As Christmas is coming, I thought of checking out Video and Sound to see what they had in the Anime section, to see what we might be able to see at our Christmas meet. It was then that I had check out the DVD’s that have either 12 or 13 eps and I have come up quite a few.
Here is the list of the DVD’s that have 12 or 13 eps.
I will try to give a synopsis of each of the titles that I am given.
So on with the list:
Amaenaideyo!!: Satonaka Ikko is an apprentice Buddhist priest. He is sent to Saien Temple whose chief priest is his grand mother, Jotoku. What waiting for him there are severe training, purification jobs, and 6 nuns. The situation living with nuns of the same ages sounds enviable, but actually he is treated as an errand boy, and his purification skill cannot compare with theirs. However, when he has worldly desire, his power becomes stronger than anybody.
ARIA: A 15-year-old girl, Mizunashi Akari, came to the Mars. It is the year of A.D. 2301, the Mars has turned into a planet of water by the terraforming, and now it is called “Aqua”. She came to the lagoon city, Neo Venezia, to become a "undine", or a pilot of gondola.
Geneshaft: In the future of the earth, genetic manipulation and refinement has replaced evolution and a groups of mankind's best and finest females starts a mission to solve a riddle about the giant golden ring that has appeared in space next to earth. Another anime that mixes computer graphics with modern anime drawing styles.
Gin'yu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe Wieder:
Sorry no synopsis for this one.
Gravitation: Based on a shounen-ai (boys-love) manga by Maki Murakami, Gravitation TV revolves around high school student Shindou Shuichi, who is determined to become a professional singer. Under the band name BAD LUCK, Shuichi teams up with his best friend Nakano Hiroshi. However, in addition to the trials and tribulations he faces in his career, Shuichi falls in love with popular novelist Yuki Eiri, and finds that the road to stardom and love don't always go hand in hand...
Gunslinger Girl: Brainwashed girls who do not have any relatives or any place to go are being trained as professional assassins and given mechanical bodies by a so called non-profit welfare organization. They have lost their consciences and do not hesitate to kill at all. They spend their lives smoke stained, covered in gunpowder and blood.
It's a sad story about suffering girls who have lost their past but who still cling to life. After they are brainwashed, they can kill with an innocent face and without any hesitation. They don't think about their deeds nor feel any pity. However, behind their cute disguises, they are destroying themselves and refusing to grow up.
IZUMO - Takeki Ken no Senki: * Based on a game by Studio e go!
Yagi Takeru is a student who goes to Izumo Academy. He has no family but he spends his days with his friends like Yamato Takeshi who is his best friend as well as his rival in kendo, Shiratori Kotono and her sister, Asuka.
One day, an abrupt earthquake changed the school completely. The teachers and the students disappeared and the school was infested with monsters. Takeru managed to escape from the school, but he found all his friends and even his town were gone. Then suddenly people wearing odd uniforms appeared.
Kannazuki No Miko: There is a small town somewhere in Japan, which is surrounded by nature. In this town, there is a large and gorgeous school, Otobashi Gakuen, which was founded to familiarise the students with nature.
This story centers around Kurusugawa Himeko, a normal student who attends Otobashi Gakuen.
She leads a bright and enjoyable school life with her two friends, Himekawa Chikane and Ogami Soma. Chikane is a daughter of a distinguished family. She excels at both studying and sports is wise and beautiful. Furthermore, she has a friendly disposition and is very popular among the other students. Ogami Soma is Himeko’s childhood friend. He has problems expressing his emotions directly, but he is very sincere.
On Himeko's 16th birthday, her fate changes...
Miami Guns: Spoiled rich girl Yao decides to join the Miami police force to enjoy car chases, gunfights and wanton destruction. The psychotic and not-too-bright girl is partnered with Lu Amano, the soft-spoken and sharp-tongued daughter of the police chief. Together the dirty duo clean up the streets of Miami and take on a mysterious crime syndicate known only as 'The Organization'.
Moken:
Sorry no synopsis for this one.
Okusama Wa Maho Shojo: The story starts in an old castle town. It looks like other towns, but there is one thing different from others. People called “Magical Girls” are living there. They come from another world, “Realm”. For them, our world is just a temporary world, and they call our world “Wonderland”.
Some magical girls wish to make our world into what they want to be. Asaba Ureshiko is usually a bit absentminded. However, she is actually a magical girl named “Agnes Belle” came from Realm, and she is also an administrator of Wonder Land.
She married Asaba Tamotsu, who is a normal man in this world, keeping the secret that she is a magical girl. But, she hasn’t kissed him although they’ve been married because it is said that the magical girl loses her magical power by kissing a man. In addition, she has to save this world secretly.
Rajugo Tennyo Oyu:
Sorry no synopsis for this one.
Ray the Animation: A beautiful surgeon Ray was transplanted eyes that could see through objects by a genius surgeon named B.J. With her eyes and genius technique, she has succeeded in difficult operations.
However, she has a terrible past that she wants to forget but she can’t.
She was bred without being given a name in a “white room” by an “organization” with children with the same circumstances. She was deprived her eyes by a man wearing an H-shaped ring. She had been there until that fateful day when someone saved her.
Ten years have passed since then, solving difficult events and operations, she is looking for the man who robbed her eyes, friends in the “white room”, and herself.
Renkinsankyy:
Sorry no synopsis for this one.
Rescue Wings: Second Lieutenant, Uchida Kazuhiro, is a new helicopter pilot. However what he really wanted to be was a fighter pilot to fly at supersonic speed in stratosphere. But he faced a harsh reality. During the pilot training, he was transferred to the rescue helicopter course. Now, he is working for the Komatsu Rescue Squad whose mission is only rescue.
At first he is depressed because he is assigned to the position that he doesn’t wish. But, joining various missions, for example, rescue of airplane accidents, missing in mountains, earthquakes, and so forth, he gradually thinks it a challenging job.
Rozen Maiden: Sakurada Jun was in the second grade of junior high, but he dropped out of school because he had problems socializing with his classmates. After he quit school, Jun refused to go out, and spent all his time at home shopping on the internet for 'weird' or 'cursed' items. One day, a mysterious box appeared in the middle of his room. When he opened the box, he found a sophisticated doll, which looked so real that it appeared to be alive...
This is all the ones that I could fing at Video and Sound. They have the Anime in two section.
The section that I got the video list from looks like that they are the bootlegged version from Japan not North America, but still they look like bootleg copies.
I hope that they can be found on bittorent site or something similar.
So from this list what would you watch.
So Hallowe'en has come and gone, which is just as well at this stage of JAWS... But while that has been optional, we have always had an annual JAWS' Xmas bash (thought I don't recall costumes). 
I have finally found the proper title for Moken and it is Kidou Shinsengumi Moeyo Ken TV or Moeyo Ken after I had found the title in Newtype USA Dec 2006 (it is on page 23) and here is the synopsis to the show. 
Don't know what the Admin will think of this. Anyhow, we couldn't get the actual image on the Forum, like Karl could... 
Oh, I see. Well, I only looked at the *bottom* of the description - it "said" the stuff was the real deal - after stating in the middle that it actually wasn't. 
