hentai(1) Magic(2) Mecha(2)
Occult(1) Police(5) Psychics(3) Sequel(1)
Spiritual(1) Swordplay(1) Time Travel(1) Vampires(1)
Violent(8) Vulgar(1) War(2)
Type
Movie(4) OVA(1) TV(5)
Release Year
2008(1) 2005(1) 2004(2) 2003(2) 2000(1) 1999(1) 1998(3) 1995(1)
1991(1)
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