Friday, March 30, 2012

Spring 2012 Official Sneak Peek

With another season coming to an end, a new anime season is upon us. Find out which shows we'll be covering episodically this coming anime season.



Schedule chart via Random Curiosity. All credit goes to Random Curiosity for the creation of this chart.

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Koiken! ~Watashi-tachi Anime ni Natchatta!~ | こいけん!~私たちアニメになっちゃった!~
Marvy Jack
Airing: March 1, 2012

The protagonist is a 2nd-year high-school student without a girlfriend, with no goals in life, and leads a boring school-life. The only thing he has is the vague desire to effect a change in his life. Change comes during the spring break when he meets the beautiful and lively tsundere Wakamiya Kaede, recently returned from Dublin, and Toyama Nagisa, former childhood friend and current super-popular idol.

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Ozuma | オズマ
Gonzo, LandQ studios
Airing: March 16, 2012

In the far future, the elevated irradiation from the sun has destroyed the environment of the earth and the birthrate of humans has drastically decreased. The government controls society with an army of cloned soldiers called "Ideal Children (IC)". Sam Coin is a trader in a desert. One day, he saves a beautiful woman Maya, who has been chased by Theseus, a corps of IC. He shelters her in his trade ship, but the destroyers of Theseus surround Sam and Maya.

gakkatsu

Gakkatsu! | ガッ活!
Fanworks
Airing: March 19, 2012

In a fictional school, "Tender Tank" Rareko is constantly opening absurd yet strangely enthusiastic debates, this way creating a lively classroom life. Bringing up tremendous themes, she and her classmates exchange words like sword-strokes, and here and there even a profound remark is slipped in.

A fun and informative debate comedy, packed into only five minutes each time.

sso

Saint Seiya Omega | 聖闘士星矢・オメガ
Toei Animation
Airing: April 1, 2012

The first Saint Seiya TV series in 25 years. It will have an original story and new characters.

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Uchuu Kyoudai | 宇宙兄弟
A-1 Pictures
Airing: April 1, 2012

Once upon a time there were two brothers, Hibito and Mutta. Hibito, the littler brother, had been blessed with good luck since the day he was born. Mutta, the elder, had always had bad luck. One day, looking up at the night sky, the two brothers saw a UFO. This experience made them both promise to become astronauts.

In the year 2025, Hibito has kept his promise and is an astronaut who is part of the first wave of people to live for an extended period of time on the moon. Meanwhile, his older brother Mutta has been fired from his job and is unemployed, but a message from his brother makes him decide to start being an astronaut again.

Unaware of his own talent, elder brother Mutta chases his dreams to get back in front of his younger brother. 32-year-old Mutta will attempt the astronaut candidate examinations to follow his brother Hibito to the moon believing the words "The older brother should always be ahead of the younger one..."

furusato

Furusato Saisei Nihon no Mukashi Banashi | ふるさと再生 日本の昔ばなし
Tomason
Airing: April 1, 2012

Folklore, myth, legend, and festival origin stories from across Japan.

hiirokake

Hiiro no Kakera | 緋色の欠片
Studio DEEN
Airing: April 1, 2012

The protagonist is a teenage girl (Tamaki) who revisits a small village, she remembers from her childhood and gets caught up in her family's history and supernatural dangers surrounding it.

While walking along the hillsides waiting for the person who her grandmother sent to fetch Tamaki to the village, Tamaki comes across a small, white round object with sticks for limbs and talks. It runs off soon after, with Tamaki chasing after it. Soon Tamaki finds herself in a place where ‘it doesn’t feel like the world I came from’. She gets attacked by three slime creatures, and a male comes charging in to save her - by clamping his hands around her body and mouth and telling her to be quiet.


inuko

Shiba Inuko-san | しばいぬ子さん
DAX Production
Airing: April 2, 2012

Shibainuko-san is a 14-year-old girl who looks exactly like a Shiba Inu dog. One of her classmates, Ishibashi Chako, wonders about her appearance, but no one else thinks it is strange.

rebellion

Queen’s Blade: Rebellion | クイーンズブレイド リベリオン
Arms
Airing: April 2, 2012

After the 30th Queen's Blade, Claudette becomes the queen. At first, she governs the country well by abolishing the heavy taxes and the aristocracy. However, her reign turns into terrorism by power and the Queen's Blade is repealed. The Princess Knight of Rebellion, Annelotte organizes a rebel army and declares war against Claudette.

gon

Gon | ゴん
Kodansha, Daewon Media
Airing: April 2, 2012

The Gon series features the completely wordless adventures of the irascible title character, a tiny fictional dinosaur, as he interacts with the natural world. Gon somehow survived the extinction of his fellow dinosaurs and interacts with paleolithic animals.

kimiboku2

Kimi to Boku. 2 | 君と僕。2
J.C. Staff
Airing: April 2, 2012

Second part of Kimi to Boku.

yuru3d

Yurumates 3D | ゆるめいつ 3でぃ
C2C
Airing: April 2, 2012

Yurume, an 18-year-old "ronin" and recent high school graduate, has high hopes of being accepted and attending Tokyo University. She moves into an apartment complex, the Maison du Wish, located on the outskirts of Tokyo where other ronins living there are studying for upcoming college acceptance exams.

zetman

TMS Animation
Airing: April 2, 2012

The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and ALPHAS, and then traces their origins - Jin Kanzaki, a young man with the ability to transform into a superhuman being known as ZET, and Kouga Amagi, a young man with a strong sense of justice who uses technology to fight as ALPHAS.

The fates of these two men and those around them intertwine as they fight to protect mankind and destroy monstrous abominations known as Players, who ironically are the creations of the Amagi Corporation, the company founded by Kouga’s grandfather, Mitsugai Amagi.

rocklee

Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden | NARUTO -ナルト- SD ロック・リーの青春フルパワー忍伝
Studio Pierrot
Airing: April 3, 2012

The gag comedy anime centers around the secondary Naruto character Rock Lee.

zumomo

Zumomo to Nupepe | ズモモとヌペペ
Egg
Airing: April 3, 2012

As part of the Dai! Tensai Telebi-kun program, Zumomo to Nupepe is an adaptation of Rumparo Tita’s debut children’s manga in the form of 5-minute shorts that tell the story of a pair of unlikely friends.

arashi-yoru

Arashi no Yoru ni: Himitsu no Tomodachi | あらしのよるに ひみつのともだち
Sparky Animation
Airing: April 4, 2012

A new anime adaptation by Sparky Animation, Duckbill Entertainment, Baku Enterprise and Bandai Visual of the book Arashi no Yoru ni (One Stormy Night...) by Kimura Yuuichi.

kuromajo

Kuromajo-san ga Touru!! | 黒魔女さんが通る!!
Shin-Ei Animation
Airing: April 4, 2012

When magic-mad Choco summons up a black witch by mistake, she finds that she and her friend Gyubido need to keep a careful eye on her to stop her getting up to all sorts of mischief.

kore-zombie

Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? OF THE DEAD | これはゾンビですか? OF THE DEAD
Studio DEEN
Airing: April 4, 2012

Second season of "Kore wa Zombie desu ka?"

medaka-box

Medaka Box | めだかボックス
Gainax
Airing: April 4, 2012

Kurokami Medaka, a first year, is elected as Student Council President, and the first thing she does is establish a suggestion box, later dubbed by students the "Medaka Box". Medaka encourages students to submit any problem to the box without hesitation and promises to take on any issue from anyone.

Since Medaka won the Student Council elections with a staggering 98% of the vote, she ends up as the Council's only member. She asks her childhood friend, Hitoyoshi Zenkichi, for help and he grudgingly agrees, becoming the Student Council's lowest ranking member. Soon Medaka recruits two more people to the Student Council, the former judo club member Akune Kouki as secretary and the current swim club member Kikaijima Mogana, on loan for 300 yen a day, as treasurer.

Now the Student Council members spend their days solving the problems submitted through the Medaka Box, whether they be hooligans in clubs where they don't belong, girls who need help writing love letters or people who've lost their pets, gradually earning the respect and admiration of the entire school.

shirokuma

Shirokuma Cafe | しろくまカフェ
Studio Pierrot
Airing: April 5, 2012

Comedy anime about a polar bear that runs a cafe with 3 regulars: a panda, a koala, and a penguin.

rikoran

Recorder to Randsell Re | リコーダーとランドセル レ♪
Seven
Airing: April 5, 2012

The second season of the story revolving around Miyagawa Atsushi and his sister Miyagawa Atsumi. Atsushi looks like an adult at 180 centimetres (about 71 inches) tall, but he is actually an elementary school boy. Atsumi looks like a little girl at 137 centimetres (54 inches) tall, but she is actually in high school.

sencol

Sengoku Collection | 戦国コレクション
Brains Base, NAS
Airing: April 5, 2012

Anime adaptation of Konami's Sengoku Collection social networking service game, set in the tumultuous Sengoku Era of historical Japan, when military masters circle the figurative throne of Japan's first shogunate.

sankarea

Sankarea | さんかれあ
Studio DEEN, Lantis
Airing: April 5, 2012

Furuya's obsessed with zombies. He collects any figurines, watches any movie, and plays any game with the living dead, and is even only interested in zombie girls. When his cat dies, Furuya begins trying to raise it from the dead using an ancient book of the occult he bought from a shop. But what will happen when he sees the idol of a nearby all girl's school walking close to where he conducts his experiment, wishing to die and be reborn as a different person?

acchikocchi

Acchi Kocchi | あっちこっち
AIC
Airing: April 5, 2012

Wouldn't you just love to poke in a relationship between two young high schoolers who have a subtle distance between each other? Of course you would. Tsumiki and Io have this subtle distance that anyone would want to jump in between just to bug them. That's what the other characters are there for. Tsumiki, being a tsundere and all, won't be honest about her feelings toward Io. Io on the other hand is unaware of Tsumiki's feelings, hence the subtle distance between the two. Now, let's watch these two and see what events await them...

natsuiro-kiseki

Natsuiro Kiseki | 夏色キセキ
Sunrise
Airing: April 5, 2012

Original anime featuring the four members of sphere as voice actresses.

eagle-talon

Himitsu Kessha Taka no Tsume NEO | 秘密結社鷹の爪 NEO
DLE Inc.
Airing: April 6, 2012

Eagle Talon, a secret society based in Kojimachi, Tokyo, with plans for world domination, isn't a secret society anymore! In fact, it's a famous society, known by just about every household in Japan there is, because Eagle Talon went nation-wide with golden time on NHK!

accel-world

Accel World | アクセル・ワールド
Sunrise
Airing: April 6, 2012

One autumn day in 2046, Haruyuki has an encounter with Kuroyukihime, the prettiest girl in his school. For the middle school boy who is often bullied, the meeting changes his life. Through a mysterious piece of software from her, Haruyuki learns of the existence of the virtual Accel World. In that moment, the lowest of the "school caste" becomes "Burst Linker", a knight defending a princess.

jewelpet

Jewelpet Kira Deco! | ジュエルペットきら☆デコッ!
Studio Cornet
Airing: April 7, 2012

The fourth season of Jewelpet.

bakutech

Baku Tech! Bakugan | 爆TECH!爆丸
Producer not available at this time
Airing: April 7, 2012

Bakugan is the card game for a new generation. In "Baku TECH" passionate warriors fight each other and risk their life for Bakugan.

ginga-kickoff

Ginga e Kickoff!! | 銀河へキックオフ!!
TYO Animations
Airing: April 7, 2012

The story follows a boy who was in a soccer team, but it was disbanded due to not enough players. However, after the boy meets a female professional soccer player, he aims to bring his soccer team back.

dear-my-future

Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future | プリティーリズム ディアマイフューチャー
Nomad, Tatsunoko Productions
Airing: April 7, 2012

Three years after the events of "Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream", Aira, Mion and Rizumu have grown up and tutor a new group of aspiring idols: Karin, Reina, Mia and Ayami, who form the Prizmmy☆. Teenage girls from Korea, named Somin, Shiyoon, Haein, Chaekyung and Jae Eun (who are the Kara), appear as a rival group.

upotte

Upotte!! | うぽって!!
Xebec
Airing: April 7, 2012

A teacher is looking for a school by the name of Seishou Academy, as he is a new transfer teacher for that school. Seishou Academy is known for having students with excellent marksmanship. However, he gets lost along the way and decides to look for someone who knows where the school is at a summer festival.

He encounters a girl at a shooting range and finds her marksmanship skills to be professional. The girl tells the new teacher that she is an assault rifle, not a student. Her name is FNC and is an assault rifle of Seishou Academy.

The new teacher attends school the next day to find students, including FNC, practicing shooting M16s and realizes that he has come to an unbelievable school. How will his experience be at Seishou Academy?

fate-zero-2

Fate/Zero 2nd Season | フェイト/ゼロ 2ndシーズン
Aniplex, ufotable, Nitroplus
Airing: April 7, 2012

Second part of Fate/Zero.

nazonokanojox

Mysterious Girlfriend X | 謎の彼女X
Hoods Entertainment
Airing: April 7, 2012

One day, a strange transfer student appears before Tsubaki. Urabe Mikoto is an antisocial girl, whose hobby is just sleeping during class-breaks. One day, Tsubaki goes to wake her up and accidentally tastes her drool... And gets hooked on that!

After that, he starts going out with her and gets to know her better. Her second hobby, as it turns out, is carrying around scissors in her panties and cutting paper into flowers...

kurobas

Kuroko no Basuke | 黒子のバスケ
Production I.G, Bandai Visual, Lantis, NAS
Airing: April 7, 2012

Kuroko is a member from the legendary middle school basketball team known as "The Generation of Miracles", and while nobody seems to know about him, the main 5 players of the team all admit that he is a better player. When he joins the high school basketball team, everyone is surprised to find out that he is small, weak, and easy to miss. What is the secret that makes him so strong, and how will he help his high school team?

zerog

Metal Fight Beyblade Zero G | メタルファイト ベイブレード ZEROG
Tatsunoko Production
Airing: April 8, 2012

New Metal Fight Beyblade series.

cardfight

Cardfight!! Vanguard: Asia Circuit Hen | カードファイト!! ヴァンガード アジアサーキット編
TMS Entertainment
Airing: April 8, 2012

Sequel of Cardfight!! Vanguard.

phibrain2

Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle 2 | ファイ・ブレイン 〜神のパズル 第2シリーズ
Sunrise, Sentai Filmworks
Airing: April 8, 2012

The puzzles get tougher and even more deadly as Kaito Daimon continues his battle against the power hungry Givers of the POG. And with one team member already switching sides, will Kaito have what it takes to keep solving the deadly puzzle traps put before him and reach the fabled Puzzle of God? More importantly, will he be able to solve the puzzles AND maintain his sanity?

otonesia

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia | 黄昏乙女xアムネジア
Silver Link
Airing: April 8, 2012

The story takes place in Seikyou Private School. A facility that consists of multiple buildings that connect together to accommodate both junior and senior high school students. Sixty years of ongoing renovations and expansions have meant most of the old inner structures have been sealed and abandoned. Classrooms turned into storage rooms, staircases no longer in use, hallways like dark alleys. With the existence of such a maze-like building, it is only natural that rumours of the paranormal would appear.

One day first-year middle school student Teiichi Niiya gets lost in this maze and by chance arrives at an old storage room. This is where he meets Yuuko Kanoe, a mysterious girl with raven black, long silky hair and a tall and slender figure, who introduces herself as the ghost of the old school building. For some unexplainable reason Niiya is the only one able to see this spirit and she herself does not have any recollection of the reasons or time of her death, nor any lingering feelings about life itself. Curious about the circumstances of her death the two create a paranormal investigation club and seek to find out the truth about it and the many other mysteries surrounding the school.

sakiachigahen

Saki Achiga-hen episode of side-A | 咲-Saki- 阿知賀編 episode of side-A
Lantis, Studio Gokumi
Airing: April 8, 2012

The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded.

Six years later, elementary school student Shizuno Takakamo befriends transfer student Nodoka Haramura. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year.

When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club.

lupiniii

Lupin the Third: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna | LUPIN the Third ~峰不二子という女~
TMS Entertainment
Airing: April 4, 2012

The first new Lupin the Third TV anime in 27 years. The series will revolve around the character Fujiko Mine.

haiyore

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san | 這いよれ!ニャル子さん
Xebec
Airing: April 9, 2012

The story of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san centers around Nyaruko, a formless Cthulhu deity of chaos (Nyarlathotep) who can take on the shape of a seemingly ordinary silver-haired girl. Mahiro Yasaka is a normal high school boy who is chased by aliens one night, until Nyaruko saves him.

jormungand

Jormungand | ヨルムンガンド
White Fox
Airing: April 10, 2012

The series follows Koko Hekmatyar, a young arms dealer who sells weapons under HCLI, a weapons corporation.

As one of the company's unofficial weapon sellers, she secretly sells weapons in many countries while avoiding the local authorities and law enforcements as most of her work is actually illegal under international law. Traveling with her is her team of bodyguards who are mostly composed of ex-military veterans.

Her latest addition to her crew is Jonah, a seemingly emotionless child soldier who is skilled in combat yet ironically hates arms dealers. Jonah joins Koko as he wishes to find the arms dealer responsible for his family's death.

What follows is Koko and her crews escapades around the world.

sakamichi

Sakamichi no Apollon | 坂道のアポロン
Tezuka Productions, MAPPA
Airing: April 12, 2012

The beginning of summer, 1966.

Because of his father’s job situation, freshman high school student Kaoru Nishimi moves by himself from Yokosuka to Kyushu to live with relatives. Until then, Kaoru was an honor roll student who tended to keep to himself, but meeting notorious bad boy Sentaro Kawabuchi starts to change him. Through his devil-may-care classmate, Kaoru learns the attractions of jazz and finds the first person he can call a “friend”. He also discovers how much fun it is to play music with a pal.

Other characters include Sentaro’s kind childhood chum, Ritsuko, who is the daughter of a record shop owner; the mysterious upperclassman, Yurika; and Brother Jun, the much-admired leader among their peers. Set against the backdrop of a seaside town with a scent of American culture, this series is a drama about young people coming into their own, crossing each other’s paths, and finding friendship, love, and music!

tsuritama

Tsuritama | つり球
Aniplex, A-1 Pictures
Airing: April 12, 2012

Yuki Sanada is a high school boy who cannot communicate with people well and doesn't have a single friend. 

He lives on Enoshima island with his French grandmother. One day, he meets a boy named Haru. Haru calls himself an alien who visited the Earth for fishing.

Another high school boy, Natsuki, and a mysterious Indian, Akira, join the two and the island becomes the center of the event which determines the fate of the world.

e7ao

Eureka Seven Astral Ocean | エウレカセブンAO
Bones
Airing: April 12, 2012

The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government. Ao Fukai, a 13-year-old boy with a missing father, lives on the island with an old doctor named Toshio and is about to enter middle school. Ao's mother was taken away a decade ago by unknown individuals. Naru Arata, Ao's 13-year-old childhood friend and the story's heroine, lives with her father, older sister, and grandmother. She has a "Yuta" power awakened within her due to an incident when she was young.

A mysterious entity called "Secret" suddenly appears and launches an attack on the Scub Coral lifeform on the island. Ao launches a certain military FP called "Nirvash" aboard a Japanese military transport in his fervent desire to protect the island.

shiningpan

Shining Hearts ~Shiawase no Pan~ | シャイニング・ハーツ ~幸せのパン~
Production I.G
Airing: April 12, 2012

One day, a mysterious girl named Kaguya was washed ashore the island of Wyndaria after a great storm. She encounters Rick, a swordsman who wound up working at the island's bakery. Apparently, Kaguya is suffering from having lost her memories and emotions. In addition, the usually peaceful Wyndaria is now swarming with pirates who came seeking for the special spirit stone that is worn around Kaguya's neck. Knowing the situation, Rick and his co-workers, Nellis, Amyl, and Aerie decided to bring back peace to island and help Kaguya regain her lost memories and emotions.

inazuma-chrono

Inazuma Eleven GO 2: Chrono Stone | イナズマイレブンGO 2 クロノ・ストーン
OLM
Airing: April 18, 2012

The story is set after the end of Holy Road tournament finals of the first Inazuma Eleven GO anime, and Tenma returns to Raimon Junior High School. However, this is not the Raimon that Tenma remembers, and the members of the Raimon team no longer play soccer.

Tenma realizes that this is a parallel world when Alpha, the captain and forward of the Protocol Omega team, appears before him. Alpha is part of a secret project in the future to wipe out soccer.

To aid Tenma in his adventures, the Inazuma Caravan van seen in previous Inazuma Eleven anime has been modified into a flying time machine.

hyouka

Hyouka | 氷菓
Kyoto Animation
Airing: April 22, 2012

Oreki Hotaro is a high school boy, who always acts passively. One day, he enters "Koten Bu (Classic Literature Club)" as recommended by his elder sister.

There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm interested in it (Watashi, Kininarimasu)". Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory, he never deduces anything on his own. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. She loves Fukube, but he always dodges her approaches.

They begin to investigate a case that occurred 33 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Koten Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka".

akb0048

AKB0048
Satelight
Airing: April 29, 2012

In the beginning of the 21st century, a world war breaks out over interplanetary travel tech. The environment is pretty much destroyed so mankind leaves Earth and starts Star Calendar 00. Entertainment and songs become heavily regulated and eventually banned due to their power to move people, but a brave idol group puts on guerrilla performances in the name of a famous act from earlier times that sang to Earth's bitter end, AKB48. The illegal revival group's name is... AKB0048.

There's quite a few shows which will potentially be real fun to watch and write about. We will be updating this post with what we're covering as soon as we get everything laid out and finalized. SUTORAIKUanime is looking forward to an exciting spring 2012 anime season, and we hope all of our readers are just as excited!

Good day.

1 comments:

Andy Chen said...

INTERESTING! Thank you for posting this :)

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