While I’ve always fancied myself as someone who’s well versed with anime releases, a trip to my local bookstore(of all places) proved how wrong I was. Lying there in the pile of anime DVDs were titles that looked familiar but were either sequels and spinoffs that I’ve never even heard of nor were they listed in places like ANN. Below are some of the titles that were on sale and short sypnosises on what they might have been about.

Wolf’s Rain: Spice and Wolf

Horo is called forth by her brethren 300 years into the future from her eternal slumber to guide them to Paradise, a safe haven accessible only to their kind. Many obstacles stand in their way, including environmental hazards from a nuclear devastated planet, as most of the world has already been turned into a sandy wasteland. Horo and the remaining survivors also face threats from hostile humans who deem them as abominations of the earth. Horo must once again rely on her wits and great powers as The One Wolf God, which can only be achieved by harnessing the power of the Spice; which extends life and heighthens consciousness, imperative to their survival.

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Vivio’s Vendetta

Five years following the Saint’s Cradle incident, everyone at the Time-Space Administration Bureau are killed in one fell swoop by their greatest nemesis yet, an A.I by the name of Gotterdammerung . In order to save her adoptive mother’s life and safeguard the universe, Vivio must travel 15 years into the past via the Yggdrasill, an ancient Lost Lagia artifact that allows the user to manipulate the space-time continuum. Unleashing Raising Heart’s ultimate technique, the 「Nibelung Valesti」 after having inherited it from Nanoha herself, Vivio has to recruit the souls of dead mages otherwise known as Einherjars to aid her noble quest to vanquish Gotterdammerung and prevent Ragnarok; the day the the world ends.

Shigofumi: Ballad of the Death God

Much like her mentor Fumika, mail carrier Momo is assigned the task of delivering letters from the deceased to their recipients. However, Momo goes beyond the line of duty and punishes those who have caused the deaths of her patrons,  Armed with Fumika’s Silverballer, which is rumored to be have been able to slay even the Gods, Momo appoints herself judge, jury and executioner, delivering justice for those which conventional law has let down.

Koi Kaze: Kamichu

Yurie Hitotsubashi is now in her final year at middle school, still fulfilling her role as a Goddess; all while juggling life as a teenager. Yurie one day finds herself attracted to Yuu, a university student from Tokyo who returned home after graduation, only to find out that he is her step brother from their father’s first marriage. Regardless of their blood ties, the two soon find themselves falling for one another. Bound by love and lust, their forbidden relationship is put to the ultimate test, when it turns out that Yuu is a Demon Prince of the Underworld, as the lovers were destined to become mortal enemies.

Pantasia

Azuma Kazuma is finally crowned best bread maker in all of Japan and now runs his very own chain of bakeries. One day in a freak accident, Kazuma tripped and fell into one of his baking ovens. When he regains consciouness, he wounds up finding himself in ancient China, together with friends and old foes alike who mysteriously made their way there as well. Kazuma must once again pit his skills and call upon his Solar Hands to face new challenges and obstacles in becoming the best baker there is, effectively altering the course of culinary history forever.

Sakura Wars: The Shugo Guardians

Together with Yaya and Rima, Amu finds herself being a member of a famous Ginza based performance troupe when she unwittingly transformed into Amulet Diamond and started singing her heart out. Not everything was what it seemed, as the troupe was a front for the Imperial Counter-X Eggs Squad, and Amu was recruited not only for her inherent talents as a performer, but also for her experience and expertise in combating X Eggs. It turns out the Easter Company has developed a new technology to extract these X Eggs from their respective hosts and mutate them into taking permanent humanoid forms with greater offensive capabilities in a bid to rule the world. To combat this new threat, the I.C.E.S have developed a similar technology to enable Amu’s Shugo Guardians to take their human forms, which are basically clones of Amu, each representing her would be self. This new evil is led by by Shin, himself a Guardian, able to transform into the much feared Amulet Corncob.

Others:

A chibi spinoff of my favorite magical girl show which I’ll pay good money for. Honest.

Blood + Rosario + Vampire

Or the sequel to an anime that never existed.

And my personal favorite; if you can’t read what the title says, that’s okay, because:

It’s printed upside down. Well there you have it, sequels to your favorite anime that miraculously have been produced without anyone noticing now available on DVD starting from a low low price of RM 14.90 onwards. Well, jokes and bullshit aside, you’ll notice that I’ve used the infamous cover bald dude from SZS to conceal the price tags, not because I’m afraid of backlash from the store I took these pictures at, but simply because I’m kind enough not to screw them over for selling these open source copies in the first place :wink: . They’ve even blantantly stuck the Certified Original Copy sticker all over, but that’s another story which I’ll not delve into, though that should give you a rough idea on how things work here in Malaysia when it comes to acquiring anime, as our options are either shelling out lots of dough for originals, or pay around 5 US Dollars for the whole thing. Perhaps I’ll write about in through some special investigative report in the future. :lol:

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