Monday, January 17, 2011
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List of Winter 2011 TV Anime in Japan
Title: Yumekui Merry
Starts: TBS, Friday, January 7 at 1:55 a.m. JST
Studio: J.C. Staff
Genre: Drama, Magic
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Series Composition: Hideki Shirane
Summary:
Ten years ago Fujiwara noticed he had a power to see multicolored auras surrounding the person's body. Ever since then he's been having a weird dream about a war with cats. Then one day a mysterious girl falls on top of him...
Title: Wolverine
Starts: Animax, Friday, January 7 at 10:00 p.m. JST
Studio: Madhouse
Genre:Action
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Hiroshi Aoyama
Series Composition: Kengo Kaji
Music: Tetsuya Takahashi
Original creator: Herb Trimpe (original artist), John Romita Sr., Len Wein
Character Design: Hisashi Abe
Rikiya Koyama as James Howlett, Logan/Wolverine
Fumiko Orikasa as Mariko Yashida
Hidekatsu Shibata as Shingen Yashida
Kazuki Yao as Hideki Kurohagi
Masato Hagiwara as Kikyo Mikage
Romi Park as Yukio
Summary:
Second in the four-part Marvel Anime project, broadcasting after the Iron Man anime. Wolverine is a mutant possessing animal-keen senses, enhanced psychical capabilities, three retracting bone claws on each hand and a healing factor that allows him to recover from virtually any wound, disease or toxin at a accelerated rate.
Title: Rio - Rainbow Gate!
Starts: Tokyo MX, Tuesday January 4 at 11:00 p.m. JST
Studio: Xebec
Genre: Comedy
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Takao Kato
Series Composition: Mayori Sekijima
Character Design: Hisashi Shimura
Marina Inoue as Rio Rollins Tachibana
Ayana Taketatsu as Mint Clark
Chiaki Takahashi as Rina
Kaori Shimizu as Rosa
Kumiko Inoue as Lisa
Saki Nakajima as Tiffany
Sayaka Ohara as Karutia
Yōko Hikasa as Linda
Yukari Fukui as Anya
Summary:
Based on Tecmo's Rio Super Carnival pachinko slot machine games. Rio is a popular casino dealer at the Howard Resort, an entertainment resort hotel where people from all over the world gather. She competes for the greatest honor among dealers — "Most Valuable Casino Dealer" (MVCD) — by collecting 13 legendary cards known as "Gates." "The Goddess of Winning" first appeared in 2003 in the Super Black Jack game franchise from the pachi-slo company Net, thanks to Net's collaboration with Tecmo (Dead or Alive) to create female characters. Rio's popularity led to several more games, including 2005's Rio Carnival, 2007's Rio Paradise, and 2009's Rio 2 -Cruising Vanadis-.
Title: Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Janain Dakara ne—!!
Starts: TV Yokohama, Sunday, January 9 at 12:30 a.m. JST
Studio: ZEXCS
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Keitaro Motonaga
Series Composition: Sayuri Ooba
Music: Tomoki Kikuya
Original creator: Kouichi Kusano
Character Design: Madoka Hirayama
Eri Kitamura as Nao Takanashi
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Shusuke Takanashi
Summary:
Junior high school student Nao is determined to make her brother, high School student Shuusuke, see her as a woman. So determined is she that goes to his room to throw away all his non-incest related porn. But as she's looking for his porno stash, she finds a photo album...and she's not in any of his childhood pictures.
Title: Mitsudomoe Zōryōchū!
Starts: MBS, Sunday, January 9 at 2:58 a.m. JST
Studio: Bridge
Genre: Comedy
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Masahiko Ohta
Series Composition: Takashi Aoshima
Music: Yasuhiro Misawa
Original creator: Norio Sakurai
Character Design: Takaharu Okuma
Ayahi Takagaki as Mitsuba Marui
Haruka Tomatsu as Hitoha Marui
Satomi Akesaka as Futaba Marui
Summary:
A sequel to the series Mitsudomoe, Zoryochu continues the adventures of teacher Satoshi Yabe (Yabe-cchi) and the troublesome Marui triplets: Futaba, Mitsuba, and Hitoha.
Title: Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
Starts: MBS, Friday, January 7 at 1:25 a.m. JST
Studio: SHAFT
Genre: Drama, Magic
Notable Cast/Staff:
Series Director: Yukihiro Miyamoto
Director: Akiyuki Shinbo
Series Composition: Gen Urobuchi
Script: Gen Urobuchi
Music: Yuki Kajiura
Original Character Design: Ume Aoki
Character Design: Takahiro Kishida
Aoi Yūki as Madoka Kaname
Chiwa Saito as Homura Akemi
Eri Kitamura as Sayaka Miki
Kaori Mizuhashi as Mami Tomoe
Emiri Katou as Kyube
Summary:
Madoka is a kind, friendly, but ordinary second-year middle school girl. She wonders aloud what she should do if she can grant whatever you may wish through magic.
Title: Level E
Starts: TV Tokyo, Tuesday, January 11 at 1:45 a.m. JST
Studio: David Production / Pierrot
Genre: Sci-Fi
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Toshiyuki Kato
Series Composition: Jukki Hanada
Music: Kunihiko Ryo
Original creator: Yoshihiro Togashi
Character Design: Itsuko Takeda
Daisuke Namikawa as Prince
Summary:
Tsutsui Yukitaka is a freshman who has finally convinced his parents that he is ready to live on his own. When he arrives at his new apartment, he is surprised to find that someone has arrived before him: a young man who claims that he is an alien and that he is suffering from amnesia.
Title: Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
Starts: Tele-Tama, Tuesday, January 11 at 1:30 a.m. JST
Studio: Studio DEEN
Genre: Action, Magic
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Takaomi Kanesaki
Series Composition: Makoto Uezu
Screenplay: Shigeru Morita, Touko Machida
Music: Shinji Kakijima
Original creator: Shinichi Kimura
Original Character Design: Kobuichi, Muririn
Character Design: Shinobu Tagashira
Iori Nomizu as Haruna
Junji Majima as Ayumu Aikawa
Summary:
Aikawa Ayumu is a normal high school boy. One day he is killed by a serial killer and revived as a zombie by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe. He starts to serve Eu as her guard but he happens to deprive the mahou shoujo Haruna of her magic power. Haruna orders Ayumu to fight against the anti-mahou shoujo system "Megalo" in her place.
Title: Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season
Starts: NTV, Wednesday, January 5 at 12:59 am JST
Studio: Production I.G
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Hiro Kaburaki
Series Composition: Tomoko Konparu
Original creator: Karuho Shiina
Character Design: Yuka Shibata
Daisuke Namikawa as Shota Kazehaya
Mamiko Noto as Sawako Kuronuma
Aya Hirano as Ume Kurumizawa
Mamoru Miyano as Kento Miura
Miyuki Sawashiro as Ayane Yano
Yuko Sanpei as Chizuru Yoshida
Yuuichi Nakamura as Ryu Sanada
Yuuki Ono as Kazuichi Arai (Pin)
Summary:
Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior. This is due to her resemblance to the ghost girl from "The Ring", which has led her peers to give her the nickname Sadako. Longing to make friends and live a normal life, she is naturally drawn to Kazehaya Shouta, the most popular guy in class, whose "100% refreshing" personality earns great admiration from Sawako.
Title: Infinite Stratos
Starts: TBS, Friday, January 7 at 1:25 a.m. JST
Studio: 8-Bit
Genre: Sci-Fi/Mech
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Yasuhito Kikuchi
Series Composition: Fumihiko Shimo
Screenplay: Chinatsu Houjou, Fumihiko Shimo
Music: Hikaru Nanase
Original creator: Izuru Yumizuru (light novel)
Original Character Design: okiura
Kouki Uchiyama as Ichika Orimura
Yōko Hikasa as Houki Shinonono
Summary:
Infinite Stratos (IS), a weaponized exoskeleton system, has become the dominant tool of warfare and conflict. Unfortunately for the men in society, only women are able to operate Infinite Stratos... with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is ORIMURA Ichika, an orphan raised by his older sister who is herself a famous IS pilot. When his compatibility with IS is discovered after he accidentally touches an IS at the age of 15, he's given a scholarship and enrolled in a school that specializes in training IS pilots. Which of course means an... intersting life surrounded by girls for this shy, unassuming boy.
Title: Hourou Musuko
Starts: Fuji TV, Friday, January 14 at 1:15 a.m. JST
Studio: AIC
Genre: Drama
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Ei Aoki
Series Composition: Mari Okada
Script: Mari Okada
Music: Keiichi Okabe, Satoru Kousaki
Original Work: Takako Shimura
Character Design: Ryuichi Makino
Asami Seto as Yoshino Takatsuki
Kosuke Hatakeyama as Shuichi Nitori
Summary:
Shuicihi Nitori appears to be a shy and quiet preteen boy, when he transfers to a new school he quickly makes friends with the tomboyish Yoshino Takatsuki who sits next to him. It soon becomes apparent that both Shucihi and Yoshino are more than simply a sensitive boy and masculine girl, they both are transgendered. Together they decide to take the first steps toward becoming the people they want to be.
Title: GOSICK
Starts: TV Tokyo, Saturday, January 8 at 1:23 a.m. JST
Studio: BONES
Genre: Drama, Horror
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Hitoshi Nanba
Series Composition: Mari Okada
Music: Kotaro Nakagawa
Original creator: Kazuki Sakuraba
Original Character Design: Hinata Takeda
Character Design: Takashi Tomioka, Toshihiro Kawamoto
Takuya Eguchi as Kazuya Kujo
Summary:
GOSICK takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centers 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.
Title: Freezing
Starts: AT-X, Saturday, January 8 at 9:30 a.m. JST
Studio: A.C.G.T.
Genre: Action
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Series Composition: Masanao Akahoshi
Screenplay: Masanao Akahoshi, Takao Yoshioka
Music: Masaru Yokoyama
Original creators: Dal-Young Lim, Kwang-Hyun Kim
Character Design: Mayumi Watanabe
Mamiko Noto as Bridgette L. Satellizer
Mitsuhiro Ichiki as Kazuya Aoi
Summary:
Set in a slightly futuristic world where Earth has been invaded and is at war with aliens from another dimension called the Nova, the story follows the adventures of a Japanese boy named Kazuya Aoi who enrolls for training at a special school for genetically modified girls called Pandoras who battle the aliens, and their male partners, called Limiters, who use a special power called "freezing" to limit their opponent's mobility. The protagonist makes the acquaintance of an unusual older girl named Bridgette L. Satellizer who appears to be the most powerful Pandora in her class, but has not yet chosen a male partner to be her Limiter, and in spite of the warnings of all his friends, he decides to be her Limiter.
Title: Fractale
Starts: Fuji TV, Friday, January 14 at 12:45 a.m. JST
Studio: A-1 Pictures Inc.
Genre: Fantasy
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Yutaka Yamamoto
Series Composition: Mari Okada
Music: Sōhei Kano
Original story: Hiroki Azuma
Original Character Design: Hidari
Character Design: Masako Tashiro
Yu Kobayashi as Clain
Kana Hanazawa as Nessa
Minami Tsuda as Phryne
Shintaro Asanuma as Sunda
Yuka Iguchi as Enri
Summary:
The story takes place in an island, where a "Fractale System" is beginning to collapse. One day, Crane finds an injured girl called Phryne under a cliff. She disappears leaving a pendant. Crane sets out for a journey with the girl-shaped avatar Nessa to look for Phryne and discovers the secret of the Fractale System.
Title: Dragon Crisis!
Starts: Chiba TV, Tuesday, January 11 at 1:30 a.m. JST
Studio: Studio DEEN
Genre: Fantasy
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Hideki Tachibana
Series Composition: Hideyuki Kurata
Music: Makoto Miyazaki
Original creator: Kaya Kizaki
Original Character Design: Itsuki Akata
Character Design: Masashi Ishihama
Hiro Shimono as Ryuji Kisaragi
Rie Kugimiya as Rose
Summary:
A normal high school boy Kisaragi Ryuji's peaceful life is turned into an adventure by the return of his second cousin Eriko. Ryuji and Eriko seize a relic box from a black broker. In the box, they find a red dragon girl Rose. In order to protect Rose from the black organization, Ryuji decides to fight using his power as a relic handler.
Title: Cardfight!! Vanguard
Starts: TV Tokyo, Saturday, January 8 at 8:00 a.m. JST
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Genre: Action, Tournament
Notable Cast/Staff:
Director: Hatsuki Tsuji
Series Composition: Tatsuhiko Urahata
Original Concept: Takaaki Kitani
Original creator: Akira Ito
Character Design: Mari Tominaga
Tsubasa Yonaga as Aichi Sendo
Summary:
Based on the card game of the same name, a collaboration between Yu-Gi-Oh! R manga creator Akira Ito, the original Duel Masters technical advisor Satoshi Nakamura, and Bushiroad President Takaaki Kidani.
Title: Beelzebub
Starts: YTV, Sunday, January 9 at 7:00 a.m. Japan Standard Time (JST)
Studio: Pierrot
Genre: Supernatural, Action, Comedy
Notable Cast/Staff:Director: Nobuhiro TakamotoSeries Composition: Masahiro YokotaniOriginal creator: Ryūhei TamuraCharacter Design: Takeshi YoshiokaKatsuyuki Konishi as Tatsumi OgaMiyuki Sawashiro as Beelzebub/Berubo
Summary:
Oga Tatsumi is a first year in Ishiyama High, the school for delinquents. One day while sleeping next to a river he sees a man floating down it, he pulls him to shore and the man splits in half revealing a baby boy. This boy is the son of the demon king and he has been chosen as the one to raise it with the baby's demon maid Hilda. The story follows his life with the child and at the delinquent school.