Winter 2010/11

* Based on the gag comedy manga by Arai Keiichi, serialised in Shounen Ace. In Class 1-Q, Yuuko did her homework for once and scored a "1", so her friend Mio desperately tries to cheer her up. "Wind-up doll" Nano tries to cure the strong-willed 8-year-old Hakase's cold, but even the talking cat Sakamoto-san has difficulty getting Hakase to take her medicine. Yuuko, Mio, and…

* Super-deformed version of Buronson, Hara Tetsuo's post-apocalyptic fighting manga. Note: The "DD" stands for "Design Deformation," since the characters are only "two-heads-tall."

In the year 2050, a new craze sweeps the world by storm. LBX - Little Battles eXperience. Collecting model robots may have just been a mere hobby, but LBX has changed that. Now, these robots fight each other in a competition to determine who is the strongest! Yamano Ban is one of the many youths enamored with LBX. However, due to his mother's disapproval, he has never tried…

* Based on The Magic of Chocolate manga by Mizuho Rino. The "bittersweet, mysterious story" revolves around Aikawa Chocolat, a chocolatière who runs a shop called Chocolat Noir. She can grant wishes to the troubled people who visit her shop if they give her something precious in exchange. Source: MAL Note: Episodes of this anime were included on DVDs bundled with issues of…

The battle continues between Chi-Sui Maru, a mosquito, and Nobuo, a common office worker.

* Based on a manga by Tamura Ryuuhei, serialised in Shounen Jump. Oga Tatsumi, the strongest juvenile delinquent, is a first year at Ishiyama High, the school for delinquents. He tells the story of how he found baby Beelbou to his best (and only) friend Furuichi Takayuki: One day while fishing by the river (actually, taking revenge on people trying to kill him in his sleep),…

* An original short selected as part of JAniCA's Young Animator Training Project. Mari-chan is a very young girl having dreams of being forced to eat her least favourite food: carrots, peppers, and milk. After an incident at her kindergarten where she forces herself to eat these vegetables and drink milk, she is unexpectedly visited by Ninninman, Piiman, and Milk. Source:…

* Based on a light novel series by Inoue Kenji with illustrations by Haga Yui. The school festival ("Seiryousai") at Fumizaki Academy is upon the colourful high school Class 2-F. Though, attracting visitors to their Chinese Cafe "European" can be quite exasperating, especially with rivals from another class publicly badmouthing their cafe. Thus it is time for class 2-F's…

In 1924 in a small, fictional French-speaking European country of Saubure, Kujou Kazuya, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets Victorique de Blois, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the…

Having a loving family, close friends, experiencing times of joy and times of sadness. These are the things that make up an ordinary life. Kaname Madoka is a normal 2nd year middle-schoolgirl who lives such an ordinary life. Until, that is, a strange encounter occurs. She does not know if this encounter is coincidence, or the vagaries of fate, but two things are certain...…