Animes from 2012

Mato Kuroi happens to run into Yomi Takanashi on the first day of junior high school, a quiet, withdrawn girl whom she instantly takes an interest in. Mato does her best to converse with Yomi, wanting to become friends with her. At first she is ignored, however when Yomi sees a colorful blue bird attached to Mato's phone, which is from the book "Li'039;l Birds At Work," the ice melts. Seeing that they have a common interest, the two develop a close friendship.The young girls live as alternate beings in an alternative world, Mato as BlackRock Assassin, and Yomi as Dead Master.
Somehow, what happens in one world seems to have an effect on the other, and the girls unknowingly get entangled by the threads of destiny, unaware of this reality.

Yoshino Takigawa, an average teenager, dates secretly from his younger sister, his best friend Mahiro. But when his girlfriend Aika dies mysteriously, Mahiro leaves, vowing to locate the one in charge and make them pay for his beloved sister's murder. Yoshino continues his life as normal and hasn't learned of Mahiro in a month's time until he is faced with a mysterious girl who holds him at a gunpoint and his best friend arrives to rescue him in the nickname.Yoshino discovers that Mahiro recruited the aid of a witch named Hakaze Kusaribe to find Aika's killer and the presence of an object known as the "Tree of Exodus.
" Given the imminent danger to the world, the witch's brother egotistically desires to make use of his power. Hakaze is exiled to a desolate island, however, and it is now up to Yoshino and Mahiro to help her save the world, thus getting ever closer to the reality behind the death of Aika.

Isanami, a young Izumo priestess, is forced to watch her temple burn to the ground as a group of evil ninja massacre the people inside, leaving her no choice but to flee into the forest to avoid the same fate. By chance, she stumbles across the Iga school's masterless ninja, Saizou Kirigakure. The two fly to Ueda Castle to receive help from Yukimura Sanada. Isanami's possession of a mysterious and destructive force is revealed, and Sanada readily agrees to assist her, gathering ten brave warriors to the side of Isanami.Thus starts Brave 10, a story set in time Warring States.
It follows Saizou and Isanami's journey through the war-laden lands in search of brave warriors to fight under the banner of Yukimura, each possessing strong capabilities of their own. They're going to have to move far and wide, all while trying to fend off others that are going to chase after the dark magic she has to make her own.

Ryouta Sakamoto is unemployed and lives with his parents, his only real accomplishment being that he is Japan's top video game player Btooom! But, when he finds himself trapped on an island in the middle of nowhere, with a small green crystal lodged in his left hand and no recollection of how he got there, his happy life is about to change. To his surprise, somebody wanted to recreate the game that he likes so much in real life, with the stakes being life or death.Equipped with a bag full of special explosives known as "BIM," players are tasked to destroy seven of their fellow participants and take their green crystals back home.
Initially condemning any sort of violence, Ryouta is pushed into fighting when he learns that many of the other players are not as accommodating as they would seem. Himiko, a fellow Btooom, team up! Game, they're trying to get together off the island, getting closer and closer to the reality behind the death contest.

The plot of the slice-of-life combat is set in a future that has neither a World War III nor an alien invasion. Robots are part of daily life in this country, and they contribute to various facets of society. "Shinki" are adorable partners 15 centimeters high (about 6 inches high) designed to assist humans. They are filled with intellect and feelings, and are committed to serving their "masters."To battle one another, these Shinki can also be fitted with arms and armour. These Shinki are called "Busou Shinki" (literally, "Divine Princesses with armor").
In particular, a freshman from high school named Masato is represented by the Shinki Ann (Arnval), Aines (Altines), and Lene (Altlene). Things change as they are joined by a new Shinki, the bellicose Strarf.

Suddenly some people consider faith, but for Kusanagi Godou, a 16-year-old, it's the Very old religion the finds him! Godou's stuck with Campione's unwanted status as a result of beating the God of War in mortal battle! Or God Slayer, whose job is to fight against heresy gods if they seek to muscle in the local turf. This is not only likely to make Godou roadkill on the Highway to Heaven, it's also a work with several other problems. Like how to tackle the fact that his "enhanced status" attracts a bevy of excessively adoring female followers.
They're just there to support him in his demi-godly duties after all, right? And why does it seem that their chief, the demonically manipulative sword-mistress Erica Blandelli, has such a devilish interest in promoting some Very unorthodox activity? Get ready for everlasting affairs, celestial harems, and lots of dueling deities taking holy in the face as the Titans 'final smash, pound, and thrash shakes both Heaven and Earth.

Aichi and his friends won the National Tournament and decided to go their own way before the arrival of a mysterious boy named Takuto Tatsunagi. He reveals that the members of the Royal Paladins, Dark Paladins, and Kagero have been captured, and the only way to free Cray is for the warriors of the Vanguard to use a new power- limit break. Aichi's deck is changed to a Gold Paladin deck because the Royal Paladins lose the ability to fight. Aichi and his friends need to win the Vanguard VF Circuit now if they want to learn more about Cray's happenings and free their old friends.

Short episodes aired on the official YouTube channel of KyoAni.

One day, while riding the bus, Sakurakouji Sakura looks out the window to see people burning alive with a blue fire and a boy of her age standing over the people, unharmed.The next day she returns to the site and there's no bodies or signs of any sort of crime, only a small fire. She then goes to college to find out that there is a new transfer student, Oogami Rei, who looks just like the boy she had seen before and only wears a black glove on his left hand.Oogami is a breaker of code, one that "does not exist." He's an obviously cold-blooded murderer who practices the "eye for an eye" theory of "using evil against bad.
" Convinced that killing is false, Sakurakouji is setting out to stop him and pierce his ice heart.

Roaming the Sanada North High School all-boy halls are three close comrades: Hidenori, the quirky ringleader with a hyperactive imagination, the enthusiastic Yoshitake, and Tadakuni, the rational and cautious. Giant robots fill their lives, true love and serious drama ... At least in their vivid imaginations.
In fact, they are just a trio of ordinary people everyday trying to pass the time, but who said that everyday life couldn't be interesting? Whether it's an elaborate reenactment of the RPG or an unlikely romantic encounter at sunset on the bank of the river, Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou is full of surreal and hilariously connected scenarios that are anything but earthly.

Built on the intrigue of traditional occult myths, Seikyou Private Academy bears a dark past— it was haunted for 60 years by a ghost known as Yuuko, a young woman who died mysteriously in the basement of the old school building. With no memory of her life or death, Yuuko discreetly finds the Paranormal Investigations Club in search of answers and leads them.A chance encounter leads Yuuko to cling to Teiichi Niiya, a conscientious freshman who can see the eccentric ghost, they quickly grow close and he agrees to help her. Together with Kirie Kanoe, Yuuko's aunt, and Momoe Okonogi's naive second year, they dive deep into the storied school's notorious Seven Mysteries.
Tasogare Otome x Amnesia tells a fascinating tale of students working together to shed light on the unexplained events of their school, all the while closer to the truth behind the death of Yuuko.

The story is set on the isolated island of Iwado, Okinawa, which has seen a increasing campaign calling for a return to an independent government. Ao Fukai, a 12-year-old boy with a father who has been missing, lives on the island with an elderly doctor named Toshio and is about to start middle school. Ao's mother was taken hostage by unknown persons a decade ago. Naru Arata, Ao's 12-year-old childhood friend and the heroine of the novel, lives with her father, elder sister and grandmother. She has a power of "Yuta" awakened inside her because of an incident when she was young.
Immediately a mysterious force called "Unknown" appears and launches an attack on the island's Scub Coral lifeform. Ao launches a certain military FP called "Nirvash" in his fervent attempt to defend the island aboard a Japanese military ship.

As the Fourth Holy Grail War rages on without a definite victor in sight, Church supervisor Risei Kotomine calls on the remaining Servants and their Masters to unite and face an imminent challenge that could unravel the Grail War and ruin Fuyuki City. The awkward truce soon falls as Masters prove they'll do everything in their power to succeed, no matter how despicable.Seeds of doubt are sown between His servant Kiritsugu Emiya and Saber as their contrasting philosophies clash on patriotism and chivalry. Meanwhile, Kirei Kotomine, who still tries to find his place in life, establishes an mysterious bond with one of the remaining servants.
The cost of winning starts to blur the line between victory and loss, as the countdown to the end of the war approaches zero.

As in any culture, Japanese children grow up listening to the stories their parents and grandparents repeatedly told. The boy born from a peach; the moon princess discovered inside a bamboo; the old man who can make the blossom of a dead cherry tree etc. Such short stories, which allow children to see both the dark and bright sides of life, have passed from generation to generation conventional moral values.Every half-hour episode of Folktales from Japan consists of three well-known and unknown self-contained stories with a special emphasis on heartwarming stories that derive from Tohoku, the northern area heavily affected by the 2011 earthquake.
Can this program help to cheer up the victims of the earthquake, and give them a light of hope?

A boy who was in a soccer team follows the tale but it was disbanded due to not enough players. Yet after the boy meets a female professional soccer player, he's trying to get his soccer team back.

"Senshadou" is a popular sport used in elimination-based matches by tanks of the World War II era. It's commonly practiced by both women and children, marketed as a form of art aimed at making women more popular in culture and appealing to men. Becoming a global phenomenon over time, senshadou's success contributes to the development of a world championship that will soon be held in Japan.Miho Nishizumi, who comes from a lineage of well-respected senshadou specialists, is at odds with the sport after a traumatic incident led to her retirement and, eventually, to create a divide between her kin.
She moves to Ooarai Girls High School where the senshadou system was discontinued to steer clear of the custom as far as possible. However, the school is reviving their tankery program with the news of the upcoming championships and Miho is being forced into entering.Now, with the aid of some new friends, she must conquer her past and again take command of a tank squadron in an attempt to save her school from closure, while at the same time proving to her family that the senshadou Nishizumi-style isn't just about victory.

A story about Akabane Aya's humorous misadventures, an ambitious high school girl who constantly tries to outdo her classmates in everything (especially sex appeal) only to make herself a fool in the process. Since the story occurs in an all-girls high, expect plenty of innuendos yuri fanservice without much seriousness.

Mahiro Yasaka is just an ordinary high school student, before one day a deadly beast unexpectedly attacks him. Just when all seems to be lost, he's rescued by a silver-haired girl named Nyaruko, who claims to be Nyarlathotep's shape-shifting god from horror author H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Story, sent to Earth by the Agency for Space Defense. She reveals to Mahiro that the chasing creature was an alien named Nightgaunt, who had intended to kidnap and sell him as a slave.The Lovecraftian deity falls madly in love with Mahiro after saving him from the alien, and pushes itself into his home, much to his chagrin.
In addition, two others from the fictional universe are soon joining them: Cthuko, a girl obsessed with Nyaruko, and Hasuta, a young boy who is easily mistaken for a beautiful female. Together, Mahiro is shielded by the three odd aliens from the numerous extraterrestrial dangers that threaten his well-being and that of Earth, all while rendering his life a living hell.

The year is 1863, and as Japan's long festering wounds of political strife erupt into violent waves of street battles and assassinations, the Tokugawa Shogunate is sending a new army of masterless samurai named the Roshigumi to support the Kyoto Aizu forces. Nevertheless the current "police" is nothing but a cohesive force and assassination has already split them into two competing groups. The stronger is followed by the more noble yet less assertive Isami Kondo, the tough Serizawa Kamo and the lesser. It is inside this pack of wolves that the psychotic Serizawa drags Ryunosuke Ibuki.
Driven by blood debt to become a virtual slave, he hates the samurai and everything that they stand for.But when he sees how the other half of the samurai work, he starts to believe that there might always be a chance both for himself and for Japan if only Kondo steps up and takes down the crazy dog Serizawa!

Set during the Taishō period of Japan (1912-1926), a girl called Haru Asagi serves as a maid of the Miyanomori family, which is headed by one of the most wealthy magnates in Japan. But unexpectedly the head of the family declares that he is retiring, so one of his six sons will take care of the family.

Taking place one month after the events that occurred in the movie Heaven is a Place on Earth. Living at the Sanzenin Mansion once again, Nagi returns to her old ways of life, until she receives word from American authorities informing her that she has a week to pick up her late father's belongings that was indefinitely delayed due to various circumstances. After receiving news of her father whom she doesn't remember, Nagi then meets a mysterious girl (with a hidden agenda) claiming to be Nagi's little sister.The series tells a new story that is original to the anime and not directly based on the manga.
The main author of the original series Kenjiro Hata personally created the original concept for the story of this anime.

It was a dream come true for Yuno to study at the Yamabuki Arts High School, and she's already learned so much! And not just from her teachers, but also from her friends and neighbors who have become her second family, making the Hidamari Apartments such a safe and well-maintained house. Yet as the day of her "big sisters" Sae and Hiro's graduation gradually draws closer, it's time for Yuno to start taking seriously the same task for Nazuna, Nori and the other aspiring young artists who have joined Hidamari's protective cocoon. And it's time to discuss those truly daunting artistic tasks as well.
This doesn't mean there won't be time for fun with Miyako and all the others, but it's certainly time for pencils in their plans for the future. And sometimes it means you have to put the art before the course!

There are only gods and ghosts in fairy-tales, right? That's the feeling that high school girl Tamki Kasuga has in the remote village of Kifumura before she goes to stay with her grandmother. After being assaulted upon her arrival by mysterious beings, she is soon told that people in her family contain the blood of the Tamayori Queen, who has the duty and power to keep gods and spirits sealed so that they can harm the general public. Tamaki has trouble believing this at first, but having five attractive young men trailing her everywhere she goes on serving as her guardians are going a long way to persuade her.
However, there's more to this work than Tamaki knows first, and the road ahead of her is full of risk and peril. Will she be able to take on the heavy task put on her shoulders with success?

Hiiro no Kakera 2nd season.

Using the opportunity given by the Mikawa Dispute, Tori and his comrades are trying to rescue Horizon from the Testament Union. Yet as the Floating City Musashi is heading to its next destination, England's Floating Island, Tres España is preparing its own armada for war against the British Islanders. Now, as Horizon's search for emotions builds up to its climax, Tori's new war is about to begin in the Fairy Queen-ruled country! The re-enactment of the past mentioned in the enigmatic Testament continues as the Armor of Deadly Sins hidden revealed in Horizon's spectacular second season in the middle of Nowhere!

Human culture is all but extinct, due to the continually rising birth rates for several decades. For just a few remaining humans, they live in this post-apocalyptic world with what the previous generations have left behind. Planet is now ruled by fairies, tiny creatures with state-of - the-art technology, sugar addiction and utter disregard for human health.A young girl who has just completed her studies returns to her hometown, and is named as an official arbitrator of the United Nations. Her role is to act as a bridge between humanity and the fairies, reminding each side that all races can live peacefully together.
She imagines this mission would be simple enough, but it will take a lot more effort to manage the accidents created by the naive fairies in their search of candy than she originally believed.

Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he expected when he signs up to his sister's behest at the Classics Club, especially when he learns how deeply rooted the club's history is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is drawn into an enquiry about the 45-year-old mystery surrounding the club room.Accompanied by his fellow club members, the intelligent Satoshi Fukube, the strict yet friendly Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must battle deadlines and lack of details with resourcefulness and secret skill, so as not only to find the truth buried under the dust of works produced years before them, but also of other minor side cases.
Centered on the award-winning Koten-bu light novel series and directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto of Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu, Hyouka shows that everyday life can be full of small mysteries, whether it's family history, a student film, or even the wilted flowers that make up a ghost story.

Inazuma Eleven Go: After the Holy Road Soccer Tournament Chrono Stone is set. Tenma Matsukaze, the hero of the moment, flew all over Japan to teach children how to play soccer.Upon completing his quest, he returns to Raimon Junior High School but to his disappointment, it is no longer the same Raimon Junior High he remembers. Football club is non-existent, and the champion team leaders of the Holy Road Soccer Tournament have no recollection of taking part in the tournament. We do not remember Tenma, nor the soccer game we played. When Tenma is confused by this twist, he unexpectedly appears before Alpha, the chief of the Route Agents and captain of Protocol Omega squad.
Alpha says he and his staff are responsible for wiping out Raimon's football love along with the soccer club members 'memories: and Tenma himself is next.That's when a strange kid named Fei Rune seems to be saving him just in time. Only who is Fei, and why does Alpha want to get rid of football for good? Tenma realizes he has to do everything he can to emerge victorious. It's a fight that can cement soccer's fate forever.

The sheltered daughter of a prominent family is Ririchiyo Shirakiin. Ririchiyo was a safe and dependent girl throughout her life with her small build and wealthy status, but now she has decided to change all that. There is only one problem, however; the young girl has a sharp tongue that she can control and poor communication skills.Ririchiyo takes up residence in Maison de Ayakashi with some support from a childhood friend, a secluded, high-security apartment complex that, as the unsociable 15-year-old soon learns, is home to a host of strange people.
In addition, their odd personalities aren't the strangest things about them: every Maison de Ayakashi inhabitant, including Ririchiyo, is literally half-human, half-youkai.Yet the troubles of Ririchiyo's have just started. She will be accompanied by a Secret Service Officer as a condition to live at her new home. The new partner of Ririchiyo, Soushi Miketsukami, is lovely, quiet ... Yet absurdly clingy and grimly submissive. Ririchiyo certainly seems to have a tough road ahead of her with Soushi, her latest supernatural neighbors and the beginning of high school.

Kon Hokaze, a child who embarks on a journey from our world to an imaginary universe known as Mira, full of a mystical force known as Alma, follows the game and anime. He soon finds himself in the midst of a fight around Alma, after protecting Princess Ecarlate from attackers.

A group of supernaturally controlled mafia-like protectors on the island of Regalo called the Arcana Famiglia protects the people from anyone who might threaten them. Having made contracts with tarot cards, the leaders of their company each possess various abilities, such as immense energy, invisibility, or the ability to see into someone's heart.At his birthday party, Mondo, their chief and their family's "Papa," reveals that he will be retiring soon. He is planning to hold the Arcana Duello, a competition that will grant the winner Papa's title and any wish they desire if they win.
But there's more at stake than just a title: Mondo also agrees to marry his aunt, Felicità the winner. The strong-willed Felicità, frustrated by this, wants to join the competition herself, in order to make her own way into the future. As Felicità fights for her independence, her rivals are fighting for her heart.

Madoka Kyouno is an enthusiastic, passionate, person. As the proud, and only, member of the Jersey Club of Kamogawa Women, she goes around helping others in need.

Madoka's world turns upside down when a mysterious girl named Lan unexpectedly asks her to fly a robot. Motivated by her desire to defend Kamogawa's people and community, Madoka decides to fly the revived Vox robot to counter extraterrestrials who have come to invade Earth.

In 2059, as seen in the first Macross story five decades after the Space War I conflict. Macross Frontier, the super-long-distance colonization fleet of the 25th New Macross Class, is traveling through the galaxy to a new home paradise. It's locked up in a war-state with a strange enemy called Vajra.

Macross FB7 is Macross franchise's 30th Anniversary work.

Child soldier Jonathan "Jonah" Mar, bred up in a conflict-ridden world, hates weapons and those who deal with them. But when an foreign weapons dealer, Koko Hekmatyar, seizes Jonah as one of her bodyguards, he has no choice but to take up arms. Along with Koko's other bodyguards, mainly made up of retired special-ops troops, Jonah now has the job of defending Koko and her excessively idealistic dream of world peace from the myriad dangers that come from her line of work. Jormungand follows Koko, Jonah and the rest of the crew as they travel the world under the international shipping company HCLI, selling weapons.
Since Koko's work is illegal under international law, she is constantly forced to sidestep local and international authorities while doing business with armies, private military and militia. Jonah and the crew must protect Koko and her vision of world peace with their lives or die trying, with the CIA still hot on her tail, and assassins around every corner.

A ruthless arms dealer born into chaotic conflict on a quixotic quest for world peace and a child soldier. Both lives must intertwine as they journey together across the world's arms market's seedy underbelly.

Shizuku Mizutani is apathetic towards her peers and is concerned only about her grades. Nevertheless, when she encounters Haru Yoshida, a violent troublemaker who stopped attending class after getting into a fight early in the school year, her cold view of life starts to chang. He isn't very different from her though—he too has little understanding of human nature and no friends. To the shock of Shizuku, he proclaims that she will be his friend and instantly confesses his feelings to her when he meets her.Shizuku has a hard time recognizing her friendship with Haru, owing to her lack of friends and social contact.
Yet gradually, their relationship is starting to grow, and she learns that Haru is more than crime. She begins to grow feelings for him, but she is unsure about what kind of emotions she experiences. Shizuku and Haru together discuss the true essence of their friendship and their emotions.

Joshiraku follows five rakugo storyteller girls 'conversations about the strange things that happen to them every day. Their surreal and sarcastic conversation spans all sorts of subjects, from trivial observations of daily life to politics, manga and more. -- girl has something new to add to the conversation, and never ends the debate in the same place it started.Each of the rakugo girls has their own distinct personality, with the lively yet immature Marii Buratei; the relatively cute Kigurumi Haroukitei; the naturally fortunate and carefree Tetora Bouhatei; the quiet and aggressive Gankyou Kuurubiyuutei; and the cynical and insecure Kukuru Anrakutei.
Such girls—and their enigmatic friend in a wrestling mask—give the audience their findings, either backstage at the rakugo theater or in different popular locations around Tokyo.

Yuuta Segawa has just begun his University freshman year. One day his sister Yuri, who raised him after the death of their parents, asks him to take care of her daughters Hina, Sora and Miu while she and her husband are on a business trip abroad. Yuuta agrees grudgingly, but when their plane goes missing, disaster hits and all passengers are presumed dead. In an attempt to stop the breaking up of the three children, Yuuta goes against their families and takes them in, just as his sister took him in when he had no choice.
Now the four are in a different and strange situation: Yuuta has to learn how to navigate her current duties as the Street Observation Research Society's newest member, a club for watching men, and also as a father figure, while Sora, Miu, and Hina face the loss of their parents.

Riki Naoe shut himself off from the world as a child, thanks to a narcolepsy diagnosis following his parents 'tragic deaths. Riki, however, is rescued when a boy named Kyousuke recruits him one fateful day into a squad that calls itself the Little Busters. Such misfits spend their childhood, accompanied by Masato, Kengo, and Rin, battling evil and enjoying their youth.Years pass, and the well-knit teams stick together, even at high school. Through forming a baseball team, Kyousuke wants to re-ignite the Little Busters, because it will be his last school year with them.
However, they have a problem: there are not enough members! The tables have turned, because it is now the turn of Riki to reach out and recruit new mates into the Little Busters, just as Kyousuke did for him once.Then, an omen surfaces—Rin discovers an strange letter attached to her cat, assigning them the duty to discover the "secret of this planet" by performing different tasks. What exactly is that secret, and why is it hidden? To find out it's up to the Little Busters!

High school athlete Nanami Momozono has quite a few late issues, beginning with her absent father being in such serious debt that they are losing everything. Downtrodden and homeless, she runs into a dog-harassed man. She explains her condition after helping him, and to her surprise he gratefully offers her his house. But when she finds out that said home is a rundown shrine, she attempts to leave; however, two shrine spirits and a friendly fox named Tomoe catch her. They mistake her for saving the man Nanami, the shrine's land deity, Mikage. Realizing that Mikage must have sent her there as a god of substitution, Tomoe suddenly leaves and refuses to serve a human.
Instead of being homeless again, Nanami immerses herself in her divine duties. But if she has to keep things going smoothly, a certain hot-headed fox will need the help. She lands in trouble in her fumbling attempt to locate Tomoe, and ends up securing a deal with him. Now both have to cross the path of godhood together as god and familiar; but it won't be easy, because new challenges emerge in the form of a youkai who wants to devor the child, a snake who wants to marry her, and Nanami's own unexpected feelings for her new acquaintance.

Yuka, Rinko, Saki, and Natsumi are friends of their youth and classmates close to the end of their second year of middle school and eagerly await their summer break. Unfortunately, for this close-knit community, it's a bittersweet time because Saki is moving to another high.The girls are eager to hold alive the spirit of their friendship, but for this summer only. We are reminded of a large stone that the four of them used to visit, tucked away in an old Shinto shrine, and believe it would come true if four friends gathered around it and made a single wish. Then they learn, much to their dismay, that the old folktale is real.
Natsu-iro Kiseki follows the magical activities that girls spend together over the last summer. When bonds are being checked and dreams are being fulfilled, the four classmates will end up learning a lot about themselves and each other on their way to forging a summer they can never forget.

The shy Youkai expert and master of the Book of Friends, Takashi Natsume, continues his path toward self-understanding and acceptance with the aid of both new and old friends. His most important friend is still his sake-loving and gluttonous bodyguard, the vain yet intensely loyal wolf spirit Madara—or Nyanko-sensei, as Madara is called while in his normal disguise of an unassuming, pudgy cat.Natsume, while being momentarily separated from Nyanko-sensei, is ambushed and abducted by a mysterious group of armed, monkey-like Youkai, who have spirited him away into their forest as they desperately hunt for the Book of Mates.
Realizing that his "servant" was taken from right under his nose, Nyanko-sensei enlists Natsume's support and launches a rescue operation with youkai friends. And the monkey spirits 'forest contains several dangerous rivals, including the former nemesis of the Matoba Clan, Natsume.Stretching from the Matoba's formidable hideout to Natsume's own childhood home, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi is a sweeping yet familiar return to a world of danger and friendship, where Natsume must eventually face his own past's demons.

Ryousuke Hazuki is a young man whose heart was taken away, stopping every day at the nearby floral shop to glimpse the stunning owner of Rokka Shimao. He wants to get a part-time job at the shop in hopes of getting close to her, but before he can make his move, he runs into a huge roadblock: a ghost dwells in her apartment pretending to be Rokka's deceased husband.Ever after he passed three years ago, Atsushi Shimao has peacefully watched over his widowed wife.
Nevertheless, Hazuki is the first person to ever remember him, and the two are instantly at odds: the jealous Shimao attempts to hinder the suitor's advancement and invade his body, while Hazuki merely wants the ghost to pass on for good, allowing Rokka to move on from the past and to be with the one he loves. As both men refuse to let go of their desires, an unusual relationship forms between a troubled woman, an unrelenting ghost, and a stubborn man in love.

When you're a 16-year-old boy, every girl is a mystery, but Mikoto Urabe is in another class. She holds hidden scissors in her slippers. Every day, she sleeps on her bed. She just doesn't seem to have any friends. But none of that can compete with what happens when Tsubaki Akira wants to try a drop of her drool when Urabe sleeps on a whim.

Everything between Urabe and Akira will never be the same from that moment on, and the mystery girl will gradually become Akira's mystery girlfriend. Together with their friends Ueno Kouhei and Oka Ayuko, Akira and Urabe are trying to navigate the first romance high school minefield and all the strange things happening along the way.

Ichiko Sakura survives on simple clothes. Blessed with good fortune, she has everything she's ever wanted, elegance, wisdom and riches included. Momiji Binboda is a destitute goddess. She is plagued with misfortune, in sharp contrast to Ichiko, such as a perpetual cast on her neck, a flat stomach, and a box for a house under a bridge.Their lives clash when Momiji lives up to her title and provides Ichiko with some bad news: her massive amount of luck is due to her subconsciously stealing the luck of everyone around her! Momiji was given the task of stealing Ichiko's fortune back before leaving us without the resources to survive.
But Ichiko manages to fend off the goddess of misery with the help of wandering monk Bobby Statice. This defeat causes the goddess to seek reinforcements in the form of Kumagai, her familiar teddy bear and Momoo Inugami, the masochistic dog king.Insanity follows as Ichiko's happy life is replaced by everyday struggles for her fortune. Ichiko will need all the luck she can get in Binbougami ga, to escape the chaos! And < /i >!