The weather is scotching hot outside. But inside, there’s anime. Let’s figure out what shows we want to watch.
Here are the new seasons for the latest season in Japan. Which ones interest you?
Bang Dream! 2nd Season
Studio: Sanzigen | Passione | Creators in Pack
Genre: Idol, Music
Premiere Date: January 3
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime about girls on a musical journey.
Bermuda Triangle: Colourful Pastrale
Genre: Fantasy, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: January 12
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: This anime follows the adventures and daily lives of mermaids.
Studio: Seven Arcs Pictures
Boogiepop and Others
Studio: Madhouse
Genre: Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 4
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: An angel of death named “Boogiepop” might be behind recent disappearances of young women.
B-Project: Zeccho Emotion
Studio: BN Pictures
Genre: Idols, Music, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: January 11
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime about a young woman gets a job as an A&R coordinator in the music business and has to manage a boy band project.
Circlet Princess
Studio: Silver Link
Genre: Action, School, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Not currently available
What It’s About in One Sentence: Schoolgirls compete in a new VR and AR-based esport.
Date A Live III
Studio: J.C. Staff
Genre: Comedy, Harem, Romance
Premiere Date: January 11
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: The third season of an anime about a boy who has to make girls fall in love with him and subsequently kiss him before they explode and cause massive destruction.
Dimension High School
Studio: Asmik Ace | Polygon Magic
Genre: Fantasy, School, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: Handsome boys find themselves teleported into handsome anime boys.
Domestic Girlfriend
Studio: Diomedéa
Genre: Drama, Ecchi, School, Romance
Premiere Date: January 11
Where to Watch: Not currently available
What It’s About in One Sentence: A high school teacher’s life gets complicated after his new stepsisters are a one-night fling and a student at school.
Dororo
Studio: MAPPA | Tezuka Productions
Genre: Action, Magic, Samurai
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
What It’s About in One Sentence: A limbless boy gets body parts magically grafted on and becomes a badass samurai.
Endro~!
Studio: Studio Gokumi
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 12
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: School girls learn how to defeat the loathsome Demon King.
Forest of Piano: Season 2
Studio: Gaina
Genre: Drama, Music
Premiere Date: January 27
Where to Watch: Not currently available
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season about a famed pianist who grew up planning a mysterious piano in the forest.
Girly Air Force
Studio: Satelight
Genre: Action, Drama, Military
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Fighting machines that look like anime girls fly fighter planes.
Grimms Notes: The Animation
Studio: Brain’s Base
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: In a world where everyone’s life is written in advance, bad things suddenly start being written into people’s lives.
Hero Mask
Studio: Studio Pierrot
Genre: Action, Drama, Police, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: December 3
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is a police drama with criminals wearing masks that give them special powers.
Hulaing Babies
Studio: Fukushima Gaina
Genre: Comedy, Music, Dancing
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: A group of girls wants to become Hulu dancers.
Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler XX
Studio: Mappa
Genre: Drama, School, Psychological
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Netflix
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of anime about an elite private school, where students learn the fine art of gambling.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 12
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hulu
What It’s About in One Sentence: The student council president and vice president have their hots for each other and try to get each other to confess their feelings.
Kemono Friends 2
Studio: Tomason
Genre: Comedy
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season about animal anime girls in a safari park.
Kemurikusa
Studio: Yaoyorozu
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: Girls with red hair live in a foggy world and battle bugs.
Koya no Kotobuki Hikoutai
Studio: Gemba
Genre: Action, Military
Premiere Date: January 13
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: Pilots for hire take to the skies.
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka
Studio: Liden Films
Genre: Magical Girls, Military
Premiere Date: January 12
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: Think magical girls but with a military spin.
Manaria Friends
Studio: Cygames Pictures
Genre: Magic, School, Fantasy
Premiere Date: January 20
Where to Watch: Not currently available
What It’s About in One Sentence: The latest anime based on the popular Rage of Bahamut social game set in a magic academy.
Meiji Tokyo Renka
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A schoolgirl tries to return to modern times after being transported back to the Meiji Period.
Minitoji
Studio: Project No.9
Genre: Action, Comedy, Short Anime
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: A cuted-up, mini and short version of the girls-with-swords anime Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko.
How Clumsy You Are, Miss Ueno
Studio: Lesprit
Genre: Comedy, School
Premiere Date: January 6
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: Raging teen hormones sure make things awkward for Miss Ueno.
Mob Psycho 100 II
Studio: Bones
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Premiere: January 7
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What’s It About in One Sentence: When you’re a normal 8th grader who is also psychic, life is anything but normal.
The Morose Mononokean II
Studio: Pierrot+
Genre: Comedy, Supernatural
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Two Exorcists send yokai back from the real world to the underworld.
My Roommate Is A Cat
Studio: Zero-G
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: A writer’s life changes after he gets a new roommate.
Papa datte, Shitai
Studio: Magic Bus
Genre: Yaoi
Premiere Date: January 6
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: A college student gets a part-time housekeeper job and finds himself attracted to his boss, a single father.
Pastel Memories
Studio: Project No.9
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Premiere Date: January 7
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: Set in the future, this anime follows otaku girls in Akihabara helping to preserve Japanese geek culture.
The Price of Smiles
Studio: Tatsunoko Production
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Military
Premiere Date: January 4
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: The story of two young women (one a princess, the other a warrior) in a kingdom where everyone seems to smile.
The Promised Neverland
Studio: Clover Works
Genre: Drama, Horror
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation, Hidive, Hulu
What It’s About in One Sentence: Orphans think they are living in paradise, but in reality, they’re being raised to be slaughtered for monsters to eat.
The Quintessential Quintuplets
Studio: Tezuka Productions
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 10
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: A private tutor is faced with teaching quintuplets who are terrible students and one of them will be his future wife.
Rainy Cocoa sideG
Studio: EMT Squared
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: Unlike the other Rainy Cocoa anime, which star beautiful boys, the latest sideG series feature beautiful girls.
Real Girl (3D Kanojo) 2nd Season
Studio: Hoods Entertainment
Genre: Drama, Romance, School, Slice of Life
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: The second season of an anime about an otaku who’s never had a real girlfriend falls in love with a 3D girl for the first time.
Revisions
Studio: Shirogumi
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Mecha
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: Students travel to the future and battle giant monsters.
Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
Studio: NA
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life, Short Form
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll, Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: A free-spirited young woman and her friends try to make it in the big city.
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Studio: Kinema Citrus
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: After a young man ends up in a parallel universe, he is falsely accused of robbery and sexual assault and sets out for revenge.
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Part 2)
Studio: Xebec
Genre: Action, Adventure, Military, Sci-Fi, Space
Premiere Date: February 2
Where to Watch: Funimation
What It’s About in One Sentence: This is the continuation of the sci-fi space yarn anime.
Star Twinkle PreCure
Studio: Toei Animation
Genre: Fantasy, Magical Girls
Premiere Date: February 3
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: The latest entry in the long-running Pretty Sure magical girl anime series.
Virtual-san Looking
Studio: Lide
Genre: Comedy, Music
Premiere Date: January 9
Where to Watch: Currently not available
What It’s About in One Sentence: Virtual YouTubers make the jump to a real anime series.
Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me
Studio: Doga Kobo
Genre: Comedy, Yuri
Premiere Date: January 8
Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
What It’s About in One Sentence: A college student finds her kid sister’s grade school classmate exceptionally cute.
W’z
Studio: GoHands
Genre: Action, Music
Premiere Date: January 5
Where to Watch: Hidive
What It’s About in One Sentence: A young DJ’s life changes one day when he’s trying to get more views online and enters a new world of weapon-based combat.
Comments
18 responses to “Your Summer 2019 Anime Guide”
Please no, I haven’t even started a few of the anime I want to watch from last season. This is going to become like my gaming pile of shame. Too much anime, not enough time!
Team Four Star’s Hellsing Ultimate/OVA Abriged was finally wrapped up a couple weeks ago with episode 10:
Boogiepop and Revisions are the only 2 that really stand out to me. And like always I’ll wait until all the episodes are out before giving them a watch.
Boogie pop is the only one that stands out to me.
And is it just me or is a lot of anime getting… Sameish?
It’s not you, Sturgeon’s Law is in full effect. It’s probably always been like that but we never noticed it because only the titles that would sell (ie. The 10% that weren’t crap) were brought across to the West due to it being harder and more expensive to do. Now it’s super easy to release anime in the West we’re being exposed to a lot more of the anime that gets produced.
There just seems to be a large saturation of idol and people being transported to Fantasy settings anime lately.
It’s the flavour du jour. It’s the new Slice of Life anime.
The only Idol anime I was interested in was Zombieland saga. So much better than I thought
Isekai / Tensei stuff is at an all-time high because the bulk of popular stuff that’s getting anime adaptations tends to be light novels, and the bulk of light novels are the same dreary “nerd boy transported/reincarnated in parallel world where he is amazing” stories. Some of them are good (I haven’t had time to watch the anime yet, but the Rising of the Shield Hero novels are a pretty good read for example), but it’s gotten to the point that the big publishers are rejecting these outright a lot of the time because it’s gotten ridiculously saturated.
Most of the idol stuff is trying to either push or manufacture real-life idol groups or promote trash mobile games. The problem there is that Love Live was an absolutely massive success and whenever there’s a sudden run-away success you get a shitton of me-too copycats.
Actually I think the thing that annoys me the most about the transported-to-a-fantasy-world shows is that they all invariably end up in a world that acts like a video game. It’s inexplicable why that would be the case, too. It’s like they couldn’t decide between “trapped in a video game” and “trapped in an alternate universe” and all just said “why not both?”
I blame Sword Art Online.
I tend to enjoy stuff that is supernatural based, with Yokai. I also enjoy fantasy and mystery.
I am enjoying Gegege no Kitaro because of the myths that you learn about. (like if you leave unclean it becomes a dragon type Yokai that sticks to people’s faces)
The “Where to watch” is all over the place. Many of them are available on AnimeLab and a few of them are listed as unavailable but are actually on Netflix or other services. (eg. Hero Mask)
For me there’s a lot of “Meh” but Dororo is something I’m keen for as I’ve watched and enjoyed the movie. Besides, the manga was written by Osamu Tezuka, how could you go wrong? I’d like to be enthusiastic about Kakegurui season 2 too but I feel like Season 1 did enough and there’s only so much over the top personality I can handle before it starts to grate.
Really my apathy just stems from the fact that I have a backlog big enough to keep me going for several years already.
wake me when season 3 of konosuba
Or a new season of Re Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
Yes this too!
Welp, you just ruined the first episode of The Promised Neverland. It’s a great reveal if someone doesn’t spoil it.
Kaguya-sama is a fantastic manga so I’m really happy to see it getting an anime adaption. Shield Hero is okay despite the fact that some contemptible sitzpinkler’s have latched onto it so enthusiastically.
Wataten is… not okay. It is not okay.
Yeah i was thinking the same thing about The Promised Neverland…
The one-sentence descriptions don’t do any of these any favors. Either wrong or misleading or just don’t describe things very well. They read like bad Netflix descriptions.
My jaw literally dropped when I saw there was going to be a Dororo anime. I can’t believe this is the first I’ve heard of it, it should have bliped into my radar long ago. It was of the best, most underrated stories by Tezuka, sadly unfinished. I wonder if they will create an ending for it, or just animate the existing arcs.
Boogiepop was great back when they first made it (circa 2000) and I have to say that although the animation looks great, the character design is a bit lacking in comparison. My only hope is that they explain the mystery better this time around; it was quite convoluted and poorly elaborated the first time.
Lastly, everybody needs to watch The Promised Neverland. It’s one of the most promising, intelligent and unique mangas I’ve read in a while.