Baby Steps

Blue Box

Taiki Inomata is a first-year high school student dedicated to badminton, training every morning in the school gym. His motivation is partly fueled by his crush on Chinatsu Kano, a second-year star player on the girls' basketball team who practices at the same time. Despite her seemingly distant demeanor, Taiki slowly finds ways to get closer to her. When Chinatsu's family has to move abroad for work, she decides to stay in Japan to pursue her dream of competing at the national level. She ends up living with Taiki's family, as his mother is a longtime friend of hers. Now sharing a home with the girl he admires, Taiki resolves to improve his own game and qualify for nationals, hoping to grow

Chihayafuru

Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her older sister's modeling career. When she meets a quiet classmate named Arata Wataya, he introduces her to the world of competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game based on the Ogura Hundred Poets anthology. Chihaya discovers she has a natural talent for the sport and becomes determined to become the best female player in Japan, known as the Queen of Karuta. After being separated from Arata and drifting apart from her childhood friend Taichi Mashima, Chihaya enters high school still passionate about karuta. She decides to form a karuta club at her school, hoping to reunite with her old friends and pursue her dream. With Taichi'

Redline

JP is a daredevil driver who lives for speed. With his ultra-customized car, he qualifies for Redline, the biggest and most dangerous racing tournament in the universe, held only once every five years. Among the elite rival drivers, he falls for the alluring Sonoshee McLaren, the only other human competitor. This year's Redline takes place on the militaristic planet Roboworld, where trigger-happy soldiers and organized crime syndicates seek to exploit the race for their own ends. With no rules and everything on the line, JP must push himself and his vehicle to the absolute limit to survive the chaos and claim first place.

Bubble

In a Tokyo where gravity has broken, a boy and a girl are drawn to each other. Five years ago, mysterious bubbles rained down upon the earth, causing a catastrophic event known as the Bubble Fall. Tokyo became a forbidden zone, enclosed in a gigantic bubble and submerged in a gravity-bending sea. Orphaned children now inhabit the abandoned city, engaging in dangerous parkour team battles across its dilapidated buildings. Hibiki, a talented ace known for his reckless style, hears a mysterious sound from Tokyo Tower and sets off to investigate. He falls into the gravity-defying waters and is saved by Uta, a girl with strange powers. Together, they hear a unique sound audible only to them. The

Welcome to the Ballroom

Tatara Fujita is a shy middle school student who has drifted through life aimlessly, avoiding confrontation and blending into the crowd. After being harassed by bullies, he is rescued by a mysterious man named Kaname Sengoku, who turns out to be a ballroom dance instructor. Reluctantly, Tatara follows him to a dance studio, where he is captivated by Sengoku's commanding presence on the floor. When Tatara is given the chance to dance with Shizuku Hanaoka, a talented teenage prodigy who practices at the studio, he discovers an unexpected passion for being in the spotlight. Despite his initial hesitation, he finds himself drawn back to the dance floor again and again. With a newfound drive to

Chihayafuru 2

Chihaya Ayase and her teammates in the Mizusawa Karuta Club are now in their second year of high school. They share the fun and worries of welcoming new underclassmen while pursuing their ambitious goals: winning the national team championship at the Omi Jingu and Chihaya becoming the Queen, the best female karuta player in Japan. As they train their minds and bodies, the team faces tough rival schools standing in their way to the championship title. Meanwhile, Chihaya's childhood friend Arata Wataya, the prodigy who introduced her to karuta, rediscovers his lost love for the old card game.