The fall 2016 anime series Keijo!!!!!!! has its home video release plans being handled by Warner Bros. Japan and they’ve set a fairly standard plan for it. Ahead of its broadcast this coming week, they’ve now launched a marketing blitz that covers the show itself with two TV spots, a spot for the upcoming CD release, and one for the recently announced home video releases. The twelve episode series is getting a six-volume release that begins on November 23rd, 2016. With both formats being listed as limited editions, both the DVD and Blu-ray releases are priced at 8,208 yen each.

Animated by Xebec, the series was directed by Hideya Takahashi based on the series composition from Takao Kato. Keiya Nakano handled the character designs for it.

The Japanese cast includes Lynn as Nozomi Kaminashi, M.A.O as Sayaka Miyata, Kaede Hondo as Kazane Aoba, Saori Oonishi as Non Toyoguchi, Rena Maeda as Hanabi Kawai, Hibiku Yamamura as Mio Kusakai and Rie Takahashi as Rin Rokudō.

The work comes from creator Daichi Sorayomi which began back in 2013 and has eleven volumes out as of this past spring. The work is Sorayomi’s second after the three volume series Momi-Baraishi ran in Club Sunday for three volumes between 2011 and 2012.

The opening theme song is “DREAMxSCRAMBLE!” by AiRI while the ending theme song is performed by the four lead actresses with “Fantas/HIP Girlfriends!”

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Plot concept: Kaminashi Nozomi (17) is an exceptional gymnast. So much so that colleges with some of the best gymnastic programs are trying to recruit her. Unfortunately for them, she has other plans. Due to her family being extremely poor, money is everything to her. That’s why she wants to step into the world of “Keijo.” “Keijo” is a type of gambling sport where girls stand on a small floating platform and compete against one another. The aim is to push the other contestant off of the platform into the water, but they are only allowed to use their butt or breasts to push the others off. Will Nozomi be able to compete in the intense world of “Keijo” and bring wealth and fortune for her family?

[Source: Keijo!!!!!!!!]

Sexy goodness is getting a boost at AnimeLab in the near future for Australian anime fans as the service has picked up the streaming rights to To Love Ru Darkness, the third season of the property. The twelve episode run will be showing up in the near future in its original Japanese language form with English subtitles as no dub was produced for it.

Check out our review of the North American Blu-ray release from Sentai Filmworks here.

The show has Atsushi Ootsuki directing it at Xebec with Yuichi Oka on character designs. The cast includes Aki Toyosaki as Momo Belia Deviluke, Misato Fukuen as Golden Darkness, Yuka Iguchi as Mea Kurosaki, Akeno Watanabe as Rito Yūki, Haruka Tomatsu as Lala Satalin Deviluke, Sayuri Yahagi as Haruna Sairenji, Kanae Itō as Nana Astar Deviluke, Kana Hanazawa as Mikan Yūki, Kaori Nazuka as Yui Kotegawa, Ryoka Yuzuki as Risa Momioka & Celine, Satomi Arai as Peke, Mamiko Noto as Oshizu and Rina Hidaka as Mea’s Master.

Property concept: As close encounters of the twisted kind between the residents of the planet Deviluke (represented primarily by the female members of the royal family) and the inhabitants of Earth (represented mainly by one very exhausted Rito Yuuki) continue to escalate, the situation spirals even further out of control.

When junior princesses Nana and Momo transferred into Earth School where big sister Lala can (theoretically) keep an eye on them, things SHOULD be smooth sailing. But when Momo decides she’d like to “supplement” Rito’s relationship with Lala with a little “sisterly love,” you know Lala’s not going to waste any time splitting harems.

Unfortunately, it’s just about that point that Yami, the Golden Darkness, enters the scene with all the subtleness of a supernova, along with an army of possessed high school students! All of which is certain to make Rito’s life suck more than a black hole at the family picnic. Unless, of course, a certain semi-demonic princess can apply a little of her Devilukean Whoop Ass to exactly that portion of certain other heavenly bodies!

With a popular card game in WIXOSS, a two-cour anime TV series and a theatrical movie, Warner Bros. Japan revealed back in early August that a new TV series is coming this fall with Lostorage incited WIXOSS. As we’re close to the fall season, we learned recently that it’s set for an October 7th, 2016 debut for the series on Tokyo MX before moving out to other networks on October 9th, 2016. Warner Bros. Japan is now getting more of the marketing ready as they’ve released a pretty slick new teaser.

The staff for this season changes up in a big way as Katsushi Sakurabi is set to direct it with Michihiro Tsuchiya handling the scripts. Takamitsu Satou is handling the character designs and it’s set to be animated at JC Staff.

The Japanese cast includes Chinami Hashimoto as Suzuko Homura, Yuka Iguchi as Chinatsu Morikawa, Shizuka Itou as Lil, Hisako Kanemoto as Mel, Shiori Izawa as Nanashi, Yurika Kubo as Honna Mikage, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Shō Narumi, Shinsuke Sugawara as Shōhei Shirai, Yuri Yamaoka as Aaya, Aya Suzaki as Dōna, Saori Goto as Guzuko, Junji Majima as Sō Sumida, Natsumi Hioka as Rio Oshiba, Asuka Nishi as Kagari Yukino, Hitomi Nabatame as Yukime and Yūichi Nakamura as Satomikō.

Original series premise: In the popular game WIXOSS, there are special cards called LRIGs that few players know about – cards that possess personalities and wills of their own. Ruko is a teenage girl who just found one of these rare cards. Now, she can use her LRIG to battle in a strange, dark plane of existence. If she wins, her wishes will be granted – but what happens if she loses?

Warner Bros. Japan is handling the home video distribution for Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable in Japan and previously released the full details. With the fifth volume coming up in a couple of weeks, they’ve now brought out two new TV spots to remind folks to get their preorders in. They also get in some nods toward upcoming events next year for fans that reside in Japan – or those that will make quite the trek for it! The thirty-nine episode series is getting a thirteen volume release, three episodes per disc, that begins on June 22nd, 2016.

The Blu-ray’s are priced at 7,800 yen while the DVDs are priced at 6,800 yen each. Those who purchase all thirteen volumes will receive the Kishibe Rohan wa Ugonkanai OVA, presumably through a redemption program within the packaging. The extras listed below have a few blank sections as they list things that don’t translate well, such as “third cool original collection.” Previous seasons have had some unique items and this season looks to do the same.

The show is directed by Naokatsu Tsuda, returning from Stardust Crusaders, with Toshiyuki Kato serving as the series director and Yuuta Takamura as the chief episode director. They’ll be working off of series composition by Yasuko Kobayashi and character designs by Terumi Nishii. David Production will be handling the animation duties for the series.

The cast includes Yuuki Ono as Jousuke Higashikata, Yuuki Kaji as Kouichi Hirose, Wataru Takagi as Okuyasu Nijimura, Takahiro Sakurai as Rohan Kishibe and Daisuke Ono as Joutarou Kuujou.

The original manga for this arc comes from Hirohiko Araki and was serialized originally back in 1992 through 1995, running for eighteen volumes across 174 chapters in Shonen Jump Weekly.

Plot concept: The coastal town of Morioh is plagued by the “Bow and Arrow,” an ancient artifact which manifests latent stand abilities in criminals and ordinary folk alike. At the same time as they are dealing with the huge influx of stand users—both good and bad—in Morioh, high schooler Jousuke Higashikata and his friends are searching for the culprit of a series of homicides.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable Japanese Volume 5 Cover

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable Japanese Volume 4 Cover

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable Japanese Volume 3 Cover

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable Japanese Volume 2 Cover

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Diamond is Unbreakable Japanese Volume 1 Cover

[Source: Diamond is Unbreakable]

The upcoming anime adaptation of the webmanga series Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki from Reiichi Kageyama now has its home video release scheduled from Outvision. With this being a short form show it’s going to be getting a single DVD and Blu-ray release that arrives on January 27th, 2016. The DVD is priced at 3,024 yen while the Blu-ray is at 4,104 yen. No extras or packaging bonuses have been revealed yet.

The series is being directed by Hisayoshi Hirasawa based on the scenario from WORDS in STEREO. Noriyuki Imaoka is on board as the character designer. The cast includes Hiromi Igarashi as Kiitarō, Arisa Nakada as Suzu, Eri Kitamura as Kitsune-men no Onna, Maria Naganawa as Yuki Musume and Sayaka Ohara as Yuki Haha.

The group has worked solely with short-form series which gives us an idea of what this series is like. Creators in Pack have been involved with recent shows Danchigai and Ojisan and Marshmallow as well as the currently broadcasting Ozmafia series.

The manga began in 2008 online and began a print run through Micro Magaznie Comics back in 2011 with seven volumes released to date with more still being produced.

Plot concept: This is the visual diary of Kiitarou’s experience with youkai. He’s a boy with a very strong spirit sense, but when he entered a forbidden storehouse, he was kicked out of his home. He soon found a new place to live, where he met a zashiki warashi (house spirit) named Suzu. He and Suzu soon began to attract all kinds of spirit creatures, starting with a nurikabe (appears as a wall that impedes travelers) and mokumokuren (appears as eyes in a torn paper wall). What kind of folkloric creature will he meet next?

[Source: Kiitarou Shounen no Youkai Enikki]

Funimation brought out their release of High School DxD BorN, the third season of the property, last month and they’re now bringing out a new clip for it. This one has the gang coming together for something more action oriented as the stage is set with Loki making his debut and getting Ragnarok underway! The show landed on September 6th, 2016 in both regular and limited edition form priced at $64.98 and $84.98 respectively.

Special Features for it includes the 6 OVAs, Promotional Video 1, Promotional Video 2, Blu-ray/DVD Promos, Textless Songs, U.S. Trailer, Trailers

The series was directed by Tatsuya Yanagisawa, who directed the previous season, based on the series composition by Takao Yoshioka and character designs by Junji Goto.

The first two seasons came relatively quickly with the first debuting in 2012 and the second hitting in 2013. FUNimation has released both of those on DVD/BD in North America.

The English cast includes Josh Grelle as Issei, Jamie Marchi as Rias, Kelly Angel as Akeno, Sean O’Connor as Kiba, Jād Saxton as Koneko, Chloe Daniels as Asia, Felecia Angelle as Yuma Amano (one time flashback), Tyson Rinehart as Matsuda and Ruben Tadeo Garcia as Motohama.

The light novel series began in 2008 and has twenty-two volumes to its name so far. A manga adaptation kicked off in 2010 with the main run of it having nine volumes, but there are a few spinoffs as well. Yen Press has picked up the main manga as well as the first spinoff from 2012. A 3DS visual novel game was released at the end of 2013 in Japan as well.

Plot concept: Issei and his harem of hotties are back to take on their biggest, boldest, bounciest adventure yet as they fight to prevent Ragnarok (aka the end of the underworld)! With summer vacation just around the corner, Issei’s got one thing on his mind spending sunny days with bikini-clad babes. Unfortunately, the Chaos Brigade is planning something big, and with heavy-hitters like the Norse God Loki in their corner, the House of Gremory is going to have to survive Rias’ underworld boot camp if they hope to stand a chance. While they prepare, dark forces gather strength behind the scenes, Koneko’s family reunion turns into a real catfight, and Asia must survive an indecent proposal from a high-ranking demon. With plenty of balls-to-the-wall battles and bare-it-all beauties, fans of High School DxD should start making room on the shelf their perfect pair is about to become a menage a trois.

Saturday is here and while we expect the calendar to change some there’s that state of flux. A number of shows are kicking off on October 1st but they won’t be listed in the calendar for the first week until the system that Crunchyroll uses gets things in order. So what we know for sure will arrive today includes:

• 3:30pm - DAYS - Episode 13
• 8:30pm - FOLKTALES FROM JAPAN - Episode 234
• 10:00pm - ONE PIECE: DRESSROSA CONT. (700-CURRENT) - Episode 758

The free side unlocks last week’s shows, which is made up of a lot of season finales.

• 7:00am - ACE ATTORNEY - Episode 24
• 7:00am - RIN-NE SEASON 2 - Episode 50
• 9:30am - HITORINOSHITA – THE OUTCAST - Episode 12
• 10:00am - FOOD WARS! THE SECOND PLATE - Episode 13
• 12:00pm - REWRITE - Episode 13
• 12:30pm - QUALIDEA CODE - Episode 12
• 1:00pm - B-PROJECT - Episode 12
• 2:00pm - ANGE VIERGE - Episode 12
• 3:00pm - CASE CLOSED - Episode 833
• 7:00pm - HEYBOT! - Episode 2
• 10:00pm - CARDFIGHT!! VANGUARD G STRIDE GATE - Episode 50
• 10:00pm - ONE PIECE: DRESSROSA CONT. (700-CURRENT) - Episode 758

Funimation’s subscriber side is all about the Broadcast Dubs.

	Endride - Season 1	21	Dub	TV-14	10/01/16
	First Love Monster - Season 1	12	Dub	TV-14	10/01/16
	Love Live! Sunshine!! - Season 1	10	Dub	TV-14	10/01/16

While their free side brings out a season finale.

Love Live! Sunshine!! - Season 1

13

Sub

TV-14

10/01/16

The Anime Network doesn’t have anything on their schedule for today other than delayed Rin-ne in Spanish and Portuguese.

HOUSTON, September 30, 2016 – Magical girl meets shrine maiden in the latest addition to Anime Network Online’s (ANO) Fall 2016 simulcast season: Matoi the Sacred Slayer.

I have wielded a god.

The year 2016 — In Tenman Shrine in Kamagaya City, Matoi Sumeragi was a 2nd year middle school student working a part-time job as a shrine maiden. Separated at a very young age with her mother, she has been entrusted for a long time with her paternal grandparents, and three months ago she finally started living together with her father Shingo. Because of such conditions, Matoi had been looking up to an ordinary, calm lifestyle.

Matoi’s close friend and coworker Yuma Kusanagi was the candidate for the next shrine maiden, being born into the family of the Tenman Shrine’s shrinemaster. She finds out that the family has conducted “exorcism” to rid evil spirits for generations, and attempts the “ritual of divine possession”, a ritual connected to “exorcism”, together with Matoi.

After school, the two of them head to the shrine as usual, but there they find a devastated shrine and Yuma’s parents wounded and collapsed. Furthermore, there was a man there with somewhat of an aura of insanity, who was a suspect for a mysterious case that Shingo, who is a detective, was trying to crack. Yuma suddenly conducts a “ritual of divine possession” in order to hold the thrashing man back, but it wasn’t Yuma that changes happened to…

What was given a girl who was seeking an ordinary, normal life was the power to wield a god and rid evil spirits!? Matoi Sumeragi will earnestly work at exorcist activities in order to regain those calm days where nothing gets in her way!

Matoi the Sacred Slayer begins airing on Tuesday, October 4, 2016. ANO subscribers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Central America and South America will be able to simulcast new episodes every Tuesday at 10:30 AM EDT.

Australian streaming service AnimeLab has added another anime classic series to their coming soon slate with the pickup of streaming rights for Azumanga Daioh. They don’t have a start date for it yet and have not revealed if it’ll be a bilingual release, but it’ll definitely be good to have another home for fans to check out this show with, and more back catalog shows available is always a good thing.

Check out our review of the series here.

The show originally aired in Japan back in 2002 and was directed by Hiroshi Nishikiori (Trinity Seven, I’m Gonna be an Angel!, GAD GUARD), with Ichiro Okouchi (Negima!, CODE GEASS: Lelouch of Rebellion ) in charge of series composition. Production was handled by J.C.Staff (Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile, Detective Opera Milky Holmes).

Plot concept: or the members of Miss Yukari’s English Class, a typical day may be just a little unusual. Part of that’s due to Miss Yukari herself, whose teaching style (and personal ethics) tend to be odd, improvisational and spontaneous, but her students are just as unconventional: There’s 10-year-old Chiyo, still at the top of her class after skipping five grades, and her opposite Ayumu “Osaka” Kasuga, whose poor grades are surpassed only by her horrific skill at sports. Then there’s Tomo, a competitive slacker who puts excessive energy into doing very little, and Koyomi, whose surprising maturity is compromised by a malevolent sense of humor. Tall, statuesque Sakaki’s athletic exterior hides both unexpected shyness and a most unfortunate obsession with cats, while tiny Kaori’s heart is mainly obsessed with Sakaki. They may all seem like perfectly normal girls on the outside, but even their most mundane activities magically become the most extraordinary adventures as they learn all about life, the universe and affairs of the heart in AZUMANGA DAIOH!

HOUSTON, September 30, 2016 – “Mujik” makes the people come together for the Fall 2016 anime season as Anime Network Online (ANO) proudly presents the slapstick comedy, ClassicaLoid!

Kanae’s got a two oddball houseguests in her beloved grandmother’s mansion: Moz and Beetho-san. However, these guys, with their crazy antics and supernatural musical powers, claim to be Classicaloid versions of maestros Mozart and Beethoven! Their powerful “mujik” arrangements evoke more than just emotions: they can make the stars fall, spirits dance, or even summon… giant robots? Friend or foe, Kanae is stuck with them, even as more classicaloids begin to invade her life. Will their presence usher in a new musical renaissance in her sleepy town, or will their explosive euphonics cut the standing ovation short?

ClassicaLoid begins airing on Saturday, October 8, 2016. ANO subscribers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Central America and South America will be able to simulcast new episodes every Saturday at 7:00 AM EDT.

The upcoming Drifters anime project is already picked up by Funimation and we’re expecting that to get a Broadcast Dub along the way. With the premiere date of October 7th, 2016 set, Crunchyroll has now announced that they’ll be simulcasting the show, presumably in conjunction with Funimation and their recent partnership. No details about the streaming plans are available yet but they did drop a fun five minute promo about it today.

Kenichi Suzuki is directing it based on the script and composition by Hideyuki Kurata and Yousuke Kuroda. Ryouji Nakamori is on board as the character designer and chief animation director. Music is set to be handled by Yasushi Ishii and Hayato Matsuo.

The ending theme song “Vermillion” is being performed by Maon Kurosaki..

The announced cast includes Yuichi Nakamura as Shimazu Toyohisa, Naoya Uchida as Oda Nobunaga, Mitsuki Saiga as Nasu no Yoichi, Takahiro Sakurai as Abe no Haruakira, Shiho Kokido as Olmine, Masakazu Nishida as Kafeto, Junko Minagawa as Jeanne d’Arc, Kenji Nomura as Gilles de Rais, Junko Kitanishi as Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, Masahiko Tanaka as Grigori Rasputin, Hiroki Yasumoto as Toshizou Hijikata, Mitsuru Miyamoto as Murasaki, Taiten Kusunoki as The Black King, Yutaka Aoyama as Hannibal Barca, Hiroshi Yanaka as Scipio Africanus, Kanae Itou as Easy, Junji Majima as Shara, Tomoko Tsuzuki as Mark and Sayori Ishizuka as Marsha.

BURSTING ONTO CRUNCHYROLL THIS FALL, FROM THE AUTHOR OF HELLSING: DRIFTERS pic.twitter.com/uYkk8k8lGD

— Crunchyroll (@Crunchyroll) October 1, 2016

Fans of Hellsing creator Kouta Hirano are used to the slow pace of his works in terms of getting released, and that means there’s not a lot of material to be made into anime form. Drifters began in 2011 and has four volumes out as of last fall, three of which have seen release in North America through Dark Horse Comics.

Plot concept: Shimazu Toyohisa, whilst involved at the Battle of Sekigahara, manages to mortally wound Ii Naomasa, but is critically wounded in the process. As he walks from the field broken and bleeding, Toyohisa finds himself transported to a corridor of doors, where a bespectacled man at a desk waits for him. This man, Murasaki, sends Toyohisa into the nearest door where he wakes up in another world. There, Toyohisa meets other great warriors like him who have been transported as well, to be part of a group known as “Drifters.”

With Sentai Filmworks picking up the rights to the fall 2016 series Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Legend Star, we’ve seen them announce it for streaming on The Anime Network. Now they’re bringing it out to Crunchyroll who is kicking the show off shortly with episodes to arrive on Saturdays at 1:pm ET for members. Regional availability is pretty good with it open to viewers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, and the Middle East and North Africa.

The staffing side is mostly the same with the addition of Sayaka Konno working on the series composition alongside Konparu while Maki Fujioka is on board to work the character designs and serve as the chief animation director, a change from the previous season where Mitsue Mori handled both positions.

The series stars Miyuki Sawashiro as Haruka Nanami, Takuma Terashima as Otoya Ittoki, Kenichi Suzumura as Masato Hijirikawa, Kishô Taniyama as Natsuki Shinomiya, Mamoru Miyano as Tokiya Ichinose, Junichi Suwabe as Ren Jingūji, Hiro Shimono as Shō Kurusu, Kousuke Toriumi as Cecil Aijima, Showtaro Morikubo as Reiji Kotobuki, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ranmaru Kurosaki, Shouta Aoi as Ai Mikaze, Tomoaki Maeno as Camus, Yūichi Nakamura as Ringo Tsukimiya, Koji Yusa as Ryūya Hyūga, Yuka Imai as Tomochika Shibuya, Norio Wakamoto as Shining Saotome, Hikaru Midorikawa as Eiichi Ootori, Daisuke Ono as Kira Sumeragi, Tsubasa Yonaga as Nagi Mikado, Yuuma Uchida as Eiji Ootori, Hidenori Takahashi as Van Kiryuuin, Ryouhei Kimura as Yamato Hyuuga, Daiki Yamashita as Shion Amakusa and Tomokazu Sugita as Raising Ootori.

Plot concept: Utano☆Princesama Revolutions continues after the end of Uta no Prince Sama 2 when budding boy band ST☆RISH wins the Uta Puri Award for best new rookie group. All seems well for them and Shining Agency’s other group QUARTET NIGHT, but soon an opportunity to perform in the opening ceremonies of an international sports festival surfaces. It’s group against group in a fierce battle that will take more than 2000% to win; it will have to be a LOVE REVOLUTION!

HOUSTON, September 30, 2016 – This Fall 2016 anime simulcast season, Anime Network Online (ANO) proudly presents a journey into a world of “Pure Illusion” in the original magical girl anime FLIP FLAPPERS!

Cocona is a model honor student, cautious and slow to embrace new opportunities. This makes life complicated when a mysterious girl named Papika suddenly appears, fearlessly searching for a wish-granting crystal called the “Shard of Mimi.” When fates collide and they’re given the ability to transform into powerful fairy-like beings, where will the dangerous journey into “Pure Illusion” take them?

FLIP FLAPPERS begins simulcasting on Thursday, October 6, 2016. ANO subscribers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Latin America, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Middle East and North Africa will be able to simulcast new episodes every Thursday at 9:00 AM EDT.

Nippon Columbia is handling the home video release for the Shonen Maid spring 2016 anime series and they previously laid out some interesting plans for it. With the fourth volume having come out a recently, the cover artwork and packaging for it has now been released, albeit only in small form as we held out for something a bit larger. The thirteen episode series is getting a four volume release where there are three episodes per disc with the fourth having four and getting a bump in price. The limited edition Blu-ray releases are priced at 7,400 yen each for the first three and 8,300 yen for the last. The regular editions are priced at 6,400 yen and 6,800 yen respectively while the DVDs are the same. The releases are scheduled to begin on June 22nd, 2016.

The show set Yuusuke Yamamoto to direct based on the series composition from Yoshiko Nakamura. Character designs were handled by Kana Ishida while 8bit is the studio behind it.

The cast includes  Natsumi Fujiawara as Chihiro Komiya, Nobunaga Shimazaki as Madoka Takatori and Tomoaki Maeno as Keiichirou Shinoazki. Supporting cast includes Natsuki Hanae as Ryuuji, Taku Yashiro as Hayato, Kazutomi Yamamoto as Ibuki, Yui Makino as Miyako Ōtori, Mitsuki Saiga as Yūji Hino, Yukari Tamura as Chiyo Komiya and Yoshiko Sakakibara as Kazusa Takatori.

The series comes from the manga by Ototachibana that began in Comics B’s-LOG back in 2008 and has eight volumes to its name so far. This was their second manga after the one volume release of Ghost Hunt Scramble! in 2007 in the same magazine.

Plot concept: Chihiro is left homeless with supposedly no relatives after his mom died. As he worries about what to do next, his uncle shows up and plans to take care of him…or is it the other way around?

Shonen Maid Japanese Volume 4 Packaging

Shonen Maid Japanese Volume 3 Packaging

Shonen Maid Japanese Volume 2 Cover

Shonen Maid Japanese Volume 1 Cover

Shonen Maid Japanese Volume 1 Packaging

[Source: Shonen Maid]

Crunchyroll has picked up another series for the fall 2016 season with Bloodviores, which is based n the Chinese web comic by Xiao Bai. The series has launched today in Japan and now on Crunchyroll with new episodes coming every Saturday at 9:30am ET. Regional availability is strong as it’s open worldwide outside of China, Japan, and Korea. With Sei Nakamura serving as the chief director and Ie Chen as the director, it’s being produced by Creators in the Pack with NAMU Animation.

The Japanese cast for it includes Kenji Akabane as Ryuu Mi, Eri Kitamura as Anji, Takuya Satou as Sin Li and Show Hayami as Yao Lu.

Milli is performing the opening theme song “Yu Wo Gongming (与我共鳴)” while siraph is performing the end theme song “quiet squall.”

Plot concept: Insomnia is spread all over the world and a new species, known as the “Bloodthirsty,” has been born as a side effect from the medicine made to cure the disease. The main character, Ryuu Mi, who is a child of a bloodthirsty and human, is considered to be the child to unite the species. However, Ryuu Mi gets arrested due to a bank robbery and becomes the main suspect in the case. He tries to escape the jail with help of his father, who is a bloodthirsty but work as a human in the Ministry of State Security Special Management Office, which investigates the bloodthirsty. Suddenly an unknown monster attacks the jail, and even though Ryuu Mi is able to escape the monster with his inmate Anji, he discovers that the jail is located in Aori, a deserted city and the birthplace of the bloodthirsty species. Why are captured bloodthirsty being sent to Aori? What was the monster? Being forced to get involved in the battle against the monster, Ryuu Mi begins his journey to solve this mystery.

HOUSTON, September 30, 2016 – Return to a world of genetically engineered princes with a new episode of Majestic Price! The newly announced 25^th episode will connect the events of the original 2013 series with the Majestic Prince movie.

Majestic Prince episode 25 will air on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 9:00 AM EDT to ANO subscribers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, and South.

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Aniplex USA took control of the rights earlier this year with the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood series and back at Anime Expo 2016 they announced their intention to bring it out on Crunchyroll. That’s now getting formalized and will be a big part of the fall season as the show will be available to viewers on October 3rd, 2016 in dubbed form. Availability is strong overall for a dub as it’ll be open to viewers in series North America, Central America, and South America.

Plot concept: In this world there exist alchemists, people who study and perform the art of alchemical transmutation—to manipulate objects and transform one object into another. They are bounded by the basic law of alchemy: in order to gain something you have to sacrifice something of the same value. The main character is the famous alchemist Edward Elric—also known as the Fullmetal Alchemist—who almost lost his little brother, Alphonse, in an alchemical accident. Edward managed to attach his brother’s soul to a large suit of armor. While he did manage to save his brother’s life, he paid the terrible price of his limbs. To get back what they’ve lost, the brothers embark on a journey to find the Philosopher’s Stone that is said to amplify the powers of an alchemist enormously; however, on the way, they start uncovering a conspiracy that could endanger the entire nation, and they realize the misfortunes brought upon by the Philosopher’s Stone.

The Time Bokan 24 anime series has landed in Japan today and it’s making a quick appearance overseas as well as Crunchyroll has announced the pickup of the show and rolled out the first episodes. The series is scheduled to debut on Saturdays at 7:00am ET for members and it’s open to viewers in the  USA, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Central and South America including the Caribbean.

The Japanese cast includes Akihisa Wakayama as Tokio, Akari Kito as Calen, Eri Kitamura as Bimajo, Hiroaki Hirata as Tsubuyakky, Kenta Miyake as Suzukky, Takeshi Maeda as Peralino, Rikako Aikawa as Picobo, Bokanbures, Hori as Oyadama and Shigeru Chiba as Bokannare.

The project has Takayuki Inagaki as director working from the series composition by Youichi Katou with Tatsunoko Production obviously handling the animation.

Plot concept: The protagonist Tokio is a first-year middle school student living in modern Tokyo. One day to his surprise, he is suddenly appointed as a member of a 24th century organization, the Space-Time Administration Bureau. Tokio learns that, in reality, the history written in textbooks is all a lie and that the true history of the world contains amusing facts that remain hidden. For example, the beautiful woman known in history as Cleopatra is actually a stand-up comedy duo named Cleo and Patra. Additionally, the folk tale hero Momotarou is a man more demonic than all demons.

Tokio and fellow bureau member Calen use the Bokan Mecha 24, a machine which can transform and merge into various forms, to search for true history. Tokio and his friends must face three evils familiar to the Time Bokan series, Bimajo, Tsubuyakky, and Suzukky. Together, they form a group called the Akudama which has been hired by the world’s largest textbook company, History Paradise, to protect the history textbook. What true history will be revealed next?

With Aniplex USA picking up the rights to Occultic;Nine this week they’ve now set another location for it to stream with Crunchyroll taking on the duties. The series is set to premiere on OCtober 8th, 2016 and will be made available to members in North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Ireland.. The series is being directed by Kyohei Ishiguro based on the series composition by MAGES and Morita to Junpei. Tomoaki Takase is handling the character designs and it’s being animated by A-1 Pictures.

The Japanese cast includes Yuki Kaji as Yuuta Gamon, Ayane Sakura as Ryouka Narusawa, Kaito Ishikawa as Sarai Hashigami, Hitomi Yoshida as Miyuu Aikawa, Shizuka Itou as Touko Sumikaze, Miyuki Sawashiro as Aria Kureinaino, Kishou Taniyama as Kiryuu Kusakabe, Mamiko Noto as Ririka Nishizono, Tetsuya Kakihara as Shun Moritsuka, Satomi Akesaka as Asuna Kisaki, Kenjirou Tsuda as Kouhei Izumi and Maria Naganawa as Chizu Kawabata.

The light novels began back in 2014 and has two volumes out so far with a manga adaptation from Ganjii that began last fall.

Plot concept: The story takes place in Kichijoji. Dreaming day and night of getting rich very quickly, Yuuta Gamon, a 2nd year high school student, owner of an affiliation blog called Kiri Kiri Basara, takes advantage of it and he gathers nine eccentric individuals. With their help, he challenges the supernatural and tries to solve all mysteries leading to unimaginable events that can potentially alter the course of the world…or maybe not?

World Trigger

With the nineteenth volume release of World Trigger getting its release in Japan back on September 14th, 2016, we’ve finally got a look at what Toei Animation Japan has revealed for the release with the cover artwork for the regular and limited edition forms. Toei also recently finalized the volume count with a twenty-volume release that will conclude the show with episode 73 on October 5th, 2016. The releases look to have three episodes on it with the Blu-ray priced at 6,800 yen while the DVD is priced at 5,800 yen.

The series is directed by Mitsuru Hongo at Toei Animation based on scripts by Hiroyuki Yoshino and character designs by Toshihisa Kaiya, who is also handling the animation director duties. Kenji Kawai has surfaced again to provide the score for the series.

The cast includes Yuuki Kaji as Osamu Mikumo, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Rie Kugimiya, Jun Fukuyama, Hideyuki Tanaka – Replica, Nao Tamura as Chika Amatori, Tomo Muranaka as Yuma Kuga, Yuichi Nakamura as Yuichi Jin, Rie Kugimiya as Kirie Konami, Jun Fukuyama as Kyōsuke Karasuma, Tomoaki Maeno as Reiji Kizaki, Keiji Fujiwara as Takumi Rindō, Takeshi Kusao as Masafumi Shinoda, Masakazu Morita as Shūji Miwa, Kana Hanazawa as Ai Kitora and Nobuhiko Okamoto as as Jun Arashiyama.

The anime adaptation is working off the manga that began back in 2013 in Weekly Shonen Jump, which has been available digitally in North America to readers via Viz Media as well as compiled volumes.

World Trigger Japanese Volume 1 Limited Edition Package

World Trigger Japanese Volume 1 Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 2 Limited Edition Package

World Trigger Japanese Volume 2 Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 3 Limited Edition Package

World Trigger Japanese Volume 3 Cover

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World Trigger Japanese Volume 4 Limited Edition Package

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World Trigger Japanese Volume 5 Limited Edition Package

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World Trigger Japanese Volume 6 Limited Edition Package

World Trigger Japanese Volume 7 Regular Edition Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 7 Limited Edition Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 8 Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 8 Limited Edition Cover

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World Trigger Japanese Volume 9 Limited Edition Cover

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World Trigger Japanese Volume 10 LE Cover

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World Trigger Japanese Volume 11 LE Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 12 RE Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 12 LE Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 13 LE Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 13 RE Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 14 RE Cover

World Trigger Japanese Volume 14 LE Cover

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World Trigger Japanese Volume 15 LE Cover

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Plot concept: One day, a gate to another world suddenly opens in Mikado City. Aliens invincible to Earth’s weapons, called “Neighbors”, start coming over. Earth’s only line of defense is a mysterious group called the “Border” who are armed with weapons called “Triggers”.

Four years later, the city has recovered from initial attacks and citizens of Mikado City have started to get use to the Neighbor’s attacks. Yuma Kuga, a transfer student, and his classmate Osamu Mikumo find themselves fighting a Neighbor that suddenly appears. Osamu, who is actually a Border agent, activates his Trigger but is unable to defeat it. This leaves Yuma to activate his own Trigger and defeat the alien. Yuma reveals that he is not part of Border and is actually a Neighbor who has transferred from the other side.

[Source: World Trigger]