Anime starting in Autumn 2000 5tg45

Natsu, gives him an ancient Japanese short sword as a gift; naturally, he is overjoyed. And when she invites him to visit her home town, a traditional Japanese village located in Russia, Galan gladly accepts. But what Galan has not yet been told is that his college lady-friend is a princess in the village and her gift is a betrothal heirloom.

Natsu is desperate to get out of an arranged marriage set up by her very perverted and oversexed father, since she has set her eyes on Galan. But there are other problems that quickly overshadow these family concerns, when two thieves find out the real reason as to how an entire Japanese village moved to Russia and threaten to reveal the secret that has remained hidden for some three hundred years. It falls upon Galan to defend Natsu's family and with the assistance of a cowgirl Interpol agent, the battle with the two attractive thieves begins.

Life has not been treating Hibiki well. The intergalactic society has broken into civil war between males and females, and he is stuck at the assembly line for war mecha, relentlessly teased by his co-workers and unable to pursue his dreams of building his own mecha one day.

He finally decides he has had enough though, and attempts to break in and steal a mecha for his own purposes; this turns out to be a bad idea, thrusting him into the middle of a fever-pitch space battle that brings him face to face with the enemy and launches him into an adventure that will change his mundane life forever.

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* Based on a shounen-ai (boys-love) manga by Murakami Maki.

The story revolves around a high school student Yuki Eiri. The story goes on about how Shuichi and Yuki handle each other and how bumpy Shuichi's road of becoming the greatest singer is.

In the very near future in a small West Coast town somewhere in the US...

Harry McQuinn is definitely not your average American teenager. Instead, he is the epitome of an alienated youth — friendless at school, extremely weird and nervous to the point of paranoia. But a chance occurrence causes Harry to start to demonstrate what appear to be psychic powers — yet he neither believes in them nor consciously controls them.

But there are other ominous forces at work who do believe in Harry's abilities, and attempt to make use of him in ways that are threatening and frightful.

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Sol and Dong live with their widower father on an island village, where he works as a fisherman. One day a white puppy enters their lives. They adopt him and name him Max. However, after their father dies at sea and circumstances separate Max from Sol and Dong, Max must find the will to fight his way home, so he can be reunited with his owners.

Source: THEM Anime Reviews

A story adapted from the life of a young mahjong player.

Shinjuku in 1946 after the Pacific War. Asada Tetsuya learns the secrets of mahjong (a Chinese board game) from an old man, Boushuu, his mentor. Asada quickly becomes a famous mahjong player, and he eventually earns a title, Saint Jong (Jong Sei).

Yaiba are after him.

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Kagome leads a fairly normal life, in spite of her weird family. Her house is a thousand-year-old Japanese temple, and her grandfather talks about the history of the house endlessly. Legend has it that the old well on the temple grounds keeps a vicious ancient monster at bay; Kagome never believed those legends, until now. The well opens up and sucked Kagome inside transporting her to an ancient time of enchanted forests and giant demons.

Kagome is soon confronted by her odd resemblance to InuYasha. Upon entering this fantasy world, Kagome is attacked by a demon hunting the Shikon no Tama; she unwittingly releases InuYasha from his imprisonment, only to find that he's no hero.

Keiichi. Will Belldandy's love for Keiichi prove to be the key to ruining Celestin's plans, or will it be the final ingredient necessary to destroy reality?

It has been 8 years since the first black ships of the western world visited 19th century Japan. Mechanized clockwork dolls and new steam-powered devices are spreading throughout the country.

The Wind Gang is a group of clockwork and steam controllers who believe in using their creations in battle and violently create the new Industrial Era. They attack the peaceful village of a young clockwork controller named Hiwou one day and completely destroy it. Hiwou and his friends escape with a giant clockwork doll named Homura. Together they begin a journey to find his father and restore peace to the land.

Second anime movie made for the Japanese cult Kyoufuku no Kagaku (幸福の科学, also known as The Institute for Research in Human Happiness), presumably containing more pseudohistory and moral bunkum.

Black Jack: Obaa-chan is a short movie which aired in the "300 Inch Theater" at Tezuka Osamu World in the Kyoto Station Building. It was played with an unrelated double feature Heian Sento.

Black Jack: Obaa-chan
In this story, there is a seemingly greedy old woman who is always asking her daughter-in-law for money, and her son and his wife become fed up with the old woman's behavior. Naturally, there are constant quarrels in the family, and their quiet ordinary life seems to have been lost. After accidentally coming to know the family, Black Jack learns that the old woman had her young son, who was dying at the time, treated and saved by a noted doctor who claimed a great amount of money. She has, in fact, been paying for the treatment over some tens of years. Because of her great love for her son, the old woman devoted her entire life to paying for the treatment. Not aware of his mother's act, the son feels helplessly hammered and squeezed by his mother and his wife. But when he finally comes to know the truth, he is deeply impressed with the love of his mother, who valued her son's life more than her own. Black Jack asks him if he could love her just as much as she loved him. Explaining that only love valued more highly than life can live forever.

Heian Sento
This movie tells a story about the move of the capital to Heian, which was a great national project and an attempt to infuse a city with eternal life.

Kei and Naoki are childhood friends who are recruited into a government-supervised group called Spirits. Spirits are trained to defend the Earth against mysterious attackers by piloting the Devadasy, a powerful mech discovered by Kei's grandfather. But a lot of things about the Devadasy remain unknown, and that void could cost lives...

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Promotional anime for Frente International's Pinky candy featuring their pink monkey mascot who bring happiness through the power of Pinky candy.

New Year's Eve 2000. An eternally juvenile Tezuka Osamu meets his creations for a New Year's Eve party at the Dr. Tenma's mansion, but before the event begins he suddenly disappears from his room in what looks like a kidnapping. A classic mystery setting for, at the end, a lovely homage to the man behind the genius.

So it begins. The most beloved and mysterious of Matsumoto's creations, Maetel, finally returns to tell her story. The princess of a dying world, young Maetel faces starvation and death. Only machines can survive in the new environment, and one by one, an evil scientist transforms her loved ones into soulless mechanoids.

Once he captures Maetel and her fiery twin sister, Emeraldas, he will rule the world. Maetel must choose whether to become a machine to save her life, or to abandon her home world to fight for freedom.