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This page introduces you to manga and anime in Science-Fiction and Mecha genres. Science-Fiction denotes works which include advanced or futuristic technology, whereas "mecha" are works with giant robots often piloted by humans--a contraction of the english loan word "mechanism" (メカニズム mekanizumu) or "mechanical" (メカニック mekanikku). We do have plenty of collections that you can rent out. Please take advantage of it!
Featured Animated Film - AKIRA
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AKIRA
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ISBN: 1559402326Publication Date: 2001Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name. Set in a dystopian 2019, Akira tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, a leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amidst chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo. -- Wikipedia
Sci-Fi & Mecha in the Library
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20th century boys
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Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. Failed rock musician Kenji's memories of his past come rushing back when one of his childhood friends mysteriously commits suicide. Could this new death be related to the rise of a bizarre new cult that's been implicated in several other murders and disappearances? Determined to dig deeper, Kenji reunites with some of his old buddies in the hope of learning the truth behind it all.
Call Number: PN6720.A123 A12313 2009ISBN: 9781591169222Publication Date: 2009-02-17 -
Battle Angel Alita
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After Daisuke Ido discovers a the head of a cyborg in a trash dump, he reconstructs her body and names her Alita.
Call Number: PN6720.B377 L37 1994ISBN: 9781569310038Publication Date: 1995-07-06 -
Mobile Suit Gundam: the Origin 1
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It is the year Universal Century 0079, in a space colony the Earth Federation is storing and testing a new piloted robot for use in the battle against the Principality of Zeon. The experimental RX-78 Gundam mobile suit is scheduled to be transported to Federation command in Jaburo, deep within the Brazilian jungles. Unfortunatley, before the transporter would arrive, the Federation would come under attack from Zeon. With few resources available against the Zeon's most mobile mechs, Federation forces strike back using their new weapon, the mobile suit Gundam. Caught in the crossfire is a young teen named Amuro Ray. Not willing to see innocent people die like this, Amuro crawls into the cockpit of the closest machine around him. Whether it be a tank, jeep or jet, he was going to use it to help stop this slaughter. And what he happened to slide into was another Gundam. Having never operated a machine like this, what are the chances he can do anything to repel an experienced squad of mech-piloting invaders? Volume 1 includes: an essay from Hideaki Anno, director of the hit anime Neon Genesis Evengelion Color pages from Yas And an essay from Kadokawa Publishing Executive Shinichiro Inoue
Call Number: PN6720.K536 K53613 2013ISBN: 9781935654872Publication Date: 2013-03-26 -
Ghost in the Shell
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In a world in which the human mind can be programmed like a computer, where does the human soul end and the cybernetic machinery begin? What does it mean to be human? From Masamune Shirow, the creator of Appleseed, Orion, and Dominion: Tank Police, comes an epic, dystopian tale of politics, covert actions, and cyborgs with too much attitude!
ISBN: 1569710813Publication Date: 1995-12-12 -
No Guns Life
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Ex-soldier Juzo Inui has one question--who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories? After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun! With no memory of his previous life--or who replaced his head and why--Inui now scratches out a living in the dark streets of the city as a Resolver, taking on cases involving the Extended. When a fellow Extended showed up in Inui's office--on the run from the Security Bureau with a kidnapped child in tow and asking for help--Inui should have just thrown the guy out. But Inui's loyalty to a brother Extended makes him take the job. Keeping the child safe won't be easy, since everyone seems to want to grab him, from street punks to the megacorporation Berühren, who have sent out a special agent that knows exactly how to deal with the Extended...
ISBN: 1974710459Publication Date: 2019-09-17 -
Astro Boy Volume 1
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Dark Horse proudly presents one of the crown jewels of manga - Astro Boy! Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist (who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career!) considered the Walt Disney of Japan, Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime - a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing Mickey Mouse, that is!
ISBN: 1569716765Publication Date: 2002-04-09
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Akira
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Akira, who has supernatural power, fights against the government, the army, guerillas, and a motocycle gang in Neo-Tokyo after the World War II.
Call Number: PN6720.A55 A55 1984ISBN: 4061037110Publication Date: 1984-1993 -
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Steins; Gate
Call Number: BLURAY PN1992.8.A59 S745 2014 -
Metropolis (Motion picture)
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"In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots, and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the young nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life--and the fate of the universe--is dangerously at stake"--Container.
Call Number: DVD PN1997.2 .M4876 R56 2002ISBN: 076788180XPublication Date: 2002
