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Chiko

Synopsis:
Chiko, the heir of a mysterious treasure her parents used to keep, is a shy and tormented young girl. Kept as a prisoner by her stepfamily who envies her heritage, she manages to run away with the legendary and genteel “Phantom Thief”. She gradually becomes a member of his band of kind-hearted crooks and follows the Phantom Thief in his quest for some mysterious kind of justice.

© Shinji Ohara•Media Factory/ Heiress of the Phantom Thief Production Committee

Ikki Tousen Great Guardians

Synopsis:
In this world, Japanese high-school students are the reincarnations of Chinese heroes from the era of the Three Kingdoms. All those young people have a huge power given by sacred stones, the Magatama. These formidable warriors fight each other during interacademic tournaments, the current winner of which is no one but the sappy and feather-brained Hakufu Sonsaku. While waiting for future fights, Hakufu is doing student jobs to pay her school fees, while others are training hard to get her title.

Something is going to disturb her when her little sister, whose existence she didn’t have a clue about so far, arrives in her life. She turns up to be the exact contrary of the fighting Hakufu.

© 2008 Yuji Shiozaki-Wani Books/Ikkitousen GG Partners - © 2009 Kazé S.A.S EDV 982 © Kazé 2009

Kiba

Synopsis:
In the world of Calm, a futurist megalopolis where the wind does not blow, Zed is a young man fighting to survive. Like this stifling polluted city, Zed is suffocating and yearning for a better world. Noah, a very old friend, is the only one to keep an eye on him. Everything changes the day he turns fifteen. As Zed is chased by the police, a strange passageway opens before him: he is propelled in a new world. Is this a dream?

In this other world, Zed is a Shard Caster, a wizard warrior who is able to cast spells and invoke powerful creatures, the Spirits. In this new world, he is going to encounter far worse dangers than those of the world of Calm…

© Aniplex • UpperDeck • Dream Ranch • Madhouse • TV Tokyo • Dentsu

Nabari

Synopsis:
Miharu Rokujô is a common student whose only dream is to take over the family restaurant when he discovers that he owns the secret of “Shinrabanshô” inside of him. Shinrabanshô is the most powerful technique ever conceived by the Ninjas of the secret world Nabari. Despite his will, he has no other choice but to train with the members of the Nindo club of his school who are great fighters, and to face the Kairoshû, Ninjas from the very ancient clan Iga, who are trying to get hold of his secret. If he wants to survive, he is going to have to master the power inside of him and become the King of Nabari.

© Yuhki Kamatani/Square Enix, Nabari no Ō Project

Vampire Knight Guilty

Synopsis :
Zero is wrongly suspected of the murder of Shizuka Hiô, a pure blood vampire, and is sentenced to death by the Senate, high council of the vampires. Yet Kaname intervenes on his behalf. Only just saved, Zero learns that Shizuka was not the enemy he thought she was but a mere pawn controlled by puppet master. As for Yûki, she is sure that her memory has been erased and used to contain the keys of the tragedy. She is trying to find the traces of her past. The mysteries of everyone are about to be unveiled but are they ready to accept the awful truth?

© 2008 MATSURI HINO, HAKUSENSHA／VAMPIRE KNIGHT PROJECT

Hokuto no Ken, The Legend of Raoh

Synopsis:
After a nuclear war, humanity is wandering in a post-apocalyptic world where all that is left is desolation and violence. On these devastated lands, powerful warriors who know about ancestral techniques are fighting to lay down the future of the human species.

Kenshirô is the only heir of Hokuto Shinken, an art of ultimate fighting he is using to help downtrodden people. Another school is dominating, that of Nanto, whose acclaimed heir is Souther, called the Sacred Emperor, who established his domination by terrifying people. To accomplish his destiny as a savior, Kenshirô has to fight Souther but an even more cruel enemy is hiding in the shadow of fate and opposes him: his brother Raoh who claims in the blood of innocent people the title of only heir of Hokuto Shinken…

© Buronson&Tetsuo Hara/NSP 1983, © NSP2006

Hokuto no Ken, The Legend of Yuria

Synopsis:
The moment has come for Ryuken, the master of Hokuto Shinken, to name a successor among his four sons. Kenshiro is going to inherit the title. Despite the danger of this reponsability, his companion Yuria decides to stay with the man she loves. But Shin, one of the powerful stars of the Nanto school, full of desire for Julia and moved by hatred and jealousy, carries off the young woman after defeating Kenshiro in a fight that left seven scars on the chest of the heir of Hokuto. Kept away from Kenshiro by Shin, Yuria decides to kill herself but leaps into the unknown and discovers her true fate…

© Buronson&Tetsuo Hara/NSP 1983, © NSP 2007

Souten no Ken

Synopsis:
Hokuto Shinken, the lethal fist of the ultimate bloodshed, is a secret fighting technique passed down to a single disciple. Its creation dates back to a 1800 years old past: the era of the Three Kingdoms. When times are peaceful again, this dreadful technique is forgotten.

Centuries later, the 62nd heir of Hokuto Shinken takes advantage of his exile in Japan to taste deserved times of peace after years of trouble. His name: Kasumi Kenshirô, formerly the King of Hell.

Unfortunately the truce is short and Kenshirô is soon called to Shanghai to save two of his friends from the rival triad. Over there his adversaries are way more powerful than the mafia: they have been initiated to techniques related to Hokuto. All the secrets of Hokuto are going to be unveiled…

© Tetsuo Hara & Buronson 2001, © Soten Partners 2006

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