Acquired Taste: (Style) These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind.
Surreal: (Style) Anime that have the "intense irrational reality of a dream" qualify for this category.
| 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 |
 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. |
| F | ||
| Fille Révolutionnaire Utena | Buy | See Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
| 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 organization 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 |
| R | ||
| Revolutionary Girl Utena | Buy | See Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
| S | ||
 Shoujo Kakumei Utena |
Buy |
Once upon a time there was a princess grieving over the deaths of her mother and father. Before this princess appeared a prince traveling upon a white horse. |
| T | ||
| The Diary of Tortov Roddle | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
| The Melody of Oblivion | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| ラブレス (Japanese) | Buy | See Loveless (TV) |
| 忘却の旋律 (Japanese) | Buy | See Boukyaku no Senritsu |
| 或る旅人の日記 | Rent | See Aru Tabibito no Nikki |
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