Winter 1996 Anime

After a lengthy quest, Emperor Pilaf finally locates the Black Star Dragon Balls, rumored to be twice as powerful as Earth's regular Dragon Balls. As he is about to wish for world domination, Gokuu Son intervenes, causing Pilaf to fumble his incantation and accidentally transform Gokuu back into a child. Once the wish is granted, the Black Star Dragon Balls scatter across the galaxy. Gokuu discovers that unless they are recollected within a year, Earth will be destroyed. To avert this disaster, he joins forces with his granddaughter Pan and the young adult Trunks, setting off on an interstellar journey to retrieve the scattered balls and save their planet.

During the final days of the Bakumatsu era, there was a legendary assassin called Hitokiri Battousai. Known as a ruthless killer without equal in the land, he vanished without a trace at the height of the Japanese Revolution. A decade of peace has passed since then, but the mere mention of Battousai still sends chills through war veterans. Unknown to them, Battousai has forsaken his bloody past to atone for his sins, now living as Kenshin Himura—a cheerful, strong-willed wandering swordsman. Swearing never to take another life, Kenshin dedicates himself to protecting the weak. One day, he encounters Kaoru Kamiya at her kendo dojo, which is under threat from a fraud claiming to be Battousai. After Kenshin helps her, Kaoru invites him to stay at the dojo, and the former assassin pauses his travels for a time. Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan follows Kenshin as he strives to rescue those in need. Yet, as foes from both his past and present start to surface, can the reformed killer uphold his new principles?

Shinichi Kudou is a high school detective renowned for cracking numerous difficult cases. While tailing two shady men he spots one day, he accidentally stumbles upon a disturbing crime. Caught in the act, the men force him to ingest an experimental drug from their criminal syndicate, leaving him for dead. To his shock, Shinichi survives, but his body has shrunk to that of a seven-year-old child. Retaining his sharp mind, he conceals his true identity from everyone, including his childhood friend Ran Mouri and her father, private eye Kogorou Mouri. He adopts the alias Conan Edogawa, a name derived from mystery writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa. As Conan, Shinichi secretly solves Kogorou's cases from the shadows using his exceptional detective abilities, all while covertly investigating the organization that caused his transformation, hoping to one day reverse the drug's effects.

Adapted from Tetsuhiro Koshita's manga, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! spans two main seasons focused on the Go brothers and the TRF Victorys. Its third season, Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!! MAX, shifts toward two new main characters, though the central premise remains racing. Let's & Go!! follows Retsu and Go Seiba, young brothers who receive Mini 4WD racing cars from Dr. Tsuchia. The series then portrays the two boys training and modifying parts to ultimately compete in the Japan Cup, where racers from across the country battle to claim the title of the best.

Kitarou is a ghost who uses his afterlife to aid humans in need. He constantly opposes malevolent spirits that seek to torment people. Now, his friend Megumi requests his assistance: her botanist father traveled to Baruru Island to research its flora and was abducted by evil spirits. Kitarou must rescue him.

A huge space monster appears in a city and begins destroying everything. People flee in panic, including five high school students: En, Kai, Shin, Yoku, and Ryu. Unable to escape, they rush into a nearby parked patrol car. As the monster approaches and they resign themselves to death, the patrol car glows blue-white and vanishes with them into a mysterious space. Astonished, they find themselves facing an alien—a Bravian, an officer of the Space Police Organization responsible for universal peace and order. He explains that ferocious aliens from the Space Prison Sargasso are targeting him, and he has given them a battle machine called the "Dag Beagle," built using Earth's copying machines, to fight Sargasso. The five transform into Dagwon through the Bravian's power and battle space monsters. The patrol car appears before En; he merges with it, becoming the Brave Robot Dag Fire, and defeats the enemy. However, the struggle between the Brave Dagwon and the criminal aliens of Sargasso has only just begun.

John is a cheerful and energetic young boy living in a small coal-mining town in England. One day, he discovers a small dog lost among a flock of sheep. John takes the puppy home and names her Lassie. They quickly become close friends, like real siblings. Lassie is a very lovely and smart dog, and everyone in the town adores her. However, their happy life is short-lived. Suddenly, the coal-mine owner shuts down his company because no more coal remains in the mine. John goes to the owner to ask for further investigation. The owner agrees to John's request, but in return, he takes Lassie to Scotland. Priscilla, the owner's granddaughter and also John's friend, cannot bear to see Lassie suffer in a cage. She opens the cage and sets Lassie free. Lassie embarks on a long and arduous journey from Scotland back to her hometown.

The animals residing at Uenohara Zoo take great pride in their work: they behave like ordinary animals whenever people are watching, but when no humans are around, they lead surprisingly humanlike lives. The most notable among them is a penguin named Ginpei, who constantly finds himself causing trouble with the giraffes, lions, and pandas.