Anime fans are always looking for a new series to sink their teeth into. Thankfully, the start of the Fall season is sure please those who are eagerly awaiting for something different. New Anime is fast approaching, and I’ve been working hard to give you all a small preview of the notable pieces I find interesting.
Note: the trailers, if any, are under the spoiler tag.
2010 Anime Fall Season Preview
Star Driver
Bones
Genre: Mecha
Summary: In the South, on a cross-shaped island, an odd item is discovered in the underground ruins. It’s a gigantic humanoid robot known as “Cybuddy”. The Order of the Glittering Star Cross decides to abduct a girl called Wako Agemaki as she is the key to activating the robot. This is when Takuto Tsunashi shows up with his own Cybuddy to rescue her.
Air Date: October
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Ore No Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai (My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute!)
AIC
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Summary: Kousaka Kyousuke is an average high school student who doesn’t get along well with his younger sister, the cute and popular Kirino. Then one day he makes a startling discovery: Kirino’s secretly an otaku.
Air Date: October
Iron Man
Madhouse
Genre: Action
Summary: Anthony Edward Stark, usually called Tony, is an industrialist playboy and an ingenious engineer who surfers a severe heart injury during a kidnapping in which his captors attempt to force him to build a weapon of mass destruction. He instead creates a powered suit of armor to save his life and escape captivity.
Air Date: October 1st
Iron Man Anime Teaser Trailer
Otome Youkai Zakuro
J.C Staff
Genre: Romance
Summary: It’s the Meji Era in a slightly alternate Japan, and the Gregorian calendar has just come into effect. The fox-eared girls living in the youkai part of town are about to be put to work together with a delegation of young human soilders, to promote interracial understanding. So what will happen when Zaruko’s strong personality collides with human sensibilities?
Air Date: October 4th
A-1 Pictures
Genre: Action, Shounen Ai
Summary: After being devastated in the third World War (known as The Third Division), Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, Japan’s capital city), where they are holding a battle game known as “Igura”. The game’s main character, a young man named Akira, is fasely accused of a crime. Once arrested, a myterious woman appears before him, offering him freedom if he agrees to participate in Igura and defeat Igura’s strongest man: the king, or “Il-re”. The story follows Akira’s life in the harsh, lawless Toshima as he fights both to survive and to unravel the mysteries developing around him.
Air Date: October
SHAFT
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Summary: Clumsy Arashiyama is a girl with a love for mysteries and a knack for getting into trouble. She works for an old lady’s lackluster maid cafe in a small shopping district. The cafe is largely unsuccessful in attracting costomers aside from Sanada, a regular and one of the Arashiyama’s classmates (who has a secret crush on her). One day Arashiyama’s clever friend Tatsuno is invited to the cafe, and upon seeing the miserable state of things (and Sanada, whom she has a secret crush on), decides to work there. Don’t miss the crazy antics of Arashiyama and friends, mismatched love stories, and all the hilarity that is created as a result, in Sore Machi.
Air Date: October 7th
Shinrei Tantei Yakumo (Psychic Detective Yakumo)
Bee Train
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Supernatural, Shoujo
Summary: This series revolves around Yakumo Saitou who has a unique power. He was born with a red left eye which allows him to see ghosts. Yakumo (a tad reluctantly) helps the spirits to rest in peace by helping them deal with whatever issues are binding them to the living world. The story starts when his class mate, Haruka Ozawa comes to him and asks for his help.
Air Date: October
Brains Base
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Summary: One Tsukimi Kurashita is a jellyfish otaku and she just moved into an apartment complex filled with fujoshi who has a strick ‘no-men-allowed’ policy. But one day, Tsukumi invites a highly fashionable woman to stay in her room only to find out that “she” isn’t who she seems to be.
Air Date: October 14
J.C Staff
Genre: Slice of Life, Comedy, Drama, High School
Summary: The story follows two high schoolers Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi as they strive to become popular mangaka in the popular Shounen Jump Magazine.
Air Date: October
Feel & ZEXCS
Genre: Romance
Summary: A story that revolved around the male protagonist Hasekura Kouhei, who transfers into a prestigious public school in the style of an English six-year school encompassing junior-high and high school students. The school is on an island named Tamatsu Island off-shore from mainland Japan, and the only way to get there is by boat. Soon after transferring, he discovers that one of the student in the class next door to his, Sendou Erika, is in fact a type of vampire.
Air Date: October
Manglobe
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Harem
Summary: Kamina Katsuragi is a diehard gamer and a master of Galgae (Girl Capturing games), so much so that he’s hailed as the Capturing God. What happens when the Kami-sama of capturing virtual girls has to make real girls fall for him in an effort to capture the evil spirits that escaped the spirit world and hid inside their hearts? The real challenge has begun!
Air Date: October
Letter Bee 2 (Letter Bee ~Reverse~)
Pierrot
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Steam Punk
Summary: Picking up where the last season left off, Letter Bee ~Reverse~ continues the tale of Lag Seeing as he strives to become the Head Bee and find Gauche Suede, a treasured friend and Letter Bee who has gone missing.
Air Date: October
SHAFT
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Summary: Continuing the story of the strange courtship of a successful executive in life called Kou and a mysterious woman called Nino who lives under a bridge.
Air Date: October
J.C Staff
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, High School
Summary: Continuing the story of the human Magical Grimiore Index and high schooler Touma, as they live in the Scientifically advanced Academy City and have to make sense of the chaos that results in the clash of magic and science!
Air Date: October
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XEBEC
Genre: Comedy
Summary: Because of a certain incident, Sado Tarou is masochistic. He won’t have a “normal” love if he’s like this forever. So to cure his body and so that he could confess to his love “Shihori Hime”, he goes to the Voluntary Club which he heard can fulfill students’ wishes. He goes there seeking help, only to find Isurugi Mio, a girl with a gross misunderstanding that she is a god, and Yuuno Arashiko, who’s the cause of his masochism.
Air Date: October
Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girls
ARMS
Genre: Action, Comedy, Ecchi
Summary: The story takes place in Japan in the early 21st century, in an alternate reality where the Tokugawa Shogunate has remained in power. In this reality, student councils are tasked with oppressing schools. Yagyuu Muneakira is a high school student who rebels against his student council with the help of girls who’ve had the names of famous samurai heroes passed on to them.
Air Date: September 9th
Motto To-Love-Ru
XEBEC
Genre: Romance, Ecchi, Harem
Summary: The story is about Rito Yuuki, a high-school boy who cannot confess his love to the girl of his dreams, Haruna Sairenji. One day when coming home and sulking in the bath-tub a mysterious, nude girl, appears out of nowhere. Her name is Lala and she comes from the planet Deviluke, where she is the heir to the throne. Her father wants her to return to her home planet so she can marry one of the husband candidates, but she decides that she wants to marry Rito in order to stay on Earth.
Air Date: October
Sora no Otoshimono: Forte (Heaven’s Lost Property: Forte)
AIC A.S.T.A.
Genre: Harem, Romantic, Comedy
Summary: The sequel to Sora no Otoshimono
Air Date: October
Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan 2
Studio DEEN
Genre: History, Fantasy, Feudal Japan
Summary: We continue following Yukimura Chizuru as she remains with the Shinsengumi after they have fled Kyoto.
Air Date: October
Yosuga no Sora
Feel
Genre: Seinen, Romance
Summary: The story is set in the distant mountain village of Okukozome-cho. Haruka Kazugano and his twin sister Sora have fond chilhood memories of going to the village to visit their grandfather during their summer vacations. However, after loosing their parents in an accident, the two must move in with their granfather. The twins get reacquainted with their old childhood friend Nao Yorihime, their new classmate Yuohei Nakazato, the miko Akira Amatume, and Akira’s friend Kazuha Migawa. All seems peaceful and familiar. However, beneath the surface is a secret promise that the twins made with each other long ago, the whereabouts of an important lost item, and the real reason they chose to come back here.
Air Date: October
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
J.C Staff
Genre: Mystery
Summary: The anime adaptation of the PSP game, the story takes place in an imaginary world in “the Age of Detectives”, where private detectives and phantom thieves overwhelm the cities. It’s about four girls who aim to be great detectives.
Air Date: October
Karl and the Mysterious Tower
Nippon Animation
Genre: Varies
Summary: Every morning, noon and evening, an old timekeeping man rings the bell in a mysterious tall tower built from a stack of building blocks. However, one day at noon, the tower bell fails to ring, leaving the townspeople confused about when to eat lunch.
Air Date: TBA
Nougyou Musume (Agricultural Girl)
Toei Animation
Genre: Slice of Life
Summary: The story centers around two sisters, Koshino Hikari and Hikaru, who take care of the paddy they inherited from their parents. Together the sisters grow rice and hang out with their friends in the local area.
Air Date: TBA
Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt
Gainax
Genre: Varies
Summary: The story centers around a teen-celebrity-like blond-haired girl named Panty and a black-haired Goth Loli girl named Stocking. The two are angels sent from the heavens to battle the Ghosts on Earth.
Air Date: October
Shinryaku! Ika Musume (Invasion! Squid Girl)
Diomedea
Genre: Comedy
Summary: The comedy centers around a squid girl who vows to invade the beaches of mankind since humans have polluted the seas. However, her invasion is less than successful, and she ends up on dry ground.
Air Date: October
Super Robot Taisen OG The Inspector
Asahi Productions
Genre: Mecha
Summary: A bunch of giant robots beating each other up.
Air Date: October
Phew! That is a lot of new anime… So what’s on your “Must Watch” list?
– Geo (sora_thekey) long time user, blogger, wiki editor of the Whiskey Media sites, and an all time geek!
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