Natsu da! It’s summer! We hope you had an awesome
spring season, which offered very nice and enjoyable anime such as
Shingeki no Kyojin (still ongoing),
Ore no Imōto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai. (still ongoing),
Ginga Kikōtai Majestic Prince,
Hataraku Maousama!,
To Aru Kagaku No Railgun S,
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru.,
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet,
Yuyushiki. What was your most favorite series this season?
This summer’s anime line-up will consist of over 30 series! The top three anime
voted by Japanese fans are
Rozen Maiden, Free! and
The World God Only Knows: Goddesses Arc.
As fans of the Wagnaria crew we’re really looking forward to Karino Takatsu’s
Servant X Service! We also anticipate the last season of NisiOisin’s
Monogatari
series, which will consist of around 26 episodes running for half a
year starting this July. Other adaptations on our watch-list include
Kouji Seo’s
Kimi no Iru Machi, which already inspired two OVAs, and
Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa’s
Silver Spoon.
Those of you who like slice-of-life school anime will be provided with
quite a lot of them this summer. We’ll also check some of them…
What’s on your watch-list?
On Air: June 8
Plot Summary: 2nd season of
Kingdom and
adaptation of the the manga series. In the Warring States Period of
ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the
kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the
battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a
minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou
manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin them meets a boy
who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei.
For now he is the king of Qin,; later he will become emperor Shi Huangdi.
On Air: July 1
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the light novel series.
The story centers around Kazuhito Harumi, a high school boy who is
obsessed with reading books. One day, he is killed in the middle of a
robbery — and resurrected as a dachshund dog. The helpless Kazuhito now
belongs to Kirihime Natsuno, a sadistic novelist who uses scissors on
Kazuhito to abuse him.
On Air: July 1
Plot Summary: 3rd season of
Recorder and Randsell
and adaptation of the the manga series. The series is mainly about the
Miyagawa siblings: Atsushi – an elementary student whose build and
appearance is the same as a typical adults man; and Atsumi – his sister
and a high school girl whose appearance is like an elementary student.
They live everyday encountering misunderstandings and misadventures,
most to be blamed to their ironic age/looks.
On Air: July 2
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the novel series. The
story centers around a girl who suddenly gets 11 brothers- from 32 years
old down to 11 years old – when her father remarries. She joins the
Asahina family under one roof at the Sunrise Residence complex
On Air: July 2
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the the manga series. The story follows the adventures of the real-life samurai Naoe Kanetsugu.
On Air: July 2
Plot Summary: 2nd season of
Senyū. and
adaptation of the the manga series. A gigantic hole suddenly opened up
in the world one day, and demons appeared. The king thinks that this
portends the return of the demon king Rukimeduse. Who was sealed away by
the hero Kureashion a millennium ago.
The king decreed that the descendants of the hero must take on the
threat, and 74 people showed up. Her No. 45 (Aruba) and the sadistic
palace warrior (Rosu) team up, and their adventure begins.
On Air: July 3
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the novel series. The
story revolves around Haurka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be
immersed in water, and to swim in it. After participating in a swimming
tournament along with his swimming club members Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa
Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka, each of the boys went their separate ways.
Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives,
Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his
overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka gathers
together Makoto and Nagisa once again, and also brings a new member
named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club.
On Air: July 3
Plot Summary: Original story an 2nd season of
Tamayura.
For her first year of high school, Fu Sawatari moves to Takehara, a
scenic old town near Hiroshima, on the Inland Seas. Her father, who has
passed away, grew up in Takehara. She loves taking pictures with her
father’s old film camera, a Rollei 35S. The story follows Fu and her
friends who gather around her as she comes to love her new home.
On Air: July 4
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the PSP game. The story
follows a group of high school students, each with a different
exceptional talent, who are locked inside a school and told that the
only way to escape is to kill another student without getting caught.
After a murder, the remaining students must hold a trial with their
lives on the line to find out who the killer is.
On Air: July 4
Plot Summary: Adaptation od the manga series. In a
certain high school, there is a “Kitakubu” (literally, “go-home club”)
of girls who do whatever they like. The president is a free spirit named
Sakura, while Botan is the combative heir to a school of ancient
martial arts. Claire happens to be the daughter of the head of the
powerful Kokonoe conglomerate. Natsuki joins the club at the invitation
of another freshman, Karin, but she is unprepared for the “club’s”
hijinks.
On Air: July 4
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the 4-koma manga series.
The story revolves around the girls at the elite Fujisaki Girls’ Middle
School, which has tsundere, meganekko and other kinds of students.
On Air: July 4
Plot Summary: 3rd season of
Rozen Maiden
and adaptation of the reboot manga. Due to a deep trauma at school
Sakurada Jun has refused to return. He spends his time in his room,
surfing the web and ordering anything that takes his fancy, only to
return the items just before payment is due. One day, he finds a web
site that tells him to put his order in a drawer of his desk. He does so
thinking it to be a joke, only to find that the letter disappears and a
strange package arrives soon afterwards. It contains an exquisite doll,
that, when wound, comes to life. She treats him as a servant of little
worth, but over time helps him come to grips with his fears and in the
life-or-death fights that soon follow her arrival.
On Air: July 4
Plot Summary: Original story and 2nd season of
Senki Zesshō Symphogear.
Two years ago, a pair of idols, Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amou,
collectively known as ZweiWing, fought against an alien race known as
Noise using armor known as Symphogear. To protect a girl named Hibiki
Tachibana, who got severely wounded by the Noise Kanade sacrificed
herself. Two years later, as Tsubasa has fought the Noise alone, Hibiki
ends up gaining the same power as Kanade.
On Air: July 4
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. The
story follows the daily lives of the health and welfare division members
in a city in Hokkaido.
On Air: July 4
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. Yura
Yamato has just arrived at the high school division of Stella Girl’s
Academy, when Sonora Kashima invites her to join a club called “C3″.
Sonora is the third-year student who became the new head of this club
for survival games. The other members include two second-year students
(part-Japanese Karila Hatsuse and G36K-wielding Honoka Mutsu) and two
other freshmen (Rento Kirishima whose family runs a Japanese sweets shop
and the really short Yachiyo Hinata).
On Air: July 5
Plot Summary: 2nd season of
Ro-Kyu-Bu! and
adaptation of the light novel series. Subaru Hasegawa is a high school
freshman, who joins the basketball team but soon finds out the is
inactive because the captain being suspected as a lolicon. He
miraculously is entangled with the job of being coach of an elementary
school’s basketball team. With these girls and their love for basketball
Subaru can only take them so far.
On Air: July 6
Plot Summary: Original story. The science-fiction story revolves around “dolls” who fight and power up with special cards.
On Air: July 6
Plot Summary: Original story. A story of girls who
solve mysterious matters that occur in this world, using the mystical
tarot cards that hold the power to read destinies.
On Air: July 6
Plot Summary: 3rd season of
Genshiken and
adaptation of the manga series. The story continues with adventures of
the otaku college club “The Society for the Study of Modern Visual
Culture”.
On Air: July 6
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the light novel series.
God abandoned the world on Sunday. As a result, nobody in the world can
die or have kids. A little girl, Ai, is the grave keeper for the village
,Ai is given a unique task to help the would-be dead to try find peace .
one day a boy who identifies himself as Hampnie Hambart a.k.a the
Man-eating Toy , appears in the village killing everybody and shooting
at everything and everyone as well as setting the village on fire . Ai
talks Hanpunii and find out some shocking truth.
On Air: July 6
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. The
story of the original manga begins with Shinobu Ōmiya, a 15-year-old,
seemingly “pure Japanese” girl who actually did a homestay in Great
Britain comes back to Japan, while she still misses her time overseas.
One day, an air mail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu’s
host family in Great Britain. The letter reads, “Shinobu, I’m coming to
Japan!” The “Japanese/British girls’ mixed comedy” follows the lives of
Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain.
On Air: July 6
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the light novel series.
The second Monogatari season will cover the following light novel
volumes: Nekomogatari (White), Kabukimonogatari, Hanamonogatari,
Otorimonogatari, Onimonogatari and Koimonogatari.
On Air: July 7
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. The
story follows Staz, a vampire that is obsessed with the human world, and
Fuyumi, a human girl that was killed and turned into a ghost after
wandering into the demon world. Staz promised to help Fuyumi regain her
humanity by bringing her back to life, as it means that he would be able
to visit the human world.
On Air: July 7
Plot Summary: 2nd season of
Touhou Hakken Ibun
and adaptation of the manga series. Five years ago, almost every
villager of Ootsuka died due to a tragic plague. But mysteriously
enough, three survivors: a girl and two boys, emerged. Now living in a
church, the three live in isolation, hidden from those who may seek to
find them. Shino, one of the survivors, has control over the power of
Murasame, the blade of life. But when the imperial church seeks to take
the Murasame for themselves, their peaceful life becomes a thing of the
past.
On Air: July 7
Plot Summary: 2nd season of
High School DXD
and adaptation of the light novel series. The story follows Issei
Hyoudou, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student who is
killed by a girl on his first date ever. Issei is then reincarnated as a
devil, and from that day onward, he serves as an underling of Riasu, a
high-level devil who is also the prettiest girl in Issei’s school.
On Air: July 7
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. After
his uncle’s business fails, William Twining, an intelligent young noble,
finds himself in a dire financial situation. With no funds for his
school tuition, he searches his house until he comes upon the basement.
There, he accidentally summons Dantalion, who recognizes William as a
descendant of Solomon, and the Elector—the individual that will choose a
substitute ruler for when the Emperor of Hell, Lucifer, rests. From
that moment on, William’s life is irrevocably interwoven with the
supernatural world as other demonic candidates for substitute king vie
for his nomination and Heaven attempts to retrieve his soul.
On Air: July 7
Plot Summary: 2nd season of
Teekyū and adaptation of the manga series. The story centers around four high school girls who belong to their school’s tennis club.
On Air: July 7
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the novel series. The
comedy drama of Uchouten Kazoku is set in Kyoto, where tanuki
(shape-shifting raccoon-dogs), tengu (long-nosed goblins of Japanese
folklore), and humans intermingle. The story follows the Shimogamo
family of tanuki who live in the Tadasu no Mori forest of Shimogamo
Shrin.
On Air: July 8
Plot Summary: 3rd season of
The World God Only Knows
and adaptation of the manga series. Dating sim master Keima Katsuragi
wants nothing more than to immerse himself in the 2D world, chasing
digital girlfriends. But when the so-called “Capturing God” answers a
mysterious email from an unknown sender, Keima finds himself chasing
down real-life ladies in an attempt to help the peppy demon Elsie de
Lute Irma capture “ lost souls” which escaped from the depths of hell.
Now, lest the explosive collar around his neck detonate, Keima must
convince various girls to fall in love with him in order to scare out
the souls hiding in their hearts.
On Air: July 8
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. Kuroki
Tomoko is an lonely “ordinary girl” who has the dream of becoming
popular. for her misfortunes she’s branded deranged and lonely and
spends most of her time playing games and watching shows. She then
enters high school and that triggers her interest in popularity, She
tries to achieve her goals in any way she can, but it doesn’t always end
the way it should.
On Air: July 11
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. Yugo
Hachiken dreams of a life separated from his family, so he takes the
initiative by enrolling in an agriculture school. He thinks, with his
talent in studying, no problems will arise no matter what kind of school
he attends. He is proven wrong very quickly. Raised as a city boy, he
is forced to uncover the inconvenient truth about agriculture life.
On Air: July 12 (July 6 streaming on Niconico)
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. The
story re-imagines the Fate/stay night character Illyasviel von Einzbern
in an alternate universe as a magical girl.
On Air: July 12
Plot Summary: Spin-off of the
Gatchaman
anime series. Has an original plot, including a female lead. The story
is set in Japan in the early summer of 2015. 180,000 people live in
Tachikawa City, the “second metropolis” of the Tokyo area. Among them
are “Gatchaman” — warriors who fight in special reinforced suits powered
by “NOTE,” the manifestation of special spiritual powers in living
beings. A council has scouted a group of individuals with latent powers
to protect Earth from alien criminals. In recent years, the council has
assigned Gatchaman warriors to deal with the mysterious entity known as
“MESS.”
On Air: July 12
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the game. An anime of
the popular game series featuring the 7th generation of video game
consoles and video game companies as cute girls.
On Air: July 13
Plot Summary: Original story and 3rd season of
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes. In the future world, people use “Toys” that grant them superhuman abilities like ESP and telekinesis.
This has led to a boom in both minor crimes and the need for Toy-using
detectives to track down the offenders and bring them to justice. Opera
Koyabashi runs the detective agency Milky Homes, staffed by four
cheerful and energetic girls.
On Air: July 13
Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. Yuzuki
Eba, a girl from Tokyo, has mysteriously decided to go to high school
in the countryside of Hiroshima. But despite Haruto Kirishima’s
objections, she is living in his home. Now he has to put up with a
freeloading city girl and even worse, make sure Nanami Kanzaki, the girl
he likes, doesn’t get the wrong idea! – The story’s setting is based on
the author,
Kouji Seo’s hometown.
Sources:
tvtropes,
neregate,
biglobe and
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