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EXCITEMENT is in the air as brand-spanking new Anime has started airing and are getting Subbed!

Time to take your picks and start fetching those releases!

I will set a guide as what the Anime is about, and to who's subbing what, I will only be putting in the stuff that is being subbed actively.

I'm still watching the end of the Fall 2007/Winter 2008 stuff so I haven't seen any yet, but will get First Opinion pReviews once I watch the first eps of the ones I choose.

[in chronological order ~ the higher it is, the earlier it started airing]

   Saint Seiya: Meio Hades Elysion-hen/Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter - Elysion
     Genre: Action, Fantasy

sequel :
	
Saint Seiya Tenkai-hen: Overture
prequel :
	
Saint Seiya Meiou Hades Meikai-hen

Plot: After the 12 Gold Saints sacrifice their lives to destroy the Wailing Wall, The Bronze Saints enter the deepest realm of the Underworld, Elysion, where they face off aganist Hades's two most powerful servants: The Twin Gods, Hypnos and Thanatos, before they can reach Hades for the final battle.

This will last for 6 Episodes getting aired on SkyPerfecTV! PPV (Pay-Per-View)

Getting Subbed by: ~NankH~, ma-deesse.com, Tsubasa-Fansub, ILA, WZF, RT

   BUS GAMER
     Genre: Action, Cyberpunk, Shounen, Underworld

Bus Gamer follows the story of three young men hired by a mysterious company to participate in a business game, a way for companies to gamble against each other for corporate secrets.

This will last for 3 Episodes as a TV Special

Getting Subbed by: Shinsen-subs, Orange-Side/Emerald-Eyes/DATS

   Chi`s Sweet Home
     Genre: Comedy, Daily Life

Chi is a kitten who accidentally gets separated from his mother, and is unable to find his way home again. A small boy and his family find Chi and give him a home, although all Chi wants is to return to his mother.


Getting Subbed by: Yoroshiku, DATS&aRM, FM, Orange-Side Fansubs

   Kyou Kara Maou! 3rd Season
     Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Shonen-ai

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyou_Kara_Maou for more info, its been running for a long time and wierdly enough I can't find much/any info on it @ AniDB or Wikipedia. Feel Free to tell me a Plot/Summery of this Anime to put in place!


Getting Subbed by: Shoku-dan, Epic Fansubs

   Allison to Lillia
     Genre: Adventure, Airforce, Post-apocalyptic, Romance, Seinen

The story takes place in a world with only one big continent. This world is divided into two federations engaged in an endless series of fruitless wars. The story starts when a girl, Allison, and a boy, Ville, who have been raised together in an orphanage, set out on an adventure to find a great treasure which is worth ending the war for.


Getting Subbed by: AnimeYoshi, Shinsen-Subs & Formula Sub

   Macross FRONTIER/Macross F
     Genre: Mecha, Military, Sci

prequel - Macross 7

Macross F is set in around 2070A.D.. F denotes "Frontier"; "Frontier" stands for the migration fleet which is the setting of the story. The story is about the fleet's encounters with space monsters (or things to that effect) while on its course. It is planned to be a TV series with Kanno Youko handling music, Kikuchi Kouji as director and Kawamori Shouji as general director.


Getting Subbed by: Infinite-Zero/Anime-in-Action, Seiyan Subs, Shinsen-subs, Gattai


   xxxHOLic Kei
     Genre: Fantasy, supernatural

Not much if anything known about it on AniDB/Wikipedia, apart from the fact that it's the sequel to the original Anime, xxxHOLic


Getting Subbed by: Shinsen-subs, Naked Xlation

   To-Love Ru
     Genre: Comedy, Demons, Ecchi, Romance, School Life

Based on a shounen manga written by Saki Hasemi and illustrated by Yabuki Kentarou. It is serialized weekly in Shounen Jump.

The story is about Yuuki Rito, a high-school boy who cannot confess to the girl of his dreams, Sairenji Haruna. One day when coming home and sulking in the bath-tub a mysterious, nude girl, appears out of nowhere. Her name is Lala and she comes from the planet Deviluke, where she is the heir to the throne. Her father wants her to return to her home planet so she can marry one of the husband candidates, but she decides that she wants to marry Rito in order to stay on Earth. Commander Zastin has been ordered to bring Lala back and has already battled Rito. He reports to the emperor that Rito would be suited to marry Lala, after hearing Rito say that marriage is impossible unless it is with the person you love (Rito was actually defending himself but Zastin and Lala thought he was defending Lala). With this speech, Lala truly falls in love with Rito and decides that she wants to marry Rito. Her father decides that, if Rito is able to protect Lala from her fiances, then he can be her fiance, but if Rito cannot protect Lala from her other fiances, Lala's father will kill Rito and destroy Earth.


Getting Subbed by: Ayako, Nice-Boat

   Kure-nai
     Genre: Comedy, Drama, Slice of life, Romance[Image: f_Kurenaim_36f80b3.jpg]

Based on a light novel series by Katayama Kentarou, illustrated by Yamamoto Yamato.

16-year-old Shintaro Kurenai is a Mediator - a specialist in settling squabbles between people. Despite his youth and easygoing nature, he is a man of some skills when it comes to protecting both his clients and his client’s interests. And then one day, he is approached by the daughter of a rich and powerful family asking him to be her bodyguard, which somehow ends up with him having a seven-year-old fan, landlord and self-proclaimed fiancé.

Shintaro Kurenai finds himself living in run-down tenement with Murasaki Kuhouin (his new 7-year-old apprentice and landlord) and several other eccentric ladies. His childhood friend (Ginko) acts as his Mediator booking agent. Then there is his (adopted) older sister and martial arts teacher, Yuuno, who does not like to see her Kurenai troubled by any of the difficulties of his Mediator assignments. And Yuuno’s younger (7-year-old) sister, Chi-chan (Houdsuki Chidzuru) also seems to take a troubling worry when her ‘onii-chan’ gets beaten up by Yuuno or his assignments.


Getting Subbed by: Starlight, BSS

   Itazura na Kiss
     Genre: slice of life, romance, comedy, drama

Based on a shoujo manga by Tada Kaoru serialised in Margaret.

It was love at first sight for Aihara Kotoko as top student Irie Naoki delivers a speech on the first day of high school. After 2 years of secret admiration, "I don't want it" is the rejection she gets when she plucks up enough courage to hand him a love letter. Rejected, Kotoko vows to give him up. By a twist of fate, Kotoko's house collapses; her dad and her put up at a friend's place, who happens to be Naoki's father. And thus, life with Naoki begins and Kotoko's love for Naoki rekindles again. Much laughter ensues when scatterbrain Kotoko makes her countless advances (supported by Naoki's wacky mum) on ice-cold Naoki who hates girls and is a genius at practically everything from studies to sports.


Getting Subbed by: m.3.3.w & Baka-Wolf

   Amatsuki
     Genre: Action, Fantasy, Historical, Supernatural

Based on the shoujo manga by Takayama Shinobu, serialised in Comic Zero-Sum.

History isn't Tokidoki's strong subject. He's even forced to do make-up work at a high-tech history museum to bring up his failing grades. After losing an eye to a virtual reality monster in an Edo-period simulation, he finds himself unable to leave the game. Could it be real?


Getting Subbed by: Ureshii

   Penguin no Mondai
     Genre: ???????

If you find info on this one, or if you would like to write a plot to replace this, it would be much appreciated, cause I can't find any info on AniDB or Wikipedia! (The title means 'A Penguin`s Troubles', by the way)


Getting Subbed by: DATS&aRM

   Kanokon
     Genre: Comedy, Harem, Romance

Kanokon's story revolves around Kouta Oyamada, a young first-year high school student who moves from the country to the city and thus transfers to Kunpō High School. On his first day at his new school, a beautiful second-year female student named Chizuru Minamoto asks him to meet her alone in the music room. When he arrives, she reveals her that she is in fact a fox deity and from that day on the two hang out together.
Nozomu is a first year female student at Kouta's school, she is in fact a wolf deity and in love with Kouta, and a rival of Chizuru for Kouta's affections.


Getting Subbed by: Ayako, IIDX, Nice-Boat Fansubs & Sekai-Fansubs, Starlight & JEEB,  Moetaku-Fansubs

   D.C. II S.S.~Da Capo II Second Season~
     Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Harem, Romance

I don't need to put much here, look up D.C. II in AniDB first before checking this out, as this is its sequel, and it carries on where it leaves off.


Getting Subbed by: Anime-Share Fansubs

   Kamen no Maid Guy
     Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Maids

Based on the shounen manga by Akai Maruborou, serialised in Dragon Age.

Fujiwara Naeka is a typical 17 year-old high school student. Or so wee thought. She's really one of two surviving heirs of a tycoon who has the right to inherit his mass fortune when she turns 18 in half a year. Fubuki, a young and beautiful maid, and Kogarashi, a big burly maid guy with a mask, have been assigned to keep Naeka and her brother Kousuke safe from those who would plot their demise, and to 'borrow' the fortune she would inherit.


Getting Subbed by: Tsuki-Kage & Yakuza (possibly Ayako)

   Zettai Karen Children
     Genre: Superpower

Based on a shounen manga by Takashi Shiina, serialised in Shounen Sunday.

In the future, people with ESP are becoming more widespread. The Japanese government has hired three of the most powerful ESPers in Japan to work for B.A.B.E.L. (Base of Backing ESP Laboratory), but all three are ten year old girls with questionable attitudes.


Getting Subbed by: Deculture

   Wagaya no Oinari-sama
     Genre: Fantasy[Image: f_WagayanoOinm_53bd55b.jpg]

Based on a light novel series by Shibamura Jin, illustrated by Houden Eizou.

A long time ago, a sacred fox was deified as the guardian of the Mizuchi Family. Kugen the Fox was very wise and it could use various magics. However, because it was too mischievous, it was sealed into a small shrine in the hill behind the Mizuchi house by a priest.

During the present, Takagami Toru, a Mizuchi descendant, often dreams of a woman who seems like a monster. The head of the Mizuchi household deduces that some sort of danger looms over Toru, and she releases the sealed Kugen in order to protect him. Contrary to what Toru imagines based on the legends, "Ku-chan", as Kugen is affectionately referred to, is not a dignified creature. Not only can it turn into a woman of great beauty, but it can also assume the form of a man.


Getting Subbed by: KissSub & Ayako, Static Subs, FTP-Anime Fansubs

   Nabari no Ou
     Genre: Comedy, Ninjas

Based on a shounen manga by Kamatani Yuuki, serialised in GFantasy.

Rokujou Miharu was a seemly reluctant junior high student living in his own world. However, within him, lurked the ultimate power of Nabari, "Omnipotent". To possess such supreme weapon, the Wolf Pack of Iga swore to bring Miharu back to Iga village. On the other hand, Miharu’s English teacher, Kumohira sensei, and classmate, Kouichi, were the Banten ninjas whose mission was to protect Miharu. A war waged over the ownership of "Omnipotent" thus started. To survive, Miharu must enter the hidden world Nabari, to become the king.


Getting Subbed by: AnimeOne & Conclave, Animanda, Rumi, ainex

   S-A ~Special A~
     Genre: School Life

Based on a shoujo manga by Maki Minami serialised in Hana to Yume.

When Hikari was little, she and her father liked to watch pro wrestling, and she became very good at it. She was the pride of her family until one day she was introduced to Kei, the son of her father's friend. He instantly defeated her in wrestling, and started what would become Hikari's major ambition to one day beat him. To do this she enrolled in Kei's school, an ultra elite school that costs her father a lot of money. This unusual school created classes according to grades, and the top seven students become members of the "SA". They have their own building, and can optionally attend class. Hikari is usually the only one who does so, since she desperately wants to beat Kei with test scores. The members of the "SA" have been close friends since their first year.


Getting Subbed by: Generation neXt/Onibaku, m.3.3.w & Baka-Wolf

   Neo Angelique Abyss
     Genre: Fantasy, Romance

While the young Angelique lives out her days peacefully in her school, attacks from the monstrous Thanatos has been increasing everywhere else. Two Purifiers show up one day, men with the power to exterminate the Thanatos. One of them, Nyx, attempts to convince Angelique to join them in their work, as she has the power to be the only female Purifier. As Angelique hesitates, a Thanatos shows up in their school. Nyx and the other Purifier, Rayne, fight a losing battle. With her classmates falling prey to the Thanatos, and the Purifiers beaten to submission, Angelique's desire to save everyone awakens. She became the only female Purifier in their land of Arcadia, the one known as the "Queen's Egg".


Getting Subbed by: Strawberry Mint Subs

   Soul Eater
     Genre: Action, Dark Fantasy

Based on a shounen manga by Ookubo Atsushi serialised in Shounen Gangan.

Set in the Shinigami technical school for weapon technicians, the series revolves around 3 groups of each a weapon technician and a human weapon. Trying to make the latter a "Death Scythe" and thus fit for use by the Shinigami, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and 1 witch.

Note: There's two version of Soul Eater that one of them is the normal version which airs on Mondays and other is "Late Show" version which airs on Thursday nights and has some extra scenes in the preview but for the main program it doesn't have any difference from the normal version (at least for first episode).


Getting Subbed by: AnimeEnlightenmentNetwork (AEN), Lonewolf, Rumbel, Tadashi

   Vampire Knight
     Genre: Comedy, Romance, Vampire

Based on a shoujo manga by Hino Matsuri serialised in LaLa.

"Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, there to protect the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires."

Yuki's earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter, wherein she was attacked by a vampire... And then rescued by another. Now 10 years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her savior, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school. But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who’s hatred for the creatures that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined never to trust them. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions? Is Kaname's infatuation with Yuki the beginning of a forbidden romance, or is it something in her forgotten past that draws him to her? In this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems, and the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.


Getting Subbed by: Shoku-dan, Mishicorp

   Monochrome Factor
     Genre: Fantasy

Based on the manga by Sorano Kairi serialised in Comic Blade Avarus.

Akira Nikaido is a typical slacker high school student who thinks he has a normal life--until a mysterious man called Shirogane appears and tells him to meet him at the school that night. He is skeptical but goes anyway...and gets attacked by a shadow monster! Shirogane convinces him that the balance between the human world and the shadow world has been distorted, and that Akira must become a shin--a creature of the shadow world--in order to help restore the balance.


Getting Subbed by: IIDX

   Crystal Blaze
     Genre: Action, SciFi

S&A Detective Agency is a jack-of-all-trades in Lags Town placed on the outskirts of Diver City. Shu used to be a hot-shot police detective and fought for justice. He stood up against state authority but lost everything he had as a consequence and drifted into this town. Now he lives an easy life with his right-hand man (Akira), two assistants (Manami and Ayaka) but feels empty inside.

One day, an incident leads Shu to come across the mysterious heroine, Sara, who has no memory of her past. The unprecedented truth is about to be revealed as he investigates the incident, and it will provoke a crisis involving the entire Diver City…

Can Shu and his buddies protect what they cherish?
And what is the future of Diver City...?


Getting Subbed by: Hitode-AnimeSS

   Himitsu ~Top Secret~ The Revelation
     Genre: Detective

Wee need a plot/summery to go here!


Getting Subbed by: Animanda

   Golgo 13
     Genre: Action[Image: f_Golgo13m_4d5e08a.jpg]

Golgo 13 is a manga created by Japanese mangaka Takao Saito about a fictional assassin, the lead protagonist and title character Golgo 13. It is one of the longest running adult manga in Japan and since its debut in 1968, the series has sold over 200 million copies in various formats, including compilation books. In 1976, the manga won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga. It has had a Movie Adaptation (1983) and an OVA (1998).

Also known as Duke Togo, Golgo 13 has been called a Japanese counterpart to James Bond, except with a darker character, a much more hardcore attitude towards sex, and a complete lack of morality. Golgo 13 is described as a mystery man of undetermined origin, possibility being at least part Japanese, who takes any assignment for any employer (it has been said he has worked for the CIA and the KGB) as long as the right price is given (usually around $1 million for a hit) and will always fulfill his contracts, even if he has two or more opposing contracts at the same time. He is an uncanny sharpshooter, with only one missed shot and capable of lethal trick shooting. He regularly uses a customized, scoped M-16 rifle in his assassinations.

^ Not exactly a plotline, but I'm guessing it's his stories.


Getting Subbed by: SpoonSubs, BSS

   Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
     Genre:
	
Comedy, Fantasy


Based on a light novel series by Akira, illustrated by x6suke.

About 1,000 years ago, there was a creature called “Enka”. Enka was very powerful and almost ruined the world with destruction and holocaust. Human beings were in danger of extinction. The survivors banded together against Enka, and they managed to defeat it. However, Enka left a ominous curse before its death.

“My child, sleeping where no one knows, will wake up 1,000 years later, and it will succeed my will to ruin the world."

2063 AD: Several children that are potential heirs of Enka are discovered via DNA testing. However, even with the latest technology, no one can identify the true child with certainty.

Therefore, the Japanese Imperial Agency for Supernatural Phenomena, which handles supernatural phenomena and abnormal life forms, launches an operation.

OPERATION: Peaceful Family

They gather potential children of Enka into one place to watch each other and find the true child. Also, they expect that the child will develop a love of family while it is living as a member of a family, and that he/she will feel reluctant to kill his/her family, i.e. by destroying the world.

The person who plays the role of the father is Midarezaki Ohka. He works for the agency, and was chosen to be the father before he was aware of it. The mother is Kyoka, a possible child of Enka. Add to this five possible children and a strange family life begins.


Getting Subbed by: SS-Eclipse

   RD Sennou Chousachocolatesu/Real Drive
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     Genre: SciFi, Supernatural(?)

The story takes place in 2061, 50 years after humanity developed the "Net society" that depended on information networks despite their security issues. To improve security, a new network called Meta Real Network — or "Metal" for short — was developed. People's personal memories are reduced to information and placed within "protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves" called bubble shells online. The result was a virtual "explosion" of creative freedom as people felt safe enough to explore instincts and desires on Metal that they would not otherwise explore in real life. This "friction" between the Metal's alluring lack of restrictions and rules-bound reality led to trouble and incidents that investigators known as "cyber divers" must handle. Masamichi Haru is one such cyber diver.

Spoiler for Better Synopsis:
2061 AD. Fifty years have passed since mankind developed the Network society. It was anticipated that this new infrastructure would realize a utopia where people connected with each other at the level of consciousness. However, new social problems such as personal data leaks and proliferation of manipulated information began to surface. Nevertheless, people still relied on the Network to exchange information, and proved unable to opt to abandon it.

In due course, a new Network realm with more effective security measures was developed. This was called Meta Real Network, usually abbreviated as "the Metal."

The Metal accommodated personal memory data within protected virtual stand-alone organic cyber enclaves called bubble shells and eventually pervaded the everyday lives of people.

However, people gradually learned to release and explode their instincts within the secure environment of the Metal. The unleashed instincts pushed each individual's consciousness to drown in the sea of information and to be exposed to the pressures of desire. Meanwhile, norms and regulations continued to bind their real world lives. Thus, strange friction between the two worlds began to manifest themselves as aberrations beyond the bounds of the imaginable. Experts who challenged the deep sea of the Metal to investigate and decipher such aberrations were called cyber divers.

Getting Subbed by: Shinsen-Subs, MDAN


Licensed Titles that are Airing: The Tower of Druaga ~the Aegis of URUK~, BLASSREITER, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2.

Hope this has helped you out.

Might add more images!

~ Senseito Sakura
more saint seiya yay! i need to get up off my donkey and finish watching what I'm missing so i can watch this one
wow! a lot of anime!

Golgo 13 has a hardcore attitude towards sex.. hmm.. think this needs to be checked out.
i wish i could bring back my apetite for anime... too much manga reading i guess.
Great list of anime.
Im watching To-Love Ru and Vampire Knight right now, need to finish watching Bamboo Blade.
Othx! i was looking for a new serie to watch,. !
lol soul eater is funny.... everyone cept the lead girl was mental problems.... the animation is great.. reminds me alot of FLCL, with the facial expressions and the fluid animation.... ive seen the first couple and all the fight scenes are fully drawn out, no swirls and blurring the backround when they move fast... they took the time to animate the backrounds too which is a good thing... they make fun of other animes and even western stuff, like making al capone a demon and jack the ripper and the blair witch... its more or a dark action\comedy than anything... plus its in HD!!! though i think this would be better around halloween but i don't really care lol
Kanokon is definitely something I will watch! Thanks for the Infos, also especially about D.C. II S.S.^^
I want to watch these:

Chi's Sweet Home
Allison to Lillia
To-Love Ru
Kure-nai
Itazura na Kiss
Kanokon
D.C. II S.S.~Da Capo II Second Season~
S-A ~Special A~
Neo Angelique Abyss
Soul Eater
Vampire Knight
Golgo 13
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki

But watching all that is going to take an awful lot of time.. which I won't have..

Week after next I will start studying again and get a job..

So don't expect to hear much from me as usual..
Just started watching School Days. Lol. You can say I'm way behind.
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