Spring 1997

In 19th-century China, young Mao inherits an extraordinary instinct for cooking from his late mother, the celebrated “Fairy of Cuisine.” After proving his talent in a fierce culinary challenge, he is told that skill alone is not enough to carry on her legacy and sets out to learn from the finest kitchens across the country.Every city brings new ingredients, techniques, friends, and rivals, while cooking contests can decide reputations, livelihoods, and even control of respected restaurants. As Mao pursues the rank of Super Chef, his journey gradually leads him toward the dangerous Underground Cooking Society, whose members are willing to use food and power for far darker purposes.

Hajime Kindaichi may look like a lazy and disorganized high school student, but behind that appearance is the grandson of a legendary detective and a mind exceptionally suited to solving impossible crimes. Wherever Hajime goes with his childhood friend Miyuki Nanase, elaborate murders and seemingly supernatural mysteries have an alarming habit of following.With Inspector Isamu Kenmochi often joining the investigation, Hajime confronts locked rooms, remote locations, masked killers, and carefully constructed alibis. No matter how frightening the legend surrounding a case may be, he refuses to stop until every trick is exposed and the human truth behind the crime is brought into the light.

Tenchi Masaki leaves his familiar home behind to study and train at a Shinto shrine in Tokyo. The distance should give him a chance to build an ordinary life, but it instead unsettles Ryoko, Ayeka, and the others, who are far from pleased by the thought of Tenchi living on his own.In Tokyo, Tenchi grows close to his classmate Sakuya Kumashiro, whose feelings for him become increasingly clear. As jealousy draws his old companions back into his life, mysterious forces begin pushing the group apart, turning Tenchi's new romance into part of a much larger threat to the bonds connecting them.

Satoshi turns 10 and is finally ready to begin his journey as a Pokémon Trainer, only to arrive late and discover that every standard starter has already been claimed. The only partner left is Pikachu, a stubborn Electric-type Pokémon that refuses to obey him or even stay inside its ball. Their relationship begins in constant conflict, until a real crisis creates the trust that will carry them across countless towns and regions. Alongside Kasumi and Takeshi, Satoshi collects Gym Badges and challenges powerful Trainers while the Team Rocket trio repeatedly tries to steal Pikachu. From the beginning, his goal is simple to say and far harder to achieve: become a Pokémon Master.

Ran Mouri invites Shinichi Kudou to the movies on his birthday, putting Conan Edogawa in an awkward position: he cannot appear as Shinichi without exposing his secret. Before he can solve that problem, a large quantity of explosives is stolen and an unknown bomber contacts Shinichi directly, challenging him with a chain of deadly traps scattered across Tokyo.Conan races from one explosive device to the next, using each clue to uncover the mind behind the attacks and the strange pattern linking the targets. As the deadline closes in and Ran herself is placed in danger, solving the culprit's motive becomes inseparable from preventing a catastrophe.

Shinnosuke's family is dragged into a battle between two strange clans after his baby sister Himawari accidentally swallows a small but immensely important object. The Tamayomi clan needs it to revive the evil Jarke, while the rival Tamayura group is determined to keep that from happening.Suddenly pursued by dangerous enemies, the Noharas flee across Japan with an eccentric trio from Tamayura and detective Yone Higashimatsuyama. What begins as another absurd family crisis turns into a frantic chase in which protecting Himawari may be the only thing standing between an ancient evil and the world.

Nello Daas is a poor but gifted young artist living outside Antwerp with his aging grandfather and their loyal dog Patrasche. He helps deliver milk to survive and treasures every chance to see the paintings of Rubens, dreaming of a life devoted to art even when poverty makes that dream seem impossible.His closest friend, Alois, is kept away by a father who considers Nello beneath her social class. When an art contest offers both prize money and a path into formal study, Nello pours his hope into one painting, but illness, accusation and loss close in around him. Through every hardship, Patrasche remains beside the boy who once saved his life.

A weak youth baseball team suddenly becomes unbeatable after Nezumi Otoko gets hold of a mysterious yōkai bat. The bat can send nearly any pitch flying, but its victories come with a hidden price: every use slowly drains the life of the player swinging it.Kitarou realizes the danger and warns the boys, yet the temptation to keep winning is difficult to abandon. To settle the matter, he challenges them to an eerie night game in a graveyard, where baseball rules collide with the supernatural and the cursed bat's true cost can no longer be ignored.

Nube's class welcomes Jun, a withdrawn new student whose love of clowns hides a lonely life. His closest companion appears to be Pierre, a clown he sees in a mirror, but what seems like an imaginary friend becomes far more disturbing when Pierre gives Jun a strange mask with supernatural power.Jun's behavior begins to change, and unexplained accidents spread through the school as midnight approaches. Nube senses that the mask is feeding something dangerous inside the boy. To save his student, the spirit teacher must uncover Pierre's true nature before the eerie game surrounding Jun claims a life.

The Doraemons receive a challenge from the mysterious master thief Dorapan, whose real target is the Friendship Telecards that bind the seven friends together. His elaborate scheme separates them and turns their trust in one another into the key weakness he intends to exploit.To protect the cards and uncover what Dorapan is truly planning, the Doraemons must rely on the very bond he is trying to steal. Gadgets, traps, and a contest of wits push them into a fast-moving confrontation where friendship proves far harder to take than any ordinary treasure.

After Suneo boasts about having a ranch, Nobita impulsively claims that he owns one too. By chance, Doraemon has won several seemingly useless planets in a lottery, and one of them turns out to be a vast, peaceful world that Nobita can reach through the Anywhere Door. It looks like the perfect place to make his lie come true.Using a gadget that gives motion and life to wind-up toys, Nobita and his friends populate the empty land and begin building a cheerful Clockwork City. Their private paradise soon becomes more complicated than a playground, however, as the living toys develop a world of their own and unexpected danger finds its way to the distant planet.

By the year 4999, humanity has transformed competition into spectacle on an interplanetary scale. The greatest female athletes gather at the University Satellite to train for the title of Cosmo Beauty, a distinction once held by the legendary Tomoe Midou.Her daughter, Akari Kanzaki, arrives carrying the weight of that famous name but very little confidence in her own ability. Surrounded by gifted rivals and demanding training, Akari must discover whether she is chasing her mother’s shadow or a dream that genuinely belongs to her. Becoming the best athlete in the solar system will require more than talent; she first has to believe she deserves to compete.

Tamahome has been reborn in the real world as Taka Sukunami and reunited with Miaka Yuuki, allowing the two to finally pursue the happiness they fought so hard to reach. Their peace is shattered by Ren Shigyou, a new student who manipulates Miaka's classmates and turns their resentment against the couple.An attack sends Miaka and Taka back into the Universe of the Four Gods, where they learn that a demonic force is behind the new turmoil. Worse, Taka's existence is beginning to fade. His memories as Tamahome have been sealed within seven jewels, and recovering them becomes a race against time that reunites the pair with old companions and old dangers.

Hajime Kindaichi lands in Kiyomasa General Hospital after eating himself sick, only to discover that Inspector Kenmochi is already investigating a mysterious death there. What begins as an unfortunate stay becomes a murder case when more violence follows and the shadow of a supposed "Death God" hangs over the hospital's staff, patients, and troubled past.As Kindaichi searches for the human logic behind the frightening image, old medical wrongdoing and a tragedy from three years earlier begin to surface. At the same time, Superintendent Akechi faces a separate puzzle aboard a cruise ship when the Gentleman Thief announces a theft. Both detectives must look past carefully staged appearances before another culprit slips away behind a convincing disguise.