Winter 2011 Anime

Unaired episodes of Angel Beats! included in the seventh volume of the Blu-ray and DVD, and another included in the Blu-ray Box.

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The true end arc of Ore no Imouto. These four episodes branch out after the 11th episode of the main TV series and present an alternative version to the end of the TV series. These episodes contrast with the good end arc of the TV series, which was an original ending written for the anime, and instead closely follows the original story from the light novels.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

Roberta, the terrorist-turned-maid that made her appearence in the first season of Black Lagoon, returns in this five-episode OVA series—and this time, all bets are off!

Roberta's benefactor, the patriarch of the Lovelace clan, is murdered during a political rally. The assassin's trail soon leads back to Roanapur—so now she has returned on a mission of vengeance! However, close behind her is the new patriarch, Garcia, as well as Roberta's apprentice (and maid), Fabiola Iglesias. As the body count of Roberta's bloody rampage mounts, forces from within the corrupt island (which includes the Lagoon Company), as well as overseas converge on what threatens to escalate into all-out war!

A short OVA that was bundled with the limited edition of the eleventh volume of the manga.

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Episode 1: Day 1 - Me, Maids, and a New Start

When Class 2-F has to pick a project for the school’s annual festival, the gang decides to run a restaurant! If they can make some money, they might get to upgrade their gear. Unfortunately, deadly dumplings and a kidnapping could cut into their profits.

Episode 2: Day 2 - Idiots, Fireworks and the Summoner Tournament

Thanks to their restaurant profits, things are looking up for Class 2-F. But if they hope to score some better gear - and keep Mizuki from transferring to another school - there’s one more challenge to be faced: a Summoner Tournament!

[Source: Crunchyroll]

※ NOTE: OVAs included in the DVD releases.

Episode 1: Ciel in Wonderland Part I
Strange things are afoot at Phantomhive manor after Sebastian sprouts rabbit ears and vanishes into a hole in the ground. When Ciel decides to follow the butler, he finds himself in a strange and familiar Wonderland.

Episode 2: Welcome to the Phantomhives
Prepare to experience Sebastian’s hospitality first-hand as he leads you on a tour of the Phantomhive estate. As a guest of Ciel and his butler, you will witness mysteries unfold and murderous intentions revealed.

Episode 3: The Making of Black Butler II
Go behind the scenes and watch the cast of Black Butler discuss the ins and outs of making the show’s second season. Featuring outtakes and candid footage, this documentary will change the way you see your favorite anime.

Episode 4: Ciel in Wonderland Part II
As the young master tracks his rabbit-eared butler through Wonderland, he meets an enigmatic caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat. After joining the Mad Hatter for tea, Ciel’s adventure takes a dark turn when he’s accused of a crime by the Queen of Hearts.

Episode 5: The Threads of the Spider's Story
After freeing a butterfly from a spider’s web - and removing one of the insect’s wings to ensure it never flies away - Alois Trancy faces difficult questions about himself and his relationship with Claude.

Episode 6: The Story of Will the Reaper
Will and Grell are tasked with training the new students of the Reaper Association. As they lead the recruits through the process, Will reflects on the past, when he and Grell first teamed up to take the Reaper exam.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

All-new animation offered throughout UNIQLO clothins stores in Japan on January 1, 2011. The DVD contains an exclusive version of Mayonaka Orchestra, by the Japanese rock band Aqua Timez. A limited number of the DVDs was offered as presents to people who bought UNIQLO's Naruto graphic T-shirts online or in their stores.

[Source: Anime News Network; emended]

New series of shorts featuring Index-tan.

Universal Century 0096. Three years after the last conflict between Neo Zeon and the Earth Federation Forces, the tentative peace of the Earth Sphere is about to be shattered again. Cardeas Vist, the head of the powerful Vist Foundation, has decided to hand over “Laplace’s Box," the secret of the Foundation's prosperity, to the supposed enemy, Neo Zeon. Banagher Links, a student at the space colony Industrial 7, rescues a mysterious girl who calls herself Audrey Burne. Audrey is seeking to prevent a war, but it seems she has come too late. As Banagher's home colony is devastated by the attacks of the enemy mobile suit Kshatriya, he finds his strange destiny and is forced to fight in the formidable weapon system known as the Unicorn Gundam.

[Source: Funimation]

According to Tsutaya Online, the DVD of Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen will be released on December 15th. A new special will be bundled with the limited edition.

It's the running gag of Ben Johnson episode where animation staff reuse the New Years footage; Yorozuya would sit around the kotatsu eating a bowl of tangerines. They discuss elaborate subjects, Shinpachi complains about reusing animation footage, and then Gin-chan always ending the gag with a pointless announcement.

Yuuko's time flow finally starts moving again, after being alive for an unknown amount of years she must depart now since she can't be hold by the world of the living any longer. During her final moments she faces Watanuki, her loyal servant and friend and makes her final wish, "stay alive". So Watanuki made the promise to remain in the store of the wishes until they meet again. Many years later he still keeps that promise giving hope but also taking important belongings from those who ever come to him to make a wish.

[Source: Anime News Network]

The six Blu-ray Disc/DVD volumes for the MM! television anime series will each include one or two new, "somewhat extreme" anime short stories.

Specials included in the Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu: Matsuri BD/DVD volumes featuring alternative endings to the OVA episodes.

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Special episodes added to DVDs and Blu-rays.

The third and fourth seasons of the Hetalia Axis Powers anime. A continuation of the first 2 seasons under a new name, still adapting the online webcomics drawn by Himaruya Hidekaz.

Based on a popular web-released manga series by Hidekazu Himaruya, this has been described as a "cynical gag" story set in Europe in the years between WW1 and WW2 (1915-1939), using exaggerated caricatures of the different nationalities as portrayed by a gaggle of bishōnen. For example, the Italia Veneziano character is into pasta and women. The Deutsche (German) bishi loves potatoes and sausages, and Nippon is an otaku boy. Installments of the manga have jumped back and forth in setting from the ancient times to modern-day geopolitics. The manga's title comes the Japanese words for "useless" (hetare) and Italy (Italia).

[Source: ANI]

A series of OVA episodes released with the limited edition manga volumes.

Episode 01: What You Gave Me (Anata ga Watashi ni Kureta Mono)
Kokonoe, Usa, and Kagami go shopping for a present for Sensei. Eventually Kokonoe decides to make one and they all end up spending the night at her house. Along the way we learn more about Usa's love for Reiji, Kagami's love for Kokonoe, and Kokonoe's love for Sensei.

Episode 02: Kuro-chan, Shiro-chan (Kuro-chan to Shiro-chan)
Kuro-chan tries to become friends with Shirai-sensei.

Episode 03: A Child's Summer Time (Kodomo no Natsu Jikan)
The girls, Aoki and Houin go into the country to visit Aoki's family.

After the school festival, Kohei and friends head to a small cottage out of town and enjoy themselves after working hard.

Tobias, Mary, and Sakuya challenge the impregnable "The One Sin", but they lose their way in the maze and unintentionally trap other guild members. A mysterious cat is watching their blunder. Is it another player character or NPC?

Thirteen years have passed. Following an injury that put Gorou's career as a pitcher into a standstill, he prepares to restart his baseball career as a fielder. His family struggles with his decisions, especially his daughter Izumi, who doesn't know enough about her father to understand why he is so absent from their lives. Gorou will stop at nothing until he's in the game once again; everything is now for the sake of the only gift he has to offer his children: Baseball.

Matsutaka Nanako is a normal university student, who happened to enroll in an Abnormal Physiology seminar. She tries to keep her mental state sound, but other abnormal classmates start to influence her personality...

[Source: MU]

The second arc of Tales of Symphonia that takes place in the flourishing world of Tethe'alla. This OVA takes place up to two-thirds of the game, prior to the Derris-Kharlan arc.

OVAs bundled with volumes 42, 43 & 46 of the Aa! Megami-sama! manga.

A special unaired episode included in the 7th DVD/Blu-ray volume.

Based on the live-action CW show Supernatural, the anime will be a 22-episode season that will cover the storyline of the live-action version's first two seasons.

The anime project will not only remake the best episodes from the live-action version, but also depict original episodes not seen in the live-action version. Those original episodes will include prologues of the Winchester brothers' childhood, anime-only enemies, and episodes featuring secondary characters from the live-action version.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Special episodes from the BD/DVDs.

Based on a manga by Mitsunaga Yasunori, serialised in Monthly Shounen Sirius.

Hiyorimi Hiro moves to a new city to live with his older sister, but dies before he can find her. He then awakens to a new life as a servant of a Princess of the Monster Realm, who just happens to be employing his sister. Monsters soon appear to attack or pester the princess since she is in line for the royal throne, and Hiro must protect her with his life (and repeated deaths).

[Source: Anime News Network]

The heroine, Tsukiko, enrolled to a school that was recently changed from all-boys school to co-ed. Since the area where the school is conveniently rural and the rather exclusive curriculums the school has, up until now the heroine is the only one female who enrolled to the school.

In Starry Sky, the 13 constellations of the Zodiac are personified into handsome young men. The anime will be directed by Kiyomo Sayaka who worked with Vampire Knight. Similar to Hetalia - Axis Powers, Starry Sky's anime will be distributed through the Animate.tv website and other means.

Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of magical group trying to gather engine fragments so that a little being from Pleiades can return to his home. Subaru considers joining them as she was chosen by the Pleiadian, president of this afterschool club.

A collaboration between Gainax and the car maker Subaru.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Short spin-off episodes included in Blu-ray/DVD volumes of the main series.

Naoko-san is an alien from the planet Yuri, who is plotting to conquer the Earth by yurifying it. Misuzu is a junior high girl and is always troubled by Naoko-san, who lives on the roof of her house. They hear rumors that a molester is wandering around in the area, so they decide to investigate.

Two short OVA of Hakuouki distributed to those who purchased all six volumes of the DVD. A fandisc game "Hakuoki Zuisouroku" and an official parody "Hakuoki SSL (a high school parody)" were animated.

Short episodes included in Blu-ray and DVD release, adapting the side story "Kuragehime Heroes☆", a spin-off manga serialized in Kiss Plus magazine. Supporting characters are featured in short chapters.

Picture dramas included with the first and third limited edition DVD volumes.

Unidentified creatures "Archon" suddenly appear and bring the human beings to a crisis of extinction. A special corps "Goulart Knights" is formed to counter attack Archon. The knights have supernatural power to generate "Holy Grail" from their spirits and battle against Archon.

In an isolated prison, there are only four prisoners and a cat. One day, a power outage opens all the locks and all of the prisoners are released. However, all of the guards are nowhere to be seen and there are no exits. An extraordinary event occurs in response to an old man's strange behavior.

[Source: Anime News Network]

Shin Koihime†Musou: Otome Tairan OVA.

Prior to the events of the anime, three factions—the Garan Army, the Kiba Army, and the Aira Army, battle for total dominance of Machine Island. The island is basically a prison, isolated from the rest of the world. The island contains a vast amount of resources, allowing the three factions to create an infinite supply of giant robots for their respective armies.

The world government learns that the island's power reactor has become unstable and will explode within 66 hours, destroying all of life and Earth itself. The government sends the Death Caprice squad, composed of mercenaries Ken Kaido and Ryo Magami to solve the issue, along with their giant robot Mazinkaiser, but was that a good idea?

According to HMV, the DVD & Blu-ray volume 7 of Ookiku Furikabutte ~Natsu no Taikai Hen~ will include an unaired episode 12.5. Director Mizushima posted in his blog that the special was made because they couldn't put the original manga episodes happened between the episode 12 and 13 within the TV series.

DVD specials for .hack//Quantum. Main girls are being very special creatures and take lessons about the anime.

The project is a spinoff from Circus's D.C. Da Capo franchise and features the Yoshino Sakura character as a seemingly ordinary third grader with secret special powers.

[Source: AniDB]

The story centers on Nonoha Nonohara, a young manga artist who just enrolled in a new school. She finds herself surrounded by a group of three "super-cute" guys.

[Source: MU]

A new short CGI movie and a short extra anime bundled with the special edition of the game Macross Triangle Frontier.

A special included in the DVD of Shin Koihime†Musou: Otome Tairan OVA and the BD-BOX of Shin Koihime†Musou: Otome Tairan.

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

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

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

And the adventure begins.

[Source: Anime World Network]

Tegamibachi Reverse DVD short extra episodes.

Aki Tesno lives in a poor village at the bottom of a valley. One day, a man from an uptown city asks Aki to rescue a kidnapped girl.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

Chirico visits an oasis town and meets Gotho and his friends for the first time in 32 years.

[Source: MyAnimeList]

The Divine Warriors were defeated by the Darkness and vanished far into the space-time.

In the world in chaos, a samurai ZAN realizes his mission and travels beyond the space-time to gather the scattered warriors.

In order to beat the corps of the Darkness, ZAN tries to acquire the Dark Power...

Note: While a minute long trailer was released, the feature length film was never produced.

Tachikawa Himeko is a plain high school girl. One day, a handsome boy Mikami Tochiotome starts to lodge at her house. He likes to dress in drag and his fashion awakes Himeko to sense of beauty.

During the parent-student day at school, Mai’s teacher told Mai’s mother “It seems like your daughter is using the inherited magic to solve various problems around her.”

Mai’s mother does not understand what the teacher is talking about. What magic? The question is left unanswered and days pass. In a few more days, she is going to give birth to her third child.

With her mother in the hospital, Mai is lonely and throws a fit. The older brother, Hikaru, struggles in dealing with fluctuation of emotions during his sensitive time of boyhood. Hotaru, their grandmother and the most popular family member, is the strongest supporter of Hikaru. Mamoru, the father of the family, is busy with daily work but tries to create time for his son and daughter.

While each family member has his or her own issue to deal with, Mai finds out what it means to be a family, with the use of her magic...

[Source: P.A. Works]

The Mameshiba family has grown with their infant counterparts.

Contains:
2 Babyshiba Fruits commercials
2 Babyshiba Sweets commercials
2 Babyshiba claymation commercials

Short animation by Rapparu.

Another iteration in the Peeping Life franchise, The Perfect Evolution features 10 new animated versions of improvised comedy sketches.

3 bonus episodes centering around TV Asahi's female announcers.

The Koganedai Downtown FC Golden Kids haven't won a single game since they formed. The captain and goal keeper, Goal Kitagawa is determined to win a game with the current members before he moves away next month. However, even after all the determination to win the next game they lose terribly, extending their losing streak to 22 games. Even the adults in the community who support the team begin to get fed up with all the losses.

At school, the constantly losing Golden Kids members start to get picked on and bullied, and the adults worry that the bullying will only get worse. When the team members become depressed and lose their will to play, they see Goal practicing outside, silently and as hard as he can. Once again, the Golden Kids start to practice intensely to get that one win. The next game for the Golden Kids will be against the second best team in the Jonan League, the Wild Tigers.

Will the Golden Kids finally get their first win ever? What will the adults decide to do with the team?

[Source: Official Website]