Cornbread78
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Starting in two weeks is what's thought to be one of the biggest and busiest anime seasons in a long time with some big time manga/LN adaptations being aired each week. Many often look to the communities to help identify some of the shows that are starting up, so below is a quick reference for some of the stuff that is coming out, which includes a new season of JoJo and the long awaited My Hero Academia. Both the Manga and Anime Communities, collectively, worked to provide a bulk of the information below.
Feel free to view and discuss the upcoming shows!
My Hero Academia:
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Shounen, Supernatural
Manga/ Studio: Bones
- Streaming on Funimation
In a few words: A boy wants to be a hero but doesn't have any powers while everyone else in the world does. The strong points of the series are likable characters, fast pacing and striking art style.
Midoriya Izuku, a teenage boy in middle school, lives in a world where superpowers, known as "quirks", have become commonplace and are an active part of society. Midoriya too wants to become a hero and help people, but he is one of the rare cases who lack superpowers. Not one to give up, he still wants to join the best academy for aspiring Superheroes, Yuuei, and use his knowledge to be the best hero he can possibly be.
If you liked shonen series like Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, One Piece, early Naruto and early Bleach, or even Hunter x Hunter and Yuu Yuu Hakusho. Yes. Yes you should. Without spoiling too much, this series is not afraid to go in unexpected directions with its characters and believes that Hard work > Born Power. What I'm saying is that Izuku is an underdog and if you love underdog stories you should totally read this.
- OT by SalvaPot
PV1:
https://youtu.be/o0L1YC9YgxM
PV2:
https://youtu.be/_K5JkuRCJD0
PV3:
https://youtu.be/puvKY8SDwnk
PV4:
https://youtu.be/AhqVltWDqFA
PV5:
http://youtu.be/-jBRnSVaGmI
Kiznaiver
Genres: Sci-Fi
Original/ Studio: Trigger
- Streaming on Crunchyroll
One day, Noriko Sonosaki tells her classmate Katsuhira Agata, "You have been selected to be a Kiznaiver." The Kizuna System, which allows Katsuhira to share his wounds, connects him to the classmates whose lives and personalities completely differ from his. The Kizuna System is an incomplete system for the implementation of world peace that connects people through wounds. All those who are connected to this system are called Kiznaivers. When one Kiznaiver is wounded, the system divides and transmits the wound among the other Kiznaivers. Sugomori City is built on reclaimed land, but as the years go by, the city's population is decreasing.
(Made by Trigger, written by Mari Okada. Sure to be insane.)
- OT by Jarmel
PV:
https://youtu.be/LVPuw9uUADc
Mayoiga
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Original/ Studio: Diomedea
Streaming on- ????
Thirty men and women come together for a bus tour to a ghost town deep in the mountains, Nanakimura. Some speak of an urban legend that this place could be a utopia, unshackled by the outside world. But now, only a faint impression of the lives that once lived here remain.
Despair, boredom, hope... something or other has drawn these thirty individuals to this place. What truth will they find there?
Mayoiga is an original anime series written by Mari Okada (Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, Toradora, Black Rock Shooter) and directed by Tsutomu Mizushima (Shirobako, Girls und Panzer, Another). With it being an anime original, very little is known about the plot at this point, besides that it's full of mysteries, and that it's "thrilling". It's hard to tell what that'll mean, but with these two creative forces (particularly Mizushima, who has made two different grotesque horror-comedies in Another and Blood-C), there's a good chance that things will get awfully bloody eventually. Whatever happens, odds are good it'll be a crazy ride.
- OT by Cornbread78
PV1:
https://youtu.be/8O2YI-C0x3w
*PV2: (live stream quality)
https://sendvid.com/156idr7t
Kabaneri:
Genres: Action, Adventure
Oiginal/ Studio: Wit
Streaming: Amazon???
As the world is in the middle of an industrial revolution, a monster appears that cannot be defeated unless its heart, which is protected by a layer of iron, is pierced. By infecting humans with its bite, the monster can create aggressive and undead creatures known as Kabane. On the island Hinomoto, located in the far east, people have built stations to shelter themselves from these creatures.
From the studio that brought you Attack on Titan with the director of Attack on Titan and the composer of Attack on Titan comes an original show that is totally not Attack On Titan; with trains.
PV:
https://youtu.be/aZGjYjCnkLw
PV2:
https://youtu.be/ihvqAdvAt4g
PV3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NljBw9RtOx4
Sakamoto desu ga?
Genres: Comedy, School, Seinen
Manga/ Studio: Deen
Streaming:
First year high school student Sakamoto isn't just cool, he's the coolest! Almost immediately after starting school, he began attracting everyone's attention. The girls love him, and most of the boys resent him. There's even a boy in the class who works as a model, but who is constantly upstaged by Sakamoto! No matter what tricks the other boys try to play on him, Sakamoto always manages to foil them with ease and grace. Though Sakamoto may seem cool and aloof, he helps others when asked, such as in the case of the boy in his class who was being constantly bullied. No matter what difficulties Sakamoto encounters, he moves through his high school life with confidence and class.
Manga Exemple: http://imgur.com/a/mW8sO
PV:
https://youtu.be/Xc2JV9n741U
Super Lovers
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shounen Ai
Manga/ Studio: Dean
Streaming: ????
While spending summer with his mother, Haru meets Ren, a boy newly adopted by his mother. Getting along with Ren isn't easy as Haru's goal is to "civilize" him by the time summer ends. Their relationship slowly improves as Haru spends more time with Ren and in return Ren steadily warms up to him. Can they really become a "family" at the end of summer!?
"Super Lovers is a wholesome manga focusing on the heart. Striking at the core of what makes a human a human it brilliantly highlights the touching relationship between a young orphaned Canadian boy taken in by a prominent writer's family. After a fateful encounter over the summer, the manga switches gears and becomes a dazzling coming of age story of the adopted boy and his relationship with the Kaidou family in Japan.
This innovative series goes against the grain for the romantic drama. Featuring people pursing their dreams of starting their own business while working at a host club, a boy as he grows through the years out of his natural Canadian environment and in the dazzling cities of Japan, and the myriad friendships and family relationships that develop in Japan, it has something to appeal to everyone. It will have one of the purest and most pleasing brotherly love moments anyone could ask for animated. Its a must watch."
-Yes, this is BL
PV:
https://youtu.be/8qyNNf03HaM
Sousei no Onmyouji
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
Manga/ Studio: Pierrot
Streaming: Crunchyroll
Sousei no Onmyouji is by the dude who made Binbougami Ga! It's a slightly dark fantasy story that follows a kid, who has given up becoming an exorcist, as he gets roped back into the exorcist world because of his destiny with a talented exorcist girl. It could be a fun and simple battle shonen, but it's not just about the action; it delves into the relationship the main character has with the deuteragonist, and how they grow stronger together. It also has pretty good humor, which offsets the despair that gets flung at the protagonists. The recent (and as of now untranslated) chapters of manga are just cliffhangers upon cliffhangers and it’s been pointed out that its setting similarities to Bleach, so if that intrigues you, I'd say try it out.
PV:
https://youtu.be/6_dDnFYGXBE
*PV2:https://youtu.be/JqBcpzDakVc
Flying Witch
Genres: Comedy, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Manga/ Studio: J.C. Staff
Flying Witch is a slice of life story about a young witch in training as she revisits her childhood friend in the country side and stays with her family. Magic is treated as something subtle, so you won't find anything super bombastic about it, instead it focuses on how witches and magic are quietly coexisting with normal society and doesn't seem to be building up to anything big; it's mostly how magic interacts with and witches live in daily life. All in all, it's a pretty relaxing read and should translate well as a cute “healing” anime.
PV:
https://youtu.be/8zedOSX87iM
*PV2:
https://youtu.be/oPDJxcsRTr0
Hundred
Genres: Action, Ecchi, Harem, Mecha, Romance, School, Sci-Fi
Light Novel/ Studio: Production IMS
Streaming: ????
"Hundred"—that is the only weapon that can oppose the mysterious life form "Savage" from visiting the earth.
The protagonist, Kirasagi Hayato, aims to become a Martial Arts Master using this Hundred. He managed to get into the battleship university Little Garden.
Around the roommate, Emil Crossford, who somehow knows him well (?), Hayato gets an uneasy feeling.
What's more, just after the entrance ceremony, he gets asked for a duel by the campus' strongest martial arts master "Queen" Claire Harvey...!?
The ultimate academy battle begins here! AnimeGAF says "This will be LN trash" but the real question is, will it be Entertaining trash?
PV:
https://youtu.be/0pNPWOTYgsY
*PV2:
https://youtu.be/6I_qEn6yYoo
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Police
Visual Novel/ Studio: A-1 Pictures
Streaming: ????
A courtroom comedy/drama based on the popular game series about a rookie defense lawyer, Phoenix Wright (Ryūichi Naruhodō is his Japanese name), proving his client's innocence from unusual cases. If you're familiar with the games, the show is advertised to cover the events of the trilogy. For those who aren't familiar with the games, the episodes will mainly focus on Wright and his perky assistant Maya Fey (Mayoi Ayasato) going around on investigations, cross-examining liars on the witness stand, and dealing with prosecutors who will stop at nothing to get a guilty verdict.
- OT by Nintendoman
*Trailer:
https://youtu.be/4i9NIR4e7kw
*PV:
https://youtu.be/Pai9ak6CuEs
Joker Game:
Genres: Military, Seinen
Novel/ Studio: Production I.G
The year is 1937. Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki establishes a secret spy organization called "D Agency" within the Imperial Japanese Army. He recruits anyone who can pass his stringent entrance exam, no matter their background. Trained to be the best of the best, they operate in a manner contrary to the core tenants of the Imperial Army: "Don't kill; don't die; deceive everyone." Two years later, despite opposition by key figures within the army, members of D Agency are active both within Japan and beyond its borders, working in absolute secrecy to fulfill their missions
(Kazuya Nomura, who directed Ghost in the Shell film, (as well as Gits) showed an excellent grasp on how to stage complicated action scenes)
PV1:
https://youtu.be/4VBmThJ3AZM
PV2:
https://youtu.be/tILWSrPcBsY
PV3:
https://youtu.be/Gm9MVyCTyUU
*PV4
https://youtu.be/0G7YW3XcUaA
Terra Formars Revenge
Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Space
Manga/ Studio: TYO Animation, Lidenfilms
It's a sequel to that anime that got ravaged by censors. Watch this for animal and bugs trivia, and for the gore:
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold.
It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars
PV:
https://youtu.be/1mQhO7wOWxw
*PV2:
https://youtu.be/fxh834fPml0
Bungou Stray Dogs
Genres: Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural
Manga/ Studio: Bones
Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military
- Famous japanese author turn into super powered bishonen solving supernatural cases. Watch it for the ikemen and interesting case.
- Will be split cour with S1 in spring and S2 in Fall
PV:
https://youtu.be/4VBmThJ3AZM
PV2:
https://youtu.be/GGsohezPRXU
Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta?
Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School
Light Novel/ Studio: Project No.9
Lucien has been badly burned when he discovered that the girl he fell in love in a MMORPG was a guy and has started living in the mentality that "there are no girls on the internet". Life is up for a surprise for him when he discovers that the player of the character he has "married" ingame is a beautiful girl. The problem is that while cute she more than a little unhinged and cannot discern reality from game, so Lucien and his guild decide to work together to reeducate her and turn her into an acceptable member of society. One of the main Female leads is a yandere.
PV:
https://youtu.be/_iMzdyYRPrk
Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
Genres: Drama, Fantasy
Light Novel/ White Fox
Suddenly, high school student Subaru Natsuki has been summoned to another world on the way back from the convenience store. With the biggest crisis of his life being summoned to another world, and with no sign of the one who summoned him, things become even worse when he is attacked. But when he is saved by a mysterious, silver-haired girl with a fairy cat, Subaru cooperates with her to return the favor. When they finally manage to get a clue, Subaru and the girl are attacked and killed by someone. Subaru then awakens in the place he was summoned and notices he gained the ability "Returns by Death" and has become a helpless boy that only has the ability to rewind time by dying. Beyond the despair, can he save the girl from the fate of death?
PV1:
https://youtu.be/vFfXjuVA1Jk
*PV2:
https://youtu.be/IvhgOe9BY5A
Bakuon!!
Genres: Cars(Bikes), Seinen, Slice of Life, Sports
Manga/ Studio: TMS Entertainment
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.
Top Gear, anime version. Seriously, it's cute girls doing cute things, with bikes.
PV:
https://youtu.be/6EQGOIHBEWs
*PV2:
https://youtu.be/2dosNc52JSA
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable
Genres: Action, Adventure, Shounen
Manga/ Studio: David Production
Fourth story arc of JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken series.
The coastal town of Morioh is plagued by the "Bow and Arrow," an ancient artifact which manifests latent stand abilities in criminals and ordinary folk alike. At the same time as they are dealing with the huge influx of stand users—both good and bad—in Morioh, high schooler Jousuke Higashikata and his friends are searching for the culprit of a series of homicides.
Jojo is simply one of the most creative and fabulous battle series around, and Diamond is Unbreakable itself is one of its best-regarded seasons with a wide and diverse cast and an intriguing plot beyond its episodic nature that slowly unravels itself.
- OT by TiZoc
PV:
https://youtu.be/G3jP69SzURA
*PV2:
https://youtu.be/OQ2BndA_s_8
Concrete Revolutio: Chojin Gensou - The Last Song
Genres: Action, Super Power
Original/ Studio: Bones
In the second season of this non-linear alternate-history tale, superpowered individuals of all kind exist among us. Space aliens, magical girls, androids with hearts of gold, mischevious ghosts, and many more... their existence is protected by the Superhuman Bureau. But who will protect these protectors? And in a politically divided nation, who fights for good, and who for evil? As the idealistic superhuman Jiro, working in the Bureau, is forced to confront the dark truths lurking at the heart of his organization and his country, he must find something to fight for... even if it pits him against everything he's ever known.
It may be stuffed with characters, political machinations, and confusing time jumps, but the real hook to Concrete Revolutio is its setting. Taking place in an alternate Japan during the 60s and 70s, this anime uses its own versions of Japan's pop culture icons of the past to explore this turbulent period in the country's history, where the nation was divided by protests over what course it should take. Drawing from real events to move its plot (see the first season's OT for some practical examples), Concrete Revolutio is a colorful and challenging work exploring a historical era that rarely gets acknowledged elsewhere.
- OT by Jarmel
PV1:
https://youtu.be/PJQq4ARVxPs
The Asterisk War (2nd Season)
Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, School, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
Light Novel/ Studio: A-1 Pictures
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk follows the story of Ayato Amagiri, a student who has just transferred into one of the six most elite schools for Genestella students in the world—Seidoukan Academy—where students learn to control their powers and duel against each other in entertainment battles known as festas. Unfortunately, Ayato gets off to a rough start. When trying to return a lost handkerchief to a female classmate, he accidentally sees her changing which leads to her challenging him to a duel. What most people don't realize however, is that Ayato has no real interest in festas and instead has an alternative motive for joining this prestigious school. What is Ayato's big secret? Will he be able to keep up his act when surrounded by some of the greatest Genestella in the world?
*PV:
https://youtu.be/aELVXG3K31Q
Ushio to Tora (2nd Season)
Genres: Comedy, Demons, Shounen, Supernatural
Manga/ Studio: MAPPA
Ushio thinks his father's tale of an ancient ancestor impaling a demon on a temple altar stone with the legendary Beast Spear is nuts, but when he finds the monster in his own basement, Ushio has to take another look at the family legend! Fortunately, Ushio knows it's best to let sleeping dogs lie and leave captured demons where they are. Unfortunately, the release of the monster's evil energies begins to beckon other demons to Ushio's hometown! To save his friends and family from the invading spirits, Ushio is forced to release Tora from his captivity. But will the cure prove to be worse than the curse? Will Ushio end his life a Tora-snack? Or will the Beast Spear keep Tora in line long enough to save the city?
Cont. on next post..
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