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The family restaurant WAGNARIA stands by itself in Hokkaido. Get ready to dish up some wacky comedy together with Sota and his coworkers!
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Wagnaria!! 2 (s)
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The family restaurant WAGNARIA stands by itself in Hokkaido. Get ready to dish up some wacky comedy together with Sota and his coworkers!
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Waiting in the Summer (s)
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Lights! Camera! Teen Angst! When a group of friends decide to make a movie over a long summer holiday, they end up learning a little about filmmaking and a lot more about each other and themselves. What begins as a simple way to avoid the summer doldrums quickly turns into something much more complex, intimate and revealing, as the maturing relationships between the members of the young cast take on new, and sometimes very unexpected, turns. Get ready for a whole new take on summer romance as hidden emotions get captured and secrets meant to be kept hidden inside young hearts instead spill off of the screen for your viewing pleasure in Waiting in the Summer!
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Wallflower, The (d)
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Four handsome boys are confronted with a horrifying challenge: transform their benefactor's niece – a paranoid goth girl with a horror movie obsession – into a beautiful lady or start paying rent!
Nitori Shuichi is a boy who wants to become a girl. He transfers to a new elementary school, and there, meets Takatsuki Yoshino, a tall and attractive young girl. Coincidentally, Yoshino also dreams of becoming the opposite sex. She lets Shuichi in on a secret that she cross dresses from time to time and visits places far from home. Due to the fact that they share the same secret, they become close. The two are now in middle school. In the midst of a crowd full of new people, the two search for their own paths; all the while facing the troubles and concerns that come along with puberty.
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We, Without Wings: Under the Innocent Sky (s)
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In the big city of Yanagihara, a group of young people experiences the ups and downs of love and loss. As they navigate the busy metropolitan streets, their lives are shaped by chance encounters, missed connections, and dreams of escaping reality.
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Web Ghosts PiPoPa (s)
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A comedic, action adventure of a boy who is swallowed into his cell phone and transported to the virtual world of the internet, where he befriends three internet ghosts: Pit, Pot and Pat.
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Welcome to the NHK (d)
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Sato believes the nefarious N-H-K wants to turn society’s misfits into a mob of hopeless recluses. Mysterious Misaki might be able to help Sato overcome his paranoia – if she can pull him out his existential rut and get him to face the world.
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When They Cry - Higurashi (d)
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On one hot summer day in 1983, a transfer student named Maebara Keiichi comes to a peaceful rural village in Hinamizawa. There, he befriends his classmates Rena, Mion, Rika, and Satoko. Accepted as a full-fledged member of the "club," Keiichi begins to be assimilated in simple rural life, he stumbles upon the dark history of Hinamizawa. As Keiichi dives deeper into the mystery, he finds that his new found friends may not be all what they claim to be.
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White Album (s)
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Toya Fujii, the male protagonist, is a twenty year old college student dating a rising singer named Yuki Morikawa. Along the way, they are faced with numerous challenges throughout the course of events at Fuji’s college. Be prepared for an exciting journey!
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Witchblade (d)
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Masane’s fate is altered after uniting with the Witchblade, an ancient weapon of ecstasy and pain that penetrates the body and mind. Forced into the service of the Doji Group and hunted by the NSWF, Masane’s greatest battle will be for her soul.
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Witchblade (s)
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Masane’s fate is altered after uniting with the Witchblade, an ancient weapon of ecstasy and pain that penetrates the body and mind. Forced into the service of the Doji Group and hunted by the NSWF, Masane’s greatest battle will be for her soul.
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Wonder Beat Scramble (s)
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In the year 2119, the Greensleeves, a spaceship investigating the existence of extraterrestrial life, encounters the rogue planet "X-23." After they discover traces of destroyed high-level civilizations on planets that X-23 had passed by, the World Federation orders the Greensleeves to destroy X-23. However the captain of the ship, Professor Sugita Isao, refuses the order and all communications are cut off. Two years later, the eldest son of Professor Sugita who lives in the science academy town Nagisa City, is suddenly lead to Phoenix Tower, an integrated health and science research institute. The leader of the special medical team "White Pegasus," Dr. Miya, requests he joins them. One after another of the citizens of Nagisa City fall ill for unknown reasons, and then are treated by a special vessel called the "Wonder Beat" which is miniaturized and inserted directly into the affected area. And that is how the battle begins between the White Pegasus Team and the mysterious aliens who keep attacking them. (C)MushiProduction CO.,LTD.
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