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Daimidaler: Prince vs. Penguin Empire

In this alternate version of Japan, humans are found to naturally emit Hi-ERO particles when excited. If you have an abundance of said particles, then you are a Factor. If you’re a Factor, then you’re wanted by one of two rival groups: Beauty Salon Prince want you to protect the city in their specially-designed giant robot Daimidaler, and the Penguin Empire want you so they can milk you for all the particles you’ve got. Unfortunately for Daimidaler co-pilot Kyōko, Kōichi Madanbashi is one such Factor. Why is it unfortunate? Well, he’s narcissistic, arrogant and handsy. Even so, Japan puts their lives in his groping hands and Kyōko’s reluctant rack as he fends off some rather pathetic Penguin robots. But when a Factor named Rikantz Seaberry allies with the Penguin Empire to be closer to her beloved black-and-white friends, the humanoid Penguins suddenly have a very real chance of destroying Prince. Will Kyōko ever avenge the trauma they put her father through at the peace talks or will they lay claim to all the Hi-ERO particles they could want?

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Love Live! School idol project

Bizarre as it may seem, there are some people who love their schools! Some such people would be Honoka and her two friends. Unfortunately for them, their school is about to shut down; fortunately for the school, Honoka has a plan to save it. After seeing the popularity a rival school enjoys thanks to its school idol group, Honoka sees a future where she and her friends save their own school. Not that forming a school idol group is without its complications: they need outfits, music, lyrics, choreography, a club room to practice in, the ability to balance their school work and idol life, and of course the student council has to approve it. Although student council president Eli Ayase might be stubbornly rejecting every proposal they make, Honoka has the most crucial trait of a school idol: determination. It’s a good thing, too, because she’s gonna need a lot of it to get through the hard times ahead. How do you even get people to come to your first concert when nobody knows who you are, anyway?

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Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto

Sakamoto is cool; you’re not. Even if you thought you were, you’re nothing compared to Sakamoto. Even if your friends tell you you are, just know that they don’t know the meaning of cool. Sakamoto does. He’s the coolest guy in school and nobody can stop him. In fact, every time someone does try to humiliate him – like take his chair out from under him or rig the drinking water tap – he somehow comes out even cooler. However, he eventually catches the attention of Fukase, the leading delinquent at school. Nobody’s sure how many times Fukase has repeated the same year and nobody knows if he’s even still a teenager. What they do know is that he’s not out to humiliate Sakamoto, he’s out to take Sakamoto down. Afterall, it’s tough to look cool when your being attacked! Will he succeed in crushing Sakamoto’s gleaming reputation or will Sakamoto come out coolest? Let the master-class commence.

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VALKYRIE DRIVE: MERMAID

Welcome to Mermaid Island: an artificial island designed to quarantine all those who have been infected with a recently-discovered virus. It’s called the Arms Virus and the effects have split its infected into either the ‘Extar’ or ‘Liberator’ groups. However, this is not a story of segregation – rather, it is a story of their unions. Though not at will, Extars have the ability to transform into weapons. This ability can only take effect if they are sexually stimulated by a Liberator. It was because this deadly combination was exploited that the infected were banished, and among the banished is homesick Mamori Tokonome. She awakens on the beach and is immediately challenged by some of its sunbathing occupants. Luckily, she is aided by Mirei Shikishima, a quiet ex-soldier who seems rather adept at wielding Mamori. Together, they must stave off kidnappers who are set on marrying Mamori off, protect a remote village and investigate the island’s leader and the only male infected. Will they succeed? And if they do, can they find a way off the island and back to civilisation?

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Outbreak Company

Following a rejection by his childhood friend, Shinichi Kanō has become a shut-in and a disappointment to his parents, his only talent being his vast knowledge of everything anime, manga, light novel or visual novel. Fed up of his inaction, his parents offer him the choice of returning to school or seeking employment. The choice is a no-brainer for Shinichi and he soon scores perfectly on a government test that seeks his exact set of skills. He’s hired immediately as a cultural ambassador to a recently-discovered medieval fantasy world and, before long, Shinichi’s made friends with his half-elf maid, his reptilian gardener and even the sixteen-year-old queen Petralka. His job is simple: he must impart his nerdy knowledge and bring his beloved culture to as many of this world’s residents as possible. However, with the initial reluctance of the empire to learn, a group of terrorists bent on stopping his ‘invasion’ and some shady government action on his own side, Shinichi begins to question whether his job is really as innocent as he first thought.

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Beyond the Boundary

Akihito Kanbara is by no means the normal student he looks like; thanks to his hyper-regenerative abilities, he is nigh on immortal. He spends his normal high school life as one of the literature club’s three members, with most of the school unaware that half of him is Yōmu. In fact, the other two club members are hunters of such dark spirits! However, Akihito’s somewhat normal life is overturned when he spots Mirai Kuriyama attempt suicide by jumping from the school’s rooftop. His glasses fetish leads him to stop her, but as she steps away from the ledge, she suddenly stabs him. Mirai’s cursed blood manipulation has made her an outcast among the Yōmu hunters, but even she is not without work – and it just so happens that her assignment is to kill a certain high school student named Akihito Kanbara!

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HaNaYaMaTa

Introverted Naru believes she’s an ordinary girl who loves fairytales and is desperate to dazzle. Unfortunately, her lack of confidence has convinced her she’ll never be more than a background character who runs to her two best friends for everything. That is, until she meets American transfer student Hana, whose last visit to Japan spawned a love for Yosakoi dancing. She’s cheerful, overwhelmingly outgoing and confident Naru can dazzle – she’s Naru’s opposite. Although Naru initially finds Hana’s attempts to recruit her into the new Yosakoi club overbearing, she’s told that if she joins, she might find what she needs to truly shine. However, without enough members, a club advisor or the student council president’s permission to use the roof for practice, they’re in for a rough ride just getting started.

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Bikini Warriors

There’s a new adventuring party on the block who are determined to defeat the demon king – and they show as much promise as they do skin! This oddball band of merry women is made up of Paladin, who determines her worth by sacrificing herself in battle, Dark Elf, whose pride in her origins puts them in the most trouble, Mage, who seems unfortunately caught up in this mess, and Fighter, the only one who seems remotely bothered by the skimpy armour sets doled out to female adventurers. But before they can get close to the demon king, they have to complete some irritating lower-rank quests. And to make matters worse, after overcoming financial stability by breaking into civilian houses and run-ins with kings who think their services are worth less than a night in an inn, it becomes apparent that monsters are their only foe in this fantasy world! So the one question remains, can they maintain their sanity long enough to even meet the demon king?

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Angel Beats!

With only a vague memory of his own name, Otonashi awakens on the campus of an enormous school. Without wasting a second, a girl with a gun tries recruiting him into her battlefront, informing him their goal is to rebel against God for their unfair lives. Namely, they’re after the student council president of this school in the afterlife – a girl they’ve named ‘Angel’. A subsequent disastrous encounter with this nemesis later and Otonashi reluctantly agrees to join the battlefront. He is taught to fear the phenomenon known as ‘obliteration’ that would ultimately lead him to be reincarnated as God only knows what! However, with no memories to speak of, Otonashi finds himself wondering if obliteration is all that bad, and it seems he’s not the only one who has come to this conclusion…

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We Without Wings – under the innocent sky

Takashi Haneda seems to be your average introvert…except that he isn’t! He’s periodically summoned to another world as a celebrated knight of a great kingdom. With a war incoming, he knows that soon he won’t be able to return to our world – all he has left is to get good grades, say goodbye to his girlfriend and his sister and he’ll be off, but neither is willing to let him go easily.
Shūsuke Chitose is a near-broke freelance reviewer hired by a local restaurant to be their new waiter. His senior at work is a struggling author who hates him, and for good reason considering he recently mistook her for an adult film actress.
Hayato Narita is running odd jobs, with his latest offer being to find a lost bicycle. Although he believes it to be boring, he reluctantly accepts, which unexpectedly has him caught in the middle of a gang war.
Though their personalities seem to be incompatible, these three men are much closer than anyone expects and the romances that blossom for them return some forgotten memories and uncover some dark secrets…

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Last updated: Friday May 1, 2020