Faisuta

A self-proclaimed alien and a robot come to live in Naota's home.

Naota lives in the suburban city of Mabase and odd things suddenly begin to pop up and fill his life. A horn starts growing on his head and his brain gradually exhibits abnormal symptoms. Meanwhile, there is a serial arsonist on the loose in town. Could there be a connection? Naota happens to remember the elementary school destroyed by fire six years before. That was when he met Mamimi, a high school student who often makes strange comments. But now she starts to identify Kanchi, the robot, with the deity Fire Starter in her game. When the game and the reality, as well as the stories of the past and the present, become blurred together, Naota's head starts to get very strange.

Naota Nandaba, Takkun the Cat, Haruko Haruhara, Mamimi Samejima, Kamon Nandaba, Shigekuni Nandaba, Amarao, Kitsurubami, Junko "Miya-Jun" Miyaji, Eri Ninamori, Gaku, Masashi, Miyu Miyu.
English Version: Miyu Miyu, Masashi, Eri Ninamori, Naota Nandaba, Saku, Shigekuni Nandaba, Train Announcer, Martians Baseball Player, Amarao, Kamon Nandaba, Junko Miyaji, Kitsurubami

This direct-to-video series ran for six episodes.

Original video release in Japan on April 26, 2000. Release date posted reflects first showing in the U.S.A. on Cartoon Network.

Set in a fictitious world, this series relates the story of an ordinary boy named Naota who is rather bored with his ordinary life in an ordinary city called Mabase. One day, he is suddenly encountered by a strange woman named Haruko who identifies herself as an alien. From then on, Naota's ordinary life becomes not so ordinary any more.

All episodes but the first were released in Japan on DVD with English subtitles.

Third Place, Best Animation Film, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Fant-Asia Film Festival, 2003