Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for the dark category.
| Title | Rating | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| B | ||
 Biohunter |
Rent | A strange virus attacks the human genetic code and transforms people into monsters with demonic powers. One such monster is stalking the streets of Tokyo, ripping open young women and devouring their livers. A famed psychic holds the secret to the identity of the monster. Now it's up to two molecular biologists, Koshigaya and Komada, to reach the psychic and his beautiful daughter, before it's too late! The Demon Virus is out to conquer the world...Only the Bio Hunters can stop it! |
| Bloodlust | Buy | See Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust |
 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. |
| Bubblegum Crisis 2040 | Buy | See Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 |
 Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 |
Buy |
Six years after the earth quake that destroyed most of Tokyo, a group of vigilantes have appeared to counter the threat of boomers gone mad. Can they stop the force behind the berserk boomers before it's too late? |
| 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. |
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| D | ||
| D 2000 | Buy | See Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust |
 Divergence Eve |
Watch | With the discovery of Inflation Holes (something like wormholes) in the 24th century, humans can now travel the galaxy. At the space station "Watcher's Nest" is a relay point for ships equipped with Inlfation Drives. It is here that Misaki, a special ops trainee, is sent to battle the Ghoul. The Ghoul are a giant, alien race who are invading our universe from a parallel universe and their point of entry is the Inflation Hole at "Watcher's Nest". What are these Ghouls and why are they invading? What happened to Misaki on her trip to the station when she was attacked by a Ghoul? Will she and the members of her team be able to protect the station and the humans living on it with their special mecha units? Will their extra-large breasts get in the way? |
| 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. |
| M | ||
| Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
 MEMORIES |
Buy |
A collection of shorts by Katsuhiro Otomo. The first, Magnetic Rose, is about a group of space salvagers who respond to a distress call and find a lavish space mansion. The second, Stink Bomb, is about a young man who takes an experimental cold pill, and becomes a living disaster as his body exudes an odious green cloud. The last is "Cannon Fodder," about a boy who lives out his life in a vaguely Orwellian world, fighting a distant, invisible, enemy. |
| S | ||
 Silent Mobius The Motion Picture 1 |
Watch | Just a few days before a new building named "Spires" in Tokyo is to be opened for public access, the "Attacked Mystification Police" Department locates the presence of a Lucifer Hawk there - one of those monsters from a parallel world against whom the AMP had been formed by chief Rally Cheyenne. |
 Silent Mobius The Motion Picture 2 |
Rent | After the events of the flashback section of Silent Mobius The Motion Picture 1 there's only one thing Katsumi Liqueur has on her mind - to leave this dreadful town as soon as possible, that place where she doesn't know anyone and has no friends. But she soon faces serious obstacles as the "Attacked Mystification Police" insists on recruiting Katsumi for their organisation. |
| T | ||
| The Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| V | ||
| Vampire Hunter D 2000 | Buy | See Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust |
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