Summer 2021

Chatan notices that reporter Lee Ji-eun, once energetic about her work, has become exhausted by the endless stream of gloomy stories she is forced to cover. Her discouragement is no accident: the Line gang has begun a plan to spread sadness and frustration throughout the city.When Chatan calls for help, a lively new group of Samba Carbots arrives with animal partners and an infectious rhythm. Their cheerful rescues repeatedly disrupt the villains' schemes, but the enemy soon escalates from making people gloomy to a far more dangerous plan built around despair, calling even more powerful Carbots into action.

Jahy used to be the Dark Realm's feared second-in-command, surrounded by power, servants, and an enormous mana crystal. Then a magical girl shattered that crystal, destroying the realm and throwing Jahy into the human world with most of her magic gone. Her imposing adult form now lasts only when she can gather enough mana; otherwise she is stuck in the body of a small child living in a cramped apartment. Restoring the Dark Realm requires recovering the scattered crystal fragments, but first Jahy has to survive rent, part-time work, hunger, and a landlady who is unimpressed by former demonic status. Her pride insists that her fall is temporary, even as ordinary human life keeps defeating her in increasingly embarrassing ways.

Sayaka returns to Mitakihara carrying a painful truth about the fate of magical girls, while Mami remains under the control of the Wings of Magius. Madoka and Homura choose to help, and in Kamihama Yachiyo continues searching for Iroha after her disappearance scatters the girls of Mikazuki Villa. Iroha awakens inside the very organization she opposed and learns that Magius's promise of salvation demands a price she never understood. Former friends now stand on opposite sides as Walpurgisnacht is drawn toward the city to serve a dangerous plan. The struggle is no longer only about finding Ui; it is about whether magical girls can escape their fate without making innocent people pay for their freedom.

Eight hundred years ago, demons nearly erased humanity until desperate prayers gave birth to the Idaten, fast and overwhelmingly powerful battle deities who sealed the demons away. Centuries of peace pass, leaving the current generation with no knowledge of their natural enemy beyond stories, except for Rin, who survived the ancient war and trains Hayato, Ysley, and Paula for the possibility of its return. That day arrives when the Zoble Empire succeeds in reviving demons. The new conflict is not a repeat of the old one. Demons have learned to use human society, politics, and science, while the Idaten themselves disagree sharply about the value of human life. The coming struggle has no simple rules and no side that remains entirely pure.

In 2041, a world war has reshaped society, and belief in supernatural powers or anything beyond accepted human reality is treated by the state as a dangerous idea requiring correction. Brothers Naoto and Naoya Kirihara genuinely possess psychic abilities and have spent years isolated inside a facility that kept their existence hidden from the world. When the barrier imprisoning them fails, they emerge into a society with no place for people like them. On the other side are brothers Yuya and Takuya Kuroki, members of a special enforcement unit assigned to hunt such threats. A pursuit between two pairs of brothers begins with each side labeled the enemy, but gradually points toward a truth connecting their fates to something larger than the state permits anyone to believe.

Twelve-year-old Koushi Nagumo loses his home and is then abandoned by his father, leaving him with nowhere to go. After collapsing from hunger, he is rescued by Mineru Wachi and brought to the Goddess' Dormitory, a residence filled with college women famous for being difficult to manage. The solution she offers is strange but practical: Koushi can receive food and a room if he becomes the dormitory mother, handling cooking, cleaning, and order. The problem is that the five residents make ordinary management nearly impossible, from the androphobic Atena to Mineru's reckless scientific experiments. Koushi tries to perform his duties seriously and gradually finds, inside all the chaos, a new home and an unconventional family.

Kanon Shibuya fails to enter her new school's music program because fear overwhelms her whenever she sings in front of people, so she decides to abandon the thing she loves rather than face that disappointment again. Then she meets Tang Keke, a passionate fan of school idols who sees something in Kanon's voice worth fighting for. The two begin trying to form a group at the brand-new Yuigaoka Girls' High School, a place with no history or traditions to inherit, but Ren Hazuki opposes the idea and the school demands results before supporting them. As Chisato, Sumire, and eventually Ren join, the five become Liella!, and Kanon learns that standing onstage does not require fear to disappear; it means singing even while fear remains.

Ryuuhei Oda has never forgotten the mysterious death of his older brother or the strange mark left near his body. Years later, he lives as an energetic high school student devoted to kickboxing until a peculiar creature bites him and triggers a distorted dream filled with unnatural beings. The nightmare soon begins spilling into reality, and Ryuuhei discovers that he can transform into a fighter capable of confronting monsters from the dream world. As the mysterious Drops spread twisted desires through Shibuya and new allies reveal that they know more than they say, the mark tied to his brother's death appears again. Protecting the city becomes inseparable from uncovering the truth that has followed him since childhood.

Yuusuke Yotsuya and his companions are summoned once more to the world of the Game Master's quests, this time with Keita Torii joining the party. Their new objective sends them to Jiffon Island to offer a buffalo at Vaikdamnia, but what appears straightforward soon reveals a community trapped in a terrifying arrangement with orcs: livestock is surrendered in exchange for the residents being spared. The assigned mission quickly becomes a struggle involving the fate of the entire island. As the group is forced to confront how real this world and its people truly are, completing the quest is no longer enough; they must decide what kind of consequences they are willing to leave behind.

Pleasant Goat and Wolffy are accidentally thrown 15 years into the future, where Green Green Grassland and its residents have changed beyond recognition. Their way home is tied to a mysterious Elephant Star Stone that has been shattered into pieces and scattered across this unfamiliar era.Together with the future generation of young goats, the unlikely partners begin collecting the fragments. A hidden enemy is hunting the same pieces, however, turning every discovery into a struggle and forcing Pleasant Goat and Wolffy to uncover what happened during the years they missed.

After abandoning her idol career, Fuuka Miyazawa boards a flight to Okinawa instead of returning home and eventually wanders into Gama Gama Aquarium. The aging aquarium is already struggling to survive, but its acting director, eighteen-year-old Kukuru Misakino, refuses to let the place filled with her memories disappear. Fuuka asks to work there and is drawn into a world of demanding animal care, eccentric visitors, and moments of mysterious beauty that seem possible only inside Gama Gama. As summer moves toward the aquarium's planned closure, Fuuka and Kukuru grow close while confronting what happens when a cherished dream can no longer continue in the form they imagined.

Tohru has settled into life as Kobayashi's maid, Kanna is comfortable at school, and Elma, Fafnir, and Lucoa have each found their own place among humans. By Kobayashi's standards, daily life is almost peaceful until signs of an unfamiliar dragon's power appear on a nearby hill. The dragon responsible is Ilulu, a radical member of the Chaos faction who sees Tohru's attachment to humans as a betrayal of what dragons should be and challenges her violently. Yet Ilulu becomes even more curious about Kobayashi herself: how did an ordinary human bring so many dragons into her life? Instead of ending with one battle, Ilulu becomes part of their world and begins discovering things about humans that do not match what she was taught.

Reiji Kirio used to be an exhausted office worker whose life contained little beyond work. Then he suddenly wakes in another world and discovers two abilities far more useful than they first sound: appraisal and medicine creation. Rather than chasing adventure or power, Reiji chooses the quiet life he never had and opens a drugstore with the wolf-like Noela and the ghost Mina. The shop never stays completely peaceful, because townspeople arrive with strange problems requiring equally unusual remedies, from ordinary exhaustion to daily troubles that have no ready-made prescription. Reiji is determined to live slowly this time, but the customers passing through his door make certain that a relaxed life never becomes a boring one.

For SolidS, Growth, SOARA, and QUELL, the next major goal is Tsukino Talent Productions' 2021 Summer Carnival. The two-day event will end with all four units sharing one stage, which means their usual material is not enough: each group must prepare new songs and choreography suited to the scale of the performance. Rehearsals, everyday work, and life behind the scenes reveal how the members continue to grow both as musicians and as teammates. As the carnival draws closer, every unit has to turn its own style into part of a concert that can only succeed if all four shine together.