1999/High School Titles

Gen, looking exactly like Tenchi minus the ponytail, has just lost his mother. As such, his grandmother and head of the Hiraga clan has him move in with her and her mysterious maid Beth on their estate in rural Japan. Jennifer Collins is an American grad student researching the Hiraga clan curse that kills its family members at a young age, all except for Gen's grandmother. Add to the mix a teacher who looks very much like Gen's mother, the school nurse who "instructs" girls sexually, and the nurse's daughter who's Gen's classmate and embarrassed over her mother's actions and you've got an errie yet interesting story. What is Aqua Permanence? Does it provide long life? And why does Beth think Gen has it?

Deciding to cleanup from their victory over Bell, the group causes the giant cherry tree to walk out of the city. The story proceeds from there with early episodes showing a mysterious character who seems to have emerged from the giant cherry tree. Who is this character? Why is he so powerful in magic?

High School student Shinichi Kudou was a virtual Sherlock Holmes, who the Tokyo police regularly turned to for help in solving baffling cases. But then he accidentally learned too much for his own good about a murder case, and was caught by the villains. They poisoned him and left him for dead, but the "poison" had an unexpected effect--rather than killing him, it caused Shinichi to revert to the appearance of an elementary school boy! He retains his skills as a brilliant detective, however, and since that incident has managed to become adopted by his former girlfriend and her less-than-exemplary private detective father. With them he carries on his passion, and searches for clues to a possible antidote to the poison he was forced to swallow.