Key the Metal Idol
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Murao Mima has created a robot daughter named Key, but after raising her for a very short time, Mima dies, leaving behind cryptic messages telling Key how she can become human. Key must struggle alone to learn the harsh lessons of life and search for the 'key' to her own dream: the power of 30,000 friends to make her a real human girl.
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Battle Angel Alita
- Movie
- 1993
Among the garbage dumped down from the mysterious aerial city of Zalem, a new life is found. Restored by a brilliant cyberneticist, a young girl named Gally struggles to find her own place in the world, to learn the extent of her own deadly abilities and to discover that which makes her truly human: love.
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add recKey the Metal Idol and Battle Angel Alita are similar in both artistic style as well as story theme, despite being in drastically different settings. Both have to do with a robotic girl struggling to find their meaning in the world and the relationships they have with the people around them (and especially the father-daughter-like relationships with their respective creators.) Though Alita is more of a femme fatale-type character, the stories still have many parallels and would definitely appeal to eachother's fan-bases.
Serial Experiments Lain
Alt titles: Lain
- TV (13 eps)
- 1998
"I have only abandoned my body, I still live here" - are the words emailed to friends of Chisa, several days after her death by suicide. As Lain delves deeper into the world of the "Wired" (also known as the internet), the line between it and reality becomes more and more unclear. Close the world, open the nExt.
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add recI'm surprised that Key doesn't get mentioned more with regards to Lain. Both are uncharacteristically dark series about characters who are forced to decide what's real and what isn't, and to eventually confront a secret about their own existences as well. They both also have fantastic stories that will leave you trying to pick apart exactly what you just saw. Key is a bit darker, but makes up for it by being more accessible.
Ayashi no Ceres
Alt titles: Ceres: Celestial Legend
- TV (24 eps)
- 2000
There is a legend of an angel who fell to Earth many years ago, and was forced to marry a man because he held the key to her only way home. Hundreds of years later, sixteen year old Mikage Aya is the reincarnation of Ceres, the vengeful angel, who must now fight for her life against her family and her own twin brother Aki, the reincarnation of her past evil husband...
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add recPerfect Blue
- Movie
- 1997
When popular pop idol Mima decided to retire from her group, Cham, and become an actress, she had no idea that one person's obsession would soon spiral out of control. With death threats, letter bombs and a forged website which details her every move, Mima finds herself slowly becoming trapped in a nightmare she can't seem to escape. With murders piling up and her mental state slowly degrading, can she discover who the culprit is, before she becomes the next victim?
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add recBoth series are about pop-idols and as a result, you'd never expect either one to be incredibly twisted, violent, and dark. If you liked the unexpected delight of a sick and twisted show that seems all butterflies and rainbows based on the plot synopsis, check out the other one.
8 Man After
- Movie
- 1993
Hazama is a private detective, who becomes fatally wounded in a run-of-the-mill case. In order to survive, Hazama is tranformed into the legendary cyborg 8Man -- to put an end to the cybernetically-enhanced criminals' wave of crime. But as the death count increases, Hazama soon begins to question how much of his real self is left, and if the emotionless 8Man he becomes is really in control...
