Saturday, October 1

Anime Preview Fall 2011

Battle Spirits: Heroes
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Animation Production: Sunrise
Genre: Action, Shounen
Summary: 


                    
An anime project adapted from an original trading card game, in which cards represent dragons, demons, birds, insects, and other spirits that the players can control in battles.







Busou Shinki Moon Angel
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Animation Production: Kinema Citrus & TNK
Genre: Action. Sci-Fi
Summary:


                    
The story will follow the coming of age and Shinki battles of Tsubasa, a boy who dreams of becoming a Shinki Master, and his Shinki partner Arnval Mk. 2.






Digimon Xros Wars Toki wo Kakeru Shounen Hunter-tachi
Release Date: October 02, 2011
Animation Production: Toei Animation
Genre: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen
Summary:


                    
Another installment of the Digimon series.






Cross Fight B Daman
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Animation Production:
Genre: Adventure
Summary: 


                    
An upcoming B-Daman anime series set to be based on the Cross Fight B-Daman toys.






HUNTERxHUNTER
Release Date: October 02, 2011
Animation Production: Madhouse
Genre: Action, Adventure, Shounen
Summary:


                    
Remake of the 1999 HUNTERxHUNTER TV series. A Hunter is one who travels the world doing all sorts of dangerous tasks. From capturing criminals to searching deep within uncharted lands for any lost treasures. Gon is a young boy whose father disappeared long ago, being a Hunter. He believes if he could also follow his father's path, he could one day reunite with him.





Chihayafuru
Release Date: October 04, 2011
Animation Production: Madhouse
Genre: Drama. Sports
Summary:


                    
All her life, Chihaya's dream was to see her model sister become Japan's best... That is, until a quiet, unassuming transfer student named Arata tells her otherwise. A dream, he explains to her, is something she needs to work at herself.
Chihaya is a lighthearted tomboy, who's not especially good at anything particular. Her dreams has always been for her sister (an aspiring model) to become the number one beauty of Japan, or perhaps of the world. But then one day she meets someone who tells her that a dream is something that should concern only herself - and something she has to work hard for as well. At the same time, Chihaya discovers a passion for the old Japanese game hyakunin ishhu, also called "karuta"






Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai
Release Date: October 06, 2011
Animation Production: AIC Build
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School, Seinen









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Hasegawa Kodaka has transferred schools, and he's having a hard time making friends. It doesn't help that his blond hair tends to make people think he's a delinquent. One day, he runs into his bad-tempered solitary classmate Yozora while she's talking animatedly to her imaginary friend Tomo. Realizing that neither of them have any actual friends, they decide that the best way to alter this situation is to form a club and start recruiting.







Mobile Suit Gundam AGE
Release Date: October 09, 2011
Animation Production: Sunrise
Genre: Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi


Summary: 


                   
In A.G. 101 (the 101st year of the Advanced Generation calendar) a mysterious entity known only as "UE", or "unknown enemy", attacks and destroys the space colony Angel. This brutal attack becomes infamous as the "The Day the Angel Fell", and marks the beginning of humanity's war for survival. The series begins in A.G. 108 when the UE attack the space colony Ovan, where Flit Asuno lives with his mother. Flit's mother is killed by the UE, and in her belongings (in an object called a "AGE Device") he discovers the blueprints for a powerful weapon from the past--the ancient messiah named "Gundam."






Hidamari Sketch x SP (Special)
Release Date: October 29, 2011
Animation Production: SHAFT
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Summary: 
                    
Yuno has been accepted to her dream school: Yamabuki Arts High School. To attend the school, Yuno moves and starts to live in a small apartment building named the Hidamari Apartments located near the school. Once there, she starts making new friends like her classmate Miyako and the second year students, Hiro and Sae. Surrounded by good friends, Yuno starts moving towards her dream of being an artist.





UN-GO
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Animation Production: Bones
Genre: Mystery
Summary: 
                    
Meiji-era story about a detective named Yuki Shinjuro, who solves various incidents that happen in his circle of friends. The adaptation will utilize an original story set in the near future, revolving around the detective and a boy named Inga, who continually encounter mysterious cases.





Guilty Crown
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Animation Production: Production I.G.
Genre: Action, Magic, Sci-Fi
Summary: 
                    
The story takes place in Tokyo in 2039. After the outbreak of the unidentified virus "Lost Christmas" in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multinational organization called GHQ. Ohma Shu is a 17 year old boy who has a psychic power in his right hand. He can use the power "Ability of King" to extract tools or weapons from his friends. He has been avoiding making trouble for others but his life changes when he meets a girl named Yuzuriha Inori, a member of a resistance guerrilla group called "Undertaker", whose members pilot mecha weapons to fight against the government.





Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Animation Production: Sunrise
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Summary:


                    In the far future, humans abandon the devastated Earth and move to the upper world "Tenjo". But Tenjo and the law of causation collapse by a war and humans returns to the Earth, which has turns into an inhabitable planet except for Shinshu area.

                   
                    
Shinshu is too small to accommodate all the humans, so they duplicate the area and create "Juso Sekai" in a parallel world. In order to rebuild Tenjo and the law of causation, the returned humans start reproduction of the history from B.C. 10,000. When the reproduction proceeds to A.D. 1413, a war breaks out in Shinshu and Juso Sekai falls onto the original world.


                    

The humans living in Juso Sekai lose their land and invade the original world. People in Shinshu surrender and the land is divided by the invaders from Juso Sekai. They try to resume the history reproduction from A.D.1457, but the update of the history terminates in A.D.1648. A rumor of apocalypse begins to spread the world.

















Persona 4 The Animation
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Animation Production: AIC A.S.T.A
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, School, Sci-Fi, Supernatural





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Persona 4 takes place in the same universe as Persona 3 in a rural town named Inaba. There have been mysterious murders occurring whenever there was fog after heavy rain. There were also rumors about a channel on television airing only at midnight called Mayonaka TV, during which it is said that one can see his/her "other half" when staring at the TV screen.
                    
After hearing about a recent unsolved murder which occurred during the fog, the characters—the main character, Chie, and Yōsuke—discuss how each of them had attempted to watch the mysterious TV channel and witnessed the murder victim. The protagonist later realizes that during midnight when the channel is on, his body can phase into his television set as a gateway to enter another world infested with shadows.
                    
After discovering this, they all decide to explore. When first completely entering the world, dazed and confused, the main character meets Teddie. Mayonaka TV and the town murders seem to have a connection. The murder victims may be merely victims of Mayonaka TV. Everyone decides that they will together try to solve the mysterious murders by exploring the hidden world of Mayonaka TV.
                    
After the closing events of Persona 3 on January 31, 2010, Persona 4 starts April 11, 2011, Putting the start of Persona 4 fourteen months after the end of Persona 3, this is also evident by the appearance of an older Chihiro, who is now a 3rd year student.





Shinryaku!? Ika Musume
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Animation Production: Diamedea
Genre: Comedy





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Second season of Shinryaku! Ika Musume.






Fate/Zero
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Animation Production: ufotable
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Supernatural



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Fate/zero takes place 10 years prior to the events of Fate/Stay Night, detailing the events of the 4th Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. The War of the Holy Grail is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete to obtain the power of the "Holy Grail," which grants a miracle. After three inconclusive wars for the elusive Holy Grail, the Fourth War commences.






Working!! 2
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
Genre: Comedy


Summary: 
                    

Season 2 of the comedy series Working!!.






Shakugan no Shana III (Final)
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Genre: Action. Comedy, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural

Summary: 
                    
                    


Third and final season of Shakugan no Shana.






Ben-To
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Animation Production: David Production
Genre: Action



Summary: 
                    
                    


Sato Yo is a high school boy who likes SEGA games. One day, he enters a grocery store to buy some food for dinner. When he tries to take a bento box, he loses consciousness. He comes around to find all the bento sold out. He notices there is a war game going on at grocery stores and players called "Wolves" compete for the half-priced bento. Yarizui Sen, the leader of the Half-Pricer Club, forces Yo to join the club and he enters the bento war.






Maken-Ki!
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Animation Production: AIC
Genre: Action, Ecchi, Martial Arts, School, Harem



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Takeru Ohyama, a young normal yet perverted minded guy, got accepted and now goes to a school that, unknown to him, was where combat and magic is used. On the first day, he meets again after three years: Haruko Amaya, his childhood friend, Inaho Kushiya, a girl who says she's his fiance, and Kodama Himegami, a blonde who wants to kill him. Finding out that there are many girls there that just don't like him, he is told that everyone there uses a special magic ability while using an item or weapon called a Maken. Later, he finds that no Maken is acceptable for him and doesn't know what to do, since in this school the students get into duels that showcase their magic and combat power, to which he seemingly has none.






Kimi to Boku.
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School, Shounen, Slice of Life



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Shun, Kaname, and the twins Yuuki and Yuuta have been friends since kindergarten. It's a little hard to tell if they actually get along or not - but even as high-school students, they hang out together. Recently, they've had a new addition; a half-Japanese transfer student Chizuru, who has started to liven up the group. The story is about their daily lives, which aren't particularly passionate or exciting. A tranquil and sometimes comedic story of youthful friendship...






Fujilog 2nd Season
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Animation Production:
Genre: Comedy



Summary: 
                    
                    


Second season of Fujilog.






Mashiro-Iro Symphony
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Animation Production: Manglobe
Genre: Drama, Romance



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One day, Shingo's school combines with a girls' school. As a specially selected student, Shingo temporarily joins the girls' school until they officially consolidate. He meets various unique girls there, but they all dislike male students.






Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Animation Production: GONZO
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi



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Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing is a new original tale in the Last Exile universe. It features new characters, new mechanics and an all new story centered around the young ace vanship pilot, Fam, and her trusted navigator, Giselle, as they pilot their vanship, Vespa, through the free and peaceful skies.






Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Animation Production: Sunrise
Genre: Action, Game



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Daimon Kaito is a high school boy, who loves puzzles. One day, the president of the student council gives him a mobile device and it leads him to an underground ruin buried in the school. He challenges an " insolvable puzzle" hidden in the ruin with his girlfriend Nonoha, but the puzzle turns out to be the dangerous "The Puzzle of Sage" created by the black society "POG". He manages to solve the puzzle but it's the beginning of a puzzle battle against POG.






Tamayura ~hitotose~
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Animation Production: Hal Film Maker
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life



Summary: 
                    
                    


Further story about Fu Sawatari and her friends who original starred in the Tamayura four episode OVAs






Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi 2
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Yaoi



Summary: 
                    
                    


Season two of Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi.






Lupin III
Release Date:
Animation Production:
Genre: Adventure, Comedy. Shounen



Summary: 
                    
                    


A new installment of the Lupin III series.






Bakuman 2
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School, Shounen



Summary: 
                    
                    


Season two of Bakuman.






Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!!
Release Date: October 2, 2011
Animation Production: Lerche
Genre: Comedy, Martial Arts, Romance, School



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Kawakami City is famous for its strong dedication to its samurai ancestors. A healthy fighting spirit is always valued and it's even an important factor for success at school. Yamato, a second year student from Kawakami Highchool is always with his close friends (4 boys and 3 girls). They have all known each other since they were young and have done many things together. While they have many other friends, this group of seven is a close-knit, inseparable group. They even have a secret base where they meet. With the new semester, they welcome two girls into their group and shortly after things begin to change...






Mirai Nikki
Release Date: October 9, 2011
Animation Production: Asread
Genre: Action, Shounen, Mystery, Supernatural, Psychological, Thriller



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Middle school 2nd year, Amano Yukiteru, is a boy who has problem making friends. He thinks of himself as a bystander and will always write down everything he sees in a cell phone diary. Tormented by solitude, Yukiteru began to imagine things like a friend called Deus Ex Machina who is apparently the Lord of Time & Space. Seeing Yukiteru's miserable state, Deus gives him a new ability. His diary will now record events that will happen in the near future. Yukiteru is then forced to participate in a game which the winner will become Deus's successor.






CubexCursedxCurious
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Animation Production: Silver Link
Genre: Action, Comedy, Ecchi, School, Shounen



Summary: 
                                        


Yachi Haruaki is a high school boy and naturally resistant to curses. His father, Honatsu, sends him cursed instruments called "Worse" to try to break this. One day, Haruaki receives a black cube from Honatsu. During the night, he encounters a naked silver haired girl stealing rice crackers. She is the human-form of the black cube, an instrument of torture called "Fear in Cube". Haruaki and the girl 'Fear' fight together against other 'Worse' instruments and their owners using Fear's 32 mechanisms of torture.