Shintani Kaoru

The Cleopatra Corns Group, aka Cleopatra DC, is a powerful financial conglomerate controlling most of the US economy, almost as powerful as the US government itself. At the top of the organization is the beautiful, smart and brave Ms. Cleo, the group's young, talented chairman. This is convenient — it means she can handle the repair bill when that aeroplane crashes into her…

For three years Akira has been saving up for a computer. When a model 9821 goes on sale he runs to the store only to find it sold out in five minutes. Discouraged, walking home he discovers a man in an alley who happens to have the computer he was looking for. Excited he buys the computer and runs home only to find that he did not purchase a 9821 but a 2198, a super-advanced…

* Based on the car racing manga by Shintani Kaoru that serialised in Big Comic Superior from 1988 to 1990. The Seiyo racing team enters the world-famous Safari Rally, led by Japanese hero Todoroki Gen and his French navigator Rov Row. Source: Anime Encyclopedia

The Asran Mercenary Air Force is not the kind of military life one usually enters willingly. Once you're in, there are only three ways out: serve three years (in as dangerous a place as Asran, that's a near-miracle), earn $1,500,000 (a sum almost impossible to attain), or desert (and face the dreaded consequences if you get caught). Young Kazama Shin appeared to have it all:…

Deep in the sandy plains of the Middle Eastern kingdom of Asran, Japanese photojournalist Makoto Shinjou travels to the remote airbase Area 88 to document the activities of the mercenaries who destroy the country's enemies for a living. Among their ranks is Shin Kazama, a Japanese ace pilot who was tricked by his former best friend into signing a contract with the Asran's…

Kazama Shin, tricked and forced into fighting for the remote country of Arslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. As the war rages on, Shin has to deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as he tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare. Source: ANN Note: This is a…