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Restore power to humans. We are prepared to strike again!
Masamune Shirow’s warning shot to bioengineering ponders the question of a fully human’s purpose in a society ‘safeguarded’ by bioengineered and android races. Synthy saxophone dream soundtrack and credits song!
Cowboys up the ass and nobody's got a gun!
Anime ova spanning 4 episodes with excellent dialogue and that classic question of whether robots dream of electric sheep. Buddy cops tracking down a murderer on Mars in a Ferrari anyone?
One of those stupid soldier things broke the house again...
Masamune Shirow’s terminator style epic follows an ambitious reporter getting to the bottom of escaped androids and their tireless pursuit of a young girl with synth jazz setting the mood.
When Priss finds out we're not getting paid for this job, she'll be angry.
Epic rock ballad soundtrack in a cyberpunk hellscape with terminator robots abounding, sold! Rock and roll goddess Priss and friends who have the most advanced fighting suits for some reason uncover corruption perpetrated by the corpo baddies.
It is time for we, the Goma, to revive.
Although unfinished worth the watch with beautifully animated mobile suit fight sequences, cute father daughter moments, interesting lore involving awakening identity and ancient systems of power in a mechanized world. The ‘Neo Evolution’ opening track and guitar solo will be stuck in your head forever. The soul gear outfits are high fashion.
A pro shouldn't start something they can't finish
Beloved OVA for the ‘dirty pair’ crime fighters. Ah the 80’s in space. Expect over the top fashion, a convoluted plot to take back a stolen bottle of wine, collateral damage, and heroes chasing a dream. Jpop saxophone hits abound!
It's human to risk your life for a person you won't make a deal with?
Masamune Shirow’s jpop masterpiece “Hot dance in cherry moon!” am I right? The tank police are rolling over your grandma to catch the baddies while an experiment gone awry shows what happens when a person with no memory or understanding attempts to meld into society.
You don't have to obey anyone anymore!
Stop me if you heard about the one where a high school student is pulled away from their dull life and tossed into a fantasy world where they are all powerful and guests of honor to the ruling class. Oh yeah and the world is still reeling from some super-weapon I’m sure we all know not to try to use again… This 7 part OVA follows our all powerful protagonist teenager across worlds where a struggle between humanity, bugs, and shadowfolk unfolds across glorious fantasy animation. Even includes a drunken master sensei chaperone and a loyal impenetrable cat you can wear as a shield, no NSFW here folks.
After this, we'll only share time with one another.
A masterpiece in hard science mobile suit hand drawn animation. Five episode OVA dealing properly with time dilation and space travel, coming of age, and squashing those alien bugs! The actual hardest 10 seconds of animation ever drawn in the final battle.
Are you ok? Of course not.
Lolita type assassin film legendary for its brutality, wild fight sequences, and art noir jazz backdrop of any seedy urban underbelly. NSFW: seriously.
War is the worst and most essential thing
The Masamune Shirow one without the androids. An old bloodline discovers its true power granted by nature when opposing the machines of war.
I'm sure those street punks could never comprehend what that means.
Three part epic: Part 1 has seriously the hardest meet-cute opening there is; excellent 80s pop diva device for hypnotic space travel plot. Yes, you read that right. Part 2: uh, same characters, look completely different from part 1, in fact whole animation style different; it still rocks and provides an excellent closure to part 1. Can humanity get it right this time? Part 3: there is one, but apparently wildly different.
You are a fool to cling to life in a world where death is the rule.
Classic ninja epic following the incomparable swordsman, Jubei, as he cuts through a monstrous magically gifted band of ninjas to settle a score. NSFW: pretty intense violence and body horror throughout, sex and sexual assault.
Why don't you quit watching and get behind the wheel like the rest of us!?
Not quite 80/90’s but worth making the list. An intergalactic race with an insane number of drawn frames, it’s like a hypnotic dream all the way through as our rockabilly protagonist races their way to glory.
It was sort of like a 'Choo-choo-choo' followed by a 'zaaaaap' noise.
A short, bizarre, and macabre ride on a ghost train. Follow a humble civil servant in a lush 80’s Tokyo backdrop with jazz piano in your ear on one last train ride. NSFW: seriously disturbing body horror ending.
Love is not a destiny. It is a choice we make every day.
Stop me if you heard about the one where a high school student is pulled away from their dull life and pulled into a fantasy world where they are all powerful and guests of honor to the ruling class. Oh yeah and the world is still reeling from some super-weapon I’m sure we all know not to try to use again… Slay a dragon, take its heart, power your mobile suit - wow. An excellent blend of fantasy and mecha worlds. A 24 episode series (there’s a film as well I need to get to) where our teenage tarot master protagonist finds herself transported to a world where fate is literally being toyed with by strange powers.