Hirano Yoshihisa

* Based on a fantasy science fiction shounen manga series by Mashima Hiro. Cosmic Era year X492… A time when countless people venture into space to travel between stars. Rebecca is a "B-cuber" online video streamer who comes across Shiki, a young boy that can control gravity, on the robot-inhabited planet Granbell. Shiki follows the teachings of his foster guardian, the…

* 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…

* Based on the manga by Ooba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi serialised in Weekly Shounen Jump. This recap is a continuation of the first one. It recounts shortly the previous special and continues to retell the final arc of the series. It contains updated dialogue, as well as a few new scenes. Note: This is a TV special which aired on Nippon Television in Japan on August 22, 2008.

* Based on a seinen manga by Nakata Yumi, serialised in Comic High. Hayama Nayu — a newly enrolled junior high school girl — has quite strong beliefs on how to properly wear underwear. She is able to see if women around her are wearing fitting underclothes and has to point out these lingerie faux pas. In order to educate the students about the proper knowledge of underwear,…

Note: A non-commercial educational anime, not intended for theatrical release or television broadcast, part of the "Save our mother earth" project (ガラスの地球を救え!) screened in many areas and schools throughout Japan in order to raise the awareness about the global warming. The project is named after the late Tezuka Osamu's essays written about environmental issues.

Bored with his deteriorating world and the laconic way of his fellows, shinigami Ryuk drops his Death Note on Earth and watches to see if it stirs up anything interesting. His plan succeeds beyond his wildest expectations when the Death Note is found by brilliant high school senior Yagami Light, who is also bored with a world he considers rotten. Although initially he regards…

* Based on a manga of the same name by Yoshinaga Yunosuke, serialised in Shounen Blood, Flex Comix Blood and Comic Meteor. The inhabitants of the continent of Cruzon are born with the ability to freely control quartz. Technology based on this power allows them to perform a great multitude of tasks such as shoot projectiles and pilot Golems (mobile suits). Rygart Arrow is an…

A young man named Rygart Arrow is a resident of a world where people can use "magic". This magic is the ability to control and empower quartz, doing many things from creating light to operating machinery to riding giant mecha called Golems. Rygart, however, is one of the few exceptions; as an un-sorcerer, he cannot utilize quartz, making many aspects of life difficult. Despite…

Aikawa Maki, 16 years old, is a first year senior high school student known as the Air Master. An invincible street fighter. Most of the time, she is just like a normal girl but she's a different person when she's out in the streets. Once a gymnast of Japan, Maki is now establishing and reviving the legend of "airborne street fighting" as an Air Master. A fighting style based…

Schoolboys battle each other in gyroscope tournaments to become the top Beyblader. In the series-and in real life-the gyroscopes are spun using a launching device comprising a small connector unit and a plastic "blade," which releases the spinning gyroscope onto the playing surface. The object of the game is for Beybladers to knock each other's gyroscopes, which are about an…