Spring 2010

* Based on a seinen manga by Tsunamoto Masaya and Tsujitomo serialised in Weekly Morning. In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan's top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost 5 matches in a row. The losses haven't done much to team morale, because it was…

* Based on Idea Factory's Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan romance adventure game aimed at female players. Upon learning that her father disappeared, a teenaged girl dresses as boy and travels to the city of Kyoto in hopes of finding him. On the first day in the city, she happens to witness a sword fight between some samurai and some demon warriors. Taken into custody by the…

Note: This is an animated version of the "Episode 0" manga, and released on 3,000 limited-edition DVDs that were given to winners of a mail-in competition which took place between the period of 16.11.2009 to 15.01.2010. The DVDs were shipped in April of 2010.

* Based on the hit light novel series by Nomura Mizuki. Inoue Konoha, a second-year high school boy who suffers a trauma, is one day partly forced to join the literary club by the club president Amano Tooko. Tooko, a high school senior who calls herself the Literary Girl, is actually a spectre that devours stories — tearing pages from books to munch on them. Thus, every day…

Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you're a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that's been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term Odd Jobs means REALLY ODD jobs. But when some more than slightly suspicious secrets from the shadows of OJG founder Sakata Gintoki's somewhat shady former samurai past and a new pair of odd jobs…

* Based on a seinen manga by Naitou Yasuhiro, serialised in YK Comics. In Macca, a town surrounded by quicksand: with rumours spreading that the legendary robber Gasback has his sights set on the town, mayor Kepler has brought together bounty hunters to protect the town. These bounty hunters have been following Gasback from town to town in hopes of bagging the prize. Meryl…

* Based on Mizuki Shoutarou's magical fantasy romance novel series of the same name, with illustrations by Itou Souichi. Sai Akuto aims to become part of his country's highest order of magicians and contribute to society as one of its clergy. On the day he is admitted into the Constan Magical Academy, his aptitude test predicts the following though: "Future Occupation...…

* Based on the seinen manga of the same name written and illustrated by Ditama Bow, serialised in Bessatsu Young Magazine. Suminoe Keita is a male third-year junior high school student studying for his high school entrance exams. He is living in a home with his older twin stepsisters, Ako and Riko, who kiss, flash, and display their love for him in public. They help him…

* Based on a novel by Morimi Tomihiko. The story of The Tatami Galaxy follows an unnamed third year university student in Kyoto, Japan and what he views as his wasted time in a particular club (also called circle) at his university. He meets Ozu, another student, whose encouragement sets him on a mission of dubious morality. He contemplates his affection for a second year…