Sci-Fi/TV/Dark Titles

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

TV: (Type) All anime series done for TV should go into this slot.

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

Title Rating Synopsis
B

Blassreiter
In the near-future in a unnamed town in Germany, there have been incidences of dead bodies transforming into strange creatures and coming back to life to wreck havoc and kill innocent civilians. These mutant monsters have an ability to merge with cars and vehicles that makes them both very fast and dangerous. A secret SWAT team named XAT is specially equipped with armored cars and combat motorcycles to deal with these monsters. Then suddenly normal people begin transforming into monsters. With all these monsters and heavily armed soldiers running around, you know that a battle royal is brewing.

Blue Gender
Watch

It is the year 2031 and an insectoid race known as the Blue have taken over Earth. Yuji Kaido has been awakened from hibernation after being put there some 22 years earlier due to a disease he had. After overcoming his "future shock" at the horrors of Earth, Yuji joins the Sleeper Recovery Team to try to take the planet back. Can Marlene, the female soldier who was charged with bringing him to 2nd Earth, keep Yuji from losing himself in the fight?


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.
Bubblegum Crisis 2040 Buy See Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
Buy

Six years after the earth quake that destroyed most of Tokyo, a group of vigilantes have appeared to counter the threat of boomers gone mad. Can they stop the force behind the berserk boomers before it's too late?

C

Chaos;Head
Based on a Japanese visual novel developed by 5bp and Nitroplus, Chaos;Head is a delusional murder mystery story, with strong elements of gore, psychology and science fiction. The game uses a feature called a "delusional trigger", which allows the player adjust the ‘realness’ or ‘surrealness’ of the perspective of the main character, which affects the storyline.
D

Divergence Eve
Watch With the discovery of Inflation Holes (something like wormholes) in the 24th century, humans can now travel the galaxy. At the space station "Watcher's Nest" is a relay point for ships equipped with Inlfation Drives. It is here that Misaki, a special ops trainee, is sent to battle the Ghoul. The Ghoul are a giant, alien race who are invading our universe from a parallel universe and their point of entry is the Inflation Hole at "Watcher's Nest". What are these Ghouls and why are they invading? What happened to Misaki on her trip to the station when she was attacked by a Ghoul? Will she and the members of her team be able to protect the station and the humans living on it with their special mecha units? Will their extra-large breasts get in the way?
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

Ergo Proxy
Rent Sometime in the distant future, Humanity has managed to survive, but only in isolated cities and through the use of cloning and robotic servants called ‘autoraves’. Life in the cities are strictly controlled by management dedicated to preserving their 'utopian' way of life. But something is causing the ‘autoraves’ to become independent and is driving them to seek to escape the city. Real Mayer, a female inspector from the Citizen Information Board, learns that the awakenings of the ‘autoraves’ is caused by an encounter with something called a Proxy. In seeking to learn more, Real stumbles into a secret that management is desperately trying to hide and will go to any lengths to keep suppressed.
Eva Rent See Shin Seiki Evangelion
Evangelion Rent See Shin Seiki Evangelion
G

Gankutsuou
Rent Based loosely on the book written by Alexandre Dumas titled “Comte de Monte-Cristo” (The Count of Monte Cristo), this story is set in a far future time against an intergalactic backdrop. A young Parisian aristocrat, Albert Mondego and his close circle of friends find their lives disrupted and threatened by the arrival of a mysterious and extravagant Count de Monte-Cristo - who appears to harbor a dark and hidden agenda against their parents.
H

Heat Guy J
Buy Daisuke and his partner J work in the special crimes department. Tasked with a large job of preventing crimes before they happen, Daisuke goes around the city trying to find who is smuggling illegal androids and mutants into the city. Now this would normally be dangerous as these crooks are very powerful themselves but Daisuke has an ace up his sleeve, Heat Guy J or Android J.

Hellsing
Buy In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen. - Hellsing, an organisation with a mission of "burying the dead". With research spanning a 100 years, Hellsing form the most powerful vampire - Alucard. By melting the silver cross of the Great Church, Hellsing created 13mm bullets and guns which puts ghouls and vampires to sleep eternally. With the help of the most powerful vampire in history - Alucard, Hellsing seeks to create a world for humans. At the word of, kill at the sight of enemies.
Genre
Action(14) Cyberpunk(4) Drama(7) Horror(5)
Mystery(1) Romance(1) Suspense(3) Tragedy(2)
Setting
Fantasy(2) Modern(1)
Demographic
Style
Acquired Taste(4) Creepy(4) Surreal(6) Weird(7)
Keywords
Adventure(6) Bishoujo(1) Bishounen(1) Depression(1)
Ecchi(1) Evang*lion Clone(1) Fan Service(2) Fighting(4)
Gun-action(3) Mecha(7) Occult(2) Psychics(1)
Spiritual(1) Supernatural(2) Vampires(2) Video-game inspired(2)
Violent(5) Vulgar(1)
Type
Release Year
2008(2) 2006(1) 2005(2) 2004(3) 2003(3) 2002(3) 2001(2) 2000(1)
1999(3) 1998(1) 1995(1)
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