Summer 2011

The world's most self-important oddballs return with fresh declarations of how cool, cute, talented, or desirable they supposedly are. Their confidence remains limitless, and reality remains equally determined to expose how ridiculous they actually look.

Taito Kurogane has spent years feeling that something essential is missing from his life. After surviving an accident that should have killed him, he remembers Himea Saito, a powerful vampire who gave him seven lives and was torn away from him when they were children.Reunited at last, Taito and Himea find that the ancient spell separating them is only part of a much larger danger. Alongside the gifted student council president Gekkou Kurenai and the demon Mirai, they are drawn into a conflict of magic, broken promises, and enemies determined to control Himea's power.

Class F may have survived its battles against the higher-ranked classes, but its students are still hopeless when romance and common sense are involved. Akihisa Yoshii and Yuuji Sakamoto are suddenly blackmailed by someone who possesses humiliating evidence against them, forcing the pair to hunt for the culprit before their secrets spread through the academy.Meanwhile, the relationships around them become even harder to manage. Shouko's relentless affection, Minami and Himeji's feelings for Akihisa, and strange behavior from the summoned avatars turn ordinary school days into chaos. The greatest tests facing Class F are no longer written on paper, and none of the boys have studied for them.

Saya Kisaragi appears to live a gentle life in a quiet village, spending her days at school and helping at her father's shrine. At night, however, she takes up a sacred sword and hunts the Elder Bairns, monstrous creatures that prey on humans. Saya accepts the duty without hesitation because she believes protecting the village is a promise she must keep.That certainty begins to fracture when the monsters speak of an old covenant she has never heard of and a strange dog questions the origin of her promise. Unexplained visions, inconsistencies in her memories, and increasingly brutal attacks force Saya to ask whether the peaceful life she protects has ever been real.

At 765 Production, 13 aspiring idols chase the same distant goal through auditions, lessons, concerts, television appearances, and endless setbacks. Their talents are different, but success demands that each girl learn how to stand out without losing the group that supports her.As fame finally arrives, crowded schedules and professional rivalry begin stealing away the time that once made them feel like a family. Reaching the top means little if the journey there pulls them apart.

After a devastating world war, humanity lives inside model city-states supposedly built to guarantee safety and perfection. Shion grows up among the elite of No. 6 until his twelfth birthday, when he shelters a fugitive boy named Nezumi. That choice costs Shion his privileges and relocates him and his mother to the city's outskirts, but it also leaves him with the doubt Nezumi planted about the perfect society he was raised to trust.Years later, a series of mysterious deaths leads to Shion being accused of murder, and Nezumi suddenly returns to rescue him from arrest. The two flee into the impoverished settlement beyond No. 6, where Shion sees for the first time the real price of the city's comfort. Their search for the cause of the deaths leads toward a secret at the heart of the system itself, forcing Shion to decide whether he can protect the people he loves from a city that once defined everything he understood as home.

Kanba and Shouma Takakura live alone with their beloved sister Himari, whose illness has brought her closer to death than either brother can accept. When Himari collapses during a trip to the aquarium, she dies briefly before a strange penguin hat returns her to life. The miracle comes with a condition: an entity speaking through Himari orders the brothers to find something called the Penguin Drum if they want to keep her alive. Three invisible penguins accompany them as the search leads through a diary, strangers, and events that initially seem unrelated. Each thread, however, circles back to one idea they cannot escape: the fate that bound this family together may be the same force threatening to tear it apart.

Takashi Natsume continues returning names from the Book of Friends to the youkai once bound by his grandmother Reiko. With Nyanko-sensei at his side, each encounter reveals another spirit's memory, grudge, loneliness, or kindness, and another piece of the complicated legacy Reiko left behind.Natsume is no longer convinced that seeing youkai is merely a curse. His growing friendships with both humans and spirits give him places to belong in two worlds at once, even as dangerous exorcists and hostile youkai remind him that those worlds do not always understand one another.

Akari Akaza begins middle school excited to reunite with her childhood friends Kyouko Toshinou and Yui Funami, only to discover that they have occupied the former Tea Club room and created the Amusement Club, an organization with no real purpose beyond spending time however they please. Chinatsu Yoshikawa joins after arriving in search of the old Tea Club, and the room quickly becomes the center of days filled with tea, games, arguments, and crushes that almost never go the way their owners expect. Akari tries to maintain some presence among friends with personalities far louder than hers, but even her strange tendency to disappear from everyone’s attention becomes part of the club’s everyday rhythm.

Yune, a young Japanese girl, arrives in 19th-century Paris with Oscar Claudel, who invites her to live and work at his family's ironwork shop in the Galerie du Roy. Oscar's grandson Claude is wary of the arrangement. Yune's customs are unfamiliar to him, while Parisian language, food, and daily life are completely new to her.Through serving customers, sharing meals, and learning each other's habits, their mutual uncertainty slowly fades. Yune does not need to abandon her culture, and Claude does not need to fully understand Japan at once. The small things they exchange each day quietly build a bridge between two distant worlds.

Haruka Nanami leaves the countryside and enters Saotome Academy with one dream: becoming a composer capable of writing a song for the idol she admires, HAYATO. The prestigious performing-arts school is filled with ambitious singers and composers, and graduation can open the door to the powerful Shining Agency.Haruka soon becomes close to six very different aspiring idols, each carrying his own talent, insecurities, and reason for standing onstage. As classes, auditions, rivalries, and feelings grow more complicated, she must discover what kind of music only she can create, while a familiar face raises questions about the star who first inspired her.

The struggle at the Mohist stronghold reaches its conclusion, but Tianming and his companions are given little time to breathe. The conflict surrounding the Qin Empire is expanding beyond a single school, drawing more philosophies, factions, and powerful fighters into the same dangerous contest.As old enemies reposition themselves, new alliances take shape and unfamiliar opponents emerge. Tianming's journey becomes increasingly connected to the rival traditions known as the Hundred Schools of Thought, where every faction carries its own beliefs about power, freedom, and the future of the empire.

Graduation is approaching for Class 3-A, and Negi Springfield faces a decision far more personal than another magical battle. The permanent Pactio system will allow him to choose one partner whose bond with him will endure, forcing the class to confront what their years together have meant and what will happen when school life ends.Competition, affection, and old promises turn Negi's choice into a source of chaos, but the approaching farewell also gives every student a reason to look honestly at her feelings. The final decision becomes less about selecting a winner and more about the bonds Negi and his class refuse to lose.

During a mission, the Attractor Tei and Custos cyborg Epsilon suddenly become psychically linked and fall into comas. Custos discovers that the connection may reveal the location of the Attractors' hidden sanctuary, putting everyone Quon has protected at immediate risk.Unable to wake Tei from outside, Quon enters the strange mental space created by the link and searches for him from within. What he finds is more than an enemy intrusion: buried memories begin surfacing around a boy named Shun and the past Quon has carried for centuries, forcing him to confront truths he has kept sealed away.