Anime Viewing Schedule for October 18, 2025...

 A N I M A T R I X   N E T W O R K
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Fountaindale Public Library

VIEWING SCHEDULE

          11:15 - 12:05   Apothecary Diaries - Season 2 eps 11-12

          12:05 - 12:55   Ranma 1/2 Remake: Season 2 eps 1-2

          12:55 - 1:30     Club Meeting

          1:30 - 1:55       May I Ask For One Final Thing? ep 1

          1:55 - 2:45       Gachiakuta eps 1-2

          2:45 - 3:35       Dusk Beyond the End of the World eps 0-1

          3:35 - 4:00       To Be Hero X eps 10-11

          4:00 - 4:50       The Summer Hikaru Died 5-6

 

Rock on!

 

Fountaindale Public Library
300 W. Briarcliff Road
Bolingbrook, IL 60440 

Peggy J. Danhof Board Room

(Second Floor)

 

From 11:15 AM to 5:00 PM

All anime presented are fan-subtitled unless otherwise noted.

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* ANIME DESCRIPTIONS ARE BELOW *

11:15 - 12:05   The Apothecary Diaries - Season 2 eps. 11-12

The Apothecary Diaries

Plot Summary:  

Jinshi dreams of his childhood, recalling an old man being taken away by an angry old woman—later explained to him to be his father and grandmother, respectively. He also told that the man he believed to be his father was actually his brother. Jinshi knows that Maomao will eventually discover the truth. Meanwhile, while Maomao observes the penmanship school, she hears the teacher telling about the nation's founding myth, focusing on the Mother Royal, a foreigner who birthed the country's first emperor. The capital was built around a shrine—the Shrine of Choosing—where emperors were once selected through a test. The shrine has been abandoned since an epidemic wiped out nearly all of the previous candidates. She also learns that her adoptive father, Luomen, sometimes visited the shrine when he had free time, and became acquainted with the eunuch who maintains it, who is also the penmanship teacher. The emperor takes Jinshi and Maomao to the shrine to attempt the test once more. Following a series of colored doors according to specific instructions, they reach the final stage, only to fail again. The failure note implies the emperor doesn't descend from the Mother Royal. After the eunuch expresses belief Luomen would have uncovered the shrine's secret, Maomao asks the emperor about the previous emperors' eyesight, learning that only the previous emperor had good eyesight; and about the parentage of the previous emperor, whose elder brothers died in an epidemic. The emperor has Jinshi take the test, guided by Maomao, who takes them to the end, a balcony on an upper floor. The shrine's caretaker explains that if none of the candidates succeeded, they were allowed to try again, aided by a concubine of the right lineage. The emperor asks for an explanation, which the eunuch has Maomao give. She deduced that the shrine was built to select for red-green color blindness, a rare trait in the country but more common in the western lands where the Mother Royal was said to have hailed from, which Luomen would know, having studied medicine abroad. However, she withholds that allowing concubines with the trait is a method to ensure that the bloodline of the Mother Royal remains in power despite the prevalent patriarchal succession of rule. The emperor jokes about taking Maomao as a concubine, but is unwilling to anger Lakan, and finds Maomao's breasts as too small. The eunuch, though, warns about suddenly introducing new blood into the imperial family. Maomao continues to wonder about Jinshi, this time no longer seeing him as "just the emperor's favorite eunuch".

 

 

12:05 - 12:55   Ranma 1/2 Remake: Season 2 eps 1-2

 

RANMA 1/2 Remake

Plot Summary:

Soun Tendou runs the Tendou Martial Arts School accompanied by his three daughters: Akane, Nabiki, and Kasumi. One day, the sisters' lives are turned upside down when their father announces that he has promised one of them to be married to a fellow martial artist's son in hopes of carrying on the family legacy. In addition to their mixed reactions, when the fiancé arrives, the last thing the Tendou family expects is Ranma Saotome and his father, Genma. Ranma has been training in China with his father until an unfortunate accident changed them both. Now, when water touches them, Ranma turns into a girl and Genma into a giant panda. Ranma ½ follows Ranma as he attempts to get along with his newly betrothed, the youngest of the Tendou sisters, Akane. As the two begin to attend the same school, they deal with fellow friends and rivals, all of whom have something to say about their engagement.

 

12:55 - 1:30     Club Announcements

TRON: Ares

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle

The Conjuring: Last Rites

The Long Walk

Weapons 

Trailers

Video Games

1:30 - 1:55    May I Ask For One Final thing? ep 1

May I Ask For One Final Thing

Plot Summary:  

After Scarlet's cruel and selfish fiancé suddenly ends their engagement and falsely accuses her of being a bully and villainess, she finally snaps and begins committing violent revenge against him and his allies, exposing him as a corrupt noble himself, and getting him disowned and disinherited. Before long, she finds herself at war against corruptive nobles, some who seek to either use or kill her.

1:55 - 2:45    Gachiakuta eps 1-2

Gachiakuta

Plot Summary:   

A young boy named Rudo lives in the slums of a wealthy society among the "tribesfolk" a population who are descended from criminals and are exiled by society. Rudo detests the upper class's wastefulness as they often dump anything deemed trash, including criminals, into a massive dump site below the town known as "The Pit". Rudo was told by his foster father Regto, that his biological father was dumped into the Pit for a crime before he was born. One day, after rummaging through a dump site, Rudo returns home to find Regto murdered. Apprehended at the scene, Rudo is immediately charged with murder despite his innocence, due to his status as a tribesman. Unable to escape his fate, Rudo swears revenge upon the people and is dumped into the Pit. After being dumped into the Pit, Rudo awakens to find himself disoriented in a foul-smelling, endless landscape of trash. Rudo is then attacked by large beasts made of trash and fends them off until he is rescued by a man named Enjin. The man explains to Rudo that he is not underground but has fallen to the surface from "The Sphere". After testing him and awakening his power as a "Giver", Enjin invites Rudo to join him as a "Cleaner". Enjin explains that the Cleaners are an organization of Givers who use the power of unique weapons known as "vital instruments" to hunt the trash beasts that attacked him. Rudo reluctantly accepts Enjin's offer to join the Cleaners, so long as it helps accomplish his goal of returning to the Sphere and enacting revenge on those who dumped him into the Pit.

 

 

2:45 - 3:35   Dusk Beyond the End of the World eps 1-2

Dusk Beyond the End of the World

Plot Summary:  

The series follows Akira Himegami, a man who was put into cryogenic sleep. Prior to this, he confessed his feelings to his foster sister Towasa Omaki, a noted AI developer, before they were both shot in an assassination attempt. Waking up 200 years later, he discovers that the world has changed: an organization called OWEL is in power and trying to control all pre-apocalyptic technology. Akira is rescued from their soldiers by Yugure, an android who proposes marriage to him, which he rejects. However, Akira believes that Towasa is still alive and aims to find her. He goes on a quest to find Towasa, with Yugure joining him on his journey.

 

3:35 - 4:00    To Be Hero X ep. 10-11

TO BE HERO X

Plot Summary:  

Yang Cheng is an orphan working as an E-Soul actor at a children's theater under the employ of an ice-ko shop owner, Rock. He gets hired by his school crush, Xia Qing, who cannot tell it is him under his costume, to be a personal entertainer for her little brother, Pomelo. Cheng and Pomelo bond as the latter helps him prepare for a competition to be a part of E-Soul's hero anniversary presentation. However, his zero Trust Value results in him losing. Still too afraid to confess his feelings towards Qing and sad over his loss, he leaves. Pomelo finds him but gets kidnapped by two of Cheng's former co-workers. Cheng gives chase and causes the kidnapper's vehicle to crash. Though no match against the kidnappers, Cheng refuses to give up, and Pomelo places faith in him upon seeing his determination. This gives Cheng his first trust value, unlocking electric power similar to E-Soul's, allowing him to defeat the kidnappers. Afterward, Cheng brings Pomelo home to Qing when he is confronted by one of the competition's judges, Shang Chao.

4:00 - 4:50   The Summer Hikaru Died 5-6

THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED

Plot Summary:  

Yoshiki Tsujinaka and Hikaru Indo are two teenage boys and childhood friends living in a small town in rural Japan. Despite having opposite personalities and different hobbies, the two maintain a close friendship. However, on a winter day, Hikaru is fatally injured while hiking in the mountains alone. Before he dies, a mysterious eldritch being comes across him and consumes him, becoming him physically in the process. This "Hikaru" has all the feelings and memories of the original, yet remains a separate being, something Yoshiki realizes rather quickly. Yoshiki still wants to stay with "Hikaru"; however, his alien nature, along with other eldritch beings and hunters of said beings, may make that impossible.