Articles in the mercenary Category
action, adventure, mercenary, pirate, science fiction, space »
EPISODES: 13
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Cobra is very known space pirate, but decides to change his face and to clear all his memories. He becomes a common guy, with a common job, and a very boring life, but suddenly he starts remembering his true identity and new adventures begin.
action, comedy, magic, mercenary, shounen »
EPISODES: 13+
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Lucy is a 17-year-old girl, who wants to be a full-fledged mage. One day when visiting Harujion Town, she meets Natsu, a young man who gets sick easily by any type of transportation. But Natsu isnt just any ordinary kid, he’s a member of one of the world’s most infamous mage guilds: Fairy Tail.
action, drama, guns, mercenary, psychological »
EPISODES: 26
SITE: Official
ONE-LINER: Assassin girl finds love.
STORY: A spate of mafia assasinations occurs in America, the work of the mysterious organization named Inferno. “Phantom” is their most strongest and capable assassin, however a lone tourist witnesses Phantom’s latest act of murder. He unwittingly exposes the top assassin’s true identity, a young girl named Ein. Witnesses are usually killed, but the man is captured and taken to be brainwashed into “Zwei”, Inferno’s newest assassin, with no memory of who he is. From this point on, Zwei is drawn into a world …
action, drama, guns, mercenary, mystery, violent »
EPISODES: 13
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Canaan was conceptualized by Type-Moon co-founders Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi, based on the scenario that they created for the Nintendo Wii visual novel 428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de. The modern-day story centers on a group of people, from all walks of life, who are brought together in the Tokyo neighborhood of Shibuya by bizarre events with worldwide implications.
action, drama, guns, mercenary, mystery »
EPISODES: 26
DIRECTOR: Koichi Mashimo
STUDIO: Bee Train
AIR DATE: April 5, 2005
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Madlax revolves around two young women who seemingly have little in common and do not know of the other’s existence, at first. The titular Madlax is a woman who is legend amongst the mercenaries and assassins of the fictional civil war-torn country of Gazth-Sonika. “Madlax” is a code name and a substitute for her real one, forgotten along with the rest of her past before 1999, when the war started. The other protagonist is Margaret Burton, the …
action, drama, guns, mercenary, mystery »
EPISODES: 26
DIRECTOR: Koichi Mashimo
STUDIO: Bee Train
AIR DATE: April 6, 2001
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Mireille Bouquet is a professional assassin, and a very good one at that. But when she follows up an e-mail from a young Japanese girl named Yumura Kirika, inviting her to take “a pilgrimage to the past”, her life becomes even more dangerous than it already is. Now, with a haunting melody invoking the memory of an event long past, Mireille and Kirika decide to work together to find the truth about a thousand year old organization …
action, adventure, comedy, ecchi, guns, mercenary »
EPISODES: 12
DIRECTOR: Hiroshi Koujina
STUDIO: Ehrgeiz, Studio Live
AIR DATE: October 14, 2004
DVD: Search
SITE: Official (JPN)
STORY: Grenadier is a manga series written and illustrated by Sosuke Kaise, published in Kadokawa Shoten’s Shonen Ace since 2003. Grenadier follows the travels of the extremely well-formed and busty Rushuna Tendo, an expert Senshi, and the samurai Yajiro Kojima, a mercenary swordsman. A Senshi or “Enlightened” is one who is skilled to some degree in the use of guns. Rushuna travels through the world with one purpose: to make the world a peaceful place by taking …
action, cyborg, drama, guns, mercenary, science fiction, slice of life »
Main Article: Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino
action, comedy, drama, mecha, mercenary, military, romance, science fiction, violent, war »
The secret organization that has been hunting the Whispered has been revealed and their name is Amalgam. With superior Black Technology and equally skilled mercenaries at their disposal, Amalgam is a threat Mithril cannot take lightly. However, two of its members, twin sisters Xia Yu Fan and Xia Yu Lan, have gone rogue and seek a personal vendetta against Sousuke. But rather than attacking him directly, they plan to strike where it will bring him the greatest torment; their target is to kill Kaname.
action, adventure, comedy, guns, mercenary, science fiction, shounen, supernatural »
Main Article: Black Cat
Train Heartnet was a member of the elite group of erasers (assassins) known as the Chronos Numbers. Because it was rumored that no one targeted by Train has ever survived, he gained the nickname the ‘Black Cat.’