World Of Anime: April 2013

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Cardfight!! Vanguard

Cardfight!! Vanguard ( Kadofaito!! Vangado ) is a Japanese franchise created in collaboration between Akira Ito , Satoshi Nakamura, and Bushiroad president Takaaki Kidani. A 2011 anime television series was produced by TMS Entertainment and aired in Japan on TV Tokyo starting on January 8, 2011. Am official trading card game by Bushiroad began releasing in Japan on February 26, 2011, in Singapore on May 5, 2011, and internationally on May 12, 2011.
The protagonist of this story, Aichi Sendou, is a timid young boy in his third year of junior high school. he had one thing that kept him going - the Blaster Blade. That card is the reason why he begins to engage in cardfights, something that changes his life drastically. The name of the card game is Vanguard. The game takes place on a different planet called " Cray ".
Aichi Sendou , Misaki Tokura and Kamui Katsuragi form a team named Team Q4 / Quadrifoglio ( with Toshiki Kai ). One particular opponent that Aichi faces is Ren Suzugamori, a powerful but despicable cardfighter who is the leader of Team Asteroid and was once Kai's comrade. Ren eventually makes Aichi awaken a power that he also possesses: Psyqualia, a psychic-like ability that lets its user foresee victory in cardfights. He and Team Q4 would then go on defeat Team Asteroid at the next tournament and become the national champions of Japan. ( Season 1 )
Asia Circuit ( Season 2 )
Link Joker ( Season 3 )
Main Characters:
Aichi Sendou
Misaki Tokura
Kamui Katsuragi
Toshiki Kai
Ren Suzugamori

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Friday, April 19, 2013

K

K (also called K Project) is a 2012 anime series animated by the studio GoHands and directed by Shingo Suzuki, who also serves as character designer for the series. it began airing on MBS, TBS, and CBC in Japan on October 4, 2012. Animax Asia will also broadcast at the same time. The anime has been licensed by Viz Media in North America and by Madman Entertainment in Australia.
A manga prequel called K: Memory of Red, drawn bu Yui Kuroe has been serialized in Kodansha's Aria since May 28, 2012.
Yashiro Isana Lived a relatively ordinary, simple life. He lives in the technology-advanced Shizume City and attends Ashinaka High School, a notable high school that is located on an island just outside the areas. Yashiro is friendly with everyone. Nothing ever seems wrong about him, except perhaps his habit of forgetting where his school-issued PDA is. However, nothing normal has been happening since the recent murder of Tatara Totsuka, prominent member of the infamous HOMRA. No one knows who exactly killed him but the man responsible bears an uncanny, identical appearance to Yashiro. Seeking vengeance, the Red Clansmen Of HOMRA set out to get Yashiro and kill him. Everyone suspects that Yashiro is the murderer. But whether he is guilty or not is unclear.
Main Characters:
Yashiro Isana
Yatogami Kuroh
Neko

K - On

K-On is a Japanese four-panel comic strip seinen manga written and illustrated by Kakifly. The manga was serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara between 2007 and Octuber 2010 issues. It was also serialized in Houbunsha's magazine Manga Time Kirara Carat. The manga relaunched from April 2011 to June 2012 with two separate storylines published in Manga Time Kirara and Manga Time Kirara Carat. The manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press. 13 Episode anime adaptation produced by Kyoto Animation. An OVA was released in January 2010. 26 Episode titled K-On!!. The title of the series comes from the Japanese word light music, which in the Japanese context is similiar to pop music. K-On's story revolves around four Japanese high school girls who join Sakuragaoka Girl's Hihgh School's light music club to try to save it from being disbanded, however, they are the only members of the club. In their club there's Yui as guitarist , Mio as bassist, Ritsu as drummer, and Mugi as keyboardist. Their club adviser and coach is Sawako Yamanaka. In their second year they gain another guitarist named Azusa. After third year, Yui, Ritsu, Mio, and Mugi graduate and enroll into a university. There they join its light music club alongside three other students: Akira Wada, Ayame Yoshida, and Sachi Hayashi. Meanwhile, Asuza continues to run the high school light music club alongside Yui's sister, Ui, their classmate, Jun Suzuki, and new members Sumire Saito and Nao Okuda.
Main Characters:
Yui Hirasawa
Mio Akiyama
Tsumugi Kotobuki
Ritsu Tainaka
Azusa Nakano

Chihayafuru

Chihayafuru is a manga written by Yuki Suetsugu and published by Kodansha. it is about a school girl, Chiyasa Ayase, who is inspired by a new classmate to take up Hyakunin Isshu Karuta competitively.

The manga has won the Manga Taisho Award and the Kodansha Manga Award. Since its fourth volume was released in March 2009, it has regularly appeared on the Japanese Comic Ranking Chart, and in August 2011 was estimated to have sold over 4.5 million copies.

Its popularity has boosted the profile of competitive karuta in Japan.

Chihaya Ayase is a girl who has spent most of her life simply supporting her sister in her model career. That changes when she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, a talented karuta player. He thinks that Chihaya has a potential to become a great player. As Chihaya takes on a dream of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends as they grow up.

Now in high school, Chihaya still continues to play karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

Characters:

Chihaya Ayase

Taichi Mashima

Arata Wataya

Kanade Oe

Yusei Nishida

Tsutomu Komano

Sumire Hanano

Akihiro Tsukuba

Hidehiro Harada

Taeko Miyauchi

Shinobu Wakamiya

Yumi Yamamoto

Hisashi Suo

Chitose Ayase

Sket Dance

Sket Dance ( Suketto Dansu as Sket Dance In Japan ) is a manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara beginning in July 2007, in Shueisha's Manga Magazine Weekly Shonen Jump. Sket Dance won the 55th annual Shogakukan Manga Award in 2009 for best shonen manga. An anime adaptation, produced by Tatsunoko, premiered on April 7, 2011 on TV Tokyo.
The manga focuses on the (mis)adventures of Kaimei High School's campus support club, the Sket Dan ( Helper's Club ) included English acronym: "SKET ( Support, Kindness, Encougragement, and Troubleshoot)". Sket Dan is devoted to solving any problems submitted by the staff or student body. However Sket Da only have three members.
The story is told through a series of short, self-contained stories focusing on cases undertaken by Sket Dan and is usuallu told in the space of one or two chapters.
Top Characters :
Fujisaki Yusuke
Himeko Onizuka
Kazuyoshi Usui
Tsubaki Sasuke