Spring 2006

Sasami Iwakura was born with magical powers, yet a promise to her parents has kept her from using them openly. At the start of a new school term, she befriends the lonely Misao and is drawn into teacher Washu's seemingly ordinary cooking club, only to discover that it is secretly a place for girls like them to understand and control their magic.Sasami soon meets other young witches with abilities they have spent years hiding. As the girls train, travel to the world of magic, and grow closer to one another, their harmless club activities begin to place them near a larger conflict over how magical people should live alongside ordinary humans.

In a future where Duel Masters has evolved through an immersive virtual battle system, Teru Yumemi encounters Rei Kukami, a boy protecting a mysterious pendant known as the ARC. Hidden inside it is a powerful spirit that an organization called Nest is determined to seize.Teru's decision to help Rei draws him into a conflict far larger than ordinary card battles. As he trains and learns the new form of dueling, he must prove himself worthy of Rei's trust while Nest closes in on the ARC and the secret power it contains.

Black Jack's life as an unlicensed surgeon takes a personal turn when clues surrounding the explosion that scarred him as a child begin to connect. The accident killed his mother, but new evidence suggests that his family may have been caught in something far larger than random tragedy.Following the trail brings Black Jack into conflict with a secret organization and the mysterious Project Noir, a medical conspiracy linked to his estranged father and prominent doctors around the world. Each operation and encounter uncovers another fragment of the past, forcing the surgeon who trusts no institution to confront a mystery rooted in his own blood.

Shuurei Kou was born into a noble family with an empty treasury and an inconvenient ambition: she wants to serve her country as a government official, a career women are not permitted to pursue. She supports her household through odd jobs until the imperial court offers her an unusually well-paid assignment. For six months, she must enter the palace as consort to the young emperor Ryuuki Shi and persuade him to start governing seriously.Shuurei discovers that Ryuuki's reputation hides more than simple laziness, and her practical intelligence begins changing both the emperor and the people around him. Palace factions, family histories, and political expectations soon turn a temporary job into a path toward the public life she always wanted. To walk it, Shuurei must challenge rules older and stronger than one careless ruler.

Kyou Sogoru believes he is an ordinary high school swimmer in the peaceful seaside city of Maihama. Then Shizuno Misaki pulls him into another reality, where he pilots a Zega in a desperate war fought by Cerebrum against the Gards-orm.The deeper Kyou becomes involved, the less his everyday world makes sense. Memories conflict, deaths refuse to behave as they should, and the boundary between physical reality and digital existence begins to collapse. To protect the people he loves, Kyou must uncover what happened to humanity and decide what it means to keep living when even his own existence may not be what he believed.

Coffy is a cheerful schoolgirl who also happens to be an ancient kofun burial mound, surrounded by classmates and neighbors who are equally unusual archaeological monuments. Their ordinary concerns about school, friendship, romance, and popularity collide constantly with the fact that their bodies are tombs filled with history.Everyday youth comedy turns absurd when ancient burial customs and modern teenage life occupy the same neighborhood, letting Coffy and her friends treat Japan's distant past with the casual drama of a school day.

Ray was raised in a facility that treated children as living supplies for organ transplants. Her eyes had already been taken when the renegade surgeon Black Jack rescued her and gave her extraordinary artificial replacements capable of seeing through the human body. Ten years later, Ray has become a gifted surgeon able to perform procedures few others would even attempt.Medicine is only half of her purpose. Every case brings her closer to the question that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the other children, and who was truly behind the place that stole her body and her past? Moving between dangerous operations and a private investigation, Ray turns the gift born from her tragedy into a weapon for finding the truth.

Four princesses from the netherworld move to the human world in search of a new place to live: Uma, a cheerful witch in training; energetic werewolf Liru; vain vampire Pachira; and gentle android Aiko. Their greatest problem is that they understand almost nothing about ordinary human life, so even the simplest daily activity becomes an experiment that goes wrong.Food, money, clothing, romance, and modern conveniences all become fresh challenges as the girls try to adapt without losing their supernatural personalities. Each possesses powers that would be impressive in another setting, yet none of them is especially useful against prices, dating, or basic misunderstandings. Their new life becomes a chain of small disasters proving that living like humans may be harder than any magic.

Motorized skates known as Air Trecks have swept through Japan and created an underground world of riders called Storm Riders. Itsuki “Ikki” Minami is a reckless street fighter who rarely backs down, but a humiliating defeat at the hands of one gang exposes him to an entire culture that has been racing above his head. When he finds a pair of Air Trecks connected to the legendary Sleeping Forest team, Ikki tries them and discovers the feeling he has always wanted: reaching heights other people cannot. Entering street races and team battles, he begins building a crew and a reputation of his own, with his eyes fixed on a sky he has no intention of leaving to anyone else.

Haruhi Fujioka enters the wealthy Ouran Academy on scholarship and cares far more about books than the luxurious lives of her classmates. Searching for a quiet room to study, she accidentally walks into the Host Club, where six attractive boys spend their afternoons entertaining the school’s female students.When Haruhi breaks an expensive vase she cannot repay, the club decides she can work off the debt by becoming a host herself. With short hair and simple clothes, most students already assume she is a boy, and the club quickly discovers she is naturally good at attracting customers. Between the theatrical Tamaki, the mischievous twins, and the rest of the eccentric hosts, Haruhi enters a world of parties, performances, and class differences, with her practical view of people often the only thing keeping the club grounded.

Keiichi Maebara moves to the small village of Hinamizawa in the summer of 1983 and quickly finds a close circle of friends in Rena, Mion, Satoko, and Rika. Their days appear idyllic until the annual Watanagashi festival approaches and Keiichi learns about a series of murders and disappearances that have occurred around the same night in previous years.Each incident is linked to the curse of the local god Oyashiro, yet Keiichi’s friends refuse to discuss the subject and behave as though asking questions is dangerous. Suspicion begins poisoning his trust, turning familiar gestures into possible threats. But what is happening in Hinamizawa is larger than one boy’s paranoia. As the festival draws near, tragedy returns with the unsettling certainty of a village trapped inside a summer that does not know how to end.

A badly injured man awakens in a remote village with no memory of his name or past. Eruruu and her family take him in and call him Hakuoro, but one thing immediately sets him apart from the villagers around him: an unusual mask is fixed to his face and cannot be removed.Hakuoro gradually finds a place among the people who saved him, only for the cruelty of those ruling the land to threaten their quiet lives. What begins as a fight to protect one village grows into rebellion and war, forcing Hakuoro into a role of leadership he never sought. As nations move and old powers awaken, the truth behind his mask and forgotten identity becomes increasingly difficult to ignore.

After aliens known as the Amanto conquer Japan and reduce the shogunate to a puppet government, swords are banned and the samurai lose their place in an Edo transformed by strange technology. Gintoki Sakata still carries a wooden sword and stubbornly lives by his own idea of what a samurai should be.He runs Yorozuya, an odd-jobs business willing to accept nearly any request for money, alongside Shinpachi Shimura, the superhumanly strong Kagura, and eventually the enormous dog Sadaharu. A day may begin with finding a pet or collecting a debt and end in a fight with gangs, officials, or aliens. Beneath the absurdity and jokes, Gintoki carries a wartime past that explains why he clings to samurai values in a world that declared their era over.

Akari Mizunashi continues training as an Undine in the tranquil canals of Neo-Venezia alongside Aika and Alice. Although the three girls belong to rival companies, their friendship turns lessons, gondola practice, and encounters with customers into shared opportunities to grow.The city itself remains their greatest teacher. Hidden corners, seasonal traditions, mysterious coincidences, and the people they meet reveal new sides of Neo-Venezia, reminding Akari that becoming a Prima is not only about mastering a gondola, but also about learning to notice the small miracles that make every journey memorable.