Christmas is over, it’s the new year and the winter season anime is almost here to keep us entertained. Instead of just linking a chart and saying ‘here is the new anime, enjoy’. I decided to mock up a simple visual preview of Winter 2013/2014 TV Series anime. Sit back and enjoy the visual appealing pictures while trying to decide what you will watch for the start of the new year!
I am only supplying the brief descriptions of the shows as well as genres and producers. If you wish to view more information about a certain show. Click the title of the show of your choice, it’ll provide everything you need to know!
Double Circle
Genres: Sci-Fi, Super Power
“Double Circle” means the community which evolves infinitely by the energy and ICT in the smart community project.
People who live in Kawasaki become a hero, and beat an enemy who steals near from the time-stopped world to the evolving town Kawasaki.
Pupipo!
Genres: School, Slice of Life, Supernatural Producers: AIC Plus+
Himeji Wakaba is a 5th year elementary school student, and she has the ability to see things that others can’t. They are mostly frightening evil spirits, and they tend to do bad things to people who are close to her. As a result, Wakaba has no friends and rarely smiles. On a couple of occasions, she brings home stray animals, but her parents won’t let her keep them. However, they’re worried about their sad, creepy daughter, so one day they decide that whatever Wakaba brings home next, they’ll let her keep.
The next thing she brings home is a pink monster called “Pupipo”, but her parents stand by their decision and let her keep it. No one is quite sure what Pupipo is, but it protects Wakaba from the other things she sees. Pupipo also helps Wakaba make friends with an occult-obsessed transfer student and solve problems with bullying. Wakaba’s life is a much better place with her pet pink monster!
Robot Girl Z
Producers: Toei Animation Genres: Comedy
The story revolves around a new team of “Toei robot girls” named “Team Z” that is made up of three girls based on Toei’s Mazinger Z franchise: Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and UFO Robot Grendizer. Usually they perform in activities around Nerima ward in Tokyo to raise the awareness of the promising future energy source “Photon Power” (koushiryoku). However, there are times when “Mechanical Beast” team of girls emerge from the “Subterranean Empire” and attempt to steal the energy. Thus “Team Z” has to battle them to prevent this, though sometimes they just go and beat up the “bad girls” to relieve stress.
Seitokai Yakuindomo*
Genres: Comedy, School, Shounen Producers: Starchild Records
Second season of Seitokai Yakuindomo.
Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga.
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Shounen Producers: Project No.9
In the romance comedy, a girl named Mitsuki Kanzaki lives with her step-brother Yuuya after her mother remarries. One day, Mitsuki is possessed by the self-proclaimed spirit of a young girl, Hiyori Kotobuki. Hiyori (in Mitsuki’s body) must fall in love with Yuuya to move toward the “Gates of Heaven”.
Future Card Buddyfight
Genres: Game Producers: Xebec, Oriental Light and Magic, Bushiroad Inc.
Adaptation of the Future Card Buddyfight card game.
Witch Craft Works
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Supernatural, Seinen Producers: J.C. Staff, Lantis
Takamiya Honoka is a regular student whose only problem seems to be that he sits next to Kagari Ayaka, the school’s #1 beauty. They have never spoken to each other before and any small interaction between them immediately results in her fanclub beating him. Yet when a falling part of the school’s building is about to send him to the afterlife, it’s Kagari that comes to his rescue. Only… she’s dressed as a witch, carrying him in her arms and floating on a broom?! Kagari tells him it is her mission to protect him and that now she can finally protect him openly rather than undercover.
Space Dandy
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Space Producers: Bones
Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it’s first come, first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety of aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe!
Noragami
Genres: Action, Adventure, Shounen, Supernatural Producers: Bones, Avex Entertainment, Ai Addiction
At the boundary between this realm and another, there live eight million gods, dead spirits who serve the gods, and other assorted spirits who help and meddle in the affairs of humans. A sweet middle school girl named Hiyori Iki has been enduring bullying from her classmates, and she goes to the restroom by herself to cry. Scrawled on the bathroom wall is a phone number and the message, “I solve your troubles.”
After Hiyori calls the number, she encounters a homeless boy wearing a jersey who calls himself a god. The boy, named Yato, is rough, moody, lazy, and never listens to anyone’s wishes, but he had the power to be a god… that no one knew of.
Buddy Complex
Genres: Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi Producers: Sunrise, Lantis
The story will revolve around the friendship and coming-of-age of two boys. It begins with Aoba Watase, a boy who goes to high school in Tokyo and lives a carefree daily life. On the morning of his school’s opening ceremony after summer vacation, he goes to campus as usual, but he has a chance encounter with another boy.
Nobunagun
Genres: Action, Shounen, Supernatural Producers: Bridge, Earth Star Entertainment
Shio Ogura is a Japanese high school student, who is visiting Taiwan on a school trip when she is suddenly attacked by monsters. Agents known as “E-Gene Holders” from the government agency DOGOO also arrive, who wield weapons infused with the spirits of historical figures. Shio is revealed to also be an E-Gene Holder when the soul of Oda Nobunaga awakens after she tries to rescue a friend.
Minna Atsumare! Falcom Gakuen
Genres: Comedy Producers: DAX Production
Characters from various games released by Falcom (e.g. Dragon Slayer, The Legend of Heroes, and Ys series) come together in a school.
Saki: Zenkoku-hen
Genres: Game, School, Slice of Life Producers: TV Tokyo, Square Enix, Lantis, Pony Canyon, Studio Gokumi, Saki Zenkoku-hen Production Committee
Sequel to the Saki series covering the Inter High School Mahjong Championships. The Combined Training Arc will be also re-animated.
Tonari no Seki-kun
Genres: Comedy, School, Seinen Producers: Shin-Ei Animation
The original manga revolves around a girl named Yokoi who sits next to a boy only known as Seki-kun. During class, Seki-kun continues to not pay attention and instead creates amazing little distractions, such as a detailed golf course with the course’s hole being a dent in his desk, or an entire dramatic war being played out by paper shogi pieces. Yokoi often finds herself getting reluctantly interested in his games, even though they always seem to end up getting HER in trouble with the teacher!
SoniAni: Super Sonico The Animation
Genres: Music Producers: Nitroplus
A series featuring Super Sonico, the mascot girl of Nitroplus.
Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance Producers: TMS Entertainment
This is a tale of a prince who lost everything who leaves for a journey with no guarantee of returning to his hometown safely. With hatred and revenge in his mind, he meets several people that teach him about friendship… and love.
D-Frag!
Genres: Comedy, School, Seinen Producers: Media Factory, Brains Base
Kazama Kenji likes to believe he is something of a delinquent. Moreover, others seem to like to agree that he is. Of course, Kenji’s gang finds their way to a group of four not-so-normal girls—Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka—and all at once, whatever reputation he may have is nothing compared to the outrageous behavior of the girls. Shanghaied into joining their club, what will happen to his everyday life from that point on?
Wooser no Sono Higurashi 2
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Slice of Life Producers: TV Tokyo, SANZIGEN
Second season of Wooser no Sono Higurashi.
Hamatora The Animation
Genres: Mystery, Game, Shounen, Super Power Producers: NAZ, DIVE II Entertainment
The story revolves around “Minimum” or “minor miracle”—special hereditary powers discovered only in an extremely limited number of humans. Those who possess such powers are known as “Minimum Holders.”
Youkai Watch
Genres: Game Producers: Oriental Light and Magic
Level-5’s adaption of their new upcoming 3DS game.
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Ren
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School, Slice of Life Producers: Kyoto Animation
Due to various events, Yuuta and Rikka are living together. This secret co-habitation is so exciting for the two lovebirds! Or so it should be…
Is having a chuuni girlfriend too high of a hurdle for Yuuta, who never even went out with a normal girl?! Yuuta worries about how to advance his relationship with Rikka. And then everyone else, Nibutani, Kumin, and Dekomori, have powered up by advancing a grade. Furthermore, the cause of his chuunibyou outburst in middle school, the girl who calls herself Sophia Ring Saturn the 7th, Satone Shichimiya appears…
This is the long-awaited second season of the adolescent romantic comedy revolving around chuunibyou that makes you laugh and cry.
Onee-chan ga Kita
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life Producers: Takeshobo, C2C
The story revolves around Tomoya Mizuhara, a 13-year-old boy who suddenly gains a big sister when his father remarries. 17-year-old Ichika is a little strange, and her affection for Tomoya is rather overwhelming, if not scary. On top of things, Ichika’s friend Ruri is the ultimate sadist. Then there is Ichika’s big-breasted quarter-Japanese friend Marina.
Z/X: Ignition
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Game, Sci-Fi
The story is set in the not-so-distant future. Five “Black Points” suddenly appeared around the world as portals to parallel worlds. Immediately after, strange creatures began their invasion from these portals. These creatures are the inhabitants of five worlds—the same worlds in different timeframes. In order to ensure their own future timeframe survives, each of the five invasion forces battle to wipe the other future timeframes out. The key is one card-shaped device.
Pupa
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Shounen, Psychological Producers: Studio Deen, Earth Star Entertainment, Pupa Production Committee
The “life-and-death sibling” story follows Utsutsu and Yume Hasegawa, a boy and his little sister who find themselves all alone. One day, Yume sees a mysterious red butterfly and her body undergoes a strange metamorphosis—into a creature that eats humans. Utsutsu struggles to find a way to restore his sister.
Mahou Sensou
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Magic Producers: Media Factory
In this modern magic action story, Takeshi Nanase is an ordinary high school boy who has a somewhat dark past. Due to certain circumstances, he formed a “fake” couple with his childhood friend Kurumi Isoshima, but otherwise, he lives a normal life. However, one day, he comes across a girl named Mui Aiba, in a uniform he has never seen before, collapsed on the school campus. This encounters changes Takeshi’s destiny completely. Mui tells Takeshi that she is a magician, and she apologizes, for she turned Takeshi into a magician, too. What Takeshi once knew as one world is actually two—the world where magicians live and the world where humans live.
Genres: Romance, School, Yuri, Slice of Life Producers: Studio Deen, TBS
The story revolves around Haruka and Yuu, two girls who go to a high school that is slated to be shut down in three years.
To share something special between them, they share a kiss, and their relationship deepens from that moment onward.
Gin no Saji 2nd Season
Genres: Comedy, School, Shounen, Slice of Life Producers: Aniplex, A-1 Pictures, Fuji TV
Second season of Gin no Saji.
Strange+
Genres: Comedy, Shoujo, Slice of Life Producers: Seven, Dream Creation
Kou comes to a slum neighborhood in search of his elder brother Takumi and finds him to have become the head of a private detective firm. Kou is drafted by Takumi to do errands and chores in the detective firm, and they come to meet various interesting people…
Go! Go! 575
Genres: Music, Slice of Life Producers: Sega
Go! Go! 575 adapts the Project 575 games for PlayStation Vita and iOS, which allow anyone to create songs using the traditional Japanese 5-7-5-syllable meter found in haiku and tanka poems.
Hoozuki no Reitetsu
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural Producers: Starchild Records, Wit Studio
The dark comedy revolves around the fierce god aide to the Great King Yama, Hoozuki. Calm and super-sadistic, he tries to resolve problems that often occur in Hell.
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life Producers: Doga Kobo, Toho Company, DAX Production, Mikakunin de Shinkoukei Production Committee
Yonomi Kobeni, an ordinary girl, finds out on her 16th birthday that she is betrothed to Mitsumine Hakuya, a boy the same age as her. Hakuya moves in from the countryside and starts living with her, bringing his younger sister who is still a primary school student with him. Also added is his older sister who is already living with Kobeni and is two years older.
The story revolves around these four people and their identities as “couples” and “sisters-in-law.”
Nourin
Genres: Comedy, Romance, School Producers: Frontier Works, Silver Link
When the national idol Kusakabe Yuka suddenly retired from the entertainment business, it shocked the world and it devastated teenager Hata Kosaku. Kosaku was Yuka’s biggest fan and her departure left him depressed. His classmates at the Tamo Agriculture School finally are able to get him to leave his room and attend his class, but to everyone’s amazement, Kusakabe Yuka (her stage name) comes into the class under the name Kinoshita Ringo as a transfer student. Kosaku realizes he has the once in a lifetime opportunity to get to personally know his dream girl and, together with his group of friends, try to find out why she is here and become closer than just classmates.
Wake Up, Girls!
Genres: Music, Slice of Life Producers: Tatsunoko Productions, Ordet
Green Leaves Entertainment is a tiny production company on the verge of going out of business in Sendai, the biggest city in Japan’s northeastern Tohoku region. The agency once managed the careers of magicians, photo idols, fortune-tellers, and other entertainers, but its last remaining client finally quit. In danger of having zero talent (literally), the president Tange hatches an idea of producing an idol group. On the brash president’s orders, the dissatisfied manager Matsuda heads out to scout raw talent. Matsuda makes a fateful encounter with a certain girl…
Nisekoi
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Shounen Producers: Aniplex, Shaft
Raku Ichijou is an average high school student. He also happens to be the sole heir to the head of a Yakuza Family called the Shuei-gumi. Ten years ago, Raku made a promise… a secret promise with a girl he met. They promised one another that they will “get married when they reunite”. Since then, Raku never let go of the pendant the girl gave him.
Then one day, a beautiful girl named Chitoge Kirisaki transfers into Raku’s class. Their chemistry was more than off. There was not a moment where they were not fighting. But by a weird turn of events, Raku and Chitoge agree to become fake lovers. Although his heart is really interested in his classmate Kosaki Onodera, Raku must continue pretending to be Chitoge’s boyfriend.
Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda
Genres: Action, Fantasy Producers: Aniplex, A-1 Pictures
What does it take to conquer the world?! Every leader of the past has thought of it… but all they have done was to merely dream of its greatness. World domination… nobody has been able to achieve it. Until one little girl by the name of Kate Hoshimiya came along. Kate Hoshimiya will shock the world! How was she able to carry out such a magnificent stunt? So frightful! So glorious! Could this be… the Zvezda Plot?! Let the light of our great Zvezda shine upon this land far and wide!
Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil
Genres: Magic Producers: Arms, Pony Canyon
The story takes place in Tokyo in 2018, where normal humans and those who can use magic coexist. As a result, there are laws against using magic, and a “magic courtroom” exists to preside over lawsuits regarding magic use. In these cases, “Benmashi” or wizard barristers defend those who use magic. The anime follows Cecil, the youngest Benmashi in history, and her associates as they defend clients in these cases.
Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha.
Genres: Comedy, Romance, School, Supernatural Producers: DAX Production, flying DOG, Production IMS
Fushimi Inari is a shy, not-so-bright middle school girl living in Kyoto’s Fushimi ward. She has a crush on her classmate Tanbabashi, but cannot express her feelings. One day, as thanks for helping a fox pup, the deity Ukanomitama-no-kami grants her the ability to change her form.
Maken-Ki! Two
Genres: Action, Ecchi, Martial Arts, School, Super Power, Harem Producers: Xebec
Second season of Maken-Ki!.
Happiness Charge Precure!
Genres: Fantasy, Kids, Magic, Shoujo Producers: Toei Animation
Newest installment of Precure series.
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (2014)
Genres: Demons, Magic, Romance, Shoujo
New Sailor Moon anime commemorating the 20th anniversary of Sailor Moon.
Quite a decent handful of shows this season. I hope you’ve been able to find a few shows worth picking up. So my question is, what are you going to watch this season?
