Banji Kaichou

Gantz

Kei Kurono is a cynical high school student who keeps to himself, tired of the cruelty people are capable of. One day at the subway station, his classmate Masaru Katou jumps onto the tracks to save a drunk man who has fallen. On impulse, Kei follows him. They manage to pull the man to safety, but both boys are struck and killed by the oncoming train. Instead of dying, Kei and Masaru wake up in an apartment full of strangers, all of whom have recently died. In the center of the room is a large black sphere called Gantz. It gives them high-tech suits and strange weapons, then sends them out to hunt and kill bizarre alien creatures hidden on Earth. Each mission is brutal and often deadly. Sur

Btooom!

Ryouta Sakamoto is a 22-year-old unemployed young man who still lives with his mother. In the real world, he is a nobody, but online he is one of the top players of the combat game Btooom!, a title he has mastered to perfection. His uneventful life is blown to pieces when he wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of how he got there. He soon discovers that he has been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game, where the bombs are no longer virtual and the only way out is to kill seven other players. Forced to fight for his life in a hellish free-for-all, Ryouta must use all his skills to survive long enough to figure out who is behind this deadly game and why he was chosen.

Chobits

Hideki Motosuwa is a poor college student who has just moved to Tokyo. He dreams of having a job, a girlfriend, and his own persocom, the latest in humanoid computer technology. One night, his luck changes when he finds Chi, an adorable but seemingly broken persocom, abandoned in a pile of trash. After taking her home, Hideki discovers that Chi is more responsibility than he expected. She can only say "Chii" and gets him into embarrassing situations. But Chi is no ordinary persocom: she can think and learn on her own, and there is much more to her than meets the eye. As Hideki teaches Chi how to live an ordinary life, he begins to uncover the truth behind her origins and the mysterious cho

Real Account

Ataru Kashiwagi is a second-year high school student who spends much of his life on Real Account, a social media platform that links online profiles to everyday reality. His followers are his escape and his sense of belonging, the people he considers his true friends. That illusion shatters when Ataru and nearly ten thousand other users are pulled into the Real Account Zone and forced into a series of deadly games. If a player loses all their followers, they die in real life; if a player dies, every one of their followers dies with them. Betrayed by those he trusted and left with a single anonymous follower, Ataru must use his knowledge of the platform and his wits to clear each game and f

The Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface

Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg and counter-terrorist net security expert heading the investigative department of Poseidon Industrial, a giant multinational. Partly transcending the physical world, she exists in a virtual network as a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic surrogates around the globe. When a bizarre incident at an organ factory leaves consequences in its wake, Motoko takes charge of the investigation and ends up on the run, trying to clean up the mess and save herself in the process. Meanwhile, the former members of Section 9 look into Motoko, determined to find out who she really is. Elsewhere, Tamaki Tamai, a psychi

Violence Jack

The eleventh of September, 197x. A magnitude 8-9 earthquake tears through the entire Kantou region, volcanoes erupt and buildings crumble, and Tokyo is decimated in a single day. Scholars call it the great destruction of the Showa Era, but the people who live through it call it the earthquake from hell. Unable to recover the city, the government abandons Tokyo and moves the capital elsewhere, leaving the survivors to fend for themselves. What grows out of the ruins is a society with no laws. In that desolate world, different people try to survive, and their paths cross with Jack, a ten-foot giant who annihilates anyone and anything in his way. Against him stands the Slum King, a villain loc