Anime starting in Spring 2001

When the spring that supplies water to her kingdom dries up, the Princess decides to go into the desert in search of a faraway oasis that is said to exist. The Princess and her animal friends face many challenges on their journey to save the draught-stricken kingdom.

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The story is that a mysterious woman fights with a baldheaded leader of an evil secret society. Sheena played the woman and Masato Minagawa, a keyboard player of her band, played the enemy's leader.

Her pet cat "Goethe" also appears in the music video as a cyborg cat. The heroine was named "Mayo Kiyozumi" (潔純真夜 Kiyozumi Mayo) according to the anagram of the song title.

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Ooguro Mikiko is a young, energetic woman who has just graduated from the Greater Tokyo Animation Academy into her first real job. The producer, calling her Kuromi for short, gives her a tour of the offices, which are empty because most people have either quit, work from home or have nutty hours. And while she is coming to terms with this he collapses from a medley of stress related illnesses. Which in the opinion of the studio president is sort of impressive, because he did not think the guy would hold together long enough to pass this doomed project onto his replacement. Clearly it is going to be a long day.

Comet-san is the young princess of the star kingdom Harmonica, but on the evening of an importent party the prince of another star kingdom vanishes - Comet-san follows him to earth to find and bring back the prince, which is not as easy as she thinks.

Note: This is an all animated remake of the old Comet-san series from the sixties (it was mainly live action but used some cel animation for special effects and some of the characters).

Suzuhara Misaki is a sixth grader who has just moved to Tokyo to live with her aunt. She stumbles across a merchandising phenomenon known as Angelic Layer in which a person can purchase a doll and custom design it. Once their doll is finished, they can link to it through new technology and have it move however they want, as long as its within the confines of a field known as a layer. In these fields there are battles to see who is the best at Angelic Layer that occur at tourist traps or at special tournaments; Misaki meets a strange man known only as Icchan who gets her involved in the games. The man for some reason believes that she has high potential to become one of the greatest players of all time...

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Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran focuses on a teenage girl named Kotobuki Ran. Her father, mother, brother, grandfather and grandmother are police officers. However, she doesn't want to be a policewoman... after all she just want is to have fun as a GAL. Hanging out in Shibuya with her friends, she always get in some kind of funny trouble.

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* Based on a manga by Akamatsu Ken, serialised in Weekly Shounen Magazine.

The Toudai entrance exams have finally come (again) for Keitarou. With all his confidence he takes the test, but ends up falling asleep and dreaming about Narusegawa. Waking up with barely any time to complete the test, Keitarou thinks he will fail and tries to escape from Hinata Inn and forget all the memories with it. By a stroke of luck he meets Seta, but ends up on a faraway island with the whole cast looking for him.

Sorcerer Louie, is one man who by looks is nothing like a sorcerer. He dreams of going on adventures, and one day bumps into a group of young female adventurers, Priestess Melissa, Thief Mirel and Paladin Jeani. Louie tries to become partners and join the girls on their adventures, but is swiftly denied. Louie, who never gives up, goes to Melissa's sanctuary, to try and persuade her. There, Melissa had a relevation from her god that Louie is the champion she is supposed to serve. With this, the girls had no choice but to reluctantly accept Louie as their fellow adventurer...

On her way to school, Himeno meets a little boy who asks her to take his hand. When she does, she faints and later wakes up staring up at a dark-haired bishounen!

The bishounen who helps revive her turns out to be Hayate, one of the Seven Knights of the Earth. They were looking for Shin Shirayuki Hime Densetsu Pretear — the legendary magical girl that can help them save the Earth from ruin and destruction. Hayate, the more temperamental of the seven, believes that Himeno is the girl they are looking for.

And Himeno has other things to contend with: life at home together with her father, Kaoru, could be wonderful, since they are very close. If not for Natsue, Kaoru's new wife, who is jealous of their relation. And also Natsue's two spoilt daughters, Mawata and Mayune, who certainly do not make Himeno's life any easier. However her father, is so enamoured with his new wife, and the life he is living, that he assumes Himeno is happy too...

Note: The title translates to "New Legend of Snow White Pretear".

In the 23rd century, genetic manipulation has replaced evolution and created a stable, non-warring, totalitarian society where women outnumber men by a ratio of nine to one, and genetic provenance is paramount. Five years ago a mysterious giant golden Ring, 500 kilometres in diameter, appeared in Earth's orbit.

Now IESA command sends a small reconnaissance mission, headed by Mir Lotus, to the Ring. The mission is infiltrated by terrorists, causing an explosion on the Ring's surface, almost killing Mir. As reaction the Ring fires a concentrated energy beam at the Earth, taking out the IESA command centre in California, destroying everything in a 250 km radius, and badly damaging the space station Maracanan.

An elite group consisting of Mika Seido, Sofia Galgalim, Tiki Musicanova, and Mario Musicanova barely escape the space station to board a newly constructed warship, the I.E.O. Bilkis, fitted with the prototype weapon known as, The Shaft. Only these four and Mir are qualified Driver candidates for Shaft. Under the command of Captain Hiroto Amagiwa, their mission is to investigate the origins of the Ring further and contain any threat to mankind.

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Set in the year 2100 where the world is tied together by a computer network. The children of the world become Web Divers, adapting their consciousnesses into data, and love to play together in the cyber park called Magical Gate. However, a mysterious computer virus appears beginning to destroy Magical Gate from the inside. In cyberspace, programs called Web Knights have been created to protect the children. But, the computer virus has turned all the Web Knights against the children. The only Web Knight to escape the "brainwashing" is Gladion. Gladion seeks the help of Kaito Yuki, a Web Diver who is in the fourth grade. When a Web Knight and a Web Diver synchronize they can have unlimited power. Will Kaito and Gladion's combined power be enough to save Magical Gate?

Set in the near future, Mireille is a young woman, a lone-wolf type who just happens to be one of the most talented assassins in the underworld. One day she receives an email with the name of her next target: Yuumura Kirika. The email has an attachment phrase, "Join me on a pilgrimage to the past." and a melody that was playing from a music box when Mireille's parents were killed by a mysterious assassin. Mireille and Kirika, a girl who has no memory of her past, eventually team up as assassins.

Source: AnimeNfo

With the ability to transcend time, Captain Fatz and comrades embarked on a journey of battle and adventure to gather the eight scattered stone pieces (namely Light, Darkness, Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Wood & Metal) which was granulated by the lord of destruction, in order to restore the chaotic world back to peace.

49-year-old James Lynx was an officer (LEV pilot) in the United Nations global arm. One day he received notification that his wife - a Martian scientist - was killed during a lab experiment.
Hateful and resenting him for letting her go, his children blamed him and cast him aside. Depressed and in despair, James quit the military and took up a job as a transporter between Earth and Mars. He had a slight hope his wife was still alive, so to find her he wanted to be out there. After a few years had mostly given up all hope and turned to drinking, until one day he receives an orbital frame by the name of Dolores, sent by his dead wife. With this, he began to hope he might find her and set off on a wild adventure to find the truth and reunite his family.

When in kindergarten a boy gets involved in an accident that is horrible damaging his arm. Somehow the doctors manage to save it. Now, several years later, his arm seems to become the focus of strange events, as it turns out that it's more than just a normal arm. Because of that a secret organization is out to get hold of him and the power he possesses.

Kageman is a boy who wants to become the best detective in the world. Each of the self-contained episode features a fun guessing game and unriddling of a case.

Hanaukyou Tarou, a high school student whose parents have died, is forced to move to Tokyo into his grandfather's residence. However he does not know that his grandfather is very rich and that he left the residence (with all the staff) to Tarou.

The staff is composed only of professional maids and there are many of them in the house! Unfortunately Tarou is allergic to women and changes colour whenever they touch him (and because they were used to their previous master's habits they touch Tarou a lot!). But there is one maid named Mariel whose touch has an opposite effect on Tarou.

The series is about five quintuplets, Kabuto, Hinoki, Arashi, Kinoko and Kodama Morino, who have all kinds of adventures together. Each has their own talent and personality.

Katri lives with her grandparents on a farm in Finland, waiting for her mother to return from years of work in Germany. When World War breaks out, she encounters many unfortunate events such as losing contact with her mother. However, Katri bears her hardship through hard work and a strong will, and she is always loved by everyone around her.

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Shinnosuke and his family go to the 20th century museum, a recreation of the 1970s World Expo in Osaka. His parents are exposed to nostalgia of their younger days, and are treated to the prospect of realizing their childhood fantasies once more. Unfortunately the curators of the museum have other plans of putting the future to an end, and living in the past century forever in their project Yesterday Once More. This plan causes all the adults to lose their memories of adulthood, and live in the 20th century forever! But what will happen to all the children if their parents refuse to grow up?

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In the distant future...
Vampires rule the night, but their numbers are dwindling. With huge bounties on their heads, a class of hunters has emerged, Bounty Hunters. One hunter is unlike all the others. He is a Dunpeal — a half human, half vampire. At war with himself, feared by all, tortured and alone, he is... Vampire Hunter D. — from intro

D, the infamous dunpeal outcast and renowned vampire hunter has fought for the grudging acceptance among humans through his prowess at hunting the creatures of the night. He is called upon to locate Charlotte Elbourne, the lovely daughter of an affluent family who apparently has been kidnapped by a powerful vampire named Meier Link.

Charlotte's father offers a large bounty for her return, be she dead or alive, a task D willingly accepts, even with the notorious Marcus brothers Borgoff, Kyle, Nolt & Grove and their compatriot Leila, seeking the prize as well.

As the sun sets, the hunt is on, but as the chase evolves it becomes more and more apparent that some sinister evil lurks in the shadows, secretly plotting and manipulating the hunters' every move. An insidious trap is set, and with the tables turned the hunters become the hunted!

The year is 2097 and in the city of Xenon, the ultimate cyber game, where players fight as bio-mechanical cyber robots, has been created. But something's wrong. Somehow, the game's cyber space and the real world are linked. The damages that occurs in the game's cyber space creates destruction in the city of Xenon. It all starts when the players hear a piercing scream, sees a ghostly face of a little girl and a powerful scent of lemon overcomes them.

To solve this mystery, the creator of the game assembles a Dream Team, the top three young gamers in all of Xenon. This team of rebellious, arrogant teens must overcome their attitudes and fears to find the answers, answers to the mystery that are much bigger than the game.

Note: BASToF derives from "Be A Stranger TO Fear!"

The anime talks about a little boy, Randy, whose dog, Chacha, died in an accident and was reincarnated into a living toy car. Each episode is told like the chapter of a storybook, where Randy learns a valuable thing in life with his cartoonish and goofy friend Chacha. Randy meets several friends in his neighbourhood, such as Catherine, the tall blonde girl in red long socks who rides a bicycle, or Mary, a little hot-tempered brunette girl dressed as a maid and who carries around a mop.

Source: ANN

A series of short films packaged with certain model kits and aired at conventions, the Gundam Evolve series chronicles a number of side-stories, alternative scenes, and even bonus omake from all around the Gundam canon. Featuring a mix of animation media—from traditional cels to 3-D CG rendering to even cel-shaded 2-D animation—these often 3-5 minute shorts cover such events as Domon Kasshu's training (and a bit of a romantic tift with Rain Mikamura) from G Gundam, Amuro Ray battling Quess Paraya from Char's Counterattack, Kamille Bidan training in the Gundam Mk.II from Zeta Gundam, and Canard Pars dueling Prayer Reverie from the Gundam SEED X Astray manga.

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Nerdy Yomiko Readman is obsessed with books. As Agent Paper, she works for a secret branch of the British Library, where her power to control paper via telekinesis helps her on missions to retrieve rare manuscripts and protect the world from evil. But all Yomiko really wants to do is read her new book. Unfortunately it has been stolen by the I-gin, clones of historical figures who believe Yomiko's book holds the key to unlocking Beethoven's lost Death Symphony. Anyone who hears the tune is compelled to commit suicide, and the I-gin intend to broadcast it all over the world. Only Yomiko, along with fellow superagents Drake and Miss Deep, have a chance of stopping them.

Agent DD is a member of an alien police force transporting six Magyua eggs. The Magyua are an intelligent but extremely violent life form used as biological weapons. While transporting the eggs, DD gets in an accident and heads towards the nearest life supporting planet — Earth. DD safely lands on Hokkaido, Japan, but during the landing the eggs awaken. DD manages to destroy one of the Magyua, but the other five escape to different areas of Hokkaido.

DD then fuses with the Liberus — a mobile bio-liquid metallic battle suit and sets out to recapture the other five Magyua. Somehow, the 10-year-old girl named Tsubasa comes into contact with DD's spare Liberus suit and now she too has the ability to fuse with the Liberus suit and gain super powers!

Seventeen-year-old Nakaido Hirosuke is just your average high school student. One morning as he arrives at the train station on his way to school, he catches sight of a beautiful girl, Ajimu Yasuna, and immediately falls for her. The two of them get to know each other and become friends, but he cannot confess his feelings and she is unsure of hers. As events and other people present obstacles for the potential couple to clear, their relationship begins to develop and their feelings become clear.

Source: ANN