Fall 2017 Anime

※ NOTE: BD/DVD Release

In 2022, the world of virtual reality was upended by the arrival of a new invention from a genius programmer, Akihiko Kayaba. Called NerveGear, it was the first full-dive system and with it, came endless possibilities to VRMMORPGs.

In 2026, a new machine called the Augma is developed to compete against the NerveGear and its successor, the Amusphere. A next-gen wearable device, the Augma doesn't have a full-dive function like its predecessors. Instead, it uses Augmented Reality (AR) to get players into the game. It is safe, user-friendly and lets users play while they are conscious, making it an instant hit on the market. The most popular game on the system is “Ordinal Scale” (aka: OS), an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma.

Asuna and the gang have already been playing OS for a while, by the time Kirito decides to join them. They’re about to find out that Ordinal Scale isn’t all fun and games…

[Source: official English website]

“IF I BECAME A BAD PERSON, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO FORGIVE ME?”

The boy wished to protect the girl. That was his thought.

10 years after the Holy Grail War—a battle waged by Masters and Servants over the wish-granting container, the Holy Grail—another war breaks out in Fuyuki City. Shirou Emiya—the adopted son of Kiritsugu Emiya, a participant of the previous Holy Grail War—resolves to fight, carrying out Kiritsugu’s dying wish.

There’s a young girl by Shirou’s side who’s in love with him—Sakura Matou. Every morning, she goes to Shirou’s house to make breakfast and dinner for him, bringing kindness into the life of a boy utterly alone in the world. But once the Holy Grail War starts, there’s a change in the air in Fuyuki City. Murders abound across the city, and the atmosphere grows ominous. Shirou decides to shelter Sakura in his home. Along with Saber, the Servant he summons, Shirou allies himself with the magus Rin Tohsaka and takes part in the Holy Grail War.

But the battle starts to go awry as secret maneuvers by unseen forces are put into play.

[Source: official English website]

First of three films compiling the "Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch" TV anime.

Battle of Concepts covers all episodes of Haikyu!! Karasuno High School VS Shiratorizawa Academy. In the finals for the prelims of the Spring Tournament, Karasuno faces off with the prestigious Shiratorizawa Academy, the undefeated champions from Miyagi Prefecture. Hinata faces the strongest high school ace and the biggest, most powerful wall he’s ever faced, Wakatoshi Ushijima, head on.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

This theatrical compilation movie chronicles Haikyu!! Second Season and the Spring High School Volleyball Nationals preliminary semi-finals in which they faced Aoba Johsai. They try to get revenge on the loss they had at the Inter-High prelims, led by the renowned setter, Oikawa, who also happens to be Kageyama’s senior from middle school.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

The last summer of the 20th Century. That day, the human beings learn that they are not the only ruler of the planet Earth.

The appearance of the giant living creatures “Kaiju's” and the ultimate existence that destroys all monsters: Godzilla. Through the battle against kaiju’s that lasted for half a century, human beings has experienced continuous defeat, and finally plans to escape from the Earth. And in 2048, only those who were selected by the A.I. managed under the central government boarded the inter-sidereal emigrant spaceship “Aratrum” to head for “Tau Cetus e”, the planet beyond the distance of 11.9 light-year. However, the environmental condition differences between that of the Earth and Tau e, which they finally arrived after 20 years were far beyond the predicted numbers, and was not an environment considered to be habitable by human beings.

The young man on the emigrant ship: Haruo, who saw his parents killed by Godzilla in front of his eyes when he was 4 years old, had only one thing in his mind for 20 years: to return to the Earth and defeat Godzilla. Shut out from the possibility of emigration, as the living environment in the ship deteriorates, the group of “Earth Returnists” led by Haruo became the majority, and determines to head back to Earth through a dangerous long-distance hyperspace navigation.

However, the Earth they have returned has already passed the time of 20,000 years, and has become an unknown world with the ecosystem reigned by Godzilla.

At the end, will human beings win back the Earth? And what will Haruo see beyond his fate…?

[Source: official website]

No synopsis has been added to this title.

Take Your Marks is broken into four episodical parts that follow Haru and the other Iwatobi Swim Club members as they graduate and move on from high school.

[Source: Funimation]

Meicoomon rampages after witnessing Meiko Mochizuki being injured by the man bearing Gennai's likeness. "It would have been better if you hadn't been born..." Meicoomon disappears into the Real World, which has since become distorted. Possessing overwhelming power, she's the key to the world's destruction.

[Source: Shout! Factory]

'Flashback' film looking back at the second season of the TV anime.

※ NOTE: First film of the "Hi-Evolution" trilogy

Ten years ago, the major earth-shaking “First Summer of Love” event occurred. Renton, who lost his father during the event, now attends the army school of the United Federation of Predgio Towers located in the border town of Bellforest. Because his late father is still praised, Renton feels something is lacking as he continues with his ordinary, boring days.

Then one day, Nirvash, the world’s oldest LFO, appears in front of him and a girl named Eureka emerges from the cockpit. This was the beginning of the future of humans and Scub Coral, another intelligent lifeform.

Was this encounter all just a coincidence? Or was it fate? Where will Renton and Eureka’s journey end?

[Source: Funimation]

The manga is set in Tokyo in the Taishō era (1912-1926). The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy -- contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions instead of the traditional kimono, and is not as interested in housework as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love.

Haikara-san's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Haikara-san but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms. Haikara-san's betrothed is Shinobu Ijūin, a second lieutenant in the army.

[Source: Anime News Network]

A three-part "director's cut" version of the first Fullmetal Panic! television anime series.

Tachibana Ritsuka is a female second-year student attending Shiko Academy. Though she longs to be in love, she passes the days living a quiet, uneventful life. One day, the student council president, Kaginuki Rem whom all the academy students admire, sends for Ritsuka which leads to her peculiar encounters with everyone in the student council. However, they are not what they seem.

Compilation of the second season of "Kidou Senshi Gundam: Thunderbolt."

Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love continues the story of Space Battleship Yamato 2199.

It is the year 2202, three Years after the war with Gamillas, the people in the Solar System are finally at peace once again and the Earth has been restored back to life. With the end of the war, there is a peace treaty between Earth and Gamillas which will strengthen their military bond and secure true peace. In addition to the reconstruction of Earth, the joint forces form a new intergalactic defense fleet with a new ship, Andromeda, to be its new symbol of power. Due to these advancements, the Earth is going on a path of military expansion despite Starsha Iscandar's wishes of peace. But when a new threat called the Gatlantis starts to wreak havoc to a newly reformed galaxy, the Goddess Teressa calls upon the Yamato once more in order to fight back against the new threat.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Film compiling the "Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru" TV anime.

Film compiling the third season with new cuts of animation.

A theatrical short compilation film with added new scenes shown together with Kidou Senshi Gundam: Thunderbolt - Bandit Flower.

[Source: AniDB]

※ NOTE: Theatrical Premiere

Short theater manners animations shown before Hibike! Euphonium Movie: Todoketai Melody.

※ NOTE: Theatrical Premiere

Character Stage Greeting Manner Special's shown before main movie. Later included on the movie Blu-ray and DVD release.

The manga revolves around a polar bear who falls in love with an earless seal, and he wants nothing else except to protect him, even though the seal constantly thinks the bear will eat him.

[Source: Anime News Network]

The Precure members go to France as part of a cooking competition. While in France, Ciel (Cure Parfait) is suddenly unable to change into her Precure form, and her sweets making is going badly as well. During the competition, suddenly the streets of Paris turn to sweets.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Joker has come to Japan to steal the Eagle Talon Society's secret weapons in his continued scheme for pure chaos. However, the Justice League is on his trail, but there's something off with Batman. Now, it's up to Eagle Talon to go find out what's wrong with Batman, and that means going back in time to Bruce Wayne's most traumatic experience, the murder of his parents. If that wasn't enough to worry about, the Eagle Talon Society also have to keep their eyes on their production budget, especially with most of that money going toward the licensing fee for DC's popular characters. Will the Eagle Talon Society and the Justice League be able to stop the Joker before their budget dries up, and they're reduced to simple stick figures!?

[Source: DLE via Anime News Network]

Short film focusing on the fairies Pekorin, Mofurun, Puff, and Aroma as they struggle to cook.

[Source: Anime News Network]

In the film's original story, Zorori is sucked into another time with Ishishi and Noshishi. There he meets his mother during her younger days. However, she is swallowed by a mysterious monster and Zorori must team up with a treasure hunter named Zorand to save her. The film teases an explanation of the secret behind the "ZZ" mark on Zorori's costume.

[Source: Anime News Network]