Upcoming Anime

Picture	Name & Description	Premiere date
	Seven Deadly Sins -Signs of Holy War- (TV) Taken the kingdom of Leones back from Holy Knights, the Seven Deadly Sins, along with Elizabeth and Hawk, can finally enjoy peaceful lives they earned. However, with premonitions of a new threat are looming, their happy, ordinary days are about to end soon.	2016-08-28
	Magic-kyun Renaissance (TV)	2016-10-02
	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (TV 2)	2016-10-02
	Idol Memories (TV) In the year 2035, virtual reality technology has evolved enough that people can experience world travel and other live event experiences from the comfort of their own home. In this space, idols perform live events for a worldwide audience. As worldwide popularity of idols performing in "VR Rooms" increased, the Kanon Private Academy was established on Beginning Island to train new idols. These idols compete and strive to reach the top of the "World Idol League." Vivi, Kokona, Sena, Miku, Nanami, and Yucho are all working hard to reach that goal.	2016-10-02
	Trickster: Edogawa Rampo 'Shōnen Tantei-dan' Yori (TV) It is the 2030s. The Boy Detectives Club gathers under Kogorō Akechi, the mysterious detective. The group solves cases great and small using their unique skills. One day, a member of the club, Kensuke Hanazaki, meets the boy Yoshio Kobayashi. Kobayashi's body cannot die due to the effects of the "Unidentifiable Mist," but he yearns for death, and shirks from contact with other people. Taking an interest in him, Hanazaki invites him to join the Boy Detectives Club. Their meeting is connected to the fate tying together Kogorō Akechi, and the era's greatest villain, the Fiend With Twenty Faces.	2016-10-03
	Ani Tore!! XX: Hitotsu Yane no Shita de (TV)	2016-10-05
	Drifters (TV) Shimazu Toyohisa is the real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments, Shimazu is transported to a world of magic with other famous warriors throughout history. These warriors are forced to fight each other in an endless battle.	2016-10-07
	Flip Flappers (TV) Papika and Cocona hold the keys to open the door. When the two girls meet, their adventures in a different time and different overlapping dimension called "Pure Illusion" begin. Many things in Pure Illusion will stand in the girls' way on their search for the mysterious crystal called the "Shard of Mimi," an item that is said to grant any wish. However, when the girls find themselves in danger, the Shard of Mimi shines, and they are able to transform.	2016-10
	Time Bokan 24 (TV) Tokio is a junior high student living in the present time who is suddenly made a member of the 24th century's Space-Time Administration Bureau. Immediately, he learns that the history he has learned in the textbooks is wrong, and there is a more interesting version of history where the peerless beauty Cleopatra is actually the comic duo of Cleo and Patra, Momotarō is more of an ogre than actual ogres. Together with his teammate Karen, they use the 24 Bokan Mecha to search for the True History.	2016-10
	Tōken Ranbu: Hanamaru (TV) The year is 2205. The "historical revisionists" have begun attacks on the past in their plot to change history. The Saniwa, who have been charged with protecting history, can imbue life into objects. Strongest among these are the Tōken Danshi. The story centers around their cheerful lives.	2016-10

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Hand Shakers TV Anime Reveals New Promo Video, Character Designs

Series by GoHands premieres in January

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Frontier Works began streaming a new promotional video on Friday for Hand Shakers, the original anime project with animation studio GoHands, production company Frontier Works, and publisher Kadokawa.

(Note: The below video cannot be viewed in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.)

Fronter Works previously showed the video in Animate stores in March, then streamed a different promotional video in July.

The show's website previously revealed several character designs and the cast members for three of the characters last week.

Team Gear: Sōma Saitō as Tazuna and Sumire Morohoshi as Koyori

Showtaro Morikubo as Makihara

The site additionally revealed character designs for Team Card, but has not yet revealed their respective voice actors.

Team Card: Riri and Masaru

The anime will premiere in January 2017. GoHands is in charge of the original planning, and GOON TRAX is composing the music. GoHands, Frontier Works, and Kadokawa are all credited with the original work.

The tagline on the key visual on the show's website reads, "protect it, with these hands." The key visual depicts Osaka's famous Dōtonboribashi bridge.

The following voice actors are also cast in the series, but the staff has not yet announced their respective roles:

Shintarō Asanuma
Yūsuke Kobayashi
Risa Taneda
Jun Fukuyama
Sora Amamiya
Mikako Komatsu
Kenjiro Tsuda
Ayumu Murase
Kaito Ishikawa
Daisuke Namikawa
Ai Kakuma
Satomi Satou
Saori Hayami
Ai Kayano
Tomokazu Sugita
Yōko Hikasa

The anime takes place in Osaka in "AD20XX," and revolves around the Hand Shakers — partners who can summon "Nimrodes," weapons born from their deep psyche by joining hands. In order to grant the pair's wish, the Hand Shakers compete with and fight other Hand Shaker pairs. The top pair will then meet and challenge "God."

The English text on the anime title logo reads:

They, the receivers of the Revelation of Babel. They, the challengers to God.
They, who inevitably throw themselves into battle with their partners. What does God want from them?
And did they want powers exceeding that of Gods? The chosen ones, their souls linked,
join hand and hand for the Ziggurat where the fighting shall ensue.

The anime is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the ANIMATE chain of anime character goods stores.

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Kabukibu! Light Novel Series Reveals TV Anime Adaptation in Teaser Video

Series centers on formation of high school kabuki club

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Kadokawa revealed on Friday that Yuuri Eda's Kabukibu! light novel series is getting a television anime adaptation. Kadokawa also began streaming a teaser video to commemorate the announcement.

Text: Kabukibu! television anime decided
Text: (His) dream is to perform kabuki as part of a club!? The curtain rises on a youth kabuki story!

The series revolves around Kurogo Kurusu, a high school student who loves kabuki so much that it's annoying. Kurogo yearns to perform kabuki as part of a club at his school, but currently his school doesn't have a kabuki club. So Kurogo sets out to create a kabuki club, and his first order of business is to gather members. Kadokawa will publish the novel's fifth volume on November 25.

Eda previously wrote the original story for artist Yamimaru Enjin's one-volume I Can't Even Breathe Without You manga, which Aurora Publishing, Inc. published in English in 2010.

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Long Riders Cycling TV Anime's Promo Video Previews Ray's Opening Theme

Nao Tōyama, Hiromi Igarashi, Rumi Ookubo, Yurika Kurosawa, Yōko Hikasa star in series premiering on October 8

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The official website for the television anime series of Taishi Miyake's Long Riders! cycling manga began streaming the show's promotional video on Friday. The show's staff previously showed the video at this summer's Comic Market 90 (Comiket 90) event earlier on Friday. The video previews Ray's opening theme song"♡km/h."

The anime will premiere on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, BS11, and AT-X on October 8, and will begin streaming on the Bandai Channel on the same date.

The manga follows Ami Kurata, a first year college student with no special qualities. One day she happens to notice someone riding a folding bike, immediately falls in love with it, and uses all her savings to buy one. She eventually gets introduced to the world of long-distance bicycling and road racer bikes, and she forms a cycling team called Fortuna with four other female college students from the same school. Their goal is to ride in a "brevet" or long-distance event called "Fresh."

The anime's main cast returning from the drama CDs includes: 

Nao Tōyama as Ami Kurata

Hiromi Igarashi as Aoi Niigaki

Rumi Ookubo as Hinako Saijyo

Yurika Kurosawa as Yayoi Ichinose

Yōko Hikasa as Saki Takamiya

Actas (Girls und Panzer, Moetan) is handling the animation production for the anime adaptation. Tatsuya Yoshihara (Monster Musume,Yatterman Night, Muromi-san) is directing the anime, while Natsuko Takahashi (My Love Story!!, Yuyushiki, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0) is in charge of series composition. Jiemon Futsuzawa (Psycho-Pass 2 episode animation director) is designing the characters.

Miyake launched the manga in September 2012, and Ichijinsha shipped the seventh compiled volume on June 27. The volume's limited edition featured a sound drama and a radio program.

The manga has already inspired two "Touring Guide" books, a radio show, a TV Riders! television program on Tokyo MX TV, and an image song by ChouCho titled "Starting up." Special editions of the manga volumes have bundled sound dramas.

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