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Her father passed away very early and her mother lives and works in a crowded Chinese restaurant. Kitajima Maya, a 13-year old girl, has to carry the burden of making ends meet as she fights against her ill fate. However, she is able to overcome the trials and tribulations in…
Life so far for Kitajima Maya has been rough. One day she gets a small part in a school play and now her life has suddenly turned around.
Tsukikage makes arrangements for Maya to transfer to another school; she also starts training her to become an actress.
Kazehaya asks Sawako to meet him after school to discuss her study habits and for help with his homework. The other students learn she is a great teacher, and she starts helping out her other classmates.
Maya asks Tsukikage if she can work her way through acting school. Tsukikage agrees to give her a scholarship to the Tsukikage Acting Troupe.
Maya takes a job working in the park so that she doesn't have to borrow too much money from Tsukikage. Tsukikage gives the girls a new acting assigment which is to do a play only using four words.
Tsukikage told the class their new play will be "Little Women" and Maya has been cast as the third sister, Beth. Maya now has to live as Beth for a week in order to better understand her role.
All the critics show up to review the Tsukikage's Acting Troupe's first play. Maya receives a bouquet of purple roses from her first fan.
The investors visit Tsukikage after her release from the hospital and tell her she has to enter the upcoming acting competition in Nagoya.
Tsukikage Acting Troupe finds out the Ondine Troupe is also performing Takekurabe and that Ayumi will be Midori. The troupe starts rehearsals and Tsukikage really pushes Maya. This causes Maya to create her role and to make her own Midori.
The Tsukikage Acting Troupe and Ondine Troupe will go head to head in today's competition.
Tsukikage Acting Troupe is again favored to win in the National Acting Competition. The night before their competition someone destroys all of their props and costumes.
Since the cast does not return in time for the competition, Maya volunteers to perform solo.
The girls ask Tsukikage if she will still teach them acting now that the troupe has been disbanded. Sakurakouji tries to persuade Maya to join is acting troupe.
Ayumi vows to take any role possible. The schools' acting troupe is putting on a new production. When the lead actress has to be rushed to the emergency room, Maya volunteers to tackle the role.
Maya gets a role with another troupe after impressing them with her audition. The girl whose spot Maya took has something up for sleeve for Maya.
Miss Harada informs Tsukikage that they will never hire Maya again even though they know she will take the stage by storm one day. Maya auditions for "Wuthering Heights."
As more people see the play during it's run, the audience is becoming more confused because the younger actors play with much more intensity than their adult actors. Due to this the play receives bad reviews.
Tsukikage pulls the troupe together to perform the play "The Stone's Smile" with Maya in the role of the doll. On the 10th days of performances they are a sell out.
Maya loses her concentration during the play thus causing her to lose her mask as she is thinking about her Mom she just saw on the street.
Maya goes on stage when called even though she does not know her lines as someone switched her script.
All the girls auditioning for the role spend the summer rehearsing for their chance to play Helen Keller.
The judges pick both Maya and Ayumi to be Helen and they will alternate who plays Helen during the run.
Ayumi and Maya both perform their versions of Helen for the Theater Festival; Ayumi is first to perform.
After Maya accepts the award for Best Supporting Actress, Tsukikage comes onstage and offers both Maya and Ayumi the chance to play the lead role in "The Scarlet Angel".
Masumi's people have found Maya's Mother but Masumi decides to keep that information to himself. Maya starts to realize how jealous people are of her success.
Someone is out to sabotage Maya as so far they have spiked her food, removed bolts from set props and made a bucket of water fall on her.
Maya's personal assistant, Norie Otobe, is bullied by Miss Mizuki.
Maya believes that Hayami Masumi killed her mother, meanwhile Miss Mizuki is worried about Maya's sudden disappearance.
Masumi Hayami continues to criticize Maya on her acting abilities.
Ayumi finds Maya choking on the fake balls of mud from the play.
Maya performs a solo show to her audience.
Ayumi Himekawa wins an award for her acting ability. Tsukikage declares there that Maya has two years to win the Best Actress Award or the role of the Scarlet Angel goes to Ayumi. The Tsukikage and Ikkakujuu acting troupes decide to put on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in an outdoor theater with Maya playing the role of the fairy Puck. Can Maya learn to move like Puck in time for the performance?
Masumi Hayami lectures a small outdoor theater troupe about their play and gives them crucial advice. The night of the first show has arrived and Maya is ready to ignite the crowd with her version of Puck. Will the play be a success?
A fundraiser performance by the Tsukikage Acting Troupe and the Ikkakujuu Troupe of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was an instant hit! But Maya was cut from the show... what does Masumi Hayami have in store for her?
Maya reads a story about two princesses, Aldis and Orgeld.
Maya meets an actress who once played Aldis in a play.
Maya takes the role as Princess Aldis in the play "The Two Princesses".
The play continues as Maya's role of Aldis is challenged.
"The Two Princesses" approaches its final show.
Maya's newest play is "The Forgotten Wilderness," in which she plays a girl raised by wolves.
An open casting call for "The Forgotten Wilderness" brings in some very inexperienced yet eager actors and actresses.
Getting into her role, Maya travels in to the mountainous wilderness to further understand her character.
"The Forgotten Wilderness" begins rehearsal.
It's opening night for "The Forgotten Wilderness" and already a huge line has formed!
Thirty years have passed since Chigusa Tsukikage, Maya's mentor, was in the public eye.
Masumi Hayami runs into Maya on the bullet train station and encourages her to continue pursuing her dream.
In the countryside, Maya contemplates her life while watching the fire.
Masumi reads the story of The Scarlet Angel to Maya.
On her death bed, Ichiren Ozaki recalls her life.
While crossing an eerie bridge deep in the forest, the bridge suddenly breaks and Maya falls through.
The Scarlet Angel finally reveals herself!
Maya Kitajima (voice)
Taiko Kasuga (voice)
Masumi Hayami (voice)
Chigusa Tsukikage (voice)
Ayumi Himekawa (voice)
Rei Aoki (voice)
Sayaka Minazuki (voice)
Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of the Matrix universe and the conflict between man and machines. The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.
A Knot in Time — Reflection — Mayu found a camera floating in the ocean while she was on vacation. A very unusual camera. The film, mostly intact, reveals a picture of herself with a man she has never seen before. But that is not all. The unusual part is that this camera has not been made yet... and will not be made for another two years. And soon, Mayu finds herself swinging uncontrollably back and forth through time like a pendulum... Mystery Case — File 538 — A down-on-his-luck detective accepts the first case to come his way: surveillance of a man and a little girl. But who are they? And why do aeroplanes that fly over them turn into giant imperial carp? An investigator's normal methods do not apply when reality itself no longer applies...
Based on the popular strategy game, Minato has become the new president of the Kibou Company. In order to be a good president and help the company grow, he must lead his party of adventurers through the Gate and collect Kirakuri — a type of energy that is extremely valuable and fundamental to the city of Gatepia. However, there are other companies vying for the chance to gather the Kirakuri.
The Good Witch of the Lake's four-year crush ended in heartbreak with a single request from the object of her affections! Wanting to increase what little time she has with Royal Knight Harij, Rose sends him on a wild-goose chase for the ingredients but gets more than she bargained for when the grumbling knight starts visiting her every day…to feed her?
Ichigo Hoshimiya is a regular, ordinary middle school girl. But when her best friend Aoi invites her to join the idol training academy, Starlight Academy, her whole world is turned upside down. As she encounters all kinds of rivals and learns what it takes to be an idol, she uses her Aikatsu Cards to challenge countless auditions.
Shikada Kokonotsu's father owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for Kokonotsu to take it over one day. However, Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead! One day in summer, the cute but weird girl Shidare Hotaru, from the famous sweets company, comes to pay a visit. Apparently, Kokonotsu's father is famous and she wants him to join her family's company. However, he will only agree if she can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family business!
Outspoken Luise and shy Lotte meet at summer camp and realize they are identical twins who were separated at birth by their divorced parents. The girls become friends and decide to switch places with each other so that they can each learn about the parent they never knew, and perhaps bring together their broken family.
Natsumi Mizuki is a 4th grader whose parents have gone to London. Her Aunt Izumi comes to live with her. Izumi is an aspiring manga writer who is trying to get her first big break, so she doesn't have time for a baby that appears out of thin air on Natsumi's first night alone. The baby's name is Mirai and her mother is *Natsumi*, but 15 years older. Somehow, Mirai had traveled back in time. Now the young Natsumi has to raise Mirai while trying to keep her 4th grade life from falling apart and keep Mirai-chan secret from everyone. She has the dubious help of Izumi and some baby-care gadgets from the future.
Eisuke Hayami (voice)
Yuu Sakurakouji (voice)
Utako Himekawa (voice)
Haru Kitajima (voice)
Mina Sawatari (voice)
