In the future, it is possible to quantitatively measure a person`s emotions, desires, and every inclination. In this way, it is also possible to measure a person`s criminal tendency factor, which is used to judge criminals.
This is the story of a team of policemen dedicated to maintaining public order. Some of them work in the Enforcement Division, responsible for the apprehension of criminals, while others belong to the Supervisory Division which oversees their colleagues in Enforcement.
~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston
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* Based off a series of light novels by Fujima Takuya and Fushimi Hiroyuki.
Akutagawa Takuto is a teenage porn novel writer. He enters Hirameki Gakuen, which accepts only geniuses with outstanding talents, leading his classmates with his unusual writing skills to win the interclass competition.
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The world, devastated by a long global conflict, is ruled from the vast city of Olympus by the General Administration Agency. This Agency is run by human-hybrid clones known as Bioroid, made from the genes of the best and brightest.
Former Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officer Deunan Knute and her cyborg partner Briareos, both become residents of Olympus after being scouted by ES.W.A.T., a special counter-terrorist division of the Global Police.
One such terrorist group which they fight is the Human Liberation Front, which attacked Olympus in the midst of the launch of the Ark Program, a plan to entrust the future of humanity to Bioroids. However, subsequent investigations will reveal that someone else had been manipulating the Front from behind the scenes.
~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston
Note: This project was released simultaneously on multiple platforms – on BD/DVD, streamed online on sites like NicoNico Douga and Bandai Channel, in the cinemas as two compilation movies. The first episode premiered as a free online stream on 03.06.2011, the subsequent episodes were streamed in a PPV (pay-per-view) format. A limited edition of the first Blu-ray volume was sold exclusively at theaters showing the first compilation movie on 13.06.2011, it contained the first 3 episodes. The regular first BD/DVD volume of the anime shipped on 06.07.2011. The anime would continue to have some episodes get first distribution as online streams and some as BD/DVD.
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* An original anime project, written by cultural critic Azuma Hiroki.
With the completion of the Fractale world administration system, humanity has, for the first time in history, attained a paradise where living is effortless.
Now, one thousand years after Fractale`s activation, the system is still operational, but there is no one alive who understands it. The vast majority of people unquestioningly believe that its preservation is the sole condition to human happiness. On an island in the far corner of the continent Fractale begins to show signs of decay, though.
Clain is a boy who lives an aimless life. One day, he helps a girl, Phryne, who is being pursued by unknown assailants. However, she soon disappears again, only leaving a broach behind. The curious Clain successfully activates the antique data saved in the broach. And so, Nessa, a data avatar in form of a young girl, enters the boy`s life.
Clain and Nessa leave on a journey in search for Phryne. In doing so, he will learn the truth behind Fractale.
— translated and adapted from official site by Cranston
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* Based on a light novel series by Inoue Kenji with illustrations by Haga Yui.
Fumizuki Academy is a school that strictly stratifies students, and the comforts of their classrooms, by test scores. The lowest ranked class, Class F, lead by Yoshii Akihisa, the idiot amongst idiots (and the series titular Baka) rallies to use experimental fantasy summoned monsters to battle the higher ranked classes for school supremacy.
With the power of idiots and one of the smartest students in Fumizuki Academy, Himeji Mizuki, a girl who was sick on the day of the placement test and ended up in Class F together with Yoshii, one by one the other classes begin to fall before them.
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In a neo-futuristic age, Tokyo has turned into the world`s largest “jungle-polis” that absorbs carbon dioxide, by-product of runaway global warming. The tower city called Atlas houses the rich and privileged, and is the object of yearning of all that are not allowed to enter, struggling in the squalor of the surrounding jungle. But Atlas, the towering achievement of human ingenuity, was founded on dark ancient secrets which cause a sudden whirl of events. Festooned by colourful characters such as a riotous teenage girl, a child genius, a juvenile princess, a drag queen, a female doctor, an army major, and an elderly gentleman and lady, Shangri-La`s hard-core world view plays out as an action saga.
A striking vision of Earth`s future from some of Japan`s foremost creative talents, this is a tale of greed and division vs. bravery and the human spirit.
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The story revolves around the members of a private military company (PMC), and the uneasy tension between them and the regular military after a war that caused massive environmental destruction.
Source: Animekon
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* 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 directly affects the storyline.
The main character, Takumi is a troubled young man who struggles to distinguish reality from his delusions, while being pursued by the perpetrator of a series of bloody murders, (or so he thinks). His travels take him in and around Shibuya, Tokyo and his adventures bring him in contact with various scientific themes such as the concepts of matter, antimatter, and the Dirac sea.
The story has been serialized in the manga magazine Dengeki Daiou. A second manga adaptation (described as a side story) appears in the Sept `08 issue of Comic Alive.
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A story of obsessive love and constant pursue told over a 1000 year period. Escaping from a brother who had just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune, along with his servant, comes across a house in the middle of a desolate mountain. Oddly enough, only a young woman lives there, who seems to possess a very dark and ominous past.
It starts out with Kurou meeting the beautiful woman by the name of Kuromitsu, thus began a relationship which transcends life and memories. A journey of immortals and those who chase after it. The majority of this story takes place a few centuries into the future where Kurou is separated from Kuromitsu and is left without memories. He then begins a search for answers to as to who he is, why he is unable to die and who was the women he is so transfixed upon.
(summary of manga from Baka-Updates)
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* Based on a manga by Iwasaki Masakazu, serialised in Dengeki Comic Gao!.
The high school student Kobayashi Sanpeita dreams he is engaged to a beautiful girl. Then one morning, a strange homely girl suddenly breaks through a wall in his bedroom, fighting spider-like battle droids, to tell him that she is his bride and that her name is Kemeko. In order to escape, Sanpeita flees his home and runs to school, but Kemeko follows him. And things only get stranger when Sanpeita is targeted by something that looks like a rice cooker on the school`s rooftop. As Sanpeita and his childhood friend Makihara Izumi are being attacked, strange little Kemeko intervenes to save them both. But just who is Kemeko? Someone who claims to be Sanpeita`s new steel bride!?
Sanpeita is surprised to learn that Kemeko is actually a girl-style powered-combat-suit and that the pilot is a cute girl named Mishima Mei. She may be a heavily armed and violent girl, but still quite cute, nonetheless.
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* Original series directed by Yuasa Masaaki, and animated by Madhouse.
A sci-fi love story set in a world where digitization of memory made physical death obsolete. A world where memories can be stolen and altered, and replaced in a new human body.
Kaiba wakes up in a room without knowing who he is. He has a pendant with the photograph of a woman he does not remember. After being attacked all of a sudden, he has to flee to space, meet various people, and rediscover the world.
“Even without my memories, I love you…”
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The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the “Net society” that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or “Metal” for short — was developed. People`s personal memories are reduced to information and placed within “protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves” called bubble shells online. The result was a virtual “explosion” of creative freedom as people felt safe enough to explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This “friction” between the Metal`s alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as “cyber divers” must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.
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The story is set in a fictional Germany and centers around the outbreak of biomechanical creatures named Demoniacs, who rise from corpses and attack people mindlessly. The Demoniacs have the ability to merge with most technology including cars and motorcycles, not only gaining control of them but also enhancing their performance greatly. Against them is a group of people known as XAT, Xenogenesis Assault Team, who police these Demoniacs in an attempt to keep the peace and discover the reasons for the Demoniac change. All the while, a number of human-turned-Demoniacs appear. Some use their powers for good whilst others for evil. One will rise above all other Demoniacs to become the Blassreiter.
Source: Wikipedia
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* Based on the CyberConnect2 hit game.
The Movie will be placed in the storyline of each .hack//G.U. games trilogy. The story follows Haseo, a player in the online MMORPG called The World:R2 at first depicted as a PKK (Player Killer Killer) known as the “Terror of Death”, a former member of the disbanded Twilight Brigade guild. Haseo encounters Azure Kite (believing him to be Tri-Edge and blaming him for what happened to Shino) but is hopelessly outmatched. Azure Kite easily defeats Haseo and Data Drains him, reducing his level from 133 to 1 and leaving him without any items, weapons, or member addresses. He is left with a mystery on his hands as to the nature of the Data Drain and why Azure Kite is in possession of such a skill.
Eventually Haseo gains the “Avatar” of Skeith. Acquiring the ability to call Skeith and wield his abilities, such as Data Drain. With Skeith as his strength, Haseo begins the quest for a way to save Shino.
He is seen seeking out a PK (Player Killer) known as Tri-Edge, whose victims supposedly are unable to return to The World after he PKs them. Haseo`s friend, Shino, was attacked six months prior to the events of the game by Tri-Edge, and the player herself, Shino Nanao, was left in a coma.
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When three complete strangers, Toki Mishiba, Nobuto Nakajyo and Kazuo Saitoh are hired by a corporation to compete in the “Bus Game”, an illegal dog-fight conducted in strict secrecy, they are given the team code of “Team AAA” (Triple Anonymous).
This group of three who differ entirely from their living environments to their personalities have to work together effectively, but without mutually wiping out their mistrust of each other or prying into each other`s privacy.
They only have one thing in common – each of them need a large amount of money for their own private circumstances. To get the money, they must play in the game despite their very own lives being at stake.
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In 1990 Shinjuko, Maeno Kouki enters Rin`s agency, Asougi Consulting, asking for help. Taking the case sends her into the lair of Aoyama pharmaceutical. This simple case is the catalyst for events that will take Rin to the brink of death. Unfortunately no matter how painful, Rin can`t die through normal means and discovering that truth places Kouki and his family in danger. Rin and her associate Mimi are immortal as a result of their contact with the fruit of immortality. They have one natural enemy, the angels that men become when they encounter that same fruit. But Rin has a very personal demon who is bent on taking her down even if that means chasing her across generations of time. At the bottom of it all is a supernatural being named Apos with a secret that could unravel all creation.
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In order to avoid Earth`s impending destruction from an asteroid impact, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the D-Project, and creates the Dragonaut after finding a dragon egg at the bottom of the ocean.
However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures appear on Earth. After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Kamishina Jin gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him. As they get deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship.
Source: ANN
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In this future, a mobile phone like technology has people wear special visors to superimpose coordinated, instant virtual images over the top of their everyday real world. This cyberspace layer, space, interacts perfectly as you move about or touch things. It even allows children to have advanced Tamagotchi style cyberpets (very tidy!), or to make video calls using simple hand gestures alone.
However, something is happening in Daikoku which the adults have not yet noticed. Cyberpets go missing, dangerous spherical robots patrol the skies and a mysterious gigantic character named Satchii seems connected to it all.
When 6th grader Yasako moves to Daikoku to be with family, her beloved pet goes missing too, and she is drawn into the affairs of a Cyberpet Recovery Agency run by the local children.
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More than 160 years has passed since the orbital station (Skyport) fell on earth and wiped out all of humanity. The moon colony, Eden, has survived and expanded. In the year 2267, at the age of fifteen, Takeru is taking full advantage of Freedom – the short interlude between the end of compulsory education and the rite of becoming a full citizen. He has taken to hanging out with his friends and running his custom built vehicle in the local races. Angry at a racing loss, he goes for walk outside of the dome and stumbles across some strange items and pictures scattered about in a crater on the surface of the moon. Entranced by a picture of a girl standing under a blue sky, Takeru begins to ask questions that the Eden`s ruling Foundation does not want answered.
For unknown reasons, The Foundation has perpetuated the myth that all life on earth has been wiped out and is willing to take extraordinary steps to keep the secret secure.
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* Directed by Kamiyama Kenji and with the participation of the same staff from the popular series, GitS: SAC, this full-length 105 minute feature premièred in Japan on the SKYPerfecTV! satellite television network on September 1st, and was successively released on DVD on November 24th.
AD 2034. It has been two years since Kusanagi Motoko left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team, that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker named the Puppeteer is behind the entire series of events.
In the midst of it all, Batou, who was following the case on a separate track, encounters Motoko. But after saying, “Stay away from the Solid State Society”, she quickly leaves. This makes Batou wonder: Could Motoko be the Puppeteer?
The series of intriguing incidents that Section 9 faces gradually link together — almost artistically. Who is the Puppeteer? What will happen to Batou`s relationship with Motoko? What is the full truth behind this carefully planned perfect crime? And what will the outcome be? Mysteries surround the Solid State Society…
Source: Production I.G`s GitS: SAC SSS page (www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/47_)
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* TANK S.W.A.T is a CGI-animated spinoff from the manga Dominion : Tank Police, written by Masamune Shirow, who created Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed.
Yuri and Asada are on a mission to retrieve confidential data discs that were stolen from the government, but once they finally track down the items, AI-controlled tanks threaten their lives. It`s up to Leona Ozaki`s Tank SWAT team to take action! But even if the enemy tanks are destroyed, danger still exists in the form of a mysterious android that has taken Asada hostage and fitted her with a bomb collar. Leona must make a choice: does she risk losing the data discs and the lives of the rest of her team for the life of a single team mate?
Source: Anime-Planetl
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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 is 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. Re-l Mayer, a female inspector from the Citizen Information Board, learns that the awakening of the Autoraves is caused by an encounter with something called a Proxy. In seeking to learn more, Re-l stumbles into a secret that management is desperately trying to hide and will go to any length to keep suppressed.
— summary from MIKOMI
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In the far future when the continuity of the history has been lost, humans live in an ever more deteriorating completely artificial and enclosed world. The sea and the sky have disappeared, and the only window to “living” scenery exists in the records from the past, excavated in the relic.
The Bureau of Record Excavation is an organization responsible for this task. Ura works for the 92nd office of the bureau. He is absorbed by the restoration of various records and fascinated by world of the past. Riko keeps a little distance to watch him, but averts her eyes from the records, believing that sometimes people just want things to stay the same.
Everyone in this world knows that to know the past means to know the misery of this world, the present reality. But one day, Ura restores a strange video…
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The visual experience takes place in a city that is said to have thousands of levels.
In a shut down area, thousands of levels above and below make it impossible to tell the sky from the ground, or which way is up or down. Will the mysteries bound in this time and world be unravelled?
For the humans who found this vast multi-level city, the mysterious Killy wanders the levels in search of the fabled Net Terminal Genes that were not infected. A huge burden rests on his shoulders for this is a crucial mission. But what is so special about the Net Terminal Genes?
Note by Weresmilodon on Rizon: These clips are meant as a bonus to the manga, and should only be taken as such. Do not expect any plot in these. They are merely animated (short) scenes from the manga.
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* A high-tech action series produced by Gonzo.
The year is 20XX. Under the Maintenance of Public Order Act only a select few are permitted to carry firearms.
Tokyo has been converted, including major districts such as Shinjuku, Shibuya, Roppongi and Akihabara. Everyone now suffers a life of oppression and the constant threat of violence.
A mutual opposition in the underground plans to rebel against this malevolent syndicate. However, the people, and their names, as well as their occupations remain unknown.
The main female characters are Jou, Meg, Sei and Amy. These energetic and courageous teenagers with skills of professionals will deal with anyone who stands in their way — the gunfighter`s way.
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