Monthly New Anime Shout Out: October

Another month another line up of Anime! And this one is PACKED! Check em out and let us know which you plan on watching :D!


Type: Movie
Genres: Action, Science Fiction
Release Date: October 09 2010
Official Website: Here

The racing anime film Redline is created by studio Madhouse, with an original story by Katsuhito Ishii (set in the same universe as the 2002 OVA Trava: Fist Planet) and directed by Takeshi Koike. After being selected at the 2009 Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Redline appeared to be cancelled in an unfinished state, only to return at the 2010 Annecy festival, with a new release date set for Fall 2010. In the story, the toughest and most destructive underground car race in the universe, called "Redline", takes place every 5 years. JP is a dare-devil reckless driver oblivious to speed limits with his ultra-customized wheels named "Transa Am". One of his competitors, Sonosee is a hot girl determined to do whatever it takes to stand on the winner's podium in the Redline. In order to win the finals, they're up against the craziest drivers on the race scene with their deadly and awesome road-tearing vehicles. Moreover the biggest problem for JP is that he secretly is in love with Sonosee. The only one rule in the race is there are no rules!
Review by: AK


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Type: Movie
Release Date: October 09 2010
Official Website: Here

The anime film Onigamiden is adapted by Studio Pierrot, based on a two-volume novel authored by Takafumi Takada. This historical-themed feature revolves around the war between oni (demons) and humans in the former Japanese capital of Kyoto, 1200 years ago during the Heian period.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: Movie
Release Date: October 16 2010
Official Website: Here

The anime film You Are Umasou is based on Tatsuya Miyanishi's picture book, whose story centers around a Tyrannosaurus who comes across a herbivorous Ankylosaurus baby all by himself and says: "Gaou Omae Umasou Dana" ("Rawr! You look delicious"). However, the Tyrannosaurus ends up adopting the baby as his own.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: Movie
Release Date: October 30 2010
Official Website: Here


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Type: OVA
Release Date: October 08 2010
Official Website: Here

The OVA adaptation Yozakura Quartet: Hoshi no Umi is created by Tatsunoko Production - unlike the 2008 TV anime series created by studio Nomad. Also unlike the TV series, the OVA will completely follow Suzuhito Yasuda's original supernatural action manga. The original cast, however, are returning for this project.
Review by: AK

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Type: OVA
Release Date: October 29 2010

Bungaku Shoujo Memoir is the third anime project based on Mizuki Nomura's "mysterious school comedy" light novels about the unusual members of a high school literary club. Each of this new OVA's episodes focuses on a different character from the light novels, and each DVD also includes a booklet with a short story written by Nomura, among other goodies. Episode 1 - "Yume-Miru Shoujo no Prelude" - focuses on Touko Amano, the club president who calls herself "a literary girl" but is actually a supernatural creature (youkai) that devours stories. Episode 2 - "Sora-Mau Tenshi no Requiem" - focuses on Miu Asakura, the childhood friend of the main male character (Konoha Inoue). And episode 3 - Koi Suru Otome no Rhapsody - focuses on Nanase Kotobuki, Konoha's classmate and the club's librarian.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: OVA
Release Date: October 20 2010
Official Website: Here

The single-episode OVA Seikon no Qwaser: Joo no Shouzou (Portrait of the Empress), also labeled as "Episode #10.5", is bundled with the 10th volume of Hiroyuki Yoshino and Kenetsu Satou's original manga - which previously spawned a TV anime series in early 2010. This OVA episode features the character Katja, voiced by Aya Hirano.
Review by: AK

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Type: OVA
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Release Date: October 27 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu is the third season adapted by studio Shaft, based on Ume Aoki's popular 4-koma manga. In October 2010, another 4 special episodes were released on Blu-ray and DVD. The continuing slice-of-life stories about the students from the Hidamari Apartments resume one year after the first season. Yuno and Miyako are second years, Sae and Hiro are third years, and two new students, Nori and Nazuna, move into the apartments.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 02 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Bakuman. is adapted by studio J.C. Staff, based on a shounen manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The story follows a high school student named Mashiro Moritaka - a talented artist who does not know what he wants to do with his future. One day during class he draws a picture of Azuki Miho, a girl he is secretly fond of, and forgets the notebook at school. He comes back to find that his classmate Takagi Akito is waiting for him with his notebook. Takagi tries to convince Mashiro to become a mangaka (a manga artist) with him, only leading to Mashiro's disagreement. Mashiro goes home and thinks about his mangaka uncle, who had only one successful series before he died in obscurity. Mashiro is interrupted by a phone call from Takagi, who says that he is going to tell Azuki that Mashiro likes her. Mashiro runs down to Azuki's house to find Takagi waiting for him. Once Azuki comes out to meet them, Takagi tells her that he and Mashiro are aiming to be mangaka. Mashiro then learns that she wants to be a seiyuu (a voice actor), and has shown promise in the field. Mashiro, once again thinking about his uncle, accidentally proposes to Azuki who accepts. However, she will only marry him after they achieve their dreams.
Synopsis from: AniDB

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 15 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Kuragehime is adapted by studio Brains Base, based on a women's manga by Akiko Higashimura. The story centers around Tsukimi Kurashita, a huge fan of jellyfish (kurage, a wordplay on the "kura/mi" and "tsuki/ge" in her name) and a girl who moves to Tokyo to become an illustrator. She moves into "Amamizukan", an apartment complex that is full of fujoshi (diehard female Otaku) with a no-men-allowed rule. However, one day, Tsukimi invites a stylishly fashionable woman to stay at her room at Amamizukan - only to discover that the guest is not who "she" seems to be.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: TV Series
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Release Date: October 02 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series MM! is based on a light novel series authored by Akinari Matsuno and illustrated by the artist duo QP:flapper. The story follows Tarou Sado, a high school boy who discovered a side of himself that is into masochism. Even as he tries to hide this side from his high school crush, he tries to fix it through his school's "2nd Volunteer Club".
Synopsis from: ANN

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 06 2010
Official Website: Here

Motto To Love-Ru: Trouble is the second season of studio Xebec's TV anime series To Love-Ru, adapted from the ecchi comedy manga of the same title, featuring the pink-haired girl Lala. And the complementary harem.
Review by: AK


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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 05 2010
Official Website: Here

The anime adaptation Otome Youkai Zakuro is produced by studio J.C. Staff, based on Lily Hoshino's supernatural historical manga of the same title. The story is set in an alternate version of Japan where humans and youkai (demons) co-exist. The government has established a Ministry of Youkai and Humans to deal with the incidents that flare up between the two races. The ministry is composed of human representatives, youkai representative, and one girl named Zakuro with half-human, half-youkai blood.
Synopsis from: ANN

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Type: TV Series
Genres: Mystery, Supernatural
Release Date: October 03 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Psychic Detective Yakumo (Shinrei Tantei Yakumo) is adapted by studio Bee Train, based on Manabu Kaminaga's light novel series about a young man who can see the spirits of dead people with his red eyes - an ability which he uses as a gift to solve murder cases.
Review by: AK

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Type: TV Series
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Release Date: October 08 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru is based on a comedy / slice-of-life manga by Masakazu Ishiguro, about a tea shop with a maid twist (as opposed to a maid cafe with a tea shop twist). The place is called Seaside, and it's located in an ordinary shopping district of a mundane neighborhood in Tokyo. The female protagonist Hotori Arashiyama works at Seaside and daydreams about being a high school girl detective. She, the other workers, and Seaside's few customers have various slice-of-life adventures.
Synopsis from: ANN

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 03 2010
Official Website: Here

On a cross-shaped island in the South, a mysterious and gigantic humanoid robot known as the "Cybuddy" is discovered sealed in the underground ruins for untold ages. A group known as the "Order of the Glittering Star Cross" attempts to remove the seal by abducting a girl named Wako Agemaki, who they dubbed the "shrine maiden" and is the key to activating the robot. A boy named Takuto Tsunashi arrives with his own Cybuddy named Tauburn to rescue Wako. Thus begins a struggle to unlock the secrets of the advanced technology and prevent disaster.
Synopsis from: ANN

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 02 2010
Official Website: Here


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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 07 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Tantei Opera Milky Holmes is adapted by studio J.C. Staff, based on a card- and video-games franchise developed by Bushiroad, featuring a moe team of loli detectives.
Review by: AK

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 02 2010
Official Website: Here

The second season of the TV anime series Tegami Bachi (Letter Bee) continues the story based on Hiroyuki Asada's fantasy manga, about a boy who runs deliveries as a "Letter Bee" messenger throughout a strange fantasy land.
Review by: AK

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 08 2010
Official Website: Here

The anime adaptation Togainu no Chi is based on a boys-love eroge originally released in 2005 by Nitroplus' branch Nitro+CHiRAL, about a post-apocalyptic street fighter named Akira. He is the young champion of a street fighting tournament called Bl@ster, and is suddenly arrested for a crime he didn't commit. He makes a deal with a mysterious woman to get out of prison on one condition: to defeat the strongest man, the Il-Re, in a deadly game called Igura, which is taking place under the rule of a drug ring in the abandoned remains of Tokyo.
Synopsis from: ANN

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Type: TV Series
Genres: Romance
Release Date: October 04 2010
Official Website: Here

The anime adaptation Yosuga no Sora is based on a bishoujo eroge originally released by Sphere (a sister brand of Cuffs) in 2008. The game's story is set in the distant mountain village of Okukozome-chou. Haruka Kazugano and his twin sister Sora have fond childhood memories of going to the village to visit their grandfather during their summer vacations. However, after losing their parents in an accident, the two must move in with their grandfather. The twins get reacquainted with their old childhood friend Nao Yorihime, their new classmate Ryouhei Nakazato, the miko (shrine maiden) Akira Amatsume, and Akira's friend Kazuha Migawa. All seems peaceful and familiar. However, beneath the surface is a secret promise that the twins made with each other long ago, the whereabouts of an important lost item, and the real reason they chose to come back here.
Synopsis from: ANN

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Type: TV Series
Genres: Action, Science Fiction
Release Date: October 01 2010
Official Website: Here

Tony Stark is a physicist, an engineer, and the CEO of a major arms manufacturing company. On a battlefield he is injured from his own weapons and taken prisoner by terrorists. In order to keep his own heart beating, he creates the Ironman Suit and escapes. Once free, Stark decides to dedicate his life to pursuing world peace with the Ironman technology, so he moves to Japan to use the resources of "Lab 23," home of the world's first Arc Reactor. Wanting to devote himself fully to this research, Stark decides to retire as Ironman and announce the mass-production of suits to fulfill his duties. But at the announcement ceremony he is attacked by the mysterious organization known as "Zodiac," and his plans have to change.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 02 2010
Official Website: Here

The anime project Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is being created by a team from studio Gainax that reunites several Gurren Lagann veterans. The story follows two angels kicking ass on Earth. One of them is a teen-celebrity-like blond-haired girl named Panty, and the other one a black-haired goth loli girl named Stocking. The two are angels sent from the heavens to battle the "Ghosts" on Earth. Except that they're actually creating more problems than they solve.
Review by: AK


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Type: TV Series
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Release Date: October 02 2010
Official Website: Here

The second season of the TV anime series Sora no Otoshimono (Lost Property of the Sky) is once again adapted by studio AIC A.S.T.A., based on Suu Minazuki's "heartful" comedy manga. Its story features a fallen - and rather hot looking - angel, erroneously classified as an "unidentified mysterious animal" (UMA) at first.
Review by: AK

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 03 2010
Official Website: Here

The second season of Hakuouki continues this TV anime based on a series of yaoi'ish games released by Idea Factory for the PlayStation 2 and PSP. The first game's story centers around a female protagonist and the historical Shinsengumi samurai group in Kyoto during the 19th century. Yukimura Chizuru has come to Kyoto looking for her father, a doctor who has gone missing. While there, she witnesses a fight between Rasetsu and the Shinsengumi. Taking her into custody, the Shinsengumi debates on what to do with Chizuru when they discover that she is the daughter of the doctor they are also looking for. The Shinsengumi then takes Chizuru along on their search after the missing doctor, from adventures to adventures.
Review by: AK & Gigazine

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Type: TV Series
Genres: Comedy
Release Date: October 03 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai (My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute) is adapted by studio AIC, based on a comedy light novel series by Tsukasa Fushimi. The original story follows the 17-year-old high school boy Kyousuke Kousaka, and his cute and popular younger sister Kirino, aged 14. The two haven't been getting along in years, until one day Kyousuke discovers that his sister is not only an otaku, but even a fan of adult games - when he finds such a game called Imoto to Koishiyo! (Love with Little Sister!) hidden inside an innocent-looking anime DVD box, which Kirino had dropped by mistake.
Review by: AK

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 03 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Yumeiro Patissiere Professional is the second season of the anime that originally adapted Natsumi Matsumoto's shoujo baking manga about a 14-year-old girl named Ichigo Amano. The new series, however, takes place several years later, when she is an adult. New characters are also joining in on the cookie-cutting fun.
Review by: AK


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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 04 2010
Official Website: Here

The 2nd season of the TV anime series Arakawa Under the Bridge is once again produced by studio Shaft, based on a quirky romantic gag comedy manga by Hikaru Nakamura, themed around the "denpa-kei" genre in which strange happenings are caused by electromagnetic waves - à la Denpa teki na Kanojo. This second season introduces at least one new character, named Amazoness.
Review by: AK

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Type: TV Series
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Release Date: October 05 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Shinryaku! Ika Musume is adapted by studio Diomedea, based on Masahiro Anbe's manga otherwise known as Invasion! Squid Girl. The comedy centers arounds a squid girl who vows to invade the beaches of mankind since humans have polluted the seas. However, her invasion is less than successful, and she ends up on dry ground.
Synopsis from: ANN

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Type: TV Series
Release Date: October 05 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Tachumaru Gekijou is adapted by Tatsunoko Production based on its own Tachumaru Zukan SD Project, that re-imagines some of Tatsunoko's most popular anime franchises (including Gatchaman, Casshan / Casshern, and Gold Lightan) as a newly evolved species of super-deformed animals known as "Tachuu-rui". These mysterious "Tachumaru" (Tachumals) are "small and cute", but have special fighting moves.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: TV Series
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural
Release Date: October 07 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai (The World God Only Knows) is adapted by studio Manglobe, based on Tamiki Wakaki's manga about a high school boy who is known as the "Capturing God", for his success at romance simulation games. However, thanks to a contract with a devil, he now has to capture the hearts of real girls to catch the runaway spirits hidden in those hearts.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: TV Series
Genres: Romance
Release Date: October 09 2010
Official Website: Here

The TV anime series Fortune Arterial: Akai Yakusoku is co-created by studios Feel and ZEXCS, based on a school / vampire themed eroge originally released by August in early 2008. The story revolves around a transfer student named Kouhei Hasekura, who is transferring between schools for the 10th time. He discovers that his new remote island school, Shuuchikan Academy, has a female vampire named Erika Sendou within its student body.
Synopsis from: ANN


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Type: Short
Genres: Comedy
Release Date: October 07 2010
Official Website: Here

The three-minute anime short Nougyou Musume! (Agricultural Girls!) was produced by Toei Animation, to promote the release of the first compiled print volume of Kagura Minori's slice-of-life comedy web manga series. Nougyou Musume is the whimsical story of Hikari and Hikaru Koshino, two sisters that farm the rice paddy left to them by their parents.
Synopsis from: AniDB


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