➤ A coming-of-age drama story, it follows the life of a child named Onodera Punpun, from his elementary school years to his early 20s, as he copes with his dysfunctional family, love life, friends, life goals, and hyperactive mind, while occasionally focusing on the lives and struggles of his schoolmates and family.
➤ The efforts of teenage biker gang leader Kaneda, militant revolutionary Kei, a trio of espers, and Neo-Tokyo military leader Colonel Shikishima, who attempt to prevent Tetsuo, Kaneda's mentally imbalanced childhood friend, from using his unstable and powerful telekinetic abilities to ravage the city and awaken a mysterious individual with similar psychic abilities named "Akira," who was responsible for the destruction of Tokyo several years ago.
➤ The citizens of Kurouzu-Cho, a fictional city that is plagued by a supernatural curse involving spirals.
➤ A teenager named Kei Kurono, among others dies but finds themselves brought back in perfectly healthy bodies and forced to participate in a "game" where they hunt down and kill aliens.
➤ A world ravaged by Devils, otherwordly monsters who feed on human fear. Denji works to clear his father's massive debt to the yakuza. Aiding him on this journey is Pochita, a Devil in disguise as a dog. The plan to pay off the debt is actually a set-up and Denji is killed. Due to a previous deal, however, Pochita merges with Denji, reviving him and giving him his chainsaw ability. Denji joins a government bureau of Devil Hunters, where he must hunt down and kill other Devils.
➤ After all of his classmates were brutally murdered by “the Red Man” and he was framed for the crime, Ganta was sent to a specialized prison, where inmates become entertainment and fodder for the prison’s theme park and its attendees. During his sentence, he's reunited with Shiro, a girl from his childhood, and develops a set of powers similar to those of the murderer that took his friends.
➤ Two teenagers, Utsutsu and his little sister Yume, after seeing red butterflies, become infected with a virus known as Pupa. This virus mutates organisms into insatiable monsters, only seeking to feed on any sort of life.
➤ Plagued by visions of a psychopath after a slaughter in a busy street in downtown Ikebukuro, Madoka must question her own sanity as to whether what she is seeing is actually happening.
➤ It's a day like any other, and high school students Ie and Kazu are on the bus home from school when, suddenly, it floods with a mysterious gas. The pair pass out and wake up to find themselves aboard a truck packed full of human bodies.
➤ At the end of the Meiji Restoration, a girl saint was crucified and burnt alive under persecution. A century later, Katori and six childhood friends are summoned to her world beyond the nirvana, where they receive the Great Commission: Build a kingdom, and make disciples of all nations.
Oyasumi Punpun