Hello everyone! We meet again for the renewal of the Monthly Anime Shout out! First of all, all of us from MangaHelpers would like to wish you a Happy New Year! We hope 2011 is a joyful year to you and your loved ones. Enjoy your lives to the fullest, for 2012 is near! We're back to announcing the month's new anime so be sure to check it out ;) With that said, on with the new anime.
Break Bladeブレイク ブレイド BROKEN BLADE Movie
Genres: Action, Fantasy
Release Date: 22 January 2011
Official Website: HereThe 6-part anime films Broken Blade / Break Blade are adapted by Production I.G and studio Xebec, based on Yunosuke Yoshinaga's fantasy-mecha manga. The story follows Rygart Arrow - the only one in his world who lacks the inherent ability to power up quartz, the energy source that makes all of the machines run. Nevertheless, he's pretty well connected. The King and Queen of his country of Krisna happen to be old college friends. But so is Zess, the guy who is leading the army of a neighboring kingdom in an attack on Krisna. How did it comes to this? There's little time to ponder the implications as an army in giant, mechanized battle suits attacks. Arrow just feels like he's in the way - until he comes across a powerful, ancient mech that no one has yet to be able to figure out how to run. But his natural affinity for the suit's operating mechanism may just turn Arrow into the most important player of all.
Review by: AKCheck out this anime's manga and add it into your favorites for updates in the Announcements box!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Cardfight!! Vanguardカードファイト!! ヴァンガード TV Series
Genres: Action
Release Date: 08 January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Cardfight!! Vanguard is based on a trading card game created by game maker Bushiroad, as a collaboration between Yu-Gi-Oh! R manga creator Akira Ito, the original Duel Masters technical advisor Satoshi Nakamura, and Bushiroad President Takaaki Kidani.
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Freezingフリージング TV Series
Genres: Action
Release Date: 08 January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Freezing is created by studio ACGT, based on an action / ecchi manga about students trained to fight dimensional attackers, written by Lim Dall-Young and illustrated by Kim Kwang-Hyun (Korean manwha creators). The story revolves around Kazuya, a boy who lost his sister in humankind's fight against beings from another dimension. He enrolls in Genetics, a military academy for combat training against the dimensional beings. There, a group of girls known as "Pandora" prepare to fight the unknown enemy.
Synopsis from: ANNCheck out this anime's manga and add it into your favorites for updates in the Announcements box!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Beelzebubべるぜバブ TV Series
Genres: Action, Comedy, Supernatural
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Beelzebub is adapted by studio Pierrot, based on Ryuuhei Tamura's action / comedy manga about the "strongest juvenile delinquent", Oga Tatsumi. In a strange turn of events, he ends up taking care of the great demon king Beelzebub's baby, together with the baby's caretaker, Hilda (or Hildegarda, a big-busted demon maid in gothic lolita clothes). Oga is also joined by his close friend Furuichi and other characters, as he must raise baby Beel and prevent the world from destruction.
Review by: AKCheck out this anime's manga and add it into your favorites for updates in the Announcements box!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dragon Crisis!ドラゴンクライシス! TV Series
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Dragon Crisis! is adapted by Studio Deen, based on a light novel series authored by Kaya Kizaki. The story begins when a high school boy named Ryuuji and his older cousin Eriko (who had recently returned to Japan) steal a box from some black-market dealers. Inside it they find a blue-eyed "dragon girl" named Rose, who inexplicably becomes entranced with Ryuuji, following him even when he is bathing and sleeping. As Rose is now hunted by the black-market dealers, Ryuuji will have to overcome his trauma and protect the girl.
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Fractaleフラクタル TV Series
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Fractale is created by studio A-1 Pictures, and directed by Yutaka Yamamoto, a.k.a. "Yamakan" (Suzumiya Haruhi, Kannagi). The original story - created by Mandelbrot Engine - is set on an island at the far reaches of a continent where the "Fractale System" is on the brink of collapse. A boy named Kurain embarks on a journey to search for Furyune - a girl who disappeared, leaving behind only a pendant. Kurain will eventually learn the secrets of the "System".
Synopsis from: ANNCheck out this anime's manga and add it into your favorites for updates in the Announcements box!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
GosickGOSICK -ゴシック- TV Series
Genres: Mystery
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereGosick takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centres on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to class and spends her days reading the entire content of the library or solving mysteries that even detectives can't solve. The series mostly focuses on Kazuya and Victorique getting involved in different mystery cases and their struggle to solve them, at the same time forming important bonds with different people.
Review by: AKNote: The first episode screened at a special event on 27.12.2010 for 300 lucky fans who were chosen via lottery. The first televised airing took place on 08.01.2011.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hourou Musuko放浪息子 TV Series
Genres: Drama
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Hourou Musuko (Wandering Son) is adapted by studio AIC, based on a slice-of-life manga created by Takako Shimura (Aoi Hana / Sweet Blue Flowers). The story centers around an effeminate 5th-grade boy named Shuuichi Nitori. On the first day at his new school, he is mistaken for his 6th-grade sister. He happens to sit next to Yoshino Takatsuki, a masculine girl who - much like him - has secrets she cannot tell anyone. Simply put: he wants to be a girl, and she wants to be a boy. And boy, does she show it!
Review by: AKCheck out this anime's manga and add it into your favorites for updates in the Announcements box!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
IS: Infinite StratosIS<インフィニット・ストラトス> TV Series
Genres: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Infinite Stratos is based on Izuru Yumizuru's light novel series shortly known as IS. The "popular high-speed school battle romantic comedy" centers around the IS Academy: a school for training the pilots of the Infinite Stratos weapon system, which can only be used by females. Candidates plucked from girls from countries all over the world are brought here - as well as one boy named Ichika Orimura. As it turns out, Ichika is "the only male in the world who can use the IS".
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Kore wa Zombie desuka?これはゾンビですか? TV Series
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereThe TV anime series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka? is adapted by Studio Deen, based on a comedy / ecchi / harem light novel series authored by Shinichi Kimura, and illustrated by Kobuichi / Muririn. The story revolves around a lazy high school boy named Ayumu Aikawa who loses his life to a serial killer and is later resurected as a zombie by a necromancer girl named Yuu (Eucliwood Hellscythe). Ayumu then finds himself in a world of mahou shoujo where he is ordered by a magical girl warrior named Haruna to fight against the anti-mahou shoujo system "Megalo".
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Mitsudomoe Zouryouchuu!みつどもえ 増量中! TV Series
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HereThe second season of Mitsudomoe continues this TV anime series adapted by studio Bridge, based on Norio Sakurai's gag manga about the comedic misadventures of the Marui triplets of sisters in sixth grade: the somewhat precocious and sadistic girl Mitsuba, the somewhat lecherous muscle girl Futaba, and the somewhat mysterious girl Hitoha - whose secret pleasure is to read porn.
Review by: AK++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Supernatural The AnimationEpisode 1-2Supernatural The Animation OVA
Genres: Action, Horror, Supernatural
Release Date: 12 January 2011
Official Website: HereThe OVA series Supernatural The Animation is created by studio Madhouse and co-produced by Warner Bros., based on the first two seasons of the American drama / horror live-action TV series Supernatural. The original story follows the Winchester brothers Sam and Dean as they hunt demons and other figures of the paranormal.
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Soukou Kihei Votoms: Koei Futatabi装甲騎兵ボトムズ 孤影再び OVA
Genres: Action, Drama, Science Fiction
Release Date: 18 January 2011
Official Website: HereArmored Trooper Votoms: Alone Again (Soukou Kihei Votoms: Koei Futatabi) is one of three new Votoms OVA projects revealed in early 2010, produced as usual by studio Sunrise. This one will be a direct sequel to the 1994 OVA series Armored Trooper Votoms: Shining Heresy, based on a novel written Ryousuke Takahashi (director of the original TV series). The story begins at an oasis, where Chirico (the main character of the first VOTOMS series) will reunite with his old friend Gotho and other characters after 32 years.
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Mazinkaizer SKLEpisode 3マジンカイザーSKL OVA
Release Date: 22 January 2011
Official Website: HereThe multimedia project Mazinkaizer SKL - consisting of anime, manga and novel adaptations - is billed as the return of the MazinKaiser anime franchise, which is itself a spinoff from Go Nagai's classic super robot manga and anime series, Mazinger Z. This 3-episode OVA is animated by studio Actas.
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T.P. Sakura: Time Paladin SakuraT.P.さくら～タイムパラディンさくら～ OVA
Release Date: 27 January 2011
Official Website: HereT.P. Sakura: Time Paladin Sakura is a spinoff OVA (accompanied by a spinoff game) based on the D.C.: Da Capo franchise, focusing on the Sakura Yoshino character from the original game developed by Circus. In this OVA, Sakura appears to be a seemingly ordinary 9-year-old third grader in Kazami Academy's elementary school, except she is actually a "super-girl" who can invoke magical powers.
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.hack//QuantumEpisode 1.hack//Quantum OVA
Release Date: 28 January 2011
Official Website: HereThe 3-episode OVA .hack//Quantum is created by studio Kinema Citrus (who previously contributed with animation work on Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and the Eureka Seven movie in 2009). In .hack//Quantum, the characters Tobias, Mary, and Sakuya form a party and embark on a high-difficulty-level quest in The World R:X. - the new version of The World seen in the 2010 PSP game .hack//Link.
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NichijouEpisode 0日常 OVA
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Release Date: January 2011
Official Website: HerePrior to the TV series Nichijou, this Episode 0 OVA is being released as a DVD bundled with the 6th volume of the Nichijou gag comedy manga authored by Keiichi Arawi. The anime adaptation is handled by Kyoto Animation (Suzumiya Haruhi, Lucky Star, K-ON!).
Review by: AKCheck out this anime's manga and add it into your favorites for updates in the Announcements box!++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Notes:
We've used a lot of sources to make this article. If you find some information that is incomplete or wrong, make sure to let us know by posting in this article. Summaries and images are only vague representations of a show, so be sure to watch it before passing final judgement.
I for one am excited for Beelzebub :D
For the rest: Fractale is something I'll be watching too
As for the 2012 talk... Hey... it's closer than you think :D