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The official music video for Nemuri no Mori from the album Midnight Sun by Aimer.
Ronja was born one stormy night when the castle occupied by her father, the bandit chieftain Mattis, was split in half. Growing up in this divided fortress, the carefree little girl spends her days helping her mother and exploring the forest surrounding her home, blissfully unaware of how her outlaw father and his men provide for themselves. Then one day another bandit gang, led by Mattis's rival Borka, occupies the other half of their castle and refuses to leave. Mattis is enraged, but Ronja begins to bond with Borka's son Birk, the first child her age she has ever seen. Can the two be friends when their families are out for blood? And what will happen when she finally learns what the word "robber" actually means?
A great forest, infested with flameling creatures and other fallen beasts, covers the world, and pockets of humanity live in small protected communities. Due to a special weapon used in the Last War, human beings spontaneously burst into flame when merely getting close to a small source of fire. The only safe energy source for humanity lies within the bodies of flamelings, and the duty to hunt them falls to the sickle-wielding firecatchers who brave the depths of the great forest. Touko, a young girl from a paper-making town, finds herself in the forbidden forest, assailed by flamelings, when a flamecatcher rushes to protect her. In another place, a young capital-born boy named Koushi shelters his younger sister after losing his mother to factory poison.
Kanta rescues an orphaned baby deer that has a golden tail and names it Poyu. Kanta vows to protect Poyu and the other deer from the guns of the hunters.
When two wolves are saved by a boy named Ken, they call him the “Wolf Standing on Two Feet” and begin an adventure into the unknown jungle.
A kindly teacher demonstrates origami to his elementary class, but when he gives a paper crane to a child, it is stolen from him by Takeshi, the class bully. Takeshi discovers that the crane is really a talking spaceship that takes him and his friends to visit a fairground in the stars.
After the death of his father, the young Jim Hawkins has lived a quiet life helping his mother run their Admiral Benbow Inn; but he and his mother’s life change forever when the drunken scoundrel Billy Bones arrives at their door. Through a series of harrowing events, Billy dies, leaving Jim a treasure map that leads to the famed fortune of the dreaded Captain Flint; and with the help of two local gentlemen the trio (along with Jim’s feline friend) set out to find a ship and crew to achieve their goals. In the nearby town of Bristol they find the one-legged John Silver who joins their ship, as well as several others. However, as the journey begins, Jim soon realizes that things may not be as they seem…
Drawn to the mystique of the unknown, Hunters travel the world in search of terrifying creatures, incredible riches, and unexplored lands. Gon Freecss is a naive-yet-determined young boy who aspires to join the ranks of these individuals, in order to find his missing father Ging - a master of the profession himself. To reach this goal, he boards a ship from his home on Whale Island to partake in the formidable Hunter Exam, a series of tests that push the participants to their physical and mental limits. But soon, the boat is thrust into the middle of a horrible storm and strange monsters begin to attack! While Gon and newfound acquaintances Leorio and Kurapika struggle to keep the ship afloat and on course to the exam, little do they know the trials have already begun!