We come not to praise the anime thread, but to bury it.
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Welcome back to another rundown of what you'll be watching this summer, as those of us with better sense scream in terror from the sidelines!
You may remember me from hits such as "Don't watch -gatari", "No really don't watch -gatari", "Someone mentioned maybe watching -gatari at 5AM my time and the psychic dissonance was strong enough to make me climb out of bed and check IRC", or "You can probably skip the Eden movies too." Tonight--and every night until I whip you up into a frenzy worthy of calling down OT4, so hopefully just three weeks or so--we'll be writhing in our own despair, whether we realize it yet or not!
And what despair it'll be, too!
Schedule
The Lineup
"You'll be my first I drink from--my blood calls out for it."
BLOOD LAD
7/7 (Sun) 24:30 tvk
Dir. Shigeyuki Miya (Buzzer Beater, Supernatural), Comp. Kenji Konuta (Library Wars, Haitai Nanafa), Prod. Brains Base (a lot of things that look a lot better than this)
Brains Base hauling out the DRRR! font pack like it ain't no thang, in hopes it'll distract us from this DEFINITELY being more 'durr' than 'DRRR!'. And, you know, like InuHasa ended up, not even the preeminent show about a girl obsessed with a vampire boy this season.
"A forbidden sibling 'love conflict'!"
BROTHERS CONFLICT
7/2 (Tue) AT-X 19:30
7/2 (Tue) Tokyo MX 24:30
Dir. Atsushi Matsumoto (Persona Trinity Soul, Night Raid, lol.), Comp. Natsuko Takahashi (Moyashimon, Togainu no Chi, Traitor Knows My Name or whatever the hell people call that in English), Prod. Brains Base (Drrr, PenDrum, Natsume)
... Kallen? Kallen, is that you in drag?
I hope this is one of those actiony, vaguely edgy girls' dramas that catches on with a male market overseas, because dudebros going on and on about how much they love "brocon" will let me laugh forever and ever.
"Want to graduate? Kill a classmate!"
DANGANRONPA: KIBOU NO GAKUEN TO ZETSUBOU NO KOUKOUSEI
7/4 (Thu) 25:35 MBS
7/5 (Fri) 25:55 TBS
Dir. Seiji Kishi (Persona 4, Devil Survivor 2, Humanity has Declined, Carnival Phantasm), Comp. Makoto Uezu (School Days, Is This A Zombie, Humanity has Declined, Carnival Phantasm), Prod. Lerche (Carnival Phantasm)
Yes, they realize the SZS joke. They realize it so hard they bought the font. They probably paid less for it than me, goddamit.
"Shining stars above! Glittering eternal crystal! In the name of the holy infinite stardust, show me your true form!"
FANTASISTA DOLL
7/6 (Sat) 27:28 MBS
7/7 (Sun) 24:00 Tokyo MX
Creative producer Goro Taniguchi, Dir. Hisashi Saito, Prod. Hoods Entertainment
A tale of moemoe dolls summoned by cards, created and produced by the director of Code Geass, directed by the man who directed Haganai, and animated by the studio behind Qwaser. There are no writing credits announced, but the web novel is by a man with a single anime under his belt: Umasou.
TRAINWRECK MODE, OH SO ENGAGED.
"An off-the-wall tale of a girl led on by 'Fate'!"
FATE/KALEID LINER PRISM☆ILLYA
7/6 (Sat) 22:30 Niconico
7/12 (Fri) 25:30 TV Tokyo
Dir. Shin Oonuma (ef, BakaTest), Comp. Kenji Inoue (BakaTest novels), Writer Hazuki Minase (C^3 novels), Prod. SILVER LINK. (BakaTest, inexplicable punctuation, not hiring a single writer who's ever worked on anime before YOLO)
fate/are jokes about our cardcaptor sakura joke from a decade ago sufficiently meta
"Grasp the future, 400 meters ahead."
FREE!
7/3 (Wed) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Hiroko Utsumi (shared AD credits on the K-on! and Haruhi movies), Comp. Masahiro Yokotani (Maria+Holic, Maou-sama), CD Futoshi Nishiya (Nichijou, Hyouka), Prod. KyoAni (I really shouldn't have to fill this in)
This is DEFINITELY the anime about swimming boys you're looking for, Kyoani-GAF. Unfortunately, the full-on dripping-wet shota locker room experience is locked behind a light novel paywall.
"In 2013, Gatchaman soars to new heights!"
GATCHAMAN CROWDS
7/12 (Fri) 25:58 NTV
Dir. Kenji Nakamura (C, Tsuritama, please forget when i was hyping him for C), Comp. Toshiya Ono (Suite Precure, Tsuritama), Suit design Koji Nakakita (Wandaba Style, Dancouga Nova), Prod. Tatsunoko (Sket Dance, C)
At some point in the near future, the trends of remaking old kids' anime for adults and putting anime for adults on later and later at night will together produce a series that runs in the same 6 AM timeslot its predecessor did.
"This is the eternally-recurring battle of girls who shoulder that unescapable destiny."
GEN'EI WO KAKERU TAIYO or, il sole penetra le illusioni or in English this time, The Sun Penetrates The Illusion
6/27 (Thu) 24:00 Tokyo MX (Episode 0)
7/6 (Sat) 23:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Keizo Kusakawa (Campione, Loliball, I guess doing Sekirei gave him all the tits he ever needed), Comp. Michiko Ito (Loliball, Hentai Ouji), Creature design Hiroyasu Oda (Dog Days, Nanoha movies), AS Harume Kosaka (Humanity has Declined), Prod. AIC (R-15, Acchi Kocchi)
If you've ever been wondering how long it takes for an original anime to move from concept to completion, just count back to when Madoka's sales numbers came in. Except this time, there's 22 girls doomed to suffer eternal battle rather than just two!
"Genshiken is back, with even weirder freshmen!"
GENSHIKEN NIDAIME: THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MODERN VISUAL CULTURE or, Genshiken: the Next Generation
7/6 (Sat) 25:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Tsutomu Mizushima (Genshiken, Joshiraku, Girls und Panzer), Comp. Michiko Yokote (Genshiken, Joshiraku), Prod. Production I.G (Azazel-san, Eden of the East which at this point I insist was a comedy in retrospect)
Really, you have no, no idea how much terror that 30-minute unfilled gap between -gatari and then is causing me right now. Please, please be reruns or something.
I wonder if we'll get another Gundam parody OP drawn by Urushihara to go with our HOT FUJOSHI ACTION?
"The kanji for 'honor' is written by combining 'self' and 'beauty'. Thus, it can be said that to be 'honorable' makes oneself 'beautiful'; or that to live 'honorably', one must live 'beautifully'."
GIFUU DODO!! KANETSUGU TO KEIJI or, Inventing Our Own 4CCs Is Fun And Profitable or, fd8y9y890gwohgw8oh8g80ysoiafsaioisaioa dodos, or IMAGAWA IMAGAWA IMAGAWA
7/2 (Tue) 25:40 TV Tokyo
Orig. Tetsuo Hara (FotNS) / Nobuhiko Horie, Dir. Bob Shirahata (Hetalia), Writer Yasuhiro Imagawa (G Gundam, Shin Mazinger, Bartender), Prod. DEEN (Nura, Sankarea)
Tales of the legendarily rowdy Sengoku-era warrior Maeda Keiji, as told by hisbutt buddy straight-laced friend Naoe Kanetsugu. A spinoff of a manga by Fist of the North Star artist Tetsuo Hara, the designs here are straight up '80s fabulous on an early JoJo level, perfectly ready to be fucked up by Deen!
EDIT: HOLY SHIT IMAGAWA WATCHING THIS SO HARD. IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. HELL, MORE WAYS THAN TWO.
"He had to make that choice, or die."
HAKKENDEN - TOHO HAKKEN IBUN S2
7/7 (Sun) 22:30 Tokyo MX
Chief Dir. Osamu Yamasaki (Hakuouki), Dir. Mitsue Yamazaki (AD on kure-nai and PenDrum), Comp. the directing team together, Prod. DEEN (haven't we been over this already?)
Samurai-ish shows of Summer 2013: Teaching us the finer distinctions between bara and BL.
(yes pls more of Genpachi in uniform pls)
"Fuck you, Excalibur."
HIGH SCHOOL D×D NEW or, Yes Virginia, "New" Is A Valid Pun For "Breasts" In Japanese
7/7 (Sun) 20:30 ATX
?????? Tokyo MX (like you even care about the broadcast version)
Dir. Tetsuya Yanagisawa (HSD&D S1, World War Blue), Comp. Takao Yoshioka (Working'!!, HSD&D S1, Senran Kagura), Prod. TNK (HSD&D S1, School Days)
Last time I made a season thread, the flash previews on the HSDxD site "accidentally" had the nipples left in. This time, there aren't even any flash previews. Already a downgrade.
"This is Gamindustri. Beings called the Goddesses rule the countries of this unreal world."
HYPERDIMENSION NEPTUNIA THE ANIMATION
7/12 (Fri) 22:00 BS Animax
7/12 (Fri) 25:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Masahiro Mukai (Madoka eps 2-9. Yu-gi-oh! Zexal eps 1-2), Comp. Shogo Yasukawa (Zero no Tsukaima F), Prod. david production (Ben-to, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Gaze upon what you're getting instead of Stardust Crusaders, and despair.
"Even edgier than the novel!?"
INU TO HASAMI WA TSUKAIYOU or, Dogs and Scissors: Only Good for One Thing
7/1 (Mon) 25:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Yukio Takahashi (Last Exile 2), Comp. Toshizo Nemoto (Inuboku SS), Prod. GONZO (Chapter 11)
That is certainly a bitchin' logo font, but this show is destined to be only the #2 anime of Summer 2013 starring a sadistic woman with hardpoints on her panties for stationery.
"And on the seventh day... God abandoned us."
KAMISAMA NO INAI NICHIYOBI or, The Sunday Without God
7/6 (Sat) 25:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Yuji Kumasawa (Nobuna Oda), Comp. Tomoko Konparu (this lady has been writing FOREVER; recently Kimi ni Todoke and UtaPrince), Prod. Madhouse (Chihayaful, aaaalllll those Marvel shows, Kaiji)
welp, thanks for reminding me that Yuko Goto is still so sick she had to drop this :|
"Her name: Shiki Ryogi. Her life was saved... But nothing could open her eyes."
KARA NO KYOUKAI or, Garden of Sinners or, 2013: 2009 4TH ANNIVERSARY PROJECT
7/5 (Fri) 24:00 Tokyo MX
A 13-ep clipshow of your favorite Type-Moon movies and not mine, crammed into chronological order in hopes of making sense. (Good luck there.)
"Love hurts."
KIMI NO IRU MACHI or, A Town Where You Live
7/13 (Sat) 23:30 TV Tokyo
Dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi (Casshern Sins, Dream Eater Merry), Comp. Reiko Yoshida (MariMite, K-On!, Girls und Panzer), Prod. GONZO
Two guys are sitting around watching TV, constantly flicking back and forth between a soap opera and Cinemax whenever the other is distracted. Eventually, one of them hits it with a bottle of Miller Lite.
That's how this anime was made.
"Ancient China, BCE: A land at war."
KINGDOM 2
6/8 (Sat) 23:45 BS Premium
Staff: Dir. Jun Kamiya (Bleach: Diamond Dust Rebellion), Comp. Naruhisa Awakawa (Kingdom S1, Akibarangers), Prod. Studio Pierrot (Beelzebub, Kingdom S1)
ARE YOU READY
IT IS TIME
FOR 39 MORE EPISODES OF
AWKWARD
CG
also, don't search "kingdom anime gif" at work unless your boss is down with kirino porn.
"A relaxing, lighthearted comedy of Japanese and British schoolgirls!"
KIN-IRO MOSAIC or, Gold Mosaic
7/6 (Sat) 20:30 ATX
7/8 (Mon) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Tensho (NakaImo ep 2 and 7, Katanagatari ep 7), Comp. Yunico Ayana (Denpa Onna), Prod. Studio Gokumi (Saki Achiga-hen, NakaImo)
"What fun will Natsuki have with the Go-Home Club?"
KITAKUBU KATSUDO KIROKU
7/4 (Thu) 26:43 NTV
Dir. Hikaru Sato (AD on bad Aria and Polar Bear Cafe), Comp. Go Zappa (Koihime Musou, NakaImo, I think he used all his clever coming up with that pen name), Prod. Nomad (Kampfer, Bleach: Diamond Dust Rebellion, Bleach: Fade to Black)
This is an anime about girls having fun on the way home from school. Because it's set in Japan, it's going to be cutesy and potentially endearing rather than R-rated and involving animal cruelty.
"What brought these wildly different girls together" 'To learn how to love'!?"
LOVE LAB
7/4 (Thu) 26:05 MBS
7/5 (Fri) 26:25 TBS
Dir. Masahiko Oota (Minamike, Mitsudomoe), Comp. Takashi Aoshima (Minamike, Mitsudomoe, Yryr), Prod. Dogakobo (Koihime Musou, Yuruyuri)
Not the heartwarming story of a pet retriever. Font budget at least $30 less than Danganronpa; the official site is straight-up using Mikachan.
OTOH, that key visual is cute as all hell and not being able to fit it in 21:9 burns me a lot more than Free's.
"Who will be Hell's regent!?"
MAKAI OUJI DEVILS AND REALIST
7/7 (Sun) 25:05 TV Tokyo
Dir. Chiaki Kon (Junjou Romantica ep director), Comp. Michiko Yokote (rapidly closing in on Mari Okada's spray-and-pray reputation), Prod. Dogakobo (Koihime Musou, Yuruyuri, wait what?)
Form of Black Butler's font! Shape of JoJo's episode title backgrounds! Wonder twin powers, activate!
"'Queens' of the savannah!"
The Midnight Animals
August, Hikari Channel
Prod. GONZO
Yes, that is an ostrich in drag.
"The four girls of Milky Holmes grow up with more cases to crack and new underclasswomen at school!"
FUTARI WA MILKY HOLMES or, Toei Lawsuit Incoming
7/13 (Sat) 22:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Hiroshi Nishikiori (Index, Index II, but not Railgun), Comp. Hideki Shirane (Merry, bad Aria, Kill Me Baby), Prod. J.C. Staff/Nomad (oh lol.)
12-minute eps of what is either a cute and harmless vehicle for midtier seiyuu or really creepy, depending on which half of the internet you ask. The new season adds a duo in white and black, barring any lawyer-induced last minute repaints!
"Don't let your youth end until you've seen it all."
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trying that again
-MONOGATARI SERIES SECOND SEASON or, -Story Series Second Season or, My Living Hell (working title)
7/6 (Sat) 24:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Akiyuki Shinbo, Prod. SHAFT (Again, if I have to tell you...)
Two seasons? Seriously? Seriously, guys?
I guess that might let you work all the way through a single untrimmed Nisioisin paragraph.
Also, that missing half-hour in Tokyo MX's schedule is terrifying me shitless right now.
"A big little brother, and a little big sister."
RECORDER AND RANDSELL ミ☆ or, Really, How The Fuck Do You Pronounce ASCII Art Of A Shooting Star
7/1 (Mon) 22:25 ATX
7/4 (Thu) 25:00 TeleTama
Dir./Writer Itsuki Imazaki (Ai Mai Mi), CD Toshiomi Iizumi (R&R S1), Prod. Seven (R&R S1)
She's legal. He isn't. I have a headache now.
"A rolling sports comedy! The off-kilter girls on the basketball team have got him wrapped around their fingers!"
RO-KYU-BU! SS or, Why Don't You Take a Seat Over There Again
7/5 (Fri) 22:30 AT-X
7/7 (Sun) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Shinsuke Yanagi (extremely prolific journeyman AD with no series credits), Comp. Michiko Ito (coming back for more salty loli balls), Prod. project No. 9 (nothing. but. loliballs.)
I shouldn't even have to comment on this, should I? Please, if you're going to watch this, try not to dribble on my thread. That's just foul.
"Do you agree? Or do you not agree?"
ROZEN MAIDEN
7/4 (Thu) 25:58 TBS
Dir. Shinichi Omata (Sankarea, episode director for Arakawa and Madoka), Comp. Tomomi Mochizuki (Yami to Boushi), Prod. DEEN (Nura, Sankarea)
Is... Is it true? Is it really happening? Goddamn, widefaces and this, TBS Thursdays are the best block ever.
Unless Deen fucks it up. (Deen's SO gonna fuck it up. One good show is pushing it, this AND Gifuu Dodo both surviving is unthinkable.)
"Battling for the sake of the world, these girls find only heartbreak and loss--"
SENKI ZESSHO SYMPHOGEAR G or, Nymphogear G
7/4 (Thu) 26:35 MBS
7/6 (Sat) 22:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Katsumi Ono (Symphogear eps 4, 9), Comp. Akifumi Kaneko (Wild Arms 1, 3, and 4, Symphogear), Prod. Satelight (Macross F, AKB0048, Symphogear)
I translated half of the last season and all I can remember is really blatant yuri and misspelled legendary weapon names. Expect both of those to repeat, unless they decide to give us misspelled yuri and blatant legendary weapons instead.
"A tale of battles, laughs, and heartfelt emotion woven by a useless hero and a sadist warrior!"
SENYU S2 or, Senyuu S2 if you want to be weebier-than-actual-Japan
7/2 (Tue) 25:35 TV Tokyo
Dir. YAMAKAN (the first four episodes of Lucky Star, before ratings came in), Comp. Michiko Yokote (Genshiken, Joshiraku, Senyu S1), Prod. Ordet/Liden Films (BRS OVA)
The fantasy gag comedy returns, now with Yamakan tweeting 100% more emo poetry during when ep 1 would've hit crunch time.
One way or another, it's going to be interesting.
"My first govenment job."
SERVANT×SERVICE
7/4 (Thu) 27:08 ABC
7/6 (Sat) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Yasutaka Yamamoto (Squid Girl S2, sighs of relief when people hear 'Yasutaka' rather than 'Yutaka'), Writer Kento Shimoyama (Kawaii! JeNny, Binbogami ga!, Maou-sama), Prod. A-1 (Studios? Where Aniplex is going, they don't need studios)
Welp, I got nothin'.
"You know, this may actually be a fun way to grow up."
SILVER SPOON
7/11 (Thu) 24:45 Fuji TV
Dir. Tomohiko Ito (Occult Gakuin, Sword Art Online), Writer Taku Kishimoto (Bunny Drop), Prod. A-1 Pictures
Noitamina finally exists again! It's even gone back to slice-of-life growing-up stories! But by this point, no one cares!
If you want to see the embarassing things FMA's author did with cows as a little girl, this show may be for you. If you -really- want to see that, it probably isn't.
"A tale of youth and survival games!"
STELLA JOGAKUIN KOTOKA C^3BU or, Stella Women's Academy High School Division Class C3
7/4 (Thu) 25:28 TBS
Dir. Masayoshi "No, Not That Kawajiri" Kawajiri (preeeeeeetty much nothing), Prod. Gainax (Medaka Box, Dantalian, did you think I was gonna write something else here?)
I was going to call this the potential sleeper hit of the summer. Then I remembered that Gainax can barely outfight DEEN at this point, and DEEN's sleeper has goddamn Imagawa.
This has... Idk, man. Unfortunate proximity to Rozen Maiden? A visually-appealing logo? Camo-print pantyshots?
"Your smile is all the thanks I could ever want."
TAMAYURA MOAGURESSHIBU or, Tamayura More Aggressive
7/3 (Wed) 21:30 AT-X
7/3 (Wed) 22:30 Tokyo MX
Dir./Comp. Junichi Sato (Aria, Tamayura), CD Haruko Iizuka (Tamayura), Prod. TYO Animations (Tamayura)
I can't even imagine how Tamayura would be aggressive in any way, shape, or form. Help me out here?
"Ika Surume's 'tennis show without actual tennis' returns!"
TEEKYU S2
7/7 (Sun) 22:27 Tokyo MX
Dir./Writer Shin Itagaki (Teekyu, Ben-to), Prod. MAPPA (The Unlimited, Teekyu)
I went looking for S1 impressions to sharpen my snark on, but apparently no one watched S1.
"Kyoto is a city of men, tanuki, and tengu."
UCHOTEN KAZOKU
7/7 (Sun) 22:00
Dir. Masayuki Yoshihara (Eden of the East AD), Comp. Shotaro Suga (Darker than Black, Lagrange), Prod. P.A.Works (Canaan, Angel Beats, Hanasaku Iroha)
To adapt Kumeta art for anime: add bigger nostrils. Why? It's simple: Kumeta characters, in their natural state of dangling on a rope, have no need to breathe, and thus no need for nostrils.
"Mojyo, n. Also: mo-onna. 1. A woman who has never spoken with a man. 2. A woman who has never gone on a date. 3. 'pure' (self-derogatory). Antonym: (has a) life."
WATASHI GA MOTENAI NO WA DOUMITEMO OMAERA GA WARUI! or, No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! or, Watamote to save us all a lot of typing
7/8 (Mon) 26:05 TV Tokyo
Dir. Shin Oonuma (ef, BakaTest), Comp. Takao Yoshioka (Working'!!, Senran Kagura), Prod. SILVER LINK. (BakaTest, inexplicable punctuation)
Most shows like this have endcards sent in by other manga authors. But Watamote... Watamote can have end cards of the most impressive dick pics sent to the author by /a/ when they were unhappy with where the story went.
"The 'God of Conquests' Keima Katsuragi and the demon Elsie."
The World God Only Knows (Goddess Arc) or, The World of Divine Miso Soup or, Someone Send Kotaku A Plot Summary I Wanna Watch The Fireworks
7/8 (Mon) 25:35 TV Tokyo
Dir. Satoshi Ohsedo (the 2012 OVAs, ep 24 of JoJo), Comp. Hideyuki Kurata (the rest of TWGOK, also OreImo), Prod. Manglobe (TWGOK, Hayate after SHAFT fumbled the movie and got it taken away, Samurai Champloo, Sacred Blacksmith, precipitous falls from grace)
Gotta catch 'em all!
"Yuto's always trying hard!"
YUTO-KUN GA IKU or, Go Go Yuto!
6/14 (Fri) 17:55 Disney XD
Staff: Dir./CD Aya Otawa, Writer Hidekazu Mizoi, Prod. Shirogumi (Moyashimon)
Starring an actual soccer player, who, judging from that character design, wins games by blinding the opposing team with forehead beams.
Don't get too excited, Team Iori: it's a 'he'.
(cont.)
irc: irc.rizon.net #animegaf
Welcome back to another rundown of what you'll be watching this summer, as those of us with better sense scream in terror from the sidelines!
You may remember me from hits such as "Don't watch -gatari", "No really don't watch -gatari", "Someone mentioned maybe watching -gatari at 5AM my time and the psychic dissonance was strong enough to make me climb out of bed and check IRC", or "You can probably skip the Eden movies too." Tonight--and every night until I whip you up into a frenzy worthy of calling down OT4, so hopefully just three weeks or so--we'll be writhing in our own despair, whether we realize it yet or not!
And what despair it'll be, too!
Schedule
The Lineup
"You'll be my first I drink from--my blood calls out for it."
BLOOD LAD
7/7 (Sun) 24:30 tvk
Dir. Shigeyuki Miya (Buzzer Beater, Supernatural), Comp. Kenji Konuta (Library Wars, Haitai Nanafa), Prod. Brains Base (a lot of things that look a lot better than this)
Brains Base hauling out the DRRR! font pack like it ain't no thang, in hopes it'll distract us from this DEFINITELY being more 'durr' than 'DRRR!'. And, you know, like InuHasa ended up, not even the preeminent show about a girl obsessed with a vampire boy this season.
"A forbidden sibling 'love conflict'!"
BROTHERS CONFLICT
7/2 (Tue) AT-X 19:30
7/2 (Tue) Tokyo MX 24:30
Dir. Atsushi Matsumoto (Persona Trinity Soul, Night Raid, lol.), Comp. Natsuko Takahashi (Moyashimon, Togainu no Chi, Traitor Knows My Name or whatever the hell people call that in English), Prod. Brains Base (Drrr, PenDrum, Natsume)
... Kallen? Kallen, is that you in drag?
I hope this is one of those actiony, vaguely edgy girls' dramas that catches on with a male market overseas, because dudebros going on and on about how much they love "brocon" will let me laugh forever and ever.
"Want to graduate? Kill a classmate!"
DANGANRONPA: KIBOU NO GAKUEN TO ZETSUBOU NO KOUKOUSEI
7/4 (Thu) 25:35 MBS
7/5 (Fri) 25:55 TBS
Dir. Seiji Kishi (Persona 4, Devil Survivor 2, Humanity has Declined, Carnival Phantasm), Comp. Makoto Uezu (School Days, Is This A Zombie, Humanity has Declined, Carnival Phantasm), Prod. Lerche (Carnival Phantasm)
Yes, they realize the SZS joke. They realize it so hard they bought the font. They probably paid less for it than me, goddamit.
"Shining stars above! Glittering eternal crystal! In the name of the holy infinite stardust, show me your true form!"
FANTASISTA DOLL
7/6 (Sat) 27:28 MBS
7/7 (Sun) 24:00 Tokyo MX
Creative producer Goro Taniguchi, Dir. Hisashi Saito, Prod. Hoods Entertainment
A tale of moemoe dolls summoned by cards, created and produced by the director of Code Geass, directed by the man who directed Haganai, and animated by the studio behind Qwaser. There are no writing credits announced, but the web novel is by a man with a single anime under his belt: Umasou.
TRAINWRECK MODE, OH SO ENGAGED.
"An off-the-wall tale of a girl led on by 'Fate'!"
FATE/KALEID LINER PRISM☆ILLYA
7/6 (Sat) 22:30 Niconico
7/12 (Fri) 25:30 TV Tokyo
Dir. Shin Oonuma (ef, BakaTest), Comp. Kenji Inoue (BakaTest novels), Writer Hazuki Minase (C^3 novels), Prod. SILVER LINK. (BakaTest, inexplicable punctuation, not hiring a single writer who's ever worked on anime before YOLO)
fate/are jokes about our cardcaptor sakura joke from a decade ago sufficiently meta
"Grasp the future, 400 meters ahead."
FREE!
7/3 (Wed) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Hiroko Utsumi (shared AD credits on the K-on! and Haruhi movies), Comp. Masahiro Yokotani (Maria+Holic, Maou-sama), CD Futoshi Nishiya (Nichijou, Hyouka), Prod. KyoAni (I really shouldn't have to fill this in)
This is DEFINITELY the anime about swimming boys you're looking for, Kyoani-GAF. Unfortunately, the full-on dripping-wet shota locker room experience is locked behind a light novel paywall.
"In 2013, Gatchaman soars to new heights!"
GATCHAMAN CROWDS
7/12 (Fri) 25:58 NTV
Dir. Kenji Nakamura (C, Tsuritama, please forget when i was hyping him for C), Comp. Toshiya Ono (Suite Precure, Tsuritama), Suit design Koji Nakakita (Wandaba Style, Dancouga Nova), Prod. Tatsunoko (Sket Dance, C)
At some point in the near future, the trends of remaking old kids' anime for adults and putting anime for adults on later and later at night will together produce a series that runs in the same 6 AM timeslot its predecessor did.
"This is the eternally-recurring battle of girls who shoulder that unescapable destiny."
GEN'EI WO KAKERU TAIYO or, il sole penetra le illusioni or in English this time, The Sun Penetrates The Illusion
6/27 (Thu) 24:00 Tokyo MX (Episode 0)
7/6 (Sat) 23:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Keizo Kusakawa (Campione, Loliball, I guess doing Sekirei gave him all the tits he ever needed), Comp. Michiko Ito (Loliball, Hentai Ouji), Creature design Hiroyasu Oda (Dog Days, Nanoha movies), AS Harume Kosaka (Humanity has Declined), Prod. AIC (R-15, Acchi Kocchi)
If you've ever been wondering how long it takes for an original anime to move from concept to completion, just count back to when Madoka's sales numbers came in. Except this time, there's 22 girls doomed to suffer eternal battle rather than just two!
"Genshiken is back, with even weirder freshmen!"
GENSHIKEN NIDAIME: THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MODERN VISUAL CULTURE or, Genshiken: the Next Generation
7/6 (Sat) 25:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Tsutomu Mizushima (Genshiken, Joshiraku, Girls und Panzer), Comp. Michiko Yokote (Genshiken, Joshiraku), Prod. Production I.G (Azazel-san, Eden of the East which at this point I insist was a comedy in retrospect)
Really, you have no, no idea how much terror that 30-minute unfilled gap between -gatari and then is causing me right now. Please, please be reruns or something.
I wonder if we'll get another Gundam parody OP drawn by Urushihara to go with our HOT FUJOSHI ACTION?
"The kanji for 'honor' is written by combining 'self' and 'beauty'. Thus, it can be said that to be 'honorable' makes oneself 'beautiful'; or that to live 'honorably', one must live 'beautifully'."
GIFUU DODO!! KANETSUGU TO KEIJI or, Inventing Our Own 4CCs Is Fun And Profitable or, fd8y9y890gwohgw8oh8g80ysoiafsaioisaioa dodos, or IMAGAWA IMAGAWA IMAGAWA
7/2 (Tue) 25:40 TV Tokyo
Orig. Tetsuo Hara (FotNS) / Nobuhiko Horie, Dir. Bob Shirahata (Hetalia), Writer Yasuhiro Imagawa (G Gundam, Shin Mazinger, Bartender), Prod. DEEN (Nura, Sankarea)
Tales of the legendarily rowdy Sengoku-era warrior Maeda Keiji, as told by his
EDIT: HOLY SHIT IMAGAWA WATCHING THIS SO HARD. IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. HELL, MORE WAYS THAN TWO.
"He had to make that choice, or die."
HAKKENDEN - TOHO HAKKEN IBUN S2
7/7 (Sun) 22:30 Tokyo MX
Chief Dir. Osamu Yamasaki (Hakuouki), Dir. Mitsue Yamazaki (AD on kure-nai and PenDrum), Comp. the directing team together, Prod. DEEN (haven't we been over this already?)
Samurai-ish shows of Summer 2013: Teaching us the finer distinctions between bara and BL.
(yes pls more of Genpachi in uniform pls)
"Fuck you, Excalibur."
HIGH SCHOOL D×D NEW or, Yes Virginia, "New" Is A Valid Pun For "Breasts" In Japanese
7/7 (Sun) 20:30 ATX
?????? Tokyo MX (like you even care about the broadcast version)
Dir. Tetsuya Yanagisawa (HSD&D S1, World War Blue), Comp. Takao Yoshioka (Working'!!, HSD&D S1, Senran Kagura), Prod. TNK (HSD&D S1, School Days)
Last time I made a season thread, the flash previews on the HSDxD site "accidentally" had the nipples left in. This time, there aren't even any flash previews. Already a downgrade.
"This is Gamindustri. Beings called the Goddesses rule the countries of this unreal world."
HYPERDIMENSION NEPTUNIA THE ANIMATION
7/12 (Fri) 22:00 BS Animax
7/12 (Fri) 25:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Masahiro Mukai (Madoka eps 2-9. Yu-gi-oh! Zexal eps 1-2), Comp. Shogo Yasukawa (Zero no Tsukaima F), Prod. david production (Ben-to, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Gaze upon what you're getting instead of Stardust Crusaders, and despair.
"Even edgier than the novel!?"
INU TO HASAMI WA TSUKAIYOU or, Dogs and Scissors: Only Good for One Thing
7/1 (Mon) 25:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Yukio Takahashi (Last Exile 2), Comp. Toshizo Nemoto (Inuboku SS), Prod. GONZO (Chapter 11)
That is certainly a bitchin' logo font, but this show is destined to be only the #2 anime of Summer 2013 starring a sadistic woman with hardpoints on her panties for stationery.
"And on the seventh day... God abandoned us."
KAMISAMA NO INAI NICHIYOBI or, The Sunday Without God
7/6 (Sat) 25:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Yuji Kumasawa (Nobuna Oda), Comp. Tomoko Konparu (this lady has been writing FOREVER; recently Kimi ni Todoke and UtaPrince), Prod. Madhouse (Chihayaful, aaaalllll those Marvel shows, Kaiji)
welp, thanks for reminding me that Yuko Goto is still so sick she had to drop this :|
"Her name: Shiki Ryogi. Her life was saved... But nothing could open her eyes."
KARA NO KYOUKAI or, Garden of Sinners or, 2013: 2009 4TH ANNIVERSARY PROJECT
7/5 (Fri) 24:00 Tokyo MX
A 13-ep clipshow of your favorite Type-Moon movies and not mine, crammed into chronological order in hopes of making sense. (Good luck there.)
"Love hurts."
KIMI NO IRU MACHI or, A Town Where You Live
7/13 (Sat) 23:30 TV Tokyo
Dir. Shigeyasu Yamauchi (Casshern Sins, Dream Eater Merry), Comp. Reiko Yoshida (MariMite, K-On!, Girls und Panzer), Prod. GONZO
Two guys are sitting around watching TV, constantly flicking back and forth between a soap opera and Cinemax whenever the other is distracted. Eventually, one of them hits it with a bottle of Miller Lite.
That's how this anime was made.
"Ancient China, BCE: A land at war."
KINGDOM 2
6/8 (Sat) 23:45 BS Premium
Staff: Dir. Jun Kamiya (Bleach: Diamond Dust Rebellion), Comp. Naruhisa Awakawa (Kingdom S1, Akibarangers), Prod. Studio Pierrot (Beelzebub, Kingdom S1)
ARE YOU READY
IT IS TIME
FOR 39 MORE EPISODES OF
AWKWARD
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also, don't search "kingdom anime gif" at work unless your boss is down with kirino porn.
"A relaxing, lighthearted comedy of Japanese and British schoolgirls!"
KIN-IRO MOSAIC or, Gold Mosaic
7/6 (Sat) 20:30 ATX
7/8 (Mon) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Tensho (NakaImo ep 2 and 7, Katanagatari ep 7), Comp. Yunico Ayana (Denpa Onna), Prod. Studio Gokumi (Saki Achiga-hen, NakaImo)
"What fun will Natsuki have with the Go-Home Club?"
KITAKUBU KATSUDO KIROKU
7/4 (Thu) 26:43 NTV
Dir. Hikaru Sato (AD on bad Aria and Polar Bear Cafe), Comp. Go Zappa (Koihime Musou, NakaImo, I think he used all his clever coming up with that pen name), Prod. Nomad (Kampfer, Bleach: Diamond Dust Rebellion, Bleach: Fade to Black)
This is an anime about girls having fun on the way home from school. Because it's set in Japan, it's going to be cutesy and potentially endearing rather than R-rated and involving animal cruelty.
"What brought these wildly different girls together" 'To learn how to love'!?"
LOVE LAB
7/4 (Thu) 26:05 MBS
7/5 (Fri) 26:25 TBS
Dir. Masahiko Oota (Minamike, Mitsudomoe), Comp. Takashi Aoshima (Minamike, Mitsudomoe, Yryr), Prod. Dogakobo (Koihime Musou, Yuruyuri)
Not the heartwarming story of a pet retriever. Font budget at least $30 less than Danganronpa; the official site is straight-up using Mikachan.
OTOH, that key visual is cute as all hell and not being able to fit it in 21:9 burns me a lot more than Free's.
"Who will be Hell's regent!?"
MAKAI OUJI DEVILS AND REALIST
7/7 (Sun) 25:05 TV Tokyo
Dir. Chiaki Kon (Junjou Romantica ep director), Comp. Michiko Yokote (rapidly closing in on Mari Okada's spray-and-pray reputation), Prod. Dogakobo (Koihime Musou, Yuruyuri, wait what?)
Form of Black Butler's font! Shape of JoJo's episode title backgrounds! Wonder twin powers, activate!
"'Queens' of the savannah!"
The Midnight Animals
August, Hikari Channel
Prod. GONZO
Yes, that is an ostrich in drag.
"The four girls of Milky Holmes grow up with more cases to crack and new underclasswomen at school!"
FUTARI WA MILKY HOLMES or, Toei Lawsuit Incoming
7/13 (Sat) 22:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Hiroshi Nishikiori (Index, Index II, but not Railgun), Comp. Hideki Shirane (Merry, bad Aria, Kill Me Baby), Prod. J.C. Staff/Nomad (oh lol.)
12-minute eps of what is either a cute and harmless vehicle for midtier seiyuu or really creepy, depending on which half of the internet you ask. The new season adds a duo in white and black, barring any lawyer-induced last minute repaints!
"Don't let your youth end until you've seen it all."
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trying that again
-MONOGATARI SERIES SECOND SEASON or, -Story Series Second Season or, My Living Hell (working title)
7/6 (Sat) 24:00 Tokyo MX
Dir. Akiyuki Shinbo, Prod. SHAFT (Again, if I have to tell you...)
Two seasons? Seriously? Seriously, guys?
I guess that might let you work all the way through a single untrimmed Nisioisin paragraph.
Also, that missing half-hour in Tokyo MX's schedule is terrifying me shitless right now.
"A big little brother, and a little big sister."
RECORDER AND RANDSELL ミ☆ or, Really, How The Fuck Do You Pronounce ASCII Art Of A Shooting Star
7/1 (Mon) 22:25 ATX
7/4 (Thu) 25:00 TeleTama
Dir./Writer Itsuki Imazaki (Ai Mai Mi), CD Toshiomi Iizumi (R&R S1), Prod. Seven (R&R S1)
She's legal. He isn't. I have a headache now.
"A rolling sports comedy! The off-kilter girls on the basketball team have got him wrapped around their fingers!"
RO-KYU-BU! SS or, Why Don't You Take a Seat Over There Again
7/5 (Fri) 22:30 AT-X
7/7 (Sun) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Shinsuke Yanagi (extremely prolific journeyman AD with no series credits), Comp. Michiko Ito (coming back for more salty loli balls), Prod. project No. 9 (nothing. but. loliballs.)
I shouldn't even have to comment on this, should I? Please, if you're going to watch this, try not to dribble on my thread. That's just foul.
"Do you agree? Or do you not agree?"
ROZEN MAIDEN
7/4 (Thu) 25:58 TBS
Dir. Shinichi Omata (Sankarea, episode director for Arakawa and Madoka), Comp. Tomomi Mochizuki (Yami to Boushi), Prod. DEEN (Nura, Sankarea)
Is... Is it true? Is it really happening? Goddamn, widefaces and this, TBS Thursdays are the best block ever.
Unless Deen fucks it up. (Deen's SO gonna fuck it up. One good show is pushing it, this AND Gifuu Dodo both surviving is unthinkable.)
"Battling for the sake of the world, these girls find only heartbreak and loss--"
SENKI ZESSHO SYMPHOGEAR G or, Nymphogear G
7/4 (Thu) 26:35 MBS
7/6 (Sat) 22:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Katsumi Ono (Symphogear eps 4, 9), Comp. Akifumi Kaneko (Wild Arms 1, 3, and 4, Symphogear), Prod. Satelight (Macross F, AKB0048, Symphogear)
I translated half of the last season and all I can remember is really blatant yuri and misspelled legendary weapon names. Expect both of those to repeat, unless they decide to give us misspelled yuri and blatant legendary weapons instead.
"A tale of battles, laughs, and heartfelt emotion woven by a useless hero and a sadist warrior!"
SENYU S2 or, Senyuu S2 if you want to be weebier-than-actual-Japan
7/2 (Tue) 25:35 TV Tokyo
Dir. YAMAKAN (the first four episodes of Lucky Star, before ratings came in), Comp. Michiko Yokote (Genshiken, Joshiraku, Senyu S1), Prod. Ordet/Liden Films (BRS OVA)
The fantasy gag comedy returns, now with Yamakan tweeting 100% more emo poetry during when ep 1 would've hit crunch time.
One way or another, it's going to be interesting.
"My first govenment job."
SERVANT×SERVICE
7/4 (Thu) 27:08 ABC
7/6 (Sat) 24:30 Tokyo MX
Dir. Yasutaka Yamamoto (Squid Girl S2, sighs of relief when people hear 'Yasutaka' rather than 'Yutaka'), Writer Kento Shimoyama (Kawaii! JeNny, Binbogami ga!, Maou-sama), Prod. A-1 (Studios? Where Aniplex is going, they don't need studios)
Welp, I got nothin'.
"You know, this may actually be a fun way to grow up."
SILVER SPOON
7/11 (Thu) 24:45 Fuji TV
Dir. Tomohiko Ito (Occult Gakuin, Sword Art Online), Writer Taku Kishimoto (Bunny Drop), Prod. A-1 Pictures
Noitamina finally exists again! It's even gone back to slice-of-life growing-up stories! But by this point, no one cares!
If you want to see the embarassing things FMA's author did with cows as a little girl, this show may be for you. If you -really- want to see that, it probably isn't.
"A tale of youth and survival games!"
STELLA JOGAKUIN KOTOKA C^3BU or, Stella Women's Academy High School Division Class C3
7/4 (Thu) 25:28 TBS
Dir. Masayoshi "No, Not That Kawajiri" Kawajiri (preeeeeeetty much nothing), Prod. Gainax (Medaka Box, Dantalian, did you think I was gonna write something else here?)
I was going to call this the potential sleeper hit of the summer. Then I remembered that Gainax can barely outfight DEEN at this point, and DEEN's sleeper has goddamn Imagawa.
This has... Idk, man. Unfortunate proximity to Rozen Maiden? A visually-appealing logo? Camo-print pantyshots?
"Your smile is all the thanks I could ever want."
TAMAYURA MOAGURESSHIBU or, Tamayura More Aggressive
7/3 (Wed) 21:30 AT-X
7/3 (Wed) 22:30 Tokyo MX
Dir./Comp. Junichi Sato (Aria, Tamayura), CD Haruko Iizuka (Tamayura), Prod. TYO Animations (Tamayura)
I can't even imagine how Tamayura would be aggressive in any way, shape, or form. Help me out here?
"Ika Surume's 'tennis show without actual tennis' returns!"
TEEKYU S2
7/7 (Sun) 22:27 Tokyo MX
Dir./Writer Shin Itagaki (Teekyu, Ben-to), Prod. MAPPA (The Unlimited, Teekyu)
I went looking for S1 impressions to sharpen my snark on, but apparently no one watched S1.
"Kyoto is a city of men, tanuki, and tengu."
UCHOTEN KAZOKU
7/7 (Sun) 22:00
Dir. Masayuki Yoshihara (Eden of the East AD), Comp. Shotaro Suga (Darker than Black, Lagrange), Prod. P.A.Works (Canaan, Angel Beats, Hanasaku Iroha)
To adapt Kumeta art for anime: add bigger nostrils. Why? It's simple: Kumeta characters, in their natural state of dangling on a rope, have no need to breathe, and thus no need for nostrils.
"Mojyo, n. Also: mo-onna. 1. A woman who has never spoken with a man. 2. A woman who has never gone on a date. 3. 'pure' (self-derogatory). Antonym: (has a) life."
WATASHI GA MOTENAI NO WA DOUMITEMO OMAERA GA WARUI! or, No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! or, Watamote to save us all a lot of typing
7/8 (Mon) 26:05 TV Tokyo
Dir. Shin Oonuma (ef, BakaTest), Comp. Takao Yoshioka (Working'!!, Senran Kagura), Prod. SILVER LINK. (BakaTest, inexplicable punctuation)
Most shows like this have endcards sent in by other manga authors. But Watamote... Watamote can have end cards of the most impressive dick pics sent to the author by /a/ when they were unhappy with where the story went.
"The 'God of Conquests' Keima Katsuragi and the demon Elsie."
The World God Only Knows (Goddess Arc) or, The World of Divine Miso Soup or, Someone Send Kotaku A Plot Summary I Wanna Watch The Fireworks
7/8 (Mon) 25:35 TV Tokyo
Dir. Satoshi Ohsedo (the 2012 OVAs, ep 24 of JoJo), Comp. Hideyuki Kurata (the rest of TWGOK, also OreImo), Prod. Manglobe (TWGOK, Hayate after SHAFT fumbled the movie and got it taken away, Samurai Champloo, Sacred Blacksmith, precipitous falls from grace)
Gotta catch 'em all!
"Yuto's always trying hard!"
YUTO-KUN GA IKU or, Go Go Yuto!
6/14 (Fri) 17:55 Disney XD
Staff: Dir./CD Aya Otawa, Writer Hidekazu Mizoi, Prod. Shirogumi (Moyashimon)
Starring an actual soccer player, who, judging from that character design, wins games by blinding the opposing team with forehead beams.
Don't get too excited, Team Iori: it's a 'he'.
(cont.)
is an ordinary (?) girl attending Fuyuki CIty's Homurabara Academy who loves her stepbrother.
