Saturday, June 9, 2012

Summer Anime 2012-(Look like a repeat of last Winter)

Hey, we are reaching Summer in one month's time! So what shows are we expecting in this hot summer season? Let's dig in and find out!


Kingdom: Based on the Famous Qin Shihuang who is the first Emperor of China. It tells the story of two war-torn orphans, Shin and Hyou during a chaotic China at war. Hyou was taken away by a minister while Shin met another orphan named Ei Shi who is destined to become King of Qin Kingdom and later the first Emperor of China.


Muv Luv Alternative-Total Eclipse: A spin off from the popular adult game-Muv Luv Alternative. Another base named Total Eclipse is set in the same world as it's main story chronicles an entire team of pilots and engineers working together to battle an alien invasion.


Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate: Adapted from the Adult game of the same name, Yuki want to fall in love and his childhood friend, Chisato hate chocolate. They hang around in the Food Club but they don't do anything club-related. When the student council plan to shut the club down, Yuki is forced to run for president in the student council in order to get the abolishment overruled.


Kono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru: Shougo transferred to a new academy where the majority of the students are female. His long lost sister attended the same school and she is trying to get close to him without letting out they are siblings. However Shougo is popular with the girls and it complicates things.


Natsuyuki Rendezvous: Hazuki who has poor eyesight worked in a florist shop and has a crush on the female owner. However he discovered that a spirit of a man is residing at the owner's apartment who happened to be her former lover...


Campione: Kusanagi Godou killed a god, Verethranga and was given the title of "God Killer" His partner, Erica Brandell is an Italian girl who belong to a magic society-Bronze Black Cross. But Godou dislike fighting and many fellow Campiones and gods are seeking to challenge him or kill him.


Hagane Yuusha no Estetica: Akatsuki defeat Satan in the fantasy world of Alleyzard and returned to the real world. However he really did killed Satan and brought his daughter, Miu to his school, Babel which protect and control people from other dimensions. This escalates further as he has to protect Miu and himself from other students known as Returners who has psychic powers.


Rinne no Lagrange Season 2: The second season of Madoka who love to help people and pilot a mecha given by a female alien girl.


Sword Art Online: Kazuto enter a virtual MMORPG called Sword Arts Online. But there is no escape in this world and there are only two ways to get out-One is to finish the game, the second is getting a game over but you will die in the real world!


Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon Season 2: The continuation of one of the thickest light novels in Japan and the large amount of characters rivalling the Twelve Kingdoms story. The first season left me puzzled with too many back stories untold and few character development, hopefully this season will resolved everything.


Dog Days Season 2: Shinku and his childhood friend Becky returned to Biscotti and meet old friends and rivals. But this time Leonmitchelle of Galette summoned her own champion who happened to be Shinku's cousin and rival-Nanami!


Ebiten: Kouritsu Ebisugawa Koukou Tenmou Bu: A high school boy who want to join the school astormony club accidentally join the Fujoshi Club (Yaoi Club) by mistake!


Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita: A large decline of the human population lasted for many centuries. A girl who returned to her grandfather's town became the ambassador to a race of highly intelligent fairies now co-existing with humans.


La Storia Della Arcana Famiglia: Arcana Famiglia is a mysterious organisation who protect an island against pirates and other threats. The only daughter of the head. Felicita is to be married to the next successor of the organisation in two months which she decided to go against by joining the competition for her hand in marriage.


Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai: Kaga Ryosuke is a sexually charged person and met a girl named Lisarah Restor who happened to be Death. She is looking for the "Singular Man" in the human world and need Ryosuke's ecchi spirit as a source of energy for Lisarah on Earth.


Joshiraku: From the author of Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei come a story of a group of female rakugo performers who discuss random subjects which usually resulted in telling a different subject at the end.
Oda Nobuna no Yabou: Another time traveling story from the Sengoku Era. This time is about Sagara Yoshiharu who landed in the Sengoku Era and meeting Nobuna, the female version of Nobunaga. She ordered Sagara to take over her deceased follower, Kinoshita Tokichiro in this world.


Tari Tari: The story of four different girls who lead separate lives in school brought together by the power of music in their last summer of high school.

Binbou Gami Ga: Sakura is a girl who has everything-Beauty, Brains and Health as she is filled with "Happiness energy"  but unknowingly at the cost of another people's happiness. This caused an unbalance to the happiness energy in the world and the Binboi Gami (Poverty God) Momji has come to return the energy back to it's original places.


Kokoro Connect: A strange phenomena caused the five members of the culture club to switch bodies with each other and with hilarious results.


Yuri Yuri: The second season about a group of girls who has yuri affections to each others.


Arve Puzzle: In the future, humans are able to transfer their mind to the cyber world leaving their bodies in the real world. But an accident caused the system to overload and their minds are trapped in the cyber world. Remu's sister is trapped too and he is determined to rescue her...

This season is slightly smaller with four shows that are sequels, two shows that are adapted from adult games and quite a number of shows that has got to do with alternative dimensions.

So what is my pick for this season? Dog Days season 2 is a confirm yes after first season's touching finale that I did. Mu Luv Alternative is a show that many fans of the game are anticipating however given this series' track records, they have a habit of having very dark and brutal moments.

Campione, Hagane Yuusha no Estetica and Sword Art Online sounds interesting with its' basic story plot. Hopefully it can deliver the goods when it comes. Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai has a similar plot to High School DxD with a guy who is a pervert meeting a red hair demon (again!). Expect fan service to be hitting the roof like High School DxD!

The rest of the shows will be the "watch three episodes and decide" rules. Until then, see you in July for the new shows!

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