Aquarion Logos is an anime series produced by Satelight, and the third in the Aquarion franchise, after Genesis of Aquarionand Aquarion Evol, celebrating its 10th anniversary. The series is directed by Eiichi Sato, with character designs by Takeshi Mamezuka. The series’ opening theme will be composed by Yoko Kanno and performed by May’n. The series will begin airing in July 2015.
As of Monday, August 10th up until Sunday, August 16th – digital game distribution website Steam is hosting a sale for Comic Market 88, a fair of independent publications in Tokyo this weekend, they have partnered with publishers of fine Japanese games to bring you this year’s Japanese Indie Games Festival on Steam!
It’s up to a 75% discount which is pretty sweet for many of these games (though some go on sale fairly frequently). Still, if one is looking for a new VN to check out or perhaps was just looking for a sale of some kind, this is the time for fans of anime-style games to pick one up. Happy shopping!
The series was also featured as a poster in the September issue of NyanType. You can view the other posters that come in this issue here.
In addition to this, the bonus illustrations that purchasers will receive for ordering the blu-ray volumes of Shokugeki no Soumahave been revealed.
A total of 7 outlets will be offering special illustrations, which may come as an acrylic board, box cover or special sleeve. In order to receive the bonus illustrations, you will have to order all 8 volumes of the Blu-ray from the respective outlets. They include:
Animate, storage box illustration
Gamers, A3 poster
Toranoana, storage box illustration
Sofmap, storage box illustration
Tsutaya, sleeve case
HMV, storage box illustration
Animaru, hug pillow cover
Amazon Japan will also be offering clear bookmarks with each volume purchase.
A B5 portrait will also be offered with the first purchase of volume 1.
The first volume, releasing on July 29 will contain episodes 1 – 3, a mousepad (Blu-ray version only), a booklet, Textless OP/ED, and audio commentary for episode 1.
The Blu-ray version will cost ¥8,000 ($64.70 USD) and the DVD will cost ¥6,800 ($55.00 USD) without tax.
The second volume, releasing on August 26 will contain episodes 4 – 6, a mousepad (Blu-ray version only), a booklet, Textless OP/ED, a drama CD, and audio commentary for one episode.
The Blu-ray version will cost ¥8,000 ($64.70 USD) and the DVD will cost ¥6,800 ($55.00 USD) without tax.
If you purchase volume 1 – 4, you will receive a B2 sized tapestry:
Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) is a comedy, ecchi cooking manga written by Yuuto Tsukuda, illustrated by Shun Saeki with Chef Yuki Mirosaki adding recipes to the manga. The series began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in late 2012 and to date has a total of 9 compiled volumes released, with the 10th volume releasing in Japan on November 4th. A light novel adaptation of the manga began in February this year in Shueisha’s Jump j-Books, written by Michiko Itou and illustrated by Saeki himself. The manga itself has sold over 2 million copies to date.
Yukihira Souma’s dream is to become a full-time chef in his father’s restaurant and surpass his father’s culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma’s fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?
Naruto Shippuuden Movie 8 – Boruto has been out for just under a week and fans are already flocking to see the next generation of shinobi. The movie itself has earned over ¥680 Million (~ $5.46 Million USD) in just 3 days at the Japanese box office, 115.1% of the previous film, Naruto Shippuuden Movie 7 – The Last.
The film is the 11th overall film in the Naruto franchise and is the first film set after the events of the manga. It opened in 268 theatres across Japan with an opening weekend of ¥409 Million (~ $3.29 Million USD). After the three day period, the film is now out grossing the previous film, The Last -Naruto the Movie-, by 115.1% in the same time period. Despite this, the previous film had an opening weekend of ¥515 Million (~ $4.27 million USD), where Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie opened with ¥446 Million USD (~ $3.8 Million USD). The Last -Naruto the Movie- earned a total of ¥2 Billion (~ $16 Million USD) after its entire run and Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movieended at ¥ 1.46 billion (~ $12.4 million USD).
A series of videos have been released for the movie, including the North American trailer revealing that NA fans can watch Naruto Shippuuden Movie 8 – Boruto this October. Due to the previous films success, Boruto will be playing in major cities such as New York City, San Fransisco, and Seattle with tickets on sale now!
Boruto & Sarada Commercial:
Naruto & Sasuke commercial:
Previous commercials include:
A Father version commercial was also streamed, featuring Naruto being the father that Boruto needs.
The second commercial focuses on Boruto’s teacher, Sasuke.
Akira Ishida (Kaworu Nagisa from Neon Genesis Evangelion) will be voicing as Gaara
Kouki Miyata (Kouta Tsuchiya in Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu) as Choujuurou
Hana Takeda (Chuukou Kyocho in Ikkitousen) returns to voice Kurotsuchi
And Saori Hayami (Yukino Yukinoshita from Oregairu) will voice Himawari Uzumaki
Here is the English subtitled version of the trailer:
The film was first announced at the premiere screening of the latest Naruto film, The Last -Naruto the Movie-, where Masashi Kishimoto was present and answered questions. Kishimoto will be chief production supervisor for the upcoming 2015 film. He stated:
Even though the manga ended, I haven’t taken a break. I am currently thinking about a story between Boruto and Sarada. Sasuke and Sakura will be in it, too. I am also thinking about Boruto’s lethal technique.
Kishimoto will continue to work on the franchise until at least Summer 2015 before moving on to other works. Junko Takeuchi, the voice actress of Naruto Uzumaki stated:
“I can’t possibly guess what’s it about. But I’ll enjoy it.
Following the story where The Last and the Naruto manga left off with Hinata Hyuga and Naruto falling in love and getting married, the movie introduces the two’s hot-headed son that is left in need of paternal guidance while his father protects the Hidden Leaf Village as Hokage. Sasuke, Naruto’s former teammate, rival, and closest friend is now Boruto’s teacher along with his and Sakura’s own daughter, Sadara. While a major plot point of the original Naruto series was Naruto’s lack of biological and general paternal figures, he is displayed at doing his best to be the father Boruto deserves and the one he always wanted growing up.
The film will feature a new cast of characters that were revealed in the final 700th chapter of the original manga. Boruto is the son of Hinata Hyuga and the 7th Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki. They also have a daughter named Himawari. Sarada Uchiha is Sasuke and “Sakura’s” daughter.
Naruto is an original manga series created by Masashi Kishimoto. The manga began in 1999 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, where to date a total of 69 volumes have released. Since its debut the manga has sold over 130 million copies in Japan alone. The series has also received two TV anime series adaptation, covering the manga’s two parts: Naruto and Naruto Shippuden in 2002 and 2007 respectively. Both series were produced by Studio Pierrot. Additionally, a total of 9 anime films have released to date and numerous OVAs and specials. A light novel spin-off was produced by Masatoshi Kusakabe and released in 2002, and a manga spinoff, titled Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden, began publishing in 2010 from Kenji Taira and was adapted into an anime in 2012. Today, the franchise is one of Japan’s most renowned and one of the most popular anime/manga series outside of Japan.
Here is a synopsis of the original series from Haruhichan:
Naruto Uzumaki, a hyperactive and knuckle-headed ninja, lives in Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf village. Moments prior to his birth, a huge demon known as the Kyuubi, the Nine-tailed Fox, attacked Konohagakure and wreaked havoc. In order to put an end to the Kyuubi’s rampage, the leader of the village, the 4th Hokage, sacrificed his life and sealed the monstrous beast inside the newborn Naruto.
Shunned because of the presence of the Kyuubi inside him, Naruto struggles to find his place in the village. He strives to become the Hokage of Konohagakure, and he meets many friends and foes along the way.
Naruto Shippuuden Movie 8 – Boruto will be releasing in Japanese theatres on August 7th. Further information about the movie will be revealed at a later date.
A new key visual for the anime adaptation of Norimitsu Kaihou and Sadoru Chiba’s moe / survival horror Gakkou Gurashi! manga series has been featured in the September issue of NewType as a double page spread. The new visual recaps episode 5 of the TV anime series. You can purchase this NewType magazine issue here.
The official website recently revealed a new illustration where the main cast of the series can be seen in clothing suited for the summertime heat.
In addition to this, the July 18 report by Hon no Hikidashi, the official news site owned by Nippan/Nippon Shuppan Hanbai, one of the biggest book distributors in Japan, recently revealed that the sales of the based on Norimitsu Kaihou and Sadoru Chiba’sGakkou Gurashi!manga’s first volume in the week of July 6-12 increased about 10 times more than the previous week of June 29 to July 5. The anime’s first episode has already been viewed over 1.5 million times on Nico Nico Douga.
Anime visual:
Previous visual:
Gakkou Gurashi! is a Japanese manga series written by Nitroplus’ Norimitsu Kaihou and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. The series began serialization in the July 2012 issue of Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine. An anime adaptation by Lerche will begin airing in Summer 2015
Takeya Yuki is in love with the school. For her, it’s a wonderful place, where she enjoys her school activities, especially the activities of her club: School Life Club. The club has Rii-chan as the president, Kurumi-chan as another member, and the teacher, Megu-nee, always there for them. Yes, she is in love with her school… on her mind. Because, for her, the reality of the school and their club’s activities is way too hard to be perceived…
Japanese media watchdog group Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization (BPO) unveiled a summary of viewer comments they received during the month of July, including several complaints about anime content. The complaints describe the content of the anime but the titles of the anime are not exposed.
One complaint refers to a late-night anime (Shimoseka) that, while it uses sound modification and censors on certain channels, it has a line that is recognizable as a vulgar word for genitals. It also “uses a gesture that suggests sexual intercourse.” The comment says that the show goes too far because even children can guess what the lewd expressions actually mean.
Another complaint cited the ending of a children’s anime that featured girls in bathing suits. The commenter stated that this is “unnecessary” in a children’s cartoon and “lacks consideration, as there are many child predators.”
This is most likely targeted at the 2015 Pri Para anime, the second ending sequence includes scenes of the girls at the beach in bathing suits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=15&v=wsJVCnWeXQg
The BPO also received complaints about a commercial where anime characters from a popular children’s anime were used to advertise gambling. The viewer who submitted the complaint stated that they don’t believe lottery tickets should be sold using anime characters aimed at children.
Characters from the popular children’s anime Chibi Maruko-chan appeared in a commercial to advertise “Chibi Maruko-chan Scratch” lottery tickets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb9izQouPwI
The BPO last posted a complaint about an anime in its April list. This complaint referred to an anime that airs at 6:00 p.m. featuring a hug pillow and “items used for BDSM.” This happened in the 2015 Gintama anime’s 4th episode.
Namaniku ATK, an artist who is known for being the original character designer behind Hitsugi no Chaika and also behind the character design for the upcomingHaruchika TV anime series, has revealed new Battlefield 4 tribute doujinshi content that will be sold at the upcomining Comiket 88 event.
Guest art will also be featured in the Alluvial Comet circle’s new BATTLEFIELDGIRLs fanbook.
Kyou Shirodaira, the author behind Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna and Zetsuen no Tempest, begins a new series titled Tengai-san wa Angai Futsuu. The first chapter of the manga was published today under Square Enix’s Shounen Gangan magazine’s September 2015 issue with 71 pages (and a colored intro). The manga was illustrated by Eita Mizuno (Spiral Alive). The magazine also includes a new chapter for Satsuki Yoshino’s Handa-kun (with a bookmark included) and a key-chain set for Barakamon.
It has been announced on the anime’s official website that Sei Hatsuno’s school-mystery, drama anime, Haruchika (Haruchika: Haruta to Chika wa Seishun Suru, Haruta to Chika), will premiere on January 2016 as part of the Winter 2016 anime line-up. The anime will be produced by P.A. Works, the producers behind Shirobako,Nagi no Asukara and Charlotte. New visuals and character designs have been revealed as well. Take note that the story source has a shounen-ai subplot/genre as both the male and female lead are in-love with their male adviser.
Series composition: Reiko Yoshida (Hanayamata, Non Non Biyori)
Original character design: Namaniku ATK (Hitsugi no Chaika)
Character design: Asako Nishida (Love Live! School Idol Project, Vampire Knight)
Animation production: P.A. Works (Charlotte, Nagi no Asukara)
Character Designs:
Haruta Kamijou
Chika Homura
New visual:
The Haruchika series was published under Kadokawa. It has four volumes, with the fifth volume upcoming.
Exit Game
First Love Sommelier
Fancy Organ
Thousand Years Juliet
Synopsis of Haruhchika from MAL:
The novels revolve around the title characters Haruta Kamijou and Chika Homura, who are members of their school’s concert band. Together, the two solve day-to-day mysteries by building on their childhood friendship.
Visit the anime’s official Twitter account here and you may use its official hashtag: #ハルチカ
The newest issue of Viz’s Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine that was released yesterday and revealed that the upcoming manga adaptation of Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V will be added to the magazine line-up starting August 24. The manga will debut in Japan under Shueisha’s V Jump magazine on August 21. A one-shot has been published under the same title on May 21, 2014 and was also published in English in the magazine. The current issue also featured two monthly chapters: Kazue Katou’s (Robo to Usakichi) Ao no Exorcist and Owari no Seraph by Takaya Kagami (Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu) and Yamato Yamamoto (Kure-nai).
The Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V anime began since April 6, 2014 and is still airing. The anime was produced by Studio Gallop (Touch, Eyeshield 21).
Synopsis of the anime from Haruhichan:
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V centers around Yuya Sakaki, as he tries to escape from harsh reality by smiling. But one Duel leads him to make a determination to confront the difficulties and he will get the power of infinite possibilities. The show’s main theme is “Take a step forward with courage!!”
Yuya is a student at a preparatory school, learning to become an “entertainment Duelist,” a type of professional Duelist.
The story is set in Miami City on the coast of Japan. Leo Corporation is run by its president Reiji Akaba. Thanks to the spread of the company’s “Solid Vision with mass,” “Action Duels” are born in Miami City and has reached worldwide popularity. Children look up to star-level Pro Duelists, and they learn Summoning and Duel styles at various large and small cram schools, including the You Show Duel School that Yuya attends and the largest of such schools, Leo Duel School (LDS).
Sakura Matou (Fate/stay night), Maya Yamada (IS: Infinite Stratos), Kyoko (Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?) and Haruko Amaya’s (Maken-Ki!) voice actress, Noriko Shitaya, has announced on her blog that she is currently pregnant. Recently on April 22nd, she celebrated her birthday and revealed on her blog that she had married someone outside the industry. She also deeply apologized that she is unable to attend the upcoming Aqua Plus Festival -20th Anniversary- event on November 28-29, 2015.
The Aquaplus 20th Anniversary event will be held on Ryougoku Kokugikan, Tokyo for 2 days. The event will have star-studded guests such as Aya Hirano (Fairy Tail‘s Lucy Heartfilia), Risa Taneda (Kyoukai no Kanata‘s Mirai Kuriyama), Nana Mizuki (Naruto‘s Hinata Hyuuga) and Takahiro Mizushima (Code Geass‘ Rolo Lamperouge).
It has been announced on the official website for Kodansha’s Monthly Fairy Tail magazine that there will be a new magazine, titled as Monthly Fairy Tail Collection, for Hiro Mashima’s (Groove Adventure Rave) Fairy Tail series. The magazine will launch digitally first on September 1 following a print released on September 17. Each magazine issue will include anime goodies such as a four-episode anime DVD, a special video of Lucy Heartfilia’s voice actress, Aya Hirano, and three pieces of merchandise exclusively designed by the manga author.
The first issue of the upcoming magazine will include a Natsu Dragneel and Happy rubber strap, a Lucy acrylic key chain and a Gray Fullbuster tin badge.
The previous Fairy Tail magazine has 13 issues published for exactly a whole year, since July 17, 2014 to July 17, 2015. Each issue costs 2,759 yen (excluding tax) which is approximately 22 US dollars. The magazine published two spin-off Fairy Tail manga and both ended at the end of the magazine’s printing: Fairy Tail Zero and Tale of Fairy Tail: Ice Trail.
Issue No. 1 of Monthly Fairy Tail Magazine
Kodansha Comics USA publishes Fairy Tail in individual volumes and currently has 49 volumes released, the 50th volume will be released on September 29, 2015. The publisher will also release the first volume of Fairy Tail: Blue Mistral on August 25, 2015. Crunchyroll simulpubs the manga digitally.
A new Comiket 88 promotional video has been streamed by Warner Entertainment Japan for the upcoming limited edition Shirobako CD, with solo covers of the various openings and endings of Shirobako by the various voice actresses of the series on Tuesday. Each of the five main charactrers have at least one song, with Juri Kimura (Aoi), Haruka Yoshimura (Emma), and Haruka Chisuga (Shizuka) claiming a second song each, for a total of 8 songs. The CD will sell for 4,000 ($32) yen.
The promo video advertises the upcoming limited edition CD release and the Comiket 88 event which is due to take place on August 14, 15 and 16, 2015.
CD Jacket:
In addition to this, the official products that will be sold at the KADOKAWA booth during the Comiket 88 event have been previewed.
In addition to this, it was revealed in the 6th issue of Anime Style, P.A Works founder, president, and Shirobako‘s producer Horikawa Kenji was interviewed. During the interview he revealed that there is enough material to work with for a sequel but director Tsutomu Mizushima is currently busy for the next few years with other series. He also mentioned that even producing an OVA would be tough.
Anime visual:
Shirobako is an anime television series produced by Warner Entertainment Japan and studio P.A.Works, which handled the animation. The series was directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and aired in Japan between October 9, 2014 and March 26, 2015. A manga adaptation began serialization in ASCII Media Works’s Dengeki Daioh magazine in September 2014, and a novel was published by Shueisha in January 2015.
The title Shirobako refers to videos that are distributed to the production staff members prior to its release. These videos were at a time distributed as VHS tapes enclosed in white boxes and are still referred to as “white boxes” (thus the meaning of shirobako) despite the fact that the white enclosures are no longer in use.
Aoi will never forget how she felt the day her high school animation club’s labor of love was shown at the cultural festival. The sense of awe and the feeling of accomplishment that came with completing their very first project are exactly what encouraged Aoi and her club mates to enter the animation industry in the first place. But two years later Aoi has graduated, and now that she works as a production assistant for a big-name animation studio, the daunting reality of her job has somewhat diminished her enthusiasm. Despite the long hours and the punishing schedule, Aoi still hopes to fulfill the promise she and her club friends Ema, Shizuka, Misa, and Midori made: to one day reunite and make a real animated feature of their own as professionals!
The official website for the Diabolik Lovers anime project based on Rejet‘s drama CD/Visual novel franchise has revealed that the second season will premiere on AT-X on September 23, then on Tokyo MX on October 4. Nico Nico Douga plans to stream it in October as well.
The website also revealed a new visual:
In addition to this, it has been revealed that the opening song for the second season will be titled, “Kindan no 666” (The Forbidden Three Six) and performed by Kou Mukami (CV: Ryohei Kimura) and Azusa Mukami (Daisuke Kishio), and its CD single is set for a release on November 25.
Anime visual:
Diabolik Lovers is a Japanese visual novel franchise by Rejet. Its first entry was released on October 11, 2012 for the PlayStation Portable system. Thus far the franchise has released four games with the first two having been remastered for the PlayStation Vita and released as “Limited V Editions”. The franchise has spawned a 12-episode television anime adaptation by Zexcs which aired from September 16, 2013 to December 9, 2013. This was followed by a single OVA which was bundled with Diabolik Lovers: Dark Fate on February 28, 2015. A second television anime adaptation is currently in production, as is a stage-play.
Diabolik Lovers from Haruhichan:
Yui Komori used to see dead people. But as troubling as past glimpses of spirits, poltergeists, and psychic phenomena may have been, they pale into insignificance compared to what she’s about to discover once she’s forced to transfer to a new school. Because it turns out that her own history is very different from what she thought it was, and she has a very different kind of family waiting for her.
Now she’ll be sharing her living space with six very attractive young men, though not a single one is human. And while her new dorm mates may be brothers, and their attraction to her involves her bloodline, “brotherly” is the last word to describe their intentions. In moving from her father’s church to becoming the object of six blood lusting young vampires’ affections, Yui will undergo the most shocking, soul ripping and draining experience any teenage girl could imagine in her wildest fantasies… or most salacious nightmares.
Good Smile Company and character goods seller Animate teamed up earlier this spring for a Love Live! Cafe Campaign in Akihabara, in which fans were asked which μ’s member they most like to go on a picnic with. The top three included Nico Yazawa, Kotori Minami and Hanayo Koizumi. From that, a Nico Yazawa picnic themed figure has now become a reality, available for pre-order starting today.
She is dressed in her casual clothes consisting of a sleeveless striped top, pink jacket, short blue jeans and sneakers. She is shown having a fun time at picnic. Her bright smile matches her cheerful personality, another great touch to this figure.
Shaft, Inc., the animation company behind such works as Bakemonogatari, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, Nisekoi and Paniponi Dash!, has entered the age of social media by creating an official presence on Twitter.
The tweet reads: “Good evening. Shaft has officially started on Twitter. Thank you very much for your support.”
They recently tweeted: “Thank you for everybody who followed. Starting today, we will like to keep you informed on upcoming products, including Comiket products!”
One Piece‘s author, Eiichiro Oda, recently visited the Kanda Myojin Shinto shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, and ended up doing an unexpected collaboration with the Love Live! School Idol Project franchise. Not much information has been revealed but stay tuned for more information in the upcoming weeks.
Here’s the note from Viz’s English edition:
The Kanda Myoujin Shrine is where Love Live!’s Nozomi Toujo works as a shrine maiden, and has been known to distribute Love Live! prayer boards (emas) and charms featuring Nozomi herself.
Toei Animation began streaming three new promotional videos for the upcoming One Piece television special. The special will revisit the childhood past of the three sworn brothers Luffy, Ace, and Sabo, when they all dreamed of becoming pirates. It will also depict how Sabo originally came into the kingdom of Dressrosa (which was not depicted in Eiichiro Oda’s original manga or the television anime), as well as his reunion with Luffy from his point of view.
The story of the popular Furuya Toru voiced character will air Saturday, August 22, on Fuji TV. One Piece Episode of Sabo ~3-Kyoudai no Kizuna Kiseki no Saikai to Uketsugareru Ishi~ (One Piece Episode of Sabo: The Three Brothers’ Bond – The Miraculous Reunion and the Inherited Resolve) will be the fourth installment of the One Piece: Episode TV specials. The new theme song by four-member Japanese rock band Goodbye holiday provides their newly-written “Liberator” is also previewed in the trailer.
The first trailer for the upcoming One Piece television special was streamed earlier in July:
Some screenshots of the preview were also revealed earlier:
Anime visual:
One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump since July 19, 1997; the individual chapters are being published in tankoubon volumes by Shueisha, with the first released on December 24, 1997, and the 75th volume released as of September 2014. One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a young man whose body gains the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit, and his diverse crew of pirates, named the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy explores the ocean in search of the world’s ultimate treasure known as One Piece in order to become the next Pirate King.
The chapters have been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) produced by Production I.G in 1998, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Since then, the still continuing series has aired over 672 episodes. Additionally, Toei has developed thirteen animated feature films, two OVA’s, and five television specials.
One Piece has received wide critical acclaim, primarily for its art, characterization, humor and story. Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including highest initial print run of any book in Japan and the first book to sell over three million copies in Oricon history. As of 2013, the series had over 345 million volumes in circulation worldwide, making it the best-selling manga series in history.
Gol D. Roger was known as the Pirate King, the strongest and most infamous being to have sailed the Grand Line. The capture and death of Roger by the World Government brought a change throughout the world. His last words before his death revealed the location of the greatest treasure in the world, One Piece. It was this revelation that brought about the Grand Age of Pirates, men who dreamed of finding One Piece(which promises an unlimited amount of riches and fame), and quite possibly the most coveted of titles for the person who found it, the title of the Pirate King.
Enter Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy that defies your standard definition of a pirate. Rather than the popular persona of a wicked, hardened, toothless pirate who ransacks villages for fun, Luffy’s reason for being a pirate is one of pure wonder; the thought of an exciting adventure and meeting new and intriguing people, along with finding One Piece, are his reasons of becoming a pirate. Following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, Luffy and his crew travel across the Grand Line, experiencing crazy adventures, unveiling dark mysteries and battling strong enemies, all in order to reach One Piece.
Figure company Alter have revealed an amazing 1/8 scale figure of Haruna Kirishima from the popular moe military anime, Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova. She is presented in her yellow one-piece dress and large jacket which she wears like a cape. Her look is recreated faithfully from the anime, she is perfect in every angle.
It’s Week 4 and there has been a lot of excitement as many anime approach their 6th episode. As usual, we have Anime Trending‘s results updated weekly here on Haruhichan.
You can click here if you wish to participate in Anime Trending‘s Anime of the Week survey, or you can click here if you are interested in their character and couple/ships poll, or here for their soundtrack poll.
If you missed last week’s rankings, you check it out here.
God Eater was removed from the Top 10 this week since there was no episode last week. It will return to the charts next week for Week 5.
I think Charlotte deserved #1 this week especially after the cliff hangar. There’s so many questions and I hope they get answered soon. Glad to see Rokka no Yuusha, and Overlord make it back to the Top 10. We’ll see next week if they can retain their spots.
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