Modern/Horror/Drama Titles

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Modern: (Setting) These are titles which have a modern feel to them; the story takes place in the present day (of the creation of this anime), give or take a few years.

Horror: (Genre) Self-explanatory.

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

Title Rating Synopsis
B
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
D

Death Note (live-action movie #1)
Rent Yagami Light is a brilliant college student who, one day, finds a notebook simply titled "Death Note." Inside of this book is a list of rules and details as for the use of the "Death Note." When he realizes the power he holds, he decides he's going to make over the world. He wants to make it into a better place by killing those who do others harm. He has been nicknamed by the police "Kira." L, a brilliant detective who lives in secrecy, rises from the shadows and puts his life on the line trying to capture Light. Both L and Light believe themselves on the side of Justice, and the two match wits trying to show exactly which of them is "good" and which of them is "evil."
H
Hell Girl Buy See Jigoku Shoujo
Hell Girl - The Two Prisoners Buy See Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori
Hell Girl Second Cage Buy See Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori
J

Jigoku Shoujo
Buy There is a website that can only be accessed at the stroke of midnight. Known as the Jigoku Tsushin, rumor has it that if you post a grudge there, the Jigoku Shoujo will appear and drag whomever torments you into the inferno.
Jigoku Shoujo -Futagomori- Buy See Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori
Jigoku Shoujo 2 Buy See Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori

Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori
Buy Ai Enma once again returns as the Jigoku Shoujo, who uses Jigoku Tsuushin (Hell Hotline) to allow people to post their grudges on their tormentors, sending them straight to Hell. In exchange, the users of the website will end up in Hell after they die. Meanwhile, a mysterious girl with purple eyes called Kikuri appears and seems to have strange intentions towards Ai and Jigoku Tsuushin's operation.
K
Kraujas Plius Rent See Blood Plus
M

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

Suika
Rent Souji Kamishiro is pursuing his dream of being a painter under the unsteady hand of a dark moody, but brilliant art professor. While staying over at his house, Souji has become very close to his sensi’s daughter Sayaka Shirakawa, but there appears something very wrong within the family. Sayaka bitterly hates her father, refusing to even be in the same room with him. Later, someone confronts Souji with rumors that his sensi is a murderer. And then Mie Wakabasyashi, a cute young neighborhood girl appears to both give warning about his sensi one moment and then trys to steal a kiss from him the next. But Sayaka interrupts them and chases Mie away. She takes advantage of the situation to share her feelings for Souji in the form of a passionate kiss. But the tensions and uncertainty are quickly rising to a dangerous climax that is certain to claim another life and explode into a passionate release.
Genre
Action(2) Comedy(1) Mystery(2) Tragedy(2)
Setting
Fantasy(3) Sci-Fi(1)
Demographic
Style
Artistic(1) Creepy(1)
Keywords
Dark(4) Hentai(1) High School(2) Live Action(1)
Middle School(1) Occult(1) Police(1) Sequel(1)
Supernatural(3) Swordplay(1) Vampires(1) Violent(1)
Type
Movie(2) OVA(1) TV(3)
Release Year
2007(1) 2006(3) 2005(1) 2004(1) 2003(1) 1995(1)
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