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AnimeLab Adds Twelve New Series

posted on by Jon Hayward
Lord Marksman and Vanadis;

On Monday the second season of AnimeLab. Sword Art Online II currently has the first 16 episodes available online and more will be added every Sunday, Soul Eater Not! has all 12 episodes available right now.

In addition, today ten more series were added to AnimeLab, Lord Marksman and Vanadis. Nine other series have also been added in their entirety. The full list of new series this week is as follows;

Simulcast

  • Lord Marksman and Vanadis. [Watch here]
  • Sword Art Online II [Watch here]

Complete Series

This follows on from the earlier announcement of added to AnimeLab.

If you wish to know more about each of the above titles please read on. A full listing of AnimeLab's current streaming schedule is at the bottom of the article.


© 2014 Tsukasa Kawaguchi,
PUBLISHED BY KADOKAWA CORPORATION MEDIAFACTORY/
Lord Marksman and Vanadis PARTNERS

Lord Marksman and Vanadis

The Vanadis of Zhcted are seven legendary warriors who carry weapons born of the Black Dragon. Each of the Vanadis rule over a terrority and knowledge of their existence instills fear in neighbouring countries. When the Vanadis invade the country of Brune, young Earl Tigre encounters a Vanadis in battle, the silver-haired, red-eyed "silver fraulein" Ellen. Tigre is no match for the power of the Vanadis but his skills catch Ellen's eye and in return for sparing his life Ellen demands Tigre to serve her.

Lord Marksman and Vanadis (Madan no Ō to Vanadis) is based on a Japanese light-novel series by Tsukasa Kawaguchi with art by Monthly Comic Flapper.

Hitomi Harada is performing the ending theme, "Schwarzer Bogen" (Black Bow).

streaming the series in North America.

ANN has a series spotlight you can check out for the series here.


© SAO Project

Sword Art Online II

It's been a year since the SAO incident and a mysterious avatar identifying himself as 'Death Gun' has appeared in the VRMMO game Gun Gale Online (GGO). Death Gun claims to have a weapon that kills whomever he shoots in the game, and when his victims start turning up dead the Ministry of Internal Affairs gets involved. Who better to investigate a case of virtual objects impacting reality than Kirito? Now he must retrain himself with a new avatar and gain the friendship of the ice-cold sniper known as Shinon to track down Death Gun and put his murder spree to rest.

Sword Art Online II adapts the third arc, Phantom Bullet, from Reki Kawahara's original light novel series. The arc from the fifth and sixth novel volumes features the heroine Sinon and the protagonist Kirito and is covered in the first 14 episodes. The series then adapts the Calibur arc from volume 8 and will proceed onto the Mother's Rosary arc from volume 7.

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ANN's Nick Creamer has reviewed the first 18 episodes, you can check them out here.


©Tomoya Haruno/
PUBLISHED BY KADOKAWA CORPORATION MEDIAFACTORY/
D-Fragments Project

D-Fragments!

D-Fragments! (Also known as D-Frag!) centers around notorious delinquent Kenji Kazama (played by Ami Koshimizu). Kazama is half-forced to the club and the onetime gang member finds himself in an even stranger gathering of students as his life takes a turn for the outrageous.

Based on D-Fragments, Tomoya Haruno launched the comedic manga in Media Factory's Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in North America.

TV Tokyo.

Funimation here.


© 2013 COMPILE HEART/Neptunia Partners

Hyperdimension Neptunia The Animation

In the world of Gamindustri, four competing U goddesses rule the lands of Lastation, Leanbox, Lowee and Planeptune. When dark forces threaten their power, they'll have to learn to work together if they want to defeat evil. Based on the hit RPG series, it's the video game console wars as you've never seen them before: fought by gorgeous girls!

The anime adapts Compile Heart's popular Chō Jigen Game Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia) role-playing games that anthropomorphizes the game console wars as female role-playing game characters. Tsunako's designs for anime. Nao performed the opening theme song "Dimension tripper!!!!." The anime premiered on Japanese TV in July 2013 and ran for 12 episodes.

Hyperdimension Neptunia, Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 and Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory have all been released on PS3 in Australia and Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory II will be released on PS4 in Japan next year. The series also went onto launch spin-offs and remakes on the PlayStation Vita.


© JIN/1st PLACE,
Mekakushidan Anime Production Team

Mekakucity Actors

A strange incident brings a curious group of young boys and girls together, collectively known as the Mekakushi Dan (Blindfold Organisation) each member of the group has a strange power involving their eyes. Now together this peculiar organisation must pool their talents and solve the mystery behind the incident to see the truth.

Mekakucity Actors is a interesting adaptation, it started life originally as Kagerou Project, a series of songs by Jin (Shizen no Teki-P) created using Vocaloid software. The set was popularised after the third song, ComicWalker website and app.

This anime adaptation was directed by Genichirō Abe is adapted for the anime. Shidu handled the storyboards for the opening theme and created the ending theme animation as well.

The mixed media project also includes the manga series Kagerō Daze with art by Mahiro Satō.

The series premiered in April 2014 on simulcast the series as it aired in Japan.


© KODANSHA, Aniplex

Mushishi: The Next Chapter

The creatures known as 'Mushi' are the life-blood of nature, while their abilities are supernatural their appearance resembles the world around us, water, fungi, bodies of water, plants or even spirits. While their existence is largely unknown to humanity, there are a few like Ginko who are 'Mushi-shi', people that spend their lives encountering, studying and helping humanity and mushi co-exist.

The second anime series adaptation of Yuki Urushibara's Naruto).

The first half of the series originally premiered in Japan in April 2014 with Crunchyroll streaming the series as it aired in Japan. The second half Mushishi: The Next Chapter started airing on the 18th of October 2014.

first company to license the series for home video outside of Japan.


© 2014 Kazuma Ootorino, ENTERBRAIN/Nanana Project

Nanana's Buried Treasure

On the island of Nanae lives a beautiful young NEET girl by the name of Nanana Ryugaj, well it's a bit hard to leave your room when you were assassinated on that very spot ten years ago. However high schooler Jyugo Yama has transferred to the island, taken up residence in Nanana's room and has just found out that he must help his ghostly roommate solve the mystery of her murder so she can rest in peace. Fortunately in her life Nanana was a legendary treasure hunter and the artifacts that she hid all over Nanae will help Jyugo discover the identity of her murderer, but they're not the only people searching for Nanana's Buried Treasure.

Based on the light novel series written by Aikatsu!) handled the music.

Ōtorino and Akaringo launched the novel series in January 2012 and the seventh volume shipped in March 2014. The novel won the top prize in the 13th Enterbrain Entertainment Awards in September 2011. In addition to the novel, Hitoshi Okuda launched a manga version in Kadokawa's Famitsu magazine in January 2012 and Enterbrain published the second compiled volume in March. The first volume of a spinoff novel series, Tensai's Reluctant Deduction, shipped in August.

Additionally, Modomu Akagawara on December 20.

Sadly series illustrator Akaringo was not able to supply all the illustrations for the seventh volume due to poor health and has now stepped down with replacing Akaringo as artist on both Nanana and it's spin-off Ikkyū Tensai no Kimete Fuhon'i Meisuiri (The Many Reluctant Inferences That Tensai Ikkyū Makes).

Crunchyroll streamed the series alongside the Japanese broadcast.


© MBS

Nisekoi - False Love

Raku Ichijo is an average high school student, well apart from being the sole heir to a Yakuza family known as the Shuei-gumi. Ten years ago Raku symbolised his love for a particular girl by giving her a key to a special locket that he keeps with him. But when the attractive yet violent Chitoge Kirisaku transfers to his school, Raku suddenly discovers that Chitoge is the heir to a rival family and and the only way to prevent a war between the two gangs is to pretend to be engaged to Chitoge.

Nisekoi adapts Naoshi Komi's Nisekoi romantic comedy manga that has been serialised in ClariS performed the opening theme song "CLICK."

Nisekoi premiered in Japan in January 2014 and the series is now confirmed to be getting a second season.

and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan.

Persona 4 the Golden Animation

When Yū Narukami moves to Yaso Inaba to live with his uncle and cousin his event-filled school life begins. When serial murders begin occuring in the peaceful country town, Yū and his new friends discover that the murders are linked with the mysterious Midnight Channel, a world hidden inside the television and inhabited by strange creatures known as shadows. As the group investigates they find new allies and gain the power of their own Personas which allows them to fight against the shadows.

In Persona 4 the Golden Animation the series retells the story of the Persona 4 game with the addition of the vita port's special character, Marie, a girl involved with the velvet room who is seeking to regain her lost memory.

Before directing this anime adaptation, Magikano) served as chief director of the series.

Yuu Shindou worked as a key animator on episodes of the first series.

Persona 4 the Golden Animation Hulu, Crunchyroll and Daisuki as it aired.

Man Entertainment Man Screening Room before releasing the series to DVD and Blu-ray in 2013.


© hunting cap brothers/Aniplex,Project ZP

World Conquest Zvezda Plot

What does it take to CONQUER THE WORLD?! Every leader of the past has thought of it but all they have done was to merely dream of its greatness. World domination…nobody has been able to achieve it. Until one little girl by the name of Kate Hoshimiya came along. Kate Hoshimiya will shock the world! How was she was able to carry out such a MAGNIFICENT stunt? So FRIGHTFUL! So GLORIOUS! Could this bethe ZVEZDA PLOT?! Let the light of our great ZVEZDA shine upon this land far and wide!

Aoi Yūki performed the ending theme.

The series premiered on Tokyo MX TV and other stations on the 11th of January 2014 and ran for 12 episodes with an additional 13th episode 4-koma take on the series was published in Palette magazine.

Aniplex USA and Daisuki.

You can view character designs and information on World Conquest Zvezda Plot here.


©2013 Reiji Kaitō・MEDIA FACTORY/
Unbreakable Machine-Doll PARTNERS.

Unbreakable Machine-Doll

It is the early 20th century, and Raishin Akabane is a student puppeteer from Japan who has come to the Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machine Arts in Liverpool, England to study the emerging field of Machinart: a combination of magic and technology with military applications. He is accompanied by a girl named Yaya who is actually his Automaton: a living machine doll powered by magical circuits specialized in hand-to-hand combat. This will come in handy as at the Academy the top students compete in a combat tournament to determine who shall be bestowed with the title of "Wiseman", the greatest puppeteer.

Unbreakable Machine-Doll is adapated from the light novel of the same name written by Reiji Kaitō and illustrated by Hakaru Takagi launched a manga adaptation in Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive magazine in 2010 that has since been collected into 8 volumes.

GENCO produced the anime.

The series was streamed by Funimation as it aired in Japan from October 2013.


© SQUARE ENIX, SOULEATER NOT Project

Soul Eater Not!

A manga-spinoff set before the adventures of Maka Albarn and Soul Eater chronicled in Atsushi Ōkubo's Soul Eater. Soul Eater Not! follows the adventures of three young girls attending the Death Meister & Weapon Academy (DWMA). Tsugumi Harudori, Meme Tatane and Anya Hepburn are three students who are of the NOT (Normally Overcome Target) class, for students that just wish to control their powers and live normal everyday lives. But when Tsugumi, a halbard weapon, befriends two meisters, Meme and Anya, she becomes indecisive about who she should partner with at the academy.

This prequel was created and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo and published in Square-Enix's this month.

The anime adaptation was again a partnership between studio Asami Tachibana and Yuuki Tachibana scored the anime's music.

Funimation streamed the series as it aired in Japan in April 2014.

Current AnimeLab Streaming Schedule

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