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04-06-2009, 08:10 PM
Scroll down through the huge picture below in the spoiler for airing dates and a quick sypnosis. Scroll down further for a (hopefully) more detailed description of it; including official Website, Airing date, TV Station, Time broadcasted etc.
Take your time, find an anime, and stick to it. ;)
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Xamd
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Enter Sentan, a lush, tranquil island encased in war between the military and those with Hiruko, known as X’amd. On one of these warlike days, Akiyuki Takehara heads off to school and gets caught in a raid by the creatures. Through a series of events he is transformed into a X’amd, and with the help of a Tessikan woman Nakiami along with his highschool friend Haru, Akiyuki is forced to learn to live with the Hiruko or faces the danger of losing his self-control and turn to stone.
The story follows a boy named Akiyuki who is heading to school with two friends when an explosion occurs. In the mysterious light from the explosion, Akiyuki transforms into a creature called Xam’d. Xam’d goes on a rampage which is only stopped when a red-haired foreign girl appears. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.xamd.jp/)
Production: BONES
Episodes:
TV Station: MBS, Tokyo MX, CBC
Air Date: April 11, 2009 | Saturday 26:25
Arad Senki
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The story takes place after “the cursed light of Kazan” has fallen upon the continent of Arad. Baron vows to unravel the secret of the curse that has possessed one of his arms, and a motley assortment of characters joins him on his quest. The series will premiere in both Japan and Korea in 2009. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.sup-arad.jp/)
Production: GK Entertainment and GONZO
Episodes: 26TV Station:
Air Date:
Souten Kouro
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The manga centers around Cao Cao, a warlord and second-to-last Han Dynasty chancellor who is best known through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms literary classic. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/SEP/02222/01/sotenkoro/)
Production: MadHouse
Episodes:TV Station:
Air Date: April 7, 2009 | Tuesday 24:59
Charady no Joke na Mainichi
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The story will center on Charady (Misako Yasuda), a fictional 26-year-old woman from San Francisco who graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design’s Department of Character Design. Charady loves jokes from around the world, and each daily short will present a different joke. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.joke-charady-365.com/project/index.html)
Production:
TV Station: UHF, Biglobe stream
Air Date: March 31, 2009 | Tuesday 23:55
Cookin’ Idol Ai! Mai! Main!
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The weekday Cookin’ Idol Ai! Mai! Main! cooking anime for elementary schoolchildren will premiere on Japan’s NHK-Educational public television network on March 30 from 5:40 to 5:50 p.m. Children can learn to cook with the heroine Main as she demonstrates various dishes in the anime half of the program. [Source: ANN]
Website
Production: Studio DEEN
Episodes:TV Station: NHK
Air Date: March 30, 2009 | Friday 17:40
Candy Boy: Episode 6
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This isn’t a series, I think. more like Time of Eve. I heard, this is the second to the last episode and it’s yuri.
Website (http://candyboy.jp/)
Production: AIC
TV Station: Candy Boy Channel
Air Date: March 6, 2009 | Friday 19:00
Higepiyo
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Higepiyo (literally “Mustache-Peep”) revolves around Hiyoko, a “surreal” bird that happens to have a mustache. Hiyoko can talk with “Piroshi” — Hiroshi, the human boy who won her in a fair — and the two are tight friends. In fact, Hiyoko teaches Hiroshi how to win brawls in elementary school, and she sometimes fights a bullying girl on Hiroshi’s behalf. (Hiyoko is actually an experimental test subject that escaped from a laboratory.)
Website (http://chorus.shueisha.co.jp/)
Production:
Episodes:TV Station: NHK
Air Date: April 3, 2009 | Friday 18:20
Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
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AIC’s latest Tenchi Muyo spin-off series
Website (http://www.seikishi.com/)
Production: AIC and BeSTACK
Episodes: 13
TV Station: Animax
Air Date: March 20, 2009 | Friday 24:00
Ristorante Paradiso
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The manga’s story is set in a restaurant in Rome that the heroine Nicoletta visits from the countryside. Her parents divorced when she was young, so her grandparents raised her while her mother tried to remarry. Unfortunately for Nicoletta, her mother abandons her even after remarrying. Nicoletta goes to the restaurant that is now owned by the new husband of Nicoletta’s mother, and ends up apprenticing there among a kitchen staff of colorful characters.
Website (http://www.rispara.tv/)
Production: David Production
Episodes: 11TV Station: Fuji TV
Air Date: April 2009 | Wednesday 26:08
La Corda D’Oro ~Secondo Passo~
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Hino Kahoko continues to improve her skills at the Seiso Academy participating in music competitions with the help of Lili, the music fairy, the students from the music department, and a new blond charming character.
Website (http://www.corda-primopasso.com/)
Production: Tai / Yumeno
Episodes:
TV Station: Kids Station, Crunchyroll
Air Date: March 26, 2009 [24:00]
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
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A re-animated series by BONES. Look foward to it !
Website (http://www.hagaren.jp/)
Production: BONES
Episodes:TV Station: MBS・TBS系全国ネット
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 17:00
Haruhi TV series Rerun
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New controversy news says that, on top of the original episodes, they are airing the new episodes. Only one way to find out for sure: Watch it !
Website (http://www.haruhi.tv/)
Production: Kyoto Animation
Episodes: 14TV Station: UHF
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:00
Konnichi wa Ann: Before Green Gables
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Website (http://www.nippon-animation.co.jp/before_GG/)
Production: Nippon Animation
Episodes: 39TV Station: BS Fuji
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 19:30
Eden of the East
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Animated series of Eden of the East.
Website (http://www.juiz.jp/)
Production: Production IG
Episodes: 11Air Date: April 2009 | Thursday 24:45
Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica Crimson S
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The original story of Polyphonica (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7479) is set on an alternate world where “Spirits” can exist alongside humans. There are “Dantists” who can play music and communicate with the Spirits, and Tatara Phoron is one such Dantist who is in contact with a spirit named Corticarte Apa Lagranges. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.polyphonica.tv/)
Production: Ginga-ya
Episodes: 12TV Station: MBS
Air Date: April 2009 | Saturday
[B]Guin Saga
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The heroic adventure series follows a “Conan-esque” character named Guin with a leopard mask on a fantasy land. The first arc, the Marshes Episode, focuses on Guin’s escape from invading Mongaul armies while he protects the young twin heirs of a defeated country. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.guinsaga.net/)
Production: Satelight
Episodes: 13TV Station: NHK-BS2
Air Date: April 5. 2009 | Sunday 23:29
Youth花咲KERU
Website (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/)
TV Station: NHK-BS2
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | SUnday 23:00
Sengoku Basara
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Website (http://www.sengokubasara.tv/)
Production: Production IG
Episodes: 13
TV Station: CBC
Air Date: April 1, 2009 | Wednesday 25:34
Mainichi Kaa-san
Website (http://mainichi.jp/life/riezo/)
TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 1, 2009 | Wednesday 19:00
07-Ghost
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The story revolves around Teito, a former slave with magical powers who is taking the graduation final to become an army officer in the Barsburg Empire. He does well during the first part of the final exam, but discovers his father’s killer in his school and tries to kill him. Teito eludes capture, but gets caught in the larger struggle between Verloren, the God of Death, and the “beings of light” sent by Heaven to oppose him: the Seven Ghosts.
Website (http://07-ghost.net/)
Production: Studio DEEN
Episodes:Air Date: April 6, 2009
Shangri-La
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The story takes place in the middle of the 21st century when global warming has turned Tokyo into a tropical city. To reduce the temperature at the heart of the city by 5°C (9°F), the city is being reborn as the world’s largest forest city. However, despite the flow of refugees to the new city of Atlas, there are not many residents who can actually live there. Moreover, anti-government guerrillas are attempting to stop the forestation.
Website (http://www.anime-shangri-la.jp/)
TV Station: CHIBA TV
Episodes: 12
Air Date; April 5, 2009 | Sunday 24:00
Metal Fight Beyblade
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Website (http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/beyblade/)
TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 8:30
Fight Ippatsu! Jyuuden-chan!
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Website (http://www.comicgum.com/topics_0901jyuden.php)
TV Station: AT-X / 地上波
Air Date: May 2009
ROBO CROSSER
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“will star a 12-year-old boy and his unicycle robot who are trying to win a motorbike race.” [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.comicgum.com/topics_0901jyuden.php)
TV Station: Disney
Air Date: TBA
Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestoria
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This new season will continue the adventures of Daniel (Danma “Dan” Kūsō in Japanese) and his friends as they help free Vestroia, the alternate world of the Bakugan warrior Dragonoid (Drago for short). [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.bakugan.com/)
TV Station: North American Broadcasting / domestic TBA
Air Date: TBA
Tears to Tiara
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A Demon King named Arawn was sealed away for 1,000 years. After a girl named Rhiannon (Ri-a-n-no-n) released him, they started to travel together and she becomes emotionally attached to him. [Source: Wiki]
Website (http://tearstotiara.jp/)
Production: Oriental Light Magic, WHITE FOX
Episodes: 11TV Station: Chiba TV
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 25:35
TAYUTAMA -Kiss on my deity-
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The story centers on Yūri Mito, a student at the Sōsei Academy and the only son of the man who runs the Yachimata shrine. At Yachimata, there is a legend of a deity named Tayutayu-sama who protected the area, but this deity and other so-called “Tayutai” have been lost in time. Mito and his friends discover a relic on the school grounds with mysterious patterns on them. Then, at the opening ceremony of the new school year, an equally mysterious girl named Mashiro appears before Mito. Mashiro is somehow tied to the relic and the legend of Tayutayu-sama. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.tayutama.com/)
Production: Silver Link
Episodes: 13Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 24:30
TV Station: Chiba UHF /AT-X
Valkyria Chronicles: Gallian Chronicles
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...set in the wartorn country of Gallia in a fictional version of 1930s Europe. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.valkyria-anime.com/)
Production: A-1 Pictures
Episodes: 12TV Station: Tokyo MX TV
Air Date: April 4, 2009 | Staurday 22:30
Hatsukoi Limited
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The manga depicted many vignettes in the everyday lives of a junior high school girl named Ayumi and seven other junior high and high school girls. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.j-hatsukoi.com/)
Production: JC Staff
Episodes: 12TV Station:
Air Date: April 11, 2009 | Saturday 24:00
Saki
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The story centers around Saki Miyanaga, a timid freshman girl who has never enjoyed the Asian tile game of mahjong. However, another freshman brings her into their high school’s mahjong club and into the competitive world of mahjong tournaments. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.saki-anime.com/)
Production: GONZO
Episodes: 13TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 26:00
Queen’s Blade Ruruo no Senshi
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In 4 years time the competition that will decide who the next Queen shall be will start. The strongest warrior will continue to rule the country according to tradition and expand it. The contestants need only be older than 12 years. They need not be human, intelligent or even of that country. The rules for the tournament are simple: murder is allowed. Any weapon can be chosen. The winner is decided when one of the participants flees or can’t move anymore. Such event is broadcasted trough a crystal sphere by the court’s magic teacher to all population to see and enjoy. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://queensblade.tv/)
Production: ARMS
Episodes: 12
TV Station: AT-X
Air Date: April 2009
Basquash
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I don’t know much about the story but expect a combination of robots and basketball.
Website (http://basquash.com/)
Production: Satelight
Episodes: 13
TV Station: MBS
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:25
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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The original novel depicts the tumultuous warring period of second-century China and the political intrigue between the different factions. This is a 52-episode series that will air in China and Japan.
Website (http://www.future-planet.co.jp/)
TV Station: CCTV (China) ; Domestic-TBA
Air Date: April 2009
Hayate the Combat Butler! Season 2
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The story follows a boy named Hayate who serves as a butler, bodyguard, confidante, and more to a girl named Nagi to pay off a 156,804,000-yen (about US$1.6-million) debt. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://hayatenogotoku.com/)
Production: JC Staff
Episodes: 13TV Station: TBA
Air Date: April 3, 2009 | Fruday 25:23
Asura Cryin’
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The semi-serious school action story revolves around Tomoharu Natsume, a boy who has been haunted by a ghosty girl who was a childhood friend. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://asciimw.jp/mediamix/asura-cryin/)
Production: Seven Arcs
Episodes: 13TV Station: サンテレビ[San? TV]
Air Date: April 6, 2009 | Monday 24:00
Pandora Hearts
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The gothic action mystery manga centers on Oz Bezarius, an heir to one of the four great duke houses of a fantasy land. His life changes completely at his coming-of-age ceremony when he is thrown into the Abyss prison. Then, a “Chain” creature in the form of a bloodstained black rabbit named Alice helps him escape and he gets involved in a mysterious group called Pandora. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/ph/)
Production: Xebec
Episodes: 25TV Station: TBS
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:29
K-ON!
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Website (http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/k-on/)
Production: Kyoto Animation
Episodes: 13TV Station: TBS / BS-i
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:59
Cross Game
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Cross Game is the story of Kou Kitamura and the four Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyo, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. The Tsukushima family runs a batting center with an attached coffee shop, and Kou’s father runs a neighboring sporting good store. Wakaba and Kou were born on the same day in the same hospital, and have been close friends since childhood—close enough that Wakaba treats Kou as her boyfriend, even though nothing is officially declared. Aoba, who is one year younger than Wakaba and Kou, doesn’t like how Kou is “taking” her sister away from her and claims she hates him.
Website (http://websunday.net/rensai/set_crossgame.html)
Production: Synergy SP
Episodes:TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 10:00
Hanasakeru Seishounen
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The story focuses on Kajika Louisa Kugami Burnsworth, the product of a Caribbean encounter between the international magnate Harry Burnsworth and a Japanese woman 14 years ago. Kajika has been living in Japan as a middle school girl, until the elder Burnsworth summons her to America to choose a husband from three suitors. Kajika gets involved in international intrigue over oil and wealth in Southeast Asia, France, and America. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/hana/)
Production: Pierrot
Episodes: 13TV Station: NHK
Air Date: April 5, 2009 [23:00]
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~
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Phantom of Inferno is a story detailing the life of a 15-year-old Japanese boy who is kidnapped after witnessing the killing of a reporter. After being kidnapped his memories of his past life are erased and is given the choice to join Inferno or die. He makes the only choice he can to join and is given the name Zwei and will study under Ein. She is also known as Phantom since this is the title given to the organization’s top assassin.
Website (http://www.phantom-r.jp/)
Production: Bee Train
Episodes: 13TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 26:15
Natsu no Arashi
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This story from the creator of School Rumble centers on a boy named Hajime Yasaka who meets an older high school girl named Sayoko “Arashi” Arashiyama in an old town coffee shop. “Arashi” happens to have a secret that Hajime learns one fateful summer vacation. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/natsunoarashi/)
Production: SHAFT
Episodes: 13TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 25:30
Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
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Website (http://www.ntv.co.jp/lupin-conan/)
TV Station: Nippon TV
Air Date: March 27, 2009 | Friday 21:00
Subber: Frostii, DCTP
Gugutto Gokyjyou!! Mecha Mote Iinchou
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Website (http://www.ciao.shogakukan.co.jp/)
TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 4, 2009 | Saturday 9:00
Mary and Gary
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Website (http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/marie_gal/)
Production: Toie Animation
TV Station: NHK
Air Date: March 31, 2009 | Tuesday 19:25
Sugar Bunnies
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Website (http://www.sanrio.co.jp/anime/sugarbunnies/)
TV Station:
Air Date: April 2009 | Tuesday 07:30
Jewel Pets
Website (http://www.sanrio.co.jp/characters/jewelpet/)
TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 09:30
Chi’s Sweet Home
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Website (http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/chissweet/)
Production: MadHouse
TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: March 30 2009 | Monday 06:40
Star Wars
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Website (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/cw)
Production: Lucas Film Animation
TV Station: BS-i
Air Date: March 31, 2009 | Tuesday 19:00
Dragon Ball Kai
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Website (http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/dragonz/)
TV Station: Fuji TV
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 9:00
Movies
Dragon Ball: Evolution
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Website (http://movies.foxjapan.com/dragonball/)
Air Date: March 13 2009
Toppa Gurren Lagann [movie]
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Website (http://www.gurren-lagann-movie.net/)
Air Date: April 24, 2009
Precure Allstars
Website (http://www.precure-allstars.com/)
Air Date: March 20, 2009
Doraemon (Movie)
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Website (http://doraeiga.com/2009/)
Air Date:
グスコーブドリの伝記
Website (http://www.g-tac.co.jp/)
Air Date:
Elite Yankee Saburo
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Website (http://shop.kodansha.jp/bc/comics/eizou/#cinema)
Air Date:
Fishing KICHI Sampei
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Website (http://shop.kodansha.jp/bc/comics/eizou/#cinema)
Air Date:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni oath (Live Action)
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Website (http://www.higurashi-movie.com/index.html)
Air Date: April 4, 2009
Kōkyō Shihen Eureka Seven: Pocket ga Niji de Ippai
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Website (http://www.eureka-prj.net/)
Air Date: April 4, 2009
Source: http://hikikomoriden.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/spring-2009-anime-line-up-as-of-december-27-2008/
Take your time, find an anime, and stick to it. ;)
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Xamd
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Enter Sentan, a lush, tranquil island encased in war between the military and those with Hiruko, known as X’amd. On one of these warlike days, Akiyuki Takehara heads off to school and gets caught in a raid by the creatures. Through a series of events he is transformed into a X’amd, and with the help of a Tessikan woman Nakiami along with his highschool friend Haru, Akiyuki is forced to learn to live with the Hiruko or faces the danger of losing his self-control and turn to stone.
The story follows a boy named Akiyuki who is heading to school with two friends when an explosion occurs. In the mysterious light from the explosion, Akiyuki transforms into a creature called Xam’d. Xam’d goes on a rampage which is only stopped when a red-haired foreign girl appears. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.xamd.jp/)
Production: BONES
Episodes:
TV Station: MBS, Tokyo MX, CBC
Air Date: April 11, 2009 | Saturday 26:25
Arad Senki
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The story takes place after “the cursed light of Kazan” has fallen upon the continent of Arad. Baron vows to unravel the secret of the curse that has possessed one of his arms, and a motley assortment of characters joins him on his quest. The series will premiere in both Japan and Korea in 2009. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.sup-arad.jp/)
Production: GK Entertainment and GONZO
Episodes: 26TV Station:
Air Date:
Souten Kouro
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The manga centers around Cao Cao, a warlord and second-to-last Han Dynasty chancellor who is best known through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms literary classic. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://kc.kodansha.co.jp/SEP/02222/01/sotenkoro/)
Production: MadHouse
Episodes:TV Station:
Air Date: April 7, 2009 | Tuesday 24:59
Charady no Joke na Mainichi
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The story will center on Charady (Misako Yasuda), a fictional 26-year-old woman from San Francisco who graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design’s Department of Character Design. Charady loves jokes from around the world, and each daily short will present a different joke. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.joke-charady-365.com/project/index.html)
Production:
TV Station: UHF, Biglobe stream
Air Date: March 31, 2009 | Tuesday 23:55
Cookin’ Idol Ai! Mai! Main!
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The weekday Cookin’ Idol Ai! Mai! Main! cooking anime for elementary schoolchildren will premiere on Japan’s NHK-Educational public television network on March 30 from 5:40 to 5:50 p.m. Children can learn to cook with the heroine Main as she demonstrates various dishes in the anime half of the program. [Source: ANN]
Website
Production: Studio DEEN
Episodes:TV Station: NHK
Air Date: March 30, 2009 | Friday 17:40
Candy Boy: Episode 6
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This isn’t a series, I think. more like Time of Eve. I heard, this is the second to the last episode and it’s yuri.
Website (http://candyboy.jp/)
Production: AIC
TV Station: Candy Boy Channel
Air Date: March 6, 2009 | Friday 19:00
Higepiyo
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Higepiyo (literally “Mustache-Peep”) revolves around Hiyoko, a “surreal” bird that happens to have a mustache. Hiyoko can talk with “Piroshi” — Hiroshi, the human boy who won her in a fair — and the two are tight friends. In fact, Hiyoko teaches Hiroshi how to win brawls in elementary school, and she sometimes fights a bullying girl on Hiroshi’s behalf. (Hiyoko is actually an experimental test subject that escaped from a laboratory.)
Website (http://chorus.shueisha.co.jp/)
Production:
Episodes:TV Station: NHK
Air Date: April 3, 2009 | Friday 18:20
Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
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AIC’s latest Tenchi Muyo spin-off series
Website (http://www.seikishi.com/)
Production: AIC and BeSTACK
Episodes: 13
TV Station: Animax
Air Date: March 20, 2009 | Friday 24:00
Ristorante Paradiso
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The manga’s story is set in a restaurant in Rome that the heroine Nicoletta visits from the countryside. Her parents divorced when she was young, so her grandparents raised her while her mother tried to remarry. Unfortunately for Nicoletta, her mother abandons her even after remarrying. Nicoletta goes to the restaurant that is now owned by the new husband of Nicoletta’s mother, and ends up apprenticing there among a kitchen staff of colorful characters.
Website (http://www.rispara.tv/)
Production: David Production
Episodes: 11TV Station: Fuji TV
Air Date: April 2009 | Wednesday 26:08
La Corda D’Oro ~Secondo Passo~
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Hino Kahoko continues to improve her skills at the Seiso Academy participating in music competitions with the help of Lili, the music fairy, the students from the music department, and a new blond charming character.
Website (http://www.corda-primopasso.com/)
Production: Tai / Yumeno
Episodes:
TV Station: Kids Station, Crunchyroll
Air Date: March 26, 2009 [24:00]
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
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A re-animated series by BONES. Look foward to it !
Website (http://www.hagaren.jp/)
Production: BONES
Episodes:TV Station: MBS・TBS系全国ネット
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 17:00
Haruhi TV series Rerun
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New controversy news says that, on top of the original episodes, they are airing the new episodes. Only one way to find out for sure: Watch it !
Website (http://www.haruhi.tv/)
Production: Kyoto Animation
Episodes: 14TV Station: UHF
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:00
Konnichi wa Ann: Before Green Gables
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Website (http://www.nippon-animation.co.jp/before_GG/)
Production: Nippon Animation
Episodes: 39TV Station: BS Fuji
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 19:30
Eden of the East
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Animated series of Eden of the East.
Website (http://www.juiz.jp/)
Production: Production IG
Episodes: 11Air Date: April 2009 | Thursday 24:45
Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica Crimson S
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The original story of Polyphonica (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7479) is set on an alternate world where “Spirits” can exist alongside humans. There are “Dantists” who can play music and communicate with the Spirits, and Tatara Phoron is one such Dantist who is in contact with a spirit named Corticarte Apa Lagranges. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.polyphonica.tv/)
Production: Ginga-ya
Episodes: 12TV Station: MBS
Air Date: April 2009 | Saturday
[B]Guin Saga
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The heroic adventure series follows a “Conan-esque” character named Guin with a leopard mask on a fantasy land. The first arc, the Marshes Episode, focuses on Guin’s escape from invading Mongaul armies while he protects the young twin heirs of a defeated country. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.guinsaga.net/)
Production: Satelight
Episodes: 13TV Station: NHK-BS2
Air Date: April 5. 2009 | Sunday 23:29
Youth花咲KERU
Website (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/)
TV Station: NHK-BS2
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | SUnday 23:00
Sengoku Basara
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Website (http://www.sengokubasara.tv/)
Production: Production IG
Episodes: 13
TV Station: CBC
Air Date: April 1, 2009 | Wednesday 25:34
Mainichi Kaa-san
Website (http://mainichi.jp/life/riezo/)
TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 1, 2009 | Wednesday 19:00
07-Ghost
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The story revolves around Teito, a former slave with magical powers who is taking the graduation final to become an army officer in the Barsburg Empire. He does well during the first part of the final exam, but discovers his father’s killer in his school and tries to kill him. Teito eludes capture, but gets caught in the larger struggle between Verloren, the God of Death, and the “beings of light” sent by Heaven to oppose him: the Seven Ghosts.
Website (http://07-ghost.net/)
Production: Studio DEEN
Episodes:Air Date: April 6, 2009
Shangri-La
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The story takes place in the middle of the 21st century when global warming has turned Tokyo into a tropical city. To reduce the temperature at the heart of the city by 5°C (9°F), the city is being reborn as the world’s largest forest city. However, despite the flow of refugees to the new city of Atlas, there are not many residents who can actually live there. Moreover, anti-government guerrillas are attempting to stop the forestation.
Website (http://www.anime-shangri-la.jp/)
TV Station: CHIBA TV
Episodes: 12
Air Date; April 5, 2009 | Sunday 24:00
Metal Fight Beyblade
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Website (http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/beyblade/)
TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 8:30
Fight Ippatsu! Jyuuden-chan!
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Website (http://www.comicgum.com/topics_0901jyuden.php)
TV Station: AT-X / 地上波
Air Date: May 2009
ROBO CROSSER
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“will star a 12-year-old boy and his unicycle robot who are trying to win a motorbike race.” [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.comicgum.com/topics_0901jyuden.php)
TV Station: Disney
Air Date: TBA
Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestoria
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This new season will continue the adventures of Daniel (Danma “Dan” Kūsō in Japanese) and his friends as they help free Vestroia, the alternate world of the Bakugan warrior Dragonoid (Drago for short). [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.bakugan.com/)
TV Station: North American Broadcasting / domestic TBA
Air Date: TBA
Tears to Tiara
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A Demon King named Arawn was sealed away for 1,000 years. After a girl named Rhiannon (Ri-a-n-no-n) released him, they started to travel together and she becomes emotionally attached to him. [Source: Wiki]
Website (http://tearstotiara.jp/)
Production: Oriental Light Magic, WHITE FOX
Episodes: 11TV Station: Chiba TV
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 25:35
TAYUTAMA -Kiss on my deity-
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The story centers on Yūri Mito, a student at the Sōsei Academy and the only son of the man who runs the Yachimata shrine. At Yachimata, there is a legend of a deity named Tayutayu-sama who protected the area, but this deity and other so-called “Tayutai” have been lost in time. Mito and his friends discover a relic on the school grounds with mysterious patterns on them. Then, at the opening ceremony of the new school year, an equally mysterious girl named Mashiro appears before Mito. Mashiro is somehow tied to the relic and the legend of Tayutayu-sama. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.tayutama.com/)
Production: Silver Link
Episodes: 13Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 24:30
TV Station: Chiba UHF /AT-X
Valkyria Chronicles: Gallian Chronicles
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...set in the wartorn country of Gallia in a fictional version of 1930s Europe. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.valkyria-anime.com/)
Production: A-1 Pictures
Episodes: 12TV Station: Tokyo MX TV
Air Date: April 4, 2009 | Staurday 22:30
Hatsukoi Limited
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The manga depicted many vignettes in the everyday lives of a junior high school girl named Ayumi and seven other junior high and high school girls. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.j-hatsukoi.com/)
Production: JC Staff
Episodes: 12TV Station:
Air Date: April 11, 2009 | Saturday 24:00
Saki
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The story centers around Saki Miyanaga, a timid freshman girl who has never enjoyed the Asian tile game of mahjong. However, another freshman brings her into their high school’s mahjong club and into the competitive world of mahjong tournaments. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.saki-anime.com/)
Production: GONZO
Episodes: 13TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 26:00
Queen’s Blade Ruruo no Senshi
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In 4 years time the competition that will decide who the next Queen shall be will start. The strongest warrior will continue to rule the country according to tradition and expand it. The contestants need only be older than 12 years. They need not be human, intelligent or even of that country. The rules for the tournament are simple: murder is allowed. Any weapon can be chosen. The winner is decided when one of the participants flees or can’t move anymore. Such event is broadcasted trough a crystal sphere by the court’s magic teacher to all population to see and enjoy. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://queensblade.tv/)
Production: ARMS
Episodes: 12
TV Station: AT-X
Air Date: April 2009
Basquash
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I don’t know much about the story but expect a combination of robots and basketball.
Website (http://basquash.com/)
Production: Satelight
Episodes: 13
TV Station: MBS
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:25
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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The original novel depicts the tumultuous warring period of second-century China and the political intrigue between the different factions. This is a 52-episode series that will air in China and Japan.
Website (http://www.future-planet.co.jp/)
TV Station: CCTV (China) ; Domestic-TBA
Air Date: April 2009
Hayate the Combat Butler! Season 2
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The story follows a boy named Hayate who serves as a butler, bodyguard, confidante, and more to a girl named Nagi to pay off a 156,804,000-yen (about US$1.6-million) debt. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://hayatenogotoku.com/)
Production: JC Staff
Episodes: 13TV Station: TBA
Air Date: April 3, 2009 | Fruday 25:23
Asura Cryin’
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The semi-serious school action story revolves around Tomoharu Natsume, a boy who has been haunted by a ghosty girl who was a childhood friend. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://asciimw.jp/mediamix/asura-cryin/)
Production: Seven Arcs
Episodes: 13TV Station: サンテレビ[San? TV]
Air Date: April 6, 2009 | Monday 24:00
Pandora Hearts
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The gothic action mystery manga centers on Oz Bezarius, an heir to one of the four great duke houses of a fantasy land. His life changes completely at his coming-of-age ceremony when he is thrown into the Abyss prison. Then, a “Chain” creature in the form of a bloodstained black rabbit named Alice helps him escape and he gets involved in a mysterious group called Pandora. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/ph/)
Production: Xebec
Episodes: 25TV Station: TBS
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:29
K-ON!
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Website (http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/k-on/)
Production: Kyoto Animation
Episodes: 13TV Station: TBS / BS-i
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 25:59
Cross Game
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Cross Game is the story of Kou Kitamura and the four Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyo, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. The Tsukushima family runs a batting center with an attached coffee shop, and Kou’s father runs a neighboring sporting good store. Wakaba and Kou were born on the same day in the same hospital, and have been close friends since childhood—close enough that Wakaba treats Kou as her boyfriend, even though nothing is officially declared. Aoba, who is one year younger than Wakaba and Kou, doesn’t like how Kou is “taking” her sister away from her and claims she hates him.
Website (http://websunday.net/rensai/set_crossgame.html)
Production: Synergy SP
Episodes:TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 10:00
Hanasakeru Seishounen
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The story focuses on Kajika Louisa Kugami Burnsworth, the product of a Caribbean encounter between the international magnate Harry Burnsworth and a Japanese woman 14 years ago. Kajika has been living in Japan as a middle school girl, until the elder Burnsworth summons her to America to choose a husband from three suitors. Kajika gets involved in international intrigue over oil and wealth in Southeast Asia, France, and America. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/hana/)
Production: Pierrot
Episodes: 13TV Station: NHK
Air Date: April 5, 2009 [23:00]
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~
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Phantom of Inferno is a story detailing the life of a 15-year-old Japanese boy who is kidnapped after witnessing the killing of a reporter. After being kidnapped his memories of his past life are erased and is given the choice to join Inferno or die. He makes the only choice he can to join and is given the name Zwei and will study under Ein. She is also known as Phantom since this is the title given to the organization’s top assassin.
Website (http://www.phantom-r.jp/)
Production: Bee Train
Episodes: 13TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 2, 2009 | Thursday 26:15
Natsu no Arashi
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This story from the creator of School Rumble centers on a boy named Hajime Yasaka who meets an older high school girl named Sayoko “Arashi” Arashiyama in an old town coffee shop. “Arashi” happens to have a secret that Hajime learns one fateful summer vacation. [Source: ANN]
Website (http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/natsunoarashi/)
Production: SHAFT
Episodes: 13TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 25:30
Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
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Website (http://www.ntv.co.jp/lupin-conan/)
TV Station: Nippon TV
Air Date: March 27, 2009 | Friday 21:00
Subber: Frostii, DCTP
Gugutto Gokyjyou!! Mecha Mote Iinchou
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Website (http://www.ciao.shogakukan.co.jp/)
TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: April 4, 2009 | Saturday 9:00
Mary and Gary
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Website (http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/marie_gal/)
Production: Toie Animation
TV Station: NHK
Air Date: March 31, 2009 | Tuesday 19:25
Sugar Bunnies
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Website (http://www.sanrio.co.jp/anime/sugarbunnies/)
TV Station:
Air Date: April 2009 | Tuesday 07:30
Jewel Pets
Website (http://www.sanrio.co.jp/characters/jewelpet/)
TV Station:
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 09:30
Chi’s Sweet Home
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Website (http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/chissweet/)
Production: MadHouse
TV Station: TV Tokyo
Air Date: March 30 2009 | Monday 06:40
Star Wars
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Website (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/anime/cw)
Production: Lucas Film Animation
TV Station: BS-i
Air Date: March 31, 2009 | Tuesday 19:00
Dragon Ball Kai
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Website (http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/dragonz/)
TV Station: Fuji TV
Air Date: April 5, 2009 | Sunday 9:00
Movies
Dragon Ball: Evolution
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Website (http://movies.foxjapan.com/dragonball/)
Air Date: March 13 2009
Toppa Gurren Lagann [movie]
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Website (http://www.gurren-lagann-movie.net/)
Air Date: April 24, 2009
Precure Allstars
Website (http://www.precure-allstars.com/)
Air Date: March 20, 2009
Doraemon (Movie)
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Website (http://doraeiga.com/2009/)
Air Date:
グスコーブドリの伝記
Website (http://www.g-tac.co.jp/)
Air Date:
Elite Yankee Saburo
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Website (http://shop.kodansha.jp/bc/comics/eizou/#cinema)
Air Date:
Fishing KICHI Sampei
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Website (http://shop.kodansha.jp/bc/comics/eizou/#cinema)
Air Date:
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni oath (Live Action)
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Website (http://www.higurashi-movie.com/index.html)
Air Date: April 4, 2009
Kōkyō Shihen Eureka Seven: Pocket ga Niji de Ippai
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Website (http://www.eureka-prj.net/)
Air Date: April 4, 2009
Source: http://hikikomoriden.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/spring-2009-anime-line-up-as-of-december-27-2008/