New Anime Season October/Nov 2007

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:09 pm

Everybody probably has their own source for anime info for upcoming seasons these days, but I completed this list for the October/November 2007 anime season last night:

This info comes from Moonphase, AnimeNfo, Anime News Network Encyclopedia, Pukiwiki, Anime News Service, Wikipedia and AnimeSuki Forum (mostly NeoSam's genre descriptions there (and Eggplant). I find shounen/shoujo/seinen/josei descriptions very helpful):

(I'm not including the talking doll show "Kawaii Jenny" or the little kids show "Pururun! Shizuku-chan", but they're coming out this season too. I doubt they'll get English fansubbed)

Scheduled dates are subject to change without notice.
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Moonlight Mile 2nd Season -Touch Down- (fourteen episode TV series) - Airing September 13th, 2007 11:00PM:
http://www.moonlightmile.jp/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=8236
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,4006 ... mile_.html
Genre: Seinen (young men's), Sci-fi, Drama

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Choco Mimi (TV series) - Airing October 1st, 2007 5:30PM:
Genre: Shoujo
(From Anime News Service): Konami Sonoda's 4 frame manga Choco Mimi (serialized in Ribbon) has its drama adaptation debuting on October 1st at 17:30 on TV Tokyo. The fashion comedy serialized from from June, 2003 - June 2006. The cast includes Teramoto Yukika, Masuyama Kayano, Tohko Miura and Kido Yuuya.

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D.C. II ~Da Capo II~ (thirteen episode TV series) - Airing October 2nd, 2007 12:00AM:
http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/dc2/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=8092
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,4073 ... a_cap.html
YouTube clip for the Da Capo II game OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZsQsWx4ZVM
Genre: Shounen/Seinen, Comedy, Romance, Drama, Supernatural
(From Eggplant): Similar to its predecessor, the story takes place on the same island in Japan, Hatsunejima. It is set 53 years after the original game. The Asakura sisters are the granddaughters of Asakura Junichi and Asakura Nemu from the first Da Capo. It is unknown if Shirakawa Nanaka, Mizukoshi Maika, and Suginami are related to Shirakawa Kotori, the Mizukoshi sisters, and Suginami from the first game. Yoshino Sakura and Asakura Junichi are the only returning characters, and Asakura Nemu is the only other character to be mentioned by name. Yume, Nanaka, Minatsu, and Sakura's themes are remixes of themes from previous games.

I expect this to be mostly light, fluffy and silly like the two seasons of the first Da Capo anime series. I might like it though. Hopefully it's not TOO silly, light and fluffy for me. Might as well milk your popular franchise for as long as you can.

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Bamboo Blade (TV series) - Airing October 2nd, 2007 1:30AM:
http://www.bambooblade.jp/pc/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=8455
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,4077 ... blade.html
Genre: Seinen, Comedy, Sports, School Life
Kojirou is the kendo instructor at Muro'e High School. He is totally broke. He has agreed to send his team to a competition against his senpai's team. If his all female team can win the competition, he will have free meals for a year! But, the problem is that Kojirou seems unable to find five, gifted girls to form the "dream team"--and time is running out...

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Sketchbook ~full color's~ (TV series) - Airing October 2nd, 2007 2:00AM:
http://www.sketch-full.net/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=8031
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,4050 ... ___fu.html
YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2LYeED7bE
Genre: Seinen, Comedy, School Life
(Wikipedia manga description): a Japanese four-panel comic strip written and illustrated by Japanese manga author Totan Kobako. The story revolves around a group of female high school students. The main characters is a young shy girl named Sora Kajiwara who is unsure of what club to join in her school, but before she knows it she gets dragged into the art club and becomes a member.

At first glance it appears to be a fairly my-pace, relaxing atmosphere kind of anime.

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BLUE DROP~Tenshitachi no Gikyoku~ (thirteen episode TV series) - Airing October 2nd, 2007 2:00AM:
http://blue-drop.jp/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=8265
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,4066 ... _tens.html
YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyh60Ybf6Yw
Genre: Seinen
In 1995, all 800 habitants of the isolated Kamikakushi Island vanished in one night, all but a single girl who lost her memory. The cause of the disappearances was never identified. Four years later, that girl, Mari, transfers to a girl's dormitory school, Kaihou Gakuen, leaving behind her grandmother who had been her guardian ever since the incident. There, she meets Hagino. Hagino is the school idol and completes her student council responsibilities flawlessly. The moment she touches Mari

EternityOfPain · Post by **EternityOfPain** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:52 pm

Hopefully later when I have time I can look through you complied list (which i might add is awesome) but at the current time, I have to say I am looking forward to seeing the new You're Under Arrest series. As a series thats been on my top 10 since i can remember I am very pleased to see that the anime series is being revisted. Also as a fan of akagi I am looking forward to seeing Kaiji. Ill have to get back to you on any other titles

otakusin · Post by **otakusin** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 5:15 pm

Even before you posted your list, I had three in mind that were definite watches, these are the three for me...

1-Myself;Yourself
2-ef -a tale of memories
3-CLANNAD

Mara · Post by **Mara** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:40 pm

What the...
I followed the link to the official site of Gundam 00, and it looks so... weird! The characters have such bizarre yet uninteresting designs, especially the women. And the names... Allelujah Haptism??

The Gundams look really bulky and stiff, too.
Maybe I'm just biased because I love Gundam Wing so much.

rallihir · Post by **rallihir** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:31 pm

Keropi,

I second your list. I have been waiting for Clannad, ef, and Prism Ark ever since seeing some of the artwork in Megami.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:31 pm

How long?

Penguinton · Post by **Penguinton** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:09 pm

Woh long list. Thanks for posting this though.

I wanna see Bamboo Blade and Gundam 00!

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:48 pm

Okay...Prism Ark is disappointing a lot of people so far. It's nothing like I expected. Apparently it's not much like the game. The second episode was more like a fanservice slapstick comedy than anything else. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you should know what to expect before you start watching it. I wish I had known.

I'm enjoying Clannad, ef, Da Capo II, Bamboo Blade and Kaiji so far. I'm getting some kicks out of Ninomiya-kun and Kimikiss too. Kodomo no Jikan was heavily censored for its broadcast. Even what the characters said was cut out three times. I don't know if the series is worth broadcasting at this rate.

animeobsessed · Post by **animeobsessed** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:44 pm

Thanks for the summaries.

I did check out the first episodes of Clannad and Night Wizard and both look interesting.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:54 am

animeobsessed wrote:I did check out the first episodes of Clannad and Night Wizard and both look interesting.

I like KEY game male protagonist leads. They are somewhat smooth and sarcastic like the old ren'ai gaming leads from eight to ten years ago. Nowadays we usually get generic "nice" guy male leads that require less skill to write about.

So instead of getting "respectable" leads we get "likeable" ones. "Likeable" male leads are okay, but when 80-85 percent of them are of the same type then they begin to feel monotonous, bland and stereotypical.

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For some reason this anime still doesn't appear to be listed on Moonphase. I decided to look it up since I seen the second episode floating around:

Yattokame Tanteidan ("The Appearance of The Old Lady Detective Group")(TV series) - Airing October 7th, 2007:
http://www.anime-yattokame.com/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=8770
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3764 ... tante.html
Genre: Mystery, Novel
(AnimeNfo:) -- This anime is based on a novel with the same title. The protagonist of the series is a 74-year-old woman who manages a dagashi-ya (cheep sweet shop) in Nagoya. She is popular among the neighbors, and they always ask her troubles.

I skimmed through the first episode, but the simplified artwork is not from the type of anime that I normally prefer to watch.