Winter 2010

Tsubomi Hanasaki loves flowers but struggles to speak up for herself. Hoping that a move to a new town will let her become more confident, she instead finds two fairies, Chypre and Coffret, fleeing enemies who seek to wither the Heart Flowers that represent people's feelings.When danger reaches her new friend Erika Kurumi, Tsubomi transforms into Cure Blossom and enters the fight against the Desert Apostles. Erika soon becomes Cure Marine, and the two girls begin protecting both the mysterious Heart Tree and the hearts of those around them. For Tsubomi, every battle is also a chance to change herself and discover a courage she never knew she had.

Shichika Yasuri lives in isolation and practices Kyotouryuu, a fighting style that turns the user's own body into a blade. Strategist Togame arrives with a request: help her collect 12 legendary Deviant Blades forged by master smith Shikizaki Kiki, each now held by someone unwilling to surrender it. Shichika agrees less out of loyalty to the shogunate than because Togame interests him, and the two cross Japan together. Every encounter tests his weaponless style, while the journey forces them to rely on each other more than expected. Collecting the swords gradually becomes far more complicated than simply defeating their owners.

Shinichi Chiaki is gaining recognition as the principal conductor of the Roux-Marlet Orchestra, while Megumi “Nodame” Noda continues her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. Their paths, once closely intertwined, begin to move at different speeds. Chiaki’s success and his work with the gifted Rui Son leave Nodame increasingly afraid that she is being left behind.Determined to force her own career forward, Nodame enters a piano competition despite Professor Auclair’s advice. Around them, Rui questions her confidence, Stresemann confronts the limits of his age, and their friends face decisive moments of their own. For Chiaki and Nodame, music is no longer only a shared dream: it becomes the test of whether they can grow as artists without losing what brought them together.

Yuno has grown more comfortable with life at Hidamari Apartments, but the arrival of first-year students Nori and Nazuna gives her a new role. Instead of being the newcomer who needs guidance, she can now help two younger neighbors settle into their unfamiliar surroundings.Between art classes, meals, baths, festivals, and the spontaneous ideas of Miyako, the residents continue turning ordinary days into warm memories. Hiro and Sae remain close by as the group changes little by little, preserving the easy friendship that makes Hidamari feel like home.

Mikado Ryuugamine moves to Ikebukuro searching for a more exciting life and gets his wish almost immediately when he sees the Black Rider, an urban legend said to race through the streets on a dark motorcycle without a head.Celty, the rider herself, is only one of the strange people bound together by the district: an information broker who manipulates everyone around him, a man with unnatural strength, anonymous youth gangs, and students hiding identities even their closest friends do not know. Their stories begin as separate incidents and gradually collide through internet rumors, violence, and supernatural secrets. With every new connection, Mikado learns that Ikebukuro offers all the excitement he wanted, but it is a city that rarely allows anyone to remain a harmless observer for long.

On his sixteenth birthday, Yuuto Amakawa loses the charm that has hidden him from the supernatural world and is immediately attacked by an ayakashi seeking revenge for the sins of his demon-slaying ancestors. He is rescued by Himari, a sword-wielding cat spirit who declares that protecting the heir of the Amakawa family is her duty.Yuuto has little desire to continue his family's tradition of killing ayakashi, especially after meeting supernatural beings who are nothing like the monsters described in old stories. With Himari, his childhood friend Rinko, and an expanding circle of strange companions around him, he searches for a way to end conflict rather than repeat it. Some enemies, however, have no interest in peace, and his family's past is closing in faster than he can ignore it.

The continent of Mirisha suffers under the tyranny of Dong Zhuo Zaku, whose rule has plunged its people into fear. Liu Bei Gundam, Guan Yu Gundam, and Zhang Fei Gundam rise as volunteer warriors and challenge Dong Zhuo's forces in the name of those who can no longer defend themselves.After a fierce clash with General Hu Zhen Gyan leaves the trio in danger, they are rescued by a young boy living in a hidden mountain village. Their encounter becomes another step in a much larger struggle to free Mirisha from oppression and restore justice to a land consumed by war.

A mysterious stone carving that looks exactly like Keroro arrives at Fuyuki's home, sending the Keroro Platoon and the Hinata siblings to Easter Island in search of an explanation. There they meet the twins Io and Rana, gentle spirits known as Mana, and legends surrounding an ancient being called Akuaku.When Akuaku awakens, the island's strange power becomes a threat that the visitors cannot ignore. The platoon is forced into a battle involving ancient mysteries, time and space, and an enemy capable of turning Keroro himself into something far more dangerous than his usual incompetent invader.

In mid-December, Kyon and the other members of the SOS Brigade are preparing for the Christmas party Haruhi Suzumiya has planned. Only days later, Kyon arrives at school to find reality completely altered: Haruhi and Itsuki Koizumi are missing, Mikuru Asahina has never met him, Yuki Nagato is an ordinary shy girl, and Ryouko Asakura has returned to class as though nothing ever happened.Kyon is the only person who remembers the previous world, and almost no evidence remains that the SOS Brigade ever existed. As he searches for the cause and a route back to the reality he knew, he receives a choice he never expected to have: accept a quiet world without aliens, time travelers, and the supernatural disturbances he complained about for so long, or risk everything to restore the chaos and the people he realizes too late he does not want to lose.

Crafty Gecko and General Tiger invade Goat Village with mechanical soldiers and transform the area into an amusement park under their control. They capture the goats and wolves alike, even threatening to turn Grey Wolf's castle into a humiliating public facility.Pleasant Goat and Grey Wolf escape and reluctantly join forces to recover legendary statues linked to their ancestors. Their search through traps and enemy machines tests whether lifelong rivals can trust one another long enough to rescue both families.

The Fifth Holy Grail War drags Shirou Emiya into a lethal contest between magi and the heroic spirits they summon. He forms an uneasy alliance with Rin Toosaka and her Servant Archer, hoping to survive while holding onto his ideal of becoming a hero who saves everyone.That ideal becomes the heart of the conflict when Archer's true connection to Shirou is revealed. Their clash turns the war into more than a struggle for the Grail: Shirou must decide whether a dream can remain worth pursuing even after he is shown exactly where it may lead.

Nanoha Takamachi is an ordinary elementary-school girl until she rescues an injured ferret who is actually Yuuno Scrya, a mage from another world. Twenty-one dangerous Jewel Seeds have scattered across Earth, and Yuuno entrusts Nanoha with the intelligent Device Raising Heart so she can help seal them before their unstable power causes catastrophe.Nanoha soon discovers that she is not the only mage searching for the seeds. Fate Testarossa pursues them with relentless desperation on behalf of her mother, placing the two girls on opposite sides of repeated magical battles. Yet Nanoha senses loneliness behind Fate's hostility and becomes determined not merely to defeat her, but to understand the heart she keeps hidden.

Paradox, a duelist from the future, travels through time stealing legendary monsters and corrupting them into his own deck. After taking Yusei Fudo's Stardust Dragon, he targets Jaden Yuki and then travels farther into the past to kill Maximillion Pegasus before Duel Monsters can shape history.Yusei and Jaden pursue him and join Yugi Muto, uniting three generations of duelists for one battle. To restore the stolen monsters and prevent entire timelines from disappearing, they must overcome an opponent who has turned the history of their game into a weapon.

Coffy lives like a fairy-tale heroine trapped in a miserable home, enduring the selfish demands of Daniel and her family. When Prince Charles announces a grand dance where he will choose a bride, Coffy longs to attend but is deliberately kept away.With the logic of a cemetery world replacing ordinary fairy-tale magic, Coffy's path to the ball becomes a bizarre version of Cinderella filled with tumuli, absurd transformations, and the kind of romance only her strange schoolyard world could produce.