Crying Freeman - Recommendations

• Movie (1 ep x 93 min)
• 1983

Golgo 13 is the codename for one of the world's most deadly hit men, a man whose identity is unknown and sought after. After a routine hit on the son of a wealthy oil tycoon and a shadowy figure known as Dr. Z, Golgo 13 soon finds himself on the other side of the gun barrel, being pursued by a mysterious organization whose deadly plans involve killing the man himself. With little time and lots of ammo, Golgo 13 must pursue his would-be killers, while simultaneously trying his best to stay alive!

• OVA (5 eps)
• 1986 - 1988

Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently on the Amazon forest, there is a Japanese known as Rio Baraki. Reaching their destination, her crew member is promptly attacked and she is raped as a warning to stop their work and return immediately to their home country. Determined to do her job, she stays and finds out from the attacker that he is none other than Baraki, a white haired muscular man with a large scar on his back. Later she discovers that his real name is Keisuke Ibaraki. Once a promising quarterback, he ended up falsely incriminated by a powerful organization known as GPX.

• TV (26 eps)
• 2003 - 2004

Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowel were best friends who lived by the law of the street, until one day they picked a fight with the wrong people and their life of freedom was suddenly taken away. With no one to turn to and nowhere to run, the choice to join Millenion, the city's most powerful syndicate, seemed like an offer they couldn't refuse. Now, amidst heartache, tragedy, and utmost betrayal, Brandon must take up the gun and help Harry climb the ranks of Millenion to succeed, in order to protect the people he loves, even if it means killing countless others in the process.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2016

It is the year 2025, five years since devastating terrorist attacks put an end to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. An international school run by the United Nations now stands in the former Olympic site on the edge of Tokyo Bay. Hana Togetsu is sent to that school as a part of the special unit run by the UN and her mission is to retrieve a student Shunichi Nanase. As she is about to complete her mission, American military arrives in search for a different man but that disrupts Hana's mission and the situation soon turns bloody and violent.

• TV (26 eps)
• 2009

A young man awakens in an abandoned warehouse with no memory of his past. As he leaves the room and ventures further into the warehouse he is attacked by a girl in a mask; she tells him that in order to live he must come at her with all his might. After a fight for his life, he manages to overpower the girl, learning that he is to be trained as a Phantom - an assassin for the Inferno organization. He is also given a new name: Zwei. For three months, Zwei is trained by the girl in the arts of assassination until he has just one final test: to kill a living human being.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2004

One fateful day, Reiji was on his way to a hotel in Los Angeles when he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time: in the middle of an assassination. After these traumatic events, the young man was kidnapped, his memories erased, and given a choice: fight for the organization, or die. Now, with a new name and identity, Zwei must kill at the drop of a hat along with the organization's top assassin Ein (codename Phantom). As the bodies pile and the blood is continuously spilled, Ein and Zwei find themselves growing closer together in a world where they have no past and no future...

• TV (3+ eps)
• 2024 - ?

Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings—he's only interested in the strongest of the strong. He’s just started at Furin High School, a school of degenerates known only for their brawling strength—strength they use to protect their town from anyone who wishes it ill. But Haruka’s not interested in being a hero or being part of any sort of team—he just wants to fight his way to the top!

• Web (1 ep)
• 2020

On the planet Latimar, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2014

• OVA (4 eps)
• 2009

In a city laced with crime, four individuals face their own personal trials. Mihai, a middle-aged hitman, seeks closure with an old student; Badou the information dealer learns a little too much; Naoto, an orphaned girl, lives for revenge against her parents' killer; and Heine, the result of underground genetic experiments, hopes to save another like him. Each must find the strength to overcome their dilemma and continue to live in this tough world...