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Anime Spotlight Fall 2012 - The List

by Bamboo Dong,

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Title: Tokyo MX
Studio: 5th Avenue
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
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Summary:

A fantasy re-imagining of the early 90s video game console wars, the series pits the Segua Kingdom against the Ninterudo Empire as they fight over the land of Consume. Segua Kingdom's Last Hope is a kid named Gear.
Title: J.C. Staff
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Summary:

Bringing back the popular series about aspiring teen manga creators, this series will focus on the team's new P manga as it climbs to the top of magazine readers' popularity surveys.
Title: 8-Bit
Genre:Slice-of-life
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Summary:

Adapted from Shinki" armed with weapons and armor, but things change when a fourth Shinki s them.
Title: KIDS STATION
Studio:J.C. Staff
Genre:Comedy
Website: TBA
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Summary:

A 5-minute short series based on Kazutoshi Soyama's "nonsense gag comedy" about a grandfather and his grandchild.
Title: Chiisana Oyajisan
Starts:Monday, Oct 1 at 3:00 AM on Kachidoki Studio
Genre:Comedy
Website: LINK
Summary:

A short series based on Noi Asano's manga about a very tiny old man.
Title: A-1 Pictures
Genre:Action, Science Fiction
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Summary:

Artificial intelligence cars have revolutionized the car industry, but now there are special schools that train children to drive the AI cars. Fifth grader Kakeru Todoroki is presented with a car that will not only save humanity, but will also transform into a robot known as Gyrozetter.
Title: Kyoto Animation
Genre:Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Summary:

Yuta Togashi used to suffer from chū-2 byō, or adolescent delusions of grandeur, but now he's romantically entangled with Rikka Takanashi, who still suffers from it. When a friend from middle school comes along (who also experiences chū-2 byō), things start getting a little hectic.
Title: Kinema Citrus
Genre:Action
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Summary:

Mysterious transfer student Ogami Rei is a Code:Breaker, an assassin with strange abilities who belongs to a secret organization that serves the government.
Title: Actas
Genre:Military
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  • Director: xxxHOLiC)
  • Original Character Design: Sky Girls)
  • Series Composition: Reiko Yoshida (K-ON!)
Summary:

This series centers around high school girls who drive real-life tanks, as they compete in teams.
Title: Ryukyu Asahi Broadcasting
Studio:hone
Genre:Comedy, Drama
Website:
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Summary:

Ordinary middle schooler Nanafa Kyan's life changes when she sees a seal fall off a Chinese banyan tree, only to unleash three spirits who live in the tree. Soon, the peaceful lives of Nanafa and her family start to change.
Manglobe
Genre:Comedy
Website:
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Summary:

This new series will be original to the anime, unlike the previous series which were based from Kenjirō Hata's original manga. Nagi Sanzenin receives a a phone call from Area 51, inviting her to the universe, but she's stopped by maid Maria.
Title: Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb
Starts:Friday, Oct 5 at 1:25AM JST on TBS
Studio:Shaft
Genre:Comedy, Slice-of-life
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Summary:

This series follows the lives of an art student named Yuno and her friends who all live together in the Hidamari Apartment Complex.
Title: Studio DEEN
Genre:Adventure, Romance, Supernatural
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Summary:

Hiiro no Kakera Dai-ni-Shō will continue the anime TV series based on Idea Factory's romance game for female players.
Title: Brains Base
Genre:Action, Fantasy
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  • Director: Shinji Takamatsu (Gintama)
  • Cast: Yuruyuri's Akari Akaza)
Summary:

Based on CAPCOM's online fantasy action PC game, the series follows Kon Hokaze, a boy who travels to an alternate world called Mira. There, he saves Princess Ecarlate from attackers, but soon finds himself in the middle of a struggle surrounding a mysterious energy known as Alma.
Title: david production
Genre:Action, Adventure
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Summary:

This TV anime is the latest adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's original manga. Previously, parts of the manga have been adapted into OVAs and a film.
Title: Jormungand Perfect Order
Starts:Wednesday, Oct 10 at 12:30AM JST on Tokyo MX/UHF
Studio:White Fox
Genre:Action
Website:
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Summary:

This is the second season of Koko Hekmatyar, an arms dealer who works with a team of colorful and skilled ex-military professionals, including Jonah, a somber child soldier who is determined to track down the arms dealers responsible for the death of his parents.
Title: Toei Animation
Genre:Action, Comedy, Magic
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Summary:

Three kids find themselves stuck in a strange city, and the only way they can get home is by finding a strange rabbit. However, one of them seems to have a connection with this mysterious place.
Title: Notable Cast/Staff:
Summary:

Little Busters! is an adaptation of Key's romance adventure visual novel of the same name. Riki Naoe was orphaned when his parents died, but his depression is slowly lifted when he befriends a group of kids calling themselves the Little Busters!. The series takes place during his second year of high school.
Title: GAINAX
Genre:Action, Comedy
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Summary:

Medaka started off with a program to try to help her fellow students, but now she's been exposed as being not-quite-human. And she's up against a powerful conspiracy to take her down.
Title: Production I.G
Genre:Action
Website:
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  • Series Composition and Story Concept: Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
  • Original Character Designs: Akira Amano (Reborn!)
Summary:

The story focuses on enforcement officer Shinya Kogami who's job is to manage crime in a future world where a person's state of mind and personality can be instantly recorded; this information is measured by a standard called Psycho-.
Title: Notable Cast/Staff:
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Adapting the Robotics;Notes visual novel, the series is set in a future world where it follows a robotics club in danger of being disbanded.
Title: MAPPA
Genre:Adventure, Science fiction
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Slice-of-life story about a group of four girls on the school tennis team. They rarely play tennis.
Title: Xebec
Genre:Comedy, Romance
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Summary:

Adapting Saki Hasemi and Kentarō Yabuki's manga spinoff, the story takes place in a full Yuki residence, with one of the girls actively trying to create a harem for Rito Yuki.
Title: Notable Cast/Staff:
  • Cast: Miyu Irino (Tsunasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE's Syaoran)
Summary:

The continuing far-future adventures of Yuma Tsukumo's duals as began in the first series.

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