OVANew OVA telling a story about Hoshitani and friends on Halloween. The OVA will feature a music video for the song Storytellers . (Source: Anime News Network, edited)
TVAfter appearing in the Prism King Cup representing Edel Rose, and getting a glimpse of what it was like to a be a future Prism Star, Ichijo Shin entered Kakyoin Academy’s High School division in spring and became a first-year high school student. Koji, Hiro, and Kazuki from Over The Rainbow left Edel Rose and established a new agency. Meanwhile, after having the title of Prism King stolen by Hiro, the leader of Schwarz Rose, Norizuki Jin, proposes PRISM.1, which would decide a new king other than Prism King. He then announces that Schwarz Rose and Edel Rose will be competing with each other. (Source: Crunchyroll)
TVA typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies. A reality that they never wanted a part of, an amazing and terrifying zombie world. They all share one wish: "We want to live." These girls will struggle through this saga, in order to achieve a miracle. MAPPA, Avex Pictures, and Cygames team up to bring you a juicy, 100% original anime. A timeless shocker for all audiences, a brand new style of zombie anime, will soon rise. (Source: Crunchyroll)
TV SHORTThe "soothing short" manga follows Chitose, a fluffy Emperor penguin chick living in Kyoto. The stories depict such familiar Kyoto locales as Togetsu-kyo bridge, Arashiyama Bamboo Grove, Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine, and Kiyomizu-dera temple from a penguin's perspective, as well as Kyoto cuisine. (Source: Anime News Network)
ONAThe story depicts adultery among two married couples. 30-year-old housewife Azu Takamori has opened a nail salon. She feels her husband Junpei does not love her as a woman, but goes about her daily life as normal. Then, Junpei's adultery comes to light. (Source: Anime News Network)
TVMystery writer Mikazuki Subaru, who isn't good at dealing with people, finds them to be a disturbance when it comes to building his imaginary world. One day, he chances upon a stray cat and feels inspiration strike, so he brings the cat home as his muse. Can watching the inexplicable behaviors of a cat form material for a novel?
ONA"I was planning for us to stay just friends... but I'm not holding back anymore." I'm living with my childhood friend turned savage! My heart won't stop throbbing as each day passes and he just won't give up...!! After entering high school, Hiyori is finally able to fulfill her dream of living alone. Or so she thought... Her childhood friend Soushi is there waiting for her at her new apartment. He suddenly kisses her and Hiyori is unable to hide her confusion. Is he teasing her? Or is this for real...? For the first time, she begins to see Soushi, who she'd never paid too much attention to before, as a man. At the age of 15, Hiyori begins her radical, new life living with Soushi! (Source: Renta!)
MOVIEModest Heroes will consist of three shorts by three different directors: "Kanini & Kanino" ("Kani no Kanino") by Hiromasa Yonebayashi will be a 15-minute fantasy adventure story of two crab siblings, and will be long. "Life Ain't Gonna Lose" ("Samurai Egg") by Yoshiyuki Momose will be a 15-minute "human drama" showing the love between a mother and a boy. "Invisible" ("Toumei Ningen") by Akihiko Yamashita will be a 14-minute "action spectacle" that centers on the lonely struggle of one invisible man. Studio Ponoc describes the shorts as "tales of modest heroes of our times." (Source: Anime News Network)
ONAAyato transfers into a new school hoping for a fresh start. Sadly for him, the school turns up to be filled with delinquents, and the most feared of them all has his eye set on him. And it doesn't help, that whenever Ayato accidentally takes off his glasses, everyone around him suddenly becomes completely smitten by him.
TVHis late father always said that a useless man should strive to be useful, so to that end, third-year high school student Nariyuki Yuiga dedicated himself to becoming a high-achieving student in his school, despite his history of poor grades. In order to give his destitute family a better life, his ultimate goal is to obtain the special VIP nomination, a prestigious scholarship covering all future university tuition fees. Although Nariyuki could feasibly be a shoe-in for the nomination, he is constantly overshadowed by classmates Rizu Ogata and Fumino Furuhashi in mathematics and literature, respectively. To his delight, Nariyuki receives the nomination, but there’s a catch: he has to tutor his two star classmates, who are each hopelessly mediocre at the other’s subject of expertise! To make matters worse, the subjects they are horrible at are the same subjects they want to pursue for their future. As the time to submit university applications draws nearer, Nariyuki must find an effective tutoring method for the girls before it’s too late. (Source: Official Website)
MOVIEBased on a few early chapters of classic fantasy novel Journey to the West, the story tells how the Monkey King rises against the heaven and has a horrific fight with Er Lang Shen, the nephew of Jade Emperor, who rules the Heaven. The film features puppet live action, about 30% of the movie, with animated 3D backgrounds and characters. It was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 1st Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
ONAYe Xingyun’s master Yu Huanxian went and left a giant Tianyuan Shenzong. Ye Xingyun became the new leader of the Tianyuan Shenzong. At the same time, the civet cat exchanged Prince Edward’s method and became a child of a small family, hidden in it, waiting for revenge. Opportunity. Ye Xingyun embarked on a very dangerous road, but with his own strategy, and Tianyuan Shenzong masters of all the help of experts, vertical and horizontal tactics, strategizing, against the huge Grand Dynasty. (Source: Wang Subs)
TV SHORTFrom "THE iDOLM@STER: SideM" franchise which spawned a game, live shows, and comics, comes a short anime featuring the idols from 315 Production in mini form. The total number of idols on the show... is all 46 of them! (Source: Crunchyroll)
MOVIEDeath is the gateway to birth. The deceased crosses the line to join the kingdom of the dead. He sees there the dance of the sperm and the egg. He is drawn towards the sky. This is the path to the afterlife. (Source: starandshadow.org.uk)
MUSICA song encouraging people to keep fighting and that everything's okay even when things seem bad like a loss at a game or a getting rejected from a confession.
MOVIESpans 13 meters 53 cm long picture scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, "Tsuru shitae waka kan (Anthology with Cranes)" (17th Century) is a unique painting to evoke the moving image. Yamamura try to decipher this "Anthology with Cranes" and the intent of Sotatsu Tawaraya, finished in experimental work and interpret it as animation. (Source: Yamamura Animation)
MOVIEIn the frog home, a strange baby was born. For some mysterious reason, the baby had a hard head that was heavy like a stone. A short movie by Ryouichi Yokoyama. (Source: Cathy Munroe Hotes)
MUSICThe poem Watashi to Kotori to Suzu to was originally written by Misuzu Kaneko. Composer Ryuichi Sugimoto converted the poem into a song and it was sung by Tsutomu Aragaki. This song was animated for NHK's Minna no Uta program.
MUSICScottish synth-pop group CHVRCHES has shared a vibrant new song and visual featuring the Japanese EDM group Wednesday Campanella. "Out My Head" is accompanied by an animated music video by famed anime creatives Junichi Yamamoto and Yoshiki Imazu. Lauren Mayberry, the lead vocalist of CHVRCHES, has said that Japan is a special country for the band. (Source: billboard.com)
SPECIALCreated by one of Studio Ghibli's top animators, Katsuya Kondo, the story is told over three short video clips, produced as part of a promotion for Ito En, Japan's premier manufacturer of bottled tea drinks.
MUSICA music video commissioned by Elleair, a household paper product company, for their disposable baby diapers. It's so safe that you can hug your baby and play around with it without worrying about spilling out from the action. In the music video it shows the mascot GOO.N (グ～ン) doing such with a baby.
ONAA series of shorts by Production I.G and funded by Acer Japan, which focus on five members of the Sunrise Japan group (not to be confused with the animation studio) of prominent female athletes in celebration of the 2012 Olympics: Yamasaki Shizuyo (boxer/comedian), Hamaguchi Kyouko (wrestler), Itou Satsuki (boxer), Urata Satako (beach volleyball player), and Nishibori Takemi (beach volleyball player). (Source: AniDB)
TVHaving not only a narrator that enhances the educational aspect of the show, it also stars "super" seven heroes based on the five physical senses in addition to the two mental senses (nonsense and common sense). Noonbory (the main character) is considered to have the ability for common sense. The settings include the four seasons that make up the Technicolor world of Toobalooba. The cast of villains include Wangury and his band of Bullygury pirates, a lonely girl named Rosygury and an abominable snowman named Coldygury that can throw snowballs from his hat when he is angry at "somebory" or "somegury." (Source: Wikipedia)
MOVIE46-year-old Oh Jun-Koo struggles between following his dreams of becoming an actor and focusing on his teaching career to support his family. Debuted at the 2017 Annecy International Animation Film Festival
