The official Twitter account for the upcoming anime adaptation of Mimana Orimoto’s Bakuon!! manga series has welcomed the New Year with the illustration pictured below.
Character Design: Isao Sugimoto (Girls und Panzer, Kemeko Deluxe!)
Studio: TMS Entertainment (D.Gray-man, Lupin III (2015))
In addition to this the first promotional video was recently revealed:
In addition to this a new visual featuring Hane Sakura was recently featured on the website.
In addition to this, the official website previously revealed that it will premiere in April 2016 and unveiled a new visual for the series.
The anime adaptation of Bakuon!! was revealed on the 6th volume of the manga with a wraparound jacket.
Bakuon!! is a motorcycle, slice of life manga written and illustrated by Mimana Orimoto. The series began in early 2011 being serialized in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion Retsu magazine. To date a total of 6 compiled volumes have been produced, with a 7th volume releasing on March 18, 2016. The series itself features motorcycles from real companies. An anime adaptation has been announced and slated for 2016.
Bakuon!! synopsis from MAL:
The story revolves around high school girls who discover the appeal of motorcycles. Sakura Hane is a high school student who looks a little bit like an airhead. On the way to her all-female high school one day, she is worn-out climbing a hilly road with a bicycle, but she sees a girl named Onsa Amano who is riding a motorcycle. Sakura immediately becomes interested in motorcycles, and she and Onsa join the motorcycle club at the school. Then, Sakura sets out to get her license.
The official website of the anime adaptation of Sega’s Phantasy Star Online 2 began streaming an introduction video. Both videos shows off the main characters and preview the anime’s main theme, Zessei Stargate by Shouta Aoi.
Here is the second promotional video:
The series will premiere on the TBS station on Thursday, January 7 at 1:46 a.m., and then run on the CBC, MBS, and BS-TBS channels. A special pre-broadcast talk show with Aoi, the director, and the producers will screen the first episode at Tokyo’s Theatre Shinjuku on December 29. The “Zessei Stargate” CD single will go on sale on February 3.
Japanese television network CBC also aired a commercial for series which previews Shouta Aoi’s theme song “Zessei Stargate” (Unrivaled Stargate).
The most recent promotion video has revealed the series will premiere on January 7th on TBS with Shouta Aoi singing the theme song, now titled “Peerless Stargate.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft3d3tsHDTk
The series will premiere on the TBS station on Thursday, January 7 at 1:46 a.m., and then run on the CBC, MBS, and BS-TBS channels. A special pre-broadcast talk show with Aoi, the director, and the producers will screen the first episode at Tokyo’s Theatre Shinjuku on December 29. The “Zessei Stargate” CD single will go on sale on February 3.
The Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation series will have a completely original story separate from that of the MMORPG, and the story will follow PSO2 players “who may be near you” on Earth in the near future.
The cast includes:
Shouta Aoi (Daiki Tomii from Shounen Hollywood: Holly Stage for 49) voices Itsuki Tachibana
Ayaka Suwa (Tokaku Azuma in Akuma no Riddle) is voicing Rina Izumi
Kazuhiko Inoue (Kakashi Hatake from Naruto) as Kid
Hiroki Takahashi (Eiji Kikumaru from Prince of Tennis) voices Mamoru Monzen
Marika Kouno (Rin Kohana in Sore ga Seiyuu!) will be voicing as Marika, Riko Kohara (First Major Role) as Riko, Yurika Takagi (First Major Role) will voice Yurika
The first visual:
The announcement of the anime, titled Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation, was made at the offline ARKS Caravan event in Okinawa. The anime will have a brand new original story set in a near future Earth setting, within the universe of Phantasy Star Online 2. It will featuring stories from the players of the game, which is out on the PC, PlayStation Vita and mobile devices.
Phantasy Star is one of the longest running JRPG franchises in the industry. Developed and published by Sega, the first game in the series released in Japan on the Sega Master System in late December, 1987. Since the first game’s release, over 10 games have been produced. The series eventually grew internationally with the release of Phantasy Star Online in 2000, a MMORPG that released on the Dreamcast, Xbox and PC. Since its release, the Online games became its own series. All of the games are set in the near future in various solar systems and clusters. The latest game in the series is Phantasy Star Nova, a single player RPG based on PSO2 for the PlayStation Vita.
Phantasy Star Online 2 is a video game in the Phantasy Star series published by Sega. It was released for Microsoft Windows on July 4, 2012, and for PlayStation Vita on February 28, 2013. A spin-off game, Phantasy Star Online 2es, was released for Android on April 7, 2014 and for iOS on May 14, 2014. The game is currently only available commercially in Japan and the Pacific Southwest, but an English-language patch was released.
Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation will air from January next year during the Winter 2015/2016 anime season, on TBS and BS-TBS. Further information about the series will be revealed in the near future.
With world’s largest winter doujinshi fair, Comiket 89, over and done with and Comiket 90 scheduled for August, videos featuring the incredible cosplay on display are on the rise! YouTube user Netageo has professionally edited a video to show us some of the amazing cosplay that were seen at the event.
Welcome 2016! We also welcome the new line-up for Winter 2016. Haruhichan provides a comprehensive list of hashtags, official Twitter accounts and sites for your usage in case you go ranting, rambling (and fangirl/boying) on Twitter or Tumblr. These resources will be helpful for sharing and attaining information about these shows. Also, if you would not want to get spoiled from a certain show, muting a hashtag is a piece of cake. (To know how to mute a hashtag, click here.)
We will appreciate you bookmarking and sharing this page. Let the people know to use these hashtags so spoilers will be kept! For a less messy list, just pick what you plan on watching, copy their hashtags and paste them in a note.
Here is a list of the official anime hashtags, official Twitter accounts and websites that I have compiled from long-running shows, Fall 2015 leftovers and this Winter 2016 season:
Notes:
In alphabetical order
Not all anime aired in this season in Japan are in this list (some of short, kids shows are omitted)
Some of these shows doesn’t have either an official hashtag, an official account or an official website
More titles and hashtags will be added without prior notice
If there are any series that are not included in the list or if there are any mistakes, please comment below so we can add/change it!
It has been revealed that the Comic Market 89 (Comiket 89) event in Tokyo drew approximately 520,000 attendees over the course three days. On the third day on December 31, 2015, it drew approximately 200,000 attendees. Total attendance was down from last winter’s Comiket 87, which attracted 560,000 attendees, and this past summer’s Comiket 88, which had 550,000 total attendees.
Both Comiket 87 and Comiket 88 attracted 210,000 guests on its third day.
About 150,000 people attended Comiket 89 on the first day, down from first-day attendance at Comiket 87 and Comiket 88. Approximately 170,000 people attended on the second day, roughly the same as the second-day attendance for Comiket 87, and up from Comiket 88.
Comiket, otherwise known as the Comic Market, is the world’s largest doujinshi fair, held twice a year in Tokyo, Japan. The first Comiket was held on December 21, 1975, with only about 32 participating circles and an estimated 600 attendees. Attendance has since swelled to over a half million people.
It is a grassroots, DIY effort for selling doujinshi, self-published Japanese works. As items sold in Comiket are considered very rare (because doujinshi are seldom reprinted), some items sold at Comiket can be found in shops or on the Internet at prices up to 10 times the item’s original price, and in certain cases, more than 100 times. The continuing operation of Comiket is the responsibility of the Comic Market Preparatory Committee (ComiketPC).
Voice actress Yoko Hikasa announced on her blog on Wednesday that she had gotten married earlier this year. She did not reveal the identity of her new spouse. She vowed to work hard to be able to grow with new character roles next year.
Her notable roles include Mio Akiyama from K-On!, Rias Gremory from High School DxD and its sequels, and Kyouko Kirigiri from the mystery game and anime Danganronpa. Her most recent role was Nashetania from the Summer 2015 fantasy anime Rokka no Yuusha.
Here’s a video which previews various roles she has done:
She has also performed theme songs for anime series, such as Shingeki no Kyojin, where the CD single sold for 9,021 in its first week in May 2013. Her CD single for Hal sold 5,789 units in its first week in June 2014. Some of her successful CD albums include the album titled Couleur, where the CD ranked 13th and sold 6,485 units, and the collaboration album Glamorous Songs, which sold 8,046 units in its first week of release.
In addition to working as a voice actor and singer, she also co-hosts a weekly radio show with fellow voice actor Eriko Nakamura (Haruka Amami from The iDOLM@STER).
The official website for the upcoming anime adaptation of Mimana Orimoto’s Bakuon!! manga series has revealed the staff members. The series is slated for Spring 2016.
The staff include:
Director: Junji Nishimura (Glasslip, True Tears)
Series Composition: Kurasumi Sunayama
Character Design: Isao Sugimoto (Girls und Panzer, Kemeko Deluxe!)
Studio: TMS Entertainment (D.Gray-man, Lupin III (2015))
In addition to this the first promotional video was recently revealed:
In addition to this a new visual featuring Hane Sakura was recently featured on the website.
In addition to this, the official website previously revealed that it will premiere in April 2016 and unveiled a new visual for the series.
The anime adaptation of Bakuon!! was revealed on the 6th volume of the manga with a wraparound jacket.
Bakuon!! is a motorcycle, slice of life manga written and illustrated by Mimana Orimoto. The series began in early 2011 being serialized in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion Retsu magazine. To date a total of 6 compiled volumes have been produced, with a 7th volume releasing on March 18, 2016. The series itself features motorcycles from real companies. An anime adaptation has been announced and slated for 2016.
Bakuon!! synopsis from MAL:
The story revolves around high school girls who discover the appeal of motorcycles. Sakura Hane is a high school student who looks a little bit like an airhead. On the way to her all-female high school one day, she is worn-out climbing a hilly road with a bicycle, but she sees a girl named Onsa Amano who is riding a motorcycle. Sakura immediately becomes interested in motorcycles, and she and Onsa join the motorcycle club at the school. Then, Sakura sets out to get her license.
During the Comiket 89 event game developer for the upcoming adult game Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart (Nora, Princess and Stray Cat), Harukaze, revealed that the game will receive a short TV anime adaptation.
Visual:
Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart synopsis from Amazon Japan:
Nora Handa is a boy who lives with Shachi Yuuri, who was adopted by his mother. With everyone supporting, the two of them grew up healthily even after their parents passed away. Shachi, who likes Nora the most, wakes him up every morning.
Nora spends his happy student life with Michi Kuroki, who is a disciplinary committee, honor student at school and childhood friend of the main character, Yuuki Asuhara, who is a gal but is very bright and can talk his worries to, and more friends at school.
One day, Nora meets a girl who calls herself Patricia at the park on the way to the school. Patricia is a queen at hell, and claims to come here to destroy the life on land. However, she is damaged heavily because she touched the life for the first time, which the energy is stronger than her, so Nora needed to tend her. Patricia asked him to tell her about the mysteries of the life, and he had to even explain the ero book that found at the park…?!
A Chinese has done a wonderful reproduction of League of Legend’s attack-damage bruiser Riven in her Battle Bunny skin with some merrier Christmas elements. The cosplay is based of a drawn illustration of Christmas Riven by pixiv user LOIZA.
This magical figure of Youmu Konpaku, from the Touhou Project series, is a great addition for fans and collectors who need a bit of spiritual healing. The Touhou Project is a series of complex 2D shooter games that has gained enormous popularity thanks to its large cast of interesting characters, awesome music, and active fan community. This figure is carefully sculpted to recreate Youmu’s very distinct look.
Umaru Doma from the anime adaptation of SankakuHead’s (Uzura Convenience, Arakure Neverland) manga, Himouto! Umaru-chan, has tried her best to stay up for the New Year Countdown but miserably failed and ended up falling asleep.
In related news, the cast from the anime series are getting ready for summer and have been featured in January 2016 issue of Dengeki G‘s Magazine as a summer themed double page spread. You can purchase this issue here (get 5% off with coupon code MOE-N3Y-4YW0QK).
In related news, Umaru Doma and Nana Ebina have been featured in a festive poster in the January 2016 issue of Megami. This issue of Megami magazine here (get 5% off with coupon code MOE-N3Y-4YW0QK) and you can view the other posters that come in this issue here.
Anime visual:
Himouto! Umaru-chan is a Japanese manga series by Sankaku Head. It began serialization in Shueisha’s seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from 2013. It has been collected in six tankobon volumes. An alternative version was serialized for two chapters in Shueisha’s monthly magazine Miracle Jump in 2012. An anime television series adaptation by Doga Kobo began airing in Japan from July 8, 2015. The “himouto” in the title is a pormanteau of himono (干物?, “dried fish”) and imouto (妹?, “little sister”).
Umaru is a renowned beautiful 16-year-old girl in town, living with her elder brother Taihei. She acts a perfect sister with a kind heart, intelligence and popularity, who everybody admires. So who would believe how true Umaru is at home? Sleeping, gaming, watching TV, eating junk food, drinking cola… that’s almost all she does at home, leaving all the housework to her brother.
Her camouflage is so perfect that when one of her classmates visits her home by surprise and witnesses “true Umaru,” she pretends as if she is Umaru’s younger sister. Taihei is always swayed by Umaru’s gap between ostensible face and spoiled life, but he cannot hate his comical and somehow lovable cute little sister!
As Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica prepares to celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2016, Studio SHAFT have updated their official website and greeted the Year of the Monkey with a new card and more art by character designer Junichiro Taniguchi.
Anju and Kuon from the Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen anime series has been featured as a poster in the February 2016 issue of Megami. This issue can be purchased here (get 5% off with coupon code MOE-N3Y-4YW0QK) and you can view the other posters that came in this issue here.
The grisl from the series have also been has been featured in the January 2016 issue of NyanType as a poster. This issue of NyanType can be purchased here and you can view the posters that came in this issue here.
Utawarerumono is a Japanese adult tactical role-playing visual novel by Leaf which was released on April 26, 2002 for Windows. A PlayStation 2 version was developed by Sting, and released by Aquaplus on October 26, 2006.Utawarerumonowas later ported to PlayStation Portable on May 28, 2009. Two Internet radio programs based onUtawarerumono aired on the Oto Izumi broadcast station. Three manga adaptations were published by ASCII Media Works. A 26-episode anime adaptation aired in 2006 and is licensed in North America by Funimation. Three OVA episodes were later produced by Aquaplus and Chaos Project, released between 2009 and 2010.
Several Utawarerumono drama CDs have been produced by Lantis. Four different comic anthology series have been published by DNA Media Comics, Ohzora Shuppan, and La Porte. A sequel visual novel titled Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita was released on September 24, 2015. An anime series based on Itsuwari no Kamen, known in the west as Utawarerumono: The False Faces, premiered in October 2015.
When I came to, I realized I was standing in the middle of a vast, snowy plain I knew nothing of. I didn’t know how I got there. And to add to that, I couldn’t remember anything, not even my name. I stood there, dumbfounded at my absurd situation. But then, as if to spite me further, a gigantic monster suddenly appeared, an insect-like creature that began to bear down on me. I tried desperately to run, but it cornered me into a hopeless situation. It was then that the girl appeared. Her name was Kuon. It was this beautiful girl, who bore an animal’s ears and tail, that saved my life.
Fairy Tail‘s author Hiro Mashima is back again and this time thanking fans for remarkably successful 2015 and to prepare for the 10th anniversary thrills of 2016. He also asked fans who should be 2015’s MVP. Aquarius got the honor in 2014.
Back in October some awesome Halloween outfits, autumn outfits, a new character, and other assorted fun were revealed.
He also recently sketched Lucy being very seductive while displaying a cute pout:
His other recent sketches include:
His recent sketch of of Juvia doing the “kabe don” to Gray kicked up a storm on the internet:
He has also produced quite a few more sketches on his Twitter and here’s a few of them:
Last April he posted some sketches which he admitted may have been a bit too ecchi:
He also recently attempted to redraw the end card of episode 48 featuring Kagura Mikazuchi on the beach:
In addition to this, he also shared a recent sketch featuring Erza Scarlet and Lucy Heatfilia spending some quality time together.
His previous drawings include Natsu Dragneel and Erza Scarlet in a one piece swimsuit with cat ears:
With the upcoming anime adaptation of Kotoyama’s Dagashi Kashi manga on the way, Pony Canyon is promoting the series at Comiket 89 with sales of a set of buttons, but they’ll be distributing a free item in keeping with the series theme. Branded Orion’s Cocoa Cigarette (sticks of sugar shaped like cigarettes).
Here’s some of the goods being sold at Comiket 89:
Five buttons for 1,500 ($12.45) yen – offered with limited event bromide
Life-size tapestry for 5,400 ($44.85) yen
T-Shirt for 3,000 ($25) yen
CD cover art for the opening theme song “Checkmate!?” by the 19-year-old singer Michi has also been previewed.
CD covers for the ending theme song by Ayana Taketatsu, “Hey! Calorie Queen,” has also been previewed.
In addition to this, Japanese television stations began streaming two new commercials for series. The video previews the opening theme song “Checkmate!?” by the 19-year-old singer Michi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyl_Jx7risU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61sINaHBEdQ
The anime will premiere on January 7 at 2:16 a.m. on the TBS channel in Japan. In addition to this, a new key visual and promotional video was unveiled.
The first promotional video:
The main cast of the upcoming anime has been revealed alongside new updated character designs. The main cast includes:
Ayana Taketatsu (Kirino Kousaka from Oreimo) will voice Hotaru Shidare
Atsushi Abe (Touma Kamijou from Toaru Majutsu no Index) is voicing Kokonotsu Shikada
Manami Numakura (Aoi Sakurai in Rail Wars!) voices Saya Endou
Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Makoto Tachibana from Free!) is voicing Tou Endou
Keiji Fujiwara (Tatsuya Kimura from Hajime no Ippo) as You Shikada
The main theme songs of the anime have also been revealed. Japanese singer Michi (Rokka no Yuusha OP & ED) will perform the anime’s Opening theme song “Checkmate!?,“ While Ayana Taketatsu herself will sing the Ending theme, “Hey! Calorie Queen.”
The leading members of the anime’s main staff includes:
Dagashi Kashi is written and illustrated by Kotoyama. It began serialization in Shounen Sunday magazine in June 2014. The manga is currently ongoing, with three compiled volumes published.
Shikada Kokonotsu’s father owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for Kokonotsu to take it over one day. However, Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead! One day in Summer, the cute but weird girl Shidare Hotaru, from the famous sweets company, comes to pay a visit. Apparently, Kokonotsu’s father is famous and she wants him to join her family’s company. However, he will only agree if she can convince Kokonotsu to take over the family business!
An anime adaptation of Dagashi Kashi will air on TBS in January 2016 during the Winter 2015/2016. More details about the anime will be unveiled in upcoming issues of Weekly Shonen Sunday.
With the third cour of Ryohgo Narita and Suzuhito Yasuda’s Durarara!! light novel series anime’s second season: Durarara!!x2 Ketsuslated for January 9, comes a Nendoroid of the ‘Headless Rider’ also known as Celty Sturluson. She comes wearing her trademark helmet with a cat ear design, and the visor on the helmet can even be opened and closed. The scythe as well as various effect parts formed from the shadows that come from Celty are included with the Nendoroid.
Miho Nishizumi and Shimada Arisu from the Girls und Panzer series has been featured as a poster in the February 2016 issue of Megami. This issue can be purchased here (get 5% off with coupon code MOE-N3Y-4YW0QK) and you can view the other posters that came in this issue here.
Various girls from the Girls und Panzer series have also been featured in the December 2015 issue of Megami as a poster. You can purchase this issue of Megami magazine here and view the other posters that came in this issue here.
In addition to this, another poster of the series has been featured in the November 2015 issue of the Japanese anime magazine Megami. You can purchase this issue of Megami magazine here and view the other posters that came in this issue here.
Various girls from the series were also featured as a poster in the September issue of Megami. You can view the other posters that come in this issue here.
Girls und Panzer is a 2012 Japanese anime television series created by Actas. It depicts a competition between girls’ high schools practicing tank warfare as a sport. The series was directed by Tsutomu Mizushima and produced by Kiyoshi Sugiyama. Takaaki Suzuki, who has earlier acted as a military history advisor forStrike Witches and Upotte!!, was involved in the production of the anime. The series initially aired in Japan between October and December 2012, with two additional episodes airing in March 2013 and an original video animation released in July 2014. Five manga series and a light novel adaptation have been published by Media Factory. An animated film had been announced for release in 2014, however was pushed back to Q2 2015.
You may have heard of kung fu, but the girls at Oarai High School practice gun-fu—really, really BIG 75mm gun-fu, in fact. It’s called Sensha-do, and it’s the martial art of operating armored tanks! They take it seriously too, and since winning the national Sensha-do championship is such a huge deal at Oarai, they sometimes go to extreme ends in order to get the best students from Panzer class to sign up. Which is how Miho Nishizumi, who HATES operating tanks, gets drafted to join doomsday-driven driver Mako, even-triggered gunner Hana, highly receptive radio operator Saori and combustible tank-fangirl and loader Yukari as the incomparable Anko Team. They may not be on the half-track to fame and fortune, and maybe a few of them would rather shop for tank tops than become tops in tanks, but once their focus is locked and loaded, they’re absolutely driven.
It was announced during the Comiket 89 event that Teekyuu spinoff manga Usakame will receive a TV anime adaptation in Spring 2016. The members of the voice actress unit Earth Star Dream (who also performed the opening theme song for the sixth season of Teekyuu) will voice the main characters.
The cast include:
Yuki Nakashima will voice Kinako Tanaka
Hikaru Koide as Kurumi Satou
Izumi Araida as Ayako Suzuki
Maria Tanijiri as Nishi Nishiwaraidaishi
Kanon Takao (Yuu Hiraoka from Anitore! EX) as Tasuku Furubira
Eri Sogabe (Andalucia from Anitore! EX) as Miyako Baba
Arisa Aihara as Hoheto Irohani
The staff include:
Director Shin Itagaki (Teekyuu)
Studio: Millepensee (Teekyuu 4)
Visual:
Usakame is a manga serialized in Comic Earth Star and is considered the official rival to Teekyuu. The series is written by Tsugeo Terada (Roots) and drawn by Juusou Kirisawa, with original character designs by Piyo. The first volume was released on December 12.
Tsugeo Terada also wrote the story for Teekyuu, which will receive a seventh anime adaptation premiering on January 11.
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