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Pocket Monsters SPECIAL

Also known as Pokémon Adventures.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

Red is just a normal kid living in the rural Pallet Town, when he decides to go out on his own adventure, along with his rival since childhood, Green. In this world of Pokemon, he makes many friends, humans and Pokemon alike. However, all is not well. Team Rocket is trying to capture Mew, a very rare Pokemon, and is performing experiments on other Pokemon, trying to increase their power. Red and his friends must battle against Team Rocket to stop their cruel experiments and unlock the secrets of Pokemon.


Tags: Travel , Animals , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Proxy Battle , Urban Fantasy , Creature Taming , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , Tomboy , Criminal Organization , Video Games , Kids , Detective , Tragedy , Slapstick , Super Power , Ojou-sama , Gangs , Cult , Coastal , Time Skip , Estranged Family , Time Manipulation , School , Acting , Shapeshifting , Environmental

Dragon Drive

Also known as Dragon Drive.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Reiji Oozora is a total loser! Not good at anything especially schoolwork! One day his friend Maiko Yukino offers to share her class notes with him to help him out on the condition that he takes her wherever she wants to go. She takes him to a secret place where a virtual reality game called Dragon Drive is played. Reiji signs up, gets his own dragon, which ends up being the smallest and weakest in the game! Because of its tiny size Reiji names the dragon Chibi.

Right after joining the game Reiji and Maiko are sent to battle a classmate who has as crush on Maiko named Daisuke. Reiji runs from the battle and just when it seems like he can't win his dragon does something impossible! It suddenly powers up and defeats the much larger dragon. Reiji wins and is suddenly addicted to this new exciting game.

A staff member of the Dragon Drive virtual reality game named Agent L realizes that there is something incredible about Chibi's performance and invites Reiji and Maiko to a special training room. There she reveals the real purpose of the game is for players to bring out their dragons' true potential. Just then a strange girl riding a dragon appears and takes them to a fantastic magical world. It turns out it this world is in peril of being taken over by an evil group called RI-ON and the only thing that can possibly stop them in none other than Reiji's little dragon! Thus the adventure begins!



Tags: Shounen , Male Protagonist , Isekai , Dragons

Dengeki Pikachu

Also known as Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy

10-year-old Satoshi, after finding a Pikachu messing with the wiring in his house, is on a journey to become the greatest Pokémon Master and to beat out his rival, Shigeru. Along the way, he meets with many other Pokémon trainers and advisors, including water-based trainer (and gym leader) Kasumi, ground- and rock-based trainer (and gym leader) Takeshi, and others.

Tags: Animals , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Episodic

Keitai Denjuu Telefang

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

The baseball-loving kid Shigeki finds a phone up in a tree, which briefly transports him into the world of the Denjuu. The Denjuu world is a world that is supposed to be off-limits to grade-schoolers. Bewildered, Shigeki tells his classmates about what happened but only his friend Matsukiyo believes him. They decide to test out whether the phone would really take them to the Denjuu world. After they're both transported there they meet with Crypto, the Elder and many other Denjuu, and their adventure begins.

Tags: Kids , Shounen

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!

Also known as Yu-Gi-Oh!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Mystery

10th grader Yugi spent most of his time alone playing games--until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, a mysterious Egyptian artifact! Possessed by the puzzle, Yugi becomes Yu-Gi-Oh, the King of Games, and challenges evil-doers to the Shadow Games--weird games with high stakes and high risks! These graphic novels contain new stories not seen in the anime, including the origin of Yugi and his friends!



Notes:
The Viz Media release split the series into three parts with separate chapter/volume counts. "Yu-Gi-Oh!" includes volumes 1-7, "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist" includes volumes 8-31, and "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Millennium World" includes volumes 32-38.
The final chapter of Viz Media's "Yu-Gi-Oh!" was moved from its final volume to the first volume of "Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duelist."

Tags: Dissociative Identities , Card Battle , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Mythology , School , Gambling , Death Game , Urban Fantasy , Primarily Child Cast , Bullying , Dragons , Primarily Teen Cast , Reincarnation , Gods , Magic , Amnesia , School Club , Adoption , Desert , Torture , Gore

Kodai Ouja Kyouryuu King

Also known as Dinosaur King.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Max is obsessed with dinosaurs. He knows his Tapejara from his Pteranodon and can find fossils better than a trained paleontologist. When he discovers a stone tablet that transports him to the age of dinosaurs, it's a dream come true--until it becomes a nightmare. An evil genius named Dr. Z has enslaved the dinosaurs so he can use their hidden powers to take over the world! Now Max has to defeat Dr. Z and his Alpha Gang to save the ancient beasts and life as we know it.



Tags: Shounen , Kids , Super Power , Time Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Dinosaurs

Dennou Coil

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

Eleven years after the introduction of internet-connected, augmented reality eyeglasses and visors, Yūko Okonogi moves with her family to Daikoku City, the technological center of the emerging half-virtual world. Yūko joins her grandmother's "investigation agency" comprised of children equipped with virtual tools and powerful metatags. She quickly crosses paths with Yūko Amasawa, an expert hacker of the virtual environment, as Amasawa relentlessly seeks to "unlock" the mystery of a computer virus that emerges from an inaccessible corrupted space.



Tags: Primarily Child Cast , Augmented Reality , Shoujo

Anime Pocket Monsters: Liko to Roy no Bouken

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Fantasy

Pocket Monsters, or "Pokémon" for short. They are these strange and mysterious creatures on this planet. In the skies, in the sea, in towns and in the forests...you can find them living just about anywhere. This is the story of Liko, a girl led by fate, and Roy, a boy chasing his dreams. The curtain is about to rise on this great adventure that will take them all over this big wide world together with Pokémon!

Tags: Kids , Animals , Female Protagonist , Proxy Battle