The long ocean voyage comes to an end when Van and his friends finally arrive at a Republic city. When Van wanders through a field of grape vines, a small snack turns into a situation when the stern owner of the field confronts him, and the arrival of marauding Empire Zoids turn the domestic situation into an international incident!

Bit is a scavenger when, during an officially sanctioned ZOID battle, he helps out one of the Zoid Tournament teams. As a member of the Blitz team, Bit seems a little overconfident, but when he pilots the awesome Liger Zero, the reason for his confidence is proved out in every ZOID league battle!

A boy named Aoto brings a family heirloom - a coffin - to a Japanese TV show to determine its worth. Suddenly, a 400-year-old Chinese girl named Chun-Ai pops out! Aoto has no choice but to bring her home, where his quirky family agrees to take her in. But they soon find themselves in over their heads: Chun-ai is quickly joined by a friend from the past, and then they find themselves in the middle of a deadly battle with a giant, raging tiger spirit.

Elwood was a knife-thrower caught in a life of crime until he met Gamma Akutabi, class "S" criminal, a man with a 6-foot chainsaw and a metal hand. Soon, Elwood is caught up in Gamma's quest for the most precious objects in the world: the Rings that might give new life to Elwood's sister... or make Gamma even harder to kill than he is already.

A knife-thrower. A sharp-shooter. A martial artist with a metal hand. And now... a journalist?! Meet the newest member of Gamma Akutabi's gang, the pneumatic muckraker Wolfina, as deadly with a camera as her friends are with a gun. Their goal is to find the Rings of the Dead... but only Wolfina knows the Rings' true twisted nature firsthand, having seen them turn her brother into a mindless husk.

When the prize is a Ring of the Dead, murder is a small price to pay! Stealing the comatose body of Wolfina's brother (and the ring buried inside it), Balmunk the mystic lures our heroes to his deadly circus, where fire-breathers and knife-throwers await them. Has master swordsman Gamma Akutabi finally met a foe worthy of his skills?

A locomotive races across the desert, with a human body fused to the engine... the body of Wolfina's brother Emilio, one of the "hosts" of a Ring of the Dead! With no help in sight, Wolfina fights alone to save her brother from a fate worse than death. But can anything get the ring from Emilio's body? At the end of the line is a woman who might have the answer... or might just have a lot of sharp cutting implements!

One day, Michiru Kita notices mysterious markings around the necks of two of her classmates - two boys who miraculously survived a horrible accident six months ago. Michiru, possessing the rare ability to see these rings, knows that they warn of impending death. Thinking that perhaps she can do something to save her classmates' lives, she approaches them, but it seems the boys have already made a different kind of deal and garnered themselves a heavy debt...

The Z-Loan office's teen trio is hot on the trail of an elusive psychopath known as "The Butterfly." Amidst all the excitement, poor Michiru hasn't gotten much of a chance to get used to her new digs, her new friends, and now, a new member?!

Trying to go after "the Butterfly," Michiru and Koyomi end up finding themselves in an offline meeting for killers! Chika, Shito, and Shiba are running after them! With "Yomi" awakening on the spot there, will it turn into a free-for-all fight? The heat rises more, and our accelerating story takes an unexpected turn...

Why, even mean-spirited, ill-mannered, money-grubbing, undead zombie hunters have families! Chika's overly affectionate dad and his cellphone-happy little sister drop in on the Z-Loan office, much to our anti-hero's chagrin. All this familial silliness lifts Chika's mood, but also throws his partner's dark past into relief. When a horrifying, trust-shattering secret is revealed about Shito amid whisperings of his ties to a powerful mafia group, will the Z-Loan office ever be the same again?

When the Z-Loaners learn that Shito's been kidnapped by a mad scientist, Chika, Michiru, and the group's newest addition, the axeman Sotetsu, don't hesitate to rescue their tall, dark, and grumpy friend... even despite the recent, shocking revelations about his past. The intense battle that ensues leaves the group exhausted, and Koyomi decides that the only cure for these blues is some all-night karaoke!