Shin Karate Jigokuhen - Recommendations

• 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...

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1989

Ryuuichi is as cold as ice. He is willing to use and abuse other people to achieve his personal goals, solving all problems that arise either with money or his fists - and he is never satisfied. No matter how much money he gets, no matter how many girlfriends he has, he always feels like he can do better. Eventually he decides to leave his home town and live in Tokyo, determined to work his way to the top using any means necessary...

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1988

Six months ago, a massive earthquake sunk a massive Japanese city into the ground, burying it from the outside world. The survivors split themselves into three groups: A, with normal salarymen; B, with criminals and lunatics led by the towering Mad Saurus; and C, an all-female group. However, once food supplies began to dwindle the once-kind men of the A group brutally gang-raped the women of the C group, causing the ladies to seal themselves up deep within the ruins. Now, the A group is working towards digging their way to the surface when they unearth Violence Jack, a massive giant. Though the A group wants Jack to help defend them against the B group, he ultimately chooses to protect the C group against all of the others. A bloody civil war approaches - will anyone escape 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.

• OVA (6 eps)
• 1990 - 1992

Criminals beware! The young Yuumi Takeshita is the newest member of Tawagoto precinct's police force, and she's ready to arrest all of the baddies in town. Alongside her once-savior Toru Ichidaiji - magician extraordinaire - and childhood-friend-turned-idol Sarasa Maijima, Yuumi will perform her civic duty while getting involved in hanami festivals, sumo contests, and magician events galore!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2004

Nishi has been in love with Myon since he was 9 years old. They both had feelings for each other, but due to Nishi's cowardice their relationship never became more than friendship. Now, in the present, Nishi is 20 years old and aims to be a great manga artist; but he still loves Myon. After years of being apart they meet again, but she tells him that she's thinking of marrying her boyfriend. Nishi is still a coward so he accepts it and wishes her luck. While they're talking at her older sister's restaurant a pair of yakuza walk in looking for their father. One of the yakuza starts harassing Myon and out of anger Nishi chooses to finally take a stand -- but he is shot and dies. Now, in limbo, he chooses to live again; but will he really live any differently than before?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 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 (4 eps)
• 1990 - 1992

Mad Bull is a rogue cop who doesn't take crap from anyone. In a metropolis laden with sex and violence, he makes his own law as he executes violent criminals according to his own laws. Now, his rookie partner Daizaburo is exposed to his controversial ways and must decide whether Bull is a real hero or worse than the criminals he's fighting!

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1987

Perverted teenager Takao Asagaya becomes the perfect ‘guinea pig’ for a new invention: it allows your soul to leave your body and take control of another person! He takes this opportunity to possess the body of his crush, Komaba Ikenokami, and starts pleasuring himself with it. Not only that, but with Komaba’s body he gets to have hot lesbian sex with his friend Nakano! His life is now a sexual paradise... Until Komaba’s brother shows up with his very beefy - and very horny - friends!

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1986

Rumi Natsumi works as a call girl for Telephone Communication Madonna, but her newest client may be the strangest she's had to chat with; his name is Ryo Sugiura, and he has an unfortunate problem: when he gets turned on, he turns into a monster - literally! Rumi is determined to help Ryu get his condition under control; but when one of Rumi's classmates finds out about their situation, things turn dangerous, fast...