Nana

Nana is written by Ai Yazawa and is currently running in the magazine Cookie. Since its debut in 2000, the mangaka provided its readers wtih 18 volumes. A live movie adaptation was made in 2005 futuring the first couple volumes. The sequal came out in 2006 and had its international release on December 15 in New York City. Due to the manga's world wide success Madhouse Studios adapted it into an anime. In April 5, 2006 the first episode of Nana aired on Nihon TV with 47 episodes; and a second season in mind.

Story:

The main story focuses on two characters with the same name, Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu(Hachi). Nana Osaki is a punk singer who aspire to make a debut with her band Black Stones, while Hachi dreamt of a perfect life with her boyfriend. Both Nanas were on board a train heading for Tokyo when faith had Hachi fall unto the seat of Nana O. For that long trip, both discovered that they had similar names and age. After getting of f the train the two Nanas went their seperate ways only to meet again in room 707. They began living as roommates and formed an unbreakable bond with each other. Together they struggle through relationships and life. With Nana's band steadily rising to stardom, her friendship with Hachi becomes strained... and so goes the story

The manga features two bands: Black Stones(Blast) and Trapnest

Black Stones:

Shin Okazaki--Bassist

Nana Osaki--Singer

Yasu Takagi--Drummer

Nobuo Terashima--Guitarist

Trapnest:

Naoki Fujita--drummer

Ren Honjo--Bassist

Reira Serizawa--Singer

Takumi Ichinose--Guitarist

Anime:

The anime is largely based on the manga and airs on MTV Italy and MCM in France. Its opening and ending songs are sang by Anna Tsuchiya(Nana O.) and Olivia Lufkin(Reira). The anime currently has two soundtracks out: Nana 707 soundtrack and 7 to 8 soundtrack which features songs heard in the background.

Hayate no Gotoku

Introduction.........
Hayate the Combat Butler (ハヤテのごと!, Hayate no Gotoku! is a Japanese manga series, written by manga author Kenjiro Hata, about a boy who starts a new job as a butler and the events he experiences with his employer. The manga is currently on its twelfth volume in Japan. The English edition of the series has been licensed by Viz Media for distribution in North America. The style of the manga has a comedic gag with a slight harem feel which constantly breaks the fourth wall. The series includes references to other anime, manga, video games, and popular culture. An anime adaptation of the manga started airing on April 1, 2007 on TV Tokyo.

Plots and Storyline

Hayate Ayasaki is renowned as the industry's fastest delivery boy, until his employer fires him after learning that he is underage on Christmas Eve. To his dismay, he learns that his irresponsible parents, whom he supported since the age of eight, received his monthly payment of 170,000 yen. Returning home, he finds that they lost all but twelve yen gambling away his salary and garnered a 156,804,000 yen debt to a yakuza, who they attempt to pay off by selling Hayate's organs as a Christmas gift.

Escaping from the yakuza, Hayate decides to kidnap a young girl named Nagi Sanzen'in for ransom money, but fails miserably by giving away his own name. In addition to that, his intended hostage mistakes his request for her to come with him to be a confession of love. Just as Hayate lies down and waits to freeze to death, a bike runs over him and he meets Maria, who is looking for Nagi. Hayate is smitten with her at first glance, though initially, he lies to Maria by saying that he didn't know anything about Nagi. Hayate's spirits lift when Maria gives Hayate her scarf, and shocked by her kindness, he goes on to save Nagi when she is kidnapped by a pair of brothers who owed money to the same yakuza. After saving Nagi, she says that she is in Hayate's debt, and Hayate asks her to repay the debt by finding him a new job before collapsing from his injuries. This leads him to becoming Nagi's new butler, who must protect Nagi from all sorts of trouble while performing normal duties alongside Maria, who is Nagi's maid
Ouch!

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Introduction.............

Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei (さよなら 絶望先生, Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei lit. Goodbye, Despair Teacher) is a Japanese manga by Kōji Kumeta, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It is a comedy about a teacher who takes all aspects of life, language and culture in the most negative light possible. In 2007, the manga received the thirty-first Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category, and was adapted into an anime.

Story and Plot

Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei revolves around a very pessimistic high school teacher named Nozomu Itoshiki who tries to hang himself on a cherry blossom tree. Despite his best efforts, he is saved by a very optimistic girl known as Kafuka Fūra (whose real name is unknown). She explains to him that it is simply unforgivable to hang himself on such a nice day, especially in front of such beautiful trees. She decides to nickname Nozomu "Pink Supervisor" (桃色係長, Momoiro Kakarichō), offering to pay him fifty yen to do so. After having enough of the strange girl, Nozomu bolts to the school and starts his homeroom class, but the attempt to escape was in vain as he finds that the girl is one of his students.

Not only does he have this students to manage but also their problems. Each one of his students have a particular special problem. A special note: most characters' names derive from similarly pronounced Japanese terms which their traits refer to. He even complained this to a fellow teacher after experiencing them.

Air Gear

Intro...............

Air Gear (エア・ギア, Ea Gia) is a shōnen manga and anime by the mangaka Oh! great.

Air Gear is about the lives of Itsuki "Ikki" Minami and his friends along with the latest trend, Air Trecks. The early parts of the story carry out the introduction of characters that eventually join Ikki, and as the story progresses, it focuses on their roles as Storm Riders and their quest to be on the top of the Trophaeum Tower. It won the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Story and Plots.................

Itsuki "Ikki" Minami, is a student and a delinquent. Also known as the "Unbeatable Babyface", Ikki is the leader of the youth gang by the name of "East Side Gunz". Upon his return home after being humiliated by a street gang of Storm Riders called the Skull Saders, Ikki discovers a secret hidden from him by his benefactors, the Noyamano sisters. The sisters belong to a group of Storm Riders who go by the team name of Sleeping Forest. In the anime, learning the sisters' secret angers him and he steals a pair of Air Trecks, abbreviated as "AT". (In the manga, the sisters give a pair of ATs to him and invite him to skate with them.) Ikki eventually settles his grudge with the Skull Saders, but in the process he receives more than the simple satisfaction of revenge. Determined to experience the sensation of "flight" for as long as he can, Ikki is quickly sucked into the mysterious, irresistible world of Air Trecks.

After the winning against the Skull Saders , Ikki and his gang discover more about Air Treck especially making teams to battle it out in the Parts War where Storm Riders fight.Their team made a major impact on the Air Treck And this was Kogarasumaru (小烏丸) It was formed by Minami Itsuki and his friends to further their favourite hobby of Air Treck. Their team ranking in the world of AT increased at a very rapid pace, giving Kogarasumaru worldwide fame. Eventually, the elite team known as Genesis is placed under the command of Kogarasumaru. The origin of the name of this team is a famous Japanese sword. Currently, Kogarasumaru has three Kings. They are currently ranked B-Class.

The Three Big Part III : One Piece

"As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of pirate wannabes, is setting off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world..."

The One Piece manga, written, drawn, and created by Eiichiro Oda, is originally published by Shueisha in Japanese for sale in Japan. In the west, the English adaptation is published and distributed for sale in North America and Australia by VIZ Media in both the form of the American Shonen Jump magazine and graphic novels. The first artbook, Color Walk 1 has also been released in English. The second book has yet to be released in North America.

The manga began its serial run in issue #34 of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on August 4, 1997, while the anime adaptation produced by Toei Animation premiered on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999.

Eiichiro Oda originally planned One Piece to last five years, and he had already planned out the ending, but he found himself enjoying the story too much to end it in that amount of time, and now has no idea how long it will take to reach that point. Nevertheless, the author states (as of July 2007) that the ending is still the one he had decided on from the beginning, and he is committed to seeing it through to the end, no matter how many years it takes.

One Piece is the third highest selling manga in the history of Weekly Shonen Jump, (being beaten by Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Ko-en-mae Hashutsujo (Kochi Kame) and Dragon Ball) and is currently their most acclaimed and all-time third-best-selling title in Japan. The manga is so well-liked that it is the first to increase the sales of Weekly Shonen Jump in eleven years. Volume 25 of One Piece holds a manga sales record in Japan, with 2,630,000 units sold in its first printing alone; as of Volume 46, the series has sold over 140,000,000 copies domestically, and is the fastest manga to reach sales of 100,000,000.