Summer 2012

When Dawn and Athas discover an unconscious boy named Pandora, he awakens with no memory of who he is or why anyone would be searching for him. His arrival in Freewheel Town immediately draws the attention of the Ancient Hunter Group, whose members insist that Pandora is connected to a mysterious “Great Mission.”Jin and his friends drive the hunters back and take Pandora under their protection. As he learns to live among them and rapidly improves his battling-top skills, the questions surrounding his lost past grow harder to ignore: why was he chosen, what is the mission waiting for him, and what will happen when his memories finally return?

On Planet Xingxing, Happy Superman and his fellow Supermen continue protecting their home while Doctor Zhai tries to keep everyday life from collapsing into chaos. New inventions, strange visitors, and plots by Big M. and Little M. repeatedly threaten the planet, forcing the team to combine their different powers and personalities to solve problems that are as absurd as they are dangerous.

Hana, Duri, and Semo discover plans for a new flying Tobot, W, hidden among Professor Noh's belongings. Building the machine becomes an exciting challenge, but choosing who should become its pilot creates tension among the children just as a much greater danger begins moving against them.Acnee is watching their progress and sends her robots to interfere, determined to turn every weakness in the group into an advantage. As Tobot W takes shape, the children must learn that creating a stronger robot means little unless they can also trust one another enough to fight as a team.

Ryuunosuke Ibuki is beaten, robbed, and left with nothing until the intimidating Kamo Serizawa takes him in as a servant. Ryuunosuke despises samurai and wants no part of their ideals, yet his dependence on Serizawa places him directly among the Roshigumi warriors gathering in Kyoto.As Isami Kondou, Toshizou Hijikata, and their comrades struggle to establish order in a city boiling with political violence, the alliance between Kondou’s faction and Serizawa grows increasingly unstable. Watching these men from the inside forces Ryuunosuke to reconsider the hatred he carries, even as ambition, brutality, and conflicting visions push the Roshigumi toward the birth of the Shinsengumi.

Taichi, Iori, Inaba, Yui, and Aoki form a small cultural club because none of them fits comfortably anywhere else at school. Their friendship is ordinary enough until they begin switching bodies without warning, one person suddenly waking inside a friend's body before returning to normal as unpredictably as the change began.What feels funny the first time becomes frightening once the phenomenon removes the boundaries each person depends on to hide weakness. Secrets, fears, and emotional wounds that could once be kept private become visible to the others, and stranger supernatural events soon push them even harder. Preserving their club is less about discovering what force is manipulating them than deciding whether they can still accept one another after being made to see everything that was meant to stay hidden.

On the launch day of Sword Art Online, thousands of players enter the floating world of Aincrad through the NerveGear headset and discover that the logout command has vanished. The game's creator announces that escaping requires clearing all one hundred floors, and dying inside the virtual world will kill their real bodies as well. Kirito, a former beta tester, has knowledge that gives him an advantage, but he initially chooses to fight mostly alone. His path eventually crosses with Asuna, a gifted swordswoman equally determined to reach the end. Boss battles, deaths, friendships, and love turn the struggle to leave Aincrad into a life neither of them can dismiss as merely virtual.

The Amusement Club has found no reason to become more serious. Kyouko's endless energy, Yui's dry patience, Chinatsu's enthusiasm, and Akari's unfortunate talent for fading into the background keep their commandeered clubroom lively even when they have absolutely nothing important to do.Student Council members, siblings, schoolwork, trips, and ordinary afternoons all become fuel for the girls' comedy. Beneath the teasing, crushes, and absurd detours, their greatest talent remains simple: turning time spent together into memories worth laughing about.

Humanity has spent decades fighting the BETA, alien beings whose invasion has devastated Eurasia and forced nations to rely on humanoid Tactical Surface Fighters. In 1998, cadet Yui Takamura survives the brutal defense of Kyoto, an experience that shapes her determination to build machines capable of preventing such losses from happening again.Three years later, Lieutenant Yui joins the international XFJ development project in Alaska, where Japanese and American engineers are refining the Shiranui. Her work brings her into conflict with test pilot Yuuya Bridges, whose resentment toward his Japanese heritage complicates an already tense multinational team. While the BETA remain humanity's common enemy, political rivalries and personal scars threaten the cooperation needed to survive them.

Konatsu Miyamoto wants one last chance to sing at Shirahamazaka High School's annual recital before graduation. After a mistake the previous year, however, the vice principal refuses to let her perform with the official choir. Konatsu responds by deciding to create a singing club of her own.She recruits Taichi, a badminton player, Sawa, an aspiring equestrian, and the newly transferred Wien, but the person whose voice matters most is Wakana Sakai, who has abandoned music after the death of her mother. With only a short time before the recital, five very different students are pulled together by songs, old regrets, and uncertain dreams, turning their final school year into something none of them can finish alone.

With all eight Unova Gym Badges finally in hand, Ash turns his attention toward the Unova League. Before the tournament begins, Cynthia invites Ash, Iris, and Cilan to eastern Unova, where they reunite with Dawn and enter the Pokémon World Tournament Junior Cup against a fresh group of powerful Trainers.While Ash tests how far his team has come, Team Rocket begins its most ambitious operation in the region, centered on the Mythical Pokémon Meloetta. The road to the League therefore becomes more than a final stretch of training, as old friends return and a hidden threat grows behind the competition.

During China's Warring States period, Xin and Piao grow up as war orphans serving in a poor village, training with swords every day and dreaming that they will someday become Great Generals under the Heavens. Their lives change when Piao is selected to serve at the royal palace, only to return later with fatal wounds and leave Xin a map and one final mission. At its destination Xin finds Ying Zheng, the young King of Qin, who looks astonishingly similar to Piao and has been driven from his throne by a coup. Xin begins the journey out of anger and loyalty to his friend, but it pulls him into the political and military struggle that will shape China and gives him his first real step toward a dream that once existed only between two boys.

Two of Edo's fiercest conflicts return to the center of Gintoki's world. First, Hijikata is cursed by a sword that turns the Shinsengumi's feared vice-commander into an obsessive otaku just as Itou Kamotarou begins a calculated attempt to seize control of the organization.Later, the smiling but dangerously violent Pirako arrives in Kabukicho and draws the Yorozuya into a struggle among the district's Four Devas. With friends, homes, and the future of Kabukicho at stake, Gintoki and his companions are forced to defend the bonds that hold their chaotic neighborhood together.

Éclair wanders Fiore with little memory of her past, protecting one half of the mysterious Phoenix Stone and following only a vague sense of where she must take it. After meeting the Fairy Tail guild, Natsu, Lucy, and their friends agree to help the guarded young woman discover what the stone means and why she has been entrusted with it.A powerful group soon steals the relic as part of a plan to reunite its pieces and resurrect the immortal Phoenix. The promise of limitless power threatens to turn the ancient creature's return into a disaster, forcing Fairy Tail to fight across the kingdom while Éclair confronts the memories and purpose she has been carrying without understanding.

During a summer camp in Mari Land, My Melody hopes to enjoy the outdoors with friends and spend time with Kuromi without their usual rivalry ruining everything. The two have grown closer, but old habits and misunderstandings still make genuine friendship surprisingly difficult.As the camp brings one awkward incident after another, My Melody and Kuromi are forced to look beyond the things that usually irritate them. Their bond does not become perfect overnight, but shared experiences begin to show that affection can survive even the arguments that once seemed to define their relationship.