OVA/Action Drama/Depression Titles

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OVA: (Type) OVA = Original Video Animation. These are the direct-to-video anime titles done in Japan. Often, OVAs can start a franchise (Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki), start a TV series (Mahou Tsukai Tai!), be a sequel to a TV series (Love Hina Again), or be a stand-alone title (Aa! Megami-sama! OVA). Sometimes, the OAVs are named the same as the TV series and thus will sometimes have the term OVA listed after the title's name to separate it.

Action Drama: (Genre) Much like "Action" (lots of shooting, explosions, and the like) except it has "Drama" thrown in as well.

Depression: (Story/Location) Titles that contain characters who suffer from depression would fall into this category if this is of significant importance for the storyline.

Title Rating Synopsis
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Alien Nine
Rent For the new year in elementary school #9 the responsibilities are assigned, like class representatives, homeroom duties, feeding the class animals - and membership in the anti alien squad who put an alien symbiont on their head like a hat and then catch those aliens that are occasionally landing on earth before they can do any damage. Energetic Toomine Kasumi and serious Kawamura Kumi volunteered for this task while timid Ootani Yuri was elected for this squad by her class, much against her will. And facing these monsters, defending her classmates and even feeding the symbiont with her body (who gives her protection in return) takes a heavy toll on this girl.
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Hitsuji no Uta
Watch Abandoned by his parents at the age of three, Takashiro Kazuna was sent to live with relatives and has grown up in the care of his aunt and uncle. Now in high school, Kazuna begins having reoccuring dreams of blood and death. Not knowing where to turn, he returns home to his parent’s house to find Chizuna, his younger sister living alone in the big empty house. He learns from his sister that his father committed suicide some six months earlier, a fact that was intentionally hidden from him. When Chizuna learns about his dreams, she explains that he is suffering from the Takashiro family disease – a curse which causes an uncontrollable craving for blood – a curse that has already taken the lives of his parents and that Chizuna has been suffering from since childhood – a curse that is now beginning to effect him.
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Lament of the Lamb Watch See Hitsuji no Uta
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Pale Cocoon
Buy Ura and Riko work in the "excavation" department of historical restoration, trying to find out what happened to the world back in the days when there was a blue sky and lots of green everywhere, to restore historical continuity and to learn from the errors made in the past. Ura's job is to decode and convert binary data, Riko's job is interpretation of the data; but everyday being confronted with a world so much better than the one they're living in now takes a toll on them. And one day, Ura restores a strange video...
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Sheep`s Song Watch See Hitsuji no Uta
Song Of Ram Watch See Hitsuji no Uta
Song of Sheep Watch See Hitsuji no Uta
Song of the Sheep Watch See Hitsuji no Uta
エイリアン9 Rent See Alien Nine
ペイル・コクーン Buy See Pale Cocoon
羊のうた (Japanese) Watch See Hitsuji no Uta
Genre
Action(1) Drama(2) Horror(1) Tragedy(2)
Setting
Fantasy(1) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
Style
Surreal(1) Weird(2)
Keywords
Coming of Age(1) Computers(1) Dark(1) Elementary School(1)
Fragmentary(1) Vampires(1) Violent(1)
Type
Short(1)
Release Year
2005(1) 2004(1) 2003(1) 2001(1)

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