- Namtab
- Feb 22, 2010
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It's amazing how little joy 2009 adtrw took in anime.
For posterity
Spring 2010 posted:After two rather unremarkable (to say the least) seasons, things now seem to be looking up. The noitaminA timeslot on Fuji TV (known for things like Nodame Cantabile, Honey & Clover, Trapeze and Eden of the East) is now 60 minutes instead of 30, which means two shows per season that are more or less guaranteed to be at least above average. There's also quite a few other interesting things.
As always, the main source for this is Moonphase (moonrune warning). I'll list pretty much everything that Moonphase lists, at least for TV series; for OVA's and movies I usually end up missing a lot of stuff. By all means feel free to post corrections or stuff I missed. DVD release dates for movies are of particular interest; Moonphase lists cinema dates, but those aren't very interesting for most of us, and I'm too lazy to keep track of DVD release dates myself.
As usual I've bolded the safe bets/stuff that everyone should agree is awesome. This season I'm rather conservative with the boldings so feel free to request more boldings if you want. NEW: shows nobody cares about (i.e. kids shows, merchandise gimmick shows) have their names in italics!
For TV series, the listed date is the day the first episode airs in Japan. For reasons related to timezones and Japan's screwy way of counting hours past midnight, this might be +/- 1 day from what you'd expect it to be. For OVA's, it's the DVD release date. For movies, it's the cinema premiere date, unless otherwise noted.
End of tl;dr.
Spring TV series
03/02: Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia
merchandise gimmicks
03/16 Yutori-chan
Kids show about small girls doing things with cellphones. Streaming (in some cellphone format) broadcast only.
03/26: Ikkitousen XTREME XECUTOR
more like XTREME TITS amirite
03/26: Hetalia Axis Powers Season 3
The country stereotype/gay innuendo jokes go on forever.
03/27: Shoka (Calligrapher)
Samurai (?) show by Production I.G.'s B-team, about calligraphers fighting with giant paper creatures. The script/idea apparently won some Animax award.
03/29: Hanakappa
NHK kids show about a kappa. If you don't know what a kappa is, turn in your wapanese badge and gun.
04/01: Shin Koihime Musou ~Otome Dairan~
idk why they keep making more and more of this poo poo
04/01: HEROMAN
BONES and Stan Lee of Spider-Man and X-Men fame cooperate on some giant robot show.
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04/01: B Gata H Kei (B-Cup Perv)
Some ero comedy show about a girl who dreams of having 100 casual sex partners. The internet claims the main reason to watch this is that it has Tamura Yukari (who voices the protagonist) acting like a complete slut. Also stars Noto Mamiko, Horie Yui and Kobayashi Yuu.
04/01: Ookiku Furikabutte Second Season (Big Windup Season 2)
Baseball is serious business.
04/01: Kaichou wa Maid-sama! (The Chairwoman Serves Me Tea!)
J.C. Staff adapts a shoujo romance manga (official English title: Maid Sama!) about a hardworking female student council president who secretly works part-time at a maid café. Drama ensues when some heartbreaker guy discovers her secret. Fujimura Ayumi (Azaka in Kara no Kyoukai) as the maid/chairwoman. Also stars Hanazawa Kana, Ueda Kana and Kobayashi Yuu.
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04/02: Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou (The Last Devil King of the Line)
Shounen fanservice/harem/fighting show about some guy in a fantasy world who gets "devil king" as his most suitable occupation on some aptitude test. Airs on AT-X which should tell you something about the content (translation: tits). Directed by the Shakugan no Shana guy, and Itou Shizuka is in there somewhere.
04/02: Angel Beats!
P.A. Works (Canaan), Key (the game developers responsible for the Clannad and Kanon visual novels, among other things) and the director of Seto no Hanayome and Tentai Senshi Sunred do an anime original story about moé angel girls with guns fighting each other in the afterlife, while also being in afterlife high school. Since it's Key it's probably intended to be melodramatic as gently caress, but the entire thing is so ridicolously exaggerated that it sounds like a perfect recipe for (unintentional?) hilarity. Maybe it's all just some kind of elaborate troll or social experiment where they try to prove that they can get otaku to cry about absolutely anything, no matter how ridicolous. Hanazawa Kana and Kitamura Eri as two of the angels; Kamiya Hiroshi (he sure gets around these days) as some dude.
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04/02: Ring ni Kakero 1 Shadow-hen (Put it all in the Ring 1: Shadow)
Toei does more anime about boxing.
04/03: Jewel Pet New Series
more merchandise gimmicks
04/03: SD Gundam Sangoku-den (SD Gundam: Legends from the Three Kingdoms)
Super deformed Gundams go around and make funnies. Originally a movie, reported to get a TV anime as well.
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04/03: MAJOR 6th Series
Yes, even more baseball.
04/03: Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan (Demons Among the Pale Cherry Blossoms: A Mysterious Tale of the Shinsengumi)
Studio DEEN and this guy do a harem show about some girl who gets the attention of a bunch of Shinsengumi pretty-boy samurai. Based on a PS2 visual novel and airs on AT-X, which would usually imply a lot of fanservice if the harem was female, idk what it means in this case.
04/04: Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri
still more merchandise gimmicks
04/04: Sangoku Engi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
Chinese-Japanese coproduction. 52 episodes. Reportedly very little blood and violence but appears to be a rather faithful retelling of the story.
04/04: GIANT KILLING
In our continuing series of shows with highly misleading names, this season features GIANT KILLING which is an anime about soccer. It's done by Studio DEEN and directed by a guy whose main achievements as a director are Zero no Tsukaima S2 and S3, so it's probably safe to say it's going to suck. The manga is absurdly popular though so there's probably going to be some raging, at least in japanese.
**ZORAK EDIT: Surprise, it actually rules!!!**
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04/04: Working!!
Anime adaption of a 4-panel comedy manga about some high school girl working part-time in a restaurant and her quirky co-workers. Lots of voice talent including Fukuyama Jun (Lelouch) as the male lead, Asumi Kana (Yuno in Hidamari Sketch) as the female lead, Ono Daisuke (Itsuki in Haruhi, Hosaka in Minami-ke), Kamiya Hiroshi (Zetsubou-sensei, Araragi in Bakemonogatari) and Shiraishi Ryouko (Hayate the Combat Butler, Schrödinger in Hellsing Ultimate).
04/04: Arakawa Under The Bridge
SHAFT, our old friend Shinbo and relative newcomer Miyamoto Yukihiro adapts a quirky romance manga about an upper class guy who gets stuck with some weirdo girl living under a bridge. Impressive voice cast as usual with SHAFT shows; it stars Kamiya Hiroshi (Araragi in Bakemonogatari, Zetsubou-sensei, etc) as the rich dude, Sakamoto Maaya as the weirdo girl, and furthermore Saitou Chiwa (Senjougahara in Bakemonogatari and a billion other roles), Fujiwara Keiji (Holland in E7, Hughes in FMA), Sawashiro Miyuki (Shinku in Rozen Maiden, Canaan in Canaan) and Sugita Tomokazu (Kyon). It'll be interesting to see what SHAFT makes of this now that they (maybe) have infinite money.
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04/05: kiss x sis
apparently this was popular enough to get an entire tv series (on at-x, of course)
just say no, ok
04/05: Senkou no Night Raid (Flashing Night Raid)
Since Japan has realized that people abroad actually seem to like anime, they've started some kind of project called ANIME NO CHIKARA (the POWER OF ANIME or whatever) which is supposed to result in stuff people outside Japan want to watch. So far this has resulted in K-On S1.5 (aka. Sora no Woto). Next up is this one, done by the same studio (A-1 Studios, mostly known for shitstuff like Valkyria Chronicles and Kannagi) and directed by this guy, who is mostly known for Persona -trinity soul-. The actual show is about some secret agency doing <stuff> in Shanghai in 1931.
tl;dr: outlook not good
04/06: Mayoi Neko Overrun! (Stray Cat Overrun)
Harem/fanservice/sudden girlfriend appearance show based on a series of light novels. Stars Horie Yui (everything) and Tamura Yukari (Nanoha, Mai in Kanon, etc). Nothing interesting to see here, move along.
04/06: RAINBOW Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin (RAINBOW: The Seven Boys of Dorm 2, Room 6)
Anime adaption of an ongoing manga set in the 1950's, following the lives of seven boys who get confined together in a room at a school for delinquents, and their lives after they leave. Delayed since spring 2009 or something.
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04/06: K-On!! Season 2
no gently caress you japan
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04/11: Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru (Betrayal Knows My Name)
J.C. Staff adapts a manga about angsty pretty-boys staring at each other in the dark while cherry blossoms rain around them and the gay innuendo is so thick you could practically walk on it. Lots of male superstar voice actors, as expected. Hoshi Souichirou (Jesus Yamato in Gundam SEED, Gino in Geass R2) and Sakurai Takahiro (Oshino in Bakemonogatari, Suzaku in Code Geass, etc) as the main characters; further talent include Ono Daisuke (Hosaka in Minami-ke), Ishida Akira (Athrun in Gundam SEED, Xellos in Slayers), Fukuyama Jun (Lelouch), Inoue Marina (Kana in Minami-ke, Kyoko in Skip Beat), Miki Shinichirou (Kurz in FMP, Mustang in FMA:B) and Yukana (C.C. in Code Geass).
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04/15: Sarai-ya Goyou (House of Five Leaves)
Manglobe and this Studio Ghibli veteran adapt a manga about a naïve samurai (voiced by Namikawa Daisuke, who did Rock in Black Lagoon etc) who gets stuck in bad but charismatic company (voiced by Sakurai Takahiro, who was Suzaku in Code Geass). Oh, and it airs in the noitaminA timeslot, which makes this show have like three or four separate things about it that each would have made it a bold entry by itself, so yeah imagine this show's entry being in 36pt blinking red text or something.
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04/22: Yojou-han Shinwa Taikei (Tales from the Four-and-a-Half Tatami Room)
Madhouse and avant-garde director Yuasa Masaaki (Kaiba, Mind Game, Kemonozume) adapt a 2005 novel about a nameless university student who looks back on his life. Part of the name of the show (more specificaly yo in yojou-han) is an elaborate graphic kanji pun. Stars Sakamoto Maaya (Shiki in Kara no Kyoukai etc etc) and Fujiwara Keiji (Ladd Russo in Baccano, Holland in E7, Hughes in FMA); also airs in the noitaminA timeslot (yes, it's two shows per season now). Like The House of Five Leaves you should imagine this show's entry being in 36pt blinking red text.
Spring OVA's and Movies
Remember that the movie dates are cinema premieres unless otherwise stated.
03/03: Summer Wars
Movie by the guys who did Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo. All reviews I can find pretty much universally agree it loving owns. Listed date is the DVD/Bluray release date.
03/12: Gundam Unicorn
dvd/bluray release date. yeah, go hog wild
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03/13: Higashi no Eden Gekijouban II - Paradise Lost (Eden of the East Movie II - Paradise Lost)
The second Eden of the East movie. See the
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03/19: Haiyore! Nyaru-Ani
Comedy show about Nyarlathotep (yes, the Lovecraft one) as a cute girl. Apparently done in Flash.
03/24: Higashi no Eden Gekijouban I - The King of Eden (Eden of the East Movie I - The King of Eden)
DVD and Bluray release date for the first Eden of the East movie. See the
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03/25 Tales of Symphonia the Animation - The Tethe'alla Chapter, Part 1
OVA, listed date is the DVD release date. Will it be as lovely as TotA's anime adaption? Who knows!
03/25 Tono to Issho (With My Lord)
Anime adaption of a 4-panel gag manga about a bunch of Japanese warring states-era warlords (i.e. Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, Akechi Mitsuhide and the other usual suspects). Absurd amount of voice talent including fangirl favorite and J-rock superstar Gackt, Noto Mamiko, Ono Daisuke, Sugita Tomokazu and Kobayashi Yuu.
03/26 Soukou Kihei Votoms Genei-hen I (Armored Trooper Votoms - Phantom Arc, part I)
If there's anyone who cares about this, they're probably posting here. Unfortunately, nobody will sub it.
04/16: Katanagatari - 04
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04/24: Gintama - Shinyaku Benizakura-hen
04/24: TRIGUN Badlands Rumble
no I don't have the faintest idea what this is about
05/01: Ibara no Ou (King of Thorn)
Sunrise and this guy adapt a postapocalyptic manga about some girl who cryo-sleeps through a pandemic that wipes out most of humanity. The entire manga is out in the US already. Hanazawa Kana as the protagonist (she is in everything now); also stars Kawasumi Ayako.
05/01: Gekijouban Bungaku Shoujo (Literature Girl - The Movie)
Adaption (by Production I.G.) of a light novel that revolves around a demon/weird creature in teenage girl form who eats stories, and her male classmate who writes stuff for her to eat. Irino Miyu as the classmate, Hanazawa Kana as the demon girl (what did I say about her being in everything now). Also stars Mizuki Nana, Itou Shizuka, Ono Daisuke etc etc.
05/26: Tales of Symphonia the Animation - The Tethe'alla Chapter, Part 2
05/26: Evangelion Shin Gekijouban: Ha (Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance)
Bluray release date.
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06/01: Gekijouban Hetalia Axis Powers (Hetalia Axis Powers The Movie)
Yes, there's even more of it.
Later stuff
This list far from complete.
July: Shiki
Horror show based on a novel by Ono Fuyumi (of Ghost Hunt and Twelve Kingdoms fame). Airs in the Noitamina timeslot and stars fangirl favorite Gackt in a minor role for some reason. An evil rumor has it that it'll be animated by Studio DEEN.
July: Kuroshitsuji II
The devil wears PradaVictorian butler costumes.
July: Sengoku Basara 2
PUT YOUR GUNS ON! AGAIN!
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July: Strike Witches S2
lol
Summer: Winter Sonata the Animation - Japanese dub version
Korean drama without the Korean? What.
Summer: D.C. ~Da Capo~ Extension
the jokes about this franchise living up to its name are starting to get really old
(name tentative, different sources have it as Ext, XD, XT or "unnamed")
Summer: .hack//Link
Yet another franchise I've completely lost track of.
September: Gekijouban Kidou Senshi Gundam 00 (Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie)
YES EVEN MORE GUNDAM
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September: Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Episode 02
the second one
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October: Iron Man
Madhouse does an anime version of Marvel's Iron Man. Info scarce.
Autumn: Gekijouban Macross F ~Sayonara no Tsubasa~ (Macross F Movie 2 - Wings of Farewell)
nope I don't know what this one is about either
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Sometime 2010: High School of the Dead
Zombies.
Sometime 2010: New Code Geass series
WE'VE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSION OF CODE GEASS
gg will revive to sub this regardless of how dead it might seem at the time. Also, apparently it's going to be a prequel set a few hundred years before the first season or something.
Sometime 2010: CAT poo poo ONE -THE ANIMATED SERIES-
Cats with guns, unironically. Who knows if it will ever actually come out.
Sometime 2010: Hellsing Ultimate VIII
FLASHFACTS
Hanazawa Kana is in literally everything
Ono Daisuke and Kamiya Hiroshi are both in nearly everything
Sakamoto Maaya is in two shows this season
K-On S2 is airing on 28 (twenty-eight) TV stations
There are remarkably few outright sequels
04/06: K-On!! Season 2
no gently caress you japan
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