Thursday, June 21, 2012

Summer 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.





Kingdom | キングダム
Studio Pierrot
Airing: June 4, 2012

In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi.



Rinne no Lagrange Season 2 | 輪廻のラグランジェ season 2
Xebec
Airing: July 1, 2012

Second part of Rinne no Lagrange.



P.A. Works
Airing: July 1, 2012

The story centers around five Japanese high school students who are too young to be called adults, but who no longer think of themselves as children.

Wakana Sakai once took music lessons, but she withdrew from music after losing her mother. Konatsu Miyamoto is a positive-thinking girl who loves singing and spends time after school at the vocal music club. Sawa Okita is a spirited archery club member who dreams of becoming a horse rider. Daichi Tanaka is a chronically late badminton team member who lives with his college student sister. "Wiin" just transfered into Wakana's class after 12 years abroad in Australia.

Music brings Wakana, Konatsu, Sawa and the others together into an ensemble during their last summer in high school.



La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia | アルカナ・ファミリア
J.C. Staff
Airing: July 1, 2012

The story takes place on the small island of Regalo in the Mediterranean Sea. The island has been protected by a vigilante committee called "Arcana Famiglia". The members of the family have psychic powers gained by a secret ritual.

Felicita is a 16-year-old girl who was raised by her strict mother. She visits Regalo to see her father who is the head of Arcana Famiglia. He tells her to become the leader of "Serie of Sword", the arbitrator section of the family.

As one of the members of Arcana Famiglia, Felicita interacts with other handsome but eccentric members.



Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita | 人類は衰退しました
AIC ASTA
Airing: July 1, 2012

It's been several centuries since human beings declined due to the steep drop in birthrates. The most prosperous species on the Earth are "Fairies", 10 cm tall creatures with high intelligence. I became a UN arbitrator between the humans and the fairies and returned to my hometown to help my grandfather. I thought my job would not be a tough one and visited one of the fairies' habitats to say hello to them but...



Chitose Get You!! | ちとせげっちゅ!!
Silver Link
Airing: July 1, 2012

Chitose is an 11-year-old girl who is madly in love with an older guy named Hiroshi. He works at the town hall right next to the school and Chitose spends every day relentlessly pursuing him. Can Chitose ever convince Hiroshi to go out with her?



Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse | トータル・イクリプス
Satelight, lxtl
Airing: July 1, 2012

Since 1973, an invasion of aliens known as BETA upon Earth is driving human civilization into nearly collapse. Facing an enormous mass of enemy force, mankind has developed large humanoid arms called as Tactical Surface Fighters and deployed them to its defense lines through out the world. However, all those efforts could slow down defeats but could not stop BETA, and mankind is forced to abandon major area of the Eurasian Continent. For 30 years, mankind is bogged down in an endless war against BETA without any hopes of victory.

In 2001, the Imperial Japan faces difficulties in the development of a next-generation main Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF) as it defends the front lines of the Far East. The UN has proposed a joint development program between the Imperial Japan and the United States as a part of its international mutual development project of TSF, the Prominence Project.

Yui Takamura, a surface pilot of the Imperial Royal Guards of Japan, is given responsibility for the project and sets off to Alaska. Meanwhile, Yuya Bridges, also a surface pilot of the US Army, was heading to the same destination.

Yet they never knew that their encounter would change their destiny drastically.

This story with exciting human dramas and robot actions takes place in the development of a new Tactical Surface Fighters, the most important and effective weapons against BETA, at a crisis of human extinction.



Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi. | 超訳百人一首 うた恋い。
TYO Animations
Airing: July 2, 2012

Uta Koi tells the "super-liberal interpretation" of the Hyakuninisshu anthology compiled during Japan's Heian period of 100 romantic poems from 100 different poets such as The Tale of Genji's Murasaki Shikibu.



Yuruyuri ♪♪ | ゆるゆり♪♪
Dogakabo
Airing: July 2, 2012

The second season of Yuru Yuri.



Binbougami ga! | 貧乏神が!
Sunrise
Airing: July 4, 2012

Sakura Ichiko is a 16-year-old girl who leads a charmed life and is blessed with beauty, brains, and health. She has an abundance of "Happiness Energy", which can make people happy, but at the cost of absorbing all the Happiness Energy from her surroundings. She has caused the energy balance of the world to become unbalanced and because of this, she becomes the target of a Poverty God named Momiji. Momiji goal is to remove Ichiko's power of absorbing other people's Happiness Energy and to return all the energy she has taken to its rightful place.



Moyashimon Returns | もやしもん リターンズ
Shirogumi, Telecom Animation
Airing: July 5, 2012

Second season of Moyashimon.



Natsuyuki Rendezvous | 夏雪ランデブー
Dogakobo
Airing: July 5, 2012

A young man with poor eyesight named Hazuki works part-time in a flower shop and falls hard for the shop-owner Rokka. But what happens when he discovers that residing in her apartment is the spirit of the man she can never forget?



Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate | 恋と選挙とチョコレート
AIC Build
Airing: July 5, 2012

Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate follows the protagonist Yuuki Oojima, who attends Private Takafuji Academy, a large school with over 6,000 students. Yuuki is a member of the food research club, along with seven others, including his childhood friend Chisato Sumiyoshi. The members leisurely spend their time in the club not doing much activities. When the election of the next student council president comes up, the front runner Satsuki Shinonome proposes that clubs that have no merit should be sorted out and abolished. The food research club seeks advice from the current student council president Yakumo Mori, who suggests Yuuki run in the election as an opposing candidate. Yuuki learns about the issues facing the school and decides to run in the election.



Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! | この中に1人、妹がいる!
Studio Gokumi
Airing: July 5, 2012

Abiding by his father's will, Shougo was transferred into an academy where many young girls attend. It appears as though his younger sister (separated from him at birth) also attends this academy, and that she is trying to get closer to him without letting know him who she actually is. Problem is, Shougo seems to be popular with the other girls as well! Can Shougo "properly" reunite with his little sister and while making a girlfriend at the same time?!



Joshiraku | じょしらく
J.C. Staff
Airing: July 5, 2012

A group of girls discusses random things and usually reaches an unusual or humorous conclusion that's far from the initial discussion topic.



Hagure Yuusha no Estetica | はぐれ勇者の鬼畜美学
ARMS
Airing: July 6, 2012

In normal RPGs, a hero defeats the Satan king and the story ends. But what does the hero do after that? Ohtorizawa Akatsuki defeats the Satan king in the fantasy world of Alleyzard and returns to the real world. He is sheltered by the international organization BABEL, which protects and controls people transferred from the outer worlds. BABEL is astonished to know Akatsuki has really defeated Satan and brings Satan's daughter Miu from Alleyzard. In the academy of BABEL, Akatsuki confronts other "returners", who have psychic powers.



Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai. | だから僕は、Hができない。
feel.
Airing: July 6, 2012

Kaga Ryosuke is an ecchi high school boy. One day, he meets a girl standing alone in the rain. She is Lisarah Restor, an elite Death, who visited the human world in order to find "Singular Man".

Ryosuke makes a contract with Lisarah and she sucks energy required for her activity in the human world from Ryosuke. The source of the energy is his ecchi spirit.

To recover the sexual desire, Ryosuke has no choice but to help Lisarah's search.



Campione! | カンピオーネ!
Diomedea
Airing: July 6, 2012

A harem love comedy plus magic battles. Kusanagi Godo is a 16-year-old high school boy, who once killed the god "Verethragna" and acquired the title of "Campione (god killer)" when he was 15. Erica Brandelli is a 16-year-old Italian girl, who is a "Great Knight" of the magic society "Bronze Black Cross" and had fought together with Godo to defeat Verethragna. Godo doesn't like fighting but his title of "Campione" makes him get involved in battles against other Campiones and uncontrollable gods.



Tanken Driland | 探検ドリランド 
Toei Animation
Airing: July 7, 2012

Due to the influence of someone who visited her town when she was a child, Princess Mikoto of Elua decides to become a hunter and search for treasure all over the land of Driland. She sets out on her journey with her personal assistant Wallens, but they are soon joined by Pollon, a hunter who dreams of being a hero, and Paan, a wandering knight. As they continue their exploration they begin to sense great danger drawing near. 


Seven Arcs
Airing: July 7, 2012

The second season of Dog Days.


Sword Art Online | ソードアート・オンライン
A-1 Pictures
Airing: July 7, 2012

The only way to escape is to 'clear' the game. Death in game means actual 'death' ----

The ten thousand who have logged onto the as of yet mysterious game 'Sword Art Online' using their Nerve Gear have been forced into this perilous death game and are trapped inside.

Protagonist Kirito, one of the many gamers, has greeted this 'truth'.
He plays as a solo player in the giant castle that is the stage for this game ---- 'Aincrad'.

To meet the conditions of clearing the game and leaving this twisted virtual world, he must get through all 100 floors. Will Kirito have what it takes to clear the game, or will he die trying?


Kokoro Connect | ココロコネクト
Silver Link
Airing: July 7, 2012

The "love and teen pentagonal comedy" follows the strange phenomena at the Yamahoshi Academy's Culture Club, starting with the five male and female club members switching bodies with each other.


Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II | 境界線上のホライゾンII 
Sunrise
Airing: July 7, 2012

The second season of Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon.


Oda Nobuna no Yabou | 織田信奈の野望
Studio Gokumi x Madhouse
Airing: July 8, 2012

The historical romantic comedy follows 17-year-old high schooler Sagara Yoshiharu who one day time-travels to the Sengoku period, where all the major Samurai lords are cute girls. Yoshiharu meets Oda Nobuna, the girl counterpart of Oda Nobunaga, and begins to serve her as a substitute of Kinoshita Tokichiro, who has been dead in the world.


Hakuouki Reimeiroku | 薄桜鬼 黎明録
Studio DEEN
Airing: July 9, 2012
A third TV series, it is the prequel of Hakuouki and tells the story of the dawning of the Shinsengumi.



Ebiten: Kouritsu Ebisugawa Koukou Tenmonbu | えびてん 公立海老栖川高校天悶部
AIC
Airing: July 14, 2012

Noya Itsuki just started his school year at the Ebisugawa High School and since he has always had a fascination with space, he decides to join the astronomy club. However, he mistakenly walks into the all girls Otaku Club. He notices that the members are really weird, but Itsuki has yet to realize that he isn’t in the astronomy club. His life is about to get complicated by being surrounded by so many girls.

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