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October 24, 2007

Venus to Mamoru

story

Manifesting itself from people's emotions, the mysterious power known as Beatrice is the most powerful magic known to mankind.
There is only one school in Japan that teaches the ways of Beatrice- Tokyo Beatrice University Senior High school, also known as TBU High.
Mamoru Yoshimura is a short teenager who looks like he's about ten years old. His smile is his saving grace, and can make anyone feel better. He is honest, cheerful, courteous and a true romantic. As a child, his life was saved by the magic of Beatrice. Waiting to learn more about conjuring and controlling the supernatural, he transfers TBU High as a freshman. He will soon discover that while he lacks development, he has a talent for controlling Beatrice and may even be a genius-level charmer. On Mamoru's first day, he saw a girl sitting under a blooming cherry blossom tree. She is a sight to behold. Before Mamoru can even ask her name, he was told by her, "We should go steady."
And that was the day that fate brought Mamoru and Ayako together.
Ayako Takasu is a sophomore at TBU High. She serves as the president of the student body and is the granddaughter of an important politician. In addition to being tall and gorgeous, she also is a genius-level Beatrice charmer capable of using her powers to do almost anything that pops into her head. The other students call her Beatrice the Witch and Beatrice the Angel of Death behind her back, but deep down inside, she is actually a very innocent girl with a kind soul.

cast

(Voice Cast)
Japanese Cast/
Mamoru Yoshimura: Akiko Kimura
Ayako Takasu: Mikako Takahashi
Itsumi Yoshimura: Ai Shimizu
Soushi Kikukawa: Taiten Kusunoki


overview

Genre :

Comedy

Japanese Title :

Mamorukun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo!

Director :

Itsuro Kawasaki

Original Story :

Hiroki Iwata

Year :

2006

Running time :

30min x 24 episodes

Country :

Japan


©Hiroki Iwata/Media Works/Beatrice Partners

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Battery

story

Takumi Harada (Kento Hayashi) moves to Okayama Prefecture with his family during spring break before his entry to Junior High School. On the baseball field, Takumi has enormous confidence in his ability as pitcher, but socially he is a loner and appears unapproachable to others. His family consists of his constitutionally weak younger brother Seiha (Akihiro Yarita); his mother Makiko (Yuki Amami) who is so protective of Seiha that she cannot help acting coldly to Takumi; and his grandfather Yozo who was once a famous high school baseball coach who lead his team to the national high school baseball convention at Koshien Stadium. Even his warm, caring family is not sure at times how to deal with the solitary side of Takumi. Takumi meets a new classmate Goh Nagakura (Kenta Yamada). Goh is captivated by Takumi's pitching and is eager to pair up with him as his catcher. The two join the Nitta East Junior High School baseball team, only to discover that baseball there is under the "complete control" of a dictator-like coach. Unwilling to compromise his beliefs, Takumi defies and clashes with the coach. His classmate Mayu Yajima is gradually attracted to Takumi's relentlessness. Takumi and Goh seem to beg doing very well together, until the disparity of their skills start to come between them. Eventually, Goh brings up dissolving their duo and Takumi accepts. Seiha desperately tries to bring the two back together. "You gotta pitch!" The two rejoin again, but just at that moment, Seiha falls ill. Takumi's mother pushes him away claiming that involving Seiha with baseball was the cause of his illness. However, the father Hiroshi suggests that perhaps Takumi had continued to play baseball to avoid worrying about his weak younger brother and to divert his mind from the loneliness of not getting attention from his parents. Finally, with his own life is in danger, Seiha asks Takumi right before the big game, "Make sure you win...okay Takumi?" With Seiha's words marked in his heart, Takumi heads toward the baseball field.

cast

Takumi Harada: Kento Hayashi
Go Nagakura: Kenta Yamada
Youzou Ioka: Bunta Sugawara
Hiroshi Harada: Goro Kishitani
Makoto Tomura: Masato Hagiwara


overview

Genre :

Drama

Japanese Title :

Battery

Director :

Yojiro Takita

Screenplay :

Tadashi Morishita

Original Story :

Atsuko Asano

Year :

2007

Running time :

118min

Country :

Japan


©2007 "Battery" Film Partners

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Murder of Inugami Clan

story

A dead patriarch's fortune and strangely written will lead to scandalous family murders. And a brilliant detective uncovers a web of love and hatred, ultimately leading to a frightening truth... Sahei Inugami (played by Tatsuya Nakadai), once "Japan's pharmaceutical king," is the founder of the Inugami conglomerate. Sahei passes away, leaving a massive fortune and a large family. His complex lineage includes three daughters, each born of different mothers. The daughters are Matsuko (Junko Fuji), Takeko (Keiko Matsuzaka) and Umeko (Hisako Manda). Each daughter has a son: Sukekiyo (Kikunosuke Onoe), Suketake (Shingo Katsurayama) and Suketomo (Mansaku Ikeuchi). Living with the whole family in Sahei's mansion is the beautiful Tamayo Nonomiya (Nanako Matsushima). She is the granddaughter of a man who helped Sahei build his wealth, a man to whom Sahei owed all to... Wakabayashi, executer of the will, foresees the deadly conflicts between the family members and asks the detective Kosuke Kindaichi (Koji Ishizaka) for help. Before Kindaichi can meet him, Wakabayashi is killed. The will is read to the family. All are shocked. "Tamayo will inherit the entire fortune on condition that she marry one of my grandchildren: Sukekiyo, Suketake, or Suketomo." Sahei's demands start a bloody battle, pitting each relative against the other. As Wakabayashi feared, family members befall grizzly murders as everyone struggles for the fortune now resting with Tamayo. The detective Kosuke Kindaichi investigates the murders, finding deeply buried secrets behind the family's lineage. Ultimately, Kosuke discovers an unimaginable Inugami secret!

cast

Kosuke Kindaichi: Koji Ishizaka
Tamayo Nonomiya: Nanako Matsushima
Sukekiyo Inugami: Kikunosuke Onoe
Matsukp Inugami: Sumiko Fuji
Takeko Inugami: Keiko Matsuzaka
Umeko Inugami: Hisako Manda


overview

Genre :

Mystery

Japanese Title :

Inugamike no Ichizoku

Director :

Kon Ichikawa

Screenplay :

Kon Ichikawa, Shinya Hidaka, Norio Osada

Original Story :

Seishi Yokomizo

Year :

2006

Running time :

135 min

Country :

Japan


©2006 "Inugamike no Ichizoku" Film Partners

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Switching

story

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi. "Remember I kissed you, saying I'll marry you when we're grown ups?" He feels embarrassed around Kazumi, who talks about their early childhood stories without any reserve. Kazumi has a boyfriend named Hiroshi Yamamoto. Kazuo is annoyed with Hiroshi's attitude, but with Kazumi, they naturally start to get comfortable with each other again just like old times. Kazumi's family runs a long-standing soba noodle restaurant. Her very lively, Japanese family consists of her parents, her grandfather, and a very young niece. She has one older brother who lives away in Tokyo. One day, Kazumi invites Kazuo to her house. After talking about old times, they walk to a place from their childhood called the "Lonely Watering Place". "Kazuo, the water here is very good. That's why our soba noodles also taste so good." Kazuni tries to scoop up some water with a dipper and the two accidentally fall into the water. They quickly crawl out, but suddenly realize that they have switched bodies! (In the following, Kazuo's mind inside Kazumi's body will be referred to as "KAZUO", and Kazumi's mind inside Kazuo's body will be referred to as "KAZUMI".) They go home, to the others family, who know nothing about the switch, but they seem rattled. Upset with the whole situation, the two both leave their homes. KAZUO says to sobbing KAZUMI, "For today, I'll have to play you and you'll have to play me."

cast

Kazumi Saito: Misako Renbutsu
Kazuo Saito: Naoyuki Morita
Naoko Sito: Misa Shimizu


overview

Genre :

Comedy/Drama

Japanese Title :

Tenkousei

Director :

Nobuhiko Obayashi

Screenplay :

Nobuhiko Obayashi, Wataru Kenmochi, Chuji Naito, Fumio Ishimori, Chukon Minami

Original Story :

Hisashi Yamanaka

Year :

2007

Running time :

120 min

Country :

Japan


©2007 "Tenkousei" Film Partners

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October 25, 2007

Forget-Me-Not

story

Minako is working abroad as a pinhole photographer when she learns from her doctor that she's going to lose her sight. Minako decides to return to her hometown, Toyohashi, so she can see her childhood home one last time. Minako still carries the old-fashioned pinhole camera, which once belonged to her brother. As she is photographing the city, Minako meets a couple of high school students, YUKIHIKO and SAEKO. They are in the midst of preparing an event that will revive the traditional "Eejanaika Dance," which originated in Toyohashi. Minako begins to tell them about her childhood... In 1943, Minako, 6, and her brother SHINJI, 12, move from Tokyo to Toyohashi. At first, Shinji is treated as an outsider by his classmates, but as time goes on he is gradually accepted and becomes the leader of his class. As WWII wages on and the fighting becomes fiercer, Shinji's teacher and his classmates' fathers are sent off to war one after the other. When Shinji enters junior high, his class is ordered to start working in a naval yard based in Toyokawa instead of attending school. August 6, 1945. The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. The very next day, during one of the many air raids, the factory Shinji has been working in is hit. Shinji is killed, along with many of his classmates. Their young lives have been stolen from them. As they listen to Minako's story, Yukihiko and Saeko consider the preciousness of friendship, family and peace. Their re-examination of their lives helps them find a new meaning in the dance revival and gives them greater determination to make the event successful.

cast

Minako Uematsu Schneider: Ruriko Asaoka
Yukihiko Mizutani: Takahiro Houjo
Saeko Moriya: Mio Kato
Dr. Maeda: Hidenori Tokuyama


overview

Westlake

Genre :

Drama

Japanese Title :

Hayazaki no Hana

Director :

Hiroshi Sugawawra

Screenplay :

Hiroshi Sugawawra

Original Story :

Osamu Souda

Year :

2006

Running time :

105 min

Country :

Japan


© 2006 Hayazakinohana Film Partners

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April 23, 2008

Spice & Wolf

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Unflappable KRAFT LAWRENCE has successfully peddled his wares at Pasuroe Village. As the villagers celebrate the Harvest Festival, Lawrence knows it is time for him to move to the next town to sell his merchandise. As he loads his coach, to his surprise, he discovers a beautiful girl asleep in the wheat on the loading platform. Even more surprising is the fact that she has the ears and tail of wolf. She announces herself as HOLO, god of harvest. Uncertain if Holo is really a wolf god of the harvest or not. However, struck by her witty conversation and cunning manner, he agrees to travel with her up north.

On their journey the pair find an unexpected opportunity to make money. They learn from a local group that silver coins in this part of the region will soon dramatically increase in value. To investigate the details, Lawrence joins the group that gave him the information and is drawn into the situation.

cast

(Voice Cast)
Japanese Cast/
Holo: Ami Koshimizu
Kraft Lawrence: Jun Fukuyama
Chloe: Kaori Nazuka
Nola Arendt: Mai Nakahara


overview

Genre :

Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural

Japanese Title :

Okami to Koshinryo

Director :

Takeo Takahashi

Original Story :

Isuna Hasekura

Year :

2008

Running time :

30min X 13 episodes

Country :

Japan

Distributor in US :


© ISUNA HASEKURA, MEDIAWORKS/Spice and Wolf PRODUCTION COMMITTEE

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April 24, 2008

Rental Magica

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Celtic magic, Onmyodo, Shinto, King Solomon's magic gods, Esoteric Buddhism...magic from all over the world, from ancient to present, fiercely clash! ITSUKI IBA is a high school boy who takes over a corporation, which his father left behind. Astral is a "wizard & witch temp agency" that rents wizards and witches that suite clients' requests. While Itsuki struggles to fill the president's role, which is a quite unfamiliar task for him, he leads his skilled and dependable magical employees and fights againist enemies that close in upon them one after another.

cast

(Voice Cast)
Japanese Cast/
Itsuki Iba: Jun Fukuyama
Honami Takase Ambler: Kana Ueda
Ren Nekoyashiki: Junichi Suwabe
Adilicia Lenn Mathers: Mikako Takahashi


overview

Genre :

Comedy

Japanese Title :

Rental Magica

Director :

Itsuro Kawasaki

Original Story :

Makoto Sanda

Year :

2007

Running time :

30min X 24 episodes

Country :

Japan

Distributor in US :


© Makoto Sanda/pako/KADOKAWASHOTEN/Rental Magica Partners

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Mushi-Uta

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story

Teenagers who lives with "dreams" in their hearts.

When their dreams become so big and powerful that they cannot suppress them anymore, the "bugs" -supernatural begins that look like bugs- appear out of nowhere and eat their dreams. The bugs deprive teenagers of their dreams, but give them unwanted superhuman power. The bugs are parasites to humans and their hosts are called the "Mushi-Tsuki." Though the Mushi-Tsuki's existence is officially denied, everbody knows the term and the Mushi-Tsuki are discriminated against and feared by the public. The near future, a futuristic Japan. It is now ten years after the "bugs" first appeared.

The goverment's official announcement declares its mission is to find and catch the Mushi-Tsuki, and render them "non-existent." One day "Cuckoo", the best agent in "SEP" -Special Environment Preservation Office, is assigned to catch a girl, SHIIKA ANMOTO. She ran away from a secret facility where the Mushi-Tsuki are locked away.

DAISUKE KUSURIYAMA, who looks completely ordinary, is a freshman at Oka Higashi High School. He meets Shiika on his way to school and they are strongly attached to one another. Meanwhile, Cuckoo tries to corner Shiika, but members of the "Mushi-Bane" -the resistance organization led by Ladybird against SEP- appear.

The sacred night's battle, which are bursting with the poignant and passionate emotions of the dreamers has just began.

cast

(Voice Cast)
Japanese Cast/
Daisuke Kusuriya "Cuckoo": Shintaro Asanuma
Shiika Anmoto "Winter Firefly": Kana Hanazawa
Keigo Haji: Daisuke Hirakawa
Rina Tachibana "Ladybird": Hitomi Nabatame


overview

Genre :

Fantasy, Drama, Action, Supernatural

Japanese Title :

Mushi-Uta

Director :

Kazuo Sakai

Original Story :

Kyohei Iwai

Year :

2007

Running time :

30min X 12 episodes

Country :

Japan

Distributor in US :


© 2007 Kyohei Iwai / LLO / Kadokawa Shoten / MUSHIUTA Partners

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May 2, 2008

Demonbane

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story

This is a world where theory of magic and science made simultaneous progression; Arkham City is a Megalopolis which achieved immense prosperity from powers of magical skills But now, Arkham City is being terrified by the dreadful crime organization called the Black Lodge. Masterminded by the extraordinary Arch image, the most atrocious and horrible devil ever existed called Master Therion. The faithful followers of Black Lodge spread destruction and confusion throughout Arkham City as their desire pleases them. The Guardian of Arkham City, Hadoh Conglomerate created a Robot to defeat the Black Lodge. This Robot was named, Demonbane. The War between Demonbane and Black Lodge led by Master Therion has just begun!

cast

(Voice Cast)
Japanese Cast/
Kurou Daijyuji: Kentaro Ito
Al Azif: Rie Kanda
Ruri Hadoh: Jyunko Asami


overview

Genre :

Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction, Supernatural

Japanese Title :

Kishin Houkou Demonbane

Director :

Shoichi Masuo

Original Story :

Jin Haganeya

Year :

2006

Running time :

30min X 12 episodes

Country :

Japan

Distributor in US :


© 2006 DEMONBANE Partners

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June 12, 2008

Romantica ~Pure Love~

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story

Misaki Takahashi is a senior of a high school. As his entrance exam for university is approaching, his older brother Takahiro arranges his friend and a best selling novelist Akihiko Usami, to ne his private tutor.
When Misaki visits Usami’s home, he finds a “Boys Love” novel and main characters of which are clearly based on himself and Takahiro. Misaki gets mad that Usami is writing imaginated “Boys Love” novel as his second job, but his worst nightmare comes when Usami who wakes up bad tempered, suddenly comes on to him. Misaki’s feeling to Usami changes gradually, as he gets to know Usami who suppress feelings to Takahiro.
When Takahiro is relocated in his job, Misaki is forced to find a new place to live and moves into Usami’s apartment as a freeloader. While living together Misaki finds out more about Usami’s job and his family background, eventually he finds himself falling in love with Usami. Though at the same time he is troubled by him…

Two more Boys Love story “Pure egoist” and “Pure Terrorist” are intertwined with this story.

cast

(Voice Cast)
Japanese Cast/
Misaki Takahashi: Takahiro Sakurai
Akihiko Usami: Hikaru Hanada
Hiroki Kamijo: Kentaro Ito
Nowaki Kusama: Nobutoshi Kanna
Shinobu Takatsuki: Daisuke Kishio
Yo Miyagi: Kazuhiko Inoue


overview

Genre :

Romance, Comedy

Japanese Title :

Junjo Romantica

Director :

Chiaki Kon

Original Story :

Shungiku Nakamura

Year :

2008

Running time :

30min X 24 episodes

Country :

Japan

Distributor in US :


© 2008 Shungiku NAKAMURA·KADOKAWASHOTEN/Romantica Club!!

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Coo ~Our Guardian~

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story

Once upon a time,
one fox deity was deified as the guardian of the MIZUCHI Family.
Its name is Coogen, a wise fox, who uses all kinds of magical power, but at the same time, is very puckish being.
The priest of the MIZUCHI Family was fed up with Coogen who repeats tricks too nasty to discard it as a joke. Thus the priest took seven days and seven nights to seal Coogen in a small shrine in the mountain behind the house.
As time has passed, Coogen was freed from the shrine to protect Toru TAKAGAMI, the descendant of the MIZUCHI Family, from bizarre spooks…but Coogen behaves frivolous far from the legendary deity. Ko, another guardian of the MIZUCHI Family, also joins with Coogen to protect Toru.

With the appearance of the two, Toru and Noboru, Toru’s older brother and the present master of the MIZUCHI Family, get involved in mysterious happenings one after another.

cast

(Voice Cast)
Japanese Cast/
Coogen Tenko (aka Coo) (female): Yukana
Coogen Tenko (aka Coo) (male): Yuichi Nakamura
Toru Takagami: Yu Shimamura
Noboru Takagami: Takahiro Mizushima
Ko: Saori Hayami


overview

Genre :

Fantasy, Adventure, Supernatural

Japanese Title :

Wagaya no Oinarisama

Director :

Yoshiaki Iwasaki

Original Story :

Jin Shibamura

Year :

2008

Running time :

30min X 24 episodes

Country :

Japan

Distributor in US :


© Jin Shibamura / Media Works / Oinarisama Partners

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