David Wald
HotaruTachibana,afemalehighschoolstudent,isoftenmistakenforaboy.ShefindsherselfpretendingtobeaboywhileplayingSurvivalGameswithMasamuneMatsuoka,whoisahost,andTohruYukimura,whoisanero-mangaartist.Duetocertainevents,shecannotrevealthatshesagirl.Thestoryprogressesasshelearnstolovethesportwhilebattlingwithherfearsofherclosestfriendsfindingoutsheslyingabouthergender.ThisstorybeginsverysimilarlytoOuranHighSchoolHostClub,butafterthesecondorthirdepisodeitstrays,becomingitsownuniquestory.
The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.
A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence safely back to Earth. Carl Jenkins, now ministry of Paranormal Warfare, takes the starship on a clandestine mission before its rendezvous with the Alesia and goes missing in the nebula. Now, the battle-hardened troopers are charged with a rescue mission that may lead to a much more sinister consequence than they ever could have imagined….
Second film of the Mardock Scramble series. Balot and a severely injured Oeufcoque seem to be at the mercy of an obsessed Boiled. Dr. Easter comes to the rescue and the group escapes to “Paradise” where many secrets of Mardock lie and where Balot will need to come to a decision herself about what she will and can do.
Rune Ballot is a down-and-out teen prostitute in Mardock City. One day, she’s picked up by an ambitious casino manager named Shell who gives her everything she could want. Renewed by a false innocence, a false past, and now the false life Shell has given her, Ballot feels grateful. However, she can’t help but be curious about why he’s done so much for her, so she does some research about his past on a computer. This turns out to be a mistake which will change her life greatly. When Shell finds out what she’s done, he attempts to burn her to death by blowing up her car.
