Fall 2018

Mother Katuri continues raising her four curious chicks in a forest where every day introduces something new. Maji, Duri, Sejji, and Kkongji explore streams, plants, changing weather, and the habits of other animals, often wandering into small problems before understanding what nature is trying to teach them.Their mother gives them room to discover the world while remaining close enough to guide and protect them. New forest friends, seasonal changes, and simple family adventures turn each outing into another step in the chicks' growth.

Human girls Hai Xin and Xia Fan unexpectedly gain magical power and, with the approval of fairy Xi Ya, become young guardians of both the human world and the Magic Ocean. Their first major task is to investigate sea beasts appearing as a mysterious pollution spreads through the underwater realm.The search brings them to Prince Hai Da and the other fairies of Hai Ying Castle, then toward an abyssal nest known as the Deep Point. There they uncover links between the corrupted beasts, a missing king and the precious Qianbei Star, while black energy threatens to poison the entire ocean. Saving it will require Hai Xin to purify more than a single enemy.

Legends say Excalibur chooses a worthy bearer and grants that person the title of Arthur. Then a miracle goes catastrophically wrong: countless Excaliburs appear throughout history, creating an army of Arthurs and bending the timeline away from its proper course.Six very different Arthurs are sent into the past to repair the damage: Danchou, Renkin, Kakka, Yamaneko, Tekken, and Rurou. Their assignment sounds simple only until the number is revealed. They must destroy every abnormal Excalibur, and there may be as many as one million. Between clashing personalities, absurd encounters, and opponents who have no intention of surrendering their swords, saving history becomes a rebellion against an impossible workload.

The sound called “tsurune,” the clear note released by a bowstring when an arrow flies, is what first made Minato Narumiya fall in love with kyudo. But freezing under pressure at his final middle school tournament leaves him unable to shoot as he once did, and he abandons the sport entirely. Entering Kazemai High, the formation of a new kyudo club and a chance encounter with mysterious archer Masaki Takigawa reopen the wound Minato has tried to ignore. Supported by childhood friends Seiya and Ryouhei and new teammates Kaito and Nanao, he begins again from the basics and confronts his fear of the shot itself. The team aims for the prefectural tournament, but Minato's first real victory will come when he can hear that beloved sound from his own bow again.

Modern shinobi are trained in secret schools where young women sharpen ninjutsu skills and clash over the ideals that define good and evil. During Christmas in Tokyo, Asuka encounters a Youma, an ancient demonic being whose appearance signals a threat unlike the rival shinobi she has fought before.As Youma begin moving in the shadows, fighters from opposing schools and traditions are drawn into the same conflict. More than two dozen powerful shinobi, righteous and wicked alike, collide over their own versions of justice, while Asuka and her companions discover that the old division between allies and enemies may not survive the coming battle.

Beelzebub rules Pandemonium, where former angels now live and work as demons, and her name is supposed to inspire fear. Her new attendant, Myurin, quickly discovers a far less intimidating truth: his elegant ruler is a softhearted woman obsessed with anything fluffy, and much of her dignity disappears the moment official business ends. Myurin tries to preserve the image of the perfect sovereign while becoming increasingly charmed by the person behind it. Surrounded by equally peculiar demons and one awkward everyday incident after another, his dream job turns into a gentle comedy in which affection grows long before either of them knows what to call it.

The battle between the CCG and Tokyo's ghouls has entered a far more destructive phase. After leaving the Quinx Squad, Haise Sasaki carries out increasingly dangerous assignments while memories belonging to Ken Kaneki continue breaking through the identity the CCG built for him. The people he once guided are left to cope with loss and a mentor who seems to be slipping away from them.At the same time, the forces surrounding Aogiri Tree, the CCG, and the hidden powers manipulating both sides move toward open confrontation. Haise can no longer avoid deciding which memories, loyalties, and name are truly his. That choice places him at the center of a struggle that threatens both humans and ghouls, and the line separating the two becomes harder to defend with every battle.

Tae moves into Himote House in Nakano, Tokyo, where she joins sisters Tokiyo, Kinami, and Kokoro, their friend Minamo, and a talking cat named Enishi. Their shared home is filled with ordinary worries about friendship, romance, popularity, and the strange habits of the people living under one roof.Ordinary is a relative word, however, because every resident possesses a peculiar supernatural ability. The girls rarely use those powers with heroic dignity; instead, psychic talents become yet another ingredient in rambling conversations, ridiculous games, improvised fantasies, and their ongoing attempts to understand how anyone becomes popular.

The race for the Ainu gold continues, but collecting tattooed prisoner skins is no longer the only problem. Lieutenant Tsurumi seeks an advantage for the Seventh Division by creating convincing fake skins, bringing taxidermist Edogai into the scheme. Sugimoto, Asirpa, and Shiraishi meanwhile follow rumors toward new criminals and tattoo fragments whose authenticity is increasingly difficult to judge. As every faction moves closer to Abashiri Prison and the man who knows the treasure's secret, alliances become more fragile. Hijikata has his own design, Tsurumi has an army, and Sugimoto trusts only those who have proven themselves on the road. Finding the gold has become a war of information as much as a hunt, and a single false map can redirect everyone.

A year after Fairy Tail disbands, Lucy works as a reporter while Natsu and Happy return from a long training journey. The three reunite and begin searching for the scattered members, determined to rebuild the guild that became their home, only to discover that Makarov's decision to dissolve it was hiding a danger far larger than they expected.The Alvarez Empire approaches with an enormous army led by Zeref, turning all of Fiore into a battlefield. Fairy Tail's members return to fight together as secrets surrounding Natsu, Acnologia, and E.N.D. finally surface. The struggle is no longer only about restoring a guild name; it becomes the confrontation that gathers years of promises and rivalries into one final battle for the world's future.

Kirito works with the private institute Rath to test a new full-dive technology that connects directly to the human soul. During the experiments he lives inside a virtual realm called Underworld, with those memories erased whenever he returns. After an attack in the real world, Kirito awakens inside Underworld with no way to log out, yet the place feels strangely familiar.He meets Eugeo, a young man determined to keep an old promise and rescue his childhood friend Alice from the authority of the Axiom Church. The two travel and train as swordsmen, while Kirito begins realizing that Underworld's inhabitants are not ordinary game characters. Every step toward Alice leads him deeper into a system Rath created for reasons far beyond entertainment and toward the question of what makes a soul real.

Yuuta Hibiki awakens in Rikka Takarada's home with no memory of who he is, then hears a voice she cannot hear coming from an old computer in her family's shop. On the screen appears Gridman, who tells Yuuta to remember his mission, while enormous monsters loom through the city's fog without anyone else seeming to notice them. When one of those creatures becomes real and attacks, Yuuta merges with Gridman and transforms into a giant warrior capable of fighting it. He forms the Gridman Alliance with Rikka and Shou Utsumi to uncover why the monsters keep appearing. Yet the strangest part is not simply the attacks: after each disaster, the city seems to forget what happened and rebuild its reality as though the destruction and its victims had never existed at all.

Goblins are treated as the weakest monsters, so many adventurers consider missions involving them beneath their attention. People living on the frontier know the cost of that mistake. On her first quest, a young Priestess joins an inexperienced party that enters a goblin nest without enough preparation, and the expedition ends in disaster.She is rescued by an armored Silver-ranked adventurer known only as Goblin Slayer, a man who has devoted his entire life to exterminating goblins. He relies less on spectacular strength than preparation, tools, and ruthless knowledge of how his enemy behaves, leaving nothing to chance. Priestess begins accompanying him, later joined by a High Elf, Dwarf, and Lizardman. Through the jobs others overlook, she slowly sees the human being hidden behind a man who built his whole identity around one purpose.

In a future where magic remains part of everyday life, Hitomi Tsukishiro has seen the world without color since childhood, and her emotions and connection to magic have faded with it. One night, her grandmother Kohaku uses a spell prepared over sixty years and sends Hitomi back to 2018, when Kohaku herself was still in high school.Stranded in an unfamiliar time, Hitomi meets quiet artist Yuito Aoi and discovers something extraordinary: his drawings bring color back into her sight. Through new friendships, photography, and magic, she begins searching for the reason she was sent into the past and for the part of herself that disappeared long before the colors did.