So even though this is my first year of blogging Japanese related stuff, I have manage to pick up two awesome writers and I’m proud to say we’ll be going into our/my second season of reviewing anime,manga, and other stuff. This season is the winter one. Now for some of you who may talk to me online, mainly in the Team Blue or Dasaku IRC, you’ll probably know I’m from Canada and Canada is very cold in the winter. Right now I’m sipping coffee, looking at the snow and getting ready for the new season which will definitely keep fans warm. Please enjoy the summaries and ect of next years winter season.

The credits will be at the end and other then that me (Little Neko) and Gargron are the only ones posting thoughts on this for now. I’ve tried contacting 7 but I haven’t got a hold of him, when he comes back I’ll let him decide if he wants to put his thoughts up.

Opening Images come from here
Btw; thanks to all the bloggers who put up the anime for 2009 winter season (ex; T.H.A.T, Yoroshiku)

Akikan!

Date Airs: January 3rd (But other websites have claimed 4th aswell)

Seiyuu: Jun Fukuyama (Aidou, Vampire Knights), Sayaka Narita (Kusu Kusu, Shugo Chara)

Animation: Brains Base

Summary

Akikan (”Empty Can”) is the unlikely story of high school boy Kakeru Daichi, whose can of melon juice soda magically transforms into a human girl. Naturally, more “akikan” girls begin appearing, each of them needing to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive.

Thoughts:

Little Neko: It sounds original, kind of, but also very odd. It scares me that at the current moment my coffee cup could be a girl. I’m drinking/digesting a human -_- Sadly I won’t be watching this, but I love the fact that Jun is doing a voice in this since I adored him in Vampire Knight (Guilty)

Gargron: Carbon dioxide, huh? :3 I wouldn’t add that anime to anime list, rather to a h list, lol.

Zoku Natsume Yuujin-Chou

Date Airs: January 5, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: Brains Base

Summary

Natsume is the grandson of Natsume Reiko, a lonely girl who used her “book of friends” to bind the spirits who lived around her. Natsume decides to undo the problems she caused the local spirits.

Thoughts

Little Neko: This always looked boring to me but the actual summary makes it sound a bit more interesting, too bad I haven’t seen the first season. That’s right this is the sequel. So it’s another no-go for me. Unless I watch the first season.

Gargron: Interesting plot, the “6th sense” similar ability is quite original. Though I didn’t watch the 1st season…

Viper’s Creed

Airing Date: January 6, 2009

Animation: Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc

Seiyuu: Megumi Toyoguchi, Takaya Kuroda, Jun Fukuyama (Aidou,Vampire Knights *Guilty*),

Summary

The story reloves around the memembers of a private military company (PMC), and the uneasy tension between them and the regular military after a war that caused massive enviromental destruction.

Thoughts

Little Neko: Not that I don’t have any feelings but this doesn’t seem my cup of tea and seems very depressing, which is something that I don’t need to feel in January.

Gargron: Not original at all. Nature catastrophes+WWIII+private organizations mix slowly douses.

Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger

Airing Date: January 6,2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Seiyuu: Kohei Kiyasu

Summary

Ippo a timid highschooler, is one day saved  from being beaten up by Takamura, a boxer. Enthralled by Takamura’s Skills, Ippo begins to learn boxing , soon finding love for the sport and a drive to challenge the boxing world.

Thoughts

Little Neko: Again not my cup of tea *sighs*

Gargron: Nothing for me

Kemono no Souja Erin

Airing Date: January 10th, 2009

Episodes: 50

Animation: Production I.G, Transarts

Seiyuu: Nana Hoshii

Summary

After Erin’s mother, a veterinarian, is executed for allegedly killing a batch of fighting snakes, she is raised by a beekeeper and meets the king of the animals in the mountains. She inspired to become a veterinarian herself, a decision that will put the fate of the kingdom in her hands. From the same author as Seirei no moribito.

Thoughts

Little Neko: YAY!!! This is defiently in my  opinion a must-see. It sounds interesting and cool. This could be a series that I would review.

Gargron: Interesting that the plot’s still used by someone… I would watch.

Genji Monogatari Sennenki

Airing Date: January 15th, 2009

Episodes: 11

Animation: Tezuka Productions/ Tokyo Movie

Seiyuu: Aya Endo, Sakiko Tamagawa, Takahiro Sakurai (Final Fantasy)

Summary

The story follows the happy but sorrowful tales of the glorious youth Hikaru Genji’s love, and the women in his life who strive to make their love towards Genji significantly different from others. It also follows the stories of the two Imperial Princes related to him.

Thoughts

Little Neko: This is another one I’m looking forward to =D A little spoiler for you all but this was the first anime I pick to watch for the winter season ^_^

Gargron: Would be good for my japanese history knowledges, which till now consist of the fact that people don’t know where japanese language actually came from.

Konnichiwa Anne

Airing Date: April 5th, 2009

Animation: Nippon Animation

Summary

Based on the novel by Budge Wilson, which is a prequel to Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Thoughts

Little Neko: I don’t think this should be in the winter season, and secondly I really don’t know about watching this. I have mixed feelings.

Gargron: Seem to be no infos about it…

Minami-ke Okaeri

Airing Date: January 4th, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: asread

Seiyuu: Marina Inoue, Minori Chihara ( She did Ga-rei’s opening), Rina Satou,  Nana Mizuki (Lydia in Earl and Fairy, Utau in Shugo Chara)

Summary

The three Minami sisters; Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki, lead a average life.  The girls only have each other to depend on and so help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking.

Thoughts

Little Neko; I’ll probably watch this on the side, and won’t review it. I’ll only watch it because two seiyuu’s are in it that I like. Nana-chan and Minori-san. But this, again like most other series, is a sequel so I’ll have to watch the first.

Gargron: I don’t like the style. It’s a reason enough to do not watch it.

Kurokami the Animation

Airing Date: January 8th, 2009

Episodes: 11

Animation: Sunrise

Seiyuu: Daisuke Namikawa (Tsubasa, Fay), Noriko Shitaya (Kirarin Revolution, Fubuki Toudou),

Summary

Keita Ibuki is an independent and struggling freelancer computer programmer who, with two of his friends, is developing and trying to sell a video game program to big-time video game companies in Tokyo while trying to stay afloat and survive financially with money being given to him by his 21-year old childhood friend Akane Sano. He had a chance meeting on one night with a high Mototsumitama named Kuro while eating alone at a ramen stand. He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is attacked in an ambush by an unknown Mototsumitama. Keita loses his entire left arm during the fight between the Mototsumitamas, but Kuro was able to save his life by exchanging the decapitated arm with her own left arm since she has enhanced healing abilities like all Mototsumitamas. This creates a contract between them, which makes her more powerful than before. However, Kuro warns Keita that they need to be together all the time in order to be at their strongest.

As Kuro stays with Keita and gets acquainted with him while meeting with other Mototsumitamas and their human masters, they are targeted by the strongest Mototsumitama clan of the East, the Shishigami (Lion God) Clan in an attempt to kidnap Akane and bring about the destruction of the coexistence balance, which Mototsumitamas are supposed to protect. Meanwhile, Keita is determined to find out why his mother had died after seeing her double as a young boy and find out who is responsible for trying to destroying the coexistence balance on Earth. (Wikipedia) <–Longest Summary

Thoughts

Little Neko: Of course I’ll be watching this, this sounds interesting and exciting.

Gargron: It is the anime I expect something of! A strange and intregating plot, plus now I want to know what Mototsumitamas are and how you eat it…

Asu no Yoichi!

Airing Date: January 8th, 2009

Animation: AIC

Seiyuu: Rina Satou, Nobuhiko Okamoto (Akikan, Ghost Hunt)

Summary

Having been raised and trained for the past seventeen years as a traditional samurai ‘bushi’, Yoichi was surprised when his father suddenly announces that there nothing more that he could teach his son, but he arranges for Yoichi to continue training at a dojo owned by one of his fathers friends. So now, Yoichi must leave the tranquility of his remote rural mountain life and move to city to live with his fathers friend’s family to continue his studies. And if learning how to cope with city life were not hard enough, he finds himself living with 4 beautiful sisters, and having to endure a ‘training’ regiment more severe than he could ever imagine…..

Thoughts

Little Neko: No comment !!!!

Gargron: It may be very funny with one boy and 4 girls… especially if each girl’s interested in the boy and tries to get him first! *never happened to me *
Little Neko: Poor Gargron lol

Major Fifth Season

Summary

Shigeharu Honda is a Major Leauge batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps. Momoko Hoshino is Goro’s schoolteacher, and the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro’s mother. The destines of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond.

Thoughts

Little Neko: I can’t watch a 5th season when I haven’t even seen the first.

Gargron: Didn’t watch previous seasons

White Album

Airing Date: Sometime in January

Animation: Seven Arcs

Seiyuu: Aya Hirano (Sings the ending for The Daughter of Twenty Faces), Nana Mizuki (Lydia in Earl and Fairy, Utau from Shugo Chara), Tomoaki Maeno

Summary

The White Album game centers around Tōya Fujī, a college student dating a rising idol singer named Yuki Morikawa. The game deals with the challenges to the couple’s relationship from the other people at Fujī’s college, Morikawa’s work, and elsewhere.

Thoughts

Little Neko: YAY!!! Another show that has sparked my interest.And great voice actors/actresses again. =D

Gargron: Interesting, could be very romantic. Or funny.

Maria+Holic

Airing Date: January 4th, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: SHAFT

Seiyuu: Asami Sanada, Marina Inoue, Yu Kobayashi

Summary

The story centers on a sophomore named Kanako who enrolls in all-girls school because she has a phobia of men and wants to find her destined yuri partner. She meets a captivating freshman named Mariya who fits her criteria — except her seemingly ideal mate happens to be a cross-dressing sadistic boy.

Thoughts

Little Neko: I will be reviewing this on Onii-San’s blog (Panthers)

Gargron: Not for me. You hopefully didn’t expect of me that I would watch a yuri show. No, not me. Not when my parents are at home.

Shikabane-hime Kuro

Airing Date: January 1st, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: Feel/ Gainax

Summary

Simple: Girl hunts 108 corpses so she can go to heaven ^_^

Thoughts

Little Neko: I didn’t watch the first season and I’ll probably not watch the second.

Gargron: Cool plot. I like it.

Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th Season

Airing Date: January 3rd, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: Studio Deen

Seiyuu: Kana Ueda, Miki Itou

Summary

Maria-sama ga Miteru’s story revolves around the students of the Lillian Girls’ Academy (a Catholic school), and can be considered character-driven, focusing on interactions between the characters rather than any sort of ongoing plot or goal to attain. At Lillian Girls’ School, there is a tradition known as the sœur system (sœur being French for “sister”), in which a second, or third-year student, the grande sœur (”big sister”), will give her rosary to a junior student, the petite sœur (”little sister”), and promise to look after them and guide them.

Thoughts

Little Neko: Hopefully it will be self explainitory, because I think I’m going to watch this =D

Gargron: Didn’t watch prev. seasons.

Slayers EVOLUTION-R

Airing Date: January 12th, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: J.C Staff

Seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara, Yasunori Matsumoto

Summary

Having lost the Sword of Light in the previous battle, Lina and Gourry continue their journey in search of a replacement weapon. On the way, the two of them meet up with Amelia and Zelgadis in the kingdom of Luvinagard while taunting some pirates. Lina is happy to reunite with her old friends, but appearing before her is Luvinagard’s Inspector of the Special Investigative Unit; a man called Wizer. However, Lina is amazed at his unusual behavior…

Thoughts

Little Neko: I’m going to watch this cause I’ve grown up a slayers fan. I’ll be reviewing this on  Onii-san’s blog.

Gargron: The style is too Yu-Gi-Oh-ish. It wasn’t a compliment.

Birdy the Might DECODE:02

Airing Date: January 9th, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: A-1 pictures INC

Seiyuu: Kanae Ito (Amu, Shugo Chara), Keiji Fujiwara

Summary

Tsutomu Senkawa is an average high school kid who is busy studying for his senior entrance exams. Tsutomu goes out for some fresh air, after a hard day’s work studying for a big test, when he runs into a guy fleeing from a pretty young lady. The pursued man is actually an interplanetary criminal on the run from a Federation agent called Birdy Cephon Altera. Caught in the midst of this chase, Tsutomu gets thrown by the man at Birdy, which kills Tsutomu. Fortunately for Tsutomu, there is a way to keep him alive, although it comes at the price of discarding his body. He ends up merged into Birdy’s body.

Thoughts

Little Neko: This is starting to appeal to me more now, I might watch it =D

Gargron: “If Birdy won’t turn to a creature matching his name I’ll drop this shop.” – If I had watched the 1st season.

Hetalia Axis Powers

Airing Date: January 24th, 2009

Episodes: 26

Animation: Studio Deen

Seiyuu: Daisuke Namikawa, Hiroki Takahashi, Hiroki Yasumoto

Summary

Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a “cynical gag” story set in Europe in the years between WW1 and WW2 (1915-1939), using exaggerated caricatures of the different nationalities as portrayed by a gaggle of bishōnen boys. For example, the Italia Veneziano character is into pasta and women. The Deutsche (German) bishi loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy. Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics. The manga’s title comes the Japanese words for “useless” (hetare) and Italy (Italia).

Thoughts

Little Neko: No thank you, moving right along now.

Gargron: I’m interested how they illustrated jews. (”If you do it wrong…muahahahahahah…. <-It says it all”)

Ride Back

Airing Date: January 11th, 2009

Episodes: 11

Animation: Madhouse Studios

Summary

Ride Back tells the story of a girl a her “Iron Horse” robot motorcycle in 2020, a tumultous time of anti-goverment student protests.

Thoughts

Little Neko: I’ll leave this to Gargron, I might watch this on the sidelines just for personal interest and curiosity.

Gargron: Is on my watchlist already for a month.

The Tower of Druaga ~the Sword of Uruk~

Airing Date: January 8th, 2009

Episodes: 12

Animation: Gonzo

Summary

The long awaited “Summer of Anu” has come. It is a season that comes but once every few years and during which the powers of the monsters within the Tower wane thanks to the grace of the great god Anu. Each Summer of Anu, the armies of the Uruk Kingdom secure their strongholds within the Tower, aiming to eventually conquer the upper floors. Decades of re-fortification and battle have passed since the infamous adventures of Gil and Ki. Their story has now become a legend. Now, finally, the third Summer of Anu has arrived. (Crunchyroll)

Thoughts

Little Neko: I’m wondering why in one picture he’s holding a blonde girl, coming out of the water and in another it’s a brunette coming out of the water. Why is he holding that girl, coming out of water. Other then that my interest lacks.

Gargron: No.

Chrome Shelled Regios

Airing Dates: January 10th, 2009

Episodes: 12

Animation: ZEXCS

Seiyuu: Nobuhiko Okamoto

Summary

*Based on a light novel series by Shuusuke Amagi, illustrated by Miyuu.

The world was infected by “Pollutant” years ago – world cracked open and generally screwed up. This Pollutant spawns nasty “Pollutant Beasts”, but it’s also resulted in people gaining special powers. The towns that now litter the world are protected by alchemists and are mobile – these are the “Regios” of the title.

The story follows a guy named Lei-Fon Alseif who starts at a new school following the disappearance of his childhood friend and gets recruited into the special 17th Platoon in order to combat Pollutant Beasts.

Thoughts

Little Neko: I might watch this, it’s sounding a bit cool.

Gargron: No, too.

Sora o Kakeru Shoujo

Airing Date: January 5th, 2009

Episodes: 13

Animation: Sunrise

Seiyuu: Aya Endo, Yui Makino, Mako

Summary

The story is set in the year 311 of the Orbital Calendar, when humanity has migrated to countless colony clusters in space. A space colony girl named Akiha Shishidō encounters a malevolent artificial intelligence named Leopard that has been installed on a colony. Akiha is joined by an Inter-Colony Police officer named Itsuki Kannagi, a taciturn young girl named Honoka Kawai, and a robot named Imoko “Imo-chan” Shishidou.

Thoughts

Little Neko: Not my cup of tea

Gragron: Even more no.

Credit

-Special Thanks That and Yoroshiku for inspiring to make my own winter preview and helping me out by naming all the winter anime, lol

-Images, Summaries, and other details came from:

-ANN
-Crunchyroll
-Wikipedia
-Animedb

Updates

-More reviews will be up!!!! Don’t worry I haven’t forgotten.

-My offical winter list that I’ll be reviewing will be up next week =D

-Other goodie posts are coming soon, so look out for that

-Wish 7 good luck on his finals =D

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