Anime starting in Autumn 2002 605w67

A flash animation remake of the Ginga Tetsudou 999 series.

As the relationship between Minawa, enters their lives and becomes attached to Mahoro. All the while, the number of days before Mahoro is to shut down decreases steadily.

Source: ANN

Monkey Typhoon tells the story of three asobots, a form of robots - whose general title is a portmanteau of the words association and robot - headed by Gokuu, who are assisted in their journeys by the human, Sanzou, the son of the creators of the asobots along with Susie, Tongou and Joe. Later on they are ed by Mion and her sister Shion (who is actually a member of Professor D's quartet but later on is saved by Gokuu). Their quest is to stop their world's destruction by collecting the legendary 49 keys to unlock the twin headed dragon door. Along the way the asobots gain the ability to evolve further such as one of Joe's daggers soon allow him to wield the Feather Blade, Tongou's Chain Hammer evolves into the Megaton Hammer, Gokuu's Joystick also evolves but has no new name, instead it gains 4 evolution keys allowing Gokuu power over different elements and new abilities such as the improved Easter Wind and Fire Vortex Revolution. Together, in their many voyages, they come across several foes and enemies such as Loki, Professor D, the Quartet, Dobberman King, and many more, as well as grow united in their friendship.

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Narumi Madoka, Ayumu is constantly preoccupied by the last words his brother spoke: Blade Children. As a series of mysteries arise, Ayumu uses his formidable detective skills to solve the crimes. But it is always the larger mysteries that continue to loom over him. Who are the Blade Children? Why did his brother disappear?

Source: animeacademy.com

Never-ending space. A whole variety of people from many many planets live in this world. Surrounded by a beautiful ocean, Planet Jetter's capitol Baybaytown is a multi-ethnic group town with immigrants from many countries. Shirobon is one of the of the Space Police Group which bases here. Shirobon is from Planet Bomber, but in his planet, chosen individuals with kindness and courage have various skills to manipulate the Bomb and is called Bomberman.

Shirobon is still weak and has many things to learn, but he takes after his older brother Mighty's will of by continuing their Space Police work while also confronting the Space Stealing Group, the Hige-Hige Group lead by Bagura.

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The story revolves around a 9-year old boy by the name of Hanada Ichiro living in a small-town in rural Japan. He is a menace in the area in which he lives in and one day, he gets knocked down by a car when he's up to his dirty pranks. After that accident, apart from getting a nasty scar and going bald, he is able to see ghosts and monsters. They usually have some requests for him to fulfill which annoys Ichiro, but he does fulfill them willingly or unwillingly. He is accompanied in his adventures by his friends Souta and Kei-chan, and his dog Jiro. The story is poignant and very touching.

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Animated 2002 short film produced by Studio Ghibli for their near exclusive use in the Ghibli Museum. It features famous director Miyazaki Hayao himself as narrator (in the form of a humanoid pig, reminiscent of Porco from Porco Rosso), telling the story of flight and the many machines imagined to achieve it.

Note: The film could also be seen on the in-flight entertainment system used by Japan Airlines.

After a long time, Ani has decided to leave the house and lives on his own. The girls have also decided to split up and most of them are living separately as well. But none of them has forgotten about their brother and they still stick together to meet him, or their sisters.

Note: In the 13 episodes telling two stories each, the series continues the stories about the lives of the 12 sisters and the brother they all love so much.

Amano Ginji are known as the GetBackers whose motto is "If it is stolen, we can steal it back!". And the GetBackers' success rate is 100%.

Always waiting around the Honky Tonk, clients call in to ask the GetBackers to retrieve something for them. And so, Ban and Ginji go through many weird and bizarre cases as they set forth to get back the belongings...

Heliopolis, a so-called neutral space colony was holding a top-secret weapons research facility, producing Gundams for the Athrun Zala, as one of the hijackers of the 5 Gundams, who sides with ZAFT. Being a Coordinator, he is the only one who can pilot the Gundam. But Kira is not with ZAFT, even though they're his own kind, nor the Alliance. Since the Alliance is the only place he could turn to at the time, he sides with them. He pilots the Gundam to protect his friends, and to fight his best friend, which pains both of them. It's a war between individual beliefs.

Their mission is to locate and retrieve the mysterious Lost Technology, even though these girls have never been known to stick to their mission. Milfeulle, Forte, Ranpha, Mint, and Vanilla are back for another round of hilarity. The Galaxy Angels have sworn to protect the galaxy one planet at a time. Now with some competition with the newly-formed Twin Star Brigade, they continue to find themselves in the center of chaos... though usually they're the ones at fault for its cause.

Source: ANN

In a small provincial town, three children play football but when they hear breaking glass, two of them flee; leaving a little girl to investigate. She finds that she has broken a fish bowl and a small fish is flapping on the ground gasping for its life. What will the girl do to save this poor creature?

* This is the first work by director Gate Keepers.

In the distant future, humans have rapidly spread across the galaxy, creating thousands of independent planetary states. However, as humans begin to colonise more and more star systems, the scale of the skirmishes between planets escalates.

The Intergalactic Planetary Federation (IPF) was established to maintain peace and stability, to promote economic prosperity, and to head off the threat of large-scale war. An era of peace prevails, but as each star system begins to prosper, so do the economic markets, which become the new battlegrounds. To oversee fair trade among the aggressively competing planetary states the IPF establishes the Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs (GOTT).

The female GOTT receptionists Eclipse. Travelling in a high-speed space cruiser, La Muse and the ship's AI Wirbelwind, together with Donnerschlag, their guardian robot, these agents rid the galaxy of crime... though what is GOTT's real agenda?

Source: Gonzo's official English page (edited)

Sayaka is asked to help out at the opening summer of the newest Pia Carrot restaurant on the beach. Reluctant to go due to her secretive crush on her coworker Akihiko, she nevertheless agrees to her manager's request. Arriving to a sunny paradise, she still cannot find peace and longs for the strength to confess her feelings. Will the summer apart fade her heart or will the longing give her the power to express her feelings?

In 1925 Paul Rusch, an American missionary, arrived in Japan to help The Young Men's Christian Association with reconstruction efforts after the Great Kantou earthquake. Through his association with the Anglican Church he also became a professor at Rikkyo University in Tokyo and deepened his attachement to Japan as a result of conversations with his students. However, he had to leave the country when the Pacific War broke out.

In 1945 Paul came to Japan again as an officer of General Headquarters and grieved over the deaths of many of his former students. He vowed to dedicate the rest of his life to helping the people living in Kiyosato - a highland area in Yamanashi Prefecture. He raised funds in the United States, helped build various facilities for the population and established the first highland dairy farm in Japan. However, not all Japanese were happy to deal with an American after the war ended, and so emerged one more important task for Paul: to help soothe post-WWII relationships between the people of two countries.

In the past, Ryuuto, a talented student who sees Myuu as her rival.

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Note: "Varanoir" started out simultaneously as a PlayStation 2 game, a trading cards series, and a manga series from a major publisher.

Several people are spending their evening in a cafe. Two cafe's waitress starts a chat with him, persuading him to take a look at a hidden easel, while other customers begin to notice unusual things.

Source: ANN

Note: Aired on NHK-BS1, in the 10 min. theatre slot.

Hamasaki Densuke (Hama-chan) is a salaryman that has no interest in his status in his company or the amount of money he makes. But even for him, there is one think that he is wildly attached to. That is fishing. Regardless of whether his superiors at work at mad at him, or his wife becomes upset, he goes fishing. Fishing is most important to him than anything. An interesting fact is that the president (Su-san) of the company that he works for, is one of his fishing students! And when it comes to fishing, whether its his boss, or the president of another bank, or any imposing businessman, he speaks to them with such confidence! Even then, those imposing individuals gradually let Hama-chan into their hearts, and at some point feel that they want to be of help to him.

Source: AnimeNfo

Piano is about a secondary two schoolgirl by the name of Miu who has been playing the piano from a very young age. She is a very quiet girl. There's a senior in her school who she ires and likes but just looking at him alone already requires a lot of effort on her part, let alone...

Her life experiences are being depicted by the rhythm of the tunes she plays with her piano, such as happy times being with friends and family, not to mention love of course.

It is a time of chaos. Earth is no longer what it used to be. It has been infested with a bug-like species called the Blue. Kaidou Yuuji, who has a mysterious disease, is put into suspended animation until a cure can be found. When he wakes up, Yuuji learns that more than 30 years have ed since he was put into suspended animation, and the world is now controlled by these creatures. He then decides to a group of soldiers fighting against the Blue in hope of a better future.

Source: ANN

Koua is an academy that brings Japanese's most talented people and students together. The mission is to train talented people to bear the world's future leadership. However, recently, the suicide rate in the academy is increasing and there is hardly any information being released to the public.
Fujimiya Aya is sent to inflitrate this school carrying out criminal investigation and disguise himself as a teacher. In fact, actually, there is a connection between Koua academy and the global terrorist activities that are frequently occur. Therefore Persia assigns Hidaka Ken and Kudou Youji as well into this mission to solve the truth and connection of the incident behind Koua academy.

Pokemon Side Stories tells the tales of many events that happen in parallel with Satoshi (Ash) and his journey. The tales range from what his old Pokémon are doing in Ookido's (Professor Oak's) lab, to the origins and secrets of Rocket-dan (Team Rocket), and the lives of past trainers he met such as Takeshi (Brock), Kasumi (Misty), Kenji (Tracey Sketchit), Hiroshi (Richie), and Shigeru (Gary Oak). Each episode tells a chapter in that person's life.

Note: In Japan Pokemon Side Stories was broadcast as part of Shuukan Pokemon Housoukyoku. Shuukan Pokemon Housoukyoku (Weekly Pokemon Broadcasting Station) was a 91-episode live-action TV show that sometimes broadcast Encores (recaps) and exclusive Side Stories.

Since most of the episodes are not new Anime content but Live-Action, they are not listed here. Only those episodes that are Anime and are new (not previously released) are listed here under the name they were broadcast, "Pokemon Side Stories".

Pokémon Chronicles, how the show was called in the U.S., shows the episodes from Pokemon Housoukyoku as well as specials from the original Pokémon Series AND Pokémon OVAs. These items are added to the database as they were released in Japan, so the order is slightly different.

* Based on the popular manga by Iori is having a photoshoot and Ichitaka is riding his bike.

Soon, the girls end up in a pinch...

Note: The anime is a sidestory from the manga; it's a good idea to read the manga before watching the anime but it isn't necessary to understand the "plot".

Lately, Hamtaro has been having a strange dream. In the dream, a beautiful princess hamster tearfully asks for help. Hamtaro can't forget about her, even when he's awake. One winter day, Laura talks to Hamtaro. She tells him that everyone in the family is going home to her father's hometown. When Hamtaro tells his friends about it, Maxwell pulls out a Ham-Ham source book. It's a book on old hamster history.

According to the book, there is a "homeland" for hamsters called "Hamja Kingdom". When the Ham-Hams build a sand castle and recite a spell exactly the way it is written in the book, they are whooshed to the Kingdom. When at last the hamsters reach the bustling Hamja Kingdom of hamsters, the popular King Hamja, the Mini-Hams that they've met before in Ham-Ham Land, and many jar spirits called the Mo-Hams appear. A parade begins merrily with singing and dancing! But, the bad magic cat "Sabakunya" appears suddenly, riding the giant sheep monster "Mee Mee", and starts to trample the town. What a disaster!

The Ham-Hams flee underground. The Ham-Hams are told of the state of the Kingdom and find that Sabakunya has snatched the King's daughter, Princess Shera, and is pressing her into marriage on the Kingdom's Founding Day. Sabakunya is trying to take over the country. Something clicks in Hamtaro's mind. Princess Shera is without a doubt the princess who appeared in his dreams! Hamtaro wants very much to run to the castle where Sabakunya is, and so he and the Ham-Hams enter the castle. In the castle, they encounter danger after danger, and Hamtaro, pursued by Sabakunya's henchmen, is separated from others.

As Sumire Kanzaki (Tomizawa Michie) shockingly announced her retirement in Tokyo Game Show 2001 in Japan, in 2002 a New Year public show was performed as a Sumire Kanzaki retirement commemoration. A new Sakura Taisen OVA was also released to commemorate her retirement:

Sumire Kanzaki who has continued fighting as a member of the Imperial Floral Assault Unit, which protects the capital city from darkness, is bewildered and her worries increase. She finally chooses to withdraw from Imperial Floral Assault unit and from the opera team stage as well. Of course, her friends are shocked by this sudden decision, but Sumire's resolution to retire cannot be reversed. While everyone held various thoughts in their hearts and minds, the time of commencement of performance Kanzaki Sumire retirement commemoration public performance draws near...

Source: AnimeNfo

Hanaoka High School used to be an all-girls school, and the girls were pretty excited when they heard that boys were to be itted. Smart and elegant boys, that is, at least in their fantasy. However, in reality, the boys who were actually itted are from the countryside and not smart at all, let alone elegant. And in fact, two of them are dirty perverts...