Winter 2001

Doremi, Hazuki, and Aiko are given another chance to pursue witchhood, but returning to magic comes with strict conditions. Several witches remain unconvinced that the girls deserve their place, forcing them to face a new set of tests while continuing to help others through the MAHO-do shop.Their circle grows when Momoko Asuka, a cheerful transfer student from New York and an experienced witch apprentice, joins them. Her talent for making sweets brings a fresh direction to the shop, while differences in language and culture create both confusion and friendship as the girls work together to prove how much they have grown.

Baki Hanma has been raised with one purpose: become strong enough to surpass his father Yuujirou, the man feared as the strongest creature alive. His mother Emi pours her ambitions into his training, but Baki eventually realizes that the path laid out for him will never be enough to reach the monster he is chasing.He leaves conventional training behind and begins seeking opponents who can force him past his limits. Street fighters, martial artists, soldiers, and champions each expose another weakness and another lesson. As Baki's body grows stronger, his battles also reshape his understanding of courage, rivalry, and the complicated love and hatred tying him to the father he intends to defeat.

Rid Hershel, Farah Oersted, Keel Zeibel, and Meredy have already gathered three Greater Spirits in their quest to prevent the Grand Fall. Their route toward Mount Farlos is interrupted when the bounty hunter Marone Blucarno kidnaps Rid and draws the group toward the remote Belcarnu Archipelago.What should have been a detour becomes an extended stay filled with unfamiliar people, rivalries, and hidden danger. As the companions search for a way forward, they discover that the islands conceal a threat to Inferia urgent enough to rival the catastrophe they were already trying to stop.

For Takao Kinomiya, Beyblade is more than a passing game; it is the arena in which he wants to prove himself. His battles eventually bring him together with Kai, Rei, and Max, despite their clashing personalities and different ideas about what victory means.With technical help from the brilliant Kyouju, they improve their equipment and learn to control the powerful Bit-Beasts dwelling within their Beyblades, turning competition into something far more intense than spinning tops. As the Bladebreakers, the team advances from local opponents to rivals around the world, discovering that winning depends as much on trust between teammates as on individual strength.

As graduation approaches, Takumi Fujiwara is offered a place in Ryousuke Takahashi's new racing project, but he is not ready to decide what role street racing should have in his future. Before answering, Takumi wants to settle unfinished business, beginning with a rematch against Kyouichi Sudou and his Lancer Evolution.New challengers force Takumi to confront the limits of both his driving and his understanding of himself. At the same time, his complicated relationship with Natsuki reaches a turning point. By the end of winter, the races are no longer simply about defending Akina; they are pushing Takumi toward a choice about the racer he wants to become.

Black Jack is an unlicensed surgeon whose skill borders on the miraculous and whose fees can be as shocking as the operations he accepts. Patients seek him when ordinary medicine has failed them, bringing not only impossible injuries and illnesses but also secrets that complicate every decision he makes.Behind his cold bargaining and mysterious past, Black Jack judges each case by standards that rarely match those of hospitals, families, or society. His extraordinary surgeries expose greed, devotion, prejudice, and sacrifice, forcing the people around him to confront what a human life is truly worth.

Winter brings a trio of small adventures for Pikachu and the other Pokémon. A delivery involving Delibird quickly becomes troublesome, a snowy day inspires the creation of an unusually familiar Snorlax-shaped snowman, and the Pichu Brothers find themselves caught in another commotion in the city.Snow, gifts, and holiday excitement keep turning simple moments into lively problems, but the Pokémon face each mishap together and make the most of their winter vacation.

Five years after Musashi Tomoe sacrificed himself to stop the Dinosaur Empire, humanity believes the ancient enemy has been defeated. The Saotome Laboratory has since developed Neo Getter Robo, a machine that avoids Getter Rays, but its new team is still incomplete when the Dinosaur Empire suddenly rises again.Hayato Jin recruits the fearless street fighter Go Ichimonji to pilot Neo Getter, only for the returning enemy to reveal power beyond the machine's limits. With Earth once again facing extinction, the team turns toward the forbidden weapon left behind from the previous war: Shin Getter Robo, whose overwhelming Getter energy may be humanity's only answer.

Imaginative orphan Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables expecting a new home, only to discover that Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had intended to adopt a boy. Her fiery temper, endless imagination, and habit of turning ordinary moments into grand adventures quickly make life in quiet Avonlea much less predictable.As the years pass, Anne grows through friendships, rivalries, school triumphs, painful mistakes, and an ever-deepening bond with the people who gave her a family. Her childhood dreams gradually meet the responsibilities of adulthood, and when loss changes the future she had planned, Anne must decide what matters most and whether a different dream can be just as meaningful.

Tatsuya Uesugi leaves Japan for the United States, determined to discover what baseball means to him rather than continue living in the shadow of his brother. He joins the Emeralds, a struggling minor-league team, where raw conditions and unfamiliar teammates force him to rebuild his identity as a pitcher from the ground up.Back in Japan, Minami Asakura has stepped away from rhythmic gymnastics and is searching for a direction of her own. A photograph of her final performance draws her toward photography and a new kind of future. Separated by an ocean, Tatsuya and Minami each begin moving beyond the dreams others once associated with them, wondering where their paths will eventually meet again.

Tom Sawyer's quiet life beside the Mississippi is repeatedly interrupted by adventures of his own making. With Huckleberry Finn at his side, he skips responsibilities, explores caves, searches for treasure, and turns childhood dares into experiences far more dangerous than either boy expected.When Tom witnesses a crime and later becomes trapped underground with Becky Thatcher, his playful courage is tested by real fear. The friendships, discoveries, and mistakes of one lively summer gradually teach him what it means to act bravely when other people depend on him.

Mewtwo and the cloned Pokémon have found a secluded place in Johto where they can live beyond the eyes of humans. Their refuge is discovered by Giovanni, who still sees Mewtwo as Team Rocket property and arrives with the technology needed to force the powerful Pokémon back under his control.Satoshi and his friends are caught in the operation after crossing paths with Team Rocket. As the clones are used to pressure Mewtwo into surrendering, the conflict reopens the question that has haunted it since birth: whether a life created by humans can choose its own purpose and its own place in the world.

Nello lives a poor but gentle life in the Flemish countryside with his grandfather and his loyal dog Patrasche. Gifted with a love of drawing, he dreams of becoming an artist, but poverty, misunderstanding, and repeated misfortune steadily close the doors around him.His friendship with Alois and his devotion to Patrasche remain sources of warmth as hardship deepens. Through the seasons, Nello's simple wish to see the paintings he admires becomes inseparable from a heartbreaking story about dignity, loyalty, and a child whose kindness survives even when the world offers little in return.

Anpanman and his friends are preparing a cheerful Christmas performance when Baikinman interferes with the festivities. A story about the fearsome Black Snow Princess stops being harmless make-believe after a magical mirror is broken and the real princess is released.Black snow begins freezing the celebration and everyone caught in it, leaving Cream Panda and his companions to gather what is needed to restore the mirror. With Rollpanna's help and the Christmas show in danger of disappearing beneath the cold, the friends must turn the story back toward a happy ending.