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Spice and Wolf


            The story is set in Japan a millennium from now. Five childrenSaki, Satoru, Maria, Mamoru, and Shunhave been born and raised in a tranquil town, Kamisu's 66th district, that can be described as a utopia overflowing with water and green foliage. The world is ruled by people who have the "cursed power" or the "gods' power" of telekinesis ( juryoku?). After a certain incident, Saki and the others come to realize the true nature of their world. Before long, they learn everything, including the bloody history that brought humanity to this state. The five throw themselves into life-threatening adventure and fight to protect friends and a world on the brink of collapse.
    

From the New World

Ef: A Tale of Memories.

Golgo 13

Black Butler II


            Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is 'lucky' and will have another chance at life though he does not want it. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide by an overdose of pills. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura in the form of a little boy, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was before his six-month time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.
He finds Makoto did not like his family and he greatly dislikes them for the same reasons. He is contemptuous of his father who is an underdog at work, forced to work lots of unpaid overtime. Despite her efforts, he hates his mother who had an affair with a dance instructor, something his father seems to be oblivious of. His older brother Mitsuru has given up on him because he is too moody and has no friends at school or anywhere else. He discovers that a girl (Hiroka) he fancies sells sex to older men so she can have the clothes and things she wants. Shoko is a weird girl from Makoto's class who becomes suspicious of his unusual behavior so he tries to stay away from her. After he gets mugged and beaten up by some delinquents, Shoko comes to visit Makoto at his house, but he scares her off. In one of their subsequent encounters Purapura explains that Makoto will really die this time after his six months expire. However, when he befriends Saotome, a boy in his class who accepts outcasts such as him and treats them as equals, Makoto sees the joy in life for the first time. They spend some time together and they even begin studying for their high school entrance exam, something for which neither of them had any ambition before.
Knowing that his brother will never get accepted to a public high school due to his failing grades and lack of interest, Mitsuru announces that he will postpone his college entrance exams in order to allow his parents to save some money so they can send Makoto to a private school. Makoto refuses and tells his parents and brother that he has already chosen Tamegawa High (a public school he and Saotome agreed on earlier). An aggravated Mitsuru is unable to comprehend his unwillingness to accept his family's help and asks him if he enjoys tormenting his own family. Makoto breaks in tears and says that he just wanted to go to the same school his only friend is going to apply which leads to his parents accepting his wish. With his deadline reaching its end, Makoto meets with Purapura for one last time. He announces that he has found out what his former life's mistake was. He reveals that the soul was Makoto to begin with and that the mistake was his suicide. Purapura tells him that he will keep on living, but that he will also erase his memories of Purapura and the spirit world in order to make Makoto not think that he has any more chances. Before wiping his memories, Purapura advises him to live a colorful life.
    

Colorful


            The series starts off with a pretty slow introducing each of the 5 main characters, having a seemingly peaceful school life. All of these main characters are introduces as people who really didn't set any perfect goals and consequently, having no specific interests became only members of Cultural Research Club (CRC).The first episode sets off with a normal talk between them in the club room, but when 2 of them Kiriyama Yui (
Kanemoto Hisako) and Yoshifumi Aoki (Terashima Takuma ) enter they set of a surprising shock to others. By virtue of their explanation of what happened to them the night before and soul swap between Nagase Iori (Toyosaki Aki) and Yaegashi Taichi (Mizushima Takahiro) the CRC members including the above 4 and Inaba Himeko (Sawashiro Miyuki) come to realize the baffling problem-souls randomly switching bodies. It was observed when soul swap occurs it can happen between any number of members and the soul retains their own memories and personalities. Puzzled as to what set of the event the members seem a bit panicked-but of course try their best to lighten up. just when they seem to have a bit of fun the main problem setter makes his entry into the club room in the form of their moderator Gotou/ Gossan (Fujiwara Keiji). It introduces itself as 'Fuusen Kasura'/'Balloon Vine' (Fujiwara Keiji) -an extraordinary being who has taken an interest in these members and decided to make their life interesting to watch.The club members take up on the challenge while going through many ups and downs. On a smaller scale as well this phenomenon sets off many other events where the dark sides of their lives are revealed. But finally they all solve their problems-thanks to the selfless freak-Yaegashi Taichi. And after solving the last problem of Nagase Iori, Taichi confesses his love to her by a bridge. But suddenly Balloon Vine takes over Nagase's body and drops her off the bridge. However, this accident was later known to be caused by Balloon vine only to set up things between the members at right pace, and finally all members make out of this soul swap maze successfully.But this only makes Balloon Vine more interested in them and he projects another problem to them. This time their desires will be unleashed at random, causing their bodies to act on impulse. Yet again, the CRC members face tougher problems. The first one to receive a strong impact was Yui, causing her to become a shut-in. Gradually, the other members also start separating from the club just in hope that they don't hurt each other, until the last one remaining in the club was Iori. Even the the pro-wrestling fan Taichi, suffers a heavy blow after hurting Iori, because of his inner feelings being unleashed. But the circumstances around him give him a good lecture about the importance of remaining with friends even if it causes pain rather than not getting hurt by staying away from them. Thus taking the spotlight from Iori of uniting the members again he somehow manages to bring in all members except one- Inaba. she finally unites after being reprimanded by Iori, who now seems to have Inaba as her competitor for Taichi, and promises to have fair competition with her.The next mystery problem for them to solve-members at random will turn into kids (no age limit but less than their original age) between 12 pm to 5 pm. They observed that they don't really remember about the period in which they turn into kids but when they turn back to normal their memories for that age period remains fresh, and can confuse them with reality.Also, 2 irregularities showed up- Taichi never had his age regressed nor did Balloon Vine show up to explain the problem statement. Later, Taichi was contacted in secret by the problem creator in the body of his little sister (Yaegashi Rina)- a second Balloon Vine calling itself The Second-and instructed to keep these facts a secret. First emotional blow was dealt to Aoki, who mistakes his love for Yui to be a replacement to Nishino Nana's (Tomatsu Haruka)(Aoki's elementary school crush) past love. And the second blow was to Yui who thought of herself as a replacement to Aoki, and things fired up when she met with her old karate rival who pressurizes her to join karate again. But finally both Yui and Aoki see out of their problems-Yui overcomes her fear of men and gains back her never loosing attitude & Aoki confirms his love for Yui is untainted. Meanwhile, Taichi by mistake rolls out the truth about 'The Second' and in turn as punishment Second removes the time limit on age regression and Taichi also starts suffering from the age regression problem. On the other hand, Iori starts facing her own family problems as one of her many fathers who is a bit violent turns up. Iori, in panic happens to repeat the same history but is stopped and encouraged by her fellow members and best friends to retry it together. Iori, runs to her home with Taichi and Inaba, to find her second father crashing down her place, But before she could do something she has her time regressed, and thus the 3 of them run away form there only to be confronted by the original Balloon Vine in Gotou's form. Balloon Vine confirms that this wasn't his doing and on a happy note he would offer his help to them to solve their problems. the only help he offers is to Nagase-chan to help her go back in time to solve her problem from scratch. But she refuses it, and agrees to correct whatever mistake she has made because they help them define herself at that moment. Later on at her home the 5 of them meet with Iori's mother, who reveals her true motive to bring the second father back was to help Iori fight her past. After that her mother does a complete 180 on her personality and drives the second father out. With that and Iori asking herself whether she loves Taichi or not the mystery sees its end.Yet another mystery grips hold of them, this time the problem setter being the former Balloon Vine, and the problem being, transmission of inner thoughts from one person to a set of other members at random and only them knowing as to whom & what is transferred. This time Nagase turns completely into a cool, harsh beauty thanks to a misunderstanding between Taichi and Nagase when he tries to push a bit forward and the feelings transmission which for some transferred only her negativeness to others. On top of that, now they also have to compete with Jazz club who share their moderator with CRC. Nagase hurt by others failing to understand her true self completely cuts of with them while CRC members, after repeatedly counselling Nagase to her former self, decided to sit out, as of now, and concentrate on the competition. This time however the problem doesn't confine to the club but affects other classmates because of Nagase's cold attitude towards others much conflicted to her previous outfit. Thus it sets off a temper tantrum from one of the classmates-Setouchi Karou (Uesaka Sumire)--who destroys the club's preparations, with just one week in hand for the finals. Seeing her favorite place destroyed Nagase looses her temper and sets of to kill Karou only to be stopped and lectured by Inaba and Taichi and Nagase finds herself if a twist between her ideal self and real self. She finally comes to a conclusion to live freely while saving Inaba from the thugs who were ordered by Karou to destroy CRC.In the aftermath of the rescue, Karou realizes all this doing is because of her projecting herself as a false being, much similar to Nagase's problem at small scale and finally is invited by the now cheerful Nagase to join her friendship circle. Moments later while returning back one of the thugs manages to drag himself and injuring Taichi in a head assault. At the hospital, Taichi manages to telepathically contact Nagase due to the emotion transmission phenomenon and hold of their dating by saying to each other"..glad that i fell in love with you.".when he wakes up he finds his other lover waiting impatiently by his side. Taichi thus takes the opportunity to ask her out, which she comically accepts. Later on, Balloon Vine is seen to take his leave from Nagase, Yui and Aoki, and thus the fourth mystery comes to a fitting end.
    

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Campione!

Sengoku Basara


            Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been defeated, but feudal Japan isn't safe yet. The fallen villian's most loyal and lethal minion- Ishida Mitsunari - is obsessed with carrying on Toyotomi's legacy o violence in the name of vengence. Ishida has brutally cut a bloody path across the countryside, enen as the nations's other warloads rally toward an era of harmony. Unfortunatly, for peace to finally be achieved, the fires of war must be unleased once more. With Japan's fate hanging in the balance, one of the most over-the-top battles in history is set to erupt.
    

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