Hello everyone! Starting this day we would like to announce a new feature, the Mangahelpers
Bi-Weekly Featured Anime!Every two weeks we will present you three different anime's which we consider a good work to look at. It can be either a recently started anime or an old classic so feel free to visit the
Otaku Theater and tell us your opinion about the featured work! Click on the anime's title above the picture if you want to be lead to the specific thread.
Now without further ado, let's get to the first Bi-Weekly featured anime:
Title: Mirai Nikki
Episodes: 26
Status: Ongoing
Aired: October 9,2011 to ??
Producers: Asread
Genres: Action, Mystery, Supernatural, Psychological, Thriller
Based on a Manga: Mirai Nikki Summary:Middle school 2nd year, Amano Yukiteru, is a boy who has problem making friends. He thinks of himself as a bystander and will always write down everything he sees in a cell phone diary.
Tormented by solitude, Yukiteru began to imagine things like a friend called Deus Ex Machina who is apparently the Lord of Time & Space. Seeing Yukiteru's miserable state, Deus gives him a new ability. His diary will now record events that will happen in the near future. Yukiteru is then forced to participate in a game which the winner will become Deus's successor.
Title: Chihayafuru
Episodes: 25
Status: Ongoing
Aired: Oct 5, 2011 to ??
Producers: Madhouse Studios
Genres: Drama, Sports
Based on a manga: Chihayafuru by Suetsugu Yuki Summary:
After her sister becomes a top model, 6th-year grade-schooler Ayase Chihaya too dreams of becoming one. However, transfer student Wataya Arata admonishes her to seek her own dream. Thus, she takes up karuta, a Japanese card game, competitively. Together with Arata and Mashima Taichi, Chihaya's childhood friend, they have great fun playing each other, but separate after graduation.
4 years later, Chihaya returns to town. Although Arata no longer plays the game, she believes that they will eventually reunite as long as she continues karuta. Together with Taichi, she establishes the Zuisawa High-school Karuta Club.
Title: Guilty Crown
Episodes: 22
Status: Ongoing
Aired: October 14th, 2011 to March ??
Producers: Production I.G
Genres: Action, Magic, Sci-Fi
Summary:The story takes place in Tokyo in 2039. After the outbreak of the unidentified virus "Lost Christmas" in 2029, Japan has been under the control of a multinational organization called GHQ. Ouma Shu is a 17-year-old boy who has a psychic power in his right hand. He can use the power "Ability of King" to extract tools or weapons from his friends. He has been avoiding making trouble for others but his life changes when he meets a girl named Yuzuriha Inori, a member of a resistance guerrilla group called "Undertaker", whose members pilot mecha weapons to fight against the government.
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:wtf Thank you for doing this narunii, I look forward to what's going to be posted here.
That aside, the only one I'm not watching is Chihayafuru, not so interested in the premise but I'll try it someday.