Beware what you wish for. As some wishes do come true that will topple your life, forever. 'Mauka ya Dhokha' is an edge-on-the-seat murder mystery thriller, set in scenic Goa, driven by love, greed and betrayal.
During the Divine Blessing Ceremony of the 15-year-old Elma who came from a lineage of Sword Saints, he had manifested a commonly deemed defective class known as the Heavy Knight. He had been deprived of his position as the next head of the Edvan Household and was then exiled. The Heavy Knight class had an unbalanced status and useless skills, to top it off, it was even said to be a class cowardly and indolent people have. But, Elma knew better—that this world was the world of the game he had used to play before—and that the Heavy Knight class was the strongest class to exist. Elma made full use of the knowledge he had in his previous life and began his efficient walkthrough of the world he was reincarnated into.
12-year-old Kasper is studying at the elite school Nerola. Kasper spends the day practicing and performs on stage in the evening, when the school students appear in their own television program. However, Kasper is not happy. He constantly dreams of Ida, a girl he has never met. Living in a foster family 13-year-old Ida wants to have the attention of the entire world, and especially of her biological mother.
During the night of July 12 in 1917, plenty of strange visions appeared, such as sun and moon shined together, waves and tides turned continually and so on. Dense clouds started darkening the sky, while buildings collapsed one after another in a sudden. In a while, the whole world fell into a crisis. Three grave-robbing aristocratic family, Zhang, Han, Cao, joint hands to solve this huge puzzle and save the world. Among them, the young master, Zhang Tianqi, who was kind and honest, with his team, had suffered from a lot of troubles in order to save the world in danger, and then finally figure out the Loulan Kingdom’s secret. Loulan, with thousand years’ secrets, had a grand and treacherous tomb, which almost dragged the team into death. So, what’s the relationship between the mysterious visions and the Louland tomb? A story across millenniums is now beginning...
Xie Mingyuan, the martial arts alliance leader, plans to marry his daughter, Xie Tianba, to Ningyuan Marquis, a notorious traitor. Outraged, Xie Tianba leaves home and ventures into the martial world, where she is saved by Mo Haoran, leader of the Storm Sect. As she helps relieve him from a rare poison, they gradually fall in love. Later, Xie Tianba uncovers dark secrets about her father and becomes entangled in a web of betrayal and conflict, testing her trust in Mo Haoran and forcing her to confront her own beliefs and loyalties.
The "graphic drama" (as described by Saito Productions) which initially premiered in 1971 was produced in the wake of Golgo 13's initial groundswell in popularity from its initial publication in 1968. The anime employed a "scale animation" style whereby the action effects were added onto still and scale images of manga panels prior to filming episodes with sound effects, giving a rough look similar to gekiga manga. In contemporary terms, it's closer to a motion comic with voice acting than a conventional animated work.
"Hero" is the worst punishment in the world. For those convicted of heinous crimes, they are sentenced to become a “Hero" and forced to enter the mandatory military service in the war against the Demon Lords. These convicts are not even allowed to die—if killed, they will be resurrected to fight another day. Hero Xylo Forbartz, former head of the Order of the Holy Knights, leads a penal unit of deplorables fighting on the front lines. It’s in these direst of circumstances that he meets Teoritta, one of the world’s the strongest weapons. "When every last enemy has been defeated, you are to shower me with praise and pat my head." In order to survive and to take revenge on those who wronged him, he makes a pact with the goddess and launches headfirst into a maelstrom of war and intrigue.
Oyuki, the daughter of a master swordsman in the Yaegaki-style, is a skilled practitioner of the secret technique "flying sword". She embarks on a journey alongside the naive samurai Isawa no Fujiyoshi, hailing from a peasant background, and Choshi no Yosaburo, an aspiring chivalrous rogue from a fishing village. Together, they travel and seek to punish the wicked.