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Far in the future criminals facing a life in prison are given the chance to instead work for the Cyber Police as special agents of a sort. These are the stories of three such men tasked with stopping some of the most dangerous and violent offenders the city has ever seen.
A set of action-centric short stories featuring both thriller elements and small splashes of comic relief.
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Though James Blood rarely fails a mission for the SSC police force, he plays fast and loose with procedure and tends to cause more than his fair share of collateral damage in the process. Traits which result in constant lectures from others in the department. Traits which may be required in order to get to the heart of a conspiracy involving the creation of biotech soldiers.
A mix of conspiracy thriller and character drama featuring a large number of action scenes.
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Following the shock of his mother’s sudden death, Satoru Fujinuma’s normally limited time jumping ability kicks in and sends him all the way back to elementary school. To a point just before an unsolved kidnapping incident resulted in the deaths of three students.
A character drama with thriller and mystery elements which happens to include a slight romance subplot.
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10 years after the development of a fully autonomous robot, cities have been reduced to ruin and humanity is at war. The young engineer Derrida Yvain awakens in this new reality following an involuntary bought of cryostasis and resolves to fulfill a dying friend’s last wish: To find and protect his daughter.
An action-heavy thriller centered on time travel.
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Returning to Earth after the events on Rakuyou, Gintoki and the gang discover that the planet has become ground-zero for an intergalactic war over the energy reserves Utsuro has been controlling. Once again Edo is under alien rule and it falls to the Yorozuya and their allies to free the city and stop Utsuro once and for all.
Continues from where Rakuyou Kessen Hen left off with the same genre variety. Though it begins with a brief recap there’s little point in watching it without having seen most of the earlier entries in the franchise, starting from at least Gintama’.
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While not always dealing with world-ending threats, where the three members of Yorozuya are concerned even normal everyday events such as going out for ramen can result in mass destruction or alien invasion.
A collection of primarily comedic stories which occur during the first half of Gintama°. For the most part they can be watched even by those unfamiliar with the series.
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After all that’s happened with the government, Gintoki has been forced to leave the Kabuki district and lay low in Akiba with Katsura’s rebels. Utsuro is still out there though and Shouyou’s former students must now band together despite their differences to have any hope of defeating him.
A continuation of Gintama° with the same multi-genre style of mixed battle shounen and comedy elements. It’s heavily plot-driven and won’t make any sense if you’re not already familiar with the characters’ histories.
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The girls working in Edo‘s red light district are expected to be able to like, or at least pretend to like, every type of man. For those who can’t manage it however there exists a certain incense which will cause anyone who breathes it in to instantly fall in love with the next person they see… a substance which is both easy to abuse and can lead to all manner of awkward situations.
A Gintama° side-story focused on romantic comedy and dirty jokes.
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When Asahi Kuga’s physical death coincided with her avatar’s death in the MMORPG Union it spelled the end of both the group she played with and the game itself. Six years later Union has relaunched under a new name, and upon logging on Haruto Amou discovers Asahi there waiting for him. But is it truly her?
A romance-infused character drama with RPG-themed action scenes and occasional comic interactions.
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Following the malfunction of an experimental quantum reactor both living things and machines alike across the global began to undergo startling changes, ultimately resulting in humanity being pushed to the brink of extinction. For these past seven years Leon Lau has been researching ways to fight back against the onslaught of hyper-evolved creatures, and with the successful activation of a hyperdrive engine he may have finally found the answer.
A mixed-genre series weighted heavily toward action.
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