hana's Summer Anime Forecast 2013 (June/July/August)

Kingdom 2
AirDate: June 8th 2013
Genre: Action, Historical, Military, Seinen

Summary: In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi.

Second season of Kingdom.

Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou
AirDate: July 1st 2013
Genre: Comedy, Supernatural

Summary: A nonsense comical mystery. Harumi Kazuhito is a high school boy who loves books and is a fan of novelist Natsuno Kirihime. One day, he finds Kirihime writing at a cafe, about to be shot by a robber. He protects her from the attack but is killed instead. Through the supernatural power of a book-worm, he is reincarnated as a dachshund dog. Kazuhito (as a dog) writhes in a painful bookless life, when a sadistic woman carrying a pair of scissors offers him help. She is Kirihime herself.
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Recorder to Ransel Mi♪
AirDate: July 1st 2013
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Seinen

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

Third season of Recorder to Randoseru.



BROTHERS CONFLICT
AirDate: July 2nd 2013
Genre: Romance, Shoujo, Harem

Summary: Hinata Ema is the only daughter of a famous adventurer, Hinata Rintarou. One day, Ema learns that Rintarou is going to remarry with a successful apparel maker named Asahina Miwa. Since she doesn't want to disturb them, Ema decides to move out and live with her 11 new brothers in a mansion called Sunrise Residence. As they live under the same roof, romance is starting to grow between Ema and the Asahina brothers.



Gifuu Doudou!! Naoe Kanatsugu: Maeda Keiji Sakegatari
AirDate: July 2nd 2013
Genre: Action, Historical, Martial Arts, Samurai, Seinen

Summary: The Sengoku era gave birth to many historical legends. One of them is Naoe Kanetsuku, the brilliant military general of the Uesugi family. Together with Maeda Keiji, a legendary warrior on the battlefield, who become lifelong friends with each other, they carve out a piece of history in the most dangerous and volatile time in Japan’s history. The two men recall their beginnings and the journey they took to get to the accomplished position they now sit at.



Senyuu. S2
AirDate: July 2nd 2013
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Shounen

Summary: Long ago, there lived an evil being who reigned over the world through fear, called Satan Rchimedes. He invaded the human world with his many demon underlings, spreading madness and chaos everywhere. One thousand years ago, this menace was sealed by the hero Creation, and peace returned to the world.

Then, one day, a great hole suddenly appeared on the surface of the world, and a vast number of demons appeared. The king discerned that the menace Satan had returned after being sealed away for a thousand years, and decided to send the hero's descendants to battle him. He found 75 men. As one thousand years had passed, you see, it was difficult to tell who the hero's descendants were.

So the king declared that he would grant the title of "true hero" and great fortune to the one who defeated Satan, and ordered the new hero, Alba, and his warrior attendant, Ross, on a quest to bring down the evil Satan.

Though he struggles with lesser monsters and is even nearly killed by his partner Ross, Alba's quest to polish his fighting skills leads him to new places and new meetings that he had never expected. Battles, laughter, and emotional moments enhance this adventure tale of an incompetent hero and a sadistic warrior!

Second season of Senyuu.
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Free!
AirDate: July 3rd 2013
Genre: Sports

Summary: The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each of the boys went their separate ways.

Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka, gathers together Makoto and Nagisa once again and brings a new member named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin.
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Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei - The Animation
AirDate: July 4th 2013
Genre: Action, Mystery, Horror, Psychological

Summary: A group of 15 elite high school students are gathered at a very special, high class high school. To graduate from this high school essentially means you'll succeed in life, but graduating is very difficult. The school is presided over by a bear called Monokuma, and he explains to them that their graduation hinges around committing a murder. The only way to graduate is to kill one of your classmates and get away with it. If the other classmates discover the identity of the killer, the killer is the only one executed. However, if they fail to catch the killer, only the killer graduates and the others are annihilated. Which of the 15 will survive the bloodbath to come?
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Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku
AirDate: July 4th 2013
Genre: School Life, Seinen

Summary: When a friend asks Natsuki what high school club she's going to join, she cheerfully responds "the go-home club" (meaning, she's not going to join any of them). However, she soon realizes that this club actually exists at her high school, and she's just expressed interest in joining it! Before she knows it, she ends up as one of the two new members of "the go-home club," which is a small group of eccentric school girls. One of the girls likes fighting bears, while another is ridiculously rich. But what exactly constitutes the activities of "the go-home club"?



Love Lab
AirDate: July 4th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life

Summary: The Fujisaki Girls Academy is known for their school body being composed of very proper students. The most prominent one of them is Maki, the student president who is admired by her classmates for her calm and polite demeanor. On the other hand, Kurahashi Riko is also admired but for having a very forward and boyish personality. Riko accidentally walks into Maki while she's practicing kissing with a pillow and learns that she isn't what everyone thinks she is. Riko is forced into keeping Maki's secret and join her in practicing all aspects of romance like holding hands and more.
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Rozen Maiden 2013
AirDate: July 4th 2013
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Magic

Summary: Sakurada Jun spends his days online, ordering whatever he takes a liking to, only to return it before the payment is due. Due to psychological trauma from school, Jun generally keeps contact with people as little as possible. One day he finds instructions online that tell him to put his order into his desk drawer. Rubbing it off as a joke, Jun mindlessly does so only to find that his order instantly disappears from his drawer. A package suddenly appears, containing a beautiful antique doll. When wound up, this doll comes to life. Sadly for Jun, this doll Shinku views Jun as an equivalent for a servant. Despite the constant demands Jun now receives from Shinku, she slowly helps him overcome his fears of human contact as well as protect him from the deadly battles that come into his life due to her appearance.

Continuation of the Rozen Maiden series.
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Senki Zesshou: Symphogear G
AirDate: July 4th 2013
Genre: Action, Music, Sci-Fi

Summary: Two years ago, a pair of idols, Tsubasa Kazanari and Kanade Amou, collectively known as ZweiWing, fought against an alien race known as Noise using armor known as Symphogear. To protect a girl named Hibiki Tachibana, who got severely wounded by the Noise, Kanade sacrificed herself. Two years later, as Tsubasa has fought the Noise alone, Hibiki ends up gaining the same power as Kanade.
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Servant x Service
AirDate: July 4th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life

Summary: Anime about the staff of the health and welfare section of the ward office of a certain city. Newcomers Hasebe Yutaka, Yamagami, Miyoshi Saya, and their supervisor Ichimiya Taishi go through the everyday quirks of working at their office.
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Stella Jogakuin Koutou-ka C³-bu
AirDate: July 4th 2013
Genre: School Life, Military

Summary: Yura Yamato has just arrived at the high school division of Stella Women's Academy, when Sonora Kashima invites her to join a club called "C³". Sonora is the third-year student who became the new head of this club for military survival games. The other members include two second-year students (part-Japanese Karila Hatsuse and G36K-wielding Honoka Mutsu) and two other new students (Rento Kirishima whose family runs a Japanese sweets shop and the really short Yachiyo Hinata).
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Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS
AirDate: July 5th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, School Life, Sports

Summary: According to Dengeki Online, the second season of Ro-Kyu-Bu! was announced at Dengeki 20th Anniversary festival.



Fantasista Doll
AirDate: July 6th 2013
Genre: Action, Magical Girl

Summary: This original story revolves around cute dolls who fight and power up with special cards.
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Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou: il sole penetra le illusioni
AirDate: July 6th 2013
Genre: Magic

Summary: An Aniplex original production.
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Genshiken Nidaime
AirDate: July 6th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Parody, Slice of Life

Summary: New series of Genshiken, adapted from the manga.



Hakkenden -Touhou Hakken Ibun- S2
AirDate: July 6th 2013
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Shoujo, Supernatural

Summary: When their village was wiped out five years ago, only Shino Inuzuka, Sosuke Inukawa, and the girl Hamaji, who was raised as if she were their sister, survived. And both men inexplicably have the same peony-shaped birthmark. Genpachi Inukai and Kobungo Inuta were raised hundreds of miles away as foster brothers, but they too share the same birthmark. When they went north as part of the army three years ago, they went to confront demons and came back forever transformed. Now the Imperial Church has come for Shino and Sosuke and they must find eight mystical gems and their owners or face a fate worse than death at the hands of the Church.

Second season of Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun.
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Kami-sama no Inai Nichiyoubi
AirDate: July 6th 2013
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy

Summary: God abandoned the world on Sunday. As a result, nobody in the world can die or reproduce. A little girl, Ai, is the gravekeeper for a village. She has prepared 47 graves for the eventual deaths of every member of the village. Later, a boy who identifies himself as "Hampnie Hambart, the 'Man-eating Toy'," which is coincidentally the name that Ai's mother left behind as the name of her father, arrives in the village and slaughters everybody. Just what is going on?
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Kiniro Mosaic
AirDate: July 6th 2013
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Slice of Life

Summary: The story begins with Oomiya Shinobu, a 15-year-old, seemingly pure Japanese girl who actually did a homestay in Great Britain. Even after coming back to Japan, she still misses her time overseas. One day, an airmail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu's host family in Great Britain. The letter reads: Shinobu, I'm coming to Japan! The Japanese/British girls' mixed comedy follows the lives of Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain.
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Monogatari Series: Second Season
AirDate: July 6th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, Supernatural

Summary: Shuurei needs to deal with more obstacles in the new series. More danger comes her way but at the same time meeting friends who will help her with her work as an official.

Adaptation of the second season of the Monogatari Series.
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Blood Lad
AirDate: July 7th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Demons, Vampires, Supernatural, Seinen

Summary: Staz is the vampire boss of a section of the demon world, but he has little interest in human blood. He's more infatuated with Japanese culture. When he learns that Yanagi Fuyumi, a Japanese teenage girl, accidentally wanders into the demon city, he jumps to the occasion. However, while Staz deals with an intruder on his turf, the oblivious Fuyumi is killed by a monster and becomes a wandering ghost. The disappointed Staz vows to her that he will find a way to bring Fuyumi back to life.
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Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist
AirDate: July 7th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Shoujo, Supernatural

Summary: The story revolves around William, an aristocratic family's progeny with rare intellect. One day, his uncle lost his possessions after his business failed. Fearing that his family's name has been tarnished, William returns home and searches with his family's butler for anything that can be converted into cash. A search of the premises yields an underground room left by an ancestor. In the room is a magical seal, and William unintentionally summons a devil. The summoned devil tells William his name Dantalion, and reveals that William is the designator who can choose the acting ruler of the demon world.
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High School DxD NEW
AirDate: July 7th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Demons, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Shounen, Harem

Summary: Issei Hyodo is your average perverted high school student whose one wish in life is to have his own harem, but he's got to be one of the unluckiest guys around. He goes on his first date with a girl only to get brutally attacked and killed when it turns out the girl is really a vicious fallen angel. To top it all off, he's later reincarnated as a devil by his gorgeous senpai who tells him that she is also a devil and now his master! One thing's for sure, his peaceful days are over. In a battle between devils and angels, who will win?

Second season of Highschool DxD.
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Tamayura~More Aggressive~
AirDate: July 7th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Slice of life

Summary: The story takes place in Seto Inland Sea and is about a girl who likes taking pictures.

The second season of Tamayura: Hitotose, announced to be aired from Summer 2013.
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Teekyuu S2
AirDate: July 7th 2013
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Shounen, Sports

Summary: Teekyuu is based on a sports comedy manga of the same name featuring four high school girls who belong to a tennis club.

Second season of Teekyu.
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Uchouten Kazoku
AirDate: July 7th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

Summary: In Kyoto, there are three kinds of residents: humans, raccoon dogs, and tengu. Shimogamo Yasaburou is the third son of the Shimogamo raccoon dog family. His father, Souichirou, had been the head of Kyoto raccoon dog community until he was eaten by the human members of "Friday Club". While taking care of old tengu, fighting with other raccoon dogs, and playing with a psychic human girl, Yasaburou approaches the truth of his father's death.
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The World God Only Knows: Goddesses Arc
AirDate: July 8th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Shounen, Harem, Supernatural

Summary: Keima is a dating sim champion. Cute girls are rendered powerless by his irresistible game playing techniques. Too bad things aren't that way in the real world. That is, until his tempting game playing causes a real live—and very bubbly-cute—demon hunter named Elsie to materialize! Now Elsie wants Keima to help her free hot girls from sneaky demons who secretly possess them.

Third season of The World Only God Knows will cover the Goddesses arc.



Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!
AirDate: July 8th 2013
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Seinen

Summary: Kuroki Tomoko is a super popular, high school girl who has had 50 years of dating experience and 100 boys... in the Otome game world. In the real world, she is a 15-year-old shut in who has all of the qualities of a "mojo" (a gloomy or unpopular woman).

However, when school isn't going as she expected, and she isn't as popular as she had thought she was, she takes a look at herself in the mirror for the first time in a few years, and has some shocking revelations...



Gin no Saji: Silver Spoon
AirDate: July 11th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life, School Life, Seinen

Summary: Yugo Hachiken dreams of life separated from his family, so he takes the initiative by enrolling in an agriculture school. He thinks, with his talent in studying, no problems will arise no matter what kind of school he attends. He is proven wrong very quickly. Raised as a city boy, he is forced to uncover the inconvenient truth about agricultural life. Enjoy the story of Hachiken, as he tries to keep up with his new friends, farmers' heirs, who are already accustomed to the harsh world of farming. With no clear goals or understanding of farming life, how will Hachiken survive this new, cruel reality? The story of a sweat, tear, and mud-stained youth begins!
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Fate/Kaleid Liner: Prisma Illya
AirDate: July 12th 2013
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic

Summary: Spin-off of Fate/stay night with Illyasviel von Einzbern as a main character where she's living an alternate life as a school girl. However, she is chosen by the Magical Stick Ruby and is involved in a quarrel between Rin (Kaleido Ruby) and Luvia (Kaleido Sapphire)
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Gatchaman Crowds
AirDate: July 12th 2013
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Summary: The story is set in Japan in the early summer of 2015. 180,000 people live in Tachikawa City, the "second metropolis" of the Tokyo area. Among them are "Gatchaman" — warriors who fight in special reinforced suits powered by "NOTE," the manifestation of special spiritual powers in living beings. A council has scouted a group of individuals with latent powers to protect Earth from alien criminals. In recent years, the council has assigned Gatchaman warriors to deal with the mysterious entity known as "MESS."



Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation
AirDate: July 12th 2013
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Parody, Sci-Fi, Supernatural

Summary: Set during 1989, it takes place in an alternate continuity where Planeptune is a small country, Lowee as a Japanese styled area and Leanbox as an invading overseas country. Lastation is an area connected with Planeptune.

Neptune is thrown into this continuity and embarks her adventure to get back. Because this is not the world/dimension or time she's supposed to live in, she is not in charge of Planeptune; a new character called Pururut also known as Iris Heart is.
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Futari wa Milky Holmes
AirDate: July 13th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Super Power

Summary: "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. But on a dark and stormy night, during a battle with their rivals "The Gentlemen Thief Empire", they lose their toys, and their fate undergoes a dramatic change..."

Third season of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes.



Kimi no Iru Machi
AirDate: July 13th 2013
Genre: Drama, Romance, Slice of Life

Summary: Eba Yuzuki, a girl from Tokyo moves to a countryside to attend high school. She lives together with a guy named Kirishima Haruto whose father is an apprentice of Eba's father. Haruto never agrees to let Yuzuki stay at his house and always rejects her. Another girl, Kanzaki Nanami, comes whom Haruto might be in love with. So... what will happen in this story?
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Shinryaku!! Ika Musume OAD
ReleaseDate: June 7th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Shounen, Slice of Life

Summary: Foolish land-born air breathers! Behold the terror from the depths, the tentacled conqueror of humanity: Squid Girl! With your pollution and stuff you really deserve it, so prepare for menacing, inky doom!

Squid Girl has come from the depths of the sea to conquer humanity for its pollution of the ocean. Within moments of arriving on the surface world, our easily distracted, little invertebrate is promptly bullied into working for the Aizawa sisters as a waitress, supplying their restaurant with squid ink. If poor Squid Girl can't handle two pushy Japanese girls, how will she ever subjugate the human race?

bundled w/ LE manga vol.14



Fairy Tail OAD
ReleaseDate: June 17th 2013
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen

Summary: OVAs bundled with the special edition of the 26th, 27th, 31st, and 35th volumes of the manga.

5. Dokidoki Ryuuzetsu Land
Adapting manga chapter 298. Released June 17, 2013.

bundled w/ LE manga vol.38
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Magical Star Kanon 100% OAD
ReleaseDate: June 18th 2013
Genre: Magic, Shounen

Summary: Kanon spin-off OVA bundled with vol. 22 of the Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai manga.



Rescue ME! OAD
ReleaseDate: June 20th 2013
Genre: Harem

Summary: The story centers on Mizutani Masayuki, an ordinary high school boy. His classmate Shimizu Sayaka lives in his home as a zealously intrusive maid, leading to uncomfortably erotic situations.

bundled w/ LE manga vol.3
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Ro-Kyu-Bu!: Tomoka no Ichigo Sundae OAD
ReleaseDate: June 20th 2013
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Sports

Summary: Talk about games being called unexpectedly! Hasegawa Subaru joined the basketball club at Nanashiba High, only to have his hopes dashed when the teams' play is suspended after the captain is suspected of having inappropriate feelings for the coach's underage daughter. Blindsided and blocked by bad luck, Subaru expectedly finds an opening for his talent with the hoops when his aunt asks him to take on the task of coaching a young girls' basketball club - a Ro-Kyu-Bu!. But can a superstar wannabe find true satisfaction while playing sixth man to a team of five girls?

Ro-Kyu-Bu! OVA bundled with the PlayStation Portable game Ro-Kyu-Bu!: Himitsu no Otoshimono.
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Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai! OAD
ReleaseDate: June 25th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life

Summary: 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.

Limited edition episode included with pre-orders for the 13th light novel volume.
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Busou Shinki OVA
ReleaseDate: June 26th 2013
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life

Summary: The slice-of-life battle story is set in a future that has neither World War III nor an alien invasion—just an ordinary future set after our current age. In this world, robots are part of everyday life, and they contribute in various aspects of society. "Shinki" are 15-centimeter-tall (about 6-inch-tall) cute partners made to assist humans. Equipped with intelligence and emotions, they devote themselves to serving their "Masters."

These Shinki can even be equipped with weapons and armor to fight each other. Such Shinki are named "Busou Shinki" (literally, "armed divine princesses"). In particular, the Shinki Ann (Arnval), Aines (Altines), and Lene (Altlene) serve a high school freshman named Masato. Things change when a new Shinki, the bellicose Strarf, joins them.

An unaired episode of the TV series.

Ark IX
ReleaseDate: July 2nd 2013
Genre: Action

Summary: The world has been divided into two halves by a giant wall to prevent the epidemic of "Dark mist". In order to shelter the refugees, artificial cities called "Arks" were built. Shido Enishi is a private detective, who works at the ninth Ark. One day, he is asked to capture a burglar. The seemingly simple case leads him to a great conspiracy.

bundled w/ LE novel vol.2
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Seitokai no Shukujitsu OAD
ReleaseDate: July 5th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Parody, School Life, Shounen, Harem

Summary: An OVA bundled with the eighth volume of the Seitokai Series Spinoff novel.



Corpse Party: Tortured Souls OAD
ReleaseDate: July 24th 2013
Genre: Horror

Summary: The Japanese production company MAGES. announced on Thursday that production on a new original video anime called Corpse Party: Tortured Soul has been green-lit.
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Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Memory of Eden OVA
ReleaseDate: July 26th 2013
Genre: Action, Drama, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Military

Summary: This project will recompile the television series (from the Asemu arc onward) to focus on the characters Asemu Asuno and Zeheart Galette.
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Mirai Nikki: Redial OAD
ReleaseDate: July 26th 2013
Genre: Action, Shounen, Supernatural, Psychological

Summary: Bundled with the brand-new Future Diary Redial (Mirai Nikki Redial) manga volume.
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Suisui no Gargantia OVA
ReleaseDate: July 26th 2013
Genre: Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Summary: The story begins in the distant future in the far reaches of the galaxy. The Human Galactic Alliance has been constantly fighting for its survival against a grotesque race of beings called "Hidiaazu." During an intense battle, the young lieutenant Ledo and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. Waking from his artificially induced hibernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the planet on the lost frontier. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas' depths in order to survive. Ledo arrives on one of the fleets called Gargantia. With no knowledge of the planet's history or culture, he is forced to live alongside Amy, a 15-year-old girl who serves as a messenger aboard the Gargantia fleet. To Ledo, who has lived a life where he knows nothing but fighting, these days of peace continue to surprise him.

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Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? OAD
ReleaseDate: July 2013
Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural

Summary: Izayoi Sakamaki, Asuka Kudou, and You Kasugabe have tremendous psychic powers and are bored with the regular world. An envelope arrives for each person, and when each opens their envelope, they are stunned to see the scenery around them change to a world they had never encountered before. They've been summoned by the Black Rabbit to help the community "No Name" to overthrow the Devil King.

OVA bundled with the eighth volume of the light novel.
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Minami-ke OVA
ReleaseDate: August 6th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life

Summary: There are three of the Minami sisters: Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, who have an average life. The girls only have each other to depend on and help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking.

bundled w/ BD vol.11



Yowamushi Pedal OAD
ReleaseDate: August 9th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports

Summary: Sakamichi Onoda is an otaku who just wants to find more people to join the recently disbanded anime club with him. However, when a couple cyclists spy his skill in riding the bulky mamachari bike he's had since youth, they attempt to convince him to join the bicycle racing club instead.

bundled w/ LE manga vol.29



Shingeki no Kyojin OAD
ReleaseDate: August 9th 2013
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Super Power

Summary: Bundled with the 11th limited-edition manga volume and it animated "Ilse no Techou" (Ilse's Journal), the prologue side story about a training corps member.



Fairy Tail x Rave OAD
ReleaseDate: August 16th 2013
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Magic, Shounen

Summary: In a town far away, Lucy, Natsu and Happy, from Mashima's Fairy Tail manga, are on a mission to find a troublemaker and deal with her. Due to unknown circumstances they get separated.

The same happens to Elie and Haru, from Mashima's Rave Master manga.

Lucy and Elie manage to meet each other and together they try to find their respective partners..

bundled w/ LE manga vol.39



Namiuchigiwa no Muromi-san OAD
ReleaseDate: August 16th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Shounen, Slice of Life

Summary: Mukoujima Takurou is a lonely teenager who spends his time fishing at the pier and, to his incredible surprise, fishes up Muromi, a mermaid. Muromi first off doesn't realize she's a mermaid until she meets Takurou. Not only that, she is incredibly dense and crazy and has a drinking problem to top it off. Now every time Takurou goes fishing, Muromi appears and makes life interesting for him.

Bundled with the ninth limited-edition volume of the manga.



To LOVE-Ru Darkness OVA
ReleaseDate: August 19th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School Life, Sci-fi, Shounen, Harem

Summary: Episode one features Momo, Mikan and Haruna. The three extra episodes of the original manga titled "Prologue", "Pollen Plan" and "Body touch?" will be animated.

Episode two covers chapter 19 "Nostalgia" and the two extra chapters "Flower" and "The changing heart" will be animated.

bundled w/ LE manga vol.8



Kamisama Hajimemashita OAD
ReleaseDate: August 20th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Demons, Fantasy, Shoujo, Supernatural

Summary: Nanami Momozono is alone and homeless after her dad skips town to evade his gambling debts and the debt collectors kick her out of her apartment. So when a man she's just saved from a dog offers her his home, she jumps at the opportunity. But it turns out that his place is a shrine, and Nanami has unwittingly taken over his job as a local deity!

Nanami has all kinda of new responsibilities she doesn't understand, dangers she's unaware of, and a cranky ex-familiar who's... actually pretty hot. What's a new-fledged godling to do?

bundled w/ LE manga vol.16



Aa! Megami-sama! OAD
ReleaseDate: August 20th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Magic, Romance, supernatural

Summary: OVAs bundled with volumes 42, 43 & 46 of the Aa! Megami-sama! manga.

bundled w/ LE manga vol.46



Little Busters! OVA
ReleaseDate: August 28th 2013
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, School Life, Slice of Life

Summary: A special unaired episode of Little Busters! sent to those who bought all 9 BD/DVD volumes of the anime. This episode includes the story about "Mask the Saito".

Hal
ReleaseDate: June 8th 2013
Genre: Romance

Summary: The happy life of Kurumi and Hal suddenly ended by a plane accident. In order to recover her willpower to live, the android Q01 was provided as "robot Hal". During her life with the robot Hal, Kurumi gradually opens her mind to the android but...
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ARISE -GHOST IN THE SHELL- border:1 Ghost Pain
ReleaseDate: June 22nd 2013
Genre: Mecha, Sci-Fi, Police, Psychological

Summary: A new Ghost in the Shell anime announced to be launched in 2013.
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Glass no Kamen Desu ga Onna Spy no Koi! Mrasaki no bara wa Kiken na Kaori!?
ReleaseDate: June 22nd 2013
Genre: Drama

Summary: New Glass no Kamen movie.
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Gekijouban Gintama Kantetsu-hen: Yorozuya no Eien Nare
ReleaseDate: July 5th 2013
Genre: Action, Comedy, Historical, Parody, Samurai, Sci-Fi, Shounen

Summary: The second movie of Gintama. It will have an original plot written by the manga author, Hideaki Sorachi.
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Gekijouban Pokemon Best Wishes! Shinsoku no Genesect: Mewtwo Kakusei
ReleaseDate: July 13th 2013
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids, Shounen

Summary: The 16th Pokemon movie and the 3rd "Best Wishes!" movie.
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Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fuukei 3D
ReleaseDate: July 13th 2013
Genre: Action, Mystery, Supernatural, Thriller

Summary: In the city where Shiki lives, something triggers a spate of mysterious schoolgirl suicides. The connection between the girls who leapt to their deaths is unclear, although all of them have jumped from the Fujou Building, a skyscraper scheduled to be demolished. Meanwhile, Mikiya, after having gone near the Fujou Building, has fallen into a coma. Shiki heads to the Fujou Building herself to save Mikiya. And waiting for her there…is Kirie Fujou. The girls' suicides and Mikiya's coma were all caused by Kirie. Terminal illness had left her bedridden and immobile in a hospital, but one day, she acquires a spiritual body, a separate entity from herself.
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Kaze Tachinu
ReleaseDate: July 20th 2013
Genre: Drama, Historical, Romance

Summary: Original work honoring Jirou Horikoshi and Tatsuo Hori.

Hayao Miyazaki's 2009 manga mini-series Kaze Tachinu focuses on Jirou Horikoshi, the designer of Japan's famed Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane of World War II. Tatsuo Hori's 1936–37 novelette Kaze Tachinu follows the tentative relationship between a male narrator and Setsuko who suffers from encroaching tuberculosis.



Toriko Movie: Bishokushin no Special Menu
ReleaseDate: July 27th 2013
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Shounen

Summary: The new Toriko movie, planned for Summer 2013.
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Saint Seiya 25th Anniversary
ReleaseDate: July 2013
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Shounen

Summary: A CG anime to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the series.

Hakuouki Movie 1: Kyoto Ranbu
ReleaseDate: August 24th 2013
Genre: Action, Drama, Historical, Samurai, Shoujo, Supernatural

Summary: First part of two Hakuouki movies.



Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Boku-tachi wa Mada Shiranai (AnoHana)
ReleaseDate: August 31st 2013
Genre: Drama, Slice of Life

Summary: The story of the TV series will be retold from Menma's point of view, and premieres in the summer of 2013.
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Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun OAD
ReleaseDate: Summer 2013
Genre: Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Slice of Life

Summary: Mizutani Shizuku is the type of person who only cares for her own grades. But when she accidentally delivers lesson notes to Yoshida Haru, he becomes convinced they are friends.

Haru turns out to have a very innocent personality, but who would've thought that Haru would actually confess to Shizuku?

A cold-hearted girl and super-troublemaker romance with a fresh new perspective.

Bundled with the 12th volume of the manga.



Sukitte Ii na yo. OAD
ReleaseDate: Summer 2013
Genre: Romance, School Life, Shoujo

Summary: Mei Tachibana has spent her 16 years without a boyfriend or friends. One day, she injures the most popular boy in school, Yamato Kurosawa, due to a misunderstanding. For some reason though, it seems that he takes a liking to her and one-sidedly claims that they're friends. Furthermore, he not only protects Mei from a stalker, but does so with a kiss…?!!

Bundled with the 11th volume of manga.



Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 2 OVA
ReleaseDate: Summer 2013
Genre: Action, Mecha, Military

Summary: The story takes place in Europe in the year a.t.b. 2017. A Knightmare unit made of boys and girls from Area Eleven are thrown into a military operation with a 5% chance of survival. They must rescue an allied unit left behind on the European warfront.

Second episode of Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito was announced to come out in Summer 2013.
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