Akikan!
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Website: http://www.melomelomelon.com/
Japanese Air Date: January 3
Animation Company: Brains Base (Baccano, Kure-nai)
Seiyuu: Jun Fukuyama, Sayaka Narita
Summary
Based off the light novel series by Riku Ranjō and Hiro Suzuhira.
The story revolves around a typical high school boy named Kakeru Daichi and the can of melon juice soda that he bought from a vending machine. The can suddenly transforms into a beautiful but standoffish girl that Kakeru nicknames “Melon,” and more “Akikan” (”empty can”) girls appear. However, Akikan girls need to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive. (ANN)
Thoughts:
Well. I'm not usually into harem (unless it's reverseHarem ^///^ ), but I think I'll give it a try for the sake of trying. It looks like one of the very few anime this season that is not a sequel. I don't think this season will be appealing to very many new anime fans.
(sorry the picture is so small)
Zoku Natsume Yuujin-chou
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Website: http://www.natsume-anime.jp/
Japanese Air Date: January 5
Animation Company: Brains Base (Baccano, Kure-nai) Seiyuu: Hiroshi Kamiya
Summary
Second season of the adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa’s manga.
Since she could see monsters, Natsume Reiko was alienated by normal people. In order to escape from the loneliness, she challenged monsters to fights. She took away their names, binding them to obedience, and put the names in a contract book, “Yujin-cho”. Her grandson, Natsume Takashi, has inherited Reiko’s ability to see monsters. He obtains Yujin-cho, an article left by his only relative, Reiko, and he resolves to return to the monsters their names which were taken away from them. Since then, various monsters begin to gather around him… (AnimeNfo)
Thoughts:
I really enjoyed the first season (which I recently finished because I wanted to watch the second season.) the first season was rated an 8 which is good.... so I'm really looking forward to the next one. The kitsune near the end sealed the deal for me. He was absolutly the cutest thing I've ever seen <3
How could you say no? He's much cuter in the anime though...
Viper’s Creed
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Website: http://www.animax.co.jp/10th/special/vc.php
Japanese Air Date: January 6
Animation Company: Sony Pictures
Seiyuu: Megumi Toyoguchi, Takaya Kuroda
Summary
The story revolves around the members of a private military company (PMC), and the uneasy tension between them and the regular military after a war that caused massive environmental destruction. (ANN)
Thoughts:
Meh. I'm not much for mecha/military, but I will be watching this if I have time since there's not a lot of new anime coming out. Otherwise.... It's not high on my priority list... I usaually save these anime types for last, or not bother with it at all, but the animation looks good, I hope sony doesn't screw this one up.
(again sorry it's so small... I'm having problems. I'll probably fix all the pictures later.)
Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger
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Website: http://www.vap.co.jp/ippo/
Japanese Air Date: January 6
Animation Company: Madhouse Studios (Chaos;Head, Trigun)
Seiyuu: Kohei Kiyasu
Summary
Newest anime adaptation of George Morikawa’s long-running boxing manga. The following is a general summary of the series not specifically related to this adaptation:
Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn’t get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo’s life is one of hardship.
One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo’s life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura’s footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo’s path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning … (AnimeNfo)
Thoughts:
Well, I've already done a post on hajime no ippo. I'm not a big fan, however, I do enjoy it from time to time. I'm glad there's a new season. I will deffinatly try it out. But seriously, I hope they change the art a style a bit. I realize they are trying to mantain the same art of the manga, but seriously, it's a bit old fashioned. And since I'm newer on the anime scene (or at least that's what I think) I prefer the more modern art. Currently I'm marathoning the show, so we'll see if the end seems like it needs a new season. Though, I'm pretty sure I'll be watching this. For some strange reason though, after watching this show, I always feel the need to play boxing on my wii
Kemono no Souja Erin
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Number of episodes: 50
Website:
Japanese Air Date: January 10
Animation Company: Production IG (Ghost in the Shell, xxxHolic ), Transarts (Prince of Tennis, Chocolate Underground)
Seiyuu: Nanase Hoshii
Summary
Adaptation of the novel series written by Uehashi Nahoko, of Seirei no Moribito fame.
The story is about a young woman who is drawn into a war between kingdoms. She has the ability to command animals, including dragons, as if she was playing a musical instrument. (AniDB)
thoughts:
Soooooooooo..... I think this has a romance of 3 kingdoms. I will deffeniatly be watching this and is one of the shows I am really looking forward to this season. It's very mysterious though. There aren't a lot of images that I can use to judge on so I'll be watching this for sure unless the first few episodes are so miserable that I can't go through the rest of the show, but that hardly ever happens. We'll see........
Genji Monogatari Sennenki
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Number of episodes: 11
Website: http://genji-anime.com/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Tezuka Productions (Hi no Tori), Tokyo Movie (Aishiteruze Baby)
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Summary
Adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu’s classic novel The Tale of Genji. It was originally planned to be an adaptation of Waki Yamato’s shouji manga series Asakiyumemishi ~ The Tale of Genji, but that idea was scrapped by the director. The following is a short plot introduction of the original classic novel:
The work recounts the life of a son of a Japanese emperor, known to readers as Hikaru Genji, or “Shining Genji”. Neither appellation is his actual name: Genji is simply another way to read the Chinese characters for the real-life Minamoto clan, to which Genji was made to belong. For political reasons, Genji is relegated to commoner status (by being given the surname Minamoto) and begins a career as an imperial officer. The tale concentrates on Genji’s romantic life and describes the customs of the aristocratic society of the time. (Wikipedia)
Thoughts:
Does this scream pedo. or is it just me? I will watch it though, because It's such a classic story... I don't really think much of it now, but I want to watch it just because I know of the story, and It'll be interesting to see it animated.
Konnichiwa Anne
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Number of episodes: 26
Website: http://www.akageno-anne.jp/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: ( )
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Adaptation of Budge Wilson’s new children’s novel Before Green Gables, a prequel to Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables
Before Green Gables (translated as Konnichiwa Anne by Akiko Usagawa) describes the early life of the Canadian orphan girl Anne, before she meets her adoptive family Matthew and Marilla in the first Anne novel, Anne of Green Gables. (ANN)
Thoughts:
NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Not only is it anime anne of green gables (which should never be in the first place) but they are trying to make the art verrrrrrry old fashioned.... or at least that is what they are advertising. I just don't belive this got green lighted in the first place.
Even though I have clearly expressed my dislike of the very idea of this anime, I will probably watch the first episode for the sake of trying. ( and later laughing and gagging)
Minami-ke Okaeri
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Website: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/minami-ke/3/
Japanese Air Date: January 4
Animation Company: Asread (Ga-Rei -Zero-, Shuffle!)
Seiyuu: Marina Inoue, Minori Chihara, Rina Satou
Summary
Third season of the adaptation of Coharu Sakuraba’s manga.
This school-aged slice-of-life comedy follows the lives of the three Minami sisters: Haruka (oldest), Kana (the middle child), and Chiaki (youngest). This will be the second season produced by Asread, the first having been handled by Doumu.
Thoughts:
Well I never finished the first season, maybe I'll pick it up again and marathon it... we'll see. So I'll just not watch this I think. Save for later?
Kurokami the Animation
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Website: http://www.kurokami-anime.net/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Sunrise (Gundam, Code Geass)
Seiyuu: Daisuke Namikawa, Noriko Shitaya
Summary
Adaptation of the Korean manga authored by Dall-Young Lim, with art by Sung-Woo Park. The title is licensed for the English market under the title Black God.
Keita Ibuki is an independent and struggling freelance computer programmer who had a chance meeting on one night with a high Mototsumitama named Kuro. He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is attacked in an ambush by an unknown Mototsumitama. Keita loses his entire left arm during the fight between the Mototsumitamas, but Kuro was able to save his life by exchanging the decapitated arm with her own left arm since she has enhanced healing abilities like all Mototsumitamas. This creates a contract between them, which makes her more powerful than before. However, Kuro warns Keita that they need to be together all the time in order to be at their strongest. (Wikipedia)
Thoughts:
I've read the first chapter of this magazine in yen plus. I really think I might get into this show. I don't mind blood and gore and It has some potential for love in the series. I will watch it, I guess...
Now that I think about it, I'll pretty much be watching everything?... hmmmm. otaku much?
Asu no Yoichi!
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Website: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/yoichi/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: AIC (Special A, Seto no Hanayome)
Seiyuu: Nobuhiko Okamoto, Rina Satou
Summary
Adaptation of Yū Minamoto’s romantic comedy manga.
The titular character Yoichi decides to leave his family’s mountainside home after his father tells him there is nothing more he can learn in martial arts there. The teenaged boy ends up in a martial arts dojo in the city with four girls. (ANN)
Thoughts:
I thought I went over this already? More harem?!?! There's no reverse harem this season, so why all the harem shows? '______________' I'll see about this one... It doesn't look to bad...
Major Fifth Season
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Website: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/major/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Studio Hibari (Kashimashi, Moonlight Mile )
Seiyuu: Masakazu Morita, Motoko Kumai, Showtaro Morikubo
Summary
The 5th season of the adaptation of Takuya Mitsuda’s long-running baseball manga.
Shigeharu Honda is a Major Leauge batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps. Momoko Hoshino is Goro’s schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro’s mother. The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. (ANN)
Thoughts:
I.............................. no.
White Album
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Website: http://www.whitealbum-tv.com/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Seven Arcs (Nanoha, Sekirei )
Seiyuu: Aya Hirano, Nana Mizuki
Summary
Adapted from the Leaf eroge.
The White Album game centers around Tōya Fujī, a college student dating a rising idol singer named Yuki Morikawa. The game deals with the challenges to the couple’s relationship from the other people at Fujī’s college, Morikawa’s work, and elsewhere. (ANN)
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Maria†Holic
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Website: http://www.mariaholic.com/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: SHAFT (ef, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei )
Seiyuu: Asami Sanada, Marina Inoue, Yu Kobayashi
Summary
Adaptation of Minari Endo’s manga.
The story centers on a sophomore named Kanako who enrolls in all-girls school because she has a phobia of men and wants to find her destined yuri partner. She meets a captivating freshman named Mariya who fits her criteria — except her seemingly ideal mate happens to be a cross-dressing sadistic boy. (ANN)
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Shikabane-hime Kuro
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Website: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/shikabanehime2/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Gainax (Gurren Lagann, Neon Genesis Evangelion) and Feel (Nagasarete Airantou, D.C. II: Da Capo II)
Seiyuu: Nana Akiyama, Tatsuya Hosome
Summary
Second season of the adaptation of Yoshiichi Akahito’s supernatural manga.
The story is about an exorcist girl called “Shikabane Hime” (Corpse Princess). Her name is Makina Hoshimura, an undead girl who hunts down 108 corpses in order to go to heaven.
Thoughts:
hmmm. I never got to finish watching the first season. I think I'll go back watch, seeing as how the first one is LEGAL to watch on funimation stations (youtube, joost, hulu, etc....) I saw the first episode, and I didn't not like it. It wasn't bad. It seemed to lack continuity in the plot, however, I think it might have amounted to something, so I guess I should try it again? I hear it's ok.
Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th Season
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Number of episodes: 13
Website: http://www.gokigenyou.com/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Studio DEEN (Fate/stay night, Simoun)
Seiyuu: Kana Ueda, Miki Itou
Summary
Fourth adaptation of the light novels written by Oyuki Konno.
Maria-sama ga Miteru’s story revolves around the students of the Lillian Girls’ Academy (a Catholic school), and can be considered character-driven, focusing on interactions between the characters rather than any sort of ongoing plot or goal to attain. At Lillian Girls’ School, there is a tradition known as the sœur system (sœur being French for “sister”), in which a second, or third-year student, the grande sœur (”big sister”), will give her rosary to a junior student, the petite sœur (”little sister”), and promise to look after them and guide them. (Wikipedia)
Thoughts:
I don't think so. Fourth season? I must have missed the boat on this one, but it just doesn't appeal to me...
Slayers EVOLUTION-R
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Number of episodes: 13
Website: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/slayers_revolution/er/
Japanese Air Date: January 12
Animation Company: JC Staff (Shakugan no Shana, Toradora!)
Seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara, Yasunori Matsumoto
Summary
Fifth TV season of the adaptation of Hajime Kanzaka. This season will continue the anime original storyline from the fourth season, Revolution. The following is a summary of Revolution:
Having lost the Sword of Light in the previous battle, Lina and Gourry continue their journey in search of a replacement weapon. On the way, the two of them meet up with Amelia and Zelgadis in the kingdom of Luvinagard while taunting some pirates. Lina is happy to reunite with her old friends, but appearing before her is Luvinagard’s Inspector of the Special Investigative Unit; a man called Wizer. However, Lina is amazed at his unusual behavior… (ANN)
Thoughts:
Pass
Birdy the Might DECODE:02
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Number of episodes: 13
Website: http://www.birdy-tv.com/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: A-1 Pictures, Inc. (Kannagi, Persona ~Trinity Soul~ )
Seiyuu: Miyu Irino, Saeko Chiba
Summary
Second season of the newest adaptation of Masami Yuki’s manga. An OVA adapted from the same was released in 1996.
Birdy Cephon Altera is a Federation agent chasing interplanetary criminals to the planet Earth. While in pursuit of one, she accidentally kills a high school boy named Tsutomu Senkawa. Fortunately for Tsutomu, there is a way to keep him alive, although he ends up merged into Birdy’s body and must remain so until the repair of his body is complete.
So Tsutomu is stuck sharing a body with an attractive, strong - if impulsive - space police agent, while trying to keep his family and friends from finding out about about Birdy. In the meantime, Birdy continues her investigation. Together, they take on a secretive group of evil aliens planning to perform experiments on the unsuspecting inhabitants of Earth. (Wikipedia)
Thoughts:
From what I've seen of this.... I like it. I need to finish up the first season so I can start this. I usually don't like sci fi. It's a very dry genre in my oppinion, however this really "brings it to earth". I will watch this, though probably not right away.
Hetalia Axis Powers
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Website: http://hetalia.com/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Studio Deen (Fate/stay night, Simoun)
Seiyuu: Daisuke Namikawa, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroki Yasumoto
Summary
Adaptation of Himaruya Hidekazu’s bishonen comedy web manga.
The “cynical gag” story mainly recounts the era between World War I and World War II, with the stereotypical characteristics of each country or region (particularly northern Italy) anthropomorphized as bishounen. For example, Italia Veneziano is into pasta and women. Deutsch (Germany) loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy. Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics. (ANN)
Thoughts:
Chibis= yes<3
Butchering history=no
What a dilema. I think I'll end up watching this.
Ride Back
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Website: http://www.rideback-anime.jp/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Digital Frontier, Madhouse Studios (Chaos;Head, Trigun)
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Adaptation of Tetsuro Kasahara’s mecha manga.
Ride Back tells the story of a girl a her “Iron Horse” robot motorcycle in 2020, a tumultous time of anti-goverment student protests. (ANN)
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The Tower of Druaga ~the Sword of Uruk~
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Website: http://www.druaga-anime.com/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Gonzo (Last Exile, Rosario + Vampire)
Seiyuu: Fumiko Orikasa, Kenn
Summary
Second season of this original animation based on Namco’s The Tower of Druaga game franchise.
The long awaited “Summer of Anu” has come. It is a season that comes but once every few years and during which the powers of the monsters within the Tower wane thanks to the grace of the great god Anu. Each Summer of Anu, the armies of the Uruk Kingdom secure their strongholds within the Tower, aiming to eventually conquer the upper floors. Decades of re-fortification and battle have passed since the infamous adventures of Gil and Ki. Their story has now become a legend. Now, finally, the third Summer of Anu has arrived. (Crunchyroll)
Thoughts:
I have to watch the first season, but I think I'll like it ok. The picture looks good and I like fantasy/ middle age type themes. We'll see.
Chrome Shelled Regios
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Website: http://anime.webnt.jp/regios/
Japanese Air Date: January 10
Animation Company: ZEXCS (D.C. ~Da Capo~, Rental Magica )
Seiyuu: Nobuhiko Okamoto
Summary
Adaptation of the light novel series written by Shūsuke Amagi, with illustrations by Miyū.
The world was infected by “Pollutant” years ago - world cracked open and generally screwed up. This Pollutant spawns nasty “Pollutant Beasts”, but it’s also resulted in people gaining special powers. The towns that now litter the world are protected by alchemists and are mobile - these are the “Regios” of the title.
The story follows a guy named Lei-Fon Alseif who starts at a new school following the disappearance of his childhood friend and gets recruited into the special 17th Platoon in order to combat Pollutant Beasts. (AniDB)
Thoghts:
This show looks like it has a bit of potential so I'll watch. But at the same time, I can see something that will be redundant so who knows if I'll continue.
Sora o Kakeru Shoujo
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Website: http://www.sorakake.net/
Japanese Air Date: January
Animation Company: Sunrise (Gundam, Code Geass)
Seiyuu: Aya Endo, Mako, Yui Makino
Summary
An original creation by Sunrise.
The story is set in the year 311 of the Orbital Calendar, when humanity has migrated to countless colony clusters in space. A space colony girl named Akiha Shishidō encounters a malevolent artificial intelligence named Leopard that has been installed on a colony. Akiha is joined by an Inter-Colony Police officer named Itsuki Kannagi, a taciturn young girl named Honoka Kawai, and a robot named Imoko “Imo-chan” Shishidō. (ANN)
Thoughts:
It's shows like these and a few others this season where I'm reminded how much anime is based for male fans. I'll think about it, but is does that jumpsuit need to be that tight? Seriously?SOOOOOO! that's the end! In terms of last season's anime, this is just soooo disappointing, but I guess you can't have prosperity 2 years in a row right? Let's look forward to spring, because I swear the show coming out are going to be uber awesome then. I'll provide a line up in a few weeks (after the start of the new season.) Look forward to it.
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