Mad Bull 34 - Recommendations

• OVA (2 eps x 50 min)
• 1994 - 1995

Crime is rampant, politicians controlling the government are in the pockets of large crime syndicates, and the police are as good as the crook with a gun to the back of your head. What's a good official to do to stop criminals who are the law? The answer: make an elite force with the skills to stop any criminal, anywhere, anytime. this force is the Wild 7. Each member of this elite group has an extensive felony record and isn't afraid to add onto it, even if half the city has to pay for it.

• OVA (6 eps)
• 1989 - 1994

Having become the financial capitol of the world, Tokyo is now a prime target for those that want to destabilize the world economy. To combat the rising terrorist tide, the Special Security Force is established. Tensions are high however, with both a vigilante anti-terrorist group called “Hunters” and the mysterious dr. Ichihara and his human enhancement project…

• OVA (1 ep x 55 min)
• 1996

Bounty hunter Hard is given the job of locating and bringing in small time crook Freddie after he skips bail for his robbery of a South Bronx church offering box. However, Freddie got himself mixed up in a far bigger conspiracy and now Hard is in over his head too.

• OVA (4 eps)
• 1999

Himura Kenshin was a boy orphaned by the murder of his parents. Now he is the Hitokiri Battousai, the most feared and skilled killer in 19th century Japan. In the midst of a blood bath, he meets the love of his life, Tomoe. Will he continue to fight his enemies in a killing rage or will she sheath his bloodstained sword?

• TV (25 eps)
• 1997 - 1998

Born beneath the gallows tree from which his dead mother hung, Guts has always existed on the boundary between life and death. After enduring a terrible childhood, he spends his adulthood in brutal combat, pitting his strength against others in order to build his own. Life is simple enough for Guts until he meets Griffith, the inspirational, ambitious, and beautiful leader of the mercenaries, the Band of the Hawks. When Guts loses to Griffith in a duel, he is forced to join the group, and, despite himself, finds a sense of camaraderie and belonging amongst them. However, as Griffith leads his soldiers from victory to victory, the bloody wars and underhanded politics reveal a side to him that nobody quite expected. Can Guts, a simple warrior, defend those who have come to mean the most to him, all the while struggling not to lose to the darkness he has carried with him his entire life?

• Movie (1 ep x 45 min)
• 1998

As a young girl, Sawa is orphaned when both her parents are brutally murdered and is taken in by a police detective named Akai, who trains her to be a professional killer. He turns Sawa and Oburi, a young boy, into his puppets and makes them kill to fulfill his own sense of justice against child molesters and other harassing members of society.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2000 - 2001

The deadly Mikura and her friends are usually more than skilled enough to handle the dirty jobs they get, but they find themselves in over their head when they try to abduct the millionaire head of a gigantic crime family! Hilarity (and hardcore sex/violence) abounds as they clash with his gorgeous psychotic daughter Momomi and her army of hitmen.

• 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!

• Web (13 eps x 3 min)
• 2012 - 2013

In the crime infested Jack Knife Edge Town, Inferno Cop is a brutal police officer who stands up against the powerful Southern Cross organization. He must go on an insane adventure plotted by the evil group to eliminate him and allow them to conquer the world.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2006 - 2007

Kai and Hashim enjoy hanging out at Penny's Cafe with their rest of their gang, the Saru 'tribe'. Good-natured and fun-loving, the Sarus take in meek and geeky Tamiyama who wishes to join their gang, appointing him as secretary for lack of other obvious abilities. Befriended by Kai and Hashim, Tamiyama doesn't have time to get to grips with tribe life before disaster strikes the Sarus: a leading fighter of a rival gang is sent to assassinate Saru's leader. The assassin turns out to be Mera, Kai's friend growing up. Brandishing a baseball bat against Mera's katana, the two friends now find themselves as rivals in an escalating war between the tribes...