Fantasy/Movie/Acquired Taste Titles

Fantasy: (Setting) Titles that deal in might and magic will fall into this category.

Movie: (Type) Self-explanatory. This should only apply to movies released in the theater.

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.

Title Rating Synopsis
A
A Girl in Gaea Rent See Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea
E
Escaflowne the Movie Rent See Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea

Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea
Rent A girl named Hitomi is very depressed and drops out of her school clubs and off the track team. She feels alone and desperately wants to be left alone, so much so that she hurts her best friend in the process. Her feelings reach Folken, the leader of the Black Dragon clan on the planet Gaea and he summons her, seeing her as the Goddess of Wings. Unfortunately for him, she ends up with his brother Van and causes the legendary dragon armor Escaflowne to come to life. Trapped on this strange world, Hitomi must learn to let others in and help those around her to do the same. Is she the Goddess of Wings as fortold in prophecy? Will she be the cause of the destruction of Gaea? Will she ever go home again?
Escaflowne: The Movie Rent See Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea
M

Mind Game
Rent Nishi, an awkward young manga artist in Osaka, has had on longstanding crush on Myon. Thing is, Myon’s got a thing for rugged Ryo. Matters come to a head at her sister Yan’s yakitori restaurant, in the presence of the girl’s dissolute father—who happens to owe a bunch of money to a pair of creepy gangsters, who’ve come to collect. Things get ugly, and Nishi gets killed in a brutal, graphic fashion. End of the story? No way, that’s just the start. Pulling a fast one on God (in all his/her/its infinite manifestations), Nishi hightails it back to Earth, where he replays the crime to his advantage, steals a car and grabs the girls. Under a hail of yakuza gunfire, he bails off a bridge—and into the mouth of a whale. There, he and his two female companions encounter a tenacious and lively old man who has set up camp in the beast’s belly, longing to someday return to human company on dry land. With no immediate exit available, the quartet make do—fishing, fighting, making love, weaving tales of strange happenings on faraway planets and dreaming of life in the real world. Will they ever set foot there again?
MindGame Rent See Mind Game
マインド・ゲーム (Japanese) Rent See Mind Game
Genre
Comedy(1) Romance(2)
Setting
Demographic
Style
Weird(1)
Keywords
Adventure(1) Mecha(1) Spinoff(1) Violent(1)
Type
Release Year
2004(1) 2001(1)

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