Summer 1997

Tenchi's household is thrown into chaos when a teenage girl named Mayuka suddenly appears and calls him her father. Washuu's tests confirm an impossible result: Mayuka truly carries Tenchi's blood, suggesting that she has somehow come from a future that should not yet exist.While most of the family tries to welcome her, Ryouko senses that something about Mayuka is wrong. Her suspicion points toward a hidden force using the lonely girl for its own purpose, placing Tenchi and everyone around him in the path of a threat born from darkness and twisted affection.

Rainbow Prince and the Rainbow Children bring color to the skies with the mysterious Rainbow Ball. Baikinman covets its power, but his meddling brings an even greater disaster when the Sand Man appears and begins draining the Rainbow Star of its water and color.As the bright land turns into a desert and friends are transformed into stone pyramids, Anpanman and his companions race to restore the lost rainbows. Their hope rests on bringing water back to a world being swallowed by sand.

Baikinman gets hold of a magical brush and uses its power to unleash black ghosts that soil everything they touch, even threatening the bakery that keeps Anpanman fighting. With Anpanman in trouble, Currypanman has to step forward and confront the spreading mess before the town is swallowed by it.Elsewhere, Dokin-chan's jealousy over Shokupanman's popularity gives Baikinman another idea: a fake Shokupanman vehicle designed to lure the real hero inside and rampage through town under his name. Anpanman races to free his friend, but stopping the runaway impostor proves to be another challenge entirely.

After the death of someone close to him, Shinji Ikari has withdrawn so deeply into despair that he can barely act. While Gendo Ikari advances his own plan for Human Instrumentality, SEELE decides NERV has outlived its usefulness and launches a full military assault on the organization's headquarters.As soldiers cut through NERV's defenses, Asuka returns to Evangelion Unit-02 and fights desperately against SEELE's mass-produced Evangelions. Misato searches for Shinji while the world around them collapses, knowing that Unit-01 and the boy hiding from it may determine what happens to every human soul. The struggle between SEELE and Gendo reaches its final form, forcing Shinji to confront pain, isolation, and the terrifying possibility of a world without boundaries between people.

A summer trip takes Nube and his students to a small island, where an old resident warns them about a terrifying legend: a sea spider that becomes a man-eating monster after living for two centuries. The story sounds like another local superstition until Yukime decides to investigate it for herself.Soon, a mysterious girl appears on the beach and captivates Hiroshi, while Kyoko and Ritsuko are attacked under increasingly strange circumstances. As the incidents begin to match the old warning, Nube must uncover the girl's true nature and confront the supernatural danger lurking beneath the island's peaceful waters.

Kitarou encounters a phantom train linked to a growing disturbance among humans and youkai. What first appears to be another supernatural rumor soon draws him into a larger conflict, where resentment between the two worlds is being exploited and familiar enemies begin moving behind the scenes.As the mysterious express carries its passengers toward danger, Kitarou and his companions must uncover who is controlling the train and stop a scheme capable of turning old grudges into open war. The journey forces him to confront both hostile youkai and the fear humans still hold toward the unseen world.

Honey Kisaragi's school life is torn apart when Panther Claw abducts her scientist father. The device he leaves behind allows Honey to transform into the sword-wielding Cutie Honey, giving her the power to fight the organization and chase the truth behind his disappearance.

Prince Ashitaka protects his village from a raging boar possessed by a demonic force, killing it but receiving a curse that will eventually consume his body. He leaves home to find the source of the creature's hatred and a way to save himself, a journey that leads him to a thriving iron settlement ruled by Lady Eboshi.The town survives by clearing the forest and mining iron, placing it at war with the animal gods defending their land. Fighting for the forest is San, a human girl raised by wolves who despises humanity. Ashitaka finds compassion and cruelty on both sides and tries to halt a conflict in which each believes survival requires the other's destruction, even as his curse feeds on every new burst of hatred.

Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are close friends facing the painful prospect of being separated after graduation. Before they can decide what their future will look like, a strange creature named Mokona appears and Tokyo becomes the target of forces from the magical realm of Cephiro.Guided by Clef, the three girls awaken powers linked to mighty Mashin and are forced to defend the city they know from enemies who treat Earth as part of a larger magical struggle. Their familiar friendships remain at the center of the battle, even as this new Cephiro proves far darker and more dangerous than anything they expected.

A fake Lupin calling card lures Inspector Zenigata to a politician's party, where masked assassins suddenly launch a massacre. During the attack, Zenigata is shot by a Walther P38 that Lupin immediately recognizes as a weapon tied to his own past, giving the thief a personal reason to pursue the killers.The trail leads Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, and Fujiko to a hidden island controlled by the Tarantula assassins. Trapped by a poison that prevents the island's killers from escaping, Lupin joins dissidents who want freedom while searching for the truth behind the pistol, a betrayal from his earlier days, and the organization ruling the island.

Kenshin Himura leaves the peaceful life he built in Tokyo when Makoto Shishio's shadow spreads over Kyoto. Surrounded by allies old and new, Kenshin is forced to face warriors whose strength and convictions challenge the vow that has guided him since the end of his days as an assassin.As Shishio's Juppongatana close in and the conflict reaches its fiercest point, Sanosuke, Saitou, Kaoru, and the others each enter battles of their own. For Kenshin, stopping Shishio is more than defeating a dangerous enemy: it is a test of whether he can protect the new era without becoming the killer he once was.