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* Based on Rose because of the rose like pattern on her left hand. When it turns out that Rose is in fact a Red Dragon, Ryuuji decides to protect her from the black organisation using his powers as a level 10 Breaker.

Note: The first episode received a free online preview at online streaming service GyaO! starting on Thursday, 16th December, 2010 until Wednesday, 22nd December. 1000 lucky participants in possession of a Yahoo Japan ID were given the chance to see it through an online lottery. The regular television broadcast started on January 11, 2011.

* Original work and directional debut at the theatrical stage of Final Fantasy and Science Ninja Team Gatchaman illustrator Amano Yoshitaka.

Story is set after the Jinshou (Buddhist divine generals) were defeated by darkness and became lost in time. After the world descended into chaos, Zan, a samurai with no memories, discovers his calling and assembles fellow soldiers who can cross through time and space. Together, they take on the legions of darkness.

Source: ANN

While a minute long trailer was released, the feature length film was never produced.

DVD bundled with the Love Live!.

* Based on a series of otome dating sim games (targeted towards a female market) by Honeybee.

The heroine, Tsukiko, enrolled to a school that was recently changed from all-boys school to co-ed. Since the area where the school is conveniently rural and the rather exclusive curriculums the school has, up until now the heroine is the only one female who enrolled to the school.

Mysterious creatures named Archons suddenly appear in the world, and humanity faces the threat of annihilation from them. Only the Chalice, the source of humanity, can defeat the powerful Archons. So, the humans assemble an Archon-slaying unit, the Goulart Knights, from fighters who have the ability to bring forth the Chalice to fight for mankind.

Source: ANN

Note: Bundled with first collected volume of writer sion's manga series.

* Based on Ciao and later streamed through Ciao's Youtube channel.

The original story follows the human drama of the Yamazaki family in Tokyo in the Year Shouwa 39 (1964) — the year that the city hosted the Summer Olympics.

Note: 4 episodes were pre-aired on various TV stations, earliest being Mie TV which aired an episode on 30.12.2010. Regular TV broadcast started in April of 2011. The pre-aired episodes were not the first 4 episodes of regular broadcasting, but were instead episodes 3, 5, 8 and 9.

A DVD offered in UNIQLO clothing stores. A limited number of DVDs were offered as presents to people who bought UNIQLO's Naruto graphic T-shirts online or in Japan' stores.

The DVD contains an original Naruto anime video that summarises the bonds and rivalry between Aqua Timez.

A music video for Tamaki's song "Yasoukyoku."

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...

This is the moment when her destiny changes...

This is the start of a new magical girl story!

~ translated and adapted from the official site by Cranston

Note: Won the Television Award at the 16th Animation Kobe Awards (2011), 12 NewType Anime Awards, including Best Anime Series, Director, Screenplay, and Design, and the Grand Prize in the animation category at the 15th Japan Media Arts Festival.

* Based on a manga by Manga Time Kirara Forward.

High school student Merry who had wandered from the Dream World into the Real World. This meeting raises many questions for Yumeji. Who exactly is Merry? What is the Dream World and what are Nightmares? What purpose do the Nightmares have for entering the Real World?

On the boundary between the Real World and the Dream World, the duo's battle against the Nightmares begins!

~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston

* Based on the manga by Lim Dal-Young and Kim Kwang-Hyun, two Korean artists, published for Kill Time Communications.

In a futuristic world where Earth has been invaded and is at war with aliens from another dimension called the Nova, a boy named Satellizer el Bridget who appears to be the most powerful Pandora in her class, but has not yet chosen a male partner to be her Limiter, and in spite of the warnings of all his friends, he decides to be her Limiter.

Source: Wikipedia

At an oasis, Chirico (the main character of the first VOTOMS series) will reunite with his old friend Gotho and other characters after 32 years.

Note: This OVA received a special screening as part of the Votoms Festival in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Wald 9 film theatre and Yokohama, Kanagawa, Burg 13 film theatre on Saturday, January 8, 2011. The DVD/Blu-Ray release was on April 22, 2011.

* Based on the gag manga by Weekly Shounen Champion.

The daily exploits of the mischievous triplets, the Marui Sisters — the precocious, sadistic Yabe Satoshi.

— written by foo2

Galo Sengen ("Galish Man GAL" in English / GAL男宣言 in Japanese) is a 2011 rap music video by the Japanese hip-hop group Policeman.

The animated music video became well-known for its humorous depiction of a Japanese youth culture known as "Gyaruo," which is characterized by the dark tanned skin, dyed blond hair and appreciation for dance music.

In the video, a group of men are satirically portrayed as Dragon Ball, who transcend into the state of "galish" or "gyaru".

Source: knowyourmeme.com

* Based on a light novel series written by Muririn.

A ive high school boy named Haruna.

* Super-deformed version of Hara Tetsuo's post-apocalyptic fighting manga.

Note: The "DD" stands for "Design Deformation," since the characters are only "two-heads-tall."

* Based on a manga by Takatsuki Yoshino, a tall and attractive young girl. Coincidentally, Yoshino also dreams of becoming the opposite sex. She lets Shuuichi in on a secret that she cross dresses from time to time and visits places far from home. Due to the fact that they share the same secret, they become close. The two are now in middle school. In the midst of a crowd full of new people, the two search for their own paths; all the while facing the troubles and concerns that come along with puberty.

The Koganedai Downtown FC Golden Kids haven't won a single game since they formed.
The captain and goal keeper, Goal Kitagawa is determined to win a game with the current before he moves away next month.
However, even after all the determination to win the next game they lose terribly, extending their losing streak to 22 games.
Even the adults in the community who the team begin to get fed up with all the losses.

At school, the constantly losing Golden Kids start to get picked on and bullied, and the adults worry that the bullying will only get worse.

When the team become depressed and lose their will to play, they see Goal practicing outside, silently and as hard as he can. Once again, the Golden Kids start to practice intensely to get that one win.
The next game for the Golden Kids will be against the second best team in the Jonan League, the Wild Tigers.

Will the Golden Kids finally get their first win ever? What will the adults decide to do with the team?

Note: Anime was launched worldwide through an exclusive app for iPhone and other iOS devices.

The spring festival is around corner, but Mr. wolf doesn't feel happy at all. Mrs. Wolf is going to have baby, but Mr. Wolf can't catch any sheep. What is more, their castle is torn down making them homeless. Mr. Wolf needs to fight back. In the mean time, a sheep from the moon returns and tells the other sheep the secret of the sugar moon. The sheep go to the moon but are followed by wolfs. They are going to have war on the moon. Filled with different sorts of yummy candies, Moon used to be a paradise for those with a sweet tooth. It's also the residence of the Moon fairy and her magical rabbit. But one day the Lord of Bitterness invades Moon with the intention of making their happy life miserable. The rabbit escapes to Earth and seeks help from Pleasant Goat, who then leads a ragtag group of rescuers - including his nemesis Big Big Wolf - to restore peace on Moon.

Source: YesAsia & China Image Film Festival

In a strangely streamlined isolated prison unusual inmates find themselves — a seemingly honest and good cat. One day, a sudden power outage opens the locks to all cells and everyone is set free. However, all of the guards are missing, and the prisoners cannot find any exits. While the old man performs a bizarre act, an unusual phenomenon befalls the prison and the prisoners within.

Source: ANN

Animator Sakamoto Shouta (坂本渉太) conceived, designed, animated, and also composed music for the above animated short, which the anime studio Gainax began featuring on its official website. The video mimics the popular sentai genre, with five young people transforming into a costumed superhero team.

Note: The video is the first one of a planned "MUSIC is SF" series.

The original story follows the human drama of the Yamazaki family in Tokyo in the Year Shouwa 39 (1964) — the year that the city hosted the Summer Olympics.

The Yamazaki family lives in Tokyo. Its are Yuuzou, the father, Kanoko, the mother, Yoshi, the grandmother, Taichi, eldest son and university student, Yuuko, eldest daughter and high-school student, and Kouhei, the youngest sibling and primary school student.

Currently, the Yamazaki family is in a state of flux and discord. However, they are brought together by the activities and festivities surrounding the Tokyo Olympics.

~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston

The town of Kanemachi overflows with music. There lives Minamino Kanade, two childhood friends who have been together ever since they were very young. However, when they became middle-schoolers, for some reason they would argue with each other every time they meet.

One day, a fairy called Hami from Majorland, the Country of Music, appears before them. Hami requests of Hibiki and Kanade that they transform into Precure to protect the world from Mephisto, King of Evil. There is a legendary score, within which is written the "Melody of Fortune" and Mephisto plots to rewrite it into the "Melody of Misfortune".

Although Hibiki and Kanade are usually unable to see eye to eye on anything, in this matter their hearts are one, and a new Precure legend is born!

~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston

Mai's father has decreed that every Saturday will be a "Family Day".

~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston

* Based on a light novel series 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 bouthing their cafe. Thus it is time for class 2-F's secret weapon: Yoshii Akihisa cross-dressing in a cute maid outfit.

But to finally be able to buy new classroom desks they will have to win the Summoned Being Tournament on day two of the school festival.

— written by foo2

* Based on Warner Bros.'s successful live action television series Supernatural.

After his Dean go searching for their father, and since then they live a life on the road, in Dean's black, 1967 Chevrolet Impala with Kansas license plates. Along the way, the two brothers save innocent people, fight creatures and ghosts, and collect clues to their father's whereabouts.

Source: Wikipedia

* Based on the adult visual novel by August.

On a Congratulatory Trip for the Success of the School Festival vacation, Kodama Miki.

* Based on the manga by Sano Tae.

The story follows the everyday life of Morita Mayu, a girl who is exceedingly gentle and thoughtful, to the point that she does not say much of anything to anyone in high school.

Note:Originally bundled with the special edition of manga volume 3, on sale from February 26, 2011. A separate stand-alone DVD was released on March 25, 2011.

Oscar is a lizard living in a non-specific desert that has features from several different real deserts, like the Sahara, Kalahari Desert, and North American deserts. An asphalt concrete highway runs through the area, used from time to time by various cargo trucks. Oscar is generally searching for food or water; he sometimes discovers liquid, in bottles or elsewhere, but is usually frustrated from recovering it for drink. An oasis supplies the only fresh water in the area, but its thick population of irascible and hungry crocodiles renders it inaccessible. At considerable personal risk (lizard is a delicacy for chickens), Oscar occasionally manages to steal an egg from a nearby hen coop, and he sometimes explores one of the piles of trash that litter the parched landscape. Popy, a fennec fox; Buck, a vulture; and Harchi, a hyena, inhabit a derelict school bus situated on a neighboring hill, but they mostly race about on a cast-off warehouse or grocery cart powered by Harchi and directed by Popy. Like Oscar, the trio constantly search for food and water - often competing with him, sometimes abusing him as a means, but occasionally cooperating with him when it suits their purpose. The main characters often find themselves falling off cliffs a la Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner, wherein the law of gravity is briefly suspended while the character comes to realize their imminent doom.

Source: Wikipedia

In Broom's Town, a small town with a strong rescue team, there are always accidents and troubles such as a car sliding off a cliff in the rain, a car crash, a child locked in a firehouse and so on. In every episode the town's rescue team saves characters. At the end of each episode, the rescue team strongly advises the characters who were in danger and children.

Source: Wiki

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 his hand at it. One day, a girl whom he had never met before hands him an attache case. She quickly leaves the scene, leaving Yamano with these cryptic words: "Within this lies both humanity's hope and despair."

~ adapted and translated from official site by Cranston

Jealous of Suneo's new robot toy, Nobita asks Doraemon to build him an even better one. Doraemon initially refuses, until Nobita accidentally discovers pieces of a mysterious robot that falls from the sky. After gathering all the robot parts and assembled them together, the giant robot, Zanda Claus, is soon completed. The duo soon learn that the robot is not a mere toy, but a powerful weapon in the fight against the coming Robot Army that is going to attack Earth and enslave the human inhabitants of it. An invasion is near, as a mysterious girl Riruru shows up, looking for the robot.

Source: Wikipedia

* An original short selected as part of Noeru is a young woman with an uninteresting job living alone in a worn apartment in a big city. One day, without notice, her mother sends her an old and bulky chest of drawers. Not exactly the most welcome piece of furniture for Noeru's small room!

The next day, as Noeru comes back from work, she finds a plump little boy sitting on the floor and peacefully munching a pack of rice crackers. The next morning, she wakes up to the delicious smell of breakfast waiting for her on the table... but she does not recall of having cooked anything! And even the kitchen is all clean and tidy instead of the usual mess. And are there not two weird kids in her room now?

Noeru has just met the drawer hobs... but who are they, and why on earth are they in her apartment, anyway?

Source: Production I.G

Note: All four shorts (this anime, MBS' TV schedule. Tansu Warashi. was the last to air on March 27, 2011.

Fumiko no Kokuhaku anime short, began streaming his newest anime short Rain Town online. Ishida was studying in the Animation department at Kyoto Seika University's famed Faculty of Manga. Along with fellow student Yoshida Shougo, he worked on his Rain Town anime short as his graduation project for at least two years.

* Based on the gag comedy manga by Shounen Ace.

In Class 1-Q, Mio desperately tries to cheer her up.

"Wind-up doll" Sakamoto-san has difficulty getting Hakase to take her medicine.

Yuuko, Mio, and the parent series' Blu-ray box.

Ga-young loves beautiful houses and meets house spirits in her shabby neighbourhood.

source: annecy.org

* A sequel to the second Kanade are visiting the Flower Mall, where the rest of the Cures happen to be. Suddenly, fairies fall from the sky and the area outside the mall becomes a mix of all the fairy worlds.

Previously defeated enemies show up, resurrected from the power of Black Hole. Black Hole, the combined forces of all previously defeated bosses, is out to destroy the Prism Flower. Without the Prism Flower, the fairy worlds would be separated from Earth, forcing the fairies and Cures to say farewell.

The Cures, now totaling 21, are split into 3 groups and trapped in different dimensions. Separated, the Cures struggle against their enemies as they try to regroup and defend the Prism Flower.

Constellations were created thousands years ago and they have been handed down generation after generation up to now. This show focuses on this great fact. In the show, you will see instruction on constellations and movement of the sun, moon and planets against constellations. An associated story from Greek myths is provided with beautiful CG including the tale of Astraea, the goddess of justice, who is closely related to the constellation Libra.

Source: MyAnimeList