Golden Thread

Rent-A-Girlfriend

Kazuya Kinoshita is a college student reeling from a painful breakup. Desperate to fill the emotional void, he turns to a rental girlfriend app and books a date with Chizuru Mizuhara, a beautiful and seemingly perfect girl with a kind, caring demeanor. After their first date, Kazuya feels that Chizuru's sweetness is just an act and leaves her a negative review. This provokes her true personality: sassy, sharp-tongued, and far from the gentle image she presents to clients. Their conflict is interrupted when Kazuya learns his grandmother has collapsed, and he rushes to the hospital with Chizuru in tow. His grandmother is overjoyed, believing Chizuru is his real girlfriend. Unable to tell her

More Than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers.

Jirou Yakuin is a third-year high school student who has no luck in love. His school launches a couples training program: students are paired up and must live together as a married couple, with their performance affecting their grades. Jirou is paired with Akari Watanabe, a popular gyaru who is the complete opposite of him. Both are unhappy with the arrangement because they have feelings for other people. Jirou likes his childhood friend Shiori, while Akari has a crush on another boy. They agree to cooperate only to earn enough points to switch partners and be with the people they truly like. Living under the same roof, however, forces them to act affectionate in public and share private m

Scum's Wish

Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya look like the perfect high school couple. They are attractive, popular, and seem devoted to each other, which makes them the envy of their classmates. But their relationship is a facade built on a shared secret: both are in love with other people. Hanabi has feelings for Narumi Kanai, her childhood friend and new homeroom teacher. Mugi is in love with Akane Minagawa, a young teacher who used to be his tutor. When the two objects of their affection begin to show interest in each other, Hanabi and Mugi find comfort in one another. They agree to use each other as substitutes, sharing a physical intimacy born from loneliness and unrequited desire. As they naviga

Btooom!

Ryouta Sakamoto is a 22-year-old unemployed young man who still lives with his mother. In the real world, he is a nobody, but online he is one of the top players of the combat game Btooom!, a title he has mastered to perfection. His uneventful life is blown to pieces when he wakes up on a tropical island with no memory of how he got there. He soon discovers that he has been trapped in a real-life version of his favorite game, where the bombs are no longer virtual and the only way out is to kill seven other players. Forced to fight for his life in a hellish free-for-all, Ryouta must use all his skills to survive long enough to figure out who is behind this deadly game and why he was chosen.

DARLING in the FRANXX

In a devastated post-apocalyptic future, Earth is a ruinous wasteland. Humanity’s only remaining strongholds are mobile fortress cities called Plantations, defended by giant robots known as Franxx. These machines are the only weapons effective against the klaxosaurs, massive beasts that have pushed mankind to the edge of extinction. Within the Plantations, children are raised for the sole purpose of piloting the Franxx in boy-girl pairs, knowing nothing of the outside world. Hiro, a former child prodigy, fails out of the piloting program after falling out of sync with his co-pilot. His existence seems unnecessary, as not piloting a Franxx is the same as ceasing to exist. Skipping his group'

Air Gear

Minami "Ikki" Itsuki is the toughest kid at Higashi Junior High School and the leader of the East Side Gunz. Known as the "Unbeatable Babyface," he lives with the mysterious Noyamano sisters, who secretly belong to a Storm Rider team called Sleeping Forest. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Skull Saders, a rival street gang, Ikki discovers the sisters' hidden world of Air Treks—motorized inline skates that allow their riders to perform incredible, gravity-defying feats. Determined to regain his pride and experience the sensation of flight, he throws himself into the dangerous and thrilling world of Air Trek.