Winter 2011

In the musical world of Major Land, the annual performance of the Melody of Happiness is meant to spread joy across every world. Before it can be sung, Mephisto of Minor Land corrupts the score into the Melody of Sorrow, scattering its precious notes and threatening to replace happiness with despair.Hummy, a singing cat entrusted with restoring the melody, arrives in Kanon Town and finds Hibiki Houjou and Kanade Minamino, two former best friends who now seem unable to stop arguing. When the forces of Minor Land attack something dear to them, their hearts resonate together and awaken the power of the Precure. To recover the missing notes, the girls must rediscover the harmony they once shared while facing enemies determined to turn every melody toward sorrow.

The nuclear apocalypse never happened, which leaves the legendary brothers of Hokuto Shinken with a much less glorious problem: how are they supposed to live in modern Japan? Kenshiro drifts between odd jobs, Raoh takes his overwhelming presence into construction work, and Toki puts his techniques to use as a healer.Jagi and other familiar faces are equally ill-suited to ordinary society. Without a wasteland to conquer or save, their absurdly intense personalities collide with mundane jobs, money problems, and everyday annoyances, turning the warriors' epic rivalry into tiny battles no martial-arts prophecy ever prepared them for.

Sawako Kuronuma has finally begun to understand that her feelings for Shouta Kazehaya are more than friendship. Unfortunately, realizing that truth only makes speaking to him harder. On Valentine's Day she cannot bring herself to give him chocolate, and the silence between them grows into a distance neither of them actually wants.When their second year begins, Sawako remains in the same class as Kazehaya, Ayane, Chizuru, and Ryuu, but the arrival of the sociable Kento Miura complicates an already fragile situation. With both Sawako and Kazehaya convinced they may be misunderstanding the other, their relationship depends on whether they can finally replace assumptions with honest words.

Ishiyama High is filled with delinquents, yet everyone knows one rule: do not pick a fight with Tatsumi Oga. One day Oga finds a bizarre baby who immediately attaches himself to him, followed by a demon maid named Hilda carrying terrible news. The child is Beel, son of the Demon Lord, and Oga has been chosen as the human parent who will raise him until he is ready to destroy the world. Oga tries to escape the responsibility by finding someone even more wicked who might take the baby instead, but Beel only grows more attached while demonic power and constant fights drag them into fresh trouble. The school's toughest delinquent has unwillingly become father to a potential apocalypse.

Timid middle-schooler Aichi Sendou has always treasured Blaster Blade, a Vanguard card given to him years ago by the confident fighter Toshiki Kai. When the card is stolen and eventually ends up in Kai's hands, Aichi challenges him despite having almost no experience. Imagining the battle on the distant planet Cray awakens a confidence he never knew he had.That first cardfight opens a new world for Aichi. Through Card Capital he meets Misaki Tokura, Kamui Katsuragi, and many rivals, gradually building friendships and sharpening his skills. Yet his strongest motivation remains Kai, the person who once gave him hope and whom Aichi now wants to face again as an equal.

Humanity survives repeated attacks by alien beings known as Novas through genetically enhanced female fighters called Pandoras, who work with male partners known as Limiters. Kazuya Aoi enters the West Genetics military academy and meets Satellizer el Bridget, one of its strongest students and someone notorious for refusing to let anyone touch her.Kazuya's first sight of Satellizer reminds him of his late sister, and he soon discovers that he possesses an unusually powerful Freezing ability that can support her in ways other Limiters cannot. Despite Satellizer's isolation and harsh reputation, the two begin forming a partnership unlike the academy's usual pairs. Rivalries and brutal training may dominate daily life, but all of it exists for a war in which a single Nova attack can erase everything.

Madoka Kaname and her friend Sayaka live ordinary school lives until they meet Kyubey, a strange creature offering each of them one wish in exchange for becoming a magical girl and fighting witches. The bargain sounds like a chance to change everything, especially after experienced magical girl Mami Tomoe shows them what that power can do. New transfer student Homura Akemi, however, desperately warns Madoka not to accept. The deeper the girls enter this hidden world, the clearer it becomes that wishes are never free and magical battles bear little resemblance to heroic fantasies. Caught between hope and despair, Madoka must understand what a girl truly gives up for a miracle before deciding whether any wish is worth the price.

With Xiaoxin Superman finally joining the others, the five Supermen are together under Doctor Zhai's roof. Their powers may make them protectors of Planet Xingxing, but their constant mischief convinces the exhausted inventor that they also need something more ordinary: school.At Super Star Academy, the heroes begin a new student life just as General Big M. and Little M. infiltrate the campus and the forces of Planet Huixin establish a monster school of their own. Classes, friendships, invasions, and ridiculous schemes soon become part of the same daily routine.

The Macross Frontier fleet is caught between the Vajra war and a conspiracy reaching into its own leadership. Alto Saotome continues flying with SMS while Ranka Lee's mysterious connection to the Vajra grows stronger and Sheryl Nome struggles against an illness hidden behind her dazzling stage presence.As the conflict intensifies, the feelings linking Alto, Ranka, and Sheryl become impossible to postpone. The final battle demands choices about freedom, love, and communication between species, while those manipulating the war move to seize control of every mind in the galaxy.

The Chancellor temporarily abandons Eagle Talon's dreams of world domination for a far less glamorous post as chief of the Metropolitan Police Department's underfunded Hybrid Division. Surrounded by bureaucracy and a department created through cost-cutting mergers, he struggles to solve crime while the supposedly practical world of public service proves every bit as absurd as his old secret society.

With the Spring Festival approaching, Big Big Wolf has more problems than ever: his home is damaged, his wife is expecting a baby, and he still cannot catch a goat. Then a rabbit from the Moon arrives with alarming news. The once-sweet lunar paradise has been invaded by the Bitter Gourd King, who intends to turn its joyful world bitter.Pleasant Goat and his friends travel to the Moon to help, with Big Big Wolf following close behind. Among candy-filled landscapes, lunar secrets, and traces connected to Pleasant Goat's parents, old enemies are forced into an unlikely alliance. If they want to restore peace, goats, wolves, and the Moon's inhabitants will have to fight on the same side.

Two years after the last great battle, Tatsumiya Island has begun to heal, but Kazuki Makabe still waits for the return Soushi promised him. His body bears the damage of earlier fights, and hope seems to be fading until an unmanned submarine drifts into the bay carrying a mysterious boy named Misao Kurusu.Misao claims a connection to Soushi and to the Festum, just as conflict between humanity and the alien beings erupts again. With the Human Army closing in and both species facing destruction, Kazuki and the Fafner pilots are forced back into battle, this time for the possibility that humans and Festum might understand one another at all.

Far in the future, powerful people conclude that Mamoru Endou's passion for soccer has shaped history in a way they want erased. Their answer is Team Ogre, a group of elite players sent back through time to crush Raimon and ensure Endou never becomes the figure who inspires generations to love the sport.As the Football Frontier reaches its decisive stage, Team Ogre overwhelms the players of the past with strength and technology they were never meant to face. Help arrives from another time traveler, Kanon, a boy with a personal connection to Endou, giving Raimon one chance to defend both their match and the future of soccer itself.

Dokin-chan becomes fascinated by the many colors hidden in the night sky and wants to make those colors her own. At the same time, Yuuyakeman uses his special brush to paint beautiful sunsets, giving Baikinman exactly the tool he needs for another troublesome idea.When Baikinman steals the brush, the sky begins changing wildly between blue daylight, stars, and sunset colors. Anpanman and his friends must recover it before the heavens are thrown into complete confusion and return the colors of the stars and sky to their proper places.