Summer 1985

Mai Kazuki longs to perform with her grandparents' Magic Carat troupe, but her stage skills are still too clumsy for the role she imagines. A mirror fairy named Topo grants her a bracelet that transforms her into the elegant eighteen-year-old magician Magical Emi and allows her to perform genuine magic.Emi's sudden success brings television fame to the family troupe, forcing Mai to protect a secret identity from her relatives and the boy she admires. As she improves her ordinary craft, she begins questioning whether borrowed supernatural power can truly fulfill her dream of becoming a magician through her own effort.

When Minky Momo and Yuu Morisawa meet, polite congratulations over their magical careers last only a moment before a friendly handshake turns suspiciously competitive. Neither girl is willing to back down, and the tiny rivalry escalates from arm wrestling to a full display of magical pride.Momo and Yuu transform into their glamorous alter egos and grow to gigantic proportions, trading spectacular attacks that cancel each other out while the city around them pays the price. With neither magical girl able to claim a clean victory, the showdown becomes less a battle for supremacy than an affectionate joke about two icons who are far too stubborn to let the other have the last word.

While the world watches a Choujin rugby match, Robin Mask is abducted by the forces of the Underground Space Emperor, Hydra King. Their real weapon is the Robin Memo, a record containing the weaknesses of Kinnikuman and the other Justice Choujin. With Robin as bait and their vulnerabilities exposed, Hydra King prepares an ambush designed to eliminate the heroes at once.Kinnikuman and his allies gather from across the world and head for Planet Hydra to rescue their friend. There, the information stolen from Robin turns every familiar strength into a liability, forcing the Justice Choujin to overcome opponents who already know exactly how to break them.

Ancient Babylonian tablets discovered in Manhattan point toward an impossible treasure: the original Tower of Babel, said to have been built from solid gold. Lupin follows the clues with Jigen and Goemon, but a powerful New York crime boss wants the same prize and is willing to kill for it.The hunt carries Lupin from America toward the Middle East while Zenigata pursues him with an unusual team of policewomen. At the center of the mystery is the elderly Rosetta, whose strange knowledge of Babylon may be the only reliable guide to a treasure that has survived for millennia.

Japan's best young footballers travel to Europe for a match against an all-star team assembled from the continent's strongest players. Tsubasa Ozora, Taro Misaki, Genzo Wakabayashi, Kojiro Hyuga, and their teammates quickly discover that their opponents possess speed, strength, and technique beyond anything they have faced at home.Led by stars such as Karl Heinz Schneider and Elle Sid Pierre, the European side has no intention of treating Japan as an equal. Injuries and the enormous difference in experience place the Japanese team under immediate pressure, but Tsubasa sees the match as the perfect chance to prove how far they have come. To compete on this stage, the players must combine the skills that once made them rivals into a single national team.

A movie about the fabulous mechanical city of Mechapolis sends Arale and the children of Penguin Village into a frenzy of wishing it were real. That very night, the children are mysteriously carried away and wake inside the city they had only just imagined.Mechapolis promises that every wish will come true until morning, which sounds perfect to Arale and her friends. In a place where impossible desires become reality without restraint, however, childish enthusiasm quickly creates the kind of mechanical chaos that only Penguin Village residents could enjoy.

Between the chaos of Uoodo and the next stage of his flight, Chirico Cuvie receives word from three former comrades of the Red Shoulder battalion. They have located Yoran Pailsen, the commander whose ruthless experiments and attempts to eliminate his own soldiers scarred all four men, and they intend to settle the debt with a direct assault.For Chirico, the raid carries another possibility: Pailsen may also lead him back to Fyana. What the veterans do not know is that Pailsen has joined forces with the secret society hunting Chirico, and a new Perfect Soldier named Ypsilon is being prepared under Fyana's care. Their personal revenge mission is therefore headed straight into the conspiracy that has already reshaped Chirico's life.

Momo's foster parents vanish during a flight and are traced to a remote island surrounded by international suspicion. When Momo follows, she finds a bizarre place where an unexplained force can make adults young again and where children live free from the rules of the grown-up world.The island's miracle attracts governments and spies who would rather control it than understand it, turning Momo's search for her parents into an escalating confrontation. Between absurd comedy and military tension, she must protect the people trapped in the struggle and uncover what the island's strange power truly means.

Jean-Paul Rochina, the man who once pursued Chirico Cuvie as the eyes of an unseen power, survives the destruction of Quent and looks back on the fugitive soldier's extraordinary path. His memories return to Uoodo, the jungles of Kummen, the wastelands of Sunsa, and Quent, where Chirico fought through war after war while searching for the truth behind Fyana and his own existence.As Gotho, Vanilla, Coconna, Fyana, and the many people drawn into Chirico's journey reappear in Rochina's recollections, one question refuses to fade: was Wiseman right to place its hopes in the most dangerous man in the Astragius Galaxy?

Chirico Cuvie begins as one more Armored Trooper pilot in the long war between Gilgamesh and Balarant. Everything changes during a secret operation on the asteroid Lido, where he sees a mysterious woman hidden inside a military facility. From that moment, the very army he served turns against him, and Chirico is dragged into a pursuit whose purpose he cannot yet understand.His search for the woman he comes to know as Fyana carries him through the ruined streets of Uoodo, the jungles and battlefields of Kummen, the wastelands of Sunsa, and finally the secrets buried on Quent. Looking back on that road himself, Chirico traces the battles, betrayals, and brief human bonds that transformed a nameless soldier into a man determined to discover why powerful forces have been manipulating his life.

Years after Yuu Morisawa gave up the magic that once let her become the idol Creamy Mami, she has moved on with her life and entered middle school. Then, without warning or intention, her body begins transforming into Mami again, reviving an identity that should have disappeared for good.At the same time, Parthenon Pro is preparing a science-fiction film starring Megumi Ayase and needs another actress. Yuu is drawn into the production as the mysterious transformations continue, but the returning magic is unstable. Caught between a movie role, old feelings, and a power she no longer controls, Yuu faces one last uncertain encounter with Creamy Mami.

Hosuke Sharaku may look like an ordinary boy while the bandage covers his forehead, but beneath it lies a third eye inherited from an ancient people. When uncovered, Sharaku's personality and intellect change dramatically, revealing powers and knowledge that can be as dangerous as the mysteries he is drawn toward.A strange humanoid bird and an old ship lead Sharaku, Wato, and Inspector Unmei into a voyage across the sea. Their investigation carries them toward bizarre islands and ancient ruins, where secrets connected to Sharaku's heritage wait beyond the horizon. The deeper they travel, the less their journey resembles a simple case and the more it becomes a confrontation with forces seeking ancient power for themselves.