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University student Naofumi is summoned to another world as its Shield Hero. His equipment is built around defence, and an early betrayal leaves him short of money, support and reputation. Protecting the world becomes entangled with finding a way to function in a society that rejects him.

Tiny Borrowers live beneath human floorboards, gathering the supplies they need without being seen. When Arrietty is discovered by a human boy, a friendship crosses the boundary on which her hidden life depends. Familiar domestic space becomes an environment scaled to very different inhabitants.

A refurbished alien battleship becomes the centre of humanity's fight against the giant Zentradi. Young pilot Hikaru Ichijo joins its forces, while singer Lynn Minmay and officer Misa Hayase become central to his life. Military survival and civilian life occupy the same enormous ship.

An unnamed university student imagines that choosing a different club would have given him a better campus life. Parallel versions of his student years return him to the same troublesome acquaintances and elusive romance. His search for the right choice becomes a story about the opportunities he keeps overlooking.

Yoko Nakajima is carried into another world by a stranger who calls her his ruler. Separated from him and pursued by creatures she does not understand, she must first survive. The world she has entered is divided into twelve kingdoms, each ruled through a relationship between a monarch and a kirin.

A vampire hunter expecting a dangerous opponent meets a vampire who crumbles to dust at the slightest shock, then finds himself sharing everyday troubles with him.

Hitomi Kanzaki's school-day plans are interrupted when a boy and a dragon appear in a column of light. Caught in their battle, she is transported to another world. Her personal concerns about a departing school crush give way to a fantasy conflict she could not have anticipated.

Jiro dreams of flight but cannot become a pilot because of his eyesight. Inspired by aircraft designer Caproni, he turns towards designing aeroplanes. Hayao Miyazaki's film follows creative ambition through a turbulent historical world in which technical achievement cannot be separated from consequential choices.

After receiving a ghoul’s organs, an ordinary student must live between the human world he knew and a hidden population that survives by eating people.

Ryuuji Takasu’s intimidating appearance makes people assume he is a delinquent. Small, fierce Taiga Aisaka has a reputation of her own. A confession gone wrong draws them into an awkward alliance, with Ryuuji helping Taiga approach the friend she likes.

On a desert planet settled by people from Earth, the red-coated gunman Vash the Stampede carries an enormous bounty and a reputation for catastrophe. Outlaws and bounty hunters roam settlements dependent on artificial life forms called Plants for their energy.

After a war, Violet Evergarden takes a job turning other people’s feelings into letters. She is also searching for the meaning of words spoken to her by someone important during the fighting. Each assignment asks her to understand an experience she cannot simply reproduce as an instruction.

Akio becomes attached to a heavily tuned Nissan Z with a dangerous reputation. On Tokyo’s expressways, the car draws him towards drivers who are equally absorbed by their machines, including a surgeon whose Porsche is known as the Blackbird.

Shy, artistic Anna arrives by the sea and discovers an old mansion across the marshes. Its mysterious resident, Marnie, becomes an unusually close friend. Their connection draws Anna back to the house while the boundary between the familiar and the inexplicable grows uncertain.

Shizuku follows a mysterious cat and begins searching for a talent of her own. Seiji, a boy with a clear ambition, becomes part of that search. An antique cat figurine called the Baron opens a space where her everyday uncertainties and imagination can meet.

Will studies at a magic academy despite being unable to cast magic. In a society that treats magical ability as a measure of worth, he relies on his sword and physical skill. He wants to keep a promise to someone important to him, even when teachers and classmates dismiss his route.

After their father dies, Hana raises two children who can turn into wolves. She moves from the city to a rural house, learning to farm while keeping their secret. As Yuki and Ame grow, each must find a way to live between the human and animal worlds.

Wolves are believed extinct, but some survive by deceiving human eyes and appearing as people. Kiba searches for a place called Paradise. His encounter with the isolated Tsume and the adaptable Hige brings different ways of surviving into a shared journey.

Cherry writes haiku but avoids conversation; Smile makes videos but feels self-conscious about her teeth. They meet during a summer spent around a shopping centre and help an older man find a missing record. Poetry, phone messages and music give the two teenagers ways to get to know each other.

Mitsuha's mountain-town routines and Taki's Tokyo school and restaurant shifts become each other's problem when they begin swapping bodies. Notes and rules help them manage the lives they borrow, but their mistakes also bring them closer. Practical comedy grows into a romantic mystery, carried by pop songs and sudden emotional turns.