Winter 2013

Mana Aida is the kind of student who cannot ignore someone in trouble. During a school trip, that instinct pulls her into a battle against the Selfish, invaders from the fallen Trump Kingdom who turn people's selfish desires into destructive monsters.Chosen as Cure Heart, Mana soon fights beside her close friends Rikka and Alice, who become Cure Diamond and Cure Rosetta, while the mysterious Cure Sword pursues a mission of her own. Guided by their fairy partners, the girls seek the missing princess of the Trump Kingdom and defend the love in people's hearts from an enemy determined to corrupt it.

After the Unova League, Ash, Iris, and Cilan head toward the White Ruins, a site linked to the Legendary Pokémon Reshiram. On the way they meet N, a mysterious young man who says he can hear the voices of Pokémon and questions the bond between people and their partners.The journey collides with Team Plasma's experiments under Colress and Ghetsis's search for N. As Pokémon are manipulated against their trainers and Team Rocket reenters Unova, the conflict over Reshiram grows into a battle over what humans have the right to demand from Pokémon.

Months after the Asia Circuit, Aichi Sendou enters Miyaji Academy hoping to enjoy a normal high school life without giving up the card game that has shaped him. When his classmates dismiss Vanguard as childish, he decides to build a Cardfight Club from nothing, gathering new and familiar players while confronting a student council determined to keep the club from being recognized.What begins as a struggle for a place to play soon grows far more dangerous. A sinister force known as Link Joker begins corrupting cardfighters and turning friends against one another, forcing Aichi and his allies to defend not only their bonds, but the future of the world connected to Vanguard itself.

Chihaya Ayase begins her second year at Mizusawa High with a karuta club that is no longer merely trying to survive. The team now has a clear ambition: win the national team championship at Omi Jingu. Keeping the club growing, however, means recruiting first-years, and the two newcomers who join do not initially share Chihaya's overwhelming devotion to the game.Between teaching beginners and facing stronger schools, Chihaya continues pursuing the title of Queen, while Taichi pushes his own rank and wrestles with feelings he rarely says aloud. Elsewhere, Arata begins rediscovering his desire to play after stepping away. The competition that once separated the childhood friends gradually becomes the same force drawing their lives toward one another again.

The Neighbors Club continues chasing the ordinary friendships its members somehow never learned to make. Kodaka Hasegawa, Yozora Mikazuki, Sena Kashiwazaki, and the rest spend their days on amusement parks, games, birthdays, and preparations for the school festival, all while new people enter their already chaotic circle.Yet the club's easy routine can no longer hide how much its members have changed. Romantic feelings become harder to ignore, old secrets surface, and Kodaka's habit of avoiding uncomfortable truths begins to strain the friendships he values most.

A thousand years after the legendary hero Creasion defeated the Demon King Rchimedes, a new gate opens between the human and demon realms. Fearing the demon king’s return, the kingdom summons seventy-five people who might carry the hero’s blood because nobody can identify the true descendant anymore.Among them is Alba Frühling, an inexperienced adventurer with far more enthusiasm than ability, accompanied by the soldier Ross, who is supposedly there to help. Ross is certainly powerful, but he is also sarcastic and often seems to enjoy Alba’s suffering. Their quest becomes a fast-moving comedy filled with questionable heroes, eccentric demons, and situations that happily dismantle every rule of heroic fantasy.

Otonokizaka High School is heading toward closure as enrollment drops year after year. Honoka Kousaka refuses to watch her beloved school disappear, and after seeing the popularity of school idol groups, she decides to create one of Otonokizaka's own to draw attention back to it. Umi Sonoda and Kotori Minami, friends who have known Honoka since childhood, decide to stand with her, and that small beginning becomes μ's.Enthusiasm alone is not enough. The student council opposes the project, recruiting new members proves harder than expected, and the Love Live competition is rapidly approaching. If μ's can earn a place among Japan's most popular school idol groups and win the public's attention, they may also win Otonokizaka the chance it needs to survive.

Red and Yellow leave the sewer behind and find a new home in an old house wedged between towering buildings. The unfamiliar surroundings provide endless food, objects, animals, and hazards for the two larvae to investigate, ensuring that every attempt to satisfy their curiosity becomes another exaggerated battle of slapstick survival.

Aoi Yukimura once loved mountains, but a childhood accident left her afraid of heights and far more comfortable with quiet indoor hobbies. Starting high school shy and isolated, she has little reason to revisit the outdoors until Hinata Kuraue, the energetic friend she used to climb with as a child, suddenly reappears in her life.Hinata refuses to let their old promise fade away. Beginning with modest outings rather than impossible peaks, Aoi slowly rediscovers what she enjoyed about climbing. Every trail brings new scenery, new friends, and a little more confidence, turning the mountains she feared into a place where she can grow at her own pace.

Arknie enters Ryan and Kory's home under false pretenses and manipulates the people around them while secretly completing Ark Tyrant. A chain of misunderstandings then drives Tobot X and Tobot Y away from the twins, leaving both sides hurt and too frightened to face one another.As Arknie's plan develops, the children must recognize how easily their trust was divided and reach the Tobots before the separation becomes permanent. Repairing their bond is the only way to confront the machine built to overpower them.

Academy City is preparing to complete Endymion, a colossal space elevator celebrated as a triumph of science. Amid the excitement, Touma Kamijou and Index meet Arisa Meigo, a gifted young singer chasing the chance to perform at Endymion's opening ceremony. Their new friendship seems harmless until magicians suddenly begin targeting Arisa.Stiyl Magnus warns that the girl may stand at the center of a catastrophe capable of igniting open conflict between magic and science. With a past miracle, a mysterious power and the space elevator itself all connected, Touma must uncover why Arisa matters before Endymion becomes the stage for a disaster reaching far beyond Academy City.

A year after leaving the Band of the Hawk to pursue a life of his own, Guts returns to find his former comrades reduced to fugitives. Casca now leads the survivors, and their desperate priority is rescuing Griffith, who has spent the year imprisoned and tortured after the collapse of his ambitions.The man they recover is physically and emotionally shattered, leaving the Hawks with no clear path back to the future they once imagined. Then Griffith's Crimson Behelit returns to him beneath a darkening sky, and the bonds that carried the mercenary band through years of war are placed before a choice whose price is almost beyond comprehension.

A chain of violent natural disasters threatens the animal world, and an ancient vessel known as the Mythical Ark may be the only way to protect everyone. There is one problem: only the Snake Tribe knows how to operate it, and the snakes have withdrawn to the distant refuge of Utopia.Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf are forced onto the same journey to ask for the snakes' help. Suspicion gradually gives way to friendship, but when the chance to escape the disaster finally appears, saving their own home becomes more important than simply running from it.

Kurapika receives a lead suggesting that another member of the massacred Kurta Clan may still be alive. Instead, he encounters a figure from his childhood and loses his Scarlet Eyes in a mysterious attack, leaving Leorio to summon Gon and Killua for help.The search for the stolen eyes leads the friends toward Omokage, a former member of the Phantom Troupe whose abilities can recreate people as eerie puppets. As the Troupe becomes entangled in the hunt, Kurapika is forced to confront a painful imitation of the past he has spent years trying to avenge.