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New Airing Series

Mushibugyou
Synopsis: The action story is set in Edo-era Tokyo in the early 1700s. The eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune ordered boxes to be installed so commoners can submit their thoughts. After hearing their voices, the shogun creates a new magistrate unit - Mushibugyou - to protect the people in the heart of the city. Each member is a specialist with unique fighting skills.

New Completed Series

Akikan!
Synopsis: Akikan (Empty Can) is the unlikely story of high school boy Daichi Kakeru, whose can of melon juice soda magically transforms into a human girl. Naturally, more akikan girls begin appearing, each of them needing to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive.

Detroit Metal City
Synopsis: * Based on the seinen manga by Wakasugi Kiminori serialised in Young Animal.

Souichi Negishi is a shy young man who came from the rural Ota Prefecture to Tokyo for college and wished to become a kindergarten teacher. However, for some reason he became the singer and songwriter of a metal band named "Detroit Metal City," with a stage name "Johannes Krauser II." Whenever he wears the heavy makeup, Negishi becomes a completely different person, shouting the most vulgar profanities beyond anyone's imagination. With the popularity of DMC increases, Negishi starts worrying his double personalities can have negative effects on his (romantic) life off stage.

Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East
Synopsis: Five years ago, almost every villager of Ootsuka died due to a tragic plague. But mysteriously enough, three survivors: a girl and two boys, emerged. Now living in a church, the three live in isolation, hidden from those who may seek to find them. Shino, one of the survivors, has control over the power of Murasame, the blade of life. But when the imperial church seeks to take the Murasame for themselves, their peaceful life becomes a thing of the past...

Hakuouki: Dawn of the Shinsengumi
Synopsis: Whilst enroute to the capital, Serizawa Kamo, one of the Miburoushigumi leaders comes across Ibuki Ryunosuke who had been attacked by bandits.

The Roushigumi are a collection of people who share the same ideals, working towards the goal of become true samurai. As he observes the efforts of Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo as they work to improve the prestige of the group, Ryunosuke, who despises samurai, begins to question his way of life.

Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere
Synopsis: In the far future, humans abandon the devastated Earth and move to the upper world Tenjo. But Tenjo and the law of causation collapse in a war and humans return to the Earth, which has turned into an uninhabitable planet except for Shinshu area.

Shinshu is too small to accommodate all the humans, so they duplicate the area and create Juso Sekai in a parallel world. In order to rebuild Tenjo and the law of causation, the returned humans start reproduction of the history from B.C. 10,000. When the reproduction proceeds to A.D. 1413, a war breaks out in Shinshu and Juso Sekai falls onto the original world.

The humans living in Juso Sekai lose their land and invade the original world. People in Shinshu surrender and the land is divided by the invaders from Juso Sekai. They try to resume the history reproduction from A.D.1457, but the update of the history terminates in A.D.1648. A rumor of apocalypse begins to spread the world.

Kami-sama Dolls
Synopsis: Kyouhei, after moving away to Tokyo from his old town to get away from the events that happened, is on a goukon with his friends, including his old neighbour, Shiba. After drinking for a whole night, he and Shiba discover a dead, bloody, body in the elevator. He is told by his younger sister, Utao with her Kamisama Doll, that Aki, an old friend, and his Doll, are the culprits responsible.

Kids on the Slope
Synopsis: * Based on a josei manga by Kodama Yuki, serialised in Monthly Flowers.

The coming-of-age story of love, friendship, and music follows a naive boy and a scruffy boy in the town of Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture in the late 1960s. In the early summer of 1966, Kaoru transfers to the local high school from Yokosuka. Thanks to his family's nearly constant cycle of moving from town to town, Kaoru has only known school as a difficult place for readjusting every time. However, on his first day at this new school, he meets Sentarou and takes a new direction in life.

Kiss Dum: Engage Planet
Synopsis: In A.D. 2031, humans are enjoying a prosperous existence until strange life forms called Hardians appear. They suddenly begin to multiply and assault the human population. As a countermeasure, mankind organizes the N.I.D.F. to investigate the Hardians and protect themselves.

A fighter pilot, Aiba Shuu, begins to become involved in the battle against the lifeforms. Rukina Yuno, one of Earth's foremost scientists, investigates the Hardians and hears rumors about the "Book of a Dead Man". What is the secret of this tome, and what relation does it have to the Hardians?

Now, the fight for mankind's survival begins.

Kite Liberator
Synopsis: Rumours of a new killer have begun to circulate the city. They call her the Angel of Death, an unfeeling assassin who eliminates her targets with grace and precision, leaving only a flurry of feathers as her calling card. What the public is unaware of is the fact that this notorious hit man is actually a polite young woman named Noguchi Monaka. Like her spiritual predecessor, Monaka has lost most of her family, and her father's duty as an astronaut keeps him practically worlds apart. However, they are close despite the physical distance and Orudo promised his daughter that he would return. Until then, daily life for the timid and somewhat clumsy Monaka involve mostly school and her part time job as a waitress. But her nature completely changes once she receives an assignment...

Hidamari Sketch (S1)
Synopsis: The aspiring artistic Yuno has just begun to attend the school of her dreams: Yamabuki High School.

Leaving the abode of her parents, she moves into an apartment by herself, in a complex called Hidamari Sou, conveniently located right in front of the school. There, she meets her new neighbours: classmate Miyako, and the senior students Hiro and Sae.

Even though Yuno is not used to living all by herself, her new gentle friends help her fend off loneliness, and her days become quite lively as she hangs out with these slightly eccentric artists. But their support inspires her to continue pursuing her dream of becoming an artist one day.

Hidamari Sketch x 365 (S2)
Synopsis: Yuno has always longed for and is finally accepted into Yamabuki Art High School. To attend the school, Yuno moves and starts to live in a small apartment building named the Hidamari Sou (Sunshine Apartments) located right in front of school. There, she quickly makes new friends with her carefree, energetic classmate Miyako and two second year students: the wonderful cook Hiro and the dependable novelist Sae.

Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu (S3)
Synopsis: The stories of the daily life of the students of the Hidamari Sou at Yamabuki High School continue. This time, a year has passed since the first season. Yuno and Miyako are second years, Sae and Hiro are third years, and two new students, Nori and Nazuna, move into the Hidamari Sou.

Hidamari Sketch x SP
Synopsis: After the exams a three-day school break challenges the girls to come up with a good way to spend their time off. Sunny weather the next day motivates Yuno, Miyako, Hiro, Sae, Nazuna, and Nori to visit the Hatone Open-Air Museum.  Summer vacation: A hot day makes a visit to the indoor pool quite inviting, followed by a sleepover at Hiro's place.

On a nice sunny day at the dorm, it is time to wash curtains in the kiddie pool.  Later, Ooya-san, the landlady of the Hidamari Apartments, invites the girls to an all-you-can-eat yakiniku (grilled meat).

Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb (S4)
Synopsis: At Hidamari Apartments, famous for being a gathering place for weirdos, art student Yuno is surrounded by heartwarming friends of Yamabuki High School. While still getting used to bumping into bizarre and chaotic situations every day, Yuno starts chasing her dreams step by step.

Natsuyuki Rendezvous
Synopsis: The romantic drama collected in four volumes tells the story of a love triangle between Hazuki, a young man who works part time at a flower store, Rokka, the widow who owns the store, and the ghost of Shimao, Rokka's deceased husband.

Ozuma
Synopsis: * Based on a science-fiction action concept developed by Matsumoto Leiji.

"Sometimes the sun is a gentle mother, bringing life to the surface of the Earth. And sometimes a strict father, who brings trials. These trials, which have happened many times since the creation of Earth, have come again. The land is dry, the oceans vanished. And vast seas of sand were born. Most of the life that survives is in danger of extinction, clinging to the thin atmosphere that remains. But some still live on, seeking out a tiny glimpse of hope... in the dry seas of sand."  -from the intro

Sam Coin witnesses how a young women named Maya is relentlessly pursued by several Theseus Sand-borne Destroyers when an Ozma, a gigantic sand whale, surfaces cutting them off. Sam only barely saves Maya from being buried by sand, and the Theseus army, believing her to have died in the incident, seems to give up the search...

Sam brings Maya to Port Oase, a still thriving independent town, placed in a rock canyon. Neither Mimei a good friend nor Captain Binas are thrilled by the sudden appearance of mysterious Maya... and when the Theseus army shows up, the chase for the sand pirate ship, Bardanos, with Maya on board is on.

Strawberry 100%
Synopsis: Manaka Junpei races to the rooftop of his middle school one day, only to be surprised by a falling angel - a beautiful girl wearing strawberry (ichigo) panties. Against the backdrop of a setting sun, she runs away, dropping her notebook. Junpei returns the notebook to the student whose name is listed in it, to Toujou Aya, but he is disappointed to find out that she is not the girl that he met on the rooftop. On a dare from his friends, he decides to confess to most beautiful girl in 3rd year class, Nishino Tsukasa. While her hairstyle is different from the girl of his dreams, she is both very beautiful and she was wearing strawberry panties, so she must have been the girl that he met on the rooftop, or was she?

Strawberry 100% OVA
Synopsis: Four OVA stories of quite different content and style:

1. Stormy Spring Festival of the Night Mist Chapter: Some time has passed after the series and the Jump Fiesta special. The film club is preparing their room for the school spring festival; but due to various circumstances the room ends up devastated and all people gone except for Junpei who has to clean up the mess. But late in the evening one girl returns to look after him... (Focus: Story Continuation/Harem)

2. Oumi Academy Exodus Chapter One morning Junpei wakes up and finds Yui in his bed. She's there because she has a fever and cannot stay in the dorms. Since he is late for class anyway she asks him a favor, to return her friends notes back to her before classes start. The problem? Yui goes to Oumi Academy, an all girls school, that has guards, crazy miko teachers, electric fences, and even a Bondage Club. (Yes you heard me). And this is also the same school that Tsukasa goes to. (Focus: Ecchi/Fanservice)

3. Fresh Pension Crisis ~ Be Careful of the Owner! The whole film club team (plus Nishino, Yui, Chinami, and a new girl named Mukai Kozue) are travelling to a new pension deep in the mountains where they accepted a job for the summer holidays as to raise funds for more film projects, as they've been offered exceptionally wages. But soon enough they'll learn what the male crew of this pension actually is up to... (Focus: Ecchi/Fanservice)

4. Sudden change of Heart!? All the film club members (including the guests Hashimoto Chinami and Mukai Kozue) are discussing the next film project they should be shooting. But when shy Toujou (who always used to write scripts about pure love) suddenly suggests doing a Yakuza movie (!) and openly declares she loves Manaka (!) things begin to get out of hand, and slowly the boys are facing a development they would never have dreamed of, not in their worst nightmares... you'll finally learn what the series' name is all about! (Focus: Fun/Parody)

Shattered Angels
Synopsis: Ten years have passed since the most serious crisis of mankind occurred. The story takes place in the huge academic city - Academia - symbol of the recovery.

The main character, Shiratori Kuu, is a high school girl, who enjoys school life, but thinks her routine life is empty. She sometimes has a recurring dream though, a dream in which she encounters a prince. And while all the students are preparing for the school festival, the prince from her dream appears in reality. And just like in her dream, the prince - Ayanokouji Kyoushirou - asks her: "Come with me..."

Sweet Blue Flowers
Synopsis: * Shimura Takako's Aoi Hana yuri manga has been running in Ohta Books' Manga Erotics F magazine since 2004, and three volumes have been compiled and published.

Fumi and Akira were close childhood friends until Fumi had to move away. Ten years after losing touch with each other, the two girls meet again as high school freshmen. The two struggle to reconnect after so much has changed, and both deal with the trials and tribulations of high school - sometimes independently and sometimes with each other's help.

White Album
Synopsis: Fujii Touya, a college student, is dating a rising idol singer named Morikawa Yuki. There are numerous challenges to the couple's relationship from the other people at Fujii's college, Morikawa's work, and elsewhere.

New Reencoded Series

11eyes
Synopsis: After losing his sister five years ago, Satsuki Kakeru led a vacant life, only able to return to his normal days with help from his childhood friend Minase Yuka and other friends at school. Suddenly one day, the sky turns red and the moon turns black. Everyone besides Kakeru and Yuka disappears and monsters start roaming the streets. All that they were able to do was just to run away and hide. After a while, the world returns to normal. But just when they thought everything was a dream, the Red Night occurs again. Kakeru and Yuka manage to find four more humans who are involved in this mysterious phenomenon: Kusakabe Misuzu, a red-haired onmyouji swordswoman, Tachibana Kukuri, a strange mute girl who looks like Kakeru's deceased sister, Hirohara Yukiko, a lively young girl who reverts to the personality of a cold killer when her glasses are removed, and Tajima Takahisa, a young pyrokineticist. They get together and try to survive, but six shadows suddenly appear in front of them...

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As most should by now know, we are heavily invested in the DivX web player, we have been since day one, and over the last month we have cemented our future usage on the site.

Due to our openness and our willingness to gather information as a community, especially on issues relating to playback (thank you everyone by the way, the feedback is so helpful!), we have caught the attention of the DivX team.

This is good for a whole host of reasons, but the biggest one is that as we have found issues, we have been able to relay them to DivX, and they get addressed in a timely manner!!

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New Airing Series

Arata: The Legend
Synopsis: Every 30 years, a new princess is chosen from the Hime family to serve the Hayagami. The time has come again, but over these past years, records state not a single female has been born, save for one, the 15 year old Arata. The only problem is, Arata is actually a male! Forced to disguise himself and take the place of the princess candidate until a formal one can be found, he attends the festival only to witness the current princess, Kokuri-hime, murdered, and his own life is forfeit as well, by the hands of the princess' personal guard, the 12 Shinshou. As he runs for his life, Kannagi of the 12 convinces everyone that Arata is the one who has murdered the princess instead, and now everyone in the Imperial Court is after his head!

Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Girls
Synopsis: The story takes place in Japan in the early 21st century, in an alternate reality where the Tokugawa Shogunate has remained in power. In this reality, student councils are tasked with oppressing schools. Yagyuu Muneakira is a high school student who rebels against his student council with the help of girls who've had the names of famous samurai heroes passed on to them.

The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat
Synopsis: * Based on the light novel by Sagara Sou with illustrations by Kantoku. The story centers around a second-year high school boy named Yokodera Youto. Youto is always thinking about his carnal desires, but no one acknowledges him as a pervert. He learns about a cat statue that supposedly grants wishes. The boy goes to pray that he will be able to express his lustful thoughts whenever and wherever he wants. At the statue, Youto encounters Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko, a girl from his high school with her own wish - that she would not display her real intentions so readily.

New Completed Series

Air Master
Synopsis: Aikawa Maki, 16 years old, is a first year senior high school student known as the Air Master. An invicible street fighter. Most of the time, she is just like a normal girl but she's a different person when she's out in the streets. Once a gymnast of Japan, Maki is now establishing and reviving the legend of "airborne street fighting" as an Air Master. A fighting style based on one's jumping strength and movement while airborne. So she can once again feel the excitement of being a gymnast, she seeks the strongest opponents to battle.

Aria the Natural (S2)
Synopsis: In a continuation of the last series, Mizunashi Akari continues her job as a gondolier along with her friends from the other two rival companies, Aika and Alice. As they continue their training to become Undines, they continue to meet new people and partake on mysterious adventures, all in the quiet, scenic, and peaceful city of Neo Venezia.

Aria the OVA: Arietta OVA
Synopsis: Blade, the Vampire Hunter. Whilst pregnant with him, Blade's mother was attacked by a vampire. As a result, he was born as a Day Walker, with a mix of vampire and human blood flowing through his veins. He possesses the superhuman strength, senses, and regenerative abilities of vampires, but not their vulnerability to sunlight. By utilizing these strengths, combined with his skills in both armed and unarmed combat, he has vanquished many vampires. Blade has now come to Japan where he is confronted by Deacon Frost, the vampire who attacked his mother. At Frost's command is Existence, a vampire organization whose members have been modified by Frost.
Synopsis: The story takes place in the year 2301 and Mars became a planet which mankind has transformed into a place where they can live. Now the planet is known as the planet "Aqua" because most of the planet is covered in water. One day a 15 year old girl named Misunashi Akari comes to the planet Aqua to become a Undine. This is where the story begins and we get to see what strange, funny, sad and mysterious events she meets. First ever OVA release from anime series "ARIA" featuring the yet untold story about the Aria company before the arrival of Akari.

Aria the Origination (S3)
Synopsis: Aqua and Aria take place in the twenty-fourth century, on the planet Aqua (formerly Mars), which has been terraformed into a habitable planet covered in oceans and seas. The series is the story of Akari, an apprentice gondolier with Aria Company, one of the three most popular gondola companies in the city. She is training to become a full-time gondolier, or undine, as they are called in Neo-Venezia.

Armitage III
Synopsis: Ross Sylibus is a Chicago cop, who lost his partner in a battle with a cyborg. He has just been transferred to Mars as an expert on androids, but before he has even left the spaceport he spots a group of suspicious people, who turn out to be a madman with cyborg bodyguards. With the help of his soon-to-be partner waiting in the terminal, Naomi Armitage, he stops the cyborgs, but their leader escapes. The plot thickens when they find out that the group was carrying the body of a android, a very popular country singer, impersonating a human. At the MPD office, Ross and Armitage are paired up in the investigation of this unusual crime. As it turns out, someone is murdering androids � the rare and illegal Third Types, nearly indistinguishable from humans � who have been living undetected as humans. Ross is already uncomfortable with the investigation, and when he finds out that Armitage herself is a Third, he does not know what to make of the situation. Matters are further complicated when he is severely injured in a confrontation with the android assassin, and has to have large parts of his own body replaced with cybernetics. All the while, the threat of war with Earth looms overhead, and these crimes appear to be related somehow. Armitage becomes a wanted android, and Ross must choose between her and his prejudices.

Astro Fighter Sunred 2
Synopsis: Second Season of Astro Fighter Sunred.

Big Windup!
Synopsis: Mihashi Ren is the quirky ace pitcher of Nishiura high school's newly formed baseball team. He, however, has hit rock-bottom in terms of confidence and self-belief, thanks to a traumatic three years in his middle school - Mihoshi academy - and switched to Nishiura just to get away from it all. The team's catcher, Abe Takaya, thinks otherwise and believes that Mihashi has the control and skill required, and with his lead, could take them all the way to Koshien. Guided by an enterprising coach and an innovative mentor, the team slowly gel as a unit and train hard to make a mark in the upcoming summer tournament.

Big Windup! 2
Synopsis: Picking up where the original series left off, Mihashi Ren, the ace pitcher of the newly-formed Nishiura High School baseball team, and his teammates face the Sakitama High School team in the next round of the High School Baseball Invitational Tournament as they aim to play in the finals at legendary Hanshin Koshien Stadium.

Blade
Synopsis: Blade, the Vampire Hunter. Whilst pregnant with him, Blade's mother was attacked by a vampire. As a result, he was born as a Day Walker, with a mix of vampire and human blood flowing through his veins. He possesses the superhuman strength, senses, and regenerative abilities of vampires, but not their vulnerability to sunlight. By utilizing these strengths, combined with his skills in both armed and unarmed combat, he has vanquished many vampires. Blade has now come to Japan where he is confronted by Deacon Frost, the vampire who attacked his mother. At Frost's command is Existence, a vampire organization whose members have been modified by Frost.

Code: Breaker
Synopsis: Sakurakouji Sakura is a girl who appears modest and graceful but in reality is skilled in martial arts. After witnessing a boy burning people with his blue flame, she is startled to see that the same boy is the transfer student Oogami Rei. Rei is a Code Breaker, someone who does not exist. He is a seemingly cold-blooded killer following the principles of an eye for an eye, and to use evil against evil. Convinced that killing is not right, Sakura sets out to stop him and penetrate his icy heart.

Code Geass: Nunnally in Wonderland OVA
Synopsis: In the all-new story, Lelouch makes the ultimate use of his Geass power for his little sister Nunnally, who loves Alice in Wonderland.

Demon Detective Nougami Neuro
Synopsis: Based on the shounen manga by Matsui Yuusei serialised in Weekly Shounen Jump. Neuro is a being from the underworld, who likes to eat "riddles" and "mysteries" and since he had heard that mysteries abound in the world above, he comes surface side in search of the ultimate riddle capable of satisfying his insatiable hunger. He arrives in front of Katsuragi Yako whose father has been murdered, and smells a tasty riddle... He agrees to help her to solve the murder of her father and in turn forces Yako to act as a detective in his stead, always searching for the ultimate riddle.

Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Redo MOVIE
Synopsis: Fourteen years have passed since Third Impact, yet the Angels continue their attacks against mankind. Shinji Ikari is salvaged from Evangelion Unit-01 and finds that things have changed, but not for the better: the world has been devastated, his former allies from NERV have become hostile toward him, and Rei Ayanami, the girl Shinji risked everything for, is nowhere to be found. As he attempts to adjust to this strange new world, Shinji befriends the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa. Together in their search for Rei, the pair learns the terrible truths behind the Angels, NERV, and the Evangelions. But a faint glimmer of hope remains for the two boys: a single opportunity to undo the mistakes of the past. Now the remnants of mankind are after them, the Angels race to stop them, and their old friends have declared them public enemy number one. With only Kaworu to support him and all the world against him, Shinji must fight for his one chance for redemption. But that may well mean finishing what he started — the end of the world.

Gokujo: The Tales of Gokurakuin Girls School Dorm
Synopsis: The silly, slightly risqu� comedy is set in the halls of a high school girls' dormitory where there are no rules and anything goes. A beautiful girl named Kurihashi Minami transfer to the girls' high school Gokurakuin ("Gokujo") from Los Angeles, and she plans to rule Gokujo with her cuteness as her weapon. However, a girl named Akabane Aya confounds Minami's plans on her first day there, and Minami deals with the unpredictable life on this campus.

Gyo OVA
Synopsis: To celebrate their graduation from university Kaori and her two friends visit Okinawa in southern Japan for a short vacation. At the vacation house, provided by Tadashi's uncle, a numbing stench awaits the girls, and can be traced to a horrendously deformed, legged fish that Kaori kills. More and more of these creatures appear and portend a horrific change for the animal life in the area. A phone call from Kaori's fianc� Tadashi in Tokyo quickly shows the scope of this epidemic, when he is also attacked by these mechanized fish. Kaori immediately sets out on an perilous voyage to find out what happened to Tadashi, helped by Shirakawa � a videographer in search of the truth behind all this...

Kemeko Deluxe!
Synopsis: The high school student Kobayashi Sanpeita dreams he is engaged to a beautiful girl. Then one morning, a strange homely girl suddenly breaks through a wall in his bedroom, fighting spider-like battle droids, to tell him that she is his bride and that her name is Kemeko. In order to escape, Sanpeita flees his home and runs to school, but Kemeko follows him. And things only get stranger when Sanpeita is targeted by something that looks like a rice cooker on the school's rooftop. As Sanpeita and his childhood friend Makihara Izumi are being attacked, strange little Kemeko intervenes to save them both. But just who is Kemeko? Someone who claims to be Sanpeita's new steel bride!? Sanpeita is surprised to learn that Kemeko is actually a girl-style powered-combat-suit and that the pilot is a cute girl named Mishima Mei. She may be a heavily armed and violent girl, but still quite cute, nonetheless.

Kurozuka
Synopsis: A story of obsessive love and constant pursue told over a 1000 year period. Escaping from a brother who had just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune, along with his servant, comes across a house in the middle of a desolate mountain. Oddly enough, only a young woman lives there, who seems to possess a very dark and ominous past. It starts out with Kurou meeting the beautiful woman by the name of Kuromitsu, thus began a relationship which transcends life and memories. A journey of immortals and those who chase after it. The majority of this story takes place a few centuries into the future where Kurou is separated from Kuromitsu and is left without memories. He then begins a search for answers to as to who he is, why he is unable to die and who was the women he is so transfixed upon.

Oh! Edo Rocket
Synopsis: Early in summer, the 13th year of Tempo, due to the Tempo Reforms proclaimed by Mizuno Tadakuni, people in Edo are prohibited from living extravagantly and luxuriously. Tamaya Seikichi, a craftsman of fireworks, cannot abandon his dream to create new and larger fireworks than anyone has ever seen. Every day, he secretly launches fireworks and evades the authorities. One night, two beasts are cornered by government officers. The blue one is killed, but the white one escapes into the darkness. Part of the reason they miss the white one is Seikichi's fireworks. The next morning, Sora, a mysterious and beautiful girl, appears and asks Seikichi to make a firework that can reach the moon. Although he is embarrassed by her request, he begins to make fireworks in order to encourage people depressed by the reforms. In the row house he lives in, various kinds of people, such as a carpenter, an entertainer, a magician, a mechanic, etc. reside there. With the help of those people and Shunpei, Seikichi's little brother, who is also a good mathematician, their Moon Rocket Plan begins to take shape. Will he be able to shoot a rocket to the moon?

OreShura
Synopsis: Based on a light novel series of the same name, written by Yuuji Yuuji and illustrated by Ruroo. Kidou Eita is a first-year high school student, excelling academically and expressing contempt for romantic relations. He lives a normal school life along with Harusaki Chiwa, his childhood friend whom he regards as a younger sister. One day, the school's prettiest girl, Natsukawa Masuzu, suddenly declares her love to him. However, her real purpose is to establish a fake relationship, deterring those around her from asking her out. To this end, she makes Eita her boyfriend over his objections. The carnage becomes even more vicious when Eita's former girlfriend Akishino Himeka and fianc�e Fuyuumi Ai are less than amused by the present developments.

Mew Mew Power
Synopsis: Momomiya Ichigo is just an ordinary 13-year-old girl until a bizarre incident occurs at a museum during her first date. The accident, which merges her DNA with that of a wildcat's, is actually part of the � Project to protect the Earth from danger. Momomiya Ichigo, code name Mew Ichigo (Strawberry), along with four other chosen girls: Mew Mint (Aizawa Mint), Mew Lettuce (Midorikawa Lettuce), Mew Pudding (Fong Pudding) and Mew Zakuro (Fujiwara Zakuro) now have to protect the Earth and learn about their mysterious enemy using the Cafe Mew Mew as their base of operations.

Mobile Suit Gundam X
Synopsis: Gundam X is the story of those survivors of the Seventh Space War trying to live among the ruins of their civilization. "Vultures", scavengers of war material and ruined cities roam the wasted Earth. Unknown to all, the leaders of the warring factions have been plotting to regain their lost glory, and using enhanced human "Newtypes", they aim to dominate the world. But Jamil Neate, would-be hero of the war and once-pilot of the monstrous Gundam X, the plucky teen Garrod Ran, and Newtype girl Tiffa Adil aim to find a way to save the human race from another round of self-destruciton.

See Me After Class 18+ ONLY OVA
Synopsis: * Based on a manga series authored by Oota Akiyoshi, illustrated by Munyuu and serialised in Monthly Comic Alive. Kagami Yuuki has always wanted to a scholarship to the prestigious Houri Academy. However, due to a mistake by a teacher, Kakinozaka Ayana, he ended up in the Academy's girls' dorm! Further, the situation cannot be corrected, and Yuuki must live and dress as a girl if he wishes to study at Houri. And if his secret should be revealed, he would be instantly expelled. To make up for her error and to assist Yuuki in his deception, Ayana-sensei offers to be his room-mate. WARNING: STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT

Senyu
Synopsis: In the story, a gigantic hole suddenly opened up in the world one day, and demons appeared. The king thinks that this portends the return of the demon king Rukimedesu, who was sealed away by the hero Kureashion a millenium ago. The king decreed that the descendants of the hero must take on the threat, and 75 people showed up. Hero No. 45 (Aruba) and a sadistic palace warrior (Ross) team up, and their adventure begins.

Sugar Sugar Rune
Synopsis: Chocolat and Vanilla are little witches. They are good friends as well as rivals for the next queen candidate. To decide who is eligible for the next queen, they came to human world. They compete with each other by collecting hearts of men. Which of the two will become the queen?

Sumomomo Momomo: The Strongest Bride on Earth
Synopsis: Inuzuka Koushi is a smart high school student who aims to become a public prosecutor. Unfortunately for our good guy, he was born into a martial arts family whose head (i.e. his father) only knows one language: violence. When Koushi was still a baby, his father made a pact with his biggest rival to marry Koushi to his opponent-turned-friend's daughter. The union of the two blood lines is supposed to bring forth Earth's strongest martial arts clan. Skip forward: Koushi is in high school, oblivious to the marriage arranged for him at his birth. Enter Kusuryuu Momoko: sugar bomb, airhead, loli martial arts artist and Koushi's self-proclaimed bride (the strongest on Earth, no less). Her wish for sexual intercourse meets with Koushi's square refusal as he has absolutely no desire to get it on with someone who looks like she could be his little sister, not to mention that he doesn't have the foggiest idea who she actually is. Meanwhile, a war has broken out between the martial arts families. For Koushi, this means that numerous fighters are out to challenge him. As if that weren't bad enough, our protagonist also has a fight phobia due to a traumatic incident that took place in his childhood. Now it is up to Momoko and her superhuman fighting skills to protect her "husband". Will the two sweethearts survive the trials and tribulations ahead of them? More importantly, will Momoko get her way receiving a baby from Koushi?

The Book of Bantorra
Synopsis: In a world where dead people turn into stone-like books and are stored in the Bantorra Library, anyone who reads a book can learn its past. Bantorra Library is maintained by the Armed Librarians, who wield supernatural abilities, and their enemy is a religious cult known as Shindeki Church

The World God Only Knows: Four Plus an Idol OVA
Synopsis: Chihiro forms a rock band with her friends Elsie, Ayumi and Miyako. But their music is horrible and needs more practice, when Elsie suggests forming a light music club and getting their own club room to which they agree. However, Kodama-sensei refuses the formation of any new clubs and gives them a challenge: If all of them can get a perfect 100% score on their next English Term test, they will get the approval to form their club. Disheartened the girls are about to give up when the appearance of the nation-wide idol Kanon leads to a new development. Overjoyed about her classmates being interested in music, she reveals to be the guest star of the upcoming Mai-High dance festival. At that moment Chihiro's competitiveness is sparked and she declares that the band will be competing against Kanon at the school festival. But there is still one problem. How are the girls supposed to improve their grades in such a short time and get their own club room for practice. Now it's time for the god who always scores perfect grades to fulfil a promise he made with a girl who was about to give up once already.

The World God Only Knows: Tenri`s Chapter OVA
Synopsis: It is summer break and Katsuragi Keima intends to spend all his time on video games. An old acquaintance, the timid girl Ayukawa Tenri, returns to the neighbourhood � and apparently carries a lost soul inside of her. It is up to Keima and Elysia de Lute Ima to unravel the secrets of her heart.

Newly Reencoded Series

Hanasaku Iroha: Blossoms for Tomorrow
Synopsis: The story revolves around 16 year-old Matsumae Ohana, a normal girl who hopes and dreams of the future like most girls her age. One day reality catches up to her when she is left in the care of her estranged grandmother, following her mother's elopement with her boyfriend. After travelling to the countryside Ohana is forced to adapt to the new environment and begins working at a her grandmother's Taisho period styled hot spring inn, Kissuisou. Initially at odds with her grandmother, co-workers and customers she decides to use her circumstances as an opportunity to change herself for the better and to make amends with her deteriorating relationship with the Kissuisou staff for a more prominent future.

The Tatami Galaxy
Synopsis: The story of The Tatami Galaxy follows an unnamed third year university student in Kyoto, Japan and what he views as his wasted time in a particular club (also called circle) at his university. He meets Ozu, another student, whose encouragement sets him on a mission of dubious morality. He contemplates his affection for a second year engineering student, Akashi, and makes promises to her, usually of and within a romantic subtext. The culmination of his dubious missions often conflict with his interest in her in some way. The story is one of a number that draw on the author's experience in Kyoto University.

Trigun
Synopsis: Meet Vash The Stampede, a man worth $$60,000,000,000! Responsible for destroying many cities he's traveled through, you'd think this guy is quite a heartless fiend. Yet, in one of the cities, he destroyed it without killing a single person. Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson are two insurance agents assigned to look after Vash and deal with his wake of destruction, but the Vash they discover is quite the opposite; he is really silly and foolish, but gentle and caring. He goes through great lengths to save the lives of the innocent without taking the lives of the guilty. An emotionally driven yet funny, philosophical yet silly, action packed yet dramatic series by Yasuhiro Nightow, Trigun enjoyed a long manga run from 1998 - 2007, but has been made into a 26-episode anime in 1998 by Madhouse. It is directed by Satoshi Nishimura (Fighting Spirit) and its screenplay was done by Yosuke Kuroda (Tenchi Muyo series). The English dub was done by Pioneer, and features one of Johnny Yong Bosch's (Bleach, Power Rangers) premier voice acting roles.

The Vision of Escaflowne
Synopsis: High school student Hitomi is transported from Earth to the magical world of Gaea, where she meets boy prince Van Fanel, and is caught up in his quest to unite the countries of Gaea against the ominous Zaibach empire. On the way, she discovers an hidden ability and strives to unravel layers of mystery surrounding Van, his past, and the giant machine known as Escaflowne.

Recently Finished Airing

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Hey guys and gals,

So a few weeks back I had posted that I was going to be moving Zeus to a half rack in our current datacenter. Well, since they dropped comcast which resulted in only two ISPs (yikes! this is why some have had issues with streaming). I got fed up when they knew of routing issues and said that they were doing the best they could, bull !@#%.

So, Next Thursday, May 16th 2013, I will be going to our DC, removing Zeus and transporting it to the new location. The new location is not inside chicago, instead is just outside of it. I will be leaving around noon in hopes that I can beat traffic as I work my way out of the city.

Downtime is planned for 1pm - 4pm, I should be able to shut the server down, bring it to my car and carefully drive to our new datacenter (which is an hour away). Give time for readdressing of IP's and then we will be golden.

The new facility has backup power, generators and is an amazing facility to walk through! When we get Zeus to his new home pictures are sure to follow.

The tl;dr version: Streaming on thursday will be unavailable from roughly 1pm CST To 4pm CST. If I get things moving faster expect the window to shrink and the global announcement bar at the top of all pages to change to show streaming is back.

You can also follow our facebook page here and get updated on the fly!

Thanks everyone!

First off this release would not be possible without the help of don the changes he has made now allow the expansion to the rasberry pi, as the issue we were facing were that it would take upwards of 5 minutes to load the anime listing..

Props Don! Thanks again, hopefully we can build on this and expand out our offering through the XBMC system :)

Hey Everyone,

I regret to inform everyone that as of May 1st, our provider for Zeus has dropped their 30+gbit uplink to comcast. This change now makes it so that there are only two other providers available to stream from. This change will result in slowdowns for those that are in the US and used cable, as now everything has to go through a single provider. Those that are outside of the US will find it slow as well because comcast had a ton of peering options for offstate carriers.

Sadly there is nothing we can do, it would cost between 5-10 grand a month just to have a gbit connection to comcast, and even then we would need to get another server that would be able to handle connections (routing term BGP), along with a whole host of other issues.

I wish there was a way to get them back, but sadly there is not, so for the time being, we will have to deal with.

Sorry guys >.<