●Addicted to Anime● Maldives: New Anime Jan 1

Sorry for the delay BUT better late than NEVER. Here are some new anime for the new year.

Thursday 1 January 2009

Shikabane Hime: Kuro is the sequel to Shikabane Hime which aired from 2 October to 25 December 2008.

Makina Hoshimura is a Shikabane - people who cheat death due to a strong dying wish. With her contractor, she is given the task of hunting and killing other Shikabane who endanger human lives.

Saturday 3 January 2009

Tetsuwan Birdy Decode: 02

The sequel to Tetsuwan Birdy Decode which aired July 5 to 27 September 2008.

Federation investigator, Birdy accidentally kills a boy called Senkawa during a mission on earth. To save his life, their bodies are fused and the two must finish Birdy's work together.

Akikan

Kakeru Daichi buys a can of melon juice soda from a vending machine which suddenly transforms into a beautiful but standoffish girl that Kakeru nicknames "Melon." Other "Akikan" ("empty can") girls appear, however, they need to be infused with carbon dioxide from kissing to survive. Lucky!!!!!!!

Maria sama ga Miteru

The fourth season of the Maria-sama series.

This anime first started airing in 2004 but I'm yet to watch it. If interested in watching this anime. Here is a summary of first series.

Yumi is a first year student at the Lillian School For Girls, an exclusive all girl's catholic school. The school has a tradition that older girls take a younger girl as their little sister or "soeur" in order to instruct and look out for them. Though Yumi admires Sachiko, a reserved second year student who is a member of the student council, she has no hopes of being chosen as her soeur. When an innocent encounter leads Sachiko to impulsively ask Yumi to be her soeur, Yumi is suddenly brought into the inner circle of the Roses, who are the members of the student council. With Sachiko at her side, Yumi begins to unravel and understand the relationships between the Roses and their soeurs and figure out her own feelings for Sachiko.

The White Album is adapted from the Leaf eroge.

The White Album game centers around Tōya Fujī, a college student dating a rising idol singer named Yuki Morikawa. The game deals with the challenges to the couple’s relationship from the other people at Fujī’s college, Morikawa’s work, and elsewhere.

Sunday 4 January 2009

Maria Holic

Kanako is a sophomore who enrolls in all-girls school because she has a phobia of men and wants to find her destined yuri partner. She meets a captivating freshman named Mariya who fits her criteria — except her seemingly ideal mate happens to be a cross-dressing sadistic boy.

Minami ke Okaeri

This is the third season of the anime adaptation of Coharu Sakuraba's Minami-ke manga series.

If you haven't seen this one (YOU'RE NOT ALONE). Here is a summary of the first series.

There are three of the Minami sisters: Haruka, Kana and Chiaki, who have an average life. The girls only have each other to depend on and help each other get through everything from love confessions to cooking.

Monday 5 January 2009

Sore Kake Girl aka The Girl Who Leapt Through Space

The story is set in the year 311 of the Orbital Calendar, when humanity has migrated to countless colony clusters in space. A space colony girl named Akiha Shishidō encounters a malevolent artificial intelligence named Leopard that has been installed on a colony.

Akiha is joined by an Inter-Colony Police officer named Itsuki Kannagi, a taciturn young girl named Honoka Kawai, and a robot named Imoko "Imo-chan" Shishidou.

Zoku Natsume Yuujin Chou

The sequel to Natsume Yuujin Chou which aired from 7 July to 29 September 2008.

The story revolves around Natsume, a boy who has been able to see ghosts since he was little. Unfortunately, humans shun him, and there is not much fondness between him and ghosts either. One day, he inherits a Yūjin-Chō ("Book of Friends") from his grandmother. The book is actually full of contracts that his grandmother made to trap ghosts. As one ghost after another shows up, Natsume tries to release or help them — even while many of them seek vengeance on him.

Tuesday 6 January 2009

Hajime No Ippo: New Challenger

Second season of Hajime no Ippo.

Well, if you didn't watch the first series yet. It's about Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another bullying, Ippo is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. Ippo faints from his injuries and is brought to Takamura boxing gym to heal his injuries. As he regains consciousness, he is awed and amazed at his new surroundings in the gym, though lacks confidence to attempt anything. Takamura places a photo of Ippo’s classmate on a punching bag and forces him to punch it. It is only then that Ippo feels something stir inside him and eventually asks Takamura to train him in boxing. Thinking that Ippo does not have what it takes, Takamura gives him a task deemed impossible and gives him a one week time limit. With a sudden desire to get stronger, for himself and his hard working mother, Ippo trains relentlessly to accomplish the task within the time limit. Thus Ippo’s journey to the top of the boxing world begins.

Viper Creed

The story revolves around the members of a private military company (PMC), and the uneasy tension between them and the regular military after a war that caused massive environmental destruction.

Thursday 8 January 2009

Asu No Yoichi

A boy, Yoichi and his father stay in the mountains training for his descent from the mountains. Yoichi comes to the city to lodge and stay with 4 beautiful sisters. A new more severe training regime awaits HIM!!!!

Kurokami: The Animation aka Black God

Keita Ibuki is an independent and struggling freelance computer programmer who had a chance meeting on one night with a high Mototsumitama named Kuro. He gives her his dinner, a bowl of ramen, and tries to protect her when she is attacked in an ambush by an unknown Mototsumitama. Keita loses his entire left arm during the fight between the Mototsumitamas, but Kuro was able to save his life by exchanging the decapitated arm with her own left arm since she has enhanced healing abilities like all Mototsumitamas. This creates a contract between them, which makes her more powerful than before. However, Kuro warns Keita that they need to be together all the time in order to be at their strongest.

The Tower of Druaga: The Sword of Uruk

The sequel to The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Urk which aired in Spring 2008.

With broken spirits and enigmatic questions that hold no answers lingering, Jil is still trying to figure everything out. Then, a mysterious girl named Kai appears before him and says: “Take me to the top of the tower.”

Kai’s request shrouded in ambiguity, Jil will have another chance to work towards completing his destiny and ascend the Tower. With his hopes and aspirations seemingly slipping out of his hands, Jil must rise to the challenge once again on this never-ending adventure.

Saturday 10 January 2009

Chrome Shelled Regios

Based on the Chrome Shelled Regios light novel series.

In this school fantasy story set in the distant future, creatures contaminated by pollution have overtaken the land, forcing humanity to live in isolated mobile cities called Regios. One such city named Czerni is a self-contained school in which freshman Reifon Aruseifu has just enrolled. Reifon reluctantly joins the 17th Martial Arts Studies Unit led by the third-year student Nina Antōku and embarks on a series of adventures.

Kemono no Souja Erin

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.

Sunday 11 January 2009