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Rui, the threesome are constantly embroiled in mysterious circumstances. Ran is troubled by her powers because it seems to spark off the ill intentions of people in with her. However, with the of her family and peers, Ran learns to deal with her other side and accepts who she is. The threesome also learn how to team up as a whole and solve these mysterious events.

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044 becomes the strongest female soldier, excelling in combat through gene manipulation using a virus. However, in exchange for her abilities, her days become numbered. The next government mission is to destroy a bloodthirsty squad, Phage, and its leader King. In her battle, she encounters a Phage soldier, Luka, and finds herself unable to kill him. She wonders why, but as a result, Daxus Jr., the leader of the government group, regards her as a traitor. She is targeted by both Phage and the government, and runs away with the injured Luka.

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* Based on the Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto ~Natsu no Sora~ shounen manga by Sora Suzuki is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Biei. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic internship in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora's fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.

In Tokyo is the Bureau of Magic, which employs Mage Labour for certain special requests by everyday people. However, the mages must only use their magic with special permission, and any unlicensed use results in a penalty.

Note: The story is set in present day Tokyo. Much of the setting is based upon real areas, the more obvious ones being the Shibuya Crossing and Tokyo Tower. The main backdrop of the series where they all reside is in Shimokitazawa, roughly 6 minutes west of Shibuya on the Keio Inokashira Line.

Having lost the Sword of Light in the previous battle, Wizer. However, Lina is amazed at his unusual behaviour...

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* Based on a light novel series by Nogizaka Haruka, and his life changes drastically from there on.

Haruka, the school's most unattainable girl, is so idolized in the school for both, her looks and intelligence, that her classmates nickname her Nuit Étoile (The Silver Star of the Night) and Lumière du Clavier (The Shining Princess on the Piano). However, nobody knows that it is only a fake role she assumes to hide her true nature. In reality she is a die-hard fan of anime, manga, and otaku culture.

It was the year 1939 when the Neuroi appeared. Nobody knows where they came from or what their ultimate agenda is, but the fact remains that their attacks drove people out of their towns and cities.

In order to take arms against them, humanity develops a new anti-Neuroi weapon called the Striker Unit. Using the power of magic to fight against the monsters, this new device enhances and amplifies the power of female magic-wielders. To use this device, young witches from all over the world have been brought together to form an elite task force unit called the 501st t Fighter Wing, commonly known as the Strike Witches.

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* Based on a shounen manga by Senkawa Tsutomu, stumbles into a fight between the two in an abandoned building only to be severed in half when Giga uses him as a human shield against Birdy. Birdy saves Tsutomu from imminent death — but his body, and life, are now changed and permanently linked to Birdy.

Continuing where the first season left off, the sudden increase of Thanatos with the disappearance of the Aube Hunters has now left Arcadia in ruin. Desperation reigns high as the Religious Organization fights to battle the Thanatos. Six months had already past since Hidamari mansion burned to ashes, the Aube Hunters, once hailed as heroes, is now blamed for the appearance of Thanatos. Nevertheless, hope still exists for the reappearance of the Queen's Egg one day, who will become the savior of Arcadia. Unknown to many however, the Aube Hunters have actually been silently waiting for the awakening of Angelique, who has been asleep the entire time.

Source: MAL

A collection of six shorts about the iconic DC Comics detective, directed by American writer and artist Bruce Timm and animated by Studio 4°C, Production I.G, Madhouse and Bee Train.

Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him. Containing the names of these spirits, a binding contract was formed between the spirits and the owner of the book. Now, Natsume is determined to free the spirits and dissolve the contracts. With the help of a spirit cat, his days are filled trying to return the names to these spirits.

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* Based on the eroge by BaseSon.

Having lost her family to bandits during night raid, Chouhi Yokutoku, who had a similar experience with bandits in the past.

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Note: Koihime Musou re-enacts the classic Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in an action/love comedy format with an all-female cast. The game itself featured upwards of 30 female characters. The male protagonist who filled the role of Liu Bei in the game is absent from this version. Liu Bei makes an appearance in episode 11 of the series, but the anime version of Liu Bei is not the same as in the game.

Note: Double feature with Sore Ike! Anpanman: Yousei Rinrin no Himitsu.

* Based on a seinen manga by Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men. His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents' killers... and his quest will not end until the blood of a thousand has spilled!

In the second season Emperor Qin sends Quicksand to destroy Machinery City, the home of the Mohist School.

At the same time, Duanmu Rong sent the three kids, Tianming, Shao Yu and Gao Yu, into the forbidden grounds of the Mohist School, a place where nobody could enter without permission.

The emperor destroys The Sword Worship Villa, Central China's top sword-maker, alleging that its people conspired to overthrow him. The young master of the villa, Ao Jue, is the sole survivor with a Jue sword, which can only be unleashed with the blood of the Fire Kirin. As the only two people in the world who have Kirin blood running in their veins, Wind and Cloud gets embroiled and a deadly calamity ensues.

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After winding up in the middle of the battle between Satoshi (Ash) and his friends are taking a break...
But with the battle going on in the Torn World, also known as the Reverse World, they somehow got involved, leading to a more complicated case than they ever imagined...

Akiba-chan is the name of the main character, a posable figurine. Her name refers to the otaku obsession with collecting anime figurines and other merchandise. She lives in an apartment house named Maison de Akiba. Four other girls share her easy-going, comic adventures. The anime uses a combination of computer animation (CGI) and a stop-motion technique named figumation.

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Seigaku has finally made it to the national finals, where their final opponent stands between them and a first place victory. Seigaku's showdown with Rikkaidai will determine the top tennis team in Japan.

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The characters from Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, and Inuyasha all gather together in a short crossover to introduce the 50th Anniversary Weekly Shonen Sunday "Rumic World" Museum opening, celebrating Rumiko Takahashi's manga work.

On a very hot summer day in Tomobiki town, Ranma 1/2. On January 29, 2010 a limited edition "It's a Rumic World Special Anime Box" DVD collection was released which contains all three specials.

Originally shown on All Nippon Airways (ANA) flights starting from 01.08.2008 to 29.08.2008.
It was released on DVD on 19.06.2009.

A music video from NHK's Minna no Uta featuring a song by Angela Aki and art by Fruits Basket's mangaka.

Based around 3 people as young children they sit down and write to their future self. They wish for the best and tell themselves to never give up faith or hope to always believe and stay strong even if everyone else puts them down. They just need to believe in thyself and they will be fine.

I won't give away much more then that, but at the end they thank their younger self's and how they gave the advice proudly accepting what happened and glad they wrote it. They just hope for their future self to be happy more than anything no matter what happens.

Source: MAL

After experiencing several major wars, people have finally obtained peace. However, they are unable to appreciate peace without contemplating war and death from a safe distance. Therefore, they make a show business out of war. In this staged war, those who must fight each other are children called "Killdre". They remain forever young until they die in the sky.

Kannami Yuichi is stationed at Uris, a frontline base in Europe. He has no memories of the past prior to arriving there, but he knows he is a Killdre, and knows how to operate a fighter.

Yuichi's ability is soon acknowledged and he becomes an ace pilot. Then, he meets a girl, Kusanagi Suito, a commander of the base, who is also a Killdre and used to be an ace pilot as well. Although they are meeting for the first time, they feel as if they had known each other for a long time and soon they become close. However, one day, she asks him a surprising thing: "Can you kill me? Otherwise, we cannot escape from all this."

* Based on the seinen manga by Wakasugi Kiminori serialised in Young Animal.

Souichi Negishi is a shy young man who came from the rural Ota Prefecture to Tokyo for college and wished to become a kindergarten teacher. However, for some reason he became the singer and songwriter of a metal band named "Detroit Metal City," with a stage name "Johannes Kra II." Whenever he wears the heavy makeup, Negishi becomes a completely different person, shouting the most vulgar profanities beyond anyone's imagination. With the popularity of DMC increases, Negishi starts worrying his double personalities can have negative effects on his (romantic) life off stage.

3D CG-animated movie about Hikiko, who is a character of a Japanese urban legend. She was violently treated all the time by her parents and classmates at the elementary school and she's extremely ugly due to the constant violence. To revenge, she caught students from elementary school and drag them on the floor until they're badly mutilated. When Reversing Hikiko's full name 森妃姫子(Mori Hikiko) gives 引き籠もり (hikikomori), which means Social Withdrawal.

"Kiku-chan to Okami" is an adaptation of "Grave of the Fireflies" author Akiyuki Nosaka's short story "Toshi-Oi Mesu-Okami to Onna no Ko no Hanashi" (The Story of the Old Mother Wolf and the Girl), which follows a girl and the wolf in the fields of WWII Manchuria who watches over her like a mother.

The seventh film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa" (war story).

* Based on the manga by Weekly Shounen Jump.

This recap is a continuation of the first one. It recounts shortly the previous special and continues to retell the final arc of the series. It contains updated dialogue, as well as a few new scenes.

Note: This is a TV special which aired on Nippon Television in Japan on August 22, 2008.

* Based on the re-edited first part of the story from the television series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann with some newly animated scenes.

In the distant future, people build their homes and raise domestic animals in subterranean caverns called pits. This way of life has persisted for hundreds of years, and yet, the people are still powerless against the earthquakes and cave-ins which occasionally devastate their villages. Jeeha is one such village...

One day, while digging tunnels to expand Jeeha, a boy named Kamina — Simon's soon-to-be "bro" — insists that there is another land above the village and tries to break through the ceiling in order to leave the cavern. He fails; however, an earthquake suddenly occurs, the ceiling collapses, and a gigantic robot — a Ganmen — crashes to the cave floor!

Kamina is now certain that there is a world above their tiny pit-village. Encouraged, he begins to fight recklessly against the robot, until he encounters another person who has arrived from the land above. She is a beautiful girl by the name of Youko, who has come from a neighbouring village with a rifle in hand. She has been hunting the robot, but her shots only seem to irritate it. Desperately trying to escape its attacks, Simon brings Kamina and Yoko to what he had previously found: A mysterious robot with a head for a body.

And so begins the "epic" adventure...

Source: ANN, AnimeNfo

Note: Additionally, Sorairo Days.

* Spin-off based on Mach Go Go Go.

The titular Mach Girl is a named Lip who wanders the land to compete in high-stakes races with her Mach Pink three-wheeler.