Post-apocalyptic [Winter 2013] anime

[blkmage]

2012 passes into history and we awaken in 2013 amongst the burning ashes and shattered cities of our fallen world.

「山越え」/「茉莉」

Much like the threads before it, this is a thread I created for the discussion of new anime that will be airing on TV in Japan in the Winter 2013 season. Anime typically gets released and runs for a number of seasons. The year is divided up into four seasons: January to March is winter, April to June is spring, July to September is summer, and October to December is fall. Each season is approximately 13 weeks.

Here, we can talk about what shows look interesting, what we plan to watch, and generally get giddy and excited for things that we've been anticipating for a while.

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[SIZE="4"]Puchimas! -Petit iDOLM@STER-[/SIZE]
http://puchimas.com/
Spinoff by Namco

You love iM@S, right? You love it enough to watch some weird chibi spinoff of it right? No? Then move right along.


[SIZE="4"]Senyu[/SIZE]
http://senyu.tv/
Manga by Robinson Haruhara
Studio: Ordet, Director: Yamamoto Yutaka, Cast: Kayano Ai, Shimono Hiro, Nakamura Yuuichi

Yamakan returns to anime to make a series of five-minute shorts based on a fantasy manga.


[SIZE="4"]Boku ha Tomodachi Suganai NEXT[/SIZE]
http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/haganai/
Sequel

Second season of a show that you probably wouldn't like if you didn't last through its first season.


[SIZE="4"]AKB0048 next stage[/SIZE]
http://akb0048.jp/
Sequel

The second season of that scifi anime loosely based on that Yakuza-backed idol group that consists of something like 4% of the population of Japan at this point.


[SIZE="4"]Sasami-San@Ganbaranai[/SIZE]
http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/sasami/
Light novel by Akira
Studio: SHAFT, Director: Akiyuki Shinbo, Cast: Nonaka Ai, Saito Chiwa Ohtsuka Houchu, Asumi Kana, Hanazawa Kana

A romantic comedy light novel from the perspective of a hikkikomori who lives vicariously through her brother.


[SIZE="4"]Vividred Operation[/SIZE]
http://www.vividred.net/
Original
Studio: A-1 Pictures, Director: Takamura Kazuhiro, Cast: Uchida Aya, Sakura Ayane, Uchida Maaya, Murakawa Rie, Ootsubo Yuka

An original project with the involvement of Strike Witches staff played up. Looks like harmless slice of life-ish stuff.


[SIZE="4"]Da Capo III[/SIZE]
http://www.hatsunejima.com/
Visual novel by CIRCUS
Director: Ishikura Kenichi, Cast: Nitta Emi, Miyazaki Ui, Sasaki Mikoi, Oosaki Chiyo, Kaihou Eri, Kishio Daisuke

Man, I didn't know they were still making Da Capo games. I'm fairly confident that no one here cares about this.


[SIZE="4"]Chihayafuru 2[/SIZE]
http://www.ntv.co.jp/chihayafuru/
Sequel
Card games? Sounds boring.


[SIZE="4"]GJ Club, Junior High Division[/SIZE]
http://www.ntv.co.jp/gj/
Light novel by Araki Shin
Studio: Dogakobo, Director: Fujiwara Yoshiyuki

It bills itself as a four-panel light novel, which apparently means fourpage long stories and comedy.


[SIZE="4"]Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman[/SIZE]
http://roman-anime.com/
Pachinko game
Studio: TMS Entertainment, Director: Ogura Hirofumi, Cast: Kitamura Eri, Nakai Kazuya

Based on a pachinko game about a phantom thief in the Bakumatsu era. Featuring character designs by Monkey Punch!


[SIZE="4"]Kotoura-san[/SIZE]
http://www.kotourasan.com/
Manga by Enogizu
Studio: AIC Classic, Director: Ohta Masahiko, Cast: Kanemoto Hisaku, Fukushima Jun, Hanazawa Kana, Shimono Hiro, Kubo Yurika

A romantic comedy four-panel manga, featuring a girl who can read minds.


[SIZE="4"]Minami-ke Tadaima[/SIZE]
http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/minami-ke/
Sequel
Studio: feel.

Another season, another studio change. Normally, I'd say that you can't really do worse than asread, but the Minami-ke Production Committee really wants to push its luck. Anyway, the teardrop mouths and I AM BOSS you've all been waiting for are back.


[SIZE="4"]Mangirl[/SIZE]
http://comic-earthstar.jp/author/detail05.php
Light novel by Tamaoka Kagari
Studio: Dogakobo

An unfortunately named light novel about Japan's kawaiiest manga editors.


[SIZE="4"]Yama no Susume[/SIZE]
http://www.yamanosusume.com/
Manga by Shiro
Studio: 8-bit, Director: Yamamoto Yusuke, Cast: Asumi Kana, Hikasa Youko, Ogura Yui, Iguchi Yuka

Two girls, one who loves mountains and one who has a fear of heights, decide to climb a mountain one day.


[SIZE="4"]AMNESIA[/SIZE]
http://www.anime-amnesia.com/
Visual novel by Idea Factory
Studio: Brain's Base, Director: Ohashi Yoshimitsu, Cast: Taniyama Kisho, Kakihara Tetsuya, Ishida Akira, Igarashi Hiromi, Miyata Kouki, Hino Satoshi

An otome game, and apparently a good one? I don't really know, I just hear things from people I know who are into otoge. The main character has amnesia at the beginning of the game, so I guess it is appropriately named.


[SIZE="4"]Aimaimi[/SIZE]
http://www.takeshobo.co.jp/sp/tv_aimaimi/

There's nothing about this one in English.


[SIZE="4"]Mondaijitachi ga Isekai kara Kuru sou desu yo?[/SIZE]
http://mondaiji.tv/
Light novel by Tatsunoko Tarou
Studio: Diomedea, Director: Yamamoto Yasutaka, Cast: Sarah Bridcut, Nomizu Iori, Nakajima Megumi, Asanuma Shintaro

Something about a kid with supernatural powers meeting a rabbit girl and two other girls who all have powers.


[SIZE="4"]Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru[/SIZE]
http://www.oreshura.net/
Light novel by Yuuji Yuuji
Studio: A-1 Pictures, Director: Kamei Kanta, Cast: Akasaki Chinatsu, Ohsaka Ryota, Tamura Yukari

Romantic comedy light novel. Childhood friend vs foreign interloper fighting for the love of the guy who wants nothing to do with this crap.


[SIZE="4"]Senran Kagura[/SIZE]
http://senran.tv/
Video game by Marvelous
Studio: Artland, Director: Watanabe Takashi, Cast: Imai Asami, Harada Hitomi, Mizuhashi Kaori, Kobayashi Yuu, Iguchi Yuka

Based on a 3DS sidescroller in which you play as a female ninja. Features innovative clothes damage technology, in which your clothes fall off as you get damaged.


[SIZE="4"]Youkai Watch[/SIZE]
http://www.youkai-watch.jp/
Video game by Level 5

Anime tie-in for a new 3DS game by Level 5 about a kid who finds a watch that allows him to see youkai.


[SIZE="4"]Maoyuu Maou Yuusha[/SIZE]
http://maoyu.jp/
Light novel by Mamare Touno
Studio: ARMS, Cast: Koshimizu Ami, Fukuyama Jun

Based on a light novel that got its start on 2channel. After a long war between humans and demons, the Demon Queen and the hero destined to defeat her decide to team up to bring an end to the military-industrial complex.


[SIZE="4"]Hakkenden: Toho Hakken Ibun[/SIZE]
http://hakken-den.com/
Manga by Abe Miyuki
Studio: Studio DEEN, Director: Yamazaki Mitsue, Cast: Takagaki Ayahi, Hino Satoshi, Kakihara Tetsuya

An anime adaptation of a shoujo manga reimagining of a classical samura novel.


[SIZE="4"]Cuticle Tantei Inaba[/SIZE]
http://www.cdinaba.com/
Manga by Mochi
Studio: ZEXCS, Director: Mitsunaka Susumu, Cast: Ookawa Tooru, Suwabe Junuchi, Irino Miyu, Morikawa Toshiyuki, Shimoda Asami

Shounen manga about a detective who's artificially created from splicing wolf and human genes. Also has a hair fetish.

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[Neane]

[SIZE="4"]AKB0048 next stage[/SIZE]
http://akb0048.jp/
Sequel

While I am excited about this, I am crossing my fingers and praying at the same time hoping that Kawamori and Okada have completely flushed the crazy out of their systems. How the same people who created AKB0048 also made the utter mess that was Aquarion EVOL, I will never know.

[Falx]

[SIZE="4"]AKB0048 next stage[/SIZE]
http://akb0048.jp/
Sequel

The second season of that scifi anime loosely based on that Yakuza-backed idol group that consists of something like 4% of the population of Japan at this point.

Oh dang, really? I mean somehow I'm not surprised yet surprised at the same time.

Apart from Chihayafuru2 and that slice of life thing from SHAFT, nothing really jumps out as interesting to me this season. I'll need to watch some trailers first I guess.

[Crossfire]

And to think I walked by their Akihabara building 7 or 8 times while I was there.


Unsurprisingly, nothing on that list interests me at the moment.

[Falx]

Vividred's trailer certainly takes pains to let you know that, yes these people did do Strike Witches.

Instead of magic girls fighting in bloomers it looks like sci-fi girls fighting in hot pants. The trailer even opens with a close up butt-shot.

Pass.

Sasami@ganbaranai's trailer tells us almost nothing about the series, although it looks like it might be a bit fanservicey.

Kotoura-san looks cliched and boring, but I could still be proven wrong.

Maoyuu Maou Yuusha's manga didn't grab me but I can't quite recall why, will give the series a chance at least. Looks well animated and the music is pretty good.

[Zeldafan2]

YAWN...... Sorry, this is really in my opinon the most lackluster offering of titles I've seen since joining CAA.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

[SIZE="4"]Senyu[/SIZE]

Now you guys are making me want to watch Fractale.

[SIZE="4"]Sasami-San@Ganbaranai[/SIZE]

This could actually be pretty hilarious, I'll give it a shot, at least.

[SIZE="4"]Vividred Operation[/SIZE]

Was a little interested in this but lost all of that when the trailer came out.

[SIZE="4"]Chihayafuru 2[/SIZE]

Sometimes, miracles do happen.

[SIZE="4"]Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman[/SIZE]

I'm actually pretty interested in this because Monkey Punch, but I thought this was another manga and not just a random pachinko game that had Monkey Punch designs? I could be wrong.

[SIZE="4"]Kotoura-san[/SIZE]

It could be funny, I'll give it an episode.

[SIZE="4"]Mangirl[/SIZE]

Premise is pretty interesting but Dogakobo is a red flag, dropping at the first sight of lame.

[SIZE="4"]Yama no Susume[/SIZE]

This could be good or terrible. Let's pray for the former.

[SIZE="4"]AMNESIA[/SIZE]

BRAINS BASE WHYYYYYYYYY?! Actually this might be decent but surely you have better barrels to dip out of than otoge. Like, I durno, DRRR x 2? You know, your best selling property?

[SIZE="4"]Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru[/SIZE]

Gonna put this in the potentially funny but very potentially awful category. At least it's not his sister aiming to get him.

[SIZE="4"]Maoyuu Maou Yuusha[/SIZE]

Premise is interesting but lolArms.

So this season looks pretty lightweight, which might actually be a good thing because I'll still have seven things that'll still be airing to keep up with.

[blkmage]

Yeah, pretty slim pickings. I've got like half the number of titles I'd usually be interested in. Basically, Chihayafuru and Sasami-san are shoo-ins, interested in Maoyu and Amnesia, and if I'm bored, maybe Vividred and Haganai depending on how they turn out.

[Atria35]

Chihayafuru. There's pretty much nothing else I'm even vaguely interested in.

[Vii]

Chihayafuru 2 is the only thing I'm interested in.

Oh well, it'll give me time to finish up Eureka Seven and Spice and Wolf II.

[FllMtl Novelist]

[SIZE="4"]Chihayafuru 2[/SIZE]
http://www.ntv.co.jp/chihayafuru/
Sequel
Card games? Sounds boring.

Happy happy happiness. ][SIZE="4"]Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru[/SIZE]
http://www.oreshura.net/
Light novel by Yuuji Yuuji
Studio: A-1 Pictures, Director: Kamei Kanta, Cast: Akasaki Chinatsu, Ohsaka Ryota, Tamura Yukari

Romantic comedy light novel. Childhood friend vs foreign interloper fighting for the love of the guy who wants nothing to do with this crap.[/QUOTE]
This actually sounds kind of hilarious, so maybe I will look at it [s]if I can bear to commit to more than one show dohohoho[/s].

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

Wait, how are there no jokes about how there's no good shows in the post-apocalyptic season yet?

[FllMtl Novelist]

...Chihayafuru is a cockroach?

[Vii]

...or a Twinkie.

[MightiMidget]

O_o Wow. Absolutely nothing looks even remotely interesting to me. Oh well! Time to finish up stuff then!

[blkmage]

KyoAni surprises us with a new winter anime original project: Tamako Market.

[mechana2015]

Oh look a show I might consider watching finally.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

Other than Munto this is KyoAni's only original thing, right?

[Zeldafan2]

Other than Munto this is KyoAni's only original thing, right?

That is correct.

This could be interesting, but it looks like it might be about food....

[mechana2015]

I'd watch a Kyoani show about cooking...

[Vii]

If it's anything like the cooking contest in Hyouka, I'm all for a Kyoani cooking show.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

So a synopsis for Tamako Market was posted today and I am pretty excited.

[Zeldafan2]

So a synopsis for Tamako Market was posted today and I am pretty excited.

Okay, even though its about food (as i expected), I agree with you. This looks like it could be really awesome.

[Vii]

Omahgawsh MOCHIIII!

[Atria35]

Okay. So I've expanded what I want to see for three shows:

Chihayafuru 2 - should anyone need to know why?
Yama no Susume - Because mountain climbing is different and it seems like it's a solid friendship show. Yes, as opposed to the other school club ones on here.
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha - Because the director also did Spice and Wolf. As a Spice and Wolf fan, I feel it's my duty to see how this one turns out.

[Neane]

Yama no Susume - Because mountain climbing is different and it seems like it's a solid friendship show. Yes, as opposed to the other school club ones on here.

Hopefully it will include wonderful mountain-climbing experiences like SPOILER: Highlight text to read: one girl falls halfway down the mountain, breaks her neck and is to become a quadriplegic. But she would rather die than become bedridden, so she asks her friend to end her life right there as an act of mercy. And her best friend is then in the dilemma of either obeying her friend's dying wish, which involves killing her or letting her live the rest of her life as a quadriplegic.


Also, I wonder what Train Hero would have.

[Atria35]

Yama no Susume - Because mountain climbing is different and it seems like it's a solid friendship show. Yes, as opposed to the other school club ones on here.

Hopefully it will include wonderful mountain-climbing experiences like SPOILER: Highlight text to read: one girl falls halfway down the mountain, breaks her neck and is to become a quadriplegic. But she would rather die than become bedridden, so she asks her friend to end her life right there as an act of mercy. And her best friend is then in the dilemma of either obeying her friend's dying wish, which involves killing her or letting her live the rest of her life as a quadriplegic.

...... I want to watch that anime with that plot right now.

[Vii]

^ Someone draw a manga. Quick.

[blkmage]

http://shop.tsutaya.co.jp/anime/news/ametoyuki/

Wolf Children's JP BD/DVD release is Feb 20.

[Mr. Hat'n'Clogs]

Here is a trailer for the new show with Monkey Punch designs, and it's look pretty classy! Monkey Punch's character designs are sexy and awesome and the classy music means it just jumped a few notches in how interesting it looks.