Summer 2010

Tayo is a young city bus just beginning to learn how to serve his route through busy streets. Everything is new to him, from traffic rules and passengers to the responsibility of arriving safely and on time, and his eagerness often gets ahead of his experience.With fellow buses Rogi, Lani, and Gani beside him, Tayo discovers the city one trip at a time. Small mistakes, unexpected problems, and new friendships teach the little buses how to cooperate, take responsibility, and enjoy the everyday adventure of keeping a city moving.

Oda Nobunaga is gone, but peace does not follow. Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin resume their struggle at Kawanakajima, while Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura remain eager to settle their own fierce rivalry. Then an enormous army surrounds the battlefield and announces the arrival of a new power: Toyotomi Hideyoshi.Hideyoshi intends to forge Japan into a mighty nation through overwhelming force, crushing any lord who refuses to bend. With his strategist Takenaka Hanbei at his side, he tears apart old balances and forces former enemies to reconsider who they are willing to fight beside. Masamune, Yukimura, and the other warriors must choose between their pride and the survival of everything they protect.

The village of Sotoba is so quiet and isolated that the death of a young girl initially seems like a local tragedy and nothing more. Then deaths begin multiplying during a hot summer, and doctor Toshio Ozaki starts to suspect that what he is seeing is not an ordinary epidemic.At the same time, Natsuno Yuuki becomes convinced that people who recently died are still moving around the village, and his fear draws attention toward a mysterious family living in an old hilltop mansion. As the existence of the Shiki is revealed, survival becomes an ethical conflict as much as a physical one: are creatures that need human blood simply monsters, or can the villagers become even more frightening once they decide to exterminate them?

Six months after the liberation of Gallia, Yoshika Miyafuji has returned to Fuso and tried to resume an ordinary life. That peace ends when a letter linked to her late father reaches her alongside plans for a new Striker Unit, just as Europe faces a Neuroi threat more powerful than anything seen before.A colossal nest appears over Venezia and overwhelms the local Witches, forcing the 501st Joint Fighter Wing back into action. Yoshika cannot ignore friends fighting on the other side of the world, so she returns to the skies with the old squad. Yet the enemy is changing too, including a humanoid Neuroi whose intentions may not fit everything the Witches believe about their war.

The Digital World has fractured into a battlefield as the Bagra Army hunts the 108 pieces of the Code Crown, whose complete power can make its holder ruler of the entire realm. In the human world, Taiki Kudo hears a desperate voice calling for help and discovers the badly injured Digimon Shoutmon.A mysterious Xros Loader allows Taiki to save Shoutmon, but it also pulls him and his friends Akari and Zenjiro into the Digital World. Refusing to stand by while the Bagra Army conquers it, Taiki joins Shoutmon and other Digimon to form Xros Heart, beginning a war across dangerous zones for the Code Crown and the fate of the Digital World.

The dead suddenly begin rising and attacking the living, and within hours Takashi Komuro's high school collapses alongside the world outside it. When his best friend is bitten, Takashi is forced to kill him before the transformation is complete, then escapes the infected school with Rei Miyamoto.They join other survivors including Saeko Busujima, Kouta Hirano, Saya Takagi, and school nurse Shizuka, setting out across a city where police, communication, and public order have already begun to fail as they search for their families. The dead are an obvious danger, but panic, hunger, and people who abandon society's rules may be worse. Survival will require more than weapons; they must keep the collapse around them from destroying what remains of them as well.

On the technologically advanced Planet Xing, Doctor H discovers four mysterious mechanical stones and uses them to repair a group of damaged vehicles. The stones awaken as robot heroes: Happy S, Sweet S, Smart S, and Careless S, each with a very different personality but the same instinct to protect their home.Meanwhile, Big M and Little M of Planet Gray continue their efforts to conquer Xing, using a dark stone and increasingly bizarre schemes to create trouble. The four heroes must learn to work together, balance daily life with sudden emergencies, and stop the invaders before their plans turn the cheerful planet into their next possession.

Alois Trancy returns to his family's estate after a childhood marked by abduction, slavery, and loss, inheriting the earldom while doubts surround both his story and his legitimacy. At his side stands Claude Faustus, an eerily capable black-clad butler whose emotionless perfection clearly hides abilities no ordinary human should possess.Beneath Alois's volatile behavior and Claude's immaculate service lies a web of contracts and secrets as dark as anything surrounding the Phantomhive household. When their fate becomes entangled with Ciel and Sebastian, the conflict turns into a contest of deception, desire, and demonic promises, where the real question is not who serves whom, but who will ultimately claim the soul being pursued.

Ryner Lute carries the Alpha Stigma, eyes capable of analyzing magic but feared for the destructive madness associated with their bearers. After a war kills many of his classmates, he and his friend Sion Astal promise to create a more peaceful kingdom. When Sion becomes king of Roland, he sends Ryner and swordswoman Ferris Eris to search for relics left by legendary heroes. The mission seems distant from politics, yet the artifacts reveal secrets about magic, power, and Ryner's own eyes. At the same time, Sion learns that reforming a nation from the throne may demand choices far harsher than either friend once imagined.

The Darkness Civilization launches a full assault on the Fire Civilization, leaving its lands on the brink of defeat. Shobu Kirifuda crosses into the creature world with Rekuta to help, only to find Storm XX, the Fire Civilization's greatest hope, already battered by the enemy.The situation worsens when Rekuta and Reppi Aini are captured. Shobu must fight through the invading creatures, restore the bonds holding the Fire forces together, and reach his friends before the Darkness Civilization crushes the last resistance. The battle will test whether the power of a duel can ignite a civilization that is almost out of flame.

During summer vacation, Ginga and his friends encounter Helios, a mysterious blader who wields the ancient Sol Blaze. Helios overwhelms the competition and identifies Ginga's Pegasus as the legendary power he needs to fulfill a plan connected to the lost civilization of Atlantis.As Sol Blaze's energy begins triggering extreme weather around the world, Ginga realizes their rivalry is no longer only about Beyblade. He pursues Helios to stop the ancient power from being used to reshape the world, leading to a battle where Pegasus and Sol Blaze carry consequences far beyond the stadium.

An unnamed soul reaches the afterlife carrying a grave sin from its previous existence and is offered one final chance to remember it and reenter the cycle of reincarnation. The soul is placed inside the body of Makoto Kobayashi, a fourteen-year-old boy who died after attempting suicide, and given six months to understand what drove him there.Returning to Makoto’s family, school, and strained relationships initially reveals a life full of disappointment. But every person contains more than one color, and the soul gradually learns that hurt, selfishness, kindness, and love can exist together. Understanding Makoto may ultimately require learning why a life cannot be judged by its darkest moment.

Hutch, the young prince of a honeybee kingdom, is separated from his mother when hornets attack their home. Believing she is still alive, he sets off alone to find her and eventually wanders into Sepia Town, a human settlement where the local insects are struggling with dangers of their own.There Hutch meets Amy, a lonely girl who can understand the language of insects. Her kindness and harmonica give him the first real companionship of his journey, and together with new insect friends they continue the search for Hutch's mother while another hornet threat draws ever closer.

Naruto finds a mysterious old bottle during a barbecue with his friends and discovers a genie inside who can grant three wishes.Excitement gets the better of him and the first two wishes are wasted almost immediately. With only one left, Sasuke and Sakura refuse to let Naruto throw away the final chance, and the argument spreads through the gathered ninja until a simple wish becomes an all-out battle for possession of the bottle.