Fall 2011 Anime Previews

We may only be mid-way through the Summer Season but a list of some of the Anime out in Fall has been released. I have compiled some of the shows that I felt were note worthy.

It seems like this will be a season of re-appearances, with many series coming back for a 2nd Season or remakes. I am not sure if I should be happy or sad at seeing this happen. The remake of Hunter x Hunter and alternate telling of Last Exile (and also the remake of Rurouni Kenshin) reminds me of the trend that Hollywood is going through. I just hope that this is not an indication that the industry is running low on quality content and is starting this new trend.

Of course it is nice to see some of the other shows make a reappearance with a continuation like Sekakoi and Bakuman. Now if only there were a 2nd Season of Skip Beat as well…

Without further a due, I hope you enjoy this page and find this helpful.

Which series are you looking forward to?

	Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Based on the light novel by Hirasaka Yomi & Buriki. Hasegawa Kodaka has transferred schools, and he’s having a hard time making friends. It doesn’t help that his blond hair tends to make people think he’s a delinquent. One day, he runs into his bad-tempered solitary classmate Yozora while she’s talking animatedly to her imaginary friend Tomo. Realizing that neither of them have any actual friends, they decide that the best way to alter this situation is to form a club and start recruiting. That is how “Rinjinbu” was formed, a club specifically designed for people who don’t have very many friends. As other lonely classmates slowly join their little club, they’ll try to learn how to build friendships through cooking together, playing games, and other group activities. But will this group of relationship-challenged misfits really be able to get along? – Baka-Updates Manga Studio: AIC Build Genre: Comedy, Romance, Seinen, School Life
Trailer Click here to view Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai trailer
	Mobile Suit Gundam AGE It has been a few hundred years since humans began to live on space colonies. In A.G. 101, an unknown enemy (UE) “GAFRAN” suddenly attacks one of the colonies “Angel”. A long war against UE has begun. In A.G 108, seven year old Flit Asuno lost his mother when UE attacked his colony “Ovan”. His mother left him a memory unit “AGE” which had stored data of an ancient mobile suit Gundam. In A.G. 114, Flit completes the Gundam AGE and counterattacks against GAFRANs. - MAL Studio: Sunrise Genre: Action, MEcha, Sci-Fi
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	Persona 4 Persona 4 takes place in the fictional, rural Japanese town of Inaba, which lies among floodplains and has its own high school and shopping districts. Unexplained murders have taken place in the small town, where bodies are found dangling among television antennas and their cause of death unknown. At the same time, rumor has begun to spread that watching a switched-off television set on rainy midnights will reveal a person’s soulmate. Following the rumor, a group of high-school students discovered a fog-shrouded world accessed through television sets infested with monsters called Shadows.They also discovered each of their Shadow Selves, symbolizing their suppressed personalities. Confronting their Shadow Selves awakened their ability to summon beings known as Personas. Using Personas, the students formed the Investigation Team to investigate the connection between the TV world and the murders, and possibly capture the culprit. - wiki Studio: AIC Asta Genre: Adventure, Mystery, School, Sci-Fi, Super Power, Supernatural
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	UN-GO “The main site introduces two main characters Shinjūrō Yūki (pictured right) and Inga (pictured left). The two work together to solve mysteries in a near future timeline. The story is based on the works of Ango Sakaguchi (Aoi Bungaku Series’ “In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom”), a post-World War II Japanese novel and essayist.” – ANN Studio: BONES Genre: Mystery
	Guilty Crown After the outbreak of the unidentified virus “Lost Christmas” in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multi-nation organization called GHQ. Ohma Shu is a 17 year old boy who has a psychic power in his right hand. He can use the power “Ability of King” to extract tools or weapons from his friends. He has been avoiding making trouble for others but his life changes when he meets a girl Yuzuriha Inori, a member of a resistance guerrilla group called “Undertaker”, whose members pilot mecha weapons to fight against the government. – ANN Studio: Production I.G Genre: Science Fiction
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v	Chihayafuru All her life, Chihaya’s dream was to see her model sister become Japan’s best… That is, until a quiet, unassuming transfer student named Arata tells her otherwise. A dream, he explains to her, is something she needs to work at herself. Arata plays a competitive version of a traditional Japanese card game–known as Hyakunin Isshu–in a way Chihaya has never seen before. After taking Arata’s place in a game, Chihaya discovers she has a passion for it. Now Chihaya wants to become number one in the world, the Queen of Karuta. - Baka-Updates Manga Studio: Madhouse Genre: Josei, Romance
	Hunter x Hunter 2011 Aretelling of the Hunter x Hunter story from the start. Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was alive and well. His Father, Ging, is a Hunter–a member of society’s elite with a license to go anywhere or do almost anything. Gon, determined to follow in his father’s footsteps, decides to take the Hunter Examination and eventually find his father to prove himself as a Hunter in his own right. But on the way, he learns that there is more to becoming a Hunter than previously thought, and the challenges that he must face are considered the toughest in the world. - ANN Studio: Madhouse Genre: Action, Adventure, Tournament
	Bakuman 2 A continuation of the Bakuman story from Season 1 Studio: J.C Staff Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School, Shounen
	Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle The anime revolves around a high school boy named Kaito who fights battles via puzzles with a mysterious intelligence group known as POG. - AniDB Studio: Sunrise Genre: Shounen
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	Fate/Zero Based on Urobuchi Gen and Type-Moon’s Fate/Zero novel The Holy Grail War – A death-match between 7 magi (Masters) and their summoned heroic spirits (Servants) in which the prize is the legendary Holy Grail, said to have to power to grant miracles. This is now the 4th Holy Grail War. The 3 preceding Wars had ended without a victor. In pursuit of their individual goals and ambitions, the magi congregate at a place called Fuyuki. All the magi will do anything, rationalize away any atrocity, in pursuit of the Holy Grail. All of them, but one… Kotomine Kirei is a mage, but one without a reason to fight. Unable to release himself from the threads of fate, he is drawn reluctantly into this War. However, as fate would have it, one of his rival Masters turns out to be an old enemy, Emiya Kiritsugu, a man more severe and merciless than anyone else. A man who desires the miracles offered by the Holy Grail… -AniDB Studio: Ufotable Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy, Novel, Seinen
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	Mirrai Nikki High school 2nd year, Amano Yukiteru, is a boy who has problem making friends. He thinks of himself as a bystander and will always write down everything he sees in a cell phone diary. Tormented by solitude, Yukiteru began to imagine things like a friend called Deus X Makina who is apparently the Lord of Time & Space. Seeing Yukiteru’s miserable state, Deus gives him a new ability. His diary will now record events that will happen in the near future. Yukiteru is then forced to participate in a game which the winner will become Deus’s successor. - ANN Studio: Asread Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Psychological, Romance, Sci-Fi, Supernatural
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	Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon In the far future, humans abandon the devastated Earth and move to the upper world “Tenjo”. But Tenjo and the law of causation collapse in a war and humans return to the Earth, which has turned into an inhabitable planet except for Shinshu area. Shinshu is too small to accommodate all the humans, so they duplicate the area and create “Juso Sekai” in a parallel world. In order to rebuild Tenjo and the law of causation, the returned humans start reproduction of the history from B.C. 10,000. When the reproduction proceeds to A.D. 1413, a war breaks out in Shinshu and Juso Sekai falls onto the original world. The humans living in Juso Sekai lose their land and invade the original world. People in Shinshu surrender and the land is divided by the invaders from Juso Sekai. They try to resume the history reproduction from A.D.1457, but the update of the history terminates in A.D.1648. A rumor of apocalypse begins to spread the world. - AniDB Studio: Sunrise Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Trailer Click here to watch Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon trailer
	Kimi to Boku The story revolves around four teens — the good-looking twins Asaba Yuuta and Yuuki, the effeminate Matsuoka Shun, and the class head Tsukahara Kaname — who have known each other since early childhood. While they are not necessarily good or bad friends, they continue to hang out well into high school. The half-Japanese transfer student Tachibana Chizuru joins the circle of friends in this comedy about the everyday life of adolescence. - AniDB Studio: J.C Staff Genre: Slice-of-Life, High School
	Shana Final Studio: J.C Staff Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Shounen, Supernatural
	C3 – C Cube - A school battle action & love comedy with ecchi elements. Yachi Haruaki is a high school boy and naturally resistant to curses. His father, Honatsu, sends him cursed instruments called “Worse” to try to break this. One day, Haruaki receives a black cube from Honatsu. During the night, he encounters a naked silver haired girl stealing rice crackers. She is the human-form of the black cube, an instrument of torture called “Fear in Cube”. Haruaki and the girl ‘Fear’ fight together against other ‘Worse’ instruments and their owners using Fear’s 32 mechanisms of torture. - MAL Studio: Silver Link Genre: Action, Comedy, School, Shounen
Trailer Click here to watch ‘C3 – C Cube -’ trailer
	Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing is a new original tale in the Last Exile universe. It features new characters, new mechanics and an all new story centered around the young ace vanship pilot, Fam, and her trusted navigator, Giselle, as they pilot their vanship, Vespa, through the free and peaceful skies. - Funimation Studio: Gonzo Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi
Episode 1 Review Trailer Click here to watch Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing trailer
	Sekaiichi Hatsukoi 2nd Season Continues from where the 1st season left off Onodera Ritsu has just transferred from his father’s publishing company to Marukawa Shoten. Assigned to the shoujo manga division, he crosses path with the person he’d least expected to meet. Takano Masamune is the editor-in-chief of the division Ritsu’s been assigned to, and the two seem get off on the wrong foot right from the very start when Takano unexpectedly kisses him. However, there is more to than what meets the eye: Takano is actually Saga, Ritsu’s senpai and high school love, whom Ritsu had thought to have played him for a fool by taking his affections for granted when he confessed and summarily dumped him. - MAL Studio: Studio DEEN Genre: Comedy, Romance, Shounen-ai

For more information on the other series in the Fall Season you can refer to here and here.

This page will be updated as more information comes out.