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Yazawa, a Japanese pilot, suffers a crash in his Phantom jetfighter. After a six month recovery, his old friend from an airplane magazine wants him to investigate the appearance of a Phantom in an armed conflict in El Salvador. Yazawa's investigations makes him wind up in an international arms conspiracy. Based on a series of military fiction novels.
Unaired episode 8.5 of Samurai Gun. Ichimatsu goes on a mission to replace the enemy's keybook with a fake one, while Ohana gets kidnapped.
Akira is in the midst of the final battle between the human race and vampires. He only has 47 days until Japan is turned into an island of vampires. (Source: ANN)
The impulsive Yakuza Jouji was ordered by his boss to teach at a misfit-filled school. He now has to settle the score with a fated rival while falling head over heels for a colleague in the process. (Source: AniDB)
Black rain, which contained plenty of radioactivity, poured into Hiroshima just after the bombing. The effects of the death ash extend to the second and third generations and still cast the shadow of death behind the living witnesses. (Source: Official Site)
Lucius ends up at a local electronics store, where he sees an iPad 2 for the first time.
Short corners released exclusively on DVD.
Featuring a modern-day odd couple, the naive virgin Kubota and the handsome charmer Hachisuka, who meet up by accident in a Middle Eastern desert and return to Japan to hustle their way through life. They start by getting involved in shady TV dealings, where they get jobs making fake docmentaries. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
The story follows Neri Ooishi, a high school girl who is a talented volleyball player. She once was the captain of an elementary school team that went all the way to the national tournament. However, she spent three years as an alternate at a junior high school renowned for its volleyball program. Now she is in high school with new teammates, and she gets a chance to prove herself again. The sixth manga volume will have a "special edition" that will ship with the anime DVD on October 23. Nihonbashi herself is writing the script for the anime, and Prodution I.G is animating it.
A devil-girl with the face of an angel and a heart of gold, blond Betty falls in love with an earthbound gangster, Danpei Kimogawa, when they meet in a rainstorm. They end up living together in a Tokyo highrise apartment, though Danpei has trouble coping with his new witch and demon in-laws dropping in at inopportune moments. Betty has actually been sent to the human world on a mission to defeat the demon Lutan. While Betty continues her task, her skeletal grandmother sends nubile nymphs to tempt Danpei and see if he is suitable husband material. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
New Thermae Romae short (collaboration with a toothbrush brand REACH) to celebrate the 2nd live action movie. This short is part of an advertising campaign for the Otome Joshi no Tame no Anime Shinsho book series.
Lucius ends up at the Japanese chain store called LOFT, where he realizes the fun found in modern-day shopping.
Based on a novel by Tani Kousei. (Source: AniDB)
"A hero" is a job that in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self-sacrifice. Would you like to work as such a hero in our company? You may transform, manipulate a huge robot or fight as a squad. Shall we realize your dream in our "Hero Company"?! (Source: MU)
The Oishinbo gang takes time off from the normal culinary wars to get involved with a political dispute about American rice imports. The economic conflict between a pushy US Senator from California and a nationalistic Japanese politician is further complicated by concerns about the cumulative effect of pesticide use in both American and Japanese agriculture.
A special program of Warau Salesman, these episodes were released in a blast format on 3 days in a nearly 2 hour long timeslot each. The individual episodes have their own OPs. The first blast release differed from the main series by having live-action footage of real locations in Japan before delving into the story for each episode. The 2nd had Moguro with the Master interacting with the viewer as if behind the scenes for a studio before delving into each episode. And the 3rd had Moguro and the Master playing outside in the snow as if reporting on an on-location event to the viewer before delving into each episode.
Ultimate Menu and Supreme Menu square off in a cooking battle about dishes that promote longevity. For Supreme's Kaibara Yuzan and Ultimate's Yamaoka Shirou (who are father and son), this confrontation is more than strictly business: it's personal. (Source: BakaBT)
Music videos included on the Play the Lupin "clips x parts collection" animation DVD.
The adventures of Ken Ferrari, a former racer and motor journalist with an appetite for women. Based on the manga by Satoshi Ikezawa.
The anime follows a coffee food truck shop, where the barista makes an individual cup for each customer. The coffee brewed conscientiously, sincerely, and wholeheartedly helps customers unwind. (Source: ANN)
A story about a crossdressing teacher handling a delinquent class. Based on the same-name seinen manga by Rin Kasahara.
Based on the manga by Tanaka Keiichi. Dr. Chichibuyama is the perverse head of a hospital way out in the mountains and terrorises patients with the help of his lover and a sexy young nurse. (Source: AniDB)
(No synopsis yet.)
An episode of Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen SC that acts as an advertisement for a related Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen SC game, aired in Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen SC's regular time slot a week after episode 12.
Yuusuke is an office worker with a dislike for people, preferring to do his job alone and in silence. When the company he works for suddenly goes bankrupt, he loses his job, and with that, all his motivation disappears, and he becomes a complete shut-in. On one of the rare days he decides to leave his apartment after a week-long video game binge, a mysterious man attacks him and bites his arm. Though Yuusuke manages to escape back to his room, he comes down with a fever and becomes bedridden for several days. When Yuusuke wakes up, recovered, he goes to resume his normal life, but he soon finds that in the short time he was asleep the world has completely changed. Zombies have emerged in every corner of the world simultaneously, and the few human survivors are now in hiding. However... "Why am I the only one the zombies don't attack?" How will Yuusuke take advantage of his new situation, and what will he discover? (Source: VNDB)
Third season of Shounen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan.
This was an anthology program containing several different anime each week along with some non-animated segments. Several of the animated films were short series including: Nazo no Rouba [謎の老婆] (tvss), Meibugyou Bun-san [名奉行・文さん], Jo Keibu Jinguuji Youko [女警部・神宮寺葉子], Remon Suzumori's Soudanjo [鈴森なんでも相談所]. (Source: animated-divots.net)
Tono to Issho OVA.
Shiro is a dim-witted albino bear who lives with his mother and siblings in a remote forest, fishing and hunting for food on a daily basis. One day, a chance encounter with a tortoise leads the family to take an unexpected adventure far from their home. As they encounter various mysterious artifacts on their way back to the forest, they unexpectedly stumble upon a peculiar and unique sight: an abandoned city. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Based on the romance manga "Koiko no Mainichi " by George Akiyama, serialized in Weekly Manga Goraku. In a story that flits between serious drama and comedic farce, Shinjuku gangster Sabu and his young wife Koiko try to live a normal life, despite the interferences of gang politics and criminal deals. After she saves his life, Sabu's gang-boss, Tominaga, falls in love with Koiko, and sends Sabu into increasingly more dangerous situations, hoping to cause his arrest, and thus obligate himself to "take care" of Koiko while Sabu is in prison. (Source: Anime Mushi)
3D CG promotional video for the Soul Reviver manga by Fujisawa Tohru. In the manga, the dead can be brough back to life, if their souls can be restored before disappearing into the void. Between death and the void is the world of the dead, and two individuals - the former detective Jin Ryuusuke and the dead high school girl Sekimachi Kurara - salvage souls in this realm. (Source: ANN)
Specials of Warau Salesman broadcasted intermittently during the main show not included in the episode count of the main show. They are 3 times the length of a normal episode and fill a half hour time-slot.
Based on the manga by Big Joe (ビッグ錠).
A collaboration between Tentai Senshi Sunred and the J. League football team Kawasaki Frontale. The members of the team appeared in these specials and voiced themselves.
An animated promotion steamed on Kadokawa's official YouTube channel for Kataribe Jinkou Chinou ga Tsubuyaku Noroi no Yogen, in honor of its first tankoubon volume going on sale the very same day.
Fourth season of Shounen Ashibe: Go! Go! Goma-chan.
This manga depicts the life of Shizuya Kondou, a man who designs underwear by day and is "don" of a gang at night. (Source: ANN)
Yamashita and Negishi end up in the hospital with broken legs and arms. It's summer vacation and they are very bored, so they start picking on the cute nurse Miyuki.
The anime is based on the 4-panel comic strip drawn by Morishita Hiromi and published in Young Jump. The story describes the daily life of Ashibe (an elementary school boy) and his family and friends, including a pet white sea lion.
The second collaboration between Kawasaki Frontale and Tentai Senshi Sunred.
When elephants are about to die, they will leave their herd and die alone. When a person knows that he is about to die, what will he choose? It's lung cancer, and it has already metastasized. There are probably 6 months left. It's a story about a man's last few steps in his life. It's probably quite different from the elephants.
An OVA produced to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Watase Seizou's Heart Cocktail manga. (Source: AniDB)
Depiction of Japan's economy, based on Shoutarou Ishinomori's epynomous manga.
Anime adaptation of the same name sports manga by Kurashina Ryou.
The anime centers on a group of pharmaceutical company employees who embark on a mountain-climbing trip together and who encounter tragedy at the hands of mysterious monkeys when they reach the top. (Source: ANN)
Takao Ryouta is a pervy but well-meaning biker-turned-bus driver who street-races with others, fights roughnecks from his past, and mistreats his equally pervy friend. He must play knight, however, when his love interest is kidnapped by thugs. (Source: ANN)
The story depicts the everyday life of Terumi-san, who dislikes the internet and works at a telephone company called Moshimoshi Dou, and middle school student Rintarou, who is in love with her. (Source: MAL News)
Bonus OVA of Shadow Skill. Features two short comedy stories.
Thirty-one stories based on the fourpanel manga strips drawn by Masahiko Kikuni for Young Sunday magazine make up this anime that mixes animation and live action (18 animated stories, 13 live-action stories). (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
An adaptation of the first series, with different characters and an alternate setting.
87 Crayon Shin-chan TV Specials exist as of August 6, 2022.
Based on the same name yonkoma manga by Ueda Masashi, serialized in Weekly Manga Action. From putting his head of department to embarrasment by announcing to everyone that he has haemmorrhoids through the PA system in a public park to making a whole district dissapointed by putting a notice that there will be a fireworks display, and apparently the only "display" is him holding one small fireworks, Kariage-kun tells the amusing everyday life of, well, Kariage-kun. His typical victim is his head of department, although anyone (or anything) can become a prey to his irony or sarcasm. The story began and ended with no special beginning or endings, but it is arranged chronologically (in the sense that it follows seasonal changes). (Source: ANN)
(No synopsis yet.)
Shouwa 19 (1944), summer. Tamaru, a soldier who aspired to be a manga artist, was on Peleliu Island at the end of the Pacific War. The island was a paradise covered with beautiful forests and surrounded by a sea of coral reefs. It was also a battlefield on which 50,000 soldiers from Japan and the United States killed each other. At that time, 40,000 elite US troops invaded in an attempt to seize the airfield, which was touted as the best in East Asia. A garrison of 10,000 Japanese troops was ordered to meet the aggressors and "thoroughly endure" the attack. What did they fight for and what was on their minds on this small island far from their homeland?!? A long-forgotten record of truth from young people who lived in the "war" era! (Source: Hakusensha, translated)
Adaptation of popular chinese manhua.
In a mix of Field of Dreams and Ping Pong Club, sex-starved teenage boys at Kudo High School sign up for the girls' volleyball team hoping that if they build it, the girls will come, to a year that has no girls in it at all. (Source: ANN)
Comedy life of 47-year-old general manager Takeda, whose body became a baby, and his employees.
A new waterfront area is being built in Tokyo, and Chinese mafia man Lin Haifeng wants to gain control of it by owning the majority stock of the company in charge of construction. Lin's plan is to use the waterfront as a gateway for the Chinese mafia in an attempt to turn Tokyo into a "New Hong Kong". After his friend Kurihara commits suicide after unknowingly helping Lin get a hold of some stocks, his friend Tsuyoshi Aiba aims to avenge his friend by keeping Lin from taking over the waterfront. (Source: ANN)
Based on the manga by Mizuho Shuushi, the story shows a realistic portrayal of a Japanese bike gang member trying to live up to social expectations of him being a 'legend'.
A wacky comedy about a man from a noble ancestry of long ago, but who in modern times is just a lowly salary man that is constantly being humiliated by his family and co-workers. (Source: AniDB)
In a Buddhist heaven where saints fight over turf in the clouds, Nio-maru searches for the younger sister torn from him in an aircraft accident back in the human world. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
(No synopsis yet.)
An OVA with five short episodes from Seizou Watase's romantic manga: "Building Without Tide" "Brother and Sister" "Sometimes I'm Happy" "I've Saved the Sidecar for You" "The Santa Quartet"
After his father leaves when he is very young, Kyosuke Murata grows up under the thumb of his overprotective mother, Shizuko. When he reaches adulthood, he is thrown into the harsh, violent world of Japanese gangland when his mother becomes involved in a gang-related crime. He goes up against the Murata-gumi organization, only to find that his estranged father is its head. Rising up through the ranks, Kyosuke eventually unites half the gangs in Japan beneath his own leadership, only to find that the other half have also combined to resist his new power, starting the greatest gang war in Japanese history. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)
Based on the yonkoma manga by Ueda Masashi.
Bundled with the limited edition sixth volume of the manga. It will be between 10 to 15 minutes long and will adapt the events of the first volume. (Source: MAL News) The hero and author of Sanzoku Diary is Okamoto Kentarou. When he was young, he lived out in the country, and he knew an old man who was a hunter. In 2009, Kentarou was inspired to leave Tokyo and return to Okayama Prefecture to become a hunter himself. Using an air rifle and traps, Kentarou hunts, prepares, and eats various animals. The manga covers all his hunting-related activities in close detail. (Source: MangaHelpers)
Based on a seinen manga written by Takahashi Michitsuna and illustrated by Kazama Eiji, serialised in Weekly Manga Action.
The "home comedy" centers on the mischievous boy Rikkun and his eccentric family. (Source: ANN)
The story centers around Ginjirou Manda, a loan shark who charges toichi — 10% more interest every 10 days, or 365% every year. Thanks to his unrelenting money-collecting tactics, he is feared as Minami no Oni or the Demon of Osaka's Minami business district. (Source: ANN)
Old Master Q and gang travels to the past.
The story is set in Savannah's 2nd district, where diva-like animals gather in the dead of night to wax poetic about topics that transcend gender. (Source: ANN)
Flash anime bundled with the October 2008 issue of Manga Club Original.
Third animated movie of Old Master Q. Old Man Q, Big Potato and Mr. Chin work at a lunapark and encounter a series of unlucky events. To acquire the land of the lunapark, the director of the Landlord Company threatens to demolish the lunapark with a bomb. By a chance, Old Man Q meets an alien called Shan T and they become friends. Shan T then helps Old Man Q to fight against Landlord Company henchmen. (Source: BakaBt, translated and edited from movie.mtime.com)
Based on a Yakuza drama manga by Kawabe Yuu and Yamaguchi Masato.
An OVA released in 1991. Unlike the previous OVA series, this episode was produced separately by Toshiba.
An animated pilot film for Ninja Bugei-chou released to the public over three decades later on Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden DVD volume 7. The pilot film was created in 1969 as director Nagisa Ooshima was wanting to make a TV animation to build off his controversial film from 1967. The pilot was rejected by Shirato himself (the original comic creator the film was based on) and the plan was changed to animate Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden instead, a side story to the Kamui Den manga also created by Shirato. Though with this change, Ooshima did not partake in Ninpuu Kamui Gaiden's production.
A new episode of Higanjima X that was included in Blu-ray.
Continuation of the everyday life adventures of the avid mahjong player Furiten-kun.
(No synopsis yet.)
Chibi shorts shown after each episode of Shuumatsu no Walküre as they were broadcasted on Japan's Cartoon Network Nite program. Each short recaps the events of the episode along with original animation.
Official music video for Nakatsuka Shion's song Don't Cry. It was from her first mini-album "Koukai" and was used in the OP for T-sensei. The music video features the full song as well as clips from the anime including original footage that was not present before.
A set of chibi shorts released during the days ahead of the TV broadcasting of Shuumatsu no Walküre.
A minimalist adaptation of Seizo Watase's manga of the same name. It contains 5 stories of slow paced vignettes of romance whose only dialogue lies within the "oldies" being played as background music.
Fourth Old Master Q animated movie.
A surrealist comedy about a local neighborhood. The 4-koma it's based on is known for the number of characters added each week, which exceeded over 280 during its serialization. The anime focuses on the 16 most reoccurring of the bunch and each episode is composed of 3 skits/chapters.
After moving to a new town, a young boy comes across a lone baby seal. They become fast friends and enjoy everyday life together.
Fifth Old Master Q animated movie.
(No synopsis yet.)
Based on the comedy manga by Sonoyama Shunji.
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Based off a manga by Murakami Takashi that was serialized in Weekly Young Jump. (Source: AniDB)
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Animated shorts revolving around the titular character Tabuchi-kun.