Winter 2014

Tayo and the other little buses continue learning how to carry passengers safely through the busy city. New routes, unexpected breakdowns, competitions, and encounters with unfamiliar vehicles challenge their confidence, but Rogi, Lani, Gani, and their friends discover that patience and teamwork can solve most problems on the road.

While exploring ancient ruins, Ren Yan discovers Pandora, a mysterious boy sleeping deep inside. Pandora soon forms a strong friendship with Ye Feng, but the peace does not last: factions connected to seven ancient civilizations learn that immense power lies within him and hope to use it to build their own ideal world.When Pandora's lost memories return, he remembers that creating a new world is also his own mission and turns against Ye Feng. Their friendship is pushed into a battle over the fate of Earth itself, forcing Pandora to choose between the purpose he was given and the people who taught him what hope means.

When the sealed Phantom Empire is unleashed from the mysterious Axia box, its forces begin invading kingdoms around the world. Precure warriors rise to oppose them, but Hime Shirayuki, princess of the fallen Blue Sky Kingdom, struggles with fear and repeated defeats as Cure Princess.Searching for a partner, Hime meets the endlessly cheerful Megumi Aino. Megumi's instinct to help anyone in trouble awakens her power as Cure Lovely, and the two become the heart of the Happiness Charge Precure. As more allies join them, they battle the Empire's Saiarks, collect the power needed to restore what was lost, and learn that protecting people's happiness demands courage, trust, and a deeper understanding of love.

Takeru Ooyama continues life at Tenbi Academy as a member of its Security Committee, working beside the girls around him to deal with people who misuse the supernatural weapons known as Maken. Every assignment gives the group another chance to test their unusual powers.Keeping the peace would be difficult enough without Takeru's lack of restraint and the complicated feelings surrounding him. Rivalries, attraction, and constant misunderstandings turn school life into nearly as much of a battlefield as the threats the committee is supposed to stop.

Raku Ichijou wants nothing more than an ordinary high-school life, despite being heir to a yakuza family. He still treasures a locked pendant from a promise made ten years earlier and quietly likes his classmate Kosaki Onodera, until a gang conflict forces him into a fake romance with the one girl he cannot stand: Chitoge Kirisaki.Chitoge is the daughter of a rival gang boss, so the two must convince everyone that they are deeply in love to keep their families from fighting. Their daily arguments become harder to manage when Raku learns that more than one girl may be connected to the promise from his childhood. Between false affection and genuine feelings, finding the owner of the key grows increasingly complicated.

Yuugo Hachiken has finally begun to feel at home at Ooezo Agricultural High School, but comfort brings new responsibilities. After being chosen as vice-president of the Equestrian Club, he must balance demanding farm work, club duties, classes, and the expectations he keeps placing on himself.As Hachiken becomes more involved in the lives of his friends, especially Aki Mikage and the Komaba family, he discovers that some problems cannot be solved through hard work alone. Faced with difficult choices about family, money, and the future, he starts to understand what it means to support someone without deciding their path for them.

On her sixteenth birthday, Kobeni Yonomori learns that her late grandfather arranged her engagement years ago to a boy named Hakuya Mitsumine. The bigger surprise is that Hakuya immediately moves into her home with his younger sister Mashiro, while Kobeni's mother and overprotective sister Benio treat the situation as strangely normal. Hakuya is so quiet that his feelings are difficult to read, and Kobeni cannot even remember the childhood meeting that supposedly connected them. Between school life and household chaos, she begins discovering that the Mitsumine family hides unusual secrets and that an engagement arranged by adults may eventually become a relationship she chooses for herself.

Keita Amano wanders into the forest out of curiosity and finds a strange capsule machine that releases Whisper, a ghostlike Yo-kai who has been trapped for 190 years. In gratitude, Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch, a device that reveals supernatural creatures living among humans while remaining invisible to most people. Keita soon learns that many annoying or bizarre everyday situations are caused by Yo-kai influencing those around them, and dealing with them requires understanding their personalities more often than fearing them. With Whisper and the cat spirit Jibanyan beside him, Keita solves these problems, befriends new Yo-kai, and can later summon those friends when their unusual abilities are needed.

Logiko and Comako, two lively personalities spun out of Logicoma, turn Motoko Kusanagi's world into a rapid series of explanations and comic demonstrations. Cyberbrains, prosthetic bodies, Public Security Section 9, and the people surrounding Motoko's earlier years are unpacked through their energetic exchanges, with little side adventures repeatedly derailing any attempt to keep the lesson formal.

Sonico is a college student whose days are far busier than her gentle personality suggests. Between classes, professional modeling, helping at her grandmother's restaurant, caring for the stray cats she cannot resist, and rehearsing on guitar, she rarely has a truly quiet moment.Music remains the place where everything comes together. Alongside Suzu Fujimi and Fuuri Watanuki in the band First Astronomical Velocity, Sonico works toward the stage while learning how to balance opportunity, friendship, responsibility, and the uncertainty of choosing a future for herself.

Planet Xingxing becomes the center of a strange diplomatic rivalry when the dog-ruled Wangcai Planet and the cat-ruled Miaomei Planet both seek an alliance. Their ambassadors arrive preaching friendship while quietly trying to undermine one another, and the competition follows their children straight into Super Star Academy.The young heroes are soon caught between schoolyard feuds and threats far more serious than bruised pride. As rival factions exploit the tension and crises spread across the planet, the Supermen must keep protecting ordinary people while learning that cooperation is stronger than the endless cat-and-dog struggle their visitors brought with them.

A strange disturbance pulls famous heroes and villains from many Falcom worlds into Xanadu, where their grand adventures are replaced by something far more troublesome: school life. Under the watch of an unlikely faculty, legendary swordsmen, adventurers, and former enemies are expected to behave like ordinary students. Their clashing personalities make that almost impossible, turning every lesson into absurd comedy.

Yato is a minor god with no shrine and almost no worshippers, dreaming that one day his name will be known everywhere. For now, he scrawls his phone number on walls and accepts any job for five yen, from finding lost cats to fighting corrupted spirits, until his weapon partner finally abandons him after growing tired of his miserable career.His luck changes when Hiyori Iki tries to save him from a car and the accident leaves her soul slipping out of her body without warning. She demands that Yato fix her, but he first needs a new weapon partner, leading him to the spirit of a boy named Yukine. The three become tied to one another’s problems, and between Yato’s cheap jobs, his bloody past, and phantoms that prey on humans, Hiyori discovers that the ridiculous unknown god carries a name far older and heavier than he lets anyone see.

Dandy is an alien hunter who crosses the galaxy aboard the Aloha Oe, searching for rare species he can register for money and spending the rest of his attention on his favorite restaurant, BooBies. His companions are QT, a vacuum-cleaner-like robot, and Meow, a lazy catlike alien. Every attempt to make quick cash sends the trio somewhere completely different: a bizarre planet, an impossible romance, a race across space, or a disaster capable of ending the universe itself. Dr. Gel of the Gogol Empire keeps pursuing Dandy for reasons Dandy barely understands, yet the crew continues treating the strangest phenomena in existence as another workday requiring a little luck, a lot of confidence, and absolutely no guarantee of survival.