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Acquired Taste: These are titles which may take a while to get used to. As such, you should watch several episodes before making up your mind. FLCL, Di Gi Charat, & Serial Experiments Lain are examples of such titles.



Title Rating Synopsis
A

Ayashi no Ceres
Rent Twin brother and sister Aki and Aya Mikage are about to celebrate their 16th birthdays. Earlier on, Aya had visited a psychic and was told the fated day when the moon and stars of 16 would meet is coming, and that all hell and doom would break loose. Mysteriously their grandfather invites them over for a "birthday party" and gives them a gift which brings out new powers. Now suddenly the entire Mikage family wants Aya killed since "she will bring them nothing but harm." Aki is no longer allowed to see Aya. Along with that, an ancient legend of a Tennyo (girl from the heavens) is said to have come down to Earth and bathed in a river. A nearby fisherman spotted her and stole her hagoromo (feathered robe) that was hanging on a tree nearby. Without it she could not return to her home in the heavens, and was forced to marry the man and have his children.
B
Bebop Buy See Cowboy Bebop
C
Ceres, Celestial Legend Rent See Ayashi no Ceres

Cowboy Bebop
Buy Jet and Spike are a couple of bounty hunters just trying to make ends meet, they both have pasts to run from. Can they, and their ship the Bebop, run fast enough. Just how Vicious will it get.
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
F
Fantajikku Chirudoren (Japanese) Buy See Fantastic Children

Fantastic Children
Buy In the end of 15th century, there was a tragedy on the Greece which was the planet 200 millions light years away from the Earth. There was Princess Tina who was treated as an ultimate weapon, because she had an overwhelming power, and there was a civil war for her power. After numerous sacrifices, Tina used a reincarnation machine made by the latest technologies of the planet.
O
Ominous Ceres Rent See Ayashi no Ceres
S

Samurai Champloo
Rent

Fuu-chan is working as a waitress in a tea shop in the era of the samurai in Japan. She meets Mugen, a strange samurai warrior who looks like he's break dancing when he fights. For 100 dumplings, he agrees to help her when some local thugs, who work for the magistrate's sone, try to cut off her finger.

エルフェンリート Rent See Elfen Lied
ファンタジックチルドレン (Japanese) Buy See Fantastic Children
妖しのセレス Rent See Ayashi no Ceres
Release Year
2005(2) 2004(2) 2000(1) 1998(1)
Type
Setting
Fantasy(2) Historical(1) Modern(1) Sci-Fi(3)
Keywords
Action(3) Action Comedy(2) Adventure(2) Creepy(2)
Dark(1) Deities(1) Drama(2) Fan Service(1)
Gun-action(1) Martial Arts(1) Ninja(1) Psychics(1)
Romance(2) Samurai(1) Sci-fi Western(1) Seinen(1)
Shoujo(1) Surreal(1) Suspense(1) Swordplay(1)
Tragedy(1) Violent(2) Vulgar(1) Weird(1)

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