Fruits Basket Tohru Honda is a cheerful, sweet sophomore in highschool, doing her best to get by after her mother's death. She goes to school, works part-time, and sleeps in a tent in a forest ... until she is discovered by the Souma family, who own the land she's camping on. They quickly take her in as their housekeeper, in exchange for room and board, and Tohru soon becomes friends with Yuki, a classmate with idol-good looks, and Shigure, his older cousin and writer. Just when Tohru settles into a semi-normal life, another cousin, Kyo crashes onto the scene - literally. When he bumps into Tohru, he turns into ... a cat?! It's then revealed that the Souma clan is cursed to turn into members of the Chinese Zodiac, plus the cat who was left out of the story because he was tricked by the rat. And this is only the beginning of the mysteries Tohru has yet to reveal about the Souma clan ...
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Future Boy Conan The final space shuttle carrying some of the last few humans alive departed Earth, hoping to find a new place to live after the last world war left the planet devastated. However, their journey was cut short when a malfunction sent the spacecraft reeling back towards Earth to crash land on a tiny remote island in the middle of the oceans. Now twenty years later, mankind is starting anew, scattered across the world in isolated patches. The country of Industria looks for a way to create solar energy and kidnaps the granddaughter of the only man who can help them. Lana escapes and somehow finds her way to the remote island that the remaining astronauts had inhabited. There she meets the extraordinary Conan, a boy who’s only known one other human - his grandfather, and who’s grown up fighting sharks and living in the remnants of a space craft. When some of Industria’s soldiers track her down and retake her, killing Conan’s grandfather by accident in the process, Conan only has one option left - to go to Industria to help Lana.
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