Fall 2006

In the distant future, the Union fights a war so old that no one remembers how it began, relying on manned weapons called Strains that only specially linked pilots can control. Sara Werec attends a military academy with one goal: become a Strain pilot and follow the path of her admired older brother Ralph, a celebrated soldier sent to a distant front years earlier.That dream shatters when Ralph suddenly appears as an enemy and leads an attack that destroys Sara's life and everything she believed about him. Forced to start over in a new unit, she forms a connection with an unusual older Strain and comrades who know nothing of her past. As the war continues, Sara must uncover why her brother betrayed humanity and decide whether she will remain trapped by the name she lost or find a new reason to fight.

In a quiet backstreet of Ginza stands Eden Hall, a small bar run by Ryuu Sasakura, a bartender famous for preparing exactly the drink the person before him needs. His customers do not arrive merely looking for alcohol. Each carries a regret, a difficult choice, or a private burden they have been unable to resolve, and often it feels as though the bar itself finds them at the right moment. Ryuu listens more than he speaks, then selects every ingredient with care, creating a cocktail that gives his guest room to remember something forgotten or look at a problem differently. There is a story behind every glass, and beneath Ryuu's calm mastery lies one simple question: what drink can give this tired soul a moment of peace?

Tsunayoshi Sawada is a hopeless middle schooler: bad at studying, bad at sports, and far too timid to approach his crush, Kyouko Sasagawa. His ordinary failures take a bizarre turn when Reborn appears, a tiny child who claims to be a professional hitman sent by Italy’s powerful Vongola Mafia family.Reborn is not there to fix Tsuna’s grades. His mission is to train him as the Vongola’s 10th boss. Between “Dying Will” bullets, eccentric new allies, and enemies who are very real, Tsuna is dragged deeper into a world he never wanted. Yet every crisis reveals that the boy everyone dismisses as a loser may have far more courage when someone else needs protecting.

After seven years away, Yuichi Aizawa returns to the snowy town where he once spent his childhood holidays, moving in with his cousin Nayuki and her mother. Although the streets feel strangely familiar, nearly every memory of his earlier visits has vanished, leaving only vague unease and promises he can no longer recall.Yuichi encounters several girls whose lives are bound to that forgotten past, including the energetic Ayu, the mysterious Makoto, the distant Mai, and the frail Shiori. As he becomes involved in their troubles, memories begin to return, revealing miracles and losses that the quiet winter town has kept buried.

Britannia's conquest has stripped Japan of its name and turned it into Area 11, where the defeated population lives beneath an empire built on military power and rigid privilege. Lelouch Lamperouge appears to be an ordinary Britannian student, but he is actually an exiled prince who despises the empire and dreams of creating a safer world for his younger sister Nunnally.A chance encounter with a mysterious girl named C.C. gives Lelouch the Geass, an ability that can force absolute obedience from anyone he meets under the right conditions. He turns that power, his strategic mind, and a masked identity called Zero against Britannia. Every victory strengthens the rebellion, but every manipulation also pulls friends, family, and innocent people deeper into a war Lelouch believes only he can control.

In 1930s Shanghai, crime syndicates and foreign powers divide the city while ordinary people struggle beneath constant violence. Into this world returns Kasumi Kenshirou, a carefree-looking professor known in the underworld by a far more terrifying name: Yan Wang, the King of Death.Kenshirou is the 62nd successor of Hokuto Shinken, a lethal martial art, and his return draws him back into old loyalties and unfinished conflicts. To protect the people and promises he once left behind, he must confront gangsters, rival martial artists, and forces seeking control of a city already balanced on the edge of chaos.

Negi Springfield may be only ten years old, but he has already graduated from a magic academy and been sent to Japan for the next stage of his training: teaching English to a class of 31 girls at Mahora Academy. Keeping his identity as a wizard secret proves almost impossible when the sharp-tempered Asuna Kagurazaka discovers his magic.School life soon fills with enchanted accidents, strange creatures, and threats that cannot be solved with ordinary lessons. As Negi forms magical contracts with students willing to fight beside him, the young teacher must balance his duty to protect the class with his own search for the father whose footsteps he hopes to follow.

Brilliant high school student Light Yagami finds a notebook dropped into the human world by Ryuk, a bored god of death. Its rule is simple and horrifying: write a person's name while knowing their face, and that person dies. Light doubts it at first, then tests the notebook on criminals and discovers that its power is real. Rather than destroy it, he decides to purge crime and create the perfect society he imagines, while the public gives the unknown killer the name Kira.The unexplained deaths attract the attention of the mysterious detective L, who quickly concludes that Kira is a human being who can be found rather than an incomprehensible force. Their pursuit becomes a battle of deception, deduction, and predicting the opponent's next move. The more Light tries to protect his identity and expand his control, the more boundaries he is willing to cross, until his dream of justice becomes a struggle in which he alone decides who deserves to live and who must die.

The Millennium Earl offers grieving people the impossible chance to bring back someone they lost, then traps the returned soul inside a weapon called an Akuma. Fighting those weapons is the Black Order, an organization of Exorcists who can synchronize with a mysterious substance known as Innocence.Allen Walker arrives to join them after years of training under General Cross Marian. His left arm is an Anti-Akuma weapon, while a curse in his eye lets him see the human souls imprisoned inside the Earl's creations. That makes every battle personal: destroying an Akuma is also an act of release. As Allen forms bonds with other Exorcists and the Earl's Noah allies move openly against the Order, the struggle grows into a war over Innocence itself and the future of humanity.

Ash arrives in the Sinnoh region ready for a new step toward becoming a Pokémon Master, but his journey begins with Pikachu being separated from him during another Team Rocket attack. While searching, he meets Dawn, a novice Trainer who dreams of becoming a top Pokémon Coordinator, and reunites with his longtime companion Brock.Together they travel across Sinnoh through Gym battles and Pokémon Contests, while Ash develops a fierce rivalry with Paul, a talented Trainer whose ruthless philosophy clashes with everything Ash believes about partnership. Their adventures gradually draw them into Team Galactic's dangerous plans and toward the Sinnoh League where years of training will be tested.

A psychiatric laboratory develops the DC Mini, a small device that allows a therapist to enter another person’s dreams and observe them from within. Dr. Atsuko Chiba secretly uses the technology through the persona “Paprika,” a lively guide who moves through dream worlds with far more freedom than Atsuko’s reserved scientific self.When unfinished devices are stolen before their safety controls are complete, an unknown user begins invading minds and planting dreams that lead to obsession and breakdown. Soon the border between sleep and waking no longer behaves as it should, and impossible images start leaking into reality. With detective Konakawa, who has been receiving dream therapy, Atsuko enters a pursuit that cannot be contained to one place, because the enemy can escape into any sleeping mind.

Ryuta and his science-club friends learn that Thomas Edison once imagined a device capable of communicating with the dead. After a shaman delivers a message attributed to Edison, knowledge suddenly enters Ryuta's mind and allows him to construct the long-theorized spirit phone.Activating it opens a path beyond the physical world, drawing the friends through realms shaped by the lives and beliefs of the departed. Their scientific curiosity becomes a spiritual journey as they search for answers about death, judgment, and the fate of the human soul.

Dr. Yung invites Professor Oak, Ash, Misty, and their friends to his Mirage Mansion to demonstrate a system capable of creating Pokémon from digital data, including species long extinct. The technology seems astonishing until a Mirage Aerodactyl interrupts the demonstration and a masked figure calling himself the Mirage Master takes control.The Mirage Master intends to perfect artificial Pokémon without weaknesses, using accumulated battle data to push the system beyond its limits. With the mansion turned into a trap and powerful Mirage Pokémon standing in their way, Ash and the others must expose the person behind the mask and stop a creation that treats living Pokémon as nothing more than information to be combined.

While practicing magic, Nodoka and Yue discover a spell that appears to be the legendary Red String of Fate. Hoping to learn who destiny has chosen for her, Nodoka tries it and ends up physically tied to Negi by a magical red cord that cannot simply be cut.The timing could hardly be worse: Ayaka has invited the entire class to her family's new spa resort. With Negi and Nodoka forced to remain attached through every activity, an innocent experiment becomes an escalating romantic embarrassment where privacy, misunderstandings, and a supposedly relaxing trip refuse to coexist.