A Quick Overview of the series in this new anime season October 2011!

Last season was full of surprises and great shows as well as few failures.

This new season that begins in October doesn't bring much novelty in regards to new shows, but there are new shows that are promising!

The highlights are the new season of Bakuman and the return of Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi! 

Bakuman season 2: 

Premiere Date: October 1

Our protagonists are on the verge of publication and new challenges arise!


The Pros: the great story, animation and pacing that follows the manga arc.

The Cons: lack of promotion by NHK

Guilty Crown

It will premiere on the Nnoitamina block, the story is set in 2039 and revolves around Shū, a boy who has acquired an ability called the "power of kings" that allows him to draw out weapons from another person. He joins a resistance group named "Undertaker" which aims to restore Japan's independence from an international organization known as the GHQ.

The Pros: from the trailers, the animation looks great, the premise is ok.

The Cons: if it drags out too much, it could have the same fate as Deadman Wonderland.

Premiere date: October 13

Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi season 2 


The Pros: deliciously unique series with great relationship plots, the guilty pleasure of fujoshis everywhere!! Bishonen-ai!


The Cons: huh?? 

Premiere date: October 7

Working!! 

Based on the four-koma manga, it concerns the activities of the unusual employees at the Wagnaria family restaurant, the fun will ensue!

The Pros: yes, more comedy! It seems to be the new trend.

The Cons: a good comedy series rarely fails, though there's always the possibility it will.

Premiere date: October 1

Un-go! 

There is quite the mystery around this one, it will also premiere on Nnoitamina slot. Its production values are already high with their opening theme done by School Food Punishment, 'How to go', while the ending theme is "Fantasy" by LAMA.

The Pros: did I mention that this is done by the Full Metal Alchemist original staff??

The Cons: there's not much info, this could be the underdog horse which we all know what happens when it wins. The series is based on a light novel set on the Meiji era with a detective theme.

Premiere date: October 13

Ben-to 

Also based on a light novel, the story revolves around a poor high school student named Yo Sato. Sato goes one day to the supermarket and finds a bento (lunch box) for sale at half price.

The Pros: looks really cute from the trailers. I hope the story's quality exceeds it.

The Cons: people that hate moe.

Premiere date: October (TBA)

Yuri Seijin Naoko san 

The other guilty pleasure of the season for yuri lovers.

The Pros: it could have the same success as Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi, if the plot doesn't revolve much around yuri, but actually stories.

The Cons: precisely because of the theme, it could not last long. It's a gamble.

Premiere date: November 30

Phi Brain- Kami no Puzzle 


The adventure series is about two high-schoolers that challenge dangerous “philosopher’s puzzles”.

The Pros: the promotion has been around for a year now. The artwork and animation looks pretty good for the trailers.

The Cons: will it go the same way as Kamisama no Memochou?

Premiere: October (TBA)

Bleach 

The Pros: the great fan expectation over when the new arc post-Aizen will be animated. The last Kageroza arc, though a filler, was well animated with good fights at the end.

The Cons: the fillers!! It seems they will have us with one year of fillers!

Naruto Shippuden

The Pros: this show has been through such up and dows that it's part of their charm. Really, it's a classic show!

The Cons: More fillerology until they finally decide to catch up!

One Piece 

The Pros: over 500 episodes make this anime among the legendary. The most read manga in the world will always keep this show alive.

The Cons: well, the usual. Fillers and tons of haters.

Beelzebub:

The Pros: this show has really grown strong, it's already going the path of the classic. The characters and situations in these last episodes have been nothing short of epic histerical. The animation quality has improved to a standard.

The Cons: really? There are no cons?

Gintama 

The Pros: After a long break, this show returned on January stronger than ever. The great advantage that both this show and Beelzebub have is that they can have their own filler episode without straying from the manga since it's comedy.


The Cons: frankly, nothing

SKET Dance

The Pros: this series is going strong to the point that it's on crossovers with Gintama and now Bakuman.

The Cons: there isn't any except if they stick to lame episodes for too long, which I don't it would happen.

Nurarihyon no Mago: Sennen Makyo

The Pros: I can say that this show has quietly become the strongest show of the season without making much of a fuss. The outstanding quality of the story and the animation has endured greatly.


The Cons: I kinda wish that this series would be a continuous one instead of per season, but that would decrease the quality, wouldn't it? Who really wants Nuramago fillers? Yuck.

¬ ¬          *stares at Blue Exorcist filler arc that ends the season in a low note.
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Bakuman October schedule!

Without making much of a fuss in publicity, Bakuman season 2 returns in October to NHK as our protagonists are on the verge of being serialized!

New challenges arise!

Episode 26 "Silence and Party" (沈黙と宴) October 1, 2011

Episode 27 "Anthology and Photograph Collection" (文集と写真集) October 8, 2011

Episode 28 "Love and Snow" (恋と雪) October 15, 2011

Episode 29 "Shoring Up and Patience" (テコと我慢) October 22, 2011

Naruto Shippuden October schedule!

Naruto's sea adventures continue! Fillerology mixed with canon!
 To be honest, some of these episodes have been bizarre but good. 

Episode 230 "Revenge of the Shadow Clones" (影の逆襲) September 29, 2011 <---- should this have been the title of Star Wars Episode 2, instead of Attack of the Clones?? O_O

Episode 231 "The Closed Sea Route" (閉ざされた航路) October 6, 2011

Episode 232 "The Leaf Village Girls-Only Club" (木ノ葉の女子会) October 13, 2011

Episode 233 "Enter Imposter Naruto?" (参上 嘘?ナルト) October 20, 2011

Episode 234 "Naruto's Favorite Pupil" (ナルトの愛弟子) October 27, 2011

Ranma 1/2 gets a live-action special!!

Great news on this classic series!

A live-action television adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma ½ martial arts comedy manga will air this December as a two-hour special on Japan's NTV network. Yui Aragaki (Digimon: Data Squad, Koizora) will play Akane Tendō, and Kento Kaku (Paradise Kiss, Gokusen) and Natsuna (Gantz) will play the dual male/female sides of the title character Ranma Saotome.

source: ANN

Shaman King manga returns to Jump Kai magazine!

Creator Hiroyuki Takei of Ultimo fame returns to his renowned manga Shaman King with a 44-page short story, a 'zero story' around the protagonist Yo Asakura.This story is set to come out in November 10 in Jump X (Kai) magazine by Shueisha.

The "zero story" will be the first in a series on short manga stories launching in the magazine.

Bakuman season 2 trailer!!

I was already wondering where were the previews if the second season is going to premiere in October 1.


But finally, NHK reopened their official Bakuman site with this small preview of episode titled 'Chinmoku to en':


The journey continues as our heros are on the verge of publication!! More Niizuma Eiji epicness!!

The controversy on Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo suing youtube anime uploaders

Considering how Crunchyroll started O_O, this news was surprising and ironic to say the least:

Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo have issued a lawsuit against 13 YouTube uploaders for allegedly illegal distribution of anime episodes, according to a copyright infringement complaint filed on May 11 and served between July and September. Crunchyroll and TV Tokyo are seeking reparation for "great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money" because of the defendants' allegedly unauthorized copying, uploading, and distributing via YouTube of multiple Naruto, Naruto Shippūden, and Bleach episodes.

Based on their YouTube subscriber information, the defendants reside in the United States, Japan, Canada, Denmark, and Hungary. Crunchyroll maintains its main offices in California (as does YouTube), so the suit was filed as a U.S. copyright violation in the Northern District Court of California. For the purposes of the lawsuit, TV Tokyo is giving Crunchyroll legal permission to act on its behalf in order to "permanently remove the illegal uploads of infringing parties from file-sharing services and to obtain legal relief against infringers."

Crunchyroll also issued a statement in which they seem to back down, given that they don't support or endorse legal actions against anime fans and viewers. For them, "they have identified a few specific accounts on YouTube which were responsible for over 200 million unauthorized streams of our licensed content. These accounts were owned by repeat uploaders who continued to illegally distribute licensed shows despite receiving multiple DMCA takedown notices. In compliance with YouTube's TOS, filing a formal legal complaint was a necessary step in order to keep these illegal streams off of YouTube."

However, is Youtube the place to watch streamed anime episodes anymore?

Gokicha/Cockroach Girls doujinshi to be serialized in magazine

I know this is an old piece of news, but that doesn't make it less amusing and original.

Rui Tamachi launched the magazine serialization of the Gokicha (Cockroach Girls) four-panel comedy manga in the September issue of Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat magazine on Thursday.

The title character Gokicha is an anthropomorphized cockroach (gokiburi in Japanese) who came to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido from Tokyo's Kanto area to look for a human friend.Tamachi originally created the manga under the dōjin (self-published) circle name Rui-Tomo at the Comic Market 77 event in December of 2009.

Plans for a mobile anime were revealed in January. Nerd-Goods.com already sells a t-shirt based on the character. Aoshima is releasing plastic models of Gokicha and fellow cockroach girl Chaba this month.

Sengoku Paradise Anime Announced

Another historical bishonen series, but this time based on a mobile game, has been announced and it will premiere on October 3.

If done well, this would be badass!

Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi 2nd season trailer!!!

Finally!!! It will premiere on October 7!! Can't wait!!

More Guilty Crown trailers streamed!!

The series will premiere on October 13 on Nnoitamina block of Fuji TV and looks very promising!

 These are various versions that are available at Production I.G's official site of the series: here

A Steins Gate movie is in the works!!!!

With the success of the anime series, which just ended yesterday at episode 24, a teaser of the upcoming film was revealed at the end of the episode:

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5pb. studio head/producer Chiyomaru Shikura had revealed the news before the announcement actually aired. Steins;Gate producer Yoshinao Doi had also indicated earlier on Tuesday that viewers should keep watching their televisions after the episode's ending animation sequence is over.

 There's still no date of release yet, but it can be highly likely for 2012!

Working!! trailer streamed

The sequel to this comedy series is set to premiere on October 1.

 The anime is based on Karino Takatsu's manga of the same name, which revolves around a high school freshman named Sota Takanashi who works part-time among a restaurant's high-spirited, eccentric, yet cool staffers. The first season aired during the spring 2010 anime season. NIS America, the American subsidiary of the Nippon Ichi Software videogame company, licensed the series last November and released it under the name Wagnaria!! earlier this year.

Blue Exorcist latest manga volume and novel in top of charts!

The 7th manga volume of this acclaimed series has sold over 432,000 copies last month, and it ranked #1 in Oricon charts.

As for the novel, titled Blue Exorcist: Weekend Hero, sold 62,000 copies in its first week. The new development was illustrated by Kazue Kato and Aya Yajima.

 Shueisha ran a first print run of one million copies for Blue Exorcist's seventh manga volume, and it was the first manga from Jump Square magazine to reach that milestone.

 Since the television anime version premiered this past April, the print runs for this manga's first printings have grown more than seven times larger. Shortly after the anime was announced, the fifth manga volume shipped with a first printing of 140,000 copies last December.

Just before the anime premiered on April 17, the sixth manga volume shipped with a 260,000-copy first printing. Due to bookstores reporting that they were selling out of earlier volumes, Shueisha decided to dramatically increase the print run for the seventh volume. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America, and Aniplex is streaming the anime.

 Source: ANN, Oricon.

Kodansha will launch new manga magazine on October 20

Kodansha will launch a new manga magazine, titled Monthly Shōnen Magazine +, on October 20.

The new magazine will include one-shots from authors from Monthly Shōnen Magazine, one-shots from new artists, and continuing serializations from Kodansha's Magazine E-no, which ceased publication in June.

The new magazine will feature the return of Ikku Masa's Sakura Taisen: Manga-ban Dainibu (Sakura Wars the Manga Part II) and Jun Shindo's Red Eyes. It will also have a new basketball gag manga titled Near Boys (a reference to Dear Boys/Hoop Days) from Cromartie High School creator Eiji Nonaka. It will include Takeshi Maekawa's one-shot spinoff manga Ironfist Chinmi Gaiden and Toka Adachi's one-shot Noragami manga, and a side story for Ryoutarou Iwanaga's Pumpkin Scissors manga drawn by Nobu Ōtsuki.

source: ANN

 I think this is a fresh breath of air for authors that work in a monthly basis, but couldn't find the space to showcase their works, since shonen mangas tended to be weekly.

Gintama and Sket Dance will get a crossover episode!!!!

OMG!!!!! This will be TEH EPIC and HISTORIC!!!!!!

The crossover manga chapters between Gintama and Sket Dance that ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on April 11 will be animated for television . The collaborative manga chapters featured the main characters of the Gintama manga and the Sket Dance manga together. In one story, Gintamas main character Gin insults the Sket Dance characters, and Gin and Sket Dance's Bossun battle it out. The animated version of the Cross Over manga chapters involves a rare collaboration between the anime studios Sunrise (Gintama) and Tatsunoko Productions (Sket Dance). Tomokazu Sugita, the voice actor for Gin, happens to also voice the Sket Dance character Switch. The Gintama episode with Sket Dance characters will air on September 26, and the Sket Dance episode with the Gintama characters will air on September 29.

source: fresh from ANN!!!Kyaaaa!!!!!!

Un-go trailer!

Un-Go will premiere on October 13.

 In the story of Un-Go, Shinjūrō Yūki (voiced by Ryo Katsuji) and Inga (voiced by Aki Toyosaki) work together to solve mysteries in a near future timeline. The story is based on the works of Ango Sakaguchi (Aoi Bungaku Series' "In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom"), a post-World War II Japanese novel and essayist.I have great expectactions for this one since Mizushima and studio BONES worked together for Fullmetal Alchemist, and the time travel theme is also there.

source: animenation