Welcome everyone, this is a preview of the Spring 2015 guide. My teammates and I will prepare a final version. It will not include past seasons and annotations from this thread here. It will break into the main guide, the OVAs & movies, and finally the simulcast guide with talks from BigHeart711 and myself. The main guide will have 2 sub parts, returning series and new series, and it will be alphabetized.
Past Teammates: Geo (sora_thekey), Acura_Max
We hope you guys check out Anime Vice's guide, and it will be the number one anime guide. As a preview blog here, I strongly recommend anybody to help out. We didn't get all the trailers. Not every show will get a trailer. If you have any new information, drop a comment or PM us.
Credits: All summaries are from ANN, Wikipedia, Crunchyroll, Anichart
Progress Report[]
We have added a total of 43 shows to the wiki, added 30 trailers, reuse 8 old discussion threads, and 2 OVA trailers. The main part is done. All we need is trailers for the 3 shows in the main guide along with the rest of the OVAs and Movies.
***Shows that Need Trailers***[]
- Lupin III (2015)
- Gintama (2015)
- Baby Steps
- Angel Beats OVA
- Rest of the OVAs after Amagi Brilliant Park and Sinbad's OVA
Past Guides[]
- Spring 2012
- Summer 2012
- Fall 2012
- Winter 2013
- Spring 2013
- Summer 2013
- Fall 2013
- Winter 2014
- Spring 2014
- Fall 2014
- Winter 2015
Current Ongoing Series From Past Seasons[]
| [1] | Case Closed
The son of a world famous mystery writer, Shinichi Kudo, has achieved his own notoriety by assisting the local police as a student detective. He has always been able to solve the most difficult of criminal cases using his wits and power of reason. |
| [2] | One Piece
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| [3] | Fairy Tail
The story follows a teenage girl named Lucy Heartfilla who is determined to join the notorious magical Fairy Tail Guild. During a daring rescue, she encounters Natsu who is part of the guild and eventually offers her a place. They become teammates performing various missions for the Fairy Tail Guild. Be prepared for an action-packed adventure! |
| [4] | Assassination Classroom
One day, the moon exploded, leaving it in a perpetual crescent-moon shape. The creature who claims responsibility for the destruction also claims it will destroy the world in March of next year. With powers beyond human comprehension, no military can stand against it. Yet, for some reason, it chooses to take up occupancy as a teacher in the worst class of Kunugigaoka Middle School. The fate of the world rests in the hands of its students, as they have until graduation to figure out how to murder their teacher and collect ten billion yen for saving the world. |
| [5] | Kuroko's Basketball 3
Seirin High School's basketball club has gained the right to go to the semi-finals of the Winter Cup. Seirin has become the topic of conversation after beating Aomine, a member of the Tōō Academy's "miracle generation," and Murasakibara of Yōsen Academy, and the team renews their determination for the semi-finals. Pushed on the back by Kuroko, Kagami tries to reconcile with Himuro off the court. However, he saves Himuro and Alex when they are being attacked by a man. The man attacking them is Shōgo Haizaki of Fukuda Integrated Academy. A former student at Teikō Middle School, Shōgo was one of the starting members of the basketball team. |
| [6] | Fafner Exodus
Sequel to Soukyuu no Fafner: Dead Aggressor, set two years after Heaven and Earth. |
| [7] | Pankis! 2-jigen
DLE is creating the anime as part of a larger "5D Project," where the five "dimensions" include an anime, a manga, music, a stage play, and voice actors. One of the goals of the new anime series is promoting the next generation of young voice actors. |
Spring 2015 Anime Guide[]
| [8] | Ace of Diamond: Second Season
The second season of Diamond no Ace. The story of the original manga follows Eijun Sawamura, a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Kōshien championships through hard work and determination. |
| [9] | Baby Steps 2
Eiichirō Maruo (nicknamed "Ei-chan" for his grades being straight "A") is an honor student, bookworm, and is not interested in anything other than studying. In order to solve his problem of lacking physical strength, he enrolled a tennis school and soon found the fascinating side of tennis. Being a tennis newbie lacking physical strength, he supplement his shortcomings with his excellent observing and analyzing skills. |
| [10] | Battle Spirits: Burning Soul
In the near future, a battle card game called "Battle Spirits" has gained enormous popularity. Players of the game -- known as "Battlers" -- start duelings everywhere using their color-coded cards with different attributes, creating a "Sengoku (Warring States) period" for the game. |
| [11] | Blood Blockade Battlefront
A breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They've lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening. |
| [12] | 5. Denpa Kyōshi
An anime adaptation of the manga which centers around Junichirou, a young man obssesed with manga, anime and games. He was a young genius who published papers in the journals Nature and Science when he was only 17. However, after graduating college, he became a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) absorbed in his anime blog. Unable to watch Kagami throw away his life, his sister Suzune gets him to work at the Ichou Academy she attends. The head of the school's board, Koyomi Hiiragi, assigns Kagami to his new life as a teacher. |
| [13] | 6. Digimon Adventure Tri |
| [14] | 7. Duel Masters VSR |
| [15] | 8. Etotama
The anime's story revolves around Nya-tan, the cat of Chinese astrology who wants to become a member of the Chinese zodiac. Nya-tan is simple and suffers from memory loss, and she tries various foolish ways to become a member. She meets Takeru Tendo, a high school student who lives alone in Akihabara, and becomes a freeloader at his house. Little by little, she gets closer to her goal. |
| [16] | 9. Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works |
| [17] | 10. Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma |
| [18] | 11. Ghost in the Shell: Arise Alternative Architecture |
| [19] | 12. Gintama (2015) |
| [20] | 13. Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
The story revolves on a group of gunslingers, each from the two universes who participate in Operation Stratos, particularly on a group of four childhood friends: Tohru Kazasumi, Kyōka Katagiri, Kyōma Katagiri, and Shizune Rindo, who all must confront their own flaws and differences when they battle their alternate selves in order to survive. |
| [21] | 14. High School DxD BorN |
| [22] | 15. I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying 2
Kaoru is a serious office lady who's passionate about her job. Her husband Hajime, on the other hand, is a hard-core otaku who lives a nearly shut-in lifestyle. Kaoru worries about her husband, but they get along better than you'd think. |
| [23] | 16. Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
The story takes place in the town of labyrinths, Orario, also called "Dungeon." Bell Cranel is a newbie adventurer that admires "Having a fateful meeting with a person of the opposite gender." One day during an adventure, he is attacked by a Minotaur. Close to destruction, he is saved by a top-class female adventurer, Eyes Warenstein. He falls in love with her at first sight, and begins actions to become an adventurer that is on her level. He later encounters Hestia, a god called a "Lolita god" due to her stature who falls in love with him. |
| [24] | 17. Knights of Sidonia: War of the Ninth Planet |
| [25] | 18. Punch Line |
| [26] | 19. Rainy Cocoa
Due to various circumstances, college freshman Aoi Tokura begins part-timing at the café "Rainy Color" run by Shion Koga and owned by Kōji Amami. Attending the café are the cool and handsome Keiichi Iwase and the confident Ryōta Sakurai. Aoi's life gets a lot more hectic, but fun. |
| [27] | 20. Rin-ne |
| [28] | 21. Seraph of the End |
| [29] | 22. Show By Rock!! |
| [30] | 23. Sushi and Beyond
Based on a book by British travel and dining journalist Michael Booth. Follows Booth, his wife Lissen, and two kids Ansger (6) and Emil (4), on their 100-day trip to Japan as they try a wide variety of Japanese foods. Booth was inspired to make the trip by Shizuo Tsuji's book, Japanese Cooking, A Simple Art. |
| [31] | 24. The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan |
| [32] | 25. The Eden of Grisaia
The Eden of Grisaia visual novel continues the Grisaia no Meikyuu visual novel's main route and concludes the trilogy. It also includes a prologue following the five heroines as they arrive at Mihama Academy. |
| [33] | 26. The Heroic Legend of Arslan |
| [34] | Triage X
Mochizuki General Hospital boasts some of the most well-trained (and well-endowed) nurses in town. But though these ladies spend much of their day battling disease, their after-hours are spent fighting a very different sort of sickness... Under the leadership of the hospital chairman, a handful of staff members and local teenagers form a group of mercenary assassins, targeting the "cancers" of society and excising those individuals before their wickedness spreads. |
| [35] | 28. Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches |
| [36] | 29. Plastic Memories
This story takes place in a future not too far away when androids that look exactly like humans begin to spread across the world. The android production company SA Corp. produced Giftia, a new kind of android that has the most amount of emotion and human-like qualities out of any other model ever seen. However, due to problems in technology, the androids have a service life, and once they pass that, they... Well, it gets pretty bad. For this reason, SA Corp. creates a terminal service in order to retrieve Giftia that have gone past their service life. A new employee at the terminal service named Tsukasa Mizugaki forms a team with the Giftia Isla to retrieve the other androids, but... |
| [37] | 30. My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU 2 |
| [38] | 31. Re-Kan!
The anime centers around Hibiki Amami, a girl who can see ghosts and other supernatural phenomena in her surroundings. The stories follow her daily life with both her friends and the otherworldly. |
| [39] | Sound! Euphonium
The anime begins when Kumiko Oumae, a girl who was in the brass band club in junior high school, visits her high school's brass band club as a first year. Kumiko's classmates Hazuki and Sapphire decide to join the club, but Kumiko sees her old classmate Reina there and hesitates. She remembers an incident she had with Reina at a brass band club contest in junior high school... |
| [40] | Wish Upon the Pleiades
The story centers around an afterschool club of magical girls who help recover fragments so that an alien from Pleiades can return home. The Pleiades is the English name for the star cluster that the Japanese call "Subaru" — the origin of the car maker's name and six-star logo. Subaru and Gainax streamed the original anime online with English subtitles. |
| [41] | Hello! Kin-iro Mosaic
Shinobu, a 15-year-old, seemingly "pure Japanese" girl who did a homestay in Great Britain. Even after coming back to Japan, she still misses her time overseas. One day, an air mail letter arrives from Alice, the girl in Shinobu's host family in Great Britain. The letter reads, "Shinobu, I'm coming to Japan!" The "Japanese/British girls' light comedy" follows the lives of Shinobu, Alice, and other girls from both Japan and Great Britain. |
| [42] | Mysterious Joker 2
"Welcome to night to shine!" Phantom thief joker! We do not only steal! Audacity! Coming and go most unexpectedly! We cause miracle splendidly [miracle maker]! With Hachi of fellow for treasure to the whole world! Well, show is the start! |
| [43] | Nisekoi 2
Raku Ichijo is an average high school student. He also happens to be the sole heir to the head of a Yakuza Family called the Shuei-gumi. 10 years ago, Raku made a promise… a secret promise with a girl he met. They promised one another that they will “get married when they reunite.” Since then, Raku never let go of the pendant the girl gave him. |
| [44] | Lupin III (2015)
The story of the new series will take place in Italy and San Marino. |
| [45] | Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid
The manga takes place four years after the JS incident in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, and stars Vivio Takamichi, a fourth-year elementary student at St. Hilde Academy of Magic. Vivio has learned to conjure her adult form and has received her own Device — named Sacred Heart — from Nanoha, and has promised Nanoha to never use either for mischief. Then a mysterious magical fighter appears and targets Vivio. |
| [46] | Mikagura School Suite
The story of the original light novels and manga revolves around high school girl Eruna Ichinomiya, who enters the Mikagura Academy dreaming of a boarding school life filled with beauty. However, Eruna finds out that in the culture clubs, there is a rule that battles that are fought with special powers decide a club representative's treatment. Through various circumstances, Eruna becomes a representative of a club, and is thrown into the fray. — ANN |
| [47] | PriPara 2
In season two of PriPara the story continues with Laala and her friends Mirei and Sophy, who are part of the "SoLaMi♡SMILE" PriPara idol unit, which is rising in popularity. In the PriPara amusement park, a new zone called "Dream Theater" has opened, and it's said that when a fateful five-man team filled with charm that performs there, a new event called the "PriPara Dream Parade" will be held. However, it is not known which five people make up this team, and the PriPara idols scramble give the greatest performance in the new zone. |
| [48] | Narudoma
The "unorthodox hard surreal gag" comedy centers around the narcissistic (narushi na) Hagito and the masochistic (domazo na) Kei. Together they are "Narudoma." --- Hagito is a handsome yet pitiful man with a loli complex. Anytime, anywhere, a mirror is his constant companion. Surrounding him are a host of highly idiosyncratic characters: the diehard masochist Kei, the unnaturally strong yet girlish Totono, the exceedingly stylish working stiff Saitou, and the extraordinarily negative Roku. Even the one normal guy has his own issues. |
| [49] | My Love Story!!
Takeo Gouda is a giant guy with a giant heart. Too bad the girls don't want him! (They want his good-looking best friend, Sunakawa.) Used to being on the sidelines, Takeo simply stands tall and accepts his fate. But one day when he saves a girl named Yamato from a harasser on the train, his (love!) life suddenly takes an incredible turn! |
| [50] | Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love Revolutions
The third season of Uta no☆Prince-sama. The six members of ST☆RISH, who have made their shocking idol debut, and Nanami Haruka, who has just begun her career as a composer, have advanced to Saotome Academy's master course. As they continue their lessons in earnest to learn how to be top idols and composers, they join Shining Agency and begin to work as entertainers. But before that, some senpai idols and strange foreign idols with a few odd habits stand before them, and they end up getting dragged into the race for a mysterious "Newcomer Award." |
Spring 2015 OVA List[]
| [51] | 1. The Labyrinth of Grisaia
The Labyrinth of Grisaia is a collection of sequels for all of the game's heroines, and also includes a prequel story for the hero and dozens of short stories. The Eden of Grisaia continues The Labyrinth of Grisaia's main route and concludes the trilogy. The game also includes a prologue following the five heroines as they arrive at Mihama Academy. |
| [52] | 2. Amagi Brilliant Park
The series centers around a high school student, Seiya Kanie. On a Sunday, a mysterious transfer student who carries a musket gun, Isuzu Sento, takes him to an old and deserted amusement park, Amagi Brilliant Park, in Amagi-city, which is located in the western part of Tokyo. He is told that if the park can't attract 100,000 visitors in the next two weeks, it will be closed immediately. For some reason, Seiya has to save the park as an acting manager. (Anime News Network) Unaired episode bundled with the seventh Blu-ray and DVD volume of Amagi Brilliant Park. (Myanimelist) |
| [53] | 3. Angel Beats! Specials
Special 1 - Angel Beats!: Stairway to Heaven Operation High Tension Syndrome. Another one of Yuri's plans, this time only so they can meet GOD. A special, unaried, episode of Angel Beats! which is included in the 7th volume of the BD/DVD. Special 2 - Angel Beats!: Hell's Kitchen A special, unaired, episode of Angel Beats! which is included in the Blu-ray Box. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-22/angel-beats-gets-new-episode-with-anime-blu-ray-box/.82506 |
| [54] | 4. Magi: Adventure of Sinbad
Release Date: April 17 The world of the spin-off series is set 30 years before Magi and tells the story of the younger days of Sinbad, the king of Sindria. According to ANN, the 4th volume of the manga series, Adventure of Sinbad, will be bundled with the OVA as a limited edition in Japan. |