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Jul 4, 2015 at 11:00am EDT

Very few adolescent boys and girls have an onset of special abilities. Yu Otosaka is one such man who uses his ability unbeknownst to others in order to lead a satisfying school life. Then one day, a girl named Nao Tomori suddenly appears before him. Their encounter reveals the destiny for wielders of special abilities.

[Source: Aniplex of America]

  1. Action
  2. Comedy
  3. Drama
  4. School
  5. Supernatural
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Apr 2, 2010 at 1:25pm EDT

In a world after death, angels fight for their fate and their future. Yuri, the leader of the Shinda Sekai Sensen, rebels against the god who destined her to have an unreasonable life. On the otherhand, Tenshi, the chairperson of the student council for the world after death, battles against the SSS members. SSS members utilize armed weaponry to battle it out against the angels harnessing supernatural powers.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Gore
  2. Horror
  3. Mystery
  4. School
  5. Suspense
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Jan 10, 2012 at 11:00am EST

When Kouichi Sakakibara transfers to his new school, he can sense something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, a secret none of them will talk about. At the center is the beautiful girl Mei Misaki. Kouichi is immediately drawn to her mysterious aura, but then he begins to realize that no one else in the class is aware of her presence.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Drama
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Oct 10, 2020 at 11:00am EDT

Yota Narukami's a high schooler who planned to spend his last summer vacation like most others: preparing for his university entrance exams. But when a young girl named Hina approaches him saying she's a god, his summer vacation suddenly becomes anything but ordinary.

[Source: Funimation]

  1. Drama
  2. Love Polygon
  3. Magic
  4. Romance
  5. Time Travel
  6. Visual Arts
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Oct 5, 2018 at 1:10pm EDT

Hitomi Tsukishiro may be the child of a family of witches, but after losing her ability to see color, she also lost her sense of magic. Nothing has been able to help her regain that gift — nothing until Hitomi’s grandmother, that is, sends Hitomi back in time to the year 2018! There Hitomi meets her grandmother’s younger self. She also discovers fascinating drawings of a young man named Yuito Aoi. The moment Hitomi lays eyes on his work, colors flood back into view. But why do his drawings have this effect on Hitomi, and for what purpose has her grandmother sent her so far back in time? As Hitomi’s feelings for Yuito grow, she finds herself poised on the cusp of personal transformation, color and magic returning as she blossoms into the young woman she’s meant to be.

[Source: Sentai Filmworks]

  1. Drama
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Apr 4, 2023 at 10:00am EDT

Iwakura Mitsumi graduated from a small middle school in the countryside and entered a top-tier high school in Tokyo at the head of the class. This child prodigy, who moved to Tokyo alone with a perfect life plan, is smart and gets good grades... but her social understanding isn't quite on the same wavelength as others. This means that she sometimes makes mistakes, but her easygoing nature sways her classmates little by little, and all their different personalities are coming together before they know it. They meet and gradually come to know each other, and before long they understand each other well. Everyone experiences pent-up feelings and frustrations, but it is our friends who give us a chance at mutual understanding. This story may start out with some discord, but it becomes a happy school-life comedy before you know it!

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Action
  2. Childcare
  3. Comedy
  4. Organized Crime
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Jan 6, 2023 at 10:00am EST

A parenting diary of assassin buddies?!

Two assassin partners who never let their target get away somehow end up taking in a four-year-old girl. The hot and cool buddies start a family life with this cute, innocent girl.

These assassins can handle any job with no problem, and yet, they find themselves struggling with this little girl. From feeding her to playing with her to taking her to and from nursery school, they're always rushing around. But no matter how crazy their life is, when they have a job, they can't turn it down. To further complicate things, the girl happens to be the secret love child of a heinous mafioso that they killed!

Is it really possible to live as assassins and parents at the same time? Can this temporary family find happiness?

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Adult Cast
  2. Comedy
  3. Music
  4. Showbiz
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Mar 31, 2022 at 10:00am EDT

Fate and reincarnation deliver brilliant military strategist, Kongming, from warring, ancient China to Japan’s modern party hot spot in Shibuya City, Tokyo. After a lifetime of battles and military skirmishes, Kongming wished with his last breath to be reborn in a world of peace and prosperity. It’s nearly two millennia later and he’s finding his way in a very different world than that of his past life. When he meets Eiko, an amateur musician with big dreams, the unlikely duo strikes up an even unlikelier friendship. Eiko has street smarts to help Kongming navigate this strange new world, and Kongming will use his strategic mind to help Eiko achieve stardom!

[Source: Sentai]

  1. Adventure
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  3. Fantasy
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February 23, 2018 EST

The people of Iolph have a lifespan of hundreds of years and maintain their teenage appearances for life, but when the peace of this town is shattered by those who want the secret to their longevity for themselves, a young girl named Maquia is forced to escape. Wandering the land alone, upon finding an orphaned baby she chooses to raise him, but as this boy grows up so the difference in their lifespans is thrown into ever-sharper relief.

[Source: All The Anime]

  1. School
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March 22, 2016 EDT

Extra episode set between episodes 4 and 5. The student council discovers Iori Sekiguchi, a girl with mind reading, which causes the thoughts of people around her to be projected to others. Realizing that Iori feels burdened over causing those around her to fight, Yuu and Nao, despite having their thoughts constantly being read aloud to each other, treat Iori to a pleasant day at an amusement park to prove they can get along with each other. Iori loses confidence after her power causes a couple to argue, but Nao remains determined to stay by her side and learns what might have triggered Iori's ability. She and Yuu visit Iori's friend, Honoka, who informs them of Iori's incurable disease, which will eventually take away Iori's ability to move. Honoka's selfish desire to isolate herself from her best friend's suffering agitates Nao, who lashes out at Honoka. Afterward, Honoka makes up with Iori, who resolves to do her best to survive her disease.

[Source: Wikipedia]

  1. Drama
  2. Fantasy
  3. Love Polygon
  4. Romance
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Oct 3, 2013 at 9:00am EDT

Long ago, all humans lived in the ocean. But some who longed for the land abandoned the ocean, casting off the special raiments granted to them by the sea god to adapt them to life under the sea...

Though mankind was divided into sea dwellers and land dwellers, each with different ways of thinking, they were all still fellow humans, and they continued to maintain contact as time went on.

Sakishima Hikari, Mukaido Manaka, Hiradaira Chisaki, and Isaki Kaname live in an undersea village, while Kihara Tsumugu lives on land.

When these middle school second-year land and sea dwellers meet for the first time, their hearts begin to undulate like the tides.

The youthful fantasy tale of these young people's lives unfolds in a strange and beautiful world.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Action
  2. Historical
  3. Supernatural
  4. Vampire
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Jul 7, 2018 at 4:30pm EDT

※ NOTE: The first episode premiered at Anime Expo 2018 on July 7th.

Imperial Capital, 1930.

A strange group of people carrying musical instrument cases landed on Tokyo station. They are called the “Jaegers”, who came to hunt vampires. Amongst them, there stood a young man with striking serenity and unusual aura. His name is Yuliy, a werewolf whose home village was destroyed by vampires. Yuliy and the Jaegers engage in deadly battle over a mysterious holy arc only known as “The Arc of Sirius”.

What truth awaits them at the end…?

With eternal affinity and spiral of conspiracy entwine, the highly anticipated action-thriller anime begins!

  1. Action
  2. Fantasy
  3. Magic
  4. Supernatural
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Apr 7, 2019 at 11:00am EDT

※ NOTE: Split-cour series

The anime is set in a world where fairies possess and reside within animals, granting them special powers. By surgically removing and transplanting the organs of a possessed animal into a human, humans can partially summon the fairy and use it as a weapon. Eventually, such individuals were used for war, and were called "Fairy Soldiers." After a long war, these soldiers lost their purpose, and had to reintegrate into society. From the government, to the mafia, and even becoming terrorists, each tread their own path.

The story begins nine years after the end of the war, and centers on the protagonist Maria. Maria is a fresh recruit of "Dorothea," an organization dedicated to the investigation and suppression of fairy-related crimes and incidents. Even in peacetime, the government is still unstable after the war. Many criminals still have lingering wounds from the previous conflict, and there are terrorist groups bent on revenge. This is the story of Fairy Soldiers seeking their own justice in a chaotic postwar world.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Action
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Oct 6, 2022 at 11:00am EDT

Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves there with dreams of joining a maid café. She quickly dons an apron at café Ton Tokoton, AKA the Pig Hut. But adjusting to life in bustling Akihabara isn’t as easy as serving tea and delighting customers. Paired with the dour Ranko who never seems to smile, Nagomi must do her best to elevate the Pig Hut over all other maid cafés vying for top ranking. Along the way she’ll slice out a place for herself amid the frills and thrills of life at the Pig Hut. Just when Nagomi’s dreams are within her grasp, she discovers not everything is as it seems amid the maid cafés of Akihabara.

[Source: HIDIVE]

  1. Drama
  2. Slice of Life
  3. Workplace
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Jul 8, 2021 at 11:00am EDT

One day, 18-year-old aquarium employee Kukuru Misakino encounters Fuuka Miyazawa, a former idol who lost her place in Tokyo and escaped to Okinaka.

Kukuru and Fuuka spend their days at the aquarium, their hearts filled with their own passions, but the aquarium is struggling and about to be shut down forever.

The girls face their dreams and reality, loneliness and friendships, bonds and conflicts; this summer is about to turn a glimmering new page.

[Source: Crunchyroll; emended]

  1. Adult Cast
  2. Comedy
  3. Historical
  4. Motorsport
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Mar 21, 2020 at 9:30am EDT

The socially awkward yet genius engineer, Appare Sorano, and the wise but cowardly samurai, Kosame Isshiki, find themselves aimlessly drifting in the sea between Japan and America.

In order to earn enough money to get back home, the duo enters a trans-American race in their own steam-powered car. Rivals, bandits, and other trials await them on this race from Los Angeles to New York.

[Source: Funimation]

  1. Adult Cast
  2. Comedy
  3. Drama
  4. Otaku Culture
  5. Workplace
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Oct 9, 2014 at 10:30am EDT

Shirobako begins with the five members of the Kaminoyama High School animation club all making a pledge to work hard on their very first amateur production and make it into a success. After showing it to an audience at a culture festival, that pledge turned into a huge dream—to move to Tokyo, get jobs in the anime industry and one day join hands to create something amazing.

Fast forward two and a half years and two of those members, Aoi Miyamori and Ema Yasuhara, have made their dreams into reality by landing jobs at a famous production company called Musashino Animation. Everything seems perfect at first. However, as the girls slowly discover, the animation industry is a bit tougher than they had imagined. Who said making your dream come true was easy?

[Source: MyAnimeList]

  1. Adult Cast
  2. Comedy
  3. Slice of Life
  4. Workplace
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Apr 5, 2017 at 11:00am EDT

Five young women have one thing in common—the careers they planned for themselves weren’t working out. Job dissatisfaction, trying to make ends meet, and personal insecurities lead each of them to start working at a local tourism bureau where their lives become intertwined. As the girls experience their first year on the job, they learn a lot about their town, their industry, and themselves.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Love Polygon
  2. Romance
  3. Slice of Life
  4. Supernatural
  5. Visual Arts
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Jul 3, 2014 at 9:30am EDT

The daughter of a glass artisan family, Fukami Touko, spends relaxed days at a cafe called “Kazemichi” at a friend’s house. On the summer vacation of her third year in high school. in front of them appeared a transfer student boy: Okikura Kakeru. He told Touko that he can hear the voices of the future. If someone knew in advance what their future would look like, what would they wish for? While feeling never-before-felt tremors in herself, Touko realises that she has started getting a feeling in her heart which she can’t leave alone…

[Source: official website]

  1. Action
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Apr 7, 2016 at 8:00am EDT

An ancient artifact was discovered during the construction of the Kurobe dam, leading to the establishment of the United Nations Kurobe Research Institute. Intellectuals from all over the world gathered to study the object, and the children of those researchers attend Mt. Tate International Senior High School, including the institute head's daughter, Yukina Shirahane.

The story begins in the summer of 2016, when a lone samurai once again awakens.

  1. Anthropomorphic
  2. Sports
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Apr 1, 2018 at 11:00am EDT

This is a tale of a world where "horse girls" with glorious names and incredible running abilities live alongside humanity.

Horse girl Special Week has moved from the country to the city to attend Tracen Academy. There, she and her classmates compete to win the Twinkle Series and earn the title of "The County’s #1 Horse Girl."

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Mystery
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  3. School
  4. Slice of Life
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Jan 6, 2016 at 11:35am EST

The original novels revolve around two high school students named Haruta and Chika, who are members of a wind instrument club that is on the verge of being shut down. The two are childhood friends, and they spend their days practicing hard while also trying to recruit new members. When a certain incident happens within their school, they work together to solve it.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Drama
  2. Love Polygon
  3. Romance
  4. School
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Jan 5, 2008 at 11:00am EST

Living under the same roof with the girl he has a crush on should be a dream for Shinichirou Nakagami, but the reality is closer to a nightmare. At school, Hiromi is bright, academically successful, athletic, and popular. But at home, Hiromi is a completely different person; she's cold, distant, and encased in the protective shell she's erected around herself after a painful childhood.

At school, a strange girl named Isurugi Noe suddenly takes an interest in Shinichirou. Noe loves the school's chickens, especially Raigomaru, who she's convinced can fly. Thus begins a strange relationship where Shinichirou helps Noe resolve her problems, even as he tries to figure out his own feelings about Noe, Hiromi, and his childhood friend, Andou Aiko. All the while Shinichirou is also trying to find the key to unlock Hiromi's heart, and to finish the children's picture book he's been writing. Surprisingly, it's Noe who proves critical to both...

[Source: MyAnimeList]

  1. Music
  2. School
  3. Slice of Life
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Jul 1, 2012 at 9:30am EDT

The last year of high school is always a time of both looking forward and looking back. Before you lies the future, alternately bright and scary. Behind you lie memories, both happy and sad. And somehow, in the course of one year, you have to reconcile those two and decide where your life is going to go.

For Wakana Sakai, who had started studying music, it's time to face the tragedy that made her abandon that path. For Sawa Okita, it's about her dreams of riding professionally. And for Konatsu Miyamoto, it's about bringing her friends together through the magic of a song. Can something as simple as the formation of a choir club really help solve the hurts and pangs that come with growing up? Can music bring people together despite their differences?

[Source: Sentai Filmworks]

  1. Action
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Jul 4, 2009 at 9:30am EDT

Secrets from your past can kill you, even if you can't remember them. Photographer Maria Osawa has been in Shanghai less than a day, covering an Anti-Terrorist Conference, when she's attacked by masked assassins. Rescue comes in the form of Canaan, a mysterious girl Maria once met before an experimental cure for a deadly bio-weapon erased part of her memory.

A soldier for hire, Canaan's formidable martial arts skills are augmented with the gift of synesthesia, seeing emotions as colors, and her presence in Shanghai is no coincidence. She's hunting a former comrade who brutally betrayed her, and the path leads to the conference and the lethal Ua virus, which mutates a few survivors, giving them strange abilities. Thrown together, the two women must face an army of terrorists and monster assassins while hunting their enemy… the assassin Canaan once called her sister…!

[Source: Sentai]

  1. Adult Cast
  2. Comedy
  3. Drama
  4. Otaku Culture
  5. Workplace
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February 28, 2020 EST

Four years after the events of SHIROBAKO the series, Musashino Animation has gone through unprecedented changes and things are looking bleak for the studio. One day, Aoi Miyamori is offered a role managing a new theatrical animation project. With only a few months left before the deadline, can MusAni complete the project in its current state? It’s up to Aoi to work alongside both familiar faces and new to finish the project in time!

  1. Comedy
  2. Drama
  3. Fantasy
  4. Mythology
  5. Slice of Life
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Jul 7, 2013 at 9:00am EDT

In Kyoto, there are three kinds of residents: humans, tanuki, and tengu. Shimogamo Yasaburou is the third son of the Shimogamo tanuki family. His father, Souichirou, had been the head of Kyoto tanuki community until he was eaten by the human members of "Friday Club". While taking care of an old tengu, fighting with other tanuki, and playing with a psychic human girl, Yasaburou approaches the truth of his father's death.

  1. Fantasy
  2. Mythology
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Apr 3, 2013 at 12:00pm EDT

Shy 15-year-old Izumiko has a hard time making personal connections. Oddly, she can’t use computers or cell phones, either—they mysteriously crash when she touches them. When her childhood bully Miyuki shows up at the shrine where she was raised, their lives become involuntarily entwined. Izumiko learns she is the last vessel of a goddess—and Miyuki must serve as her dutiful guardian.

[Source: Funimation]

  1. Comedy
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  3. Slice of Life
  4. Workplace
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March 8, 2013 EST

In the days before the Bonbori Festival, Ohana's friend Yuina comes to Kissuiso for training. While cleaning up after her, Ohana discovers a logbook kept by Beans from when her mother, Satsuki, was still a youth at Kissuisso. Through the logbook, Ohana catches a glimpse of her mother's struggles, and realizes that maybe the two of them aren't so different after all. Meanwhile, the rest of the inn staff are caught up in dealing with a blackout.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Comedy
  2. Drama
  3. Fantasy
  4. Mythology
  5. Slice of Life
  1. P.A. Works
Apr 9, 2017 at 9:00am EDT

Shimogamo Yasaburo has the blood of a mystical racoon-like creature - a tanuki - but has the ability to transform into a human. He lives a playful life in Kyoto, where humans, tanuki, and tengu live side-by-side. Yasaburo and his family finally come to terms with their father’s death, reconciling with human and tengu alike. However, the son of Yasaburo's teacher returns to the city after a century abroad, stirring up a world of trouble for everyone in Kyoto’s mystical underbelly.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Gourmet
  2. Workplace
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November 9, 2023 EST

Kotaro visits Komada Distillery for a project on Japanese craft whisky. Led by young female president Rui, who took over the family business, the distillery works hard to reproduce its signature whisky, Koma, which they had to stop making years ago. However, not to mention financial backing, too many clues are missing to revive the once lost whisky.

[Source: Annecy Festival]

  1. Aviation
  2. Comedy
  3. Otaku Culture
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February 24, 2015 EST

Akane, Aya, and Arupin, the members of the idol group Tracy, stage a performance at a supermarket, but no one stops to listen to their singing. As the girls redress into maid costumes inside bathroom stalls, Arupin remains optimistic of the reception, pretending the trio is living perfect lives as idols instead of being employees at the supermarket. However, she is scolded by Akane, who chastises her for not facing the reality of their situation. After comparing the dismal number of their fans to the fanbase of a rival idol, Ginger, they receive a call from a woman they call their "Onee-san", who praises a performance video they sent her. The girls then eat some manjū, which inspires Akane to speak to the trio's manager, Taguchi. Arupin follows her, but loses her and then finds Taguchi lying dead in a pool of blood. At the crime scene is a bloody knife identical to the ones the girls kept as part of their costumes, along with a partial message written by Taguchi with his blood, beginning with the letter 'A'. Shortly after, Akane and Aya stumble upon the scene as well, then all three are spotted by a man, who assumes they murdered Taguchi and alerts security. The girls then receive a call from Onee-san on Taguchi's cellphone; she instructs them to flee. Taguchi's murder is assigned to Inspector Miho Koigakubo, who declares the girls wanted criminals. Near Musashino Dome, Akane reveals her dream to sing in Musashino Dome in front of a crowd of fans. They then receive another call from Onee-san, who informs them that they were identified as murder suspects and their fanbase skyrocketed as a result. Seconds later, they are spotted by a fan and retreat to a basement parking lot, where they find a motorbike supplied by Onee-san that they use to flee. After stealing a policeman's revolver, the girls managed to evade police on a boat, although they wind up losing their makeup in the process, surprising them as they had never seen each other before without makeup.

[Source: Wikipedia]

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2024

"The feeling of wanting to cheer someone on... where does it come from?"

Six high school girls with diverse hobbies, skills, and personalities. Each carrying their own worries, they run, shout, collide, daydream... When the pure desire to support aligns, their cheers resonate in the hearts of those involved. The support of these six high school girls from Gunma might just change the world a little bit?

[Source: MyAnimeList News]

  1. Drama
  2. Performing Arts
  3. Slice of Life
  1. P.A. Works
  2. Studio 3Hz
Jan 13, 2020 at 10:00am EST

※ NOTE: First cour of "A3!"

"Director! Please help us bloom!"

In Tokyo, there is a place called Velude Way. It is a district notorious for its performers and theatrical groups. Izumi Tachibana, who was previously a stage actress, arrives with a letter that reads, "Full of debt! Zero customers! Only one actor!" It describes the current state of the once-popular theater group Mankai Company. Her task is to rebuild the company to its former glory as the new owner and chief director.

[Source: MyAnimeList News]

  1. Drama
  2. Performing Arts
  3. Slice of Life
  1. P.A. Works
  2. Studio 3Hz
Oct 12, 2020 at 11:00am EDT

※ NOTE: Second cour of A3!

Mankai Company is a far cry from its glory days as an all-male theater. With only one member left and debt collectors at the door, it’s no wonder Izumi Tachibana finds herself in over her head when she boldly confronts the Yakuza’s loan sharks, promising to bring her father’s theater back into the spotlight.

She might be able to recruit enough talent, but can they bloom into the actors she needs?

[Source: Funimation]

  1. Adventure
  2. Mystery
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  2. OLM
December 18, 2009 EST

Layton receives a letter from the famed opera singer, Jenis Quatlane, inviting them to see her newest performance. She also asks Layton, Luke and Remi for assistance in a mystery, saying her friend Melina died one year ago, but returned later as a seven year old girl saying she had found the secret of eternal life, and she also knew all the secrets that only the true Melina could know. Naturally, the case fascinates Layton and his apprentice, so they head to the Crown Petone opera house, but Remi stays in London, searching for some girls that went missing in there.

The opera was about a lost kingdom, The Kingdom of Immortals; once, there was a beautiful queen that loved music. She was beloved by everyone in the kingdom. But one day, the queen became very ill. The people of the kingdom toiled to find a cure, but medicine couldn’t help. The queen finally passed away, and right after, the cure was completed: A potion for immortality. The people of the kingdom deeply lamented for the death of their queen. In order to the meet reincarnated queen again, they decided to become immortal, using the just-completed immortality nostrum. Abrosia's Kingdom is still somewhere in this world, waiting for its queen to return, and then, she will sing forever.

After the spectacle finishes, a masked men appears, and proposes something to the audience: "Let's play a game"- he says- "The winner, will have eternal life. The losers, will have to die." It's up to Layton and Luke to enter in the game, and discover the secret of Eternal Life.

[Source: Wikipedia]

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