* Based on the manga written and illustrated by Takahashi Rumiko and serialised in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits.
The story takes place in Maison Ikkoku, a worn and aging boarding house where Godai Yuusaku, a 20 year old college applicant lives. Though honest and good natured, he is weak willed and often taken advantage of by the offbeat and mischievous tenants who…
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* Based on the manga by Ooba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi serialised in Weekly Shounen Jump.
This recap takes place after the end of the series. A Shinigami approaches Ryuk in the Shinigami realm in order to learn more about the human world. Instead, Ryuk tells him of all the events leading up to the last story arc, about Light Yagami and his rival L. It contains updated…
Crushers: intergalactic Jacks-of-All-Trades who will take on any assignment for the right price. Crusher Joe heads a small team of these outer space troubleshooters that includes the cyborg Talos, the beautiful Alfin, and the obligatory kid sidekick Ricky. A routine assignment escorting a cryogenically frozen heiress to a medical facility goes awry when the girl goes missing…
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The date is 2002, three years after the events of Mobile Police Patlabor: The Movie. The destruction of a United Nations Labor team in south-east Asia begins the build-up to a deadly terrorist plan that threatens to send shock waves throughout Japan's military.
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* Based on an anecdote of Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu written by novelist Tanaka Yoshiki.
Preludes the 110-episodes TV series by describing the first encounter between the ambitious young man Reinhard von Musel under the imperial flag and the passive Yang Wen-li who serves a corrupting democracy. Set in an imaginative future, the story describes the first encounter between Yang and…
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Morisato Keiichi is looking forward to university life. But he does not have much luck with anything, be they clubs, love, or daily life. And as it turns out he actually was born under an unlucky star.
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* Based on the sports manga written and illustrated by Chiba Tetsuya.
Sakaguchi Matsutarou is a giant roughneck man with strength far beyond that of ordinary people. He never utters words like work hard, strive, and dream though. However, he is peerless in sumo wrestling. His greatest weakness is his own carefree personality, but he grows into a full-fledged sumo wrestler.…