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Move aside, ‘Transformers’ and ‘Gundam’, it’s no longer cool to be enormous. Instead make way for the little robots of Little Battler Experience!
In this exciting sci-fi ‘mecha’ (robot themed) series set in the year 2050, children build, customize and play with miniature Little Battler eXperience (LBX) robots in battles. Our young hero, 13-year-old Yamano Ban, hopes to become an LBX fighter like his friends, but is forbidden to own one as his father was taken from them in an accident relating to LBX years ago.
One day, Ban receives a suitcase from a mysterious woman who tells him that the ‘hopes and fears of humanity lie within’. And when Ban opens it, he finds a strange new LBX. Unbeknownst to him, he holds in his hands the ultimate LBX <AX-00> model robot.
Soon he is attacked by organizations who covet this LBX. Now, Ban and his friends, each with their own unique robots, are dragged into a global conspiracy among corporations that extends all the way up to the highest positions of political power, and robot battles become deadly serious…
Also known as ‘Danball Senki’ in Japan, series Little Battler Experience is based on an exciting franchise that spans video games, toys and manga (comics) that will keep you coming back for more.
Little Battlers eXperience premieres 20 March 2012 airing Mondays – Fridays at 5.30pm, first and exclusively on Animax
Delve into a fantasy and supernatural world of action adventure with anime series, Rental Magica. In a realm where wizard dispatch companies vie for work, prestige and power, the series depicts the battles among specialists wielding Eastern and Western magic disciplines including Celtic, Rune and King Solomon’s magic, Shinto, Onmyodo, Vajrayana, Poltergeist abilities, Alchemy, Necromancy, Taoism, Exorcism, and Demonic Eye or ‘Glam Sight’.
Destroying supernatural monsters and dispelling magic are all in a day's work for the wizards of Rental Magica. At wizard dispatch company Astral, its president mysteriously disappears and it is left to his son and protagonist, Itsuki Iba, to begrudgingly fill in as its chief. Itsuki will have to lead Astral’s wizards to battle evil spirits and creatures, rogue magicians, and the dark magician society Ophionto, just to pay their bills and escape abolition by the wizards’ association.
The problem is Itsuki isn’t even a wizard and his unfamiliarity with magic is bad news for Astral. What he does have is an enhanced ‘Glam Sight’ ability which enables him to see the flow of magic and its weaknesses, control spells, and even peer into the memories of magic users. But every time he uses it, his health deteriorates.
Although their rival firm Goetia is after the very same contracts, the jobs get ever more dangerous. Itsuki and the Astral wizards soon realize that staying in the business is the least of their worries…
Voted by fans as the “Best Action Story” in Japan’s Light Novel Awards in 2007 for the series of novels that the anime series is based on, Rental Magica features popular voice actors Jun Fukuyama (Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) and Rie Kugimiya (Shakugan no Shana) as lead characters Itsuki and Astral Shinto magician Mikan respectively.
Rental Magica premieres 29 March 2012, airing Mondays – Fridays at 11pm, first and exclusively on Animax
