Minggu, 30 Juni 2013
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?
Kingdom 2 / キングダム
On Air: June 8Plot 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.
Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyō / 犬とハサミは使いよう
On Air: July 1Plot 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.
Recorder and Randsell Mi / リコーダーとランドセル ミ☆
On Air: July 1Plot 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.
Brothers Conflict / ブラザーズ コンフリクト
On Air: July 2Plot 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
Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to Keiji / 義風堂々!!兼続と慶次
On Air: July 2Plot Summary: Adaptation of the the manga series. The story follows the adventures of the real-life samurai Naoe Kanetsugu.
Senyū. Dai 2 Ki / 戦勇。第２期
On Air: July 2Plot 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.
Free!
On Air: July 3Plot 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.
Tamayura ~More Aggressive~ / たまゆら ～もあぐれっしぶ～
On Air: July 3Plot 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.
Dangan Ronpa – The Academy of Hope and the High School Students of Despair: The Animation / ダンガンロンパ 希望の学園と絶望の高校生 The Animation
On Air: July 4Plot 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.
Kitakubu Katsudō Kiroku / 帰宅部活動記録
On Air: July 4Plot 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.
Love Lab / 恋愛ラボ
On Air: July 4Plot 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.
Rozen Maiden / ローゼンメイデン
On Air: July 4Plot 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.
Senki Zesshō Symphogear G / 戦姫絶唱シンフォギアＧ
On Air: July 4Plot 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.
Servant X Service / サーバント×サービス
On Air: July 4Plot Summary: Adaptation of the manga series. The story follows the daily lives of the health and welfare division members in a city in Hokkaido.
Stella Jo-Gakuin C3-Bu / ステラ女学院C3部
On Air: July 4Plot 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).
Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS / ロウきゅーぶ！SS
On Air: July 5Plot 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.
Fantasista Doll / ファンタジスタドール
On Air: July 6Plot Summary: Original story. The science-fiction story revolves around “dolls” who fight and power up with special cards.
Gen’ei o Kakeru Taiyō / 幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽
On Air: July 6Plot 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.
Genshiken Nidaime / げんしけん 二代目
On Air: July 6Plot 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”.
Kamisama no Inai Nichiyōbi / 神さまのいない日曜日
On Air: July 6Plot 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.
Kin-iro Mosaic / きんいろモザイク
On Air: July 6Plot 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.
Monogatari Series Second Season / ＜物語＞シリーズ セカンドシーズン
On Air: July 6Plot 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.
Blood Lad / ブラッドラッド
On Air: July 7Plot 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.
Hakkenden Touhou Hakken Ibun 2 / 八犬伝 ―東方八犬異聞―
On Air: July 7Plot 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.
High School DXD New / ハイスクールD×D NEW
On Air: July 7Plot 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.
Makai Ōji: Devils and Realist / 魔界王子devils and realist
On Air: July 7Plot 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.
Teekyū 2 / てーきゅう
On Air: July 7Plot 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.
Uchōten Kazoku / 有頂天家族
On Air: July 7Plot 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.
The World God Only Knows: Goddesses Arc / 神のみぞ知るセカイ 女神篇
On Air: July 8Plot 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.
Watashi Ga Motenai No Wa Dou Kangaete Mo Omaera Ga Warui! / 私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い！
On Air: July 8Plot 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.
Silver Spoon / 銀の匙
On Air: July 11Plot 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.
Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA / Fate/kaleid liner プリズマ☆イリヤ
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.
Gatchaman Crowds / ガッチャマン クラウズ
On Air: July 12Plot 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.”
Hyperdimension Neptune / 超次元ゲイム ネプテューヌ The Animation
On Air: July 12Plot 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.
Futari wa Milky Holmes / ふたりはミルキィホームズ
On Air: July 13Plot 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.
Kimi no Iru Machi / 君のいる町
On Air: July 13Plot 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 ANN
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