Uchuu Kyoudai
Start Date: 1st April
Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures
Synopsis: Once upon a time there were two brothers, Hibito and Mutta. The younger brother Hibito had been blessed with good luck since the day he was born. Mutta, on the other hand, had always had bad luck. One day, looking up at the night sky, the two brothers saw a UFO. This experience made them both promise to become astronauts. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Hiiro no Kakera
Start Date: 1st April (Episode 1 Pre-air: 5th March)
Animation Studio: Studio DEEN
Synopsis: Kasuga Tamaki goes back to her old village only to find herself being attacked by monsters. Her grandmother then tells her that she’s the "Tamayorihime", and her duty is to guard a powerful sword called Onikirimaru together with her 6 male guardians. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Kimi to Boku. (Second season)
Start Date: 2nd April
Animation Studio: J.C. Staff
Synopsis: The story revolves around four teens - the good-looking twins Asaba Yuuta and Yuuki, the effeminate Matsuoka Shun, and the class head Tsukahara Kaname - who have known each other since early childhood. While they are not necessarily good or bad friends, they continue to hang out well into high school. The half-Japanese transfer student Tachibana Chizuru joins the circle of friends in this comedy about the everyday life of adolescence. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Yurumates 3D
Start Date: 2nd April
Animation Studio: C2C
Synopsis: Aida Yurume, an 18-year-old "ronin" and recent high school graduate, has high hopes of being accepted and attending Tokyo University. She moves into an apartment complex, the Maison du Wish, located on the outskirts of Tokyo where other ronins living there are studying for upcoming college acceptance exams. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
ZETMAN
Start Date: 2nd April
Animation Studio: TMS Entertainment
Synopsis: The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and ALPHAS, and then traces their origins - Kanzaki Jin, a young man with the ability to transform into a superhuman being known as ZET, and Amagi Kouga, a young man with a strong sense of justice who uses technology to fight as ALPHAS. The fates of these two men and those around them intertwine as they fight to protect mankind and destroy monstrous abominations known as Players. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Queen's Blade: Rebellion
Start Date: 3rd April
Animation Studio: ARMS
Synopsis: After the 30th Queen's Blade, Claudette becomes the queen. At first, she governs the country well by abolishing the heavy taxes and the aristocracy. However, her reign turns into terrorism by power and the Queen's Blade is repealed. The Princess Knight of Rebellion, Annelotte organizes a rebel army and declares war against Claudette. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here] (NSFW)
Kuromajo-san ga Tooru!!
Start Date: 4th April
Animation Studio: Shin-Ei Animation
Synopsis: When magic-mad Choco summons up a black witch by mistake, she finds that she and her friend Gyubido need to keep a careful eye on her to stop her getting up to all sorts of mischief. (Kodansha Ltd.)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Kore wa Zombie desu ka? OF THE DEAD (Second season)
Start Date: 4th April
Animation Studio: Studio DEEN
Synopsis: Aikawa Ayumu is just a normal high school boy until one day when a serial killer took his life. He is later revived as a zombie by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe and ends up serving her as her guard.
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Medaka Box
Start Date: 4th April
Animation Studio: GAINAX
Synopsis: Kurokami Medaka, a first year, is elected as Student Council President, and the first thing she does is establish a suggestion box, later dubbed by students the "Medaka Box". Medaka encourages students to submit any problem to the box without hesitation and promises to take on any issue from anyone. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Acchi Kocchi
Start Date: 5th April
Animation Studio: AIC
Synopsis: Wouldn't you just love to poke in a relationship between two young high schoolers who have a subtle distance between each other? Of course you would. Miniwa Tsumiki and Otonashi Io have this subtle distance that anyone would want to jump in between just to bug them. That's what the other characters are there for. Tsumiki, being a tsundere and all, won't be honest about her feelings toward Io. Io on the other hand is unaware of Tsumiki's feelings, hence the subtle distance between the two. Now, let's watch these two and see what events await them... (Mangahelpers)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Sengoku Collection
Start Date: 5th April
Animation Studio: Brains Base
Synopsis: Anime adaptation of Konami's Sengoku Collection social networking service game, set in the tumultuous Sengoku Era of historical Japan, when military masters circle the figurative throne of Japan's first shogunate. (ANN)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Sankarea
Start Date: 5th April
Animation Studio: Studio DEEN
Synopsis: Furuya Chihiro's obsessed with zombies. He collects any figurines, watches any movie, and plays any game with the living dead, and is even only interested in zombie girls. When his cat dies, Chihiro begins trying to raise it from the dead using an ancient book of the occult he bought from a shop. But what will happen when he sees the idol of a nearby all girl's school walking close to where he conducts his experiment, wishing to die and be reborn as a different person? (MU)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Natsuiro Kiseki
Start Date: 5th April
Animation Studio: Sunrise
Synopsis: An original slice-of-life anime featuring the voice actresses from seiyuu unit sphere as four best friends: Aizawa Natsumi, Hanaki Yuka, Mizukoshi Saki and Tamaki Rinko.
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Accel World
Start Date: 6th April
Animation Studio: Sunrise
Synopsis: One autumn day in 2046, Arita Haruyuki has an encounter with Kuroyukihime, the prettiest girl in his school. For the middle school boy who is often bullied, the meeting changes his life. Through a mysterious piece of software from her, Haruyuki learns of the existence of the virtual Accel World. In that moment, the lowest of the "school caste" becomes "Burst Linker", a knight defending a princess. (ANN)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Upotte!!
Start Date: 7th April
Animation Studio: XEBEC
Synopsis: Seishou Academy is known for having students with excellent marksmanship. One day, a transfer teacher who got lost while trying to find the academy encounters a girl with professional marksmanship skills at a shooting range. Her name is FNC and she is an assault rifle of Seishou Academy. (MU)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Fate/Zero (2nd season)
Start Date: 7th April
Animation Studio: ufotable
Synopsis: Fate/Zero takes place 10 years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the 4th Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. The War of the Holy Grail is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete to obtain the power of the "Holy Grail," which grants a miracle. After three inconclusive wars for the elusive Holy Grail, the Fourth War commences. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Nazo no Kanojo X
Start Date: 7th April
Animation Studio: Hoods Entertainment
Synopsis: One day, a strange transfer student appears before Tsubaki Akira. Her name is Urabe Mikoto and she is an antisocial girl whose hobby is just sleeping during class-breaks. Curious to learn more about Mikoto, Akira starts going out with her. (MU)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Kuroko no Basket
Start Date: 7th April
Animation Studio: Production I.G
Synopsis: Kuroko Tetsuya is a member from the legendary middle school basketball team known as "The Generation of Miracles", and while nobody seems to know about him, the main 5 players of the team all admit that he is a better player. When he joins the high school basketball team, everyone is surprised to find out that he is small, weak, and easy to miss. What is the secret that makes him so strong, and how will he help his high school team? (Mangafox)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Phi-Brain: Kami no Puzzle (Second season)
Start Date: 8th April
Animation Studio: Sunrise
Synopsis: Daimon Kaito would be a completely average high school student except for one thing: he's a 'demon' at solving puzzles. Kaito is so brilliant, in fact, that when he's asked to take some 'special' tests of his unique ability, he immediately suspects that the test itself is a test. Kaito then finds himself caught up in a lethal Philosopher's Puzzle made by the sinister group POG, a murderous maze of trap upon trap, where failing to solve the secret correctly will result in death! (Sentai Filmworks)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Tasogare Otome x Amnesia
Start Date: 8th April
Animation Studio: Silver Link
Synopsis: The story takes place in Seikyou Private School, a facility that consists of multiple buildings that connect together to accommodate both junior and senior high school students. Sixty years of ongoing renovations and expansions have meant most of the old inner structures have been sealed and abandoned. With the existence of such a maze-like building, it is only natural that rumours of the paranormal would appear. One day first-year middle school student Teiichi Niiya gets lost in this maze and by chance arrives at an old storage room where he meets Kanoe Yuuko, a mysterious girl with raven black, long silky hair and a tall and slender figure, who introduces herself as the ghost of the old school building. (AniDB)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Saki: Achiga-hen ~ episode of side-A
Start Date: 8th April
Animation Studio: Studio Gokumi
Synopsis: The Achiga Girls' Academy in Nara once defeated regional mahjong powerhouse Bansei High School. It advanced into the national team semifinals but lost to the eventual champion, and the mahjong club was later disbanded. Six years later, elementary school student Takakamo Shizuno befriends transfer student Haramura Nodoka. The two eventually enter Achiga Girls', but Nodoka transfers out of the school in the second year. When Shizuno sees Nodoka on television the following year as the national middle school individual mahjong champion, she decides to revive Achiga's mahjong club. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san
Start Date: 9th April
Animation Studio: XEBEC
Synopsis: The story of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san centers around Nyaruko, a formless Cthulhu deity of chaos (Nyarlathotep) who can take on the shape of a seemingly ordinary silver-haired girl. Yasaka Mahiro is a normal high school boy who is chased by aliens one night, until Nyaruko saves him. (ANN)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Jormungand
Start Date: 10th April
Animation Studio: White Fox
Synopsis: Koko Hekmatyar is a young arms dealer who works under HCLI, a weapons corporation. She secretly sells weapons in many countries while avoiding the local authorities and law enforcements as most of her work is actually illegal under international law. Traveling with her is her team of bodyguards who are mostly composed of ex-military veterans. The latest addition to her crew is Jonah, a seemingly emotionless child soldier who is skilled in combat yet ironically hates arms dealers. Jonah joins Koko as he wishes to find the arms dealer responsible for his family's death. (Wikipedia)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Sakamichi no Apollon
Start Date: 12th April
Animation Studio: MAPPA
Synopsis: It was the beginning of summer 1966. Because of his father’s job situation, freshman high school student Nishimi Kaoru moves by himself from Yokosuka to Kyushu to live with relatives. Until then, Kaoru was an honor roll student who tended to keep to himself, but meeting notorious bad boy Kawabuchi Sentarou starts to change him. Through his devil-may-care classmate, Kaoru learns the attractions of jazz and finds the first person he can call a “friend”. He also discovers how much fun it is to play music with a pal. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Tsuritama
Start Date: 12th April
Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures
Synopsis: Sanada Yuki is a high school boy who cannot communicate with people well and doesn't have a single friend. He lives on Enoshima island with his French grandmother. One day, he meets a boy named Haru. Haru calls himself an alien who visited the Earth for fishing. Another high school boy, Natsuki, and a mysterious Indian, Akira, join the two and the island becomes the center of the event which determines the fate of the world. (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
Eureka Seven AO
Start Date: 12th April
Animation Studio: BONES
Synopsis: Sequel to 2005's Eureka Seven. The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government. Fukai Ao, a 13-year-old boy with a missing father, lives on the island with an old doctor named Toshio and is about to enter middle school. A mysterious entity called "Secret" suddenly appears and launches an attack on the Scub Coral lifeform on the island. Ao launches a certain military FP called "Nirvash" aboard a Japanese military transport in his fervent desire to protect the island. (ANN)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan
Start Date: 12th April
Animation Studio: Production I.G
Synopsis: Adapted from Sega's role-playing game "Shining Hearts". The story begins with a mysterious girl named Kaguya who was washed ashore the island of Wyndaria after a great storm. She encounters Rick, a swordsman who wound up working at the island's bakery. Apparently, Kaguya is suffering from having lost her memories and emotions. In addition, the usually peaceful Wyndaria is now swarming with pirates who came seeking for the special spirit stone that is worn around Kaguya's neck. Knowing the situation, Rick and his co-workers, Nellis, Amyl, and Aerie decided to bring back peace to island and help Kaguya regain her lost memories and emotions. (Wikipedia)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Hyouka
Start Date: 22nd April
Animation Studio: Kyoto Animation
Synopsis: Oreki Hotarou is a high school boy who always acts passively. One day, he enters "Kotenbu" (Classic Literature Club) as recommended by his elder sister. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Mayaka. Together, they begin to investigate a case that occurred 33 years ago, and hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Kotenbu. That collection is titled "Hyouka". (MAL)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
AKB0048
Start Date: 29th April
Animation Studio: Satelight
Synopsis: In the beginning of the 21st century, a world war breaks out over interplanetary travel tech. The environment is pretty much destroyed so mankind leaves Earth and starts Star Calendar 00. Entertainment and songs become heavily regulated and eventually banned due to their power to move people, but a brave idol group puts on guerrilla performances in the name of a famous act from earlier times that sang to Earth's bitter end, AKB48. The illegal revival group's name is... AKB0048. (Crunchyroll)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Trailer/PV: [Click here]
KINGDOM
Start Date: 4th June
Animation Studio: Studio Pierrot
Synopsis: In the Warring States Period of ancient China (475-221 BCE), Shin and Hyou are war-orphans in the kingdom of Qin. They dream of one day proving themselves on the battlefield. One day, however, Hyou is taken to the palace by a minister. Winding up on the losing side of a power-struggle, Hyou manages to return to the village, barely alive. Shin then meets a boy who closely resembles Hyou, Ei Sei. For now he is the king of Qin; later he will become the emperor Shi Huangdi. (ANN)
Links: [Official Site], [MAL]
Other spring 2012 shows: Saint Seiya Omega, Furusato Saisei Nippon no Mukashibanashi, Shiba Inuko-san, Pabu & Mojizu, GON, Naruto SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden, Zumomo to Nupepe, Ginga he Kickoff!!, Gakkatsu!, Recorder to Randsell Re, Ribbon-chan, Arashi no Yoru ni: Himitsu no Tomodachi, Lupin III: Mine Fujiko to Iu Onna, Shirokuma Café, Himitsukessha Taka no Tsume Neo, Baku Tech! Bakugan, Jewelpet Kira Deco!, Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future, Metal Fight Beyblade Zero-G, Cardfight!! Vanguard: Asia Circuit Hen, Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone.
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