Here’s a rough list of Fall 2007 anime that will be airing this season. A few of them sounds interesting… I’ll make a list of my possible choices in a few days or so. I might have missed a few others, but either way, here’s the information that I’ve been able to collect (listed in alphabetical order) and all of the following will start airing this October. Without further ado, let’s proceed to the Fall 2007 anime preview list, shall we?
Bamboo Blade
Official site: http://www.square-enix.co.jp/magazine/yg/introduction/bamboo/special.html
Synopsis: 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…
(from: http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2247)
More info: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAMBOO_BLADE (it’s in Japanese)
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Blue Drop: Tenshi-tachi no Gikyoku
Official site: http://blue-drop.jp/
Synopsis: 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’s hand, however, Hagino freaks out, straddling atop Mari, hands aroundher throat. Mari is afraid of and angry at Hagino, who pretends as if nothing had happened while in front of other students, but at the same time, somehow, she is attracted to Hagino too.In reality, Hagino is actually an alien who was sent to Earth in order to reconnoiter prior to an invasion. The event on Kamikakushi Island occurred when the 200-member crew of a battleship, the Blue, whose captain was Hagino and the island’s inhabitants had killed each other. The Blue was seriously damaged and hidden. Hagino had since blended into human society and continued her reconnaissance.
Within her school life, while fighting with fellow students, Mari begins to come out of her shell. Hagino has been living a double life, but her encounter with Mari makes her face human beings, and gradually she begins to have doubts about her mission. While the invasion and war draws closer unnoticed, the girls begin to understand each other.
(from: http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=2964)
More info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8265
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Clannad
Official site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/clannad/
Synopsis: Tomoya Okazaki is a third year student labelled as a delinquent. Everything seems to be unchanging for his school life until he meets Nagisa, and Tomoya finds that his life is about to change. He starts to have dreams of a bleak world and meets a girl who has the ability to fuse junk together in order to create things, and doing so, creates a body out of junk for him. He is then reborn into this empty world and follows around the girl, the only two existences who are “alive.”
More info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7809
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Dragonaut – The Resonance
Official site: http://www.dragonaut.com/
Preview: Watch trailer
More info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7819
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EF- A Tale of Memories
Official site: http://www.ef-memo.com/
Synopsis: The story revolves around the protagonist Hirono Hiro, a poor high school boy who draws shoujo manga for his living. One cold Christmas night after meeting a very strange woman in church, his bike gets stolen by another strange girl. He runs after her and finds her collapsed on the street. Her name is Miyamura Miyako and her bag got stolen by a man on a motorbike. Soon after, they start hanging out together, enjoying highschool life and whatnot. Hiro’s life is also strongly dictated by Shindou Kei, his childhood friend.
More info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8192
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Genshiken (season 2)
Official site: http://www.genshiken.info/
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Synopsis: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genshiken
More info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7985
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Ghost Hound
Official site: http://www.ghosthound.tv/
Preview: Watch trailer
Synopsis: This world we live in, the “Apparent World” had another counterpart since long before the cyber age. From ancient times, people referred to it as the “Unseen World.”
Taro, Makoto and Masayuki are three junior high school boys who live in Suiten, a small town in a remote region of Northern Kyushu. Each one experienced a trauma in their childhood they could not erase. Because of this, or of other reasons, they all learned to traverse to the Unseen World, by slipping their souls.
Ghosts dwelling in the Unseen World, did never manifest in the Apparent World. However, the Unseen World was going through an adverse change.
And now, that change is starting to extend into the Apparent World…
(from: http://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/60_/)
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Goshusho-sama Ninomiya-kun
Official site: http://pc.webnt.jp/ninomiya/
Haven’t really found any proper synopsis on this one, but I think there’s one available on the official site (if you can read Japanese, just click on the link).
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Jyushin Enbu -Hero Tales-
Official site: www.jyushin.jp/
Preview: Watch trailer
Synopsis: A period piece, Jushin Enbu features Taitou, a young man who hates the empire that rules at the time, with his sister Laila as they learn of a mysterious power Taitou holds, unknown to him. Taitou is the incarnation of a mysterious star that grants him a huge amount of power that he has yet to fully master. Joining them is Ryuukou, who has a power that is similar to Taitou, just more honed.
(from: http://that.animeblogger.net/2007/08/26/thats-preview-to-the-coming-fall-season-anime/)
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Kimikiss Pure Rouge
Official site: http://www.kimikiss-pure-rouge.jp/
The anime will be called Kimikiss Pure Rouge. The forthcoming series will be produced by J.C. Staff and directed by Kenichi Kasai, whose directorial accomplishments include Nodame Cantabile and Honey and Clover.
In Kimi Kiss, you play as a high school boy who’s just come back from a lonely summer break. Will you end your high school career having never known a kiss? You decide to spend the new school year making sure to get some lip action.
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KimiKiss)
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Kodomo No Jikan
Official site: http://www.kojika-anime.com/
Synopsis: Kodomo no Jikan’s story revolves around a male twenty-three year old grade school teacher named Daisuke Aoki employed at Futatsubashi Elementary School. Daisuke is in charge of class 3-1, and one of his students, a mischievous young girl named Rin Kokonoe, has developed a crush on him, and has gone so far as to proclaim herself Daisuke’s girlfriend. Rin continues her efforts to be with her teacher despite the fact that he will lose his job if she gets too close.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodomo_no_Jikan
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Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro
Official site: http://www.ntv.co.jp/neuro/
Synopsis: A supernatural detective manga by Yusei Matsui. It is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. The series has been adapted into two Drama CDs and an upcoming Madhouse anime.
The series is about a demon, Neuro Nogami, who feeds on mysteries, and has come to the human world after eating all the mysteries in his. But as a demon, he cannot act overtly. The first thing he does is force a high school girl to become a detective, while Neuro acts as her assistant. While it appeared to be a mystery series early on, the author has described it as “a straight forward entertainment book wearing the skin of a mystery.”
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majin_Tantei_Nougami_Neuro
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Maple Story
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Story#Anime
In the game, players walk around in the “Maple World” and defeat monsters and develop their character’s skills and abilities, as in typical role-playing games. Players can interact with others in many ways, such as through chatting, trading, and playing minigames. Groups of players can band together in parties to hunt monsters and share the rewards. Players can also band in a guild to interact more easily with each other.
An anime based on this game will be airing on TV Tokyo in October 07, 2007
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Minami-Ke
Official site: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/minami-ke/
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Synopsis: The three Minami sisters (Haruka, Kana and Chiaki) live together, taking care of each other. With nobody to answer to but themselves and each other, the three sisters get up to some very odd shenanigans. This is an anime adaptation from a manga of the same title.
More info: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=5021
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Mokke
Official site: http://avexmovie.jp/lineup/mokke/
Preview: Watch trailer
Synopsis: A quirky little series about two young girls in a family of shamans who have to put up with a menagerie of Japanese phantoms and spirits.
(from: http://www.manganews.net/seriesinfo.php?id=1237 )
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Moyasimon
Official site: http://www.kamosuzo.tv/top.html
Synopsis: “Moyashimon” is about a college student who can see bacteria/fungus with his naked eyes. He enters Tokyo Agriculture College and enjoys a campus life with strange professors and friends. Bacterias are very cute and manga is filled with facts/knowledge about bacteria (Mainly about fermentation – like how alcohols are made)
(from: http://that.animeblogger.net/)
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Myself; Yourself
Official site: http://www.anime-myyour.com/
Game site: http://www.yetigame.jp/myselfyourself/
Based on a visual novel for the PS2 by Yeti that will be released in November 2007.
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: The story section tells us a bit about the setting of the game: Hidaka Sana is a 16-year-old boy who comes back to his old town from Tokyo after five years. His memories of the town do not fail him, the scenery hasn’t changed all that much. He starts attending the second year of highschool where he meets an old friend and his first love from his childhood. Life is what’s ahead of him, so he needs to jump over the gap between his memories and the reality infront of his eyes and move on.
(from: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=1127352 )
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Night Wizard -The Animation-
Official site: http://www.nightwizard.jp/
Synopsis: A Japanese urban sorcery action role-playing game released in 2002. An anime television series adaptation animated by Hal Film Maker will be airing since Autumn 2007.
The game takes place in an Earth parallel to ours, called Far-The-Earth(???·?·???), which is a name used by beings from other worlds, while humans living in Far-The-Earth refer to the world simply as “Earth.” This world is very similar to the Earth we live in, except for some few differences.
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Wizard! )
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Prism Ark
Official site: http://www.p-ark.tv/
Synopsis: An anime series based on an adult game about life in a knight academy.
(from: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-09-07/prism-ark-the-garden-of-sinners-movie-videos-posted )
Preview in downloadable compressed (.lzh) format available at http://www2.pajamas.ne.jp/prismax/dlanime_01.lzh
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Rental Magica
Official site: http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/sneaker/magica/
Preview: Watch trailer
Synopsis can be found here (it’s in Japanese): http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/sneaker/magica/
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Shakugan No Shana II
Official site: http://www.shakugan.com/
Preview: Watch trailer
This is the second season installment of the series.
Synopsis: Centering around Yuji Sakai, an ordinary Japanese high school boy who inadvertently becomes involved in a perpetual war between forces of balance and imbalance in existence. In the process, he befriends the title character: a fighter for the balancing force, whom he takes to calling “Shana”. The series incorporates science fiction, fantasy, and slice-of-life “school days” elements into its tale.
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakugan_no_Shana )
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Shion no Ō
Official site: http://www.shion-oh.com/
Synopsis: It centers around a young junior-high school girl named Shion Yasuoka who witnesses the murder of her parents as a child. At the time of the murder, her father leaves behind a game piece from shogi, a Japanese strategy board game similar to chess. This leads her to believe that the murderer is a shogi player. Although Shion refuses to speak after the murder and communicates only through writing messages, she eventually decides to take up shogi herself to gain clues about the murder of her parents.
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shion_no_Å )
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Shugo Chara
Official site: http://shugo-chara.com/
Synopsis: Everybody at Seiyo Elementary thinks that stylish and super-cool Amu has it all.But nobody knows the real Amu, a shy girl who wishes she had the courage to truly be herself. Changing Amu’s life is going to take more than wishes and dreams-it’s going to take a little magic! One morning, Amu finds a surprise in her bed: three strange little eggs. Each egg contains a Guardian Character, an angel-like being who can give her the power to be someone new. With the help of her Guardian Characters, Amu is about to discover that her true self is more amazing than she ever dreamed.
(from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugo_Chara)
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Sketchbook ~Full Color’s~
Official site: http://www.sketch-full.net/index.html
Preview: Watch trailer
Synopsis: Sketchbook revolves around a group of young high school girls members of the art club at their school. The main character is a young shy girl named Sora Kajiwara who at first is unsure on what club to join upon entering high school, but before she can help it, she is taken in by the art club and becomes a member.
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Suteki Tantei Labyrinth
Official site: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/labyrins/
Manga site: http://www.shonenmagazine.com/works/labyrins/
Haven’t really found any proper synopsis on this one, but it looks like some sort of detective series. You can also check out the manga site, it may have the plot summary there.
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You’re Under Arrest!: Full Throttle
Official site: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/taiho/
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You’re_Under_Arrest
This is the third season installment of the series.
Synopsis: Kobayakawa Miyuki and Tsujimoto Natsumi have long since split as partners and gone their seperate paths. Natsumi has undergone special forces training with the JSDF, meanwhile Miyuki has gone to America to learn scientific criminal investigation (forensics) with the Los Angeles police department. When they come together again with their new skills what will be the outcome?
(from: http://www.pcformat.co.za/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=730836 )
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Thanks to PukiWiki where I got the Fall 2007 list; Josh’s Anime Blog and THAT Anime Blog where I got a few references regarding some of the upcoming anime series. ^_^
great list!
Thanks! I thought it was gonna be a boring fall season… but most of it are pretty good. ^_^
anime that’s appear to be good to watch are:
Bamboo Blade
Kimikiss Pure Rouge
Night Wizard
Shion No O
Shakugan No Shana II
Minami-ke
You’re Under Arrest
Worth to watch them…
Almost everything in your list are the ones I’m watching this fall too! Definitely worth watching. =)
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