Once upon a time, when he lived in the forest with his parents and younger sister, Budori Gusuko’s life was wonderful. Then the weather began to change, the lands and forest died, and the other villagers moved away. The tragedy took Budori’s family, leaving him alone in the world, wandering. At long last he found another place to live, but once again the weather began to change, ultimately taking everything he treasured once more. Now, an older Budori has found a job working with people who study volcanoes… but when the weather starts to change again, Budori must a decision. A decision that might save many but could ultimately bring an end to THE LIFE OF BUDORI GUSUKO. Rating: TV-14
No one knows the real identity, age or even gender of the Master Thief known as the Queen, but once they set their desires upon a target, it’s as good as taken. Until the Queen’s plans for the spectacular gem known as the Rose of Linden are thrown by a rogues’ gallery of circus performers stealing the jewel first! A thief with their own private Airship is used to changing plans on the fly, however. Will hypnotists be dazzled, and acrobats fall? And will the last laugh be upon a criminal clown? The greatest show on Earth is about to unfold in MIRAGE QUEEN PREFERS CIRCUS! Rating: TV-14
When you’re killed in one reality and wake up as a sentient sword in a world where magic is real, what else can you do with your steely new existence except become an adventurer? Even though his shiny new form can levitate itself around, our slicing implement without a name also craves a wielder: a mighty warrior with whom to partner, explore and slay monsters. Instead, he gets Fran, a young cat girl, former slave, and trouble magnet who names him Teacher. It’s as odd a pairing as they come, and whether they’ll be sharp enough to make the cut in the realm of high adventure will be anyone’s guess in REINCARNATED AS A SWORD! Rating: TV-14 (V,L)
When a young tanuki (a dog-like creature resembling a raccoon) named Mameda tries to disguise herself as a human and cause mischief, it turns out that modern city slickers are just too sharp for Mameda’s country tricks. But then Mameda discovers Rakugo, a Japanese entertainment form in which a storyteller uses a fan, unique gestures, and clever wordplay to tell tales with surprise twists and endings. It’s not exactly the same thing as being a trickster… but then again, it sort of is! The tale that follows will have more than a few twists as a teller of tales takes on tutoring one untried tailed trickster in MY MASTER HAS NO TAIL! Rating: TV-14
After being bitten by the vampire Nazuna while wandering late at night, insomniac student Ko Yamori unhappily learns that he’s NOT becoming a vampire himself. Apparently, if you’re bitten by a vampire that you’re not in love with, you just get a bloodthirsty friend instead of a supernatural blood connection. But being vamped is one of the few things to ever intrigue Ko, so he makes it his goal to fall in love with Nazuna. Of course, Ko’s friends aren’t thrilled with his new vampiric ambitions, and it’s not even clear if Nazuna will bite on the offer should Ko try to answer the CALL OF THE NIGHT! Rating: TV-14 (V,D)
Putting schoolgirls in vintage military tanks and letting them run amok on a battlefield may sound completely crazy, but that’s Tankery, the addictive sport/history lesson/free-for-all that’s exploding at schools across Japan! Except at Oarai Academy, which is why Miho Nishizumi chose to hide there after drawing her “gun-fu” legend Mother’s ire. Then Oarai is caught up in a Tankery competition to save the school, and the resulting arms build-up requires Miho to say farewell to her arms! It’s a Tank Heaven for not so little girls as they blow things up in the most delightful ways in the uber-sized and bomb-tastic OVA and TV series collection of GIRLS UND PANZER! Rating: TV-14 (V)
The members of STARISH were already close, but the events of the Maji LOVE LIVE Kingdom concert have bound them into a single unit, harmonizing their lives as well as their voices. Now there’s just one thing on all their minds: what’s next? It’s a question that no one has an answer to yet, so maybe it’s time to take a little break to ponder big thoughts as a group. But, of course, the daily duties of being an Idol can never be completely escaped, and just as they’re starting to catch a little R&R, they’re summoned back to the Shining Office for something huge in the two film UTANO PRINCESAMA MAJI LOVE STARISH TOURS collection! Rating: TV-14
Using amazing weapons powered by super-science, the international terrorist organization known as GALACTOR is out to steal all of Earth’s resources for itself and its inhuman masters. Mankind’s only hope? The International Science Organization and their elite strike force, the Science Ninja Team! But these five young heroes will have their work cut out for them as they take on the seemingly impossible task of defeating GALACTOR’s horrific arsenal of mechanized weapons of mass destruction and endless armies of henchmen. Can costumed commandos Ken the Eagle, Joe the Condor, Jun the Swallow, Jinpei the Sparrow and Ryu the Owl really overcome such overwhelming odds? Utilizing the incredible technology and fighting techniques created by Dr. Nambu, and with the mighty ship the God Phoenix at their command, they just might! It’s time for the bad guys to get old-schooled science-ninja style as Japan’s original super team defeat evil, one flying kick at a time, in the legendary, one and only GATCHAMAN! Rating: TV-PG (V)
The exploding megalopolis of 1968 Tokyo is a wonderland filled with constant innovations, tempting opportunities, and beautiful girls! Unfortunately for young Arsene Lupin (the Third), his father, Arsene Lupin II, insists that young Lupin stay on the right side of the law and avoid those temptations… even though Lupin III’s Granddad, Arsene Lupin I, the world’s greatest thief, has stuffed young Lupin’s head with the tricks of his nefarious trade! Then Lupin III encounters similarly trouble-prone schoolmate Daisuke Jigen, and when bad boy meets bad boy, what do you think they’re going to do? It’s the start of a beautiful friendship and the wildest crime spree of all time in LUPIN ZERO! Rating: TV-MA (S)
Protecting the land from monsters is a noble profession, but Kikuru wants to retire from the Guild and explore other options while he’s still young. Before he can ride off into the sunset, however, he’ll have to find acceptable replacements to care for the Guild in his absence. Lucky for him, four new recruits just turned in their applications! The catch? They’re all young women, and the local monster population has been developing some VERY disturbing new appetites when it comes to female adventurers. Now Kikuru must guide Hitamuki, Maidena, Toxico and Hanabata through one sticky situation after another as he tries to leave the IMMORAL GUILD! Rating: TV-MA (V,D,S)
Cid doesn’t want to be a flashy hero or a dastardly villain. He wants to operate in the shadows and pull the strings of society through wit and cleverness. So, when he’s isekai’d to another world armed with magic powers (and an overactive imagination), he forms Shadow Garden, an underground organization that fights an evil cult he totally made up. But while Cid happily roleplays his favorite antihero tropes, little does he know Shadow Garden’s recruits treat his every lie as gospel, and worse yet? That “fake” cult is actually real, and they’re not happy his power fantasy just impeded their plan to gain ultimate power in THE EMINENCE IN SHADOW! Rating: TV-14 (V,D)
Some people hate standing out from the crowd. Others are desperate to, sometimes even living inside a fantasy of their own making where they have secret knowledge and hidden powers. This is “chunibyo”, a condition that Yuta Togashi lived with for several years. But he’s done with that now, and would be looking forward to his first year in high school… Except the girl who lives above him is still a chuni, and believes that Yuta’s her soul mate! And when Yuta’s previous “one true soul mate” comes back into his life with her own chuni version of reality, Yuta may just have to surrender to the inevitable in the complete mind-twisting, multi-series collection of LOVE, CHUNIBYO, AND OTHER DELUSIONS! Rating: TV-14 (D,L)
She was trained to be the Clan of the Sword’s ultimate assassin, but the Clan is destroyed and only she remains. Now, even though there is a price on her own head, Alka must honor the Code by which she was raised. Her clan will be avenged. No matter how mighty the armies of the Param Empire and the demonic powers of their battle leader Jin Valel may seem, no matter how many assassins and bounty hunters they send to vanquish her, nothing will stop the emotionless killing machine they have unleashed upon themselves. For this is her final mission and she will cut that path of wrath through their screaming flesh in BLADE & SOUL! Rating: TV-MA
Asahi loved performing so much that she still haunts her old talent agency… even after she died in an accident! Yuya, meanwhile, only became an Idol for the money, and practically sleepwalks through his performances. Just when he’s about to be fired, Yuya encounters Asahi’s ghost and they realize that they’re the solutions to each other’s problems: Asahi can possess Yuya’s body when he’s onstage! Sure, the fact that she was a girl and he’s not does make things a bit strange, and no one knows what to make of Yuya’s “spirited” new performing style. Still, this IS showbiz and if the fans are happy, that’s all that matters to the PHANTOM OF THE IDOL! Rating: TV-14
Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière’s name is longer than her list of positive accomplishments at the Tristain Academy of Magic. Cursed by her fellow students with the horrible nickname “Louise the Zero”, she hopes that summoning a surprisingly strong Familiar will turn her luck around… but instead of some cool mythical creature, Louise summons a normal human from Japan! Now Sato Hiraga is magically bound to an incompetent sorceress, but there may be more to her seemingly mediocre magical powers than meets the eye in the spellbindingly complete collection of FAMILIAR OF ZERO! Rating: TV-14 (D,V)
Naoto Takayama has always been loco for locomotives and dreams of sitting in the big cab up front. When he’s accepted to the Rail Training Academy, he hooks up with Haruka and Aoi, two well-engineered young women he already knew, and a beefy guy named Sho, and they turn out to work so well together that their trainee tickets are upgraded to on-the-job training on a very different career track: security! But at least Naoto still gets to blow a whistle, and there’s always something interesting going on… even if that may mean something life-threatening like train robbers, thieves, and bomb threats, as they all keep working on the railroad, all the live long day, in RAIL WARS! Rating: TV-MA (D,S)
Chihaya Ayase’s obsession with the card game Karuta has already begun to bear fruit, and the fledgling Mizusawa High School competitive team that she helped form has stunned the karuta playing community by winning the national high school team tournament. That’s just the beginning for Chihaya, however, and now the young card mistress has set her sights on an even more impossible task: taking on grand master Wakamiya Shinobu and wresting the title of Queen away for herself. As difficult as everything has been before, it will seem easy compared to the task now ahead of her, and her teammates look to be equally challenged, especially Taichi Mashima, who’s finally made it to Class A. Has he finally learned enough to challenge Arata Wataya? Only the cards know the future as Chihaya and Crew hit the decks in CHIHAYAFURU 3! Rating: TV-14
How low can someone go in the mammoth Dungeon of Orario and still return? With Bell recovering from his last fight, the Hestia Familia receives a mission that they can’t refuse: traveling deeper into the Dungeon than they ever have before! Fortunately, missions are what friends are for, and Hestia manages to borrow a few of the Miach and Takemikazuchi Familias’ heaviest hitters. Unfortunately, no one listens to Cassandra’s warnings once again and things immediately start to go wrong. Now the team is split, Ryu’s accused of a horrible crime, and Bell charges ahead to try clearing her name as everyone races to the lower floors in the first half-series collection of IS IT WRONG TO TRY TO PICK UP GIRLS IN A DUNGEON? SEASON 4! Danmachi - Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Season 4 Part 1! Rating: TV-MA (D,V)
The heat is on again for Peter Grill as the world’s most powerful warrior finds himself in the crosshairs of the lusty ladies who seek his potent DNA to create the perfect offspring. Why can’t they accept that he just wants to marry his fiancée and concentrate on being a hero and fighting goblins and stuff? Oh wait, they probably do it because, despite his sister’s attempts to keep him from wandering astray, this is one Peter who keeps ending up in the wrong… er… place at the wrong time. You really can’t blame the girls for trying when they’ve got a proven working strategy in PETER GRILL AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S TIME – SUPER EXTRA! Rating: TV-MA (S)
Orphaned Sarasa Feed just graduated from the Royal Alchemist Academy and is now a full-fledged alchemist! She longs for a life of luxury, but there’s only one place Sarasa can afford to set up shop — and her dilapidated new digs are way out in the sticks! Stuck in the middle of nowhere with a business to run and supplies to gather from a very dangerous natural world, Sarasa has her work cut out for her as she transmutes this bad location into a golden opportunity in MANAGEMENT OF A NOVICE ALCHEMIST! Rating: TV-14
Minato’s return to archery may have helped Kazemai High’s Kyudo Club win a prefectural tournament, but it’s a poor bowman who expects an arrow to fly the same flight every time. With the entry of a radical new team, one of whose members is Minato’s former upperclassman, the old rivalry between Kazemai and Kirisaki becomes a triangle with the upstart team from Tsujimine as serious contenders. And even as the men’s team struggles to adjust to the new paradigm, competition doubles again as the Kazemai women’s team of Rika, Yuna, and Noa prepares to enter their first tourney as well! Prepare to be aquiver as each new arrow makes its mark in TSURUNE - THE LINKING SHOT! Rating: TV-14
Lady Elianna Bernstein’s entire family loves to read, and they retain so much knowledge that they’re considered a national resource. Despite that, they’ve always remained politically neutral… until Elianna agrees to pretend to become betrothed to the Kingdom’s heir, keeping unwanted suitors away from the Prince and giving Elianna access to the Royal Library. But when she notices that Prince Christopher might be seeing another woman, Elianna realizes she may not be on the same page that she thought she was on concerning her part in this story. Has she missed some important subtext? And if so, perhaps it’s time for this avid reader to start changing her plot and write a new chapter in the saga of the Prince and the BILBLIOPHILE PRINCESS! Rating: TV-14
1968: a year of massive change and social upheaval. As science unleashes new miracles, the U.S. war in Vietnam approaches its zenith, and radical counterculture movements prompt a dawning generation to reevaluate almost every aspect of life. While others protest and riot in the streets, a disfigured medical student in Japan faces a different battle, confronting the ethical challenges of a system torn between innovation, bureaucracy, and corruption. To fight from within risks Kuroo Hazama’s own promising career as a surgeon, while another, darker, path draws him towards a world of illegal transplants, organized crime, and revolution. At long last, the origins of Osamu Tezuka’s legendary vigilante surgeon are unveiled in YOUNG BLACK JACK! Rating: TV-MA (D,L,V)
If the actions of fictional characters can influence the lives of people in the “real” world, can the real world also influence the fictional characters? Find out as Aoto Endo and Shihono Kobayashi play the game Love Me Magically!, in which villainess Lieselotte Riefenstahl seems inevitably doomed due to the game’s intrinsic story, structure, and programming. Aoto, however, believes that Lieselotte is not truly evil and simply misunderstood, and as she espouses this conviction, something strange occurs… the character of Siegwald, Lieselotte’s fiancé, starts to hear and act upon Aoto’s ideas! But will Siegwald’s new behavior lead Lieselotte’s horrible life to some less than horrible outcomes? See if the bad girl can be saved in ENDO AND KOBAYASHI LIVE! THE LATEST ON TSUNDERE VILLAINESS LIESELOTTE! Rating: TV-14
It’s not easy being an orphaned refugee, especially when you’re not on the planet where you were born, but Carole Stanley still has big ambitions. However, while she dreams of forging a career in music, something isn’t quite right yet. There’s a spark that’s missing. Tuesday Simmons has lived a life of comfort, so no one expects it when the shy young woman suddenly runs off to another city, taking little more than her beloved guitar and a need to perform with her. When they meet, Tuesday’s spark ignites Carole’s fire, and their musical ambitions begin burning anew. Achieving their dreams will be hard in a world where music is created by AIs, but if they don’t give up, soon all the worlds will know the names CAROLE AND TUESDAY! Rating: TV-MA (L,D)
Becoming a farmer in a fantasy world was supposed to make up for Hiraku Machio’s terrible previous life. However, his new life gets off to a rocky start when his reincarnation begins in a place called the Forest of Death. Although he has a new, stronger body and an all-powerful farming tool, his attempts at living an idyllic farm life are constantly interrupted by nuisances like lizardmen, dragons, and alcoholic slimes. And did we mention the beautiful vampire and angel who move in with him, or the elven refugees who just made Hiraku’s forest their new home? Okay, it may not be what Hiraku’s always dreamed of, but at least he’s a farmer, and that’s all just part of his new FARMING LIFE IN ANOTHER WORLD! Rating: TV-14 (V,D)
Despite recruiting assistance from other Familias, the Hestia Familia’s mission to the lowest level of the Dungeon they have ever been to is perched on the brink of disaster. Not only is the team shattered and split, but something is wrong with the Dungeon, as monsters are appearing on levels where they’ve never appeared before. As a battered Bell and Ryu are pursued across the 37th floor by the monstrous Juggernaut, the rest of the team faces off with the dangerous Amphisbaena on the 27th floor in a battle that not all may survive. The pressure keeps mounting and danger lurks around every tunnel corner in the staggering conclusion of Season 4 of IS IT WRONG TO TRY TO PICK UP GIRLS IN A DUNGEON?! Rating: TV-MA (V,D)
Like a bolt of lightning out of the blue, tsurune - the sound of a bowstring as an arrow is unleashed - plants a goal in the brain of young Minato Narumiya… a desire to become an archer himself. The path hasn’t been easy and for a while he lost his way, but after joining the Kyudo Club of Kazemai High School, he’s back and focused on his target. As rivalries flare within the fires of competition, Minato and his teammates must now win the ultimate battle that every archer faces. The one in their own minds. Then, and only then, can they release their arrows to create that perfect sound in TSURUNE THE MOVIE – THE FIRST SHOT! Rating: TV-14
There is a phenomenon called the Urashima Tunnel, which exists outside the boundaries that constrain our reality. Unbound by such restrictions, it can achieve the otherwise impossible, journey wherever a mind can conceive, and bring the one thing that they most desire. But the cost of using the tunnel is staggering: a portion of one’s own existence. Yet… when Kaoru Tono discovers something matching the Tunnel’s description, he can’t help but think of the sister he lost five years ago. Can the tunnel really reunite them? And how is his school’s beautiful new transfer student involved? The answers await down a path into mystery in THE TUNNEL TO SUMMER, THE EXIT OF GOODBYES. Rating: TV-14
