Category: TV
Year: 24 September 2009 – 10 December 2009
Studio: ARMS
Episodes: 12

Licensed! – Media Blasters

Synopsis:
Picking up exactly where season 1 finished. In the city of Gainos, Reina the vagrant warrior enters the competition of queen’s blade to decide the new queen of the continent, but there are a number of obstacles in her way each with their own reason for fighting.

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Mangaka:  YAMAGUCHI Mikoto
Year:  2009
Original Publisher:  Square Enix
Serialized in:  Gangan Joker
Group(s) Scanlating:  CINOSS
Volumes:  0 – Ongoing

Summary
Aida Shizuka is three days from being executed for cruelly murdering his family when a shinigami comes to visit him. It’s his little sister Hibiki, who has come to make sure his soul goes to hell! Hibiki has another job on this trip as well, granting the final wish of a girl with heart disease, and she drags her condemned brother along with her. Soon, it becomes apparent that people are not as simple as they may seem, and even Shizuka’s guilt is uncertain. Hibiki and Shizuka promise to search together for the truth about their family’s death, and they won’t let life, death, or trouble in the afterlife get in their way!

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Category:  Specials
Year: January 27, 2010 – Ongoing
Studio:  Bones
Episodes:  4

Synopsis
The four episodes are side stories bridging the gap between the first and second season.

OVA 1 – The Black Contractor:  While on the run from the Syndicate after the Tokyo explosion incident, Hei and Yin travels to Okinawa. 

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Category:  Movie
Year:  2009
Directed by:  ASHINO Yoshiharu
Written by: KILMOV Aljosha, SPRITS Misha
Studio:  Studio 4°C, Molot Entertainment
Running time:  73 minutes
Language:  Russian, German
Subbed by:  Feast-Subs

Synopsis
First Squad is set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross and enlist them in the Nazi cause.  Pretty soon all the teenagers die, except for the protagonist Nadia.

She is taken to a secret Soviet lab that studies supernatural phenomena, especially contacts with the dead. Nadia’s task is to dive into the world of the dead for reconnaissance. There, in the Gloomy Valley, she meets her dead friends and tries to persuade them to continue fighting.

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Category:  TV
Year:  October 2, 2008 – December 18, 2008
Studio:  Nomad
Episodes:  12

Licensed!  Sentai Filmworks

Synopsis
The story revolves around four teenagers; Akina, Hime, Ao, and Kotoha; each of them having their own unique abilities. They run an office called Hiizumi Life Counseling Office, where their job is to help and protect the townspeople of Sakurashin, a town where humans and youkai co-exist with one another. The town is protected by a barrier created by the spiritual sakura known as The Seven Pillars. The Seven Pillars exist in both the human world and the youkai world and is the only thing that keeps both worlds connected to each other. However, recent bizarre incidents have occurred in their town and someone has threatened the safety of their town. It is up to the four of them to protect the town they love.

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Category:  TV
Year:  April 6, 2006 – September 28, 2006
Studio:  Seven Arcs
Episodes:  26

Synopsis
Inukami! revolves around Keita Kawahira, a descendant of a Inukami-tamer clan and considered a failure by the clan due to his attitude towards his duty. Inukami, literally “dog god”, are benevolent creatures that possess spiritual powers. They are a type of demon with the appearance of a dog who can transform into human form. Along with a partner from the historic Inukami-tamer clan, they act to obliterate evil and proliferate righteousness. Keita is initially unable to find an Inukami to bond with, but eventually a beautiful Inukami named Yoko decides to become his Inukami, causing Keita to become overjoyed. However, his joy is short-lived when he discovers that she is a very problematic and uncontrollable Inukami. From then on, Keita’s life becomes filled with never-ending embarrassment.

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Category:  TV
Year:  July 6, 1998 – September 28, 1998
Studio:  Pioneer LDC/TV Tokyo/Tatsunoko Pro
Episodes:  13

Licensed!  Prior Licensor:  Geneon (will post current US Licensor when available)

Synopsis
 Lain Iwakura appears to be an ordinary girl, with almost no experience with computers. Yet the sudden suicide of a schoolmate, and a number of strange occurrences, conspire to pull Lain into the world of the Wired, where she gradually learns that nothing is what it seems to be… not even Lain herself.

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Action, Romance, Supernatural, Thriller

Category:  Movie
Year:  December 1, 2007 – August 8, 2009
Studio:  ufotable
Original Author:  Kinoko Nasu
Directed by:
  Movie 1 – Ei Aoki
  Movie 2 – Takuya Nonaka
  Movie 3 – Mitsuru Obunai
  Movie 4 – Shinichi Takiguchi
  Movie 5 – Takayuki Hirao
  Movie 6 – Takahiro Miura
  Movie 7 – Shinsuke Takizawa
Running Time:  7 movies: 507 minutes

Synopsis
Kara no Kyoukai is a Japanese Novel Series written by Kinoko Nasu and illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi and adapted into a 7-part Anime Movies.

For a complete synopsis on all movies:  Kara no Kyoukai Wikipedia

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Category:  TV
Year:  April 4, 2002 – June 27, 2002
Studio:  Gainax/Madhouse
Episodes:  13

Licensed!   ADV Films

Synopsis
Arumi and Sashi are two kids who grew up together in Abenobashi, a shopping area in Osaka, Japan, that has seen better days. When the news comes that Arumi and her family will be moving, Sashi becomes depressed and wishes that Arumi didn’t have to move. After one of Abenobashi’s Chinese directional gods statues accidentally breaks, Arumi and Sashi are transported to another Abenobashi that is nothing like their own. Maybe Sashi got his wish after all.

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Category:  Independent Anime Filmwork
Year:  2009
Written and Animated by:  Ishida Hiroyasu
Running Time:  2 minutes

Synopsis
Animated entirely by student and aspiring animator Ishida Hiroyasu.  A two-minute short focused on middle schooler Fumiko’s failed confession to  a boy named Takashi, who turns her down due to the fact he want to focus on baseball.  The rejection leads her on a comical fall across town that all started with her tripping over an elderly woman’s shopping cart!  In the end, it is Takashi-kun that breaks her whirlwind fall.  Once again, in order to win him over, [LMAO] she offers to make him Miso Soup every morning and he refuses her again.  Can’t take it no more, poor Fumiko passes out.  The short was posted to YouTube by Hiroyasu-kun and was quite the success!

Totally, totally hilarious!

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