Anime starting in Autumn 2005 6e4841

In 2024, the terrorist incident known as "The Laughing Man Incident" occurred in which Ernest Serano, president of the ground-breaking micro-machine company, Sereno Genomics, was kidnapped and ransomed.

One day, the case having remained unsolved for six years, detective Togusa from Public Safety Section 9. However, soon after sending this message, Yamaguchi, crucial to the success of the case, dies in an accident. Many days and in the midst of a police interview relay concerning suspicions behind Interceptors, a forewarning is received from The Laughing Man of his next crime. The incorporeal hacker begins to move once again.

Source: ANN

Note: This is a 140 minute compilation movie of the entire Laughing Man "complex" stories from Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX season 1 along with new footage and upgraded to theatrical film quality.

A music video for the song by Mimori Yusa that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

A NHK shogi tournament parody. ''55 AJN Trophy TV Shoji Tournamant'' Mr.Yamada versus Mr.Roboco.

At first glance, Mao Ran is a normal cute girl, but she is a master of a martial arts handed down by Mao family.

One day, she is tricked by her grandfather, and forced to take part in the fighting match, "Prime Mat". First, she is reluctant to fight, but fighting against the rivals, she is gradually fascinated by the "fighting".

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* Based on a game by Kamikura Hiroki was expected to become an artist when entering high school, but for some reason he gave up painting. Now, as a college student at the Nadeshiko Academy, he is studying to become a teacher. He also works as a substitute teacher for the art club of the same academy's high school division.

One day, his cousin, Housen Elis, visits him. Her art talent was recognised by the academy, and she received a scholarship. Ever since she lost her parents as a child, she rejected reality, and it was only thanks to Hiroki, opening her mind to the world again, that her talent blossomed. Therefore she is very upset that he quit painting, and wants him to start painting again.

Meanwhile, Kikyou Kiri, Hiroki's childhood friend, is appointed physical education teacher at the high school. Kiri confessed her love to Hiroki when they were still in high school, but he refused her. They have not seen each other in a long time. At first, they do not get along well, but gradually, they begin to their bitter-sweet young love. Seeing both of them, Elis realises how very much she loves Hiroki...

Source: AnimeNfo

Glass Heart is a female member of the dreaded Suzaku Unit, an elite corps of Taiwanese assassins who have been raised since childhood to be heartless killing machines. At age 14 she is congratulated for her fiftieth successful hit, but she has become painfully disillusioned with her line of work and leaps from the roof of a building. But the Suzaku Unit is not ready to let such a valuable member go so easily, and are willing to take extraordinary measures to save her, including the theft of a transplant-compatible girl's heart from the streets of Japan. Glass Heart finds herself somehow in with the spirit of her heart's previous owner, and cannot resist the urge to search for this woman's lover...

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Taira Kappeita, or Capeta, was a 4th grader boy. He had lost his mother when he had been very little. Although he pretended to be tough in front of his father, actually he felt lonely. One day, his father brought junk parts home from his workplace and made a racing cart. Soon, they went to a circuit to drive the cart. However, Capeta found that its frame was bent and it could hardly run straight. But, with his technique he managed the cart. Furthermore, he followed soon after the fast cart and he could nearly leave it behind. The driver in the cart was Minamoto Naomoi, the champion of the East Japan Junior Cart. Looking at their chase, Naomi's mother, Minamoto Nanako, advised Capeta to take part in the official race.

Following her graduation from middle school, Akari, this time around are Takaaki and Konomi.

* Based on the new Gunparade Orchestra game for the PS2, a long-awaited continuation for Takidou Gensou Gun Parade March. Both, the anime and the game are simultaneously developed.

The story of the Gunparade series takes place in an alternate reality. By the end of World War II, in 1945, an alien race called the Genju suddenly descended upon the war-torn Earth to take it over. Suddenly, the world has a much bigger thing to worry about than simple matters over pride and land. These aliens are out to wipe out the human race!
United for the first time in human history against an unprecedented threat mankind have fought the Genjyu for over half a century, only to see their world slowly swallowed by the devastating foe invading the planet. Jumping forward to present day (sometime in the year 1999) in the Japanese region of Kyushu we discover the humans are fighting back with newly devised weapons known as Humanoid Walking Tanks (HWT), and the hideous power which is the PBE bomb against the Genju "Brains" leading the assaults on the few safe havens that remain.

Ishida Sara graduated the staff training school Toshitake in Tokyo and is assigned as the troop flight leader of the 4th division of the 108th guard army in Aomori. The troop is lacking any experience though, as nobody has ever encounter the aliens in a real fight. Above all there's somebody amongst the troop who doesn't welcome her. Just in this hard times the Genju appear oncemore and the 4th division gets the order to make a sortie and fight them...

* Based on the mahjong manga by Fukumoto Nobuyuki.

On a cold and stormy night, Nangou was heavily in debt and had been offered a chance to gamble it away by the yakuza. If that did not work, they had made sure that his life insurance policy would more than cover what he owed them. That evening's tiles had not been kind to Nangou and with nothing left to lose, he decided to take a chance and let the thirteen-year-old Akagi play in his place. The events of that evening are still quietly spoken about, of how a rank beginner beat the yakuza rep (or professional) player. It was that night that the legend of Akagi - the genius or monster of the Mahjong game - was born.

* Based on the manga written by Inada Kouji.

It is the dark century and the people are suffering under the rule of the devil, Vandel, who is able to manipulate monsters. The Vandel Busters are a group of people who hunt these devils, and among them, the Zenon Squad is known to be the strongest busters on the continent. A young boy, Beet, dreams of ing the Zenon Squad. However, one day, as a result of Beet's fault, the Zenon squad was defeated by the devil, Beltose. The five dying busters sacrificed their life power into their five weapons, Saiga. After giving their weapons to Beet, they ed away. Years have ed since then and the young Vandel Buster, Beet, begins his adventure to carry out the Zenon Squad's will to put an end to the dark century.

Source: ANN

Note: This series continues at the spot where the first series ended.

Kotenco guards the "Angel star" for the queen in the "Heaven Land". Kotenco is a very good child, but when the bad spirit rise, Kotenco transform (tenshin) into Matenco.
Unlike Kotenco, Matenco is a very naughty Child and troubles everyone.
But don't worry! By changing the angel ring, Matenco goes Back to a good child.
Will Kotenco be able to guard the "Angel Star" from the ruler and the Devil of "Ground Land", who is aiming for the "Heaven Land"?

The world is secretly controlled by a secret organizition, Chronos. Under the command of this mysterious organization are the Chronos Numbers, a group of powerful assasins, taking orders to eliminate certain targets secretly to keep the so-called peace. One of the most powerful is the Number XIII, Sven Vollfield to hunt down criminals.

Source: ANN

Countless were killed in the unexplained Blast Fall, and those left maimed - the Resembles - had their bodies rebuilt with high-tech prosthetic devices. Bounty hunter Solty fell from the sky. Roy and Solty may seek different things, but who wants to search for truth alone?

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16-year old Pete Pumps was performing an air stunt when an accident happened which led to his ing. By a weird twist of fate, Tazusa began to hear strange voices and realized that a Canadian ghost has resided in her body. After futile attempts to get rid of Pete, Tazusa decides to get accustomed to his presence and in the meantime, improve on her techniques in order to get selected for the Olympics.

Source: ANN

As a child, Haruka saw ghosts and spectres. She realized in her twelfth year, after observing a certain white haired, black cloaked man standing on the cross of a church, that what she was seeing were not ghosts.

Soon after this first sighting, time stopped in the middle of a quarrel between herself and her childhood friend Gotou Yuu, and the man appeared before her again, surrounded by blue snow, calling her the Dragon's Torque.

A ghost hunt for the black caped ghost, initiated by her school friend Mukai Miho, finds Haruka and Yuu face to face with him once more: Karasu, an alternate Yuu from a different dimension, fifteen years from the future.

Karasu's a Dragon Knight from the dimension called La'cryma, trying prevent it's destruction at the hand of the masked man of Shangri'la. To save La'cryma, he must capture Haruka, which sends his emotions into chaos, as she resembles the Haruka of his dimension that he'd failed to protect in the struggle against Shangri'la.

Shangri'la's intentions to create an ideal timespace by destroying and assimilating all possible dimensions requires Haruka's power to manipulate timespaces, while La'cryma needs her power to thwart Shangri'la's plans.

Haruka, Yuu, and their friends are swept up in a clash between ideals, quantum physics, greed, and mankind's inherit desire to survive as they struggle to understand the concept of infinite parallel dimensions and the changes in their own.

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It is the near future, in the 100th year of Showa (year 2025). The population of world is more than 10 billion, and a world-class space development project called "Mars Terraforming Project" is in process. One day, a spaceship "Izanami" crashes in Japan on the way from Mars, and it revives the monster Negadon, which was captured by the spaceship. Can the human race knock down the monster!?
Under the desperate situation, a middle aged man named Narasaki Ryuuichi, rises up against the monster. He is an expert of robot engineering who lost his daughter in an accident which happened during his experiments. Now, the desperate struggle of Narasaki and Negadon begins!!

As summer break arrives for the students, Barasuishou — has awakened. She now realizes that Suigintou's fate may very well befall the other Dolls, for the appearance of the last Doll signals the beginning of the end of the Alice Games.

Source: ANN

When Ryu returns to pay homage to his deceased mentor, Gouken, he is tormented by disturbing memories of his master's killer. In a quest to become a true martial arts master, Ryu sets out to hone his street fighting skills and to deliver himself from the haunting legacy of the Dark Hadou. But the ultimate test of his new power can only be accomplished through one last fateful confrontation with his arch-nemesis, Gouki (Akuma).

* Based on the shounen manga by the same name by Maaka Karin comes from a family of vampires living in Japan, but she is not a normal vampire. Vampires are normally supposed to drink the blood of their victims... but Karin suffers from a condition that causes her body to produce excessive amounts of blood. About once a month, she has to get rid of the excess blood by giving it to her "victims". But she somehow manages... and goes to school like everyone else her age.

Well, things are about to get more complicated: when a new student, Usui Kenta transfers into Karin's class, she starts producing unusually huge amounts of blood, almost as if in reaction to him. Worse, he happens upon Karin's true nature...

A girl gently strolls through a bug town while singing and playing her acoustic guitar.

Source: ANN

Note: Was included on the Ghibli ga Ippai Special Short Short DVD.

* Based on a shounen-ai novel.

Munakata Kyousuke, a famous Hollywood actor. Unknown to the public, both of them are father and son as well as lovers. When Mira turns 15 and enters high-school, he faces trouble with his childhood friend falling in love with him. Also, the fact that Kyousuke is not his biological father only depresses him further.

"This is a collection of 9 short animations of Jim Woodring's "Frank" made by 8 different animation filmmakers. The stories are taken from the Frank comic. Each piece is a collaboration between Jim, the filmmaker, and musicians from Japan and the USA. 3DCG, paper craft animation, clay animation, iron sand animation, 2D. . . the production method varies, but the original and imaginative expressions that help to re-present the world of ""Frank"" seen through each filmmaker's eyes are mutual qualities shared between all works. For each animation, you are able to choose between the original music and the newly composed
music by other musicians. Participating musicians include: Bill Frisell, James McNew (from Yo La Tengo), The Coctails, Dame Darcy, Kicell, Milk Yabe, etc. Comes with 16 P booklet with Frank comic and introduction of the animators/musicians.

The four episodes are set in Southtown, the imaginary city well known to all fans as the stage of numerous death matches throughout the KOF series. Many past heroes of the saga make their appearance here, and the four plots intertwine to create a large-scale drama, that is also linked to the story of KOF Maximum Impact 2.

Source: Production IG

* Based on the one-shot manga written by Akamatsu Ken in 1998.

"Jingle Bells is playing. It's Christmas Eve. Inside my room appears Santa in a Miniskirt and her name is..."

A boy named Mai/Santa Claus. A cute Santa girl in a miniskirt who comes to him to give him a little luck. One night with her turns out to be the greatest gift anyone has ever given him.

Yoshizuki Iori, a girl in his class who has become so popular she now has her own fan club at school. But only a miracle could make him be with her, since the day he first saw Iori-chan, Ichitaka has been too shy to even talk to her. This miracle happened and now he and Iori are working together on the Freshmen Welcoming Party. It seems that things start to look bright for Ichitaka, but then a special childhood friend visits...

Source: ANN

On his way to visit the Queen of the Garden of Light, the Sage of the Garden of Clouds accidentally drops the egg of the Houhou. The egg lands in the Garden of Rainbows, where it is found by Hikari, attracting the attention of a powerful pair of servants of the Dark Lord.

In the far future when the continuity of the history has been lost, humans live in an ever more deteriorating completely artificial and enclosed world. The sea and the sky have disappeared, and the only window to "living" scenery exists in the records from the past, excavated in the relic.

The Bureau of Record Excavation is an organization responsible for this task. Riko keeps a little distance to watch him, but averts her eyes from the records, believing that sometimes people just want things to stay the same.

Everyone in this world knows that to know the past means to know the misery of this world, the present reality. But one day, Ura restores a strange video...

Partially animated music video of ion (English version is called Sanctuary) performed by Studio 4°C.

* Based on the novel series by Tomino Yoshiyuki.

Because his friends fired a rocket into the US Army camp, Sakomizu Shinjirou, is Japanese. Please help me, Suzuki".

Seiya and the rest of the Bronze and Gold Saints who have survived the Sanctuary battle have entered the world of the Dead. They are fighting to get to Athena and give her Athena's Cloth for the upcomming battle with Hades!

Source: ANN