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Fuu persuades two very different swordsmen to help her find a samurai who smells of sunflowers. Mugen’s unruly fighting and Jin’s formal training make them difficult travelling companions. Their journey takes a samurai road story into an explicitly hip-hop-inflected version of Edo-period Japan.

An email from a dead schoolmate draws the reserved Lain Iwakura towards NAVI computers and the networked world beyond them. As strange incidents accumulate around her, the boundary between an ordinary school life and a digital existence becomes increasingly difficult to locate.

Rakuro loves finishing badly designed games. For a change, he enters Shangri-La Frontier, a polished virtual-reality game with a huge player base. Using the bird-headed avatar Sunraku, he brings habits learned from unreliable games into a world whose monsters and rules reward a different kind of attention.

Sotoba is an isolated village connected to the outside by a single main road. After three bodies are found, doctor Toshio Ozaki doubts that the deaths are ordinary. More villagers begin to die, leaving the community facing a possible epidemic and an increasingly disturbing mystery.

Fresh out of prison, Yotaro seeks an apprenticeship with Yakumo, the rakugo storyteller whose performance he heard while incarcerated. Rakugo is solo storytelling, with a seated performer voicing the characters. The apprenticeship opens a history of artistic rivalry, loyalty and unfinished relationships around Yakumo.

Reki’s favourite place to skate is S, a secret race down an abandoned mine in Okinawa. Its dangerous head-to-head contests draw skaters with very different styles. His enthusiasm pulls newcomer Langa towards a world that operates well outside ordinary school sport.

Mitsumi Iwakura moves from a small rural school to a demanding Tokyo high school with her future carefully planned. Studying comes more easily than navigating the city or reading her classmates. Her friendship with the easygoing Shima begins when the first day goes badly off schedule.

Hanamichi Sakuragi takes an interest in basketball after Haruko asks whether he likes it. Wanting to impress her, he answers yes despite his unhappy association with the sport. His attempt to enter the club quickly brings him into conflict with its captain, Haruko’s brother Akagi.

A schoolgirl is reborn as a small spider monster in a dungeon full of creatures stronger than she is. Human ingenuity has to work with an unfamiliar body: webs, traps and acquired skills become tools for staying alive. Her first problem is surviving long enough to understand her surroundings.

Hunters earn a living fighting monsters inside dungeons, and their power usually stays fixed. After a disastrous raid, Sung Jinwoo gains a private system of quests that lets him grow stronger. Battles and dangerous upgrades follow his progress while other hunters continue to judge him by his old rank.

Chihiro's parents are transformed after the family enters a place inhabited by spirits. She takes a job in Yubaba's bathhouse while trying to free them and return home. Strange customers, demanding work and unfamiliar rules make this a rescue adventure in which a frightened child has to act for herself.

Rintaro Okabe runs a makeshift invention laboratory in Akihabara. An accidental device lets the group send messages into the past. Their experiments begin as curiosity, then force them to confront what changes when a message can alter the circumstances in which it was sent.

Kirito enters a virtual-reality online game whose players discover that they cannot log out. Clearing the game is their route to escape, and dying inside it means dying outside it. The fantasy setting therefore becomes a place where ordinary play decisions carry physical consequences.

Ichise survives through prizefighting in a city governed by violence and competing forms of power. His encounter with a girl named Ran becomes a turning point for a place in which force seems to decide who gets to keep living.

A man is reborn in a fantasy world as a slime, a creature usually treated as weak. His new form brings unusual abilities and encounters with other inhabitants. As Rimuru, he begins building relationships that turn an individual second chance into a community’s story.

Maomao wants to finish her palace service without drawing attention. When the emperor's children fall ill, she looks for a physical cause while others blame a curse. Her medical knowledge draws her into investigations where rank shapes whose answer is heard. Medical puzzles and awkward comedy develop alongside court politics.

After his mother dies during the war, Mahito moves to the countryside and is drawn towards an old tower and a troublesome grey heron. When his stepmother disappears, he follows the bird into a world shared by the living and the dead. The search confronts him with unfamiliar rules and his own longing.

Haru saves a cat prince from a truck. His father rewards her with unwanted gifts and decides she should marry his son. Escaping the Cat Kingdom requires eccentric allies and the confidence to refuse its demands, as royal ceremony turns the cats' idea of generosity into comedy.

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.

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.