As we head into July, we finish up one anime season and head into another. But with over 30 new anime in the pipeline, how do you know which ones to watch? Check out the trailers and brief blurbs about each to see what catches your interest.
*Note: Series are grouped loosely by genre.
Danganronpa: The Animation
Genre: Action
Premier Date: July 4, 2013
Where to Watch: Funimation (Page Not Yet Updated)
What It’s About in One Sentence: To graduate from this very special high school, you must kill one of your classmates and get away with it.
Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East 2
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Premier Date: July 7, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is the second season of an anime about two friends with mystical powers in a medieval setting.
Gifu Doudou!! Kanetsugu to Keiji
Genre: Historical Fiction, Action
Premier Date: July 3, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Two samurai fighting through one of Japan’s most dangerous eras.
Kingdom (Season 2)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Action
Premier Date: June 8, 2013
Where to Watch: No Western Simulcast Announced
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime following a war orphan who aims to be the world’s greatest general and a young king who will one day become emperor of all of China.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya
Genre: Magical Girl
Premier Date: July 6, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is an alternate universe tale starring the characters of Fate/Stay Night as magical girls.
Senki Zesshou Symphogear G
Genre: Magical Girl, Action
Premier Date: July 4, 2013
Where to Watch: No Western Simulcast Announced
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime about magical girls who sing songs to transform and fight aliens.
Fantasista Doll
Genre: Magical Girl
Premier Date: July 6, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Cute dolls who power up with special cards and fight evil.
Il Sole Penetra Le Illusioni ~ Day Break Illusion
Genre: Magical Girl
Premier Date: July 7, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of girls use magical tarot cards to battle while they solve mystical mysteries.
Monogatari: Second Season
Genre: Japanese Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Premier Date: July 6, 2013
Where to Watch: Daisuki, Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The third anime series about a high school boy finding love and battling supernatural threats.
Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
Genre: Supernatural
Premier Date: July 14, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: This series uses traditional Japanese cut-out animation to act out traditional folktales and urban legends surrounding the supernatural in Japan.
Sunday Without God
Genre: Fantasy
Premier Date: July 6, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: In a world where God has disappeared and thus no one can die or have children, a girl must help the would-be dead find peace.
Gatchaman Crowds
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Premier Date: July 12, 2013
Where to Watch: No Western Simulcast Announced
What It’s About in One Sentence: Based on the 1970s anime Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets), this anime follows a group of people with special powers who must protect earth from alien threats.
Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Premier Date: July 4, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The third season in the Rozen Maiden series continues to follow a traumatized middle school boy and the mysterious living doll he one day receives.
Highschool DxD New
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Premier Date: July 7, 2013
Where to Watch: Funimation (Page Not Yet Updated)
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime about a perverted boy who is killed, resurrected as a demon, and tasked with defeating fallen angels.
Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 12, 2013
Where to Watch: Funimation (Page Not Yet Updated)
What It’s About in One Sentence: Based on the game series of the same name, this series sets up a comedic, magical girl-style adventure where the characters and locations all have proxies in the real world video game industry.
Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Premier Date: July 8, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A young noble discovers that he must choose the demon to lead hell while Lucifer rests.
Blood Lad
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Premier Date: July 7. 2013
Where to Watch: Hulu
What It’s About in One Sentence: A vampire obsessed with the human world vows to find a way to bring a human girl, who is now a ghost, back to life.
Senyu 2
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Premier Date: July 3, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime about a bumbling, incompetent hero travelling the land while trying to take down the recently resurrected demon king.
Dog & Scissors
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 1, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After dying while protecting a girl during a robbery, a boy finds himself reincarnated in the body of her dachshund.
The Eccentric Family
Genre: Japanese Fantasy, Comedy
Premier Date: July 7, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: From the creator of Tatami Galaxy comes the tale of a young Tanooki living in modern day Kyoto who spends his time taking care of an old Tengu, fighting other Tanooki, and playing with a psychic human girl — and uncovering the mystery behind his father’s untimely death.
Silver Spoon
Genre: Comedy, Fish Out of Water
Premier Date: July 11, 2013
Where to Watch: Cruchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A city boy moves to the Japanese countryside and enrolls in an agricultural school.
Servant x Service
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 4, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A comedic look at the staff of a government health and welfare office.
Love Lab
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premier Date: July 4, 2013
Where to Watch: No Western Simulcast Announced
What It’s About in One Sentence: After one girl catches a fellow female student practicing kissing with a pillow, the two girls begin practicing the aspects of romance together.
The World God Only Knows: Goddesses
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Premier Date: July 9, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is the third season of an anime about a boy who has no interest in real girls and is tasked by a demon to help her collect run away souls hiding within the hearts of normal people.
Genshiken Second Season
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 6, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime about the various students in a college Otaku club.
WATAMOTE ~No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular!~
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 8, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A girl who is amazing at dating sim games discovers she’s not as popular with the guys as she expected.
Kiniro Mosaic
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 6, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The adventures of a Japanese school girl and her friend from Great Britain.
Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS
Genre: Comedy, Sports
Premier Date: July 5, 2013
Where to Watch: No Western Simulcast Announced
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is the second season of an anime about a high school freshman who manages an elementary school girls’ basketball team.
Tamayura: More Aggressive
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 3, 2013
Where to Watch: No Western Simulcast Announced
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is the second season of an anime about a young high school girl who moves to a scenic small town and likes to take pictures.
Chronicles of the Going Home Club
Genre: School life, Comedy
Premier Date: July 5, 2013
Where to Watch: Cruchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After making a joke that she plans to join the “go home club,” a young schoolgirl finds that such a club actually exists.
Recorder and Randsell Mi
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 1, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is the third season of a three-minute-long micro-anime about the daily lives of an elementary school boy who looks like an adult and his high school age sister who looks like a child.
Teekyu 2
Genre: Comedy
Premier Date: July 7, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is the second season of micro-anime (each episode is about 2 minutes long) about the crazy lives of a highschool girls tennis club.
Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C3
Genre: Gainax
Premier Date: July 4, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is Gainax’s newest anime about a high schooler at an all girls’ school who joins the C3 club — a club that focuses on military war games.
Kimi no Iru Machi
Genre: Romance, Drama
Premier Date: July 13, 2013
Where to Watch: No Western Simulcast Announced
What It’s About in One Sentence: A Japanese girl moves to the countryside for high school, living with a friend of her father’s and his son — who’s less than happy to have her there.
Brothers Conflict
Genre: Romance
Premier Date: July 2, 2013
Where to Watch: Funimation (Page Not Yet Updated)
What It’s About in One Sentence: After her father re-marries, a young girl finds herself living in a mansion with her 13 attractive step-brothers.
Free!
Genre: Sports
Premier Date: July 3, 2013
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Based on a popular Japanese commercial, this anime is the story of often shirtless pretty boys on a high school swim team.
Comments
16 responses to “All Of This Season’s New Anime (And Where To Watch Them)”
The trailer for Dog & Scissors… isn’t.
Enjoying that particular series so far, though. It’s moving very quickly, and so far is doing a reasonable job of balancing humour vs. pathos.
I must be the only one who longs for the amines that are similar to the ones I loved in the past..trigun, bleach, death note..the current amines seem to either be about demons and sex or school related thing.
if u want something long better then bleach “one piece”? or hunter x hunter 2013?
Watched a fair bit of the One Piece anime and will eventually finish watching it. Haven’t seen Hunter x Hunter so ill check that out aswell. At the moment I’m just going through back logs of old anime as the new ones do nothing for me. (Watching Samurai X, Gungrave, full metal alchemist, Gundam Seed, Buso Renkin at the moment)
Good choices!
bro MAOR !! :p
chihayafuru season 1 and 2
bakuman season 1 – 3 :p
Make sure you watch Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, it’s by far much better than the original series.
Already got it sitting their waiting to watch dokrau
Most of this looks freaking terrible! I was never super “into” anime or manga, but there were a few I liked, as ColdCamV said – Trigun was pretty awesome (the manga was better than the anime). I also loved Full Metal Alchemist. But none of this stuff looks anywhere near good as either of those. It’s all super-over-designed haircuts and characters that look like 10 year old dolls, which is pretty creepy.
I get that the most of any medium is going to be terrible. Certainly most Western Animation is bad, too. But there isn’t a single show on here that I would be remotely interested in watching. It looks like Anime has focused on this really obsessive group of shut-ins in Japanese society and they’re competing to gain that demographic’s favor. It just seems like they’re all competing in a game called “who can appeal to the Otaku the most!”, neglecting everyone else.
Give Attack on Titan a try, it’s very entertaining and mid-season at the moment. You can find it on Crunchyroll or just by searching ‘Watch Attack on Titan online’ really. It’s very good, very dark and very emotionally engaging. I loved Fullmetal Alchemist but this is actually a whole new level imo.
Fate/Stay Night is now a Magical Girl Anime? My life is complete.
Looks wierd….
… I’ll still watch it 😉
Genre: Gainax………… Well played, at least i know what to expect now
The Eccentric Family looks like something new.
Anime isn’t doing too well right now outside japan, wonder why?
Uuugggghhhh time to catch up on older anime
Monogatari. Nuff said.