Anime release for Summer 2007

[ai-chan]

Sola
Genres: Drama, Romance, Supernatural

Yorito's passion is the sky. Clouds, sunsets and sunrises, blue, red, orange; he loves it all, and his photography reflects it. As with any good male lead in a harem series, his life is chock full of women: his best friend Mana, her little sister Koyori, his older sister Aono and a mysterious girl named Matsuri whom he meets at a drink-vending machine in the wee hours of the morning. Both Koyori and Aono live in hospital rooms, of which Aono keeps hers shut off from the outside world. Matsuri and Yorito meet again during a rainstorm and discuss the sky, the description of which has a curiously strong effect on Matsuri. In the meantime, an unnamed man searches for someone in some very unlikely places, eventually finding his charge—a young girl in Gothic Lolita attire—in a cardboard box under a bridge. Yorito makes a connection between a picture that Matsuri showed him and the town's church, and pays a midnight visit only to discover her in heated combat with the mysterious stranger. His weapons? Bright lights and a sword.

[ai-chan]

El Cazador de la Bruja
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Shounen

In a Southwestern setting, Ellis is a slight girl with uncanny abilities who was apparently once affiliated with an organization called Project Leviathan, but has gone into hiding. Wanted for murder, a bounty has been placed on her head hefty enough to draw hordes of bounty hunters after her. One such hunter, a cute/sexy caped young woman named Nadi, ends up befriending her while fighting off other potential bounty hunters, and makes a promise to look after Ellis instead. Though her memory is fractured, Ellis knows that she needs to go south in search of Wiñay Marka (i.e. “Eternal Place”) with a strange glowing stone as her guide, and Nadi opts to accompany her.

[ai-chan]

Kamichama Karin
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Magical Girl, Romance, Shoujo

Karin's life is terrible right now: she's living with a demanding aunt, her grades at school are tumbling, and her pet cat just died. Worse yet, some rude boy made fun of her while she was setting up her cat's grave! One day, Karin befriends a cute girl named Himeka, who introduces her to a guy named Kazune—and he just happens to be the rude boy from before. Right as Karin is about to punch him, the ring on her finger—a memento from her deceased mother—starts to glow with a strange light. The next day Karin is doing perfect at school, and even the weather changes according to her will . . . could Karin have gained the powers of a god? Himeka and Kazune might have the answers, but they've already left town!

[ai-chan]

Kishin Taisen Gigantic Formula
Genres: Drama, Mecha, Military, Science Fiction

Suwa SHINGO, a boy from the countryside who is expecting to go to Tokyo and compete in a “game” called Gigantic Formula, meets a girl in a graveyard who urges him to “fight and win. ” Without so much as ruffling a feather, he agrees, and sets out to Tokyo. The year is 2035. The world has been devastated by a phenomenon called “Equatorial Winter” and the UN has declared the start of the “Wisest World War,” a supposedly honorable form of battle in which each country builds a giant robot—called a Gigantic—for the purpose of one-on-one duels with other countries. SHINGO, who the graveyard girl—actually a member of the research team that built Japan's Gigantic, Susanoo—refers to as “the chosen one,” easily wins the tournament he came to enter. Apparently unaware of the tournament's true purpose—to choose a pilot for Susanoo—SHINGO learns first-hand that the Gigantic Formula isn't nearly so honorable as the UN would like everyone to believe when the Chinese send their own Gigantic—and a team of assassins—to eliminate him before he can even board the eerily sentient Susanoo.

[ai-chan]

Lucky Star
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life

A slice of life comedy which portrays the lives of several school girls attending a Japanese high school with a very loose humor tone. The main heroine is Konata Izumi, an athletic and intelligent girl who, despite these attributes, is not in a sports club, and her grades remain low. Her laziness at school is due to her love for anime and video games, and is not interested in much else. The serialization began with the four main characters in their first year of high school: Konata Izumi, Kagami Hiiragi, Tsukasa Hiiragi, and Miyuki Takara. As the story progresses, they move onto their second and third year.

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Paprika
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. Through a device called the "DC Mini" it is able to act as a "dream detective" to enter into people's dreams and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen, sending the research facility into an uproar. In the wrong hands, the potential misuse of the device could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate a dreamer's personality while they are asleep. Renowned scientist, Dr. Atsuko Chiba, enters the dream world under her exotic alter-ego, code name "PAPRIKA," in an attempt to discover who is behind the plot to undermine the new invention.

[ai-chan]

Ghost Hunt
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural

Telling ghost stories is a favorite past time of Mai Taniyama and her friends--that is, until she meets 17 year-old Kazuya Shibuya, the man sent by Shibuya Psychic Research Center to investigate paranormal activity at a supposedly haunted school. When Mai gets caught in a dangerous situation, she is rescued by Kazuya's assistant. Saving her lands the assistant incapacitated, and Kazuya demands that Mai become his assistant, instead...