DUSTCELL: TOUBOU - Recommendations

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2006

• TV (12 eps)
• 2016

60 years ago, a strange case of insomnia struck the population, forcing them to stay awake for more than a full week. The victims, completely sleep deprived, all went mad. To cure this illness, a new medicine was produced, but the side effects turned the patients into vampires. Humanity went to war against this new species and triumphed, but some of the vampires managed to survive. Born from a Human and a Vampire, the main character Mi Liu, “The Child of Hope”, is to represent the new hope that will connect the two species. Ringleader of a bank robbery, Mi Liu is arrested and transferred to a special prison of the National Defense Agency that monitors Vampires. Trying to break free with Anji, Mi Liu is attacked by strange monsters and he finds out that the prison location corresponds to the birthplace of Vampires, the old capital “Blue Town." Why are Vampires trapped in Blue Town? What are those strange monsters attacking them? Our heroes must fight to solve those mysteries.

• OVA (10 eps)

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1985

In the far future, the universe is ruled by Ventica Empire. An amnesic girl, Mooma, who is thought to be holding the key of the Empire's destiny, is kept in prison by the Empire. Police planet G.P.P. seeks the end of the Empire, and sends one of its agents, Kate, to save Mooma. After the rescue, Kate is soon given a new task. In order to defeat the Empire, she has to collect another person, whose name is Bavi. However, he is a criminal who is sentenced to penal servitude for the crime of murder, and is currently serving his time on a prison planet.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2019 - 2020

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2021

The journey of a group of men who humbly armor up themselves to protect their city which has never been exposed to war, motivating them to cherish everything they love in their city. Aws is a simple potter who lives among his and his wife’s family. This fight will not be his first battle, as he has a secret past that no one knows about. Will the citizens win the battle with nothing but their simple defenses and their love for their city and their people in order to defeat the colossal army?

• OVA (6 eps)
• 1992 - 1997

Young Matsuwakamaru lost his father as an infant. To make matters worse, his beloved mother Kikkou passes away when he's 8 years old. While facing her death, Matsuwakamaru is puzzled at where people go when they die. If there is a cycle of heaven, hell, and rebirth, is there a way to escape this torturous circle, he wonders. With this great determination for the discovery of knowledge in mind, at only 9 years old, he joins a Buddhist monastery on Mt. Hiei, and changes his name to Shinran. This is the story of the man who would someday open the doors to the Jōdo Shinshū sect of Buddhism.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1981

• OVA (7 eps)
• 1993

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2005

Lady Iratsume is a famed beauty in the capital city of Nara. Yet while men garner for her affections, the noblewoman chooses to stay in her room and copy the latest scriptures. One day, after completing her one thousandth copy of the Amida Sutra, Iratsume sneaks out of the house, travelling to the west in search of Buddha. She soon finds herself at a temple, where an elderly storyteller regales her of the tragic tale of Prince Otsu and how her fate is linked to him. As the spitting image of her ancestor Mimimo no Toji, Iratsume has now become the object of the deceased prince’s obsession, while she too finds herself entranced by him...