Anime Spotlight Summer 2012 - The List

 

	Title: Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero Starts:Friday, Jul 6 at 10:30AM JST on AT-X Studio:ARMS Genre: Fantasy Website: http://kichiku.tv/	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Rion Kujo (Samurai Harem, Ikki Tousen: Shūgaku Tōshi Keppu-roku) Series composition: Ryunosuke Kingetsu (Ninja Nonsense, Tales of Symphonia the Animation) Cast: Nobuhiko Okamoto as Akatsuki (Blue Exorcist, Bakuman.)
Summary: An international training organization named Bable helps young people returning from another world. One of those is Akatsuki Otorizawa, who has just returned to the real world from a world of sword and magic called Areizado, accompanied by a beautiful girl who happens to be the demon king's daughter. Title: Aruvu Rezuru: Kikai Jikake no Yousei-tachi Starts:Sunday, Jul 1 Studio:ZEXCS Genre: Science fiction Website: http://www.zexcs.co.jp/work/ Notable Cast/Staff: Cast: Jun Fukuyama as Remu Mikage (Code Geass, Phi Brain), Eri Kitamura as Shiki Mikage (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kodomo no Jikan) Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara (Sket Dance) Summary: Thanks to sophisticated technology, which has surpassed human intelligence and ability, people can use Nerve-seller Linker Nano-machines, which directly link the human nervous system wirelessly to networks. However, catastrophe strikes when an event called the "Early Rapture" causes tens of thousands of user to lose themselves in the network. ONe boy must try and take back the soul of his little sister. Title: Chitose Get You!! Starts:Monday, Jul 2 at 12:56AM JST on AT-X Studio: Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life Website: http://www.takeshobo.co.jp/sp/tv_chitose/ Notable Cast/Staff: Original story: Etsuya Mashima (Koi Neko, Hiyomama) Director and Character Design: Takako Sano (Fairy Tail) Summary: Based on a four-panel manga by the same name, Chitose Get You!! follows an elementary school girl named Chitose who pursues the affections of a young man named Hiroshi, who works at the town hall next to her school. Title: Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai Starts:Friday, Jul 6 at 11:00PM JST on AT-X Studio:Feel Genre: Comedy, Fantasy Website: http://boku-h.com/ Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Takeo Takahashi (Spice and Wolf, Hit o Nerae!) Series Composition: Naruhisa Arakawa (Elemental Gelade, The Legend of Black Heaven) Original Character Design: Yoshiaki Katsurai (Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne) Summary: When Goddess of Death Lisara brokers a deal with young Ryosuke Kaga to stay in this world, she ends up robbing him of his lecherousness and stealing his ability to enjoy porn! To get his perverted spirit back, he grudgingly agrees to join her on her quest to find the "Singular Man." Title: Dog Days Starts:Saturday, Jul 7 at 11:30PM JST on Tokyo MX Studio:Seven Arcs Genre:Fantasy, Romance, Adventure Website: http://www.dogdays.tv/ Notable Cast/Staff: Cast: Yui Horie as Millhiore F. Biscotti (Fruits Basket, Kanon), Ami Koshimizu as Leonmitchelli Galette Des Rois (Eureka Seven, Code Geass) Director: Junji Nishimura (Kyo kara Maoh!, Ranma ½) Music: I've (Toaru Majutsu no Index, Waiting in the Summer) Summary: Set three months after the first season, Cinque is once again summoned to Flonyard. This time, though, he gets some company from some close friends. Title: Hakuouki: Reimei-roku Starts:Tuesday, Jul 10 at 2:53AM JST on Yomiuri TV Studio:Studio DEEN Genre: Bishounen, Historical Website: http://www.geneonuniversal.jp/rondorobe/anime/hakuoki/ Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Osamu Yamasaki (Akai Hayate, Gestalt) Music: Kô Ôtani (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Gunslinger Girl II: Il Teatrino) Theme Song Performance: Maon Kurosaki (Highschool of the Dead) Summary: A prequel to Hakuōki, the series takes place in 1863 after the Tokugawa shogunate creates the Roshigumi, a group of masterless samurai meant to aid Aizu forces in Kyoto. However, things don't go as planned, and the group is soon split into two opposing factions. One man is obligated to enter the conflict because of a blood debt, and must go up against the more powerful faction.