Winter 2009

Love Momozono is a cheerful middle-school student who becomes inspired to dance after watching the famous group Trinity. Her ordinary life changes when agents of the parallel world Labyrinth begin harvesting human misery, and a mysterious power allows Love to transform into Cure Peach.Her friends Miki Aono and Inori Yamabuki soon awaken as Cure Berry and Cure Pine, joining Love in the fight to protect their city. Between dance practice, friendship, and battles against Labyrinth's monsters, the girls search for the legendary Infinity while learning that happiness grows strongest when it is shared.

Tokyo is still reeling from the Ryunka disaster when the alien fugitives responsible for the catastrophe hide on Earth. Space Federation officer Birdy Cephon Altera, still sharing one body with high school student Tsutomu Senkawa, is ordered to track them down while the two struggle to keep their unusual double life functioning.The hunt takes a darker turn when someone begins killing the fugitives before Birdy can capture them. As the mysterious assassin's trail starts touching Birdy's own past, she is forced to confront memories she would rather leave buried while trying to stop another cycle of violence.

Yoichi Karasuma has mastered the sword after spending all seventeen years of his life training with his father in the mountains. His father decides that what Yoichi lacks now is not combat skill, but experience with people and the modern world, and sends him to continue training at the Ikaruga family dojo in the city. There, Yoichi moves in with four sisters who are unlike anyone he has ever known. He speaks like a samurai from another age, understands almost nothing about everyday technology or social boundaries, and stumbles into one misunderstanding after another. Between rival martial artists and problems no sword can solve, Yoichi discovers that ordinary city life may be the hardest training he has ever faced.

Takashi Natsume has spent his life seeing yōkai that remain invisible to most people. With the powerful Madara, usually disguised as the round cat Nyanko-sensei, at his side, he continues returning the names his grandmother Reiko bound into the Book of Friends.Some yōkai approach him with gratitude, others covet the book's power, and many carry memories that reveal pieces of Reiko's lonely past. Each encounter teaches Natsume more about the beings he once feared and the humans he is slowly learning to trust, drawing him toward a life where the two worlds do not have to remain completely separate.

Another year passes in the Minami household, but Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki remain delightfully themselves. Between school, meals, visitors, and sibling squabbles, ordinary days keep turning into conversations and misunderstandings only the three sisters could create.Surrounded by familiar friends and neighbors, the sisters continue growing up without losing the comfortable rhythm of home that makes even their smallest moments memorable.

Tayo and the little buses take their first steps into life around the city, learning how to drive their routes, follow traffic rules, and work alongside one another. Their early adventures establish the friendships and small mistakes that will shape the cheerful young buses as they learn what it means to serve the passengers who depend on them.

A plea for help reaches Kitarou from Hana Kazamatsuri, a girl surrounded by disturbing incidents. Before he can reach her, the mirror yokai Kagamijii drags Hana into a reflected world, scatters Kitarou's companions across Japan, and traps Kitarou himself where his usual powers are stripped away.Escaping the mirror is only the beginning. The ancient Yatonokami, once sealed by Enma, is awakening, and Hana is connected to its return. As the balance between the human and yokai worlds begins to collapse, Kitarou must protect her while yokai from across all 47 prefectures gather for a battle that threatens the whole of Japan.

During winter break at Reien Girls' Academy, students begin losing memories to unseen fairies. Apprentice mage Azaka Kokutou is sent to investigate, but her inability to perceive the creatures forces her to work with Shiki Ryougi, whose Mystic Eyes can cut what Azaka cannot even see.Jealous of Shiki's closeness to her brother Mikiya, Azaka resents the partnership from the start. Yet the stolen memories conceal a deeper crime within the academy, and the two women must overcome their rivalry before the magician behind the fairies erases the truth completely.

A mysterious pair attacks Rukia Kuchiki inside Seireitei and steals her memories. The effects spread far beyond Rukia herself: the Soul Reapers forget that she ever existed, and even Ichigo briefly loses his memories of the person who first gave him Soul Reaper powers.With Kon's help, Ichigo remembers and returns to Soul Society in search of Rukia, only to discover that his former allies no longer recognize him. Forced to fight people who once stood beside him, he follows the traces of Rukia's forgotten past toward the two attackers who took her away. The closer he gets, the clearer it becomes that restoring her memories may mean confronting a bond Rukia herself buried long ago.

Haruhi Suzumiya is smaller than usual but no less determined to bend reality around her whims. She drags Kyon and the SOS Brigade into reckless schemes, while Mikuru panics, Koizumi embraces every absurd role, and Yuki secretly reveals an unexpected enthusiasm for games and popular culture.The supernatural mysteries surrounding the group give way to rapid parody and exaggerated chaos. Even familiar events become unrecognizable once Haruhi-chan decides that an ordinary day is unacceptable.

Churuya has one great weakness: smoked cheese. The promise of even a small piece is enough to send her charging into almost any task, usually while Kyon and the others quietly take advantage of her enthusiasm.No matter how many schemes, misunderstandings, or disappointments stand between her and her favorite snack, Churuya keeps trying with the same cheerful determination. Unfortunately for her, smoked cheese always seems to remain just out of reach.

In a world where countries exist as people, Germany tries to manage his alliance with North Italy and Japan through wars and political conflicts that rarely proceed with the seriousness he expects. Italy is friendly, obsessed with pasta, and eager to flee danger whenever possible, while Japan is calm and practical but still struggling to understand the odd habits of his allies. Across from them stand the Allied nations, including America, England, France, Russia, and China, whose old disagreements can make cooperation a battle of its own. Historical events and international relationships become short comic encounters that imagine what global politics might look like if the countries themselves were the ones arguing, befriending one another, and losing patience around the table.

After finally escaping the cycle of tragedy that trapped Hinamizawa, Rika Furude is beginning to accept that an ordinary future with her friends may truly be possible. Their newfound peace still leaves room for bizarre comic trouble, but a sudden accident throws Rika into a far more unsettling situation.She awakens in a seemingly perfect Hinamizawa where the terrible events she remembers never happened and the people she lost are alive. Yet Keiichi is absent, old relationships are completely different, and returning to the world she fought for requires a painful choice. Rika must decide what makes a life truly hers when even an ideal world can demand an unbearable price.

Viral desperately wants a good night's sleep, but rest refuses to come easily. Every time he drifts off, another disturbing dream jolts him awake, turning a simple attempt to sleep into a ridiculous battle against his own imagination. For once, the fierce Beastman warrior's greatest enemy may be the nightmares waiting behind his closed eyes.