Author: Patrik

I hope you’ve had a nice summer, because now autumn has snuck up on us, and it brings along a new sports comedy show called Bamboo Blade (バンブーブレード), airing Mondays at 25:30 JST on TV Tokyo.

The final summer season show has begun, bearing the name Baccano! (バッカーノ！) and airing on WOWOW, Thursdays at 24:30 JST, apparently comprising 13 episodes.

“A picture says more than a thousand words” is the only description that works for Potemayo (ぽてまよ), a new comedy airing Fridays at 25:30 JST. Yes, I’m telling you to look at the screenshots.

Thursdays are now a sweet bouquet of paranormal action, mecha action, and homicidal women, but I’ll skip Higurashi as it’s a regular sequel.

This concludes the coverage of the Tuesday shows with some school romance and zombie action. Skipping School Days since Omni already blogged it.

Tuesdays are busy busy, with six new shows airing in a single day. Here are the first three: harem comedy, otaku comedy, and sports.

Summer’s here! And it brings gifts: Nanatsuiro Drops (ななついろ★ドロップス) is the very first show of the season, a colourful magic girl anime with 12 episodes, airing on a whole bunch of channels Monday nights (Chiba TV is first at 25:40 JST).

Nonfictional anime isn’t very common, but perhaps Tetsuko no Tabi (鉄子の旅) explains the rarity. It shows the adventures of real-life train geek Yokomi Hirohiko in a 13-episode series currently running on Family Theatre, Sundays at 10:00 JST.

Having sold 7 million copies of their Playstation game franchise Devil May Cry, it seems Capcom figured this would be a good time to turn it into an anime. The result is a very bloody 12 episode action series that has started airing on WOWOW, Thursday nights at 23:00 JST.

I hope you like cars, because in the new show Wangan Midnight (湾岸Midnight), more than half the footage is made up of slick computer generated car models racing around with noisy roars. Ring any bells?