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The Place Promised in Our Early Days

In the future of an alternate universe, defeat in war and subsequent occupation has led to a Japan divided in two: the US backed government in Honshu, and a breakaway state known as the “Union” in Ezo (formerly Hokkaido). However, to two friends in the border city of Aomori, the politics and tension between the Union and Japan are irrelevant. For Fujisawa Hiroki and Shirakawa Takuya, there are only two important things in life: their classmate Sawatari Sayuri, and the mysterious tower that the Union has constructed. Together, they promise to bring Sayuri to the tower with Velaciela, their homemade plane. However, circumstances soon reveal that they had made a promise that they couldn’t keep…

Grave of the Fireflies

Near the end of World War II, American air-raids on Japan threatened many lives. After losing their mother, 14 year old Seita and his baby sister Setsuko are forced to live on their own. The harsh war times make it difficult to find food, or get help from neighbours and family. Finding it hard to get nutrition, toiletries, and other needed services, death and starvation seems to be the only way out.

Perfect Blue

Mima is a member of Cham!, a Japanese pop trio with a small fan base. However, Mima wants to show everyone that she isn’t just a pretty girl with a nice voice, so she decides to become a film and television star. Unfortunately for her, some of her fans don’t want her to leave Cham!, with one obsessed fan and stalker feeling betrayed by her. She soon discovers Internet sites posting intimate details about her life, and sees that disappointing even some of her fans can be a terrifying experience.

Fruits Basket

After Honda Tohru’s mother died in a car accident, Tohru was left to her grandfather who at the time resided with relatives who did not look so fondly on Tohru due to her mother. However, when her grandfather’s house was slated for renovations, Tohru set off to a forest and set up a tent until renovations were finished to avoid being a burden to others. One fateful day, as she was leaving for school; Tohru noticed a house in the middle of the forest, inhabited by members of the Sohma family. Eventually, she took up residence with them, and becomes entwined with a deep dark secret.

Full Moon wo Sagashite by Lady Sage

Because of a promise she made two years ago, 12 year old Kouyama Mitsuki desperately wants to become a singer. However, this is impossible because of a life threatening throat tumour that makes singing or talking loudly very painful. But when the Shinigami duo Negi Ramen tell her that she has only one more year to live, Mitsuki seizes the day and attends the Seed Records New Artists Audition in secret. With a little help, this act starts her on the road to becoming an idol, and puts her closer and closer to fulfilling her promise.

Peach Girl

Poor Adachi Momo is a member of the swim team who tans easily, so people see her dark skin and assume she’s a skank, although that couldn’t be farther from the truth. But now things are looking up because she’s starting to move in the right direction with her friend Toujigamori Kazuya – “Touji” for short – despite rumors that he prefers pale-skinned girls. However, her sole friend, Kashiwagi Sae, also has set her sights on Touji, and has enlisted the help of the impish and popular upperclassman Okayasu Kairi to tear the budding couple apart.

FLCL

Naota’s life in Mabase is the epitome of drab. Nothing exciting ever happens there, period. His family is about as immature as one can get and now his brother’s just left to play baseball in America. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, he gets run over by a beautiful, if psychotic, girl who, after a strange exchange of words (and guitar blows) speeds off. In the wake of this strange meeting, Naota then sees his world turned upside-down as robots start spontaneously popping out of his head and wreaking havoc on the town. It seems that the scooter-riding stranger is back and she has answers to what’s happening to Naota. So much for boring days…

Peace Maker Kurogane

The flames of revolution hit Ichimura Tetsunosuke hard when he saw his parents massacred by a Choushuu assassin on a cold winter day. In order to gain the vengeance he so desperately seeks, Tetsu joins his older brother Tatsunosuke in enlisting with the famed Shinsengumi of Kyoto. However, the road to power is not an easy one, as Tetsu soon finds out. In order to become a part of the troop, Tetsu not only has to overcome the fears and doubts of his troubled past, but he also has to throw away his humanity and become a demon on the battlefield.

Patlabor 1: The Movie

Labors are giant mecha, designed to assist humans in construction work in the new millenuim. To prevent the robots from causing extensive damage in case of a malfunction or an accident, a police force with equivalent mecha equipment is assigned to keep an eye on the Labors. This police force will surely come in handy when a newly installed operating system is causing some of the mecha to run amok. The creator behind this operating system is suspected to have something to do with the incidents, and a group of police officers from the Special Vehicle Unit-2, together with the help of two detectives are to discover how, what and why is causing all the problems.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Two years have passed since the great conflict between AVALANCHE, Shinra, and Sephiroth concluded with the ferocious battle at the Northern Crater. Now, the world and Midgar are rebuilding under the guidance of a repentant Shinra Company. For Cloud and Tifa, who are running a delivery service and serving as mentors and older siblings to the neighbourhood orphans, life has become quite normal. Yet, there are some remnants from the struggle of two years prior, and they seek to revive old memories and force Reunion… at all costs.