Summer 2014 Anime

[Episode 1 - Ilse's Notebook: Memoirs of a Scout Regiment Member]

An Abnormal. A body. A notebook.

On a Scouting Mission beyond the walls, Hange discovers the final writings of a Scout who perished on an expedition a year prior, leading to revelations that aid in their ongoing battle against the vicious Titans.

[Episode 2 - The Sudden Visitor: The Torturous Curse of Youth]

Make food, not war.

At the hest of a drunk Commander Pyxis, the still-in-training Jean (along with Armin and Annie) and Sasha (along with Conny and Reiner) face off with kitchen knives instead of fists to settle a row over a mishap during practice.

[Episode 3 - Distress]

When a training exercise goes awry and Christa is taken hostage, Jean and Eren must set aside their differences to track down and take out the perpetrators…without their mobility gear.

[Source: Funimation]

Keita has two older step-sisters, Ako and Riko, but since they aren't related by blood, they love him in a lustful way. After a mishap at school, Ako and Riko finally confess their love to him. Keita dislikes the thought of seeing them other than brother and sister, but as he tries to enter the same school as his sisters, he slowly becomes attracted to them.

[Source: Anime News Network; emended]

Hiyori's first day at high school becomes a nightmare for her when Yato possesses her body, after she unintentionally slips out of it upon falling asleep. He uses Hiyori's body to his advantage by doing all sorts of embarrassing and over-the-top things to spread word of his services to the other students, with Kofuku joining in on the fun. Yukine tries to get Tenjin and Mayu to help put a stop to Yato's antics, but they too end up getting distracted. As Hiyori struggles to make Yato return her body, she and Yukine spot a perverted student, who sneaked a camera into the girl's changing rooms, and discover he has been possessed by a phantom. When the student attempts to jump out of the window upon being discovered, Yato manages to rescue him and subdue the phantom, but ends up breaking his (Hiyori's) shoulder in the process. As such, Yato is caught and given an appropriate punishment whilst Hiyori begins her next day of school with a bizarre reputation.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Specials included on the Blu-ray/DVD volumes.

※ NOTE: Released on the seventh Blu-ray & DVD volume of the TV anime

Episode 0 takes place two years prior to the TV series when the Nase siblings meet Akito for the first time in a mission for Hiroomi.

Mitsuki follows her brother on this mission and their goal is to subjugate Akito.

[Source: MyAnimeList News]

"Unwritten" - An episode about Futaba and Kou in middle school. Based on the chapter called "Unwritten." also known as chapter 0 or Prologue.

"Page.13" - An episode that continues the story after the television series's 12th and final episode.

[Source: sakisaka10]

Suguru wins some tickets to Okinawa in a shopping mall lottery, so the whole gang plan to go on a trip there. To prepare for the trip, the girls practise being on an airplane and go to a convenience store to buy some travel things. Meanwhile, Renge is very thoughtful about how the trip may change her view on the world, spending the evening before the trip giving her farewells to the countryside. The next day, everyone sets off on their flight to Okinawa.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Short mini-theater specials included in BD/DVD volumes.

No synopsis has been added to this title.

"Mini OVAs" included with each of the Blu-ray and DVD volumes of Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to The Animation.

Set two years after the final episode of the original TV series, Tetsuro finds an old test film at Kaito’s. Kaito decides to watch the film and reminisces on the fun times with his friends. Later on Kanna, Mio, and Tetsuro show up with fireworks and sparklers. They group all look back on their time together and look forward to their future.

[Source: Sentai Filmworks]

Adaptation of the "Odoro no Michi" (Path of Thorns) manga chapters.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

Episode "41.5" bundled with Kuroko no Basket 2nd Season's sixth Blu-ray/DVD volumes, set to cover how Kuroko and Aomine first met each other.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

Extra episodes included with each of the "Little Busters! Refrain" BD/DVD volumes. Volume 7 will include episodes 7 and 8 of EX.

Usagi Tsukino is a second-year middle school girl who is a little clumsy and a crybaby, but she is full of energy. One day, she meets Luna, a black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead, and she transforms into Sailor Moon, a sailor-uniformed pretty guardian of love and justice! As a chosen guardian of justice, Usagi seems to have a mission to find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other guardians and to protect the princess.

Meanwhile, the queen of the Dark Kingdom, Queen Beryl, sends minions to the town where Usagi lives to obtain the Illusionary Silver Crystal which has immense power. Strange events start to unfold….

Can Sailor Moon really find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other Sailor guardians, and protect the princess…!?

[Source: Anime News Network]

No synopsis has been added to this title.

It's Anzio vs. Oorai in an epic tankery battle! Miho and Team Oorai have their hands full with the impulsive attacks of Vice-Commander Pepperoni and facing the raw fury of Vice-Commander Carpaccio… but the real question is whether they can hold off Anchovy’s ultra-secret secret weapons! Will they persevere? Or will they find themselves saying ‘tanks for the memories’?

[Source: HIDIVE]

No synopsis has been added to this title.

Based on the 4-koma manga stories of Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou. Included in Blu-ray/DVD volumes 1-7.

Short specials that aired on the official website.

One day, Kon, desiring to become a stronger familiar, transforms into a human form and ventures off into town. There, she encounters Kōji's younger brother, Shiro, who had ran away from home after getting into an argument with Kōji, who told him he couldn't play fireworks with their mother because of her work. Kon ends up having to put up with Shiro's selfishness, until they are both found by Inari, who had heard about the situation from Kōji. After quickly deducing Kon's identity, Inari accompanies Shiro to the supermarket where his mother works, with Shiro becoming upset when he sees her mother being busy and running off yet again. Wanting to defuse the situation, Inari transforms into Shiro's mother and offers to play with fireworks with him and Kōji, only to find the reason he was crying because he realised he was bothering his mother at work. In the end, Shiro plays fireworks with Kōji and Inari, before their mother manages to sort out a shift change to spend some time with them, whilst Kon learns something from her experience.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Shouta, a 25-year-old NEET, is mocked by his former female classmates who've all become successes, at their class reunion. A mysterious incident at the school pool throws him back in time and lets him deal with those same classmates back when they were fifth grade girls.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

"Tsuki ni Naku" will take the story content from volume 11 of the manga, which tells the story of when land god Yuuhi meets his companion Mariabelle. This OVA is bundled with the limited edition of the manga (14th, 15th, and 16th).

Specials inluded in the Blu-ray/DVD releases.

Specials included on the Blu-ray/DVD volumes.

Original anime DVD bundled with the 12th, 14th, and 17th volumes of the manga.

Tetralogy depicting what happened to various characters who were absent in Queen's Blade: Rebellion and what happened to them after Queen's Blade: Utsukushiki Toushitachi.

Unaired episode bundled with the Blu-ray/DVD Box-Set.

Bonus included in a Blu-ray/DVD disc of μ's live concert that took place in Saitama Super Arena on February 8th and 9th, 2014.

Mini-OVA specials bundled with each Blu-ray/DVD volume of Kenzen Robo Daimidaler.

As giant insects lay waste to the land of Edo, the Insect Magistrate Office gathers powerful warriors to defend the populace from the invading threat. A rookie swordsman named Jinbee Tsukishima seeks to atone for past sins by joining their ranks, but he’ll need to prove his worth if he wants to find redemption and curb the insect infestation.

[Source: Sentai Filmworks]

The story follow Satoshi (Ash in English) and his friends when they visit the Pokémon Aerospace eXploration Agency (a nod to the real-life Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). They are thrilled by stories from PAXA's astronauts about the wonders of space and the possibility of Pokémon living in space. Then, just as they hear about the dangers posed by space debris, sirens suddenly ring out. Team Rocket have plotted to seize control of PAXA and have apparently infiltrated the facility.

At that critical moment, trouble develops in a control system for artificial satellites. Large pieces of space debris have collided, causing fears of even more debris.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Short specials (featuring the chibi forms of the characters) included in the Blade and Soul Blu-rays and DVDs.

In the year 2xxx, development of information are going so fast, humans being are drowning in the sea information. This leads to a situation where people can not find the necessary information. The only hope to solve this problem is the navigator program, Hacka Doll.

[Source: Anime Bibly]

Prequel to the 17th Pokémon movie, Pokemon XY: Cocoon of Destruction and Diancie.

Special of Miss Monochrome. It's about football. Aired on the official Miss Monochrome YouTube channel.

Specials included in the Blu-ray/DVD volumes of Selector Infected WIXOSS.

Another short bonus included in a Blu-ray/DVD disc of μ's live concert that took place in Saitama Super Arena on February 8th and 9th, 2014.

Unaired episode 8.5 of "Tamayura: More Aggressive".

No synopsis has been added to this title.

Bundled with the Blu-ray and DVD release of Girls & Panzer: Kore ga Hontou no Anzio-sen desu!.

Bonus episodes 3.5, 6.5, and 9.5 included with the Blu-ray/DVD releases.

"Double Circle" means the community which evolves infinitely by the energy and ICT in the smart community project. People who live in Kawasaki become a hero, and beat an enemy who steals near from the time-stopped world to the evolving town Kawasaki.

[Source: official website]

Picture drama episodes included on the Blu-ray/DVD volume four and five.

Misaki, a 25-year-old woman who is soon to be married, finds an old photo taken at Tokyo Station and an old, broken pocket watch from her late father. Her father worked at Tokyo Station during his life and was a very strict man in her memory, but she saw his smile from the old photo that she’s never seen before. Misaki, in attempt to have the old pocket watch repaired, discovers that a watch store existed in Tokyo Station in the past.

Fight between Nike and Narvi after both lose their Golems.

Included in the Blu-ray Box release of the TV series.

Ghost Messengers are super-power agents from the underground world called the World of Death. The World of Death is a digitalized world with cutting-edge technologies that control and manage the life and death of all living things based on its elaborate systems.

Our Ghost Messenger hero, Kang-lim, has been dispatched to the human world to capture the remaining ghosts who are refusing to go to the World of Death although it is their time.

An accident occurs during his mission and Kang-lim gets captured in his own mobile phone. Little Kang-lim, a human boy who has extraordinary spiritual powers, finds the mobile phone and takes GhostMessenger Kang-lim out from the mobile phone.

And the adventure begins.

[Source: Anime World Network]

In a world where yin and yang has lost its balance and day merged with night, humans and monsters learn to coexist. Our hardworking censorates do their best to fight the ‘untamed’ monsters in this joyful story.

[Source: EIH Scans]

Two martial artists are brutally killed by a team of assassins, leaving their wards, a young boy and girl, defenseless. A martial arts master dispatches of the assassins, sparing their lives, and decides to take them in. He raises them and teaches them martial arts.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

The "Life Is Movie" featuring indie animator Junichi Yamamoto and Flash animator Tokumaru Naoko reintroducing the Hidenori Takahashi voiced passionate human-faced dog NEET/would be detective will be released as OVA and online on the Bandai Channel later this summer.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

The story is set at the elite Omega High School, where test results decide everything. The high-scorers in the student council, in particular the student council president, have a lot of authority. Yuria Aikawa comes to this school, and though she seems like an ordinary girl who loves fun things and her boyfriend Shuri, she's actually a super-genius who gets the top score on every test. She becomes student council president and tries to make school life more fun in various ways.

[Source: Anime News Network]

The gourmet manga focuses on the dining of cuisine. The protagonist Jirō Tamiyamaru is more obssessed with how to eat than most people, and the manga comically depicts how he agonizes over the differences with how others eat.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Japanese streaming service niconico announced that it will stream a new anime for Bandai's Shinra Banshō Choco trading card series. The first "feature-length anime" in the franchise will celebrate its 10th anniversary, and will feature a story from the newest set of cards for the series, Shinra Banshō Choco ~Tenchinmei no Shō~.

[Source: Anime News Network]

A home drama centering around protagonist "Nameko." Amusing family anecdotes, surprising and funny events, and a little bit of tear-jerking in the warm, everyday lives of the Nameko family.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

A girl and demon battle out on a field as they have their pride on the line.

An original anime series created in cooperation with Kanagawa Prefecture.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

The comedy revolves around a not-so-normal high school girl with the surname Inui (a pun of the word 'dog') who happens to be a dog. Together with her best friend Rurumi Usagi (pun of the word 'rabbit'), Inui plays around and falls in love.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Elite Sushi Ninja fights with evil Monsters for justice every day! They, however, are on the popular superhero TV show…. In the real world, three lazy kids named “IKURA”, “MAGURO”, and “TAMAGO” watch with that TV show. They wish to be Heroes like the Sushi Ninja on the TV show some day, but they always fall out over something stupid. One day, they unexpectedly meet up with a beautiful Princess being chasing by Nachos King Gang. She deems the three guys to be the Heroic Sushi Ninja on TV show and asks them for help. They are so excited and act like the heroes on TV show. Then they decide to face with the enemies to protect the Princess…. Can they be the real Heroes and protect the Princess from the evil?

[Source: Daisuki]