Winter 2020 Anime: Official Info, Airdates & Trailers
Keep warm this winter season with the latest anime info at MANGA.TOKYO!
I already miss the summer. There is something about feeling the sun on your skin and the taste of ice-cream that makes the season a favorite for many. Yet, fall has its charms. We are steadily heading into winter and nature will start taking that gentle auburn color that characterizes the season. Another thing that characterizes each season is that we have loads of new anime starting! Fall 2018 has some favorites coming back and a few leftovers that we are glad they get to stay. But it also has a lot of new titles that want a place in your anime-to-watch list! Just like in every season, MT is here to help you out with our customary list full of all the info you need!
MANGA.TOKYO will cover 14 of those for our weekly anime reviews and we have our staff and writers ready to glue their faces to their screens to watch all the new anime for our first impressions article! Are you ready for an amazing anime fall?
Let’s get started!
The Fall 2018 season has more than 60 anime with 4 of them continuing from Summer 2018:
Fall 2018 is also the much-anticipated return of Tokyo Ghoul:re and Sword Art Online! You can read our review for the first cour of the third season of Tokyo Ghoul here:
And here are our reviews for the first and second seasons of SAO:
Season 1 Review | Season 2 Review
Even with the fan favorites in the mix, there are so many anime and we only have so much time. Sometimes it is hard to follow with even a few of the season’s titles. The best way to get that extra bit of obscure otaku knowledge about each season’s anime is to visit the official sites, or even better, follow the official hashtags and Twitter pages! Twitter is the anime industry’s Social Media of choice when it comes to sharing the latest info, and we want you, the amazing otaku readers of MANGA.TOKYO to be the first in the know in the otaku world!
That’s why MT shares this amazing list for all our Social Media savvy readers every season! Do you want to know all the latest news about the Fall 2018 anime?
You just have to follow eight simple steps:
The article is going to be updated many times as we get all the latest info on broadcast dates and the number of episodes, so bookmark the page and let’s have an awesome anime fall!
Japanese Title: 逆転裁判 ~その『真実』、異議あり!~ Season 2
Studio: CloverWorks
Air Date: 6 October
Episodes: 24
Adaptation of Visual Novel
The main character is attorney Phoenix Wright (Ryuichi Naruhodo), who believes in his clients, and tends to turn around the situation in court by finding out the truth. He helps innocence win.
(c) CAPCOM/読売テレビ・A-1 Pictures
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @anime_gyakuten
Hashtag: #逆転裁判
Japanese Title: とある魔術の禁書目録[インデックス]III
Studio: J.C.Staff
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: 26
Adaptation of Light Novel
The story is set in Academy City in a world where magic and science go hand in hand. Unique characters are involved in mysteries and accidents that are beyond human understanding.
(C)2017 鎌池和馬/KADOKAWA アスキー・メディアワークス/PROJECT-INDEX III
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @toaru_project
Hashtag: #とある
Japanese Title: あかねさす少女
Studio: Dandelion Animation Studio
Air Date: 1 October
Episodes: ?
Original Anime | 1st Episode Impressions
October, 2018. Girls who live in a provincial city perform a certain ritual. The girls are in the ‘Crystal Radio Club.’ It is an interest circle that Asuka Tsuchimiya, a girl known for her cheerfulness, started with friends in her high school. That ritual was considered just an urban legend. However, with several conditions coincidentally falling into place, it stops being fun and games….
©Akanesasu Anime Project
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @akanesasu_shojo
Hashtag: #あかねさす少女
Japanese Title: アニマエール!
Studio: Doga Kobo
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of 4-koma manga | 1st Episode Impressions
The anime series is about Kohane Hatoya, who in high school becomes fascinated with cheerleading and decides to start a cheerleading club. Joining Kohane in her cheerleading activities is the experienced Hizume and Kohane’s childhood friend Uki.
©卯花つかさ・芳文社/アニマエール!製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @animayell_anime
Hashtag: #アニマエール
Japanese Title: ベルゼブブ嬢のお気に召すまま。
Studio: LIDEN FILMS
Air Date: 11 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Manga
The great devil Beelzebub leads an army of some hundred thousand demons. When Murin gets to serve Beelzebub, he can’t believe his eyes when the person appears before him for the first time… A dignified devil lord with a cool head and impressive energy…was not what Beelzebub looks like? Instead, he meets a girl who loves soft and fluffy things?!
© matoba/SQUARE ENIX·Beelmama Committee
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @beelmama_anime
Hashtag: #ベルまま
Japanese Title: BAKUMATSU
Studio: Studio Deen
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Game | 1st Episode Impressions
The series is based on the popular romance game Renai Bakumatsu Kareshi.
© FURYU/BAKUMATSU製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @BAKUMATSU_info
Hashtag: #BAKUMATSU
Japanese Title: 学園BASARA
Studio: Brain’s Base
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Game | 1st Episode Impressions
Gakuen Basara is a high school parody of Capcom’s action game Sengoku Basara. In the original game, the player becomes a warlord in the Sengoku period of Japan (The Warring States Period: 1467-1603) and aims to destroy the other warlords. Gakuen Basaratakes the characters from the game and put them in a school setting.
(c)CAPCOM/私立BASARA学園
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @gakuen_basara
Hashtag: #学園BASARA #学バサ
Japanese Title: BEATLESS Final Stage
Studio: Diomedéa
Air Date: 26 September
Episodes: 4
Adaptation of Novel
Final four episodes of Beatless.
(C) 2018 長谷敏司・redjuice・monochrom/KADOKAWA/BEATLESS製作委員会 (C) Satoshi Hase / monochrom
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @BEATLESS_info
Hashtag: #anime_beatless
Japanese Title: やがて君になる
Studio: TROYCA
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: 13
Adaptation of Manga | 1st Episode Impressions
Yu Koito doesn’t know how it feels to love someone. At her junior high school’s graduation ceremony, she received a confession of love from a boy, but she didn’t know how to reply. Now in high school, she meets Toko Nanami, a member of the student council who is turning down confessions because they don’t make her heart skip a beat. Because Yu and Toko are having quite similar troubles, Yu is frank about her problems with Toko, when suddenly Toko confesses: ‘I think I could fall in love with you.’
©2018 仲谷 鳰/KADOKAWA/やがて君になる製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @yagakimi
Hashtag: #やがて君になる
Japanese Title: 寄宿学校のジュリエット
Studio: LIDEN FILMS
Air Date: 6 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Manga | Episode 1 Preview
The set of the story is a prestigious boarding school located on a small island. The first-year student Romio Inuzuka is the leader of the Black Doggy house while the first-year student Juliet Percia is the leader of the White Cats house. While their houses are supposed to be archenemies, the two of them are actually in love with each other. It is a relationship they absolutely can not have anybody find out about and we follow their story of forbidden love.
(C)金田陽介・講談社/寄宿学校のジュリエット製作委員会 (C)金田陽介/講談社
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @juliet_anime
Hashtag: #juliet_anime
Japanese Title: CONCEPTION
Studio: Gonzo
Air Date: 10 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Preview
Itsuki Yuge gets summoned into the magical world of Granvania where ‘Impurities’ are causing ‘Stellar Disorders’ and put the world into a crisis. Only the Star Children, born of maidens, can fight the Impurities. In order to return to his original world, and to save the world, Itsuki has to produce 12 Star Children.
‘Give birth to my child…!’
©Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd./コンセプ製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @conceptionanime
Hashtag: #コンセプション #コンセプ_アニメ
Japanese Title: 抱かれたい男1位に脅されています.
Studio: CloverWorks
Air Date: 6 October
Episodes: 13
Adaptation of Manga | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Review
Dakaretai Otoko No.1 ni Odosareteimasu is a long-running Boy’s Love manga by Hashigo Sakurabi, serialized by Libre Publishing.
‘I’ll make it so your body can’t bear to be apart from me.’
Takato Saijo has been knocked off the spot top of the ‘most desired man’ ranking after 5 years. The one to replace him is a newbie actor with just 3 years’ experience- Junta Azumaya! Takato looks upon the naturally charming and ‘angelic’ Azumaya with feelings of hostility, but in a moment of weakness, the tables are completely turned…
©DO1 PROJECT
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @dakaretai_1st
Hashtag: #だかいちアニメ
Japanese Title: DOUBLE DECKER! ダグ&キリル
Studio: Sunrise
Air Date: 30 September
Episodes: ?
Original Anime | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Review
The anime stars Satoshi Mikami as veteran detective Doug Bilingam and Kohei Amasaki as enthusiastic but disappointing rookie detective Kirill Vrubel, who have teamed up at the specialized criminal investigation agency. Their mission is to clamp down on the dangerous drug called ‘Anthem’, which has a high mortality rate.
(c)SUNRISE/DD PARTNERS
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @dabudeka
Hashtag: #dabudeka #ダブデカ
Japanese Title: フェアリーテイル (2018)
Studio: A-1 Pictures x Bridge
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Manga
The final anime season of Fairy Tail.
(c)真島ヒロ・講談社/フェアリーテイル製作委員会・テレビ東京
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @fairytail_PR
Hashtag: #フェアリーテイル #FT #fairytail
Japanese Title: 蒼天の拳REGENESIS 2クール目
Studio: Polygon Pictures
Air Date: 2 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Manga
Fist of the Blue Sky is a story about Kenshiro Kasumi, who is called the most unrestrained and strongest successor of ‘God Fist of the North Star’ (Hokuto Shinken), which has a history of about 1800 years. This Fist of the Blue Sky, formerly supervised by original author Tetsuo Hara, will celebrate its comeback as TV anime. Witness the new version of the strongest ‘God Fist of the North Star’ successor Kenshiro Kasumi!
©原哲夫・武論尊/NSP 2001, ©八津弘幸・辻秀輝 2017
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @soutenregenesis
Hashtag: #蒼天の拳 #北斗35周年
Japanese Title: ゴブリンスレイヤー
Studio: White Fox
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Light Novel | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Review
We follow a goblin slayer on his quest of killing solely goblins and the people who get involved with him like a priestess, a young woman who is full of appreciation for the slayer, his childhood friend Cow Girl and more.
(C)蝸牛くも・SBクリエイティブ/ゴブリンスレイヤー製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @GoblinSlayer_GA
Hashtag: #ゴブスレ
Japanese Title: ゴールデンカムイ第2期
Studio: Geno Studio
Air Date: 8 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Manga | Series 1 Review | Episode 13 Review | Episode 13 Preview
Golden Kamuy is set in Hokkaido during the Gold Rush in the late Meiji period and follows the adventures of the ‘immortal’ Sugimoto and the Ainu Asirpa, who try to find the treasure the Ainu have hidden somewhere.
(c)野田サトル/集英社・ゴールデンカムイ製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @kamuy_anime
Hashtag: #ゴールデンカムイ
Japanese Title: グラゼニ シーズン2
Studio: Studio Deen
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Manga
Gurazeni is a baseball-themed manga by Yuji Moritaka (author) and Keiji Adachi (illustration) and was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Morning from December 2010 to January 2015.
(C)森高夕次・アダチケイジ/スカパー!・講談社
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @sptv_gurazeni
Hashtag: #グラゼニ
Japanese Title: ほら、耳がみえてるよ!
Studio: monofilmo
Air Date: 3 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Digital Manhua
The anime tells comical stories of Myou, a boy with cat ears, and a lonely manga artist called Daisuu whose works don’t sell well.
(C)特雷西胡/「ほら耳」製作委員会(C)T.H / HMPC
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @horamimi_anime
Hashtag:
Japanese Title: ひもてはうす
Studio: Bouncy
Air Date: 8 October
Episodes: 12
Original Short-form Anime | 1st Episode Impressions
The series focuses on five girls and a cat who live together at the Himote House, a share house in Tokyo’s Nakano district. The girls living there are the three sisters Tokiyo, Kinami and Kokoro Himote and Kokoro’s classmates Tae Hyogo and Minami Arai. The cat is called Enishi. Together they contemplate about how one can become popular.
©ひもてはうす製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @himotehouse
Hashtag: #ひもてはうす
Japanese Title: 火ノ丸相撲
Studio: Gonzo
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Manga
The anime centers on the traditional Japanese martial art of sumo and follows the story of high school students who are sumo-wrestling and who have exceptional talent.
The main character, Hinomaru Ushio, is attending Oodachi High School and is part of its sumo club, where he works towards his goal of gaining the title of ‘Yokozuna’- the highest rank in the world of professional sumo wrestling. Hinomaru is a rather tiny person and not very heavy, which might be a problem since sumo wrestlers normally are big and heavy.
(C)川田/集英社・「火ノ丸相撲」製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @hinomaru_zumou
Hashtag: #火ノ丸相撲 #hinomaruzumou
Japanese Title: 走り続けてよかったって
Studio: Signal.MD
Air Date: 8 October
Episodes: 4
Original Short-form Anime
Minato went to an anime event with a friend, where they read live from the script. The performance he saw there from the voice actors on stage impressed him and so he enrolled to a animation school, where he meets Chikako. When Minato moves into his new apartment he also finds a USB stick with a message on it by Chikako, who lived in the room previously. Minato struggles because he can’t breath life into the characters he voices and Chikako is fighting a trauma from the past. Both of them have to find themselves while fighting their problems at the same time. Watching over them and their growth are their senpai.
(C) HW/HY
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @hashiyoka
Hashtag: #はしよか
Japanese Title: INGRESS THE ANIMATION
Studio: Craftar
Air Date: 18 October
Episodes: 11
Adaptation of Game
Since he was little, Makoto had a strange power which enabled him to read the memories of objects he touched.
Hiding his uncontrollable power, he works as a special agent in the police force. One day, while investigating an explosion at a laboratory that researches a unknown substance called “XM”, he sees a mysterious memory .
The memory was from Sarah’s ring, who was the sole survivor of the accident.
It was a sight of a person being swallowed into a red light and disappearing.
Makoto becomes embroiled in a massive conspiracy.
The battle for “XM”, a material that could affect human mind, starts now――
(C)『イングレス』製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @IngressAnime
Hashtag: #IngressAnime
Japanese Title: 人外さんの嫁
Studio: Saetta
Air Date: 3 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of 4-koma Manga | 1st Episode Impressions
Jingai-San no Yome (Wife of a Non-Human) is a 4-panel manga by Akiwo Yasaka and Yu Aikawa. It depicts the story of a fluffy and mysterious creature named Kanenogi that takes high school boy Tomari Hinowa as its wife. The key visual shows the couple getting along as they sit overlooking the garden.
(c)八坂アキヲ・相川有・一迅社/人外さんの嫁製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @jingaisan_yome
Hashtag: #人外さんの嫁
Japanese Title: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 黄金の風
Studio: David Production
Air Date: 6 October
Episodes: 39
Adaptation of Manga | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Review
Giorno Giovanna lives in Italy, Naples, and is the blood-related son of the Joestar family nemesis DIO. He was persecuted when he was young, but the person that taught him to trust people was a gangster. Strangely enough, this encounter with the gang that doesn’t forget their obligation and who to show respect to sets his mind straight. And that’s how Giorno decided to become a Gang-Star (Gangster-Superstar). The 15-year old Giorno then gets into trouble with Passione, the leading gang of Italy’s underground world, and becomes their target…
The story is set two years after Part 4 (Diamond is Unbreakable) and takes place in Italy in 2001.
©LUCKY LAND COMMUNICATIONS/集英社・ジョジョの奇妙な冒険GW製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @anime_jojo
Hashtag: #jojo_anime
Japanese Title: 軒轅剣・蒼き曜
Studio: Studio Deen
Air Date: 1 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game | 1st Episode Impressions
Adaptation of Xuan-Yuan Sword, a series of Chinese RPGs. Co-produced with TV Tokyo and several Taiwanese companies.
(C)ソフトスター・軒轅剣製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter:
Hashtag:
Japanese Title: からくりサーカス
Studio: Studio VOLN
Air Date: October 2018
Episodes: 36
Adaptation of Manga
The story follows a young boy named Masaru Saiga, who has inherited a huge fortune, a skilled martial artist named Narumi Kato, and the puppeteer named Shirogane. These 3 people who supposedly meet by chance are involved in a great conspiracy involving Masaru’s inheritance.
(C)藤田和日郎・小学館/ツインエンジン
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @karakuri_anime
Hashtag: #からくりサーカス
Japanese Title: メルクストーリア -無気力少年と瓶の中の少女-
Studio: Encourage Films
Air Date: 11 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Game
Merc Storia: Yujutsushi to Suzu no Shirabe is a fantasy RPG which takes place in a world in which humans and monsters live together. The main story follows the adventures of a boy who is learning to become a kind of healer known as a ‘Yujutsushi’ and hopes to return the memories of his friend Merc, who lives inside a glass jar. There are also many event stories that take place in the many countries of the game.
(c)2013 Happy Elements K.K
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @merc_storia
Hashtag: #メルスト
Japanese Title: となりの吸血鬼さん
Studio: Studio Gokumi x AXsiZ
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of 4-koma manga | 1st Episode Impressions
One day Akari Amano, who got lost in the middle of a forest, gets rescued by vampire girl Sophie Twilight and likes Sophie at a glance. Sophie pushes Akari to her house and so they start to live together. Sophie is a vampire but she’s not attacking humans. She is living a common life and buys her blood and anime goods per mail order.
(C)甘党
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @kyuketsuki_san
Hashtag: #吸血鬼さん
Japanese Title: おこしやす, ちとせちゃん
Studio: Gathering
Air Date: 6 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Manga | 1st Episode Impressions
The name of the penguin chick that is living in Kyoto is Chitose. Chitose is a cute and fluffy penguin chick that loves delicious and fun things. She meets people and eats (gets to eat) delicious food– Chitose is wandering around Kyoto’s city with a curious heart.
The story is told from the penguin’s viewpoint and it visits places like Togetsu Bridge, Arashiyama’s bamboo forest, Fushimi Inari Taisha and Kiyomizu Temple. It is a short penguin anime that makes you feel nostalgic, warm and makes your heart feel at ease.
©夏目靫子・講談社/VAP
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @chitose_anime
Hashtag: #おこしやす #ちとせちゃん
Japanese Title: 叛逆性ミリオンアーサー
Studio: J.C.Staff
Air Date: 25 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game
There is not only one person who can pull out legendary sword Excalibur. Due to such a huge power buildup, legends began to overflow and become entangled with warps in the timeline. In order to correct history, 6 Arthurs land on the ancient land of ‘Britain’. They are the Dancho (Leader), Tekken (Iron Fist), Yamaneko (Wildcat), Kakka (Highness), Renkin (Alchemy) and Ruro (Wandering) Arthurs. Their mission is to defeat all the Arthurs from the warped timelines. There are around a million of them. This is a rebellion against the past. A fight to protect the future (the present).
©叛逆性ミリオンアーサー製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @hangyakuseiMAAN
Hashtag: #アニメ叛逆性MA
Japanese Title: うちのメイドがウザすぎる!
Studio: Doga Kobo
Air Date: October 5
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Manga
The series is a comedy story about a little girl who gets a maid. The maid is a former Self-Defense Force official, a lolicon and loves to dress up little girls in cute clothes.
©中村カンコ/双葉社・うちのメイドがウザすぎる!製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @uzamaid_a
Hashtag: #uzamaid
Japanese Title: ラディアン
Studio: Lerche
Air Date: 6 October
Episodes: 21
Adaptation of Manga | Episode 1 Review
Radiant depicts the adventures of Seth, an apprentice sorcerer, who is looking for the source ‘Radiant’ of the creatures called ‘nemesis’, who are falling from the sky, in order to protect the world.
(c) Ankama Editions, 2013
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @nhk_animeworld
Hashtag:
Japanese Title: RELEASE THE SPYCE
Studio: Lay-duce
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: ?
Original Anime | 1st Episode Impressions
Momo attends Sorasaki high school, but behind the high school girl facade, she is actually a member of Tsukikage, an agency of justice protecting people. She is a new member of the agency and is mentored by Yuki. Together with her colleagues, she is working hard to secure the peace of the city.
(C) SORASAKI.F
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @releasethespyce
Hashtag: #リリスパ
Japanese Title: RErideD-刻越えのデリダ-
Studio: Geek Toys
Air Date: 4 October
Episodes: 12
Original Anime | 1st Episode Impressions
The year is 2050. Derrida and Nathan are suddenly attacked by unknown forces. At the end of the escape, Derrida falls into a cold sleep machine and 10 years later, he wakes up to a devastated world in the middle of a war. Being attacked by a group of out of control DZs, Derrida almost gives up but he recall’s Nathan’s last words.
Take care of Mage.’
Despite the harsh fate that has fallen upon him, Derrida sets off to seek Mage.
Beyond the time, we reunite — This is the story of a journey for hope.
©RErideD partners
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @Derrida_2060
Hashtag: #リライデッド #rerided
Japanese Title: 風が強く吹いている
Studio: Production I.G
Air Date: October 2018
Episodes: 23
Adaptation of Novel | 1st Episode Impressions
It is a youthful story revolving around a running event called Hakone Ekiden. The series follows the protagonist Kakeru Kurahara and his friend Haiji Kiyose.
(c)三浦しをん・新潮社/寛政大学陸上競技部後援
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @kazetsuyo_anime
Hashtag: #kazeanime
Japanese Title: 閃乱カグラ SHINOVI MASTER -東京妖魔篇-
Studio: TNK
Air Date: 13 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Game
Senran Kagura is a popular game series that released its first game in September 2011. The second season Senran Kagura Shinovi Master -Tokyo Youma-hen- has been announced during Marvelous x Honey∞Parade Games Senran Kagura’s New Work Release Presentation 2018 on 2 August 2018.
C)2018 Marvelous Inc./HONEY PARADE GAMES Inc./シノビマスターパートナーズ
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @kagura_tv
Hashtag: #kaguratv
Japanese Title: その時、カノジョは。
Studio: Master Lights
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: 12
Original Short Anime
This is a short anime that was produced under the theme ‘Anime Falling in Love’. The main characters are 4 different women who span from a high school girl to a full-time worker, thus showing love stories from different generations. Eisaku Kubonouchi is in charge of the original story and character design, and writer Saeri Natsuo, who is well-known for her fictional romantic tweets that caused quite the sensation on Twitter, is in charge of the script. The anime will be produced by the up-and-coming company MASTER LIGHTS.
(C)2018 ソノカノProject/EISAKU KUBONOUCHI
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @snkn_pj
Hashtag: #ソノカノ
Japanese Title: ガイコツ書店員本田さん
Studio: DLE
Air Date: 8 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Manga | 1st Episode Impressions
The story follows the every-day life Honda-san, who is working in a bookstore and is only made of bones – he is a skeleton!
©本田・KADOKAWA/ガイコツ書店員本田さん製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @gai_honda
Hashtag: #ガイコツ本田
Japanese Title: 色づく世界の明日から
Studio: P.A. Works
Air Date: 6 October
Episodes: 13
Original Anime
The series is an original anime produced by P.A.Works. Hitomi Tsukishiro has not been able to see any colors ever since she was a child and is sent to the year 2018 with magic by her grandmother Kohaku, who is a great witch. We see Hitomi grow as she meets her grandmother at age 17, the same age as she is, as well as the boy Aoi Sho, who is guiding her through this time travel.
© 色づく世界の明日から製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @iroduku_anime
Hashtag: #iroduku
Japanese Title: 宇宙戦艦ティラミスⅡ
Studio: Gonzo
Air Date: 2 October
Episodes: 13
Adaptation of Manga | 1st Episode Impressions
Uchuu Senkan Tiramisu is a science fiction gag anime about two brothers, Subaru and Isuzu Ichinose spreading laughter throughout the universe with their idiocy. This time, the brothers are here to shake up planet Earth. In the first teaser of the second season, we can see Subaru and Isuzu, doing some sightseeing in Nagoya.
(C)宮川サトシ 伊藤亰・新潮社/『宇宙戦艦ティラミス』製作委員会 (C)宮川サトシ 伊藤亰/新潮社
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @tiramisu_anime
Hashtag: #tiramisu #宇宙戦艦ティラミス
Japanese Title: SSSS.Gridman
Studio: Trigger
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: 12
Original Anime | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Review
SSSS.Gridman is an upcoming Fall 2018 anime based on the live action hero series Denkou Choujin Gridman (Gridman the Hyper Agent), which aired from 1993 to 1994.
Ⓒ円谷プロ Ⓒ2018 TRIGGER・雨宮哲/「GRIDMAN」製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @SSSS_GRIDMAN
Hashtag: #SSSS_GRIDMAN
Japanese Title: ソードアート・オンライン アリシゼーション
Studio: A-1 Pictures
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Light Novel | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Review
When Kirito wakes up, he finds himself in a magnificent fantasy like world for some reason. He only has vague memories from the time before he logged in and starts wandering around this world to find clues. When he arrives at some ginormous black trees called Gigas Cedar, he meets a boy.
“My name is Eugeo. Nice to meet you, Kirito-kun.”
The boy turns out to be a person of this virtual world, an NPC, but he carries the warm emotions of a human being. While looking for a way to log out of this world, the friendship between Kirito and Eugeo deepens. Then Kirito starts to remember something. It is a memory from his early childhood, how he and Eugeo are running around a mountain – a memory that should not exist.
In his memory it wasn’t only Eugeo but also a girl with golden hair. Her name is Alice. It’s an important name that should never be forgotten.
©2017 川原 礫/KADOKAWA アスキー・メディアワークス/SAO-A Project
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @sao_anime
Hashtag: #sao_anime
Japanese Title: 転生したらスライムだった件
Studio: 8 bit
Air Date: 2 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Light Novel | 1st Episode Impressions
The anime tells the story of a salaryman who is stabbed to death in a mugging and is reborn into another world as a slime. He starts his new life as Rimuru in a world occupied by many different races, hoping to build a country that accepts people whatever race they are.
(C)川上泰樹・伏瀬・講談社/転スラ製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @ten_sura_anime
Hashtag: #転スラ #tensura
Japanese Title: 俺が好きなのは妹だけど妹じゃない
Studio: NAZ x Magia Doraglier
Air Date: 10 October
Episodes: 10
Adaptation of Light Novel
Suzuka Nagami, the perfect little sister with good grades and active as student council president, won a light novel award?? Moreover, the story is a ‘romantic lovey-dovey comedy of a brother doting on his little sister’? Even though she is always so strict with me, her real older brother…
On top of that, Suzuka asks me to debut as the light novel author, because she doesn’t know anything about light novels and moe!? The published light novel also ends up becoming a record-breaking bestseller. Beautiful female fans of me (my sister), light novel authors and illustrators start gathering…
Suzuka also says she wants to date someone as part of her research for another novel. Please don’t get me wrong, the sister I like is not the one in front of me but the ’sister’ she created for her novel.
A romantic comedy about the clumsy romance of this brother-sister pair will start airing soon!
©2018 Seiji Ebisu, Gintarou / KADOKAWA / Imoimo Partners
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @imoimo_anime
Hashtag: #いもいも
Japanese Title: ソラとウミのアイダ
Studio: TMS Entertainment
Air Date: 4 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Game | 1st Episode Impressions
The fish have disappeared from the oceans.
The Ministry of Agriculture has decided to test out their ‘galactic fish tank project’. In order to follow the Equal Opportunities Act, many people say that women should also become fishermen. The story takes place in Onomichi, Hiroshima. Their goal is to go into space.
This is the story of 6 girls who aim to become galactic fishermen.
(C) ForwardWorks Corporation/ソラウミ製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @soraumi_app
Hashtag: #ソラウミアニメ
Japanese Title: 青春ブタ野郎はバニーガール先輩の夢を見ない
Studio: CloverWorks
Air Date: 4 October
Episodes: 13
Adaptation of Light Novel | 1st Episode Impressions
The Puberty Syndrome. It is a strange phenomenon that is said to only occur to those who are insecure and sensitive. It could, for example, be a wild bunny girl that one day stands before Sakuta Azusagawa. Her name is Mai Sakurajima, an actress who is one year above him, currently taking a break from her acting career. For whatever reason, nobody around her can see this fascinating girl. Sakuta starts to solve the mystery by spending more time with her and he finds her secret. One after another, heroines who suffer from the Puberty Syndrome appear in Sakuta’s life. The city where the sky and the sea shine brightly is where this mysterious story starts.
©2018 鴨志田 一/KADOKAWA アスキー・メディアワークス/青ブタ Project
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @aobuta_anime
Hashtag: #青ブタ
Japanese Title: 東京喰種:re 第2期
Studio: Pierrot Plus x Studio Pierrot
Air Date: 9 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Manga | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 13 Review
The second season of Tokyo Ghoul:re.
©石田スイ/集英社・東京喰種:re製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @tkg_anime
Hashtag: #tkg_anime #東京喰種
Japanese Title: ツルネ ―風舞高校弓道部―
Studio: Kyoto Animation
Air Date: 15 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Light Novel
‘Tsurune’: The sound of a bowstring after the release of an arrow. To an archer, there is no happiness like producing a beautiful tsurune, and that beautiful reverberation can capture your heart.
Even if they use the same bow and arrow, an archer can never produce the exact same sound. It really is once in a lifetime. Each shot is a ‘meeting’ and ‘farewell’ you will never again experience. To Minato Narumiya, each Tsurune always represented a ‘meeting’…
About to embark on the eternal path of the bow and arrow are a group of 1st-year high school boys as fresh and youthful as the new leaves of spring.
©綾野ことこ・京都アニメーション/ツルネ製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @tsurune_anime
Hashtag: #ツルネ
Japanese Title: ユリシーズ ジャンヌ・ダルクと錬金の騎士
Studio: AXsiZ
Air Date: 7 October
Episodes: 12
Adaptation of Light Novel | 1st Episode Impressions
This story is set in the 15th century in France during the Hundred Years’ War and tells a different story for Jeanne d’Arc.
©春日みかげ/集英社・ユリシーズパートナーズ
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @anime_ulysses
Hashtag: #アニメユリシーズ
Japanese Title: 狐狸之声
Studio: Yumeta Company
Air Date: 5 October
Episodes: ?
Adaptation of Digital Manhua
In the story, we follow a high school student, who is active as a goth singer on the internet and always wears a fox mask due to certain circumstances and a handsome idol, who can’t sing. The two of them are aiming for the top of the entertainment world and thus are rivals, always competing with each other.
©IQIYI/VOICE OF FOX
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @kitsune2018
Hashtag: #狐狸之声
Japanese Title: ゾンビランドサガ
Studio: MAPPA
Air Date: 4 October
Episodes: ?
Original Anime | 1st Episode Impressions | Episode 1 Review
©ゾンビランドサガ製作委員会
Anime Info Page
Official Website
Twitter: @zombielandsaga
Hashtag: #ゾンビランドサガ
If you have trouble finding the official pages or Twitter handles for your favorite anime, let us know in the comments (you can find them on the top)! Join us in our Facebook group and let’s talk about our favorite series from the new season!!
And, as we do every season, MANGA.TOKYO will cover 14 titles for our weekly anime reviews. Our writers will also see every first episode and write their first impressions!
Don’t forget everything else that MANGA.TOKYO offers you every day. Our Anime and Otaku News page bring you the latest otaku news and our editors read countless press releases to make sure you get them before anyone else. We also attend collaborations and anime events; you can find these articles in our Reports and Interviews section.
Last season, we walso published our first original Light Novel, Shikigaki Girl! Read it and let us know what you think!
Enjoy the new season!
Keep warm this winter season with the latest anime info at MANGA.TOKYO!