Sci-Fi/2004/Dark Titles

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Sci-Fi: (Setting) Self-explanatory. Anime of this category should contain Science-Fiction elements.

Dark: (Style) Titles that are dismal or gloomy in nature qualify for this category.

Title Rating Synopsis
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.
E

Elfen Lied
Rent Kouta has moved back to his childhood town to start his first year in college, and his female cousin, Yuka, has set him up to live in a big ten-room vacant house. Later on that night, the two encounter a naked girl with horns wandering on the beach. She appears to be very innocent and very helpless, so Kouta takes it upon himself to take her home to keep her safe, unaware that his guest has just escaped from an experimental lab and that both the police and military are searching for her, with orders to shoot on sight.
Elven Song Rent See Elfen Lied
G

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Buy A sequel to the famous Puppet Master movie of 1995, Batou and Togusa now investigate the strange rebellious murders of sex robots against their masters. During their investigation, they encounter dangerous hackers, crazy Yakuza, and even bits of the Major materialized from the net. Batou is a living doll. His whole body, even his arms and legs are entirely man-made. What only remains are traces of his brain and memories of a woman named, Motoko. When the boundary between humans and machines has infinitely blurred, Humans have forgotten that they are humans. This is a promiscuous story of a lonesome "ghost" of a man, who nevertheless seeks to retain humanity.
I
Innocence Buy See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

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
T
The Melody of Oblivion Buy See Boukyaku no Senritsu
イノセンス GHOST IN THE SHELL(仮題) (Japanese) Buy See Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
インタールード (Japanese) Buy See Interlude
エルフェンリート Rent See Elfen Lied
忘却の旋律 (Japanese) Buy See Boukyaku no Senritsu
Genre
Action(4) Cyberpunk(1) Drama(3) Horror(2)
Mystery(2) Romance(1) Suspense(3) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(2)
Demographic
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Artistic(1) Creepy(3) Surreal(3)
Weird(2)
Keywords
Adventure(2) Computers(1) Fighting(1) Gun-action(2)
Occult(1) Police(1) Psychics(1) Sequel(1)
Spiritual(1) Supernatural(2) Video-game inspired(1) Violent(2)
Vulgar(1)
Type
Movie(1) OVA(1) TV(3)
Release Year

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