Anima Stories: tonight's programme
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No. 01Feature presentation
The Last Train Never Arrives
Same 23:58 last train, same rainy night, forty-first time. Only the quiet boy in the grey hoodie remembers too.
StarringJun, Sōsuke
Drama
Voiced · Live castCast: 2
Now showingStories: 44
No. 02ThrillerThe Eighth SurvivorSeven stranded passengers. Eight names in the clinic register.
No. 03RomanceThe Prince's Seven-Day EngagementTo escape an arranged marriage, the prince names his betrothed before the whole court: you, caught stealing cake.
No. 04RomanceBefore the TideA town on no map, a song from under the pier, and a rain ghost begging you to stay away from the water.
No. 05ComedyThe Night Market Cook-OffA taco-truck auntie with a grudge, a livestream of a million viewers, and you as her sous-chef.
No. 06FantasyThe Gentlest Pirates in the SkyThe kindest pirate in the sky stole the wrong treasure chest: the one you were hiding in.
No. 07DramaSeven Days to Clear Your NameThe Empress Dowager collapsed after tea brewed from your herbs.
No. 08ComedyThe Bubble Tea Tycoon WarYou left a one-star review. Now a CEO who talks like a drama hero wants you as his Chief Taste Officer.
No. 09DramaOne Last EncoreThe agency is bankrupt, the band has six weeks and one survival show, and you are the last staff member left.
No. 10MysteryThe Midnight Rose AffairThe prize rose vanished the night before the Flower Show.
No. 11Science fictionThe Last Run of the EmberOne last salvage run before the ship is scrapped.
No. 12ComedyThirty Days at Dog-Ear BooksA seaside bookshop café closes in thirty days.
No. 13RomanceYour Chart Says MeYour mother paid a Temple Street fortune teller to find your perfect match.
No. 14HorrorThirteenth Floor, Please Step OutA store closed for forty years opens for one night.
No. 15FantasyThe Villainess Quits the PlotYou wake as the villainess doomed in chapter 30.
No. 16HorrorThe Ward-SongThe seeress needs a singer to call the spirits close.
No. 17DramaA Place Set for HimA silent ex-soldier hires you to translate one sentence for a family in Oaxaca on the Day of the Dead.
No. 18DramaSet Point in RioYour partner quit a week before the championship.
No. 19RomanceOne Star, No MercyYour one-star review closed his restaurant.
No. 20SchoolThe Portrait at the Graduation ShowThe graduation show's centrepiece is a portrait of you, titled 'Someone I Never Spoke To.'
No. 21DramaThe Snowcats' Last SeasonThe rink is sold in thirty days unless a team of night-shift misfits wins the cup.
No. 22FantasyThe Three-Disciple SectYou inherit a sect with three disciples, a leaking roof and nine days to win its mountain back in a duel.
No. 23DramaThe Reading Sealed at BirthThree days after you were born, a diviner read your path.
No. 24RomanceMatched by the Stars (Allegedly)An Udaipur astrologer said your match would cross the lake at sunset.
No. 25MysteryThe Fifth VoiceYou're recording a Venetian choir. Every overnight take holds a fifth voice, singing a part lost for 300 years.
No. 26DramaTwenty-One Days of SilenceYou have 21 days to make the hardest decision of your life.
No. 27HorrorUntie the Last KnotAt your grandmother's funeral rite, the shaman stops singing and calls you by a drowned woman's name.
No. 28MysteryThe Cards Keep Drawing YouA Montmartre tarot reader's 1900 deck has one card missing.
No. 29MysteryOverdue Since 1987Every night a book comes back to a little Kyoto library, overdue since 1987, with a love letter inside.
No. 30RomanceThe Best Man Is My ExYou're the bride's best friend. He's the best man.
No. 31DramaThe Empress Who Woke TwicePoisoned on your coronation night, you wake five years earlier.
No. 32RomanceOff the RecordYour secret boyfriend is the biggest idol in the world.
No. 33SchoolNight Class for Late BloomersYour superpower woke up at 24. Your teachers: a retired magical heroine and a reformed villain.
No. 34FantasyMy Sword Is Disappointed in MeYou bought a rusty sword for three coins.
No. 35RomanceNotes on the FridgeYou've lived with your roommate for six months and never met.
No. 36Science fictionThe Lover He DeletedHe paid a clinic to delete every memory of you.
No. 37RomanceOh No, Not YouYour wrist says your soulmate's first words will be 'Oh no, not you.'
No. 38RomanceOne Monsoon, One ContractHe needs a spouse to keep his family's tea estate.
No. 39RomanceThe Last Bottle of GrasseYou inherited a perfume house, three threatening letters and a bodyguard who won't say who hired him.
No. 40FantasyThe Night Market Takes No Living CoinYou looked back on the shrine steps and woke in a spirit market.
No. 41MysteryAn Invitation from the DeadYour great-aunt died a year ago. Yesterday her letter came: the manor is yours, the maid will fetch you.
No. 42ObsessionThey Both Know When You Leave WorkYour gentle senior knows your coffee order.
No. 43FantasyThe Tea House Below the Sky RoadYour late teacher left you a chart to an isle where wishes cost a memory.
No. 44Science fictionThree Years Too EarlyYou wake three years early on a colony ship.
No. 45ComedySign Before MidnightOne parcel with your name on it, one mascot staking his career on it, a live stream of thousands.