Japanese website Goo has recently asked their users: What is the most psychological anime you have seen? The rankings are based on which anime series showed the most intense use of a person’s mind. A total of 500 people responded, 250 male and 250 female.
The first commercial has been revealed for the upcoming anime adaptation of Front Wing’s Grisaia sequel visual novels Grisaia no Meikyuu (The Labyrinth of Grisaia) and Grisaia no Rakuen (The Eden of Grisaia). This commercial gives us a very brief look at the upcoming anime as well as previewing the Opening theme for Grisaia no Rakuen, Setsuna no Kajitsu performed by Maon Kurosaki. The first episode of the anime will be a 60 minute special. It will cover Grisaia noMeikyuu, which is a sequel to Grisaia no Kajitsu (The Fruit of the Grisaia) and continues all of the routes from the parent game. Grisaia no Rakuen continues on from the main canon ending of Meikyuu and is the final chapter in the Grisaia visual novel trilogy. The anime will also be produced once again by 8-Bit (IS: Infinite Stratos, Tokyo Ravens).
The Grisaia no Meikyuu and Grisaia no Rakuen anime will be airing this April during the Spring 2015 anime season.
Fans of the Fate/Stay Night have waited patiently for information involving figures being released this year. One of these is no other than Saber’s daughter, Saber of Red or Mordred, the Knight of Treachery from the light novel, Fate/Apocrypha. Mordred resembles Saber as her daughter (or “Son,” who is actually female) with Morgan le Fey, who appears in the popular light novel based on Fate/Stay Night.
The figure appears in Mordred’s most popular pose from concept art and is being manufactured by the company Aquamarine.
The 1/7 scale figure is set to release in May of 2015 and is currently available for preorder on Amiami for 9,100 yen.
Last February 27, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu revealed the final results for the anime’s character popularity poll in their official Twitter account and the anime’s official website. On February 26, ranks 11-15 were revealed. The top 3 characters will be having a mini poster and a character song present. The posters will be released on May 29 on the release of the anime’s Blu-ray and DVD volume. They have announced the top 15 characters who are the most popular among Japanese fans.
Ansatsu Kyoushitsu is a supernatural, comedy, shounen manga written by Yuusei Matsui (Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro). The manga began on July 2, 2012 and currently has 12 compiled manga volumes. Viz Media licensed the manga for North American distribution and has translated 2 volumes so far. The 3rd English manga volume will be released on April 7, 2015. The manga was also nominated for the 19th Tezuka Ozamu Cultural Prize Award.
The manga has an anime adaptation that was produced by Studio Lerche (Re:␣Hamatora) and was directed by Seiji Kishi (Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, Angel Beats!). It began airing on January 10, 2015 and is slated to have 22 episodes.
Visual:
Synopsis of Ansatsu Kyoushitsu by Haruhichan:
A humorous and action-packed story about a class of misfits who are trying to kill their new teacher—an alien octopus with bizarre powers and super strength! The teacher has just destroyed the moon and is threatening to destroy the earth—unless his students can destroy him first. What makes things more complicated is that he’s the best teacher they’ve ever had!
The official website of the upcoming anime adaptation of Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) manga began streaming the second commercial on Friday. The opening theme song titled Hope Song by ULTRA TOWER is also previewed.
Here is the first commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIHBn_k_Sk
A new visual for the anime was also revealed in the most recent issue of Gigazine and Animate TV’s Winter 2014/2015 Anime Guide:
Additional members of the anime’s cast were also revealed at the stage panel last December. The newly announced cast members of the anime and their respective characters are as follows:
Natsuki Hanae (Inaho Kaizuka in Aldnoah.Zero) will voice the role of Takumi Aldini
Yuuki Ono (Taiga Kagami from Kuroko’s Basketball) will join the cast as Isami Aldini
Takahiro Sakurai (Shougo Makishima in Psycho-Pass) is going to voice Satoshi Isshiki
Saori Oonishi (La Folia Rihavein in Strike the Blood) will voice Hisako Arato
The main cast of the anime were earlier revealed and includes:
Matsuoka Yoshitsugu (Kirito in Sword Art Online) voicing as Souma Yukihira
Risa Taneda (Mirai Kuriyama in Kyoukai no Kanata) will voice Erina Nakiri
Minami Takahashi (Mew from Pri Para) as Megumi Tadokoro
Here is the first promotional video for the anime that was earlier released:
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.
Here is a synopsis of the series from Haruhichan:
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?
The Shokugeki no Souma anime will be airing from April next year during the Spring 2015 anime season. More information about the anime will be revealed at Jump Festa 2015 on December 21st, where series creator Yuuto Tsukuda will be in attendance.
The International Saimoe League (ISML) 2015 contest has begun. This contest is made to choose the cutest girls (males now included as well) in anime. They are currently in the nomination period where fans can choose their favourite characters to be entered into the contest. The current nomination period is split into previous characters from anime in the past, and characters from currently airing anime.
The International Saimoe League is a fan-run contest hosted on their own website. Every year since 2008, they have held this contest for fans who argue over who the cutest anime girl is. The process goes through multiple rounds which play out throughout the year, with the ultimate winner being decided in November. Previous winners include: Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha‘s Fate Testarossa (2008), Hayate no Gotoku!!‘s Hinagiku Katsura (2009), K-On!‘s Mio Akiyama (2010), Toaru Kagaku no Railgun‘s Mikoto Misaka (2011), Angel Beats!‘s Kanade “Tenshi” Tachibana (2012), Oreimo‘s Ruri “Kuroneko” Gokou (2013), and Date A Live‘s Kotori Itsuka (2014). If you want to take part in the contest, the link to the ISML website can be found here.
Here’s my picks for the nomination period.Here’s my picks from this season. KanColle takes up my picks.
Do you want to see a character that you think is cute recognized by the rest of the anime community? Take part now. What do you guys think of my picks?
A brand new trailer has been streamed for the upcoming film Dragon Ball Z Movie 15: Fukkatsu no F. This new trailer features various battles that will be fought in the film between the Z Warriors and the return of Frieza, who can now turn Super Saiyan, or well the super saiyan equivalent for Frieza. The trailer also previews the main themeF by Maximum the Hormone. The movie will be the 15th overall theatrical film in the Dragon Ball Z franchise. It will be an new original story written by the manga’s creator Akira Toriyama, similar to the 2012 Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods film. Toriyama will be more involved with the upcoming film, being credited with the original concept, screenplay and character designs.
Dragon Ball Z Movie 15: Fukkatsu no F will be releasing in Japanese theatres on April 18th 2015. The film itself will also be shown in traditional 2D and in 3D, the first time the franchise will be in 3D.
An Earth where peace has arrived. However, remnants of Frieza’s army Sorbet and Tagoma (from the Japanese word for ‘egg’) arrive on the planet. Their goal is to revive Frieza with the dragon balls. Their dastardly wish is granted, the “F” that plans its revenge against the Saiyans is revived…!
The official website for Kunihiko Ikuhara’s 2015 original Yuri Kuma Arashi (Yuri Bear Storm) TV anime project has revealed that episode 9 of the series will not be airing this week. Instead, like with The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls, a special program will be aired in the time-slot which will feature the main voice actresses of the anime discussing various things about the anime.
Yuri Kuma Arashi visuals:
Yuri Kuma Arashi synopsis from Haruhichan:
Some time ago, the asteroid Kumaria exploded in the depths of space.
The resulting fragments became a meteor shower that rained down on Earth, and for some reason, bears all over the world rose up and attacked humanity! In “Man vs. Bear,” the bears ate the humans and the humans shot the bears, resulting in a seemingly unending battle and a cycle of hatred. In the end, a giant “Wall of Extinction” was erected between the humans and bears and a state of mutual nonaggression came to pass…
The human world.
One morning, Arashigaoka Academy students Kureha Tsubaki and Sumika Izumino were by themselves and saw the “Yuri Flower” that bloomed in a flower bed. The two are friends as well as lovers. The flower bed is an important place to the two. At that moment, the Bear Alarms ring out! The bears are invading the human world, and humans are being attacked! Are they really those bears? One mystery invokes yet another mystery, one after another. The curtain rises magnificently on Yuri Kuma Arashi!
The first license announcement was Rose Gun Days: Season 1 manga. The manga began on August 22, 2012 in Square Enix’s September 2012 issue of Monthly Gangan Joker magazine. The manga ended on February 22, 2014. It has 4 compiled manga volumes. The first volume was released on December 22, 2012 while the final volume was shipped on April 22, 2014. The first English-translated volume will be out around Fall 2015.
First up: Ryukishi07 fans rejoice! We’ll be putting ROSE GUNS DAYS SEASON ONE in your hands starting this Fall.
Rose Guns Days: Season 1 has a 2-volume prequel manga titled Rose Guns Days: Fukushuu wa Ougon no Kaori. It was published on April 26, 2013 to April 26, 2014. It also has a 2-volume spin-off manga titled Rose Guns Days: Aishuu no Cross Knife that was published on December 25, 2012 to October 25, 2013. The manga series also have a 3-part sequel:
Rose Guns Days: Season 1
Rose Guns Days: Season 2 – January 18, 2013 to March 18, 2014
Rose Guns Days: Season 3 – September 19, 2013 to March 5, 2015
Rose Guns Days: Last Season – April 25, 2014 to present (publishing)
Rose Guns Days: Season 1 also has a 2-volume light novel adaptation with the same title. It was written by Makoto Fukami (Psycho-Pass) and illustrated by serori. It was published on November 15, 2013 to July 16, 2014. Synopsis of Rose Guns Days: Season 1 from MAL:
The game’s story takes place in Japan at the end of World War II. Devastated in the aftermath of defeat, the Japanese government complies with the Allies’ reconstruction plan. Japan begins to recover from the loss after a few years, but America and China intricately divide the nation on a municipal level. Eventually, China’s military districts become Chinatowns, and places controlled by the United States are Americanized. The many Chinese and American immigrants make Japanese people the minority in their own land. Some Japanese are unwilling to accept this fate and secretly gather their strength to challenge the new system.
A girl named Rose Haibara works at the club Primavera and lends money to Japanese people so that they can rebuild their lives. Meanwhile, Leo Shishigami is best known for his reputation among women. Everything begins to change when that legendary man meets Rose in the spring of 1947.
The second license announcement was Final Fantasy Reishiki Gaiden: Hyouken no Shinigami (Final Fantasy Type-0 Side Story: The Reaper of the Icy Blade) manga. The manga began on April 12, 2012 in Square Enix’s September 2012 issue of Monthly Shounen Gangan magazine. The manga ended on March 12, 2014 with 23 overall chapters. It has 5 compiled manga volumes. The first volume was released on September 22, 2012 while the final volume was shipped on April 22, 2014. The first English-translated volume will be out on July 2015.
For the gamers who can’t get enough with this month’s release — FINAL FANTASY TYPE-0 SIDE STORY: THE REAPER OF THE ICY BLADE this July!
Reaper of the Icy Blade takes place around 9 years before the events of Final Fantasy Type-0. It follows the Kurasame Susaya during his time as a student of the Peristylium Suzaku and as a member of the “Four Heavenly Kings of Suzaku.”
The third and final license announcement was Horimiya (Hori-san to Miyamura-kun) manga. The manga began on October 18, 2011 in Square Enix’s November 2011 issue of Monthly GFantasy magazine. It currently has 6 compiled manga volumes. The first volume was released on March 27, 2012 while the latest volume was shipped on October 27, 2014. The first English-translated volume will be out on October 2015.
And lastly after much speculation, we can confirm Daisuke Hagiwara’s HORIMIYA will make its debut in October!
Horimiya received a 3-episode original video anime adaptation (OVA) produced by Hoods Entertainment (Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai, Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara) and directed by Shingo Natsume (Space☆Dandy). The anime began airing on September 26, 2012 and is slated to end around 2015.
Cast:
Asami Seto (Death Parade‘s Kurokami no Onna) as Kyouko Hori
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist‘s Sytry Cartwright) as Izumi Miyamura
Akiko Hasegawa (The iDOLM@STER‘s Miki Hoshii) as Remi Ayasaki
Yumiko Kobayashi (Kaitou Joker‘s Hachi) as Souta Hori
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PV:
Synopsis of Horimiya from MAL:
Hori may seem like a normal teenage girl, but she’s a completely different person after school. In her workaholic parents’ absence, Hori has been like a parent for her little brother since she was young herself. Between taking care of her brother, feeding them both, and housework, she doesn’t have much time for a usual teenage social life. One day, she meets someone else who does not present his true self at school: a quiet, glasses-wearing boy called Miyamura. She’d assumed he was bookish, and possibly an otaku, but Hori couldn’t have been more wrong. Outside of school, Miyamura is a friendly guy with many piercings, and he’s not very good at academics. Now the two of them have someone with whom they can share both halves of their lives!
A new key visual for the upcoming anime adaptation of Ayano Takeda’s Sound! Euphonium (Hibike! Euphonium) light novel series featuring Kumiko Oumae and Reina Kousaka has been revealed in the April issue of NyanType.
A new visual for the anime series was also revealed last month:
The anime’s website has revealed additional cast members for the upcoming anime. They include:
Minako Kotobuki (Tsumugi Kotobuki in K-ON!) will voice Asuka Tanaka, who plays the Euphonium
Saori Hayami (Yukino Yukinoshita from Oregairu) as Haruka Ogasawara, the Saxophone player
Haruki Ishiya (Ayumu Kominato in Selector Infected WIXOSS) voices the role of Shuuichi Takamoto, the Trombone player
Takahiro Sakurai (Shougo Makishima in Psycho-Pass) will voice Noboru Taki, the brass band club’s advisor
The anime’s website also revealed the anime’s Opening and Ending themes. The OP will be DREAM SOLISTER performed by the singer TRUE, and the ED will be Tutti, sung by the main voice actresses of the anime in character.
The anime’s main cast members, who will also perform the ED, were earlier revealed and includes:
Tomoyo Kurosawa (Miria Akagi in The IDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls) will voice leading character Kumiko Oumae, who plays the Euphonium
Sound! Euphonium Welcome to Kitauji High School’s Musical Instrument Club is a Japanese novel by Ayano Takeda, published on December 5, 2013 by Takarajimasha. The story focuses on the Kitauji High School Music Club, which is steadily improving thanks to the newly appointed adviser’s strict instruction. An anime adaptation has been announced.
This is the story of the Kitauji Music club and its members. With the introduction of a new club adviser, the story depicts the students’ daily lives as they face challenges and obstacles.
The Sound! Euphonium anime will be airing this April during the Spring 2015 anime season. More information about the series will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.
Charapedia asked 10,000 anime fans the question: Which anime series would you recommend to others? And from thousands of fans, most of the responses are from the male fans (68.4%), female fans (31.6%) and teens to their 20s (76.5%) while the other 23.5% are 30 and over.
Here are the male results:
10. Steins;Gate
9. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.
8. Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
7. Bakemonogatari
6. Sword Art Online
5. Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
4. Clannad
3. Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch
2. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.
Today’s male and female popularity rankings come from the March 2015 issue of the popular Japanese magazine, NewType. You can view the full write-up of the rankings here and the posters that came with this issue here.
MAiDiGi TV began streaming a 100-second clip for the upcoming first compilation film of Tsutomu Nihei’sSidonia no Kishi (Knights of Sidonia) manga series last month. The new clip features the protagonist Nagate Tanikaze’s first sortie in Type 17 Garde Shiratsuki Remodeled Ver. Tsugumori.
The main promotional video for the compilation film was streamed last January:
Two promotional videos that were streamed earlier in January and December:
The film will be a recap compilation of the 12 episodes from the anime’s first season. It will also include new scenes and updated remastered 5.1 surround sound audio for its theatrical release. The compilation film will be releasing in Japanese cinemas in March 2015.
Sidonia no Kishi (Knights of Sidonia) is a manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. The series debuted in April 2009 in Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine and to date there has been a total of 13 compiled volumes released. An anime adaptation of the series was produced in April this year for a total of 12 episodes. The anime is produced by Polygon Pictures, in their first full TV anime production. The series is directed by Koubun Shizuno (Detective Conan, Hyakka Ryouran: Samurai Bride) with Sadayuki Murai (Natsume Yuujinchou, Mouryou no Hako) handling the series composition and screenplay, with Noriyuki Asakura (Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan) composing the music.
It’s been a thousand years since the Gauna, a strange alien race with no known method of communication, destroyed the solar system. A portion of humanity managed to escape using enormous “seed ships” like the Sidonia, which have allowed them to maintain the population while drifting through space. Nagate Tanikaze is a young man who has been raised deep in the bowels of the ship. When he goes into training to pilot the huge robotic weapons known as Gardes, Nagate is entrusted with piloting the legendary unit known as Tsugumori. Nagate and his fellow pilots put their lives on the line against the Gauna, in the ultimate battle for the survival of humanity!
Lawson, a Japanese convenience store chain, will launch their promotional campaign for the popular browser game and anime, Kantai Collection,on March 3 at 7:00am. Here’s the main visual for the event:
During the campaign, purchasers of one of four energy drinks Yunker (525 yen ($4.4) to 1,429 yen ($12) each) can get one of four original posters featuring Fubuki, Hibiki, Ikazuchi, Akatsuki and Inazuma.
While purchasers of three of Lotte’s selected sweets (95 yen ($0.80) to 195 yen ($1.6) each) can get one of four original clear files. It will start at 7:00 am on March 15.
In addition, purchasers of the Lotte sweets will have a chance to win one of the 60-limited original pins set by sending in the receipt.
Lucy Heartfilia from Hiro Mashima’s hit anime and manga series Fairy Tail recently received a catgirl figure that put the fan service shown in the anime to shame. She has now received yet another great figure by X Plus which stays true to that fact.
This figure of the busty Celestial Spirit Mage is approximately 41cm (16.1in) in height. She’s wearing a soft colored pink bikini while striking a pose which shows off her magnificent body with a charming smile to top it off.
Bandai Namco Games Japan began streaming a new One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 trailer on Sunday which features some of the emotional moments from the series, such as the Marineford Arc.
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 will be releasing on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PC in Summer 2015 in North America and Europe. The game will be releasing in Japan on PS3, PS4, and Vita only, and will cost ¥7,800 (~ $78.00 USD) on console and ¥6,800 (~ $68.00 USD) on the Vita.
Numerous gameplay footage have also been released and they include:
Brook:
Robin:
Gekko Moriah:
Magellan:
Zoro:
Nami:
Crocodile:
Enel:
Monkey D. Luffy Gameplay:
Fujitora Gameplay:
Trafalgar D. Water Law Gameplay:
Smoker Gameplay:
Tashigi Gameplay:
Buggy Gameplay:
Dracule Mihawk Gameplay:
Donquixote Doflamingo Gameplay:
During the Jump Festa 2015 event last December the first trailer was unveiled:
The first promotional video:
and finally the recent trailer which was revealed at the premiere event last month:
The game will follow the original story of One Piece and start from Romance Dawn Arc where the story of One Piece first starts from and will follow the Straw Hat Pirates to the Dressrosa Arc, which is about a kingdom called Dressrosa within the New World, and one of the Twenty Kingdoms of the World Government where it is dominated by the evil Donquixote Doflamingo, known as the “Heavenly Demon”.
It has also been revealed that new characters including Sabo, Doflamingo Donquixote, Fujitora, and many more will make their way into the game.
Here is a synopsis of the game from Namco Bandai:
The journey of Luffy, from the origins to the face to face with the Heavenly Demon!
More action, more characters, stronger enemies and an improved gameplay in the latest collaboration between TOEI ANIMATION, KOEI TECMO GAMES and BANDAI NAMCO GAMES!
In addition to this, gameplay screenshots were also previewed (more can be viewed here):
After the finale of one of Japan’s most loved shounen manga, the Naruto franchise recently announced a stage play premier on March 21st until April 5th at the AiiA Theater Tokyo. One of these performances is to be sung by the Japanese band FLOW, who have sung many Naruto openings, including Go!!, Sign, and Re:member. The song performed by FLOW is titled Hikari Oikakete, and serves the purpose of an “ending song” to the play. The play, called Live Spectacal Naruto, covers volumes 1-27 of the manga, which covers Part I until Naruto Shippuuden. The song Hikari Oikakete has been previewed in a trailer for the play.
The cast for the play with images have been revealed by the franchise as well, including:
Koudai Matsuoka as Naruto Uzumaki
Ryuji Sato as Sasuke Uchiha
Yui Ito as Sakura Haruno
Kenta Suga as Gaara
Kimisawa Yuuki as Kakashi Hatake
Asahi Uchida as Zabuza Momochi
Miho Imamura as Haku
Hidekazu Ichinose as Iruka Umino
Kazuhiro Hirakawa as The Third Hokage
Tatsunari Kimura as Kabuto Yakushi
Anju Inami as Ino Yamanaka
Tsubasa Hattori as Shikamaru Nara
Ryo Kato as Chouji Akimichi
Yuta Iiyama as Kiba Inuzuka
Shinichiro Ueda as Shino Aburame
Saki Takahashi as Hinata Hyuuga
Yoshiaki Umegaki as Jiraiya
Hiro Yuumi as Orochimaru
The musical will cover the manga’s story from the first to 27th volume. The production will include drama, songs, dance, and acrobatics.
A promotional character poster visual which features all 18 characters was also revealed earlier:
The musical will also play in other theaters aside from Tokyo, including Fukuoka on April 10-12, Osaka on April 17-19 and Miyagi on April 29th until May 10th with a final performance in Tokyo on April 29-May 10th.
On March 1st, 2015, the official website for the Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works anime announced that the highly acclaimed Kalafina will be returning to perform the second season’s ending theme song, “Ring Your Bell.” Kalafina previously performed the ending theme “Believe” for the first season of the anime. Kalafina has featured songs in other anime as well, such as Aldnoah Zero, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Fate/Zero. “Ring Your Bell” will be released for purchase on May 13th, 2015.
The main cast of the anime, many of them returning veterans, has been previously announced:
Noriaki Sugiyama (Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto) will return as the voice of Shirou Emiya
Kana Ueda (Hayate Yagami in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s) will be voicing lead heroine Rin Tohsaka
Ayako Kawasumi (Kazumi Yoshida from Shakugan no Shana) is voicing Saber
Junichi Suwabe (Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez from Bleach) as Archer
Noriko Shitaya (Haruko Amaya in Maken Ki!) will voice Sakura Matou
Joujii Nakata (Alucard from Hellsing) voices Kirei Kotomine
Nobutoshi Canna (Masato Inohara from Little Busters!) as Lancer
The production team as well:
Director: Takahiro Miura (Kara no Kyoukai 6: Boukyaku Rokuon)
Character Designers: Tomonori Sudou (Fate/Zero, Kara no Kyoukai series), Hisayuki Tabata (Yuyushiki), Atsushi Ikariya (Fate/Zero, Hataraku Maou-sama!)
Color Key Artists: Emi Chiba (Fate/Zero), Mika Matsuoka (Fate/Zero)
Art Director: Koji Eto (Fate/Zero, Psycho Pass)
Director of Photography: Yuichi Terao (Fate/Zero)
3D Director: Kojiro Shishido (Fate/Zero)
Music Composer: Hideyuki Fukasawa (Vividred Operation)
Animation Studio: ufotable (Fate/Zero, Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin)
Fate/stay night season 2’s PV was also recently released:
http://youtu.be/UKkOxH28Vm4
Fate/stay night is a visual novel that was released by Type-Moon for the PC in 2004, and is the first in the Fate series. The visual novel was very successful and claimed the title of highest selling visual novel of the year. 2006 saw two adaptations of the game, a manga by Datto Nishiwaki and an anime series by Studio Deen. Additionally in that year, a light novel series titled Fate/Zero was written by Gen Urobuchi. It is a prequel to the visual novels, set 10 years prior. An anime and manga adaptation of Fate/Zero were created, with the manga written by Urobuchi himself in 2011 and the anime being animated by ufotable. A second season of Fate/Zero was also produced.
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works synopsis from Haruhichan:
Raised by a mysterious sorcerer after the horrific death of his parents, Shiro Emiya has only just begun to help others using the small tidbits of magic that he’s learned. However, when he’s suddenly caught in a battle between two more powerful Magus, Shiro finds himself performing a spell above his expected ability, summoning the beautiful spirit warrior Saber to protect him! But safety is only momentary as Shiro and Saber now find themselves thrust into in a secret world of dark magic and deadly challenges: a no-holds barred duel to the death known as the Holy Grail War! At stake: a prize of unimaginable power. But can the inexperienced Shiro and Saber survive long enough to even enter the contest? First they’ll have to withstand waves of treachery and assassination, even as Shiro scrambles to learn everything he’ll need to know to stay alive as seven teams of Magus and Spirit Servants face off in mortal combat!
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works‘ second season will be airing in April, during the Spring 2015 Anime season.
On March 1st, 2015, the official website of Subaru and Gainax’s Houkago no Pleiades (Wish Upon the Pleiades) anime, based off of the 4 OVA series released previously, revealed the theme song artists on Friday. Kano will perform the opening theme song, “Stella-rium,” and the five main voice actresses, Takamori Natsumi, Ohashi Ayuru, Tateno Kanako, Makino Yui, and Fujita Saki will perform the ending theme “Koko Kara, Kanata Kara” under the unit name “fragment.” The site has also released the first key visual for the upcoming anime as well as a PV.
Houkago no Pleiades PV 1:
The main cast includes:
Natsumi Takamori (Mei Misaki from Another) will return as Subaru, the pink haired magical girl
Ayuru Ohashi (Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen in Strike Witches) will be back to voice Aoi, the blue haired magical girl
Kanako Tateno (Shirayuki-hime in Otogi-jushi Akazukin) will be voicing Itsuki, the black haired magical girl
Yui Makino (Misaki Nakahara from Welcome to the NHK) as Hikaru, the blonde haired magical girl
Saki Fujita (Ao Nanami from Yozakura Quartet) who voices Nanako, the purple haired magical girl
The series of OVAs that released in 2011 contains 4 short episodes that released online on Youtube. The official channel for the anime has also released English subtitled versions of the series.
Houkago no Pleiades Episode 1:
Houkago no Pleiades Episode 2:
Houkago no Pleiades Episode 3:
Houkago no Pleiades Episode 4:
Houkago no Pleiades (Wish Upon the Pleiades) is an anime project collaboration between animation studio Gainax (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Medaka Box) and Japanese car manufacturer Subaru that centres around the story of five magical girls who collect fragments so an alien can return to its home in Pleiades. It first started as a series of 4 online OVAs that released on Youtube in 2011 that are approximately 6 minutes each. The series was directed by Shouji Saeki (FlCL, Medaka Box) with the anime characters designed by Mai Otsuka (Non Non Biyori, Shakugan no Shana), concept designs by Daisuke Kikuchi (Gurren Lagann) and animated by Gainax.
Houkago no Pleiades synopsis from Haruhichan:
Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of magical group trying to gather engine fragments so that a little being from Pleiades can return to his home. Subaru considers joining them as she was chosen by the Pleiadian, president of this afterschool club.
A collaboration between Gainax and the car maker Subaru.
The Houkago no Pleiades anime will be airing this April during the Spring 2015 anime season.
A new key visual featuring Sayo Hitsugi, Yuuko Sagiri and Miki Tsurugi from the upcoming anime adaptation of Shouji Satou’s Triage Xseries has been revealed in the April issue of NyanType.
A new visual was also revealed in the March issue of NyanType last month and gives us a preview of the character design behind Oriha Nashida.
A new visual of the anime featuring Mikoto Kiba was also featured in the February issue of Dengeki G‘s magazine.
In addition to this, the official website of the Triage X anime has released the official character designs for the series. The main cast of the anime was earlier announced and includes:
Kenji Akabane (The Producer from THE IDOLM@STER) voicing the role of Arashi Mikami
Yui Kondou (Furano Yukihira from NouCome) will voice Mikoto Kiba
Amina Sato (Yuuka Ichijou in AKB0048) as Oriha Nashida
The anime’s staff consists of:
Director: Akio Takami (Upotte!! character designer/animation director) and Takao Kato (Rockman.EXE, To Love-Ru)
Triage X is an ongoing manga series written and illustrated by Shouji Sato which began serialization in the May 2009 issue of Monthly Dragon Age. Shouji Sato hints on the cover flap of volume 1 that the reason Triage X was created was because of Highschool of the Dead‘s prolonged hiatus, thus in terms of content and theme, the two are very comparable.
The series is currently being published at a monthly schedule.
Mochizuki General Hospital boasts some of the most well-trained (and well-endowed) nurses in town. But though these ladies spend much of their day battling sickness, their after-hours are spent fighting a very different sort of disease… Under the leadership of the hospital chairman, a handful of staff members and local teenagers form a group of mercenary assassins, targeting the “cancers” of society and excising those individuals before their wickedness spreads.
The Triage X anime adaptation will broadcast in Japan from March this year, during the Spring 2015 anime season.
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