Subgenre Sampler
Anime: 200 Films to Buy & Rent
- Elfen Lied (2004)
- Dir. Mamoru Kanbe
- Anime TV series adapting the earlier part of a manga of the same name by Lynn Okamoto that was considered edgy in its time due to being pretty dark…
- Endless Serenade (2004)
- Graphic animated sex punctuates this 'hentai' anime about a love–triangle which develops out of two unrequited office romances. The makers of…
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2004)
- Dir. Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
- The second major feature film to emerge from the PlayStation game franchise (after FINAL FANTASY – THE SPIRITS WITHIN), this again encases some…
- Gankutsuou (TV Series) (Count of Monte Cristo, The) (2004)
- Born into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They…
- Gantz (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. IchirĂ´ Itano
- A kinetic and ultraviolent adaptation of Hiroya Oku's legendary 'manga' comics, beginning with the resurrection of several unconnected indivduals by…
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
- Dir. Mamoru Oshii
- Visually emphatic, conceptually flummoxing sequel to Mamoru Oshii's cyberpunk touchstone GHOST IN THE SHELL.
Cybernetic detective Batou returns to…
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
- Yet another miraculous animated odyssey from Hayao Miyazaki, who finds a perfect vehicle in the English fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, about a…
- I Love You (2004)
- Sexually explicit 'anime' set on a Japanese campus where a handsome lad must choose between the charms of three female students, by sampling their…
- Lady Death (2004)
- Elevated feature–length anime based on the "Lady Death" comic series about a beautiful girl accused of consorting with the devil and sentenced…
- Le Portrait de Petite Cossette (TV Series) (2004)
- Dir. Akiyuki Shinbo
- Wavering gothic anime series in which an antique store worker becomes obsessed with a young girl he discovers trapped inside a Venetian glass for 250…