Anime starting in Autumn 2004 105316

Kobal is a prince of Curry Kingdom. Although he is a prince, he goes to the school for common people, and he is treated like other students. In fact, he is scolded by the teacher, is made to stand during class as a punishment, go some errands for a chef, and is teased by a girl whom he loves. He is always worried, and wonders whether the prince should be better. Being surrounded by weird friends and strange people in Curry Kingdome, he spends worrying days.

Source: AnimeNfo

Sora Naegino has finally consolidated herself as Kaleido Stage's greatest star ever, and a new star starts to shine as Rosetta el is selected to participate in the next attraction in a main role. But when things start to go wrong in the rehearsals, Rosetta starts to question her ability to take the role, as her own capacity to remain in Kaleido Stage. Meanwhile, Fool also struggles with his demons from the past.

In the year 20xx AD, insects have become resistant to every kind of insecticide. In order to create an effective pest control, the Japanese company Mars Pharmacy develops a small insect-terminating robot — the 11.5 cm tall maid type robot Dewa Kimiko, who works for a pharmacy always loved dolls, and bought Hoi Hoi-san soon after release. Little did she expect her peaceful slumber at home to be disturbed by her robot's vehement bursts of gunfire — exterminating insects. So she tends to be annoyed by robot-fan customers.

To top things off, another small robot type named Combat-san — belonging to a frequent pharmacy customer — fights a nightly all-out war against Kimiko's Hoi Hoi-san — loosing every time.

Takumi, have received a scholarship to attend the prestigious Fuuka Academy. On the way there, the ferry they are travelling on becomes the site of a destructive battle between two girls wielding apparently supernatural powers. This is only the beginning of their troubles, as Mai learns that she herself possesses these powers — the powers of a HiME.

Source: ANN

Many people have fond memories of meeting a certain teenage boy in their younger years. However, their ages vary widely, and each re him as a teen. This story follows the intricate intertwining of their various stories and how this young man, who apparently lives outside of time, has affected each of them.

Source: ANN

Yuuno Scrya. She happens to obtain a magical power from him which she has then to use to recollect "Jewel Seeds". They are from the other world, and are scattered around Earth.

Yuuno Scrya, the boy from the other world, can turn into a small animal, Nanoha herself has a magical wand that is materialized by her will. With these two, she has to recollect the "Jewel Seeds". It will grant one's dream, but it also cause various accidents at times.

She becomes friends with the boy from the other world, and spends her life as a magical girl late at night, early in the morning, after school, and on vaction in secret. Around family and friends, she's just a normal girl.

During her adventures more magical girls with the same power as her appear and almost destroy her otherwise peaceful life.

"I do my best... so that I won't regret."

Note: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha is a spinoff of Triangle Hearts.

Being the continuation of Rockman.EXE Axess and the third anime in the Rockman.EXE anime series, Rockman.EXE Stream takes place right where Axess left off, with Netto and Rockman's battle against Dr. Regal, leader of Nebula. Now, something greater poses a threat for the Earth, and it's name is Duo. A mysterious net navi from space, his mission is to erase planets that are living with darkness. Because of the constant evil lurking from Regal's Dark Chips, Duo is set out to destroy Earth. But can Netto and Rockman prove to him that Earth is full of good?

* Based on a game by Capcom.

Movie Land is a world where movie characters were real. There was en evil syndicate, Jado, they altered the movie contents at their own will, and they tried to rule the people in the real world by showing the modified movie to them.

One day, Joe went to the theatre with his lover Silvia to watch a hero movie, Captain Blue. However, the movie ended with a tragedy no one expected. Captain Blue was helplessly beaten by the evil syndicate Jado. Then, the leader of Jado declared that they would conquer the real world, and they took Silvia into the screen.

To take her back, Joe turns into a super hero to battle against them. In the world of "Movie Land", now begins the beautiful battle of Viewtiful Joe.

While Gunbuster's final mission destroyed the Space Monsters' star system, the intergalactic war still continues. Earth's only hope lies in the hands of TOPLESS, an elite mecha group of children possessing supernatural powers and new Buster machines. Among their ranks is a rookie named Casio, they must do their very best to protect all of mankind from the wrath of the Space Monsters.

Source: ANN

* Based on a game by Junna is an ordinal student of an elite school. However, surviving a gruesome traffic accident in the past deprives him of his parents and due to trauma he lost his memory.

Though looked after by his relatives, Junna lives alone with his twin sister Final Approach during a TV program called Princess Hour.

One day, seven shooting stars fell on to the ground. The shooting stars were colored by seven colors, and they have terrible powers. Those who took the shooting star were tuned into monsters by embodying their desires.

Dr. Mishina and Dr. Kishiwada obtained red, green, and blue stars secretly, and they studied the stars. Finally, they could successfully control their power by putting a special helmet on.

The newly developed helmet, "Musumet", was as large as an automobile helmet. Putting Musumet on the head, it turned a person's body into the strongest one on the earth. Furthermore, it received the signal from the brain and amplified the inherent power and ability unlimitedly.

To utilize the power of "Musumet", to keep the world peace, and to protect from the disasters caused by the remaining shooting stars, Dr. Mishima and Dr. Kishida founded a secret organization "MET". However, he died before he accomplished his aim.

The bereaved daughters, Aoi, Midori, and Kurenai, made up their minds to become Musmet in order to execute the father's will.

Even if they turned into Musumet, their wearing wouldn't change except helmets, gloves, and boots. Therefore, they had to go to the scenes wearing their own clothes. The girls had to go to the incident spots occasionally wearing school uniforms, occasionally gymnasium suits, occasionally swimming suits, depending the case, they had to go there even if they were naked, and they would do great jobs. On the other hand, at other times, they were ordinal adolescent girls who were dreaming of lovely meetings with boyfriends.

Whether would they cope with the world peace and boyfriends at the same time?

Source: AnimeNfo

Kuchiki Rukia, who arrives in search of a Hollow, a dangerous lost soul. When Rukia is severely wounded while trying to defeat the Hollow, she attempts to transfer half of her Reiatsu (literally, Spiritual pressure) energy to Ichigo so that he can defeat the Hollow. However, Ichigo takes almost all of her energy, transforming into a Shinigami and allowing him to defeat the Hollow with ease. With her powers diminished, Rukia is left stranded in the human world until she can recover her strength. In the meantime, Ichigo must take over Rukia's role as a Shinigami, battling Hollows and guiding souls to the afterlife realm known as the Soul Society.

Source: Wikipedia

In 1800, it was the period they called it the end of the Edo Era. People were swaying between the ideologies of evolutionism and conservatism. In these conflicts, there were men acting in the dark side of the society. They had the latest repeating guns, wore black helmets, and their movement were far beyond that of a normal person, this group was called "Samurai Gun".

They were welcomed by the citizens, but they had another plan. They were an armed troop organized to topple the Edo government. Nanagomaru Ichimatsu was the member of Samurai Gun. His older sister was killed. He was involved in the wave of ages not understanding the true meaning of fighting. Their mission was to kill evils in shadow as well as in the sun. Where is true justice? What is evil that they should hate? Where is Japan heading?

While they began to doubt their way of life, their battle against the government was getting harder.

Source: AnimeNfo

In the future, Japan is a wasteland. In the Great Kantou Desert, scattered humans eke out a living in the hot sand. Among them, a short-statured man they call Sunabouzu makes a living as a bounty hunter. Like a demon of the sand, he seems unbeatable. Yet, like all men, he has a particular weakness for the opposite sex...

* Based loosely on the book written by the Count of Monte Cristo.

The Count lived a life of splendour in a rich hotel, with beautiful women waiting on him and strong men guarding him. Albert was fascinated by this Count who seemed to know everything, and the two became friends. Albert eventually invited the Count to visit him in Paris.

The Count's past slowly resurfaces, to the greatest displeasure of everybody involved.

Ever since he was born, Kantarou has had the 6th sense to see demons, and has become friends with them. One day a demon told him about an ogre-eating tengu, and ever since then Kantarou has been in search of it, and one day on a ghost busting case, finds him. He then names the tengu Haruka, and in naming him forces the tengu to be his slave.

Minami Ryuusuke, and becomes involved in Ryuusuke's new band BECK. Koyuki's life starts to change as the band struggles towards fame.

Source: ANN

* Based on a manga of the same name by Kurumada Masami.

In order to fulfill their dead father's wish, the siblings, Takane Kiku and Takane Ryuuji aim for the champion title of the boxing arena. The sister, Kiku, will act as the trainer while the brother, Ryuuji, will concentrate on the role of the boxer.
Ryuuji's battles with many rivals have turned him into a more mature person. The junior high boxing tournament begins and Ryuuji will be fighting with his arch-rival, Kenzaki Jun.

Note: There also was a short Ring ni Kakero 1 pilot film made in 2003.

* Based on the manga by Kawaguchi Kaiji.

Scheduled for routine military exercises, Kadomatsu and the crew of Japan's newest and most modern battlecruiser, Mirai, are ready to test out the ship's state-of-the-art AEGIS systems. Instead, they find themselves transported back to June 4th, 1942 - the date of the crucial Battle of Midway, where the Japanese fleet was dealt a crippling blow.

But when an overzealous Kadomatsu rescues one of the battle's victims, Kusaka, from a sinking Zero Fighter, the Mirai's fate is sealed. They are forced to fight a U.S. submarine in a battle that should never have occurred, and the crew pledges not to do anything to alter history further. But the flow of history may already be diverted...

Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' life (as long as they have the money for it, that is), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in.

Source: ANN

On nights when the moon is this blue, strange things happen... We follow the adventures of a little girl who seems lost in a deep forest. Her restless soul travels from place to place just like Alice in Wonderland... She meets strange creatures in this surreal world, while she's searching for true love.

Note: First "professional" animation work by Ishizuka Atsuko of MADHOUSE. It was done and broadcasted as an episode of NHK's Minna no Uta.

A bird flies through the snow eventually falling and dying into a forest of barren trees. Brightly colored flowers springs in its place and evolves into different forms.

An interpretive work on the music of the group Acidman described by the animator as a collaborative effort resulting in a 'musical image.'

Source: MAL

A short amateur movie by Kojiro Shishido. Winner at the 10th annual Student CG Contest held in 2005.

It shows great sensitivity towards the delicate gradations of light and shadow in the natural world, with a matching delicate soundtrack by Shishido himself.

The Athrun, and the others must stop a war that threatens both sides with genocide!

Hotaru who had moved, and she finally reached to Alice Gakuen. But it was a special school that only those who had special abilities called Alice could enter. She managed to enter the school, but she was embarrassed by the special environment. What would her school days become?

Source: AnimeNfo

Gorou is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Hoshino Momoko is Gorou's schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Gorou's mother. The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.

Source: ANN

In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south — Honshu and the other islands — allied with the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, clearly visible from the northern tip of Honshu.

In 1996, three teenagers, Sayuri, make a pact — they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma.

It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio's promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri's mysterious, carefully tended condition.

— written by Rupert Bottenberg from www.fantasiafestival.com/en/films/film_detail.php?id=40

It's a freezing winter morning and Christmas is just around the corner.
Pororo the penguin and his beloved friends return from the woods where they have cut a Christmas tree, ready to celebrate the festivity. They've just finished decorating the tree, when they receive a shocking message directly from Santa Claus!

Santa caught a bad cold, and he can't bring his special Xmas glaze to the Candy Castle, where under the oversight of King Cream Puff the cookies for children all over the world are made. A Christmas without cookies will be quite sad!
Pororo and his friends decide to protect the Christmas spirit, and they leave for Santa Claus village to pick up the Christmas glaze and carry it to the Candy Castle.

But along the way, they met their old acquaintance: the wicked Witch of Winter who aims to steal the precious glaze and use it for her nasty schemes...
Will our heroes be able to carry out their important missions and save Christmas?

Follow with us the adventurous journey of Pororo and his friends to the magical Candy Castle!

Source: theanimationband.com

* Based on the 1995 Super Famicom game Tales of Phantasia by Arche Klaine, they seek to right the wrongs of Dhaos and return peace to the land.

Source: ANN

After wandering through the desert for days, a bitter warrior named Byun Haku Dou.

Then, from out of nowhere, blood begins trickling from Mong Ryong's chest. He has been fatally wounded by the Sarinjas, a cannibalistic breed of desert goblins. The quick-thinking Munsu convinces these beasts to spare his life, in exchange for the peaceful handover of Ryong's appetising corpse.

Although sceptical of Ryong's motives, Munsu sets out to continue the mission that the young idealist described. Accompanied by an army of ghost troops, unleashed using the powers of Angyo Onshi, Munsu liberates Chun Hyang. After visiting her boyfriend's final resting place, she declares herself Munsu's Sando, or bodyguard, and together they set out on a mission to punish those who stripped Jushin of its original glory.

Animated video for Horishita Sayuri's Kaze no Toori Michi produced for NHK's Minna no Uta. Direction and animation by Mochizuki Tomomi, Kondou Katsuya and Tanaka Naoya from Ghibli.