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Vampire Hunter D – Collection [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]

Vampire Hunter D - Collection

Synopsis for: Vampire Hunter D (Fall 1985)
In the year 12,090 A.D technology and the supernatural have overtaken the world. But thanks to the overzealous ambitions of man, the world remains desolate and despotic. What's left of the human race is divided into various towns and cities living in fear of vampires who compose and exist as the Nobility, fending off the monsters and mutants as a result of their existence. On a night five days after the Count Magnus Lee had harmlessly tasted the blood of Doris Lang and chosen her to be his next wife, she hires a vampire hunter by the name of 'D' to rid her of such an ill-gotten fate. As a dhampir (half human, half vampire), there exists a distinct resentment between the hunter and his prey. But as the Count finds out, there is also a peculiar secret behind the past of the Vampire Hunter D. Continue reading Vampire Hunter D – Collection [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]
 

Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari | Requiem from the Darkness [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]

Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari

Synopsis for: Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari | Requiem from the Darkness | Hundred Stories | Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari | Kyogoku Natsuhiko Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari | Natsuhiko Kyougoku's Worldly Horror Stories | 100 stories (Fall 2003)
Tired of writing riddles for children, Yamaoka Momosuke plans on gathering spooky and gruesome stories and publishing them in an anthology called Hyakumonogatari ("One Hundred Tales"). While researching these old myths and legends he comes across a mysterious trio who call themselves the Ongyou. They are detectives who are investigating the legends to reveal their truths...and bring those in the wrong to justice. Each time Momosuke meets the Ongyou he must face horrible truths and battle with his morals, but he's seeing things he shouldn't be seeing... Continue reading Kousetsu Hyaku Monogatari | Requiem from the Darkness [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]
 

Rainbow – Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin [540p]

Rainbow - Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

Synopsis for: Rainbow - Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin | Rainbow - Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (Spring 2010)
Seven teenagers in 1955 have to learn to live together in the same hold in the reformatory of Shio. Confined in a hall where suffering and humiliation are daily, they are waiting for a ray of hope in a dark, incarcerating world. The story follows their life together and how they move on afterwards. Continue reading Rainbow – Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin [540p]
 

Memories | Katsuhiro Otomo Presents: Memories [BD 720p]

Memories

Synopsis for: Memories | Katsuhiro Otomo Presents: Memories (Fall 1995)
Memories consists of three dazzling stories, each delivered with its own astonishing style. "Magnetic Rose," based on a manga short by Katsuhiro Otomo, concerns two space travelers following a distress signal drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. In "Stink Bomb," a young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. "Cannon Fodder" depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy. Continue reading Memories | Katsuhiro Otomo Presents: Memories [BD 720p]
 

Karas | The Karas [BD 1080p, Dual Audio]

Karas

Synopsis for: Karas | The Karas (Winter 2005)
In the city of Shinjuku, a conflict between a rouge Karas by the name of Eko and the "will of the city" rage in a conflict for dominance. A Karas brought about to fight the rouge has fallen, leaving the city and its inhabitants defenseless. Soon after, Otoha, a comatose patient, is chosen to become a new Karas to face off the rouge Karas Eko to decide the fate of the city and its inhabitants. Continue reading Karas | The Karas [BD 1080p, Dual Audio]
 

Koi Suru Boukun | The Tyrant Falls in Love [396p]

Koi Suru Boukun

Synopsis for: Koi Suru Boukun | The Tyrant Falls in Love | Koi suru Bo-kun (Spring 2010)
Being in love with your straight sempai isn't easy, but being in love with your straight, homophobic, and (to top it off) tyrannical sempai can be hell. And that's something Tetsuhiro Morinaga can relate to... especially now that he's had a taste of the forbidden fruit... Continue reading Koi Suru Boukun | The Tyrant Falls in Love [396p]
 

Damekko Doubutsu | Useless Animals [DVD 480p]

Damekko Doubutsu

Synopsis for: Damekko Doubutsu | Damekko Dōbutsu | Useless Animals (Winter 2005)
Uruno, a useless wolf, is on the road searching for a new place to call home. He soon comes upon a whole forest full of "useless animals"-- that is, animals that don't live up to their species' usual character. After a short fight with the smoking, bad-tempered rabbit, Usahara, Uruno decides that he wants to move on... but changes his mind upon meeting Chiiko, a clumsy cheetah girl. It's love at first sight for Uruno, and after deciding to stay for her, he continues to hope that even though he's a good-for-nothing, he'll win her over someday. That is, if living with the other strange residents of the forest-- including the aformentioned smoking rabbit, a sake-drinking unicorn, a near-sighted owl, a travelling saleswoman bear, and a shy pegasus --doesn't get to him first. Continue reading Damekko Doubutsu | Useless Animals [DVD 480p]
 

Petshop of Horrors | Pet Shop of Horrors [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]

Petshop of Horrors

Synopsis for: Petshop of Horrors | Pet Shop of Horrors (Winter 1999)
Count D, a quite interesting pet shop owner from an area called Chinatown, sells rare and hard to come by pets to people longing for something special, but with each sale comes a contract. If the rules of the contract are followed, everything goes fine, but if someone should break the rules of the contract, the pet shop cannot be held responsible for anything unfortunate that might happen. Leon Orcot, a homicide detective, has linked many odd and unexplainable deaths together; they all were customers of Count D's pet shop, and he intends to find out why. Continue reading Petshop of Horrors | Pet Shop of Horrors [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]
 

Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]

Shoujo Kakumei Utena

Synopsis for: Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena | Shōjo Kakumei Utena | Ursula's Kiss (Spring 1997)
Just after Utena's parents died she was consoled by a prince who gave her a ring with a rose crest on it. Utena was so impressed by the Prince that she vowed to become one herself one day. A few years later Utena is attending Ohtori Academy where she gives all the teachers headaches because she dresses in a boys uniform so she can be like the prince she met long ago. After Utena's friend is insulted by a member of the Student Council, Utena fights in a duel for her friends honor. Utena's rose crest allows her to enter the dueling arena where Utena wins the duel and becomes engaged to the Rose Bride. Unknowingly, Utena is pulled into a series of duels with other members of the Student Council for the possession of the Rose Bride. As she becomes fond of Anthy, the Rose Bride, she must fight to keep her friend safe and to discover the horrifying secret behind Ohtori Academy. Continue reading Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena [DVD 480p, Dual Audio]