Monthly New Anime Shout Out: January

Hello everyone! It's finally the end of the year ne? I hope you guys are all having a great time this season! It's me Zeltrax again and I'm bringing you the anime shout out for january :D. Next month we have a lot of new series, all which are looking pretty good!
Remember, if there is something that is interesting to you, check out the manga and add them to your favorites. Now, let's look forward to a new year and to more amazing anime!





Type: Movie
Release date: Jan 21, 2012
Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Fantasy, Game, Magic, Sci-Fi
Producers: CyberConnect2, Asmik Ace Entertainment
Official website: Here.

The story is set in 2024, when children have lived their entire lives since birth in a world connected by networks. A cheerful 14-year-old middle school girl named Sora Yūki has no interest in games, but her friends get her to go into the popular network game "The World." However, due to "a certain incident" in The World, anomalies start occurring in the real world.

Synopsis by: ANN



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Type: Movie
Release date: Jan 7, 2012
Genres: Action, School, Sci-Fi, Super Power
Producers: Sunrise
Official website: Here.

Sacred Seven: Wings of the Silver Moon, the special compilation film of the Sacred Seven anime, will open in six Japanese theaters on January 7th.

The special edition will focus on the fighting between the Sacred Takers, Alma and Night, as well as the fight with Kenmi from Night's point of view. The re-edited version will have new scenes, particularly of Night's past, and a new dialogue recording.

Synopsis by: ANN

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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 3, 2012
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Producers: Aniplex, Brains Base, NAS
Original website: Here.


Natsume Yuujinchou is a light and cheerful anime adapted from the manga of the same name.

Since he was young, a teenage boy named Natsume Takashi has been able to see spirits, but keeping this ability a secret has now become a heavy burden for him and has made his life difficult.

This begins to change when Takashi inherits his grandmother's "Book of Friends". He discovers that she, Natsume Reiko, shared the same ability as him and starts to understand why he was always targeted by both good and bad spirits.

After learning the true meaning behind the Book of Friends, which allows him to manipulate the spirits listed within its pages, Takashi undertakes a journey with his bodyguard, the infamous spirit Madara, to free the spirits of their contracts with Reiko.

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 5, 2012
Genres: Action, Comedy, School, Shounen, Sports
Producers: NAS, M.S.C
Original website: Here.

This continues what happened in the "Prince of Tennis ", after the end of the tournament . In "The New Prince of Tennis," Ryoma and the others (team members and teams they faced) begin a new adventure when they are the only 50 middle school students to be invited to the Japanese High School Representatives Selection Camp where only the top potentials in the Japanese tennis world train. What will happen now?

Synopsis by: Sf



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 6, 2012
Genres: School, Seinen
Producers: Seven
Official website:Here.

Miyagawa Atsushi is an 11-year-old boy. Since he is 180 centimeters tall and has a grown-up looking build, he has always been running into troubles. On the other hand, his 17-year-old elder sister Atsumi is only 137 centimeters tall and has a childish looking build. Atsumi takes good care of Atsushi, who acts his true age.

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type: TV
Aired: Jan 5, 2012
Genres:Comedy, Mystery, Super Power
Producers: J.C. Staff
Official website: Here.


Second season of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.
Sheryl, Nero, Elly, and Cordelia are the most popular students at Holmes Detective Academy, because of the many cases they've solved with their Toys and teamwork. The students and the people of the Detective City Yokohama all look up to the members of "Milky Holmes", as they're called.

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 6, 2012
Genres: Comedy, School, Seinen
Producers: J.C. Staff
Official website: Here.

Kill Me Baby is a 4-panel style manga that follows the comedic life of a typical school girl Yasuna and her assassin classmate Sonya. Sonya’s attempt to fit in often fails when her natural assassin instincts kick in and Yasuna’s attempt to be more friendly with Sonya often gets her hurt or intimidated. Kill Me Baby’s cute sense of humor will keep you wanting more.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 6, 2012
Genres: Romance
Producers: AIC
Official website: Here.

Each of the six heroines will be featured in a two-episode chapter in an omnibus format and the direct sequels to the first season will be animated. The new director Kobayashi Tomoki said he will put the anime-original elements forward in the second season.

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 6, 2012
Genres: Comedy, Demons, Ecchi, Romance, School
Producers: Genco, TNK
Official website: Here.

The story follows Issei Hyodo, a dim-witted, lecherous second-year high school student who is killed by a girl on his first date ever. Issei is reincarnated as a devil, and from that day forward, he serves as an underling of Riasu, a high-level devil who is also the prettiest girl on Issei's campus.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 6, 2011
Genres: Action, Music, Supernatural
Producers: Satelight, Encourage Films
Official website: Here.

Humans have been menaced by mysterious monsters called "Designated Aberrant Disaster: Noise". Tsubasa and Kanade are a popular vocal unit "Twei Wing". They wear the new weapon "Symphogear" and fight against Noise to save the earth.

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 7, 2012
Genres: Comedy, School, Shounen, Sports
Producers: TV Asahi, Shin-Ei Animation
Official website: Here.

Believing himself to be useless at football, Aizawa Kakeru opts to become the manager of his school's football team, while his brother Suguru is its ace, and is even good enough to represent Japan. However, Kakeru may be harbouring a strong talent within himself that only Suguru can see, and the two often get into arguments over Kakeru's denial of his skills. Things are made more complicated with the return of Nana, an old playmate of theirs that Kakeru has a crush on. Join the brothers in their journey to the national and even international championships!

Synopsis by: MU



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 7, 2012
Genres: Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy, Magic, Romance
Producers: J.C. Staff
Official website: Here.

According to Media Factory, the fourth season of Zero no Tsukaima was announced. It will be the final of the TV series.
The Familiar of Zero follows the adventures of the protagonists Louise and her familiar Saito. Louise is a second year student at the Tristain Academy of Magic. In this world, those who can use magic are either mages or nobles, and those who cannot use magic are known as "commoners" or "plebeians".

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 8, 2012
Genres: Sci-Fi, Space
Producers: Satelight, Starchild Records
Official website: Here.

The story centers around a spirited high school girl named Marika. She keeps herself busy with the space yacht club and her part-time job at a high-class retro café. One day, two men suddenly appear and claim to be subordinates of her dead father. They demand that she assume command of the space pirate ship Benten Maru. A privateer ship's compact was made during a war of independence a century ago, and according to that compact, the ship must be inherited by the captain's next direct descendant. Marika finds herself embarking on a new life as a space pirate.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 8, 2012
Genres: Action, Adventure, Historical, Seinen
Producers: TMS Entertainment, Media Factory, Studio Saki Makura
Official website: Here.

The story reimagines the legendary adventures of the 10 brave warriors assembled by the warlord Sanada Yukimura in the year 1600, in the middle of Japan's tumultuous Sengoku (Warring States) era.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 7, 2012
Genres: Comedy, Supernatural
Producers: Shaft
Official website: Here.

The black swindler Kaiki Deishu, who once deceived Hitagi, returns to town and spreads the incantation which cursed Nadeko before.

Koyomi's sisters Karen and Tsukihi try to capture Deishu but...

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 8, 2012
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life, Seinen
Producers: DAX
Official website: Here.

A slice of life anime about the Sato family, who keeps a round shaped cat named "Poyo"

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 9, 2012
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mecha, Romance, Sci-Fi
Producers: Satelight, Media Factory, 8bit
Official website: Here.

The story will take place 12,000 years after the first Aquarion television series at a city modeled after Hong Kong. A new cast of characters, piloting a new Aquarion robot, will fight enemies from another dimension.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 9, 2012
Genres: Comedy
Producers: Production I.G, Xebec
Official website: Here.

Kyono Madoka is a 17-year-old girl, who loves her home town Kamogawa and likes to help people in trouble. She rides a robot called Woks in her jersey wear and fights against aliens.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 9, 2012
Genres: Comedy, School, Shounen, Slice of Life
Producers: Sunrise
Official website: Here.

The original gag comedy manga follows the humorous yet "realistic" everyday life of Tadakuni, Hidenori, Yoshitake, and other students at a boys' high school.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 9, 2012
Genres: Mystery, Drama, Horror, School
Producers: P.A. Works
Official website: Here.

26 years ago, in a third-year classroom of a middle school, there was a student named Misaki. As an honors student who was also good at sports, the charming girl was popular with her classmates. When she suddenly died, her classmates decided to carry on as if she was still alive until graduation. Then, in the spring of 1998, a boy named Sakakibara Kouichi transfers to that classroom, and he grows suspicious of the fearful atmosphere in that classroom. In particular, there is a beautiful, aloof girl named Mei Misaki who wears an eyepatch and is always alone drawing pictures.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 10, 2012
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Producers: J.C. Staff
Official website: Here.

The October issue of Gakken's Megami Magazine is announcing on Tuesday that Onegai Teacher/Onegai Twins story creator Yousuke Kuroda and Onegai franchise character designer Taraku Uon are collaborating on a new original anime called Ano Natsu de Matteru. The anime will be an adolescent romantic comedy.

The three main characters are the two girls Ichika Takatsuki and Remon Yamano, and the boy Kaito Kirishima.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 11, 2012
Genres: Comedy
Producers: Feel
Official website: Here.

Segawa Yuta is a freshman of a university. He lost his parents when he was small and was raised by his sister Yuri. Yuta has been living alone since Yuri got married to a middle aged man when Yuta was a junior high student.

One day, Yuri visited Yuta's apartment and asked him to take care of her three daughters while Yuri and her husband were on a trip. He unwillingly accepted the job but the plane Yuri took went missing. In order to prevent the daughters from being adopted separately by relatives, Yuta decided to take in all three girls.

A life of a strange family in a tiny apartment begins. (The elder two of the daughters are stepchildren of Yuri's husband. The smallest one is Yuri's child.)

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type:TV
Release date: Jan 13, 2012
Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural
Producers: Aniplex, David Production
Official website: Here.

The Shirakiin house's daughter, Shirakiin Riricho, who has a complex about being unable to live independently and unprotected, feels the need to move out and live on her own under the condition of residing in the mansion named "Ayakashi Kan." In this mansion, only those who have cleared a very strict examination could reside in it, and for each resident, they are accompanied with one agent of the Secret Service (S.S.). Although Riricho has rejected the company of the S.S., while residing in the mansion she finds out that the agent dedicated to protecting her is actually the Fox Spirit whom she previously rescued.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 13, 2012
Genres: Comedy, Historical, Seinen
Producers: DLE


The story is a comedy about Lucius, an architect of public bath houses in ancient Rome, who time-travels to various modern-day baths in Japan. The author explores the two cultures in the world "that have loved baths the most: the Japanese and the Romans."

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Type: TV
Release date: Jan 18, 2011
Genres: Mecha
Producers: TV Tokyo, Oriental Light and Magic, Dentsu

In 2046, a revolutionary 80% shock-absorbing reinforced cardboard has been developed, rapidly transforming the world's exports. The reinforced cardboard would soon become the battleground for a popular children's hobby called "LBX" (Little Battler eXperience).

Four years later, a boy named Yamano Ban who loves to play with LBX (although without a mecha himself) is given a case containing the model AX-00 by a mysterious woman. He is told that he now holds the hopes and despairs of mankind in his hands.

Synopsis by: MAL

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Type: OVA
Release date: Jan 18, 2012
Producers: AIC, KENMedia
Genres: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Yaoi
Official website: Here.

The story is set in the future on the planet named Amoi which is controlled by a supercomputer named Jupiter. Among the mostly male human population, the light-haired elite class is allowed to temporarily keep the dark-haired "mongrels" as pets. One elite member, Iason, encounters a mongrel named Riki in the slums and decides to take him in. However, Iason keeps Riki longer than it is socially approved, and rumors abound about their possible relationship.

Synopsis by: MAL



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Type: OVA
Release date: Jan 25, 2012
Genres: Mystery, Ecchi, Parody
Producers: Studio Deen, Frontier Works
Official website: Here.

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Type: Special
Release date: Jan 25, 2012
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Seinen
Producers: Shaft
Official website: Here.

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Type: OVA
Release date: 27 Jan, 2012
Genres: Adventure
Producers: Kinema Citrus, Nihon Falcom
Official website: Here.

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Type: OVA
Release date: Jan 28, 2012
Genres: Action, Adventure, Ecchi, Fantasy
Producers: Arms, Hobby Japan
Official website: Here.

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Type: Special
Release date: 27 Jan, 2012
Genres: Action, Mystery, Shounen, Supernatural, Psychological, Thriller
Producers: FUNimation EntertainmentL, Asread
Official website: Here.

According to Neowing, the second and the fourth volumes of the Mirai Nikki Blu-rays will carry unaired "Ura Mirai Nikki" anime (the short episodes of Mur Mur inserted at the end of the main episodes). The second volume will be released on January 27th. More unaired Ura Mirai Nikki will be released in the later volumes.

Synopsis by: MAL