This is easily one of the shows I am most excited for this season. You might say that it was inevitable that Bakuman was going to get a third season, but I still am glad it did. Bakuman is a solid series that is fun to watch. Every week I am guaranteed 20 minutes of good anime and that to me means a lot. The two main characters are a lot of fun to watch and I am really interested in finding out what happens next to them. I am curious at whether or not this will be the final season. Now that the manga has ended they could just keep going till they finished it off. I like how they took 6 months off at a time so that it wouldn’t catch up to it, but now that it has ended I kind of hope they just keep going till the anime is over. Even if we have to wait for a fourth season I won’t be too upset. If you haven’t checked out the first 2 seasons, then now would be a good time to start.

This will be a 5-minute series. Now unlike recent short series, the summary has me at least thinking, “give this a shot, Jrow.” Who knows, maybe the 5-minute shorts could become good and gain popularity as a “watch before the main watch” series. Nanafa’s feature art looks like moe and cute, but it’s a beautifully designed art to promote what might be a nice little watch.

I honestly knew very little about this series going into the preview.. All I knew was that it was a widely popular manga that had an adaptation or two that I never watched. After looking into the series I now know that this is no small series and it is an exteremely expansive story. Just a little background, this manga has been going on since 1986! It isn’t however some kind of super long manga like Hajime no Ippo, it is filled with stories from lots of eras, timelines, and even an alternate universe. It is broken up into several arcs, which go on for many volumes, that features different people all from the same family from different gernerations, starting in the 1800’s and going straight up to the present. The main series that it is titled after only has the first 5 arcs, or 63 volumes, after that the author started just breaking them off into sequel series titled after the name of the arc.

 

It is kind of complicated to explain in a brief season preview like this, but what I can say is that this series looks pretty awesome. My biggest question comes from whether or not they are in it for the long haul or are they only animating the first arc/story? They named it kind of generically, so that gives me reason to believe it might be a long series, but it is being produced by David Productions, which hasn’t done anything over 27 episodes. At the very least I expect the first 5 volumes or the first story/arc to be covered.

I don’t really know much about this one other than it’s being adapted from a visual novel, and that people are ass pained it’s not being produced by Kyoto Animation. Let’s see how it turns out.

Bah, just seeing the main image and description for the show has my expectations on this show quite low already. Talk about generic. In any case, I’m willing to give it a try to see if it can surprise me.

This series looks somewhat generic, but it is being produced by A-1 Pictures, which has proven to me as of late that they know how to make an anime. They have high quality animation and from the trailer, albeit brief, it already showed that it does look great. Also this series comes from mangaka Shinobu Ohtaka, who created Sumomomo Momomo, which, dispite the ridiculous name, had great comedy and action in it. So with those factors I am half expecting a good anime.. Maybe it won’t be the best anime of the season, but a quality show that provides a lot of entertainment, yes. I just do hope that it doesn’t fall into the generic category, which is real easy with these kinds of fantasy anime.

Mappa follows up their debut hit Sakamichi no Apollon with what looks like a comparison to Softenni. Now Softenni got some good marks with Amuro and others after what was considered a subpar 1st episode, and Mappa built up enough good credit with Apollon to try out this tennis anime. One description said they hardly play tennis, so don’t look at this as a sports anime exactly.

Sunrise and idols? Sure, why not!?