Anime starting in Winter 2007/2008

The young leader of the Oomi group, Ranmaru, was forced to marry Kaoru, the daughter from another group. The couple went to Italy, and had their wedding on a ship. However, neither of them actually liked the marriage, and Ranmaru was kicked out by his newlywed wife Kaoru on their first night. Al (Alberto), an Italian man on the ship, took an interest in Ranmaru, and the story revolves around the romance between the two men, Ranmaru and Al.

Source: ANN

* Based on the CyberConnect2 hit game.

The Movie will be placed in the storyline of each .hack//G.U. games trilogy. The story follows Haseo, a player in the online MMORPG called The World:R2 at first depicted as a PKK (Player Killer Killer) known as the "Terror of Death", a former member of the disbanded Twilight Brigade guild. Haseo encounters Azure Kite (believing him to be Tri-Edge and blaming him for what happened to Shino) but is hopelessly outmatched. Azure Kite easily defeats Haseo and Data Drains him, reducing his level from 133 to 1 and leaving him without any items, weapons, or member addresses. He is left with a mystery on his hands as to the nature of the Data Drain and why Azure Kite is in possession of such a skill.

Eventually Haseo gains the "Avatar" of Skeith. Acquiring the ability to call Skeith and wield his abilities, such as Data Drain. With Skeith as his strength, Haseo begins the quest for a way to save Shino.

He is seen seeking out a PK (Player Killer) known as Tri-Edge, whose victims supposedly are unable to return to The World after he PKs them. Haseo's friend, Shino, was attacked six months prior to the events of the game by Tri-Edge, and the player herself, Shino Nanao, was left in a coma.

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When an artifact known as the "King's Seal" is stolen during transport from Soul Society, Hitsugaya Toushirou is assigned to retrieve it. Toushirou goes missing after a battle with the thieves, leading Seireitei to suspect him of treachery. They order his immediate capture and execution. Unwilling to believe him capable of such a crime, Ichigo, Rangiku, Rukia, and Renji set out to find Toushirou and clear his name. Meanwhile, Toushirou is still searching for the thieves, and stumbles upon a dark secret involving a shinigami long since dead.

Two minor characters from the historical Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms traverse time and distance to appear as young girls in a modern-day Japan. Just how will the two fierce and powerful warriors, Ryofuko and Chinkyuu adapt to a modern life, especially when cast into the bodies of 8-year-old girls?

Melody is a young rabbit trying to overcome the loss of his mother.

* Based on a shounen manga by Ikeda Akihisa, serialised in Monthly Shounen Jump.

By a bizarre coincidence, Aono Tsukune has accidentally gotten himself admitted to a Youkai Academy, a school attended by monsters. Realising that he has entered another world riding the school bus, suspicious of the very creepy forest leading to the school, just when he is about run away, he meets the beautiful Akashiya Moka, instantly falling for her feminine charms.

But from here on his problems only seem to get bigger: Not only that the kind and sensual Moka turns out to be a vampire, who loves to suck Tsukune's blood ("chu"), she transforms into her true form when the rosary on her chest is removed, turning into the very powerful and ruthless vampire, Ura Moka!

How will Tsukune, the only (weak) human in this monster academy, make it through the semester?

* Based on a shoujo manga by Endou Minari, serialised in Comic Zero-Sum.

A young girl named Rahzel Anadis is booted out of her house one day by her father with the instructions to 'see the world'. And so her journey begins. However, she will not be on it alone... for she befriends a stoic young man named Alzeid seeking revenge for his father's murder.

Alzeid and Rahzel are like oil and water... but still, they feel strangely drawn to one another. This could be either the result of an underlying attraction — or their shared powers with magic. And so, the two reluctant allies travel from town to town, using their powers to help the helpless, while discovering their own respective places in the world.

Source: MangaUpdates

* Based on the Persona RPG game series for the Playstation developed by Atlus, it is set 10 years after the story of the original Persona 3 PS2 game.

The stage is Ayanagi City, a city near the Japan Sea. It is a futuristic city that was built to carry out the recovery from the calamity caused by the "Apathy Syndrome" ten years previous. High school student Kanzato Shin and his little brother Jun meet with their elder brother Ryou, who is the chief of the Ayanagi City Police again after ten years. At that time, a series of strange incidents happen in Ayanagi City, such as the crew of a submarine that suddenly disappears, or a spiritless symptom which disturbs the world after ten years, or the case of the inside out corpse where a student took on a cruel appearance. Ryou tracks down the organization behind the string of incidents, and having become involved in the incidents, Shin awakens the "Persona".

Source: ANN

Uesugi Ren and his sister Mihato ran away from home because of domestic violence. When they at last reach the city they have a hard time finding work to earn some money. They eventually enter the service of the Kuonji family, making a pledge of absolute loyalty. Thus Ren's days of being a butler to the demanding Kuonji heir begins...

* Based on a light novel series by Amamiya Ryo, illustrated by Poko.

Fumika is a girl with a job as a Shigofumi. This requires her to deliver letters from the dead; the last resort of relaying a deceased person's last message to his/her loved ones: family, friends or significant other. Together with her talking staff, Kanaka, she crosses the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead in order to deliver the letters. But at some point, during a delivery, she gets seen by an old classmate who recognizes her. He then starts investigating what happened to her after she vanished from his class and why she is delivering letters from the dead.

More crazy antics abound as Itoshiki Nozomu, aka Zetsubou-sensei, who is the worlds most negative person, tries to teach class 2-H about how life is filled with despair and darkness. As it turns out this is a more difficult task than expected, with his students being far from ordinary — including the likes of the most positive girl he has ever met, his very own stalker, a foreign exchange student with split personalities, and a perfectionist acting class president, due to the fact the real class president cannot be found by anyone, naming just a few eccentrics.

Source: ANN

Note: "Zoku" in the title is somewhat of a pun, as it sounds like the Japanese word for "continuation", but is written with a character normally used to indicate slang terms in a dictionary.

* Based on the fantasy slice of life manga series Aria and Aqua by Amano Kozue.

Aqua and Aria take place in the twenty-fourth century, on the planet Aqua (formerly Mars), which has been terraformed into a habitable planet covered in oceans and seas.

The series is the story of Akari, an apprentice gondolier with Aria Company, one of the three most popular gondola companies in the city. She is training to become a full-time gondolier, or undine, as they are called in Neo-Venezia.

* Based on a light novel series written by Hasekura Isuna.

Kraft Lawrence (Spice) is a travelling medieval merchant, who finds a 600-year-old pagan harvest deity named Holo (Wolf) in his wagon one night. She begins travelling with him, and her wisdom helps increase his profits. But her true nature draws unwanted attention from the church...

Note: The novel series won the Silver Prize in the 12th Dengeki Novel Awards. The story forgoes the traditional sword-&-sorcery adventure element to focus on how people lived and did business in the Middle Ages.

* This version of the Kitarou story is based on the original Hakaba Kitarou manga, the manga which inspired the popular Gegege no Kitarou series in the late 60's.

Kitarou is a youkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and youkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.

* A remake from the '70 classic Yatterman series. Almost 31 years after the beginning of the original series, a remake has started airing on Yomiuri TV, basically a retelling of the original story updated to fit the tastes of a more modern public.

Doronbo trio's boss Dokurobei sends the gang to find five Dokuro Rings (in the original series there was only the Dokuro Stone) that when united, they will grant any wish.

Ganchan, still a young genius, is now a slacker, easily distracted, and a foil for the the more serious, reliable and responsible Ai-chan. Ai-chan itself is now mellowed in a cuter, childlike personality, at least in her flirtatious relationship with Ganchan: in this reloading of the myth, Yatterwan was meant as a birthday gift for her, to ease her desire to go driving with her boyfriend. As a gift for Ai-chan, and displaying some degree of preference for her instead of his creator, Yatterwan appears now more incline to follow every whim and order of her mistress instead of the ones given by Ganchan himself. Aside from this quirk, Yatterwan is still the same, acting in battle as his former incarnation. The plot has stayed largely the same, sporting an episodical structure in which the Doronbo Gang plots a scam, that usually backfires in a spectacular way; they're engaged by Dokurobee to get the Dokuro Ring hidden elsewhere with a new mecha of their own making, they're stopped by Yatterwan, with the surplus energy given by the "Mecha Food" supplied by Ai-chan, and they're left tattered and in rags to be punished by Dokurobee himself.

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* Based on On-chan, the television station HTB's mascot character, who has appeared in parades and various promotions for the station since 1997.

The clip was created by the Japanese animation studio Gonzo and director Soejima Yasufumi. The video's executive producer, Joey Goubeaud of Amusement Park Media, coordinated the efforts between DREAM THEATER and Gonzo.

According to a posting on ANN, the band based the song on Ivan Turgenev's "Phantoms", a short story about an enigmatic woman who haunts a man as he travels the world. However, instead of the 19th century setting of the short story, the band agreed with Soejima's decision to place the music video in a future science-fiction setting. Soejima said the video's male lead is an innocent man abandoned and jailed by an "inhumane world." The female lead (who is described as "an apparition, a restless soul, an evil spirit, a sylphide, a vampire" or something else entirely in Turgenev's story) is "an android that was made as the toy of [an] ancient regime."

Yumehara Nozomi and her friends are back! The girls who had formerly lost their powers and bade farewell to their friends Coco and Nuts from Palmier Kingdom are resurrected as Pretty Cure by the mysterious woman Flora who also wants them to find her in a place called Cure Rosegarden. To go there, they need the magic Rose Pact and the powers of the four kings of countries surrounding Palmier. But a dark organisation called Eternal is also striving to get to Cure Rosegarden by stealing the Rose Pact. Luckily, Precure get helped by new allies: the delivery-boy Syrup who can change into a giant bird and fly them anywhere they want and the mysterious and beautiful fighter Milky Rose stand alongside Pretty Cure to protect what is really valuable.

A new generation of super heroes full of gags and imagination. They can transform together into a a large super hero called Zet Ranger who protects the city against villains. Albeit they're more like troublemakers.

Source: MAL

The origins are shown of Lena Sayers — the mother of Yumemiya Arika and former bearer of Lofty Crimson Jade / Blue Sky Sapphire (Souten no Seigyoku) GEM; and Sifr Fran — the biological mother of Nina Won and the former queen of Windbloom Kingdom; as well as the origins of Schwartz, Aswad, and the Garderobe Academy and its Five Columns.

The kidnapping of Sifr and the powerful revelation of Lena's GEM will soon fatefully determine their future and that of the others around them.

Source: ANN

On the day before the 765 Productions Fan Appreciation Event, each of the idols prepare to head home. However, Kisaragi Chihaya, uneasy about tomorrow's event, decides to have a last minute personal rehearsal. One thing leads to another as Chihaya, Miki and Haruka are dragged from one exciting situation to the next.

What is the truck driver's true destination? What is the secret behind the old house? And will the girls make it in time for the event?

Source: www.e-n-m.net/projects/imas_l4u

The movie begins with Fuyuki Hinata and the Keroro Platoon exploring an abandoned temple in the mountaintop city of Machu Picchu in Peru. While on the exploration, Keroro accidentally sets off a trap, and by chance they find a hidden chamber with a large blue crystal in the center, on a stand that has a key in it. Keroro leans on the key, causing the room to activate a mysterious machine, this caused the entire temple to shake. As soon as the group realized what was happening, they run out of the room. While running, Keroro accidentally loses his Kero Ball while Fuyuki catches a fleeting glimpse of a glowing young woman as he is running out, and tells Keroro that there was a girl in the room, but he is forced to leave the room before he can say anything else. The group successfully escapes, while the girl (now sprouting a pair of glowing wings) watches them leave - while back in the chamber, something is growing within the crystal...

This is the 3rd series of Catman from Aoike Ryosuke which has already won an award in animation contest overseas. The first two were never televised but were presented at Odaiba Land. The third series features on Fuji Television with a heavy in-show sponsorship from SoftBank. This show is also one of the few animations produced entirely in Flash.

Being that the show is named "Catman" naturally all the residents of the city in which the story takes place are anthropomorphic cat-people. The show follows the main character, Catman, as he deals with some of the more difficult sides of this city. This show is rather unique in that there is no dialog in the show but is subtitled in both Japanese and English and features a rather lively soundtrack to help the show move along without the dialog.

After the 12 Gold Saints sacrifice their lives to destroy the Wailing Wall, The Bronze Saints enter the deepest realm of the Underworld, Elysion, where they face off aganist Hades's two most powerful servants: The Twin Gods, Hypnos and Thanatos, before they can reach Hades for the final battle.

Killed by a landmine, a soul of a young peasant Taro rose up to the celestial world where he found love with an angelic beauty. Reincarnated without losing the memory of his previous life, one day Taro meets a girl with a striking resemblance of his celestial lover... and this coincidence throws Taro's fate into a completely different path altogether... The first Masalanimation ever, an exotic mix of animation with Masala flavour!

The life story of Jodou Shinshuu founder Shinran.