For me, most of the series in the sequel here aren’t on my watch list before.
You can click here for the fansubs.
History: Green for the sequel, Red for the new series
Shikabane Hime: Kuro
Premieres: January 1, 2009
Shikabane – are the living dead who still work even after they die because of strong attachment or obsession, they attack people and kill them.
Story Plot:
Shikabane Hime are girls created to hunt Shikabane.
A boy, Kagami Ohri, was adopted by Tagami Keisei, a Buddhist priest of Kongon Clan, when he was a child, and was raised in an asylum. One night, he encounters a beautiful girl at the temple who works for the chief priest. She is Hoshimura Makina, a Shikabane Hime ,who hunts Shikanabe under the order from Kakusei.
Anime Productions: feel., GAINAX, Starchild Records
Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th Season
Premieres: January 3, 2009
Anime Production: Sunrise
Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 2
Premieres: January 10, 2009
Based on a shounen manga by Yuuki Masami, serialised in Shounen Sunday.
Tsutomu Senkawa is an average high school kid who is busy studying for his senior entrance exams. Tsutomu goes out for some fresh air, after a hard day’s work studying for a big test, when he runs into a guy fleeing from a pretty young lady. The pursued man is actually an interplanetary criminal on the run from a Federation agent called Birdy Cephon Altera. Caught in the midst of this chase, Tsutomu gets thrown by the man at Birdy, which kills Tsutomu. Fortunately for Tsutomu, there is a way to keep him alive, although it comes at the price of discarding his body. He ends up merged into Birdy’s body.
Slayers Evolution-R
Premieres: January 12, 2009
Anime Production: J.C.STAFF
Kiss x Sis
Premieres: December 22, 2008
Based on the same-name manga series authored by Ditama Bow, whose other manga titles include Mahoromatic and Kibun Kibun.
Story Plot:
Keita is living many junior high school boys’ dream. He has two older step twin sisters who compete for his romantic love in so many ecchi ways: good morning kisses and panty flashing. Their parents openly support the sisters’ feelings and advances because they are step-siblings and are not related by blood, in fact they even have a bet going as to which sister Keita will accept. Now, if only the sisters were not so popular, because they have asked their little brother to attend their high school where there are certain to be problems.
Anime Production: feel.
Major 5th Season
Premieres: January 10, 2009
After the baseball season was over, Goro returned to Japan. There he learned from Toshi that there is going to be a Baseball World Cup the following year hosted in America.
This season not only are we seeing a Baseball World Cup but also Goro is now a Major Leaguer. Will he be capable of achieving want he wants? Major returns better than ever.
Anime Production: Synergy Japan
Minami-ke Okaeri
Premieres: January 5, 2009
Based on a seinen manga by Sakuraba Coharu, serialised in Young Magazine.
Minami-ke is a manga following three sisters, Haruka, Kana, and Chiaki in their lives at home and school. It’s a funny series that depicts how these characters interact with each other and their classmates. It’s a story about ordinary girls and their ordinary adventures told in an extraordinary manner.
Anime Productions: Starchild Records, asread
Druaga no Tou: Sword of Uruk
Premiers: January 9, 2009
The Summer of “Anu”: In a summer once every five years, demons in the mysterious Tower of Druaga lose their powers due to the magic spell cast by a god named “Anu”. King Gilgamesh, ruler of the kingdom Uruk, uses the appearance of demons as an excuse to invade the tower and find out the construct’s secrets. As 80 years passed, the Uruk army managed to fight back the demons and built a fortress city and safe haven on the very first floor of Druaga – Metz Kier. Thus begins the story of a warrior named Gil who, finding companions along the way, embarks on a quest for the fabled Blue Crystal Rod, a powerful artifact rumored to be in the highest floor of Druaga. However, other competitors, including the kingdom of Uruk itself, want the treasure, all for their own reasons.
Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
Premieres: January 6, 2009
Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him. Containing the names of these spirits, a binding contract was formed between the spirits and the owner of the book. Now, Natsume is determined to free the spirits and dissolve the contracts. With the help of a spirit cat, his days are filled trying to return the names to these spirits.
Anime Productions: NAS, Brains Base
Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger
Premieres: January 7, 2009
Anime Production: MADHOUSE
Asu no Yoichi!
Premieres: January 9, 2009
Having been raised and trained for the past seventeen years as a traditional samurai ‘bushi’, Yoichi was surprised when his father suddenly announces that there nothing more that he could teach his son, but he arranges for Yoichi to continue training at a dojo owned by one of his fathers friends. So now, Yoichi must leave the tranquility of his remote rural mountain life and move to city to live with his fathers friend’s family to continue his studies. And if learning how to cope with city life were not hard enough, he finds himself living with 4 beautiful sisters, and having to endure a ‘training’ regiment more severe than he could ever imagine…..
“明日” (”asu” or “ashita”) means “tomorrow”, “よいち” (”yoichi”) means “night market”.
Anime Productions: AIC, Lantis
Kemono no Souja Erin
Premieres: January 10, 2009
A fantasy series written by Uehashi Nahoko (Seirei no Moribito) about a young woman who is drawn into a war between kingdoms. She has the ability to command animals, including dragons, as if she was playing a musical instrument.
Anime Productions: Production I.G, Trans Arts
White Album
Premiers: January 4, 2009
Anime Productions: Aquaplus, Seven Arcs
KUROKAMI the Animation
Premieres: January 9, 2009
Based on the manga by Dall-Young Lim and Sung-woo Park, two Korean artists, serialized in Young Gangan for Square Enix.
Keita Ibuki is a computer programmer who, with two of his friends, is developing and trying to sell a video game program. He has a chance meeting with a high Mototsumitama named Kuro. He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is surprise attacked by another Mototsumitama. He loses his left arm, but she exchanges it with her left arm (Mototsumitama have enhanced healing ability).
Sora o Miageru Shoujo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai
Premieres: January 13, 2009
Anime Production: Kyoto Animation
Akuto, the main source of energy is running low and the Heavens, a world of islands, hidden beyond time, floating above ours, has united against the Magical Kingdom whom uses the most energy. To save both the Magical Kingdom and the Heavens and restore the flow of akuto, the Magical King Munto must follow a vision and find the girl Yumemi in the lower world. Yumemi herself is just a normal girl except that she is the only one who can see the islands of the Heavens floating above. When Munto appears before her she starts thinking about hers and others responsibility to the world.
MARIA†HOLIC
Premieres: December 28, 2008
This is a story of a high school girl, who is scared of boys, who enrolls in an all girls school, hoping to find a female romantic partner. However, her ideal candidate turns out to be a cross-dressing boy!
Anime Productions: GENCO, SHAFT, Media Factory
Hetalia: Axis Powers
Premieres: January 25, 2009
Anime Production: Studio DEEN
Ride Back
Anime Production: MADHOUSE
Sora o Kakeru Shoujo
Premieres: January 6, 2009
Anime Productions: Yatate Hajime, Sunrise
Winter Sonata
Koukaku no Regios
Premieres: January 11, 2009
Based on a light novel series by Shuusuke Amagi, illustrated by Miyuu.
The world was infected by “Pollutant” years ago – world cracked open and generally screwed up. This Pollutant spawns nasty “Pollutant Beasts”, but it’s also resulted in people gaining special powers. The towns that now litter the world are protected by alchemists and are mobile – these are the “Regios” of the title.
The story follows a guy named Lei-Fon Alseif who starts at a new school following the disappearance of his childhood friend and gets recruited into the special 17th Platoon in order to combat Pollutant Beasts.
Anime Production: ZEXCS
AKIKAN!
Premieres: December 22, 2009
Akikan (”Empty Can”) is the unlikely story of high school boy Kakeru Daichi, whose can of melon juice soda magically transforms into a human girl. Naturally, more “akikan” girls begin appearing, each of them needing to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive.
Anime Production: Brains Base
A Tale of Genji
Premieres: January 16, 2009
Anime Productions: Tezuka Productions, Tokyo Movie
Viper’s Creed
Premieres: January 10, 2009
Anime Productions: AIC Spirits
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