Masashi Amenomori

Mr. Matsuzawa is a novelist who lives in Chiba Prefecture. Only his daughter Kazuko knows that the family dog, Don Matsugorou, can talk. Don is wounded in a fight with the neighbors' dog, King, a nouveau-riche mongrel with ideas above his station. At the vet, however, he falls in love with a little patchwork puppy called Chotaro. (Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)

An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.

Retired samurai Kumosuke lives quietly, not to say idly, in Edo (old Tokyo) with his wife and two children, a young boy named Shinnosuke and an infant girl, Ohana. While he nominally runs a courier business to earn a living, he seems to spend most of his time smoking his pipe, drinking sake, and chasing women. The arrival of a Shinsengumi squad led by a young swordswman, Ichimonji Hyougo, disrupts this peaceful routine, forcing Kumosuke to defend himself.

Gauche é um violoncelista profissional. Durante os ensaios para uma apresentação, ele é repreendido pelo maestro porque sua música não é boa o suficiente. Seu tempo está acabando e ele parece não ter "sensação" para a música. Gauche retorna à sua casa no interior sozinho e começa a praticar. Em seguida, um gato tenta o fazer compreender o significado profundo da música. A importância da prática é demonstrada por um cuco, o ritmo por um texugo e a ternura por um rato. Em quatro dias ele aprende o verdadeiro significado e está pronto para a sua apresentação.

Enquanto se desfazia de uns livros, Senbei Norimaki encontra uma fita de vídeo de seu falecido pai, que ensina a fazer uma fórmula para fazer uma garota se apaixonar loucamente por uma pessoa. Senbei, Arale e Gatchan terão que ir até Wonder Island, uma ilha completamente biruta, para conseguir um ingrediente essencial para a fórmula: uma lágrima do Grande Rei Demônio Gyaska!

A young queen requests a bouquet of snowdrop flowers for New Year's Day in exchange for a reward. One greedy woman sends her stepdaughter, whom she does not like, to look for the flowers in a cold forest, knowing the task will be impossible for her. The girl almost freezes to death in the forest, but she is rescued by the spirits of the Twelve Months, who create spring around her. The girl is able to deliver the bouquet to the queen, but others want a share of the reward.

The plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first part focuses on the people boarding the train and the problems they encounter on it. The second part takes place after the train has stopped at its half-way point, an island that used to be home to an ancient civilization millennia ago and has its fair share of secrets.