Fall 2000

On her fifteenth birthday, Kagome Higurashi is dragged into the ancient well at her family's shrine and emerges 500 years in the past, in a Japan where demons roam beside warring humans. She soon learns that the Shikon Jewel, a powerful object coveted by countless creatures, has been reborn inside her.When the jewel is shattered and its fragments scatter across the land, Kagome is forced into an uneasy partnership with Inuyasha, a half-demon whose past is tied to the shrine maiden Kikyo, a woman Kagome strangely resembles. Joined by Shippo, Miroku, and Sango, the pair set out to recover the shards before they are corrupted, while old grudges and hidden truths gradually turn their quest into something far more personal.

In a distant star system, men and women have lived on separate planets for generations, with their hostility growing into a literal war. Hibiki Tokai is a third-class worker from the male planet Taraak who sneaks aboard a military vessel to steal a machine, only for an attack by female pirates from Mejere to throw everything into chaos.When both ships are pulled through a wormhole into unknown space, a small group of men and women becomes stranded together aboard one vessel far from home. Fear and prejudice make cooperation nearly impossible, but a new alien enemy that does not care about their gender conflict forces them to learn quickly. As their machines begin combining into powerful new forms, both sides discover that much of what they were taught about the other was built on inherited myths rather than reality.

In autumn 1966, the Vietnam War casts a long shadow over Japan's Yokota Air Base. A series of suspicious deaths suggests that creatures capable of taking human form are hiding among the people there. Saya, a quiet teenage girl carrying a katana, is sent by a secretive organization to infiltrate the American school on the base and identify the monsters before they feed again.Saya is no ordinary student. She hunts the blood-drinking creatures with ruthless precision, but the crowded base makes it difficult to know who is human and who is only wearing a human face. As night falls and a Halloween celebration approaches, the hunt closes in on the school, forcing Saya to strike before the hidden predators can escape.

The Phoenix reflects on the meaning of a life that can endure beyond its own brief span. One story follows a family that misunderstands an elderly mother's constant demands for money, unaware that she has spent decades repaying the doctor who once saved her son's life.Her quiet sacrifice becomes a bridge to another story of devotion on a far greater scale: the transfer of Japan's capital to Heian, an enormous undertaking meant to give lasting life to a new city. Through both, love and human effort are measured not by their length, but by what they leave behind.

Black Jack encounters an elderly woman whose family sees only her relentless demands for money. Her son and daughter-in-law have grown resentful, convinced that her behavior is selfish and greedy, and their home has become a place of constant arguments.The truth is very different. Decades earlier, the woman borrowed an enormous sum to pay the doctor who saved her son’s life, and she has spent much of her own life repaying that debt in silence. When Black Jack reveals what her son never knew, the family is forced to measure years of frustration against a mother’s decision to value her child’s life above everything she possessed.

In an age-spanning struggle between spiritual order and rebellion, the fall of Satan into hell unleashes chaos upon Earth. El Cantare, regarded as the planet's supreme spiritual being, sends part of his spirit into the human world to oppose that darkness and guide humanity away from destruction.The conflict unfolds as a grand religious vision of Earth's spiritual history, tracing the battle between forces that seek harmony and those driven by pride, hatred, and domination.

Mitsuhiko lends Conan an enormous stack of Yaiba manga, and Conan reluctantly begins reading. Soon afterward, Kogoro Mouri is hired by the Mine family to guard a treasured sword after Kaitou Kid announces that he intends to steal it. At the dojo, Conan meets none other than Yaiba Kurogane himself.Conan and Yaiba join forces to protect the blade and expose Kid's scheme, but the case grows stranger with every turn. Familiar faces behave in impossible ways, the boundaries of Conan's world begin to bend, and even the great detective has reason to wonder whether this bizarre crossover can possibly be real.

Ash Ketchum leaves Pallet Town with an unruly Pikachu and a dream of becoming a Pokémon Master. His early journey through Kanto brings him together with Misty and Brock as he earns Gym Badges, encounters new Pokémon, and repeatedly crosses paths with Team Rocket.From his first difficult days with Pikachu to the challenges that shape him into a more capable Trainer, Ash's adventures across Kanto show how far both he and his partner have come since the morning they first left home.

An elite five-man UBCS team enters the devastated Raccoon City on a mission to locate Dr. Cameron, an Umbrella scientist missing amid the outbreak. Rodrigo, Roger, Klaus, Ed, and Norman follow her last known position to a food factory, moving through streets and buildings overrun by the infected.Inside the factory, the mission turns into a nightmare when a grotesque creature attacks the unit. The soldiers soon discover that the thing hunting them is tied to the scientist they were sent to rescue, and escaping Raccoon City may be far more complicated than finding a single missing person.