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	Title: J.C. Staff Genre: Comedy Website: http://www9.nhk.or.jp/anime/bakuman/2nd	Notable Cast/Staff: Returning Directors: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha) Returning Series Composition: D.Gray-man) Ending Theme Performance: Soul Eater)
Summary: The first season of Bakuman. followed fledgling artist Moritaka Mashiro and writer Akito Takagi as they attempted to win a manga competition in order to gain some recognition in the field. [Spoiler Alert!] When we last left the heroes, their manga had been approved for serialization...so the second season will likely follow the trials and tribulations of creating an ongoing serialized manga.

	Title: TV Asahi Studio: Sunrise Genre: Action Website: http://www.nagoyatv.com/battlespirits_heroes	Notable Cast/Staff: Returning Director: Zombie-Loan) Original creator: Cowboy Bebop) Tegamaru Tanashi: Black Butler's Grell Sutcliff)
Summary: A new cast of characters takes over the story of Battle Spirits, based on the popular trading card game. Hajime Hinobori is as enthusiastic about his favorite rice topping as he is about his favorite hobby, Battle Spirits...but one day outside the Battle Spirits store, he's challenged by someone who asks him: what is your fated card?

	Title: david production Genre: Action/Comedy Website: http://ben-to.net	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Black Cat) Ayame: Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts' Hideyoshi Kinoshita) You: Kaleido Star's Ken Robbins)
Summary: Saving money on a half-price Ben-To (box lunch) is no laughing matter: in the world of high schooler You Sato, the placement of a half-off sticker can set off a battle of extreme proportions right in the middle of the supermarket. Along with martial artist Sen Yarizui and half-Italian glasses-girl Ayame, You must learn to navigate grocery stores on an entirely new level.

	Title: AIC Genre: Comedy Website: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/haganai	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Heaven's Lost Property) Matsurika Sena: Shugo Chara!'s Amu, The World God Only Know's Elysia
Summary: Kodaka Hasegawa is, as anime protagonists usually are, a normal high school guy. When he runs into the beautiful but sharp-tongued Yōzōra talking to her imaginary friend, he learns that she has few friends because of her unpleasant personality. After talking it over, they decide to create a club for students who lack friend-making ability: the Neighbor Club. They're shortly ed by a colorful cast of characters, including the narcissist Sena.

	Title: NHK E-TV Studio: TBA Genre: Kids/Comedy Website: http://www9.nhk.or.jp/tvkun
Summary: The NHK hasn't released a cast or staff list for this show yet, but Chibi Devi! is an adaptation of Hiromu Shinozuka's manga of the same name. In the manga, Honoka Sawada is a shy 14-year-old atheist who gets bullied in school...until one day, when an infant devil gets dropped off in her room while she sleeps.

	Title: Madhouse Genre: Drama Website: http://www.ntv.co.jp/chihayafuru	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Card Captor Sakura) Music: Glass Fleet) Ayase: Hourou Musuko's Yoshino)
Summary: Ayase Chihaya is a high school girl who dreams about her sister becoming the greatest fashion model in Japan...until she realizes that this dream doesn't require her own involvement at all. After watching a classmate play the competitive card game karuta, Ayase decides to give the game a shot and build dreams for herself.

	Title: Synergy SP Genre: Kids/Adventure Website: http://www.b-daman.tv	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Fullmetal Alchemist Series Composition: Nyan Koi!) Kakeru: Minami-ke's Yu)
Summary: The latest in the toy-based relaunch process. In the new series, protagonist Kakeru discovers a secret tournament for elite players of the popular B-Daman competitive game. Its name, of course, is "Cross Fight."

	Title: ufotable Genre: Fantasy/Drama Website: http://www.fate-zero.jp	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Ga-Rei: Zero, Hourou Musuko) Music: Puella Magi Madoka Magica) Original story: Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~)
Summary: In Fate/stay night, fans watched the fourth Holy Grail War; in Fate/Zero, they can see the events which took place ten years prior to the original anime and visual novel's story, which would have a strong impact on the war. The tale revolves around Kiritsugu Emiya, the foster father of Fate/stay night protagonist Shiro Emiya.

	Title: Production I.G Genre: Fantasy/Drama Website: http://www.guilty-crown.jp	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Kurozuka) Screenwriter: Macross Frontier) Shu Star Driver's Takeo Takumi)
Summary: In the year 2029, Japan is part of the GHQ multinational organization, which was formed after the outbreak of a terrifying disease. 17-year-old Shu avoids making trouble for people because he has a unique power— he can extract weapons from his nearby friends. But everything changes when he meets Inori, a member of the resistance group known as Undertaker.

	Title: Hunter x Hunter Starts: Sunday, October 2 at 11 a.m. JST on NTV Studio: Madhouse Genre: Fantasy/Adventure Website: http://www.ntv.co.jp/hunterhunter	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Neuro - Supernatural Detective) Series Composition: Bakugan Battle Brawlers) Gon: Digimon Xros Wars' Airu Suzaki)
Summary: In an attempt to meet his missing father, a famous hunter, the young Gon decides to try and the hunter exam— those who get a license to go anywhere and do just about anything. On his journey he meets other hunter candidates and learns that there's a great deal more to the skill than he initially anticipated.

	Title: Kimi to Boku. Starts: Tuesday, October 4 at 1:30 a.m. JST on TV Tokyo Studio: J.C. Staff Genre: Slice-of-Life Website: http://www.kimiboku.tv	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Sound of the Sky) Screen Composition: Reiko Yoshida (Bakuman., D.Gray-man) Music: Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000%
Summary: A group of four boys— twins Yuki and Yuta Asaoba, Kaname Tsukahara, and Shun Matsuoka —who have been friends since kindergarten finally make their way into high school together. There, they're ed by a new friend, transfer student Chizuru Tachibana. Kimi to Boku. tells the tale of these guys' life-long friendship.

	Title: CBC Studio: Gonzo Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure Website: http://www.lastexile-fam.com	Notable Cast/Staff: Returning Director: Druaga: Aegis of Uruk) Returning Character Design: Blue Submarine No. 6)) Opening Theme Performance: Evangelion 2.0's Mari Makinami, Black Butler's Ciel Phantomhive)
Summary: Serving as a sequel to 2003's Last Exile, this new series follows Fam, a young sky pirate in a steampunk alternative Earth. Fam and her friend Giselle make a living by taking down massive airships and reselling them. When they get caught up in a battle, they make an agreement with the Kingdom of Turan: they will save the kingdom's princesses from their enemy, the Ades Federation, in return for the country's battleship.

	Title: Jenco Genre: Action/Comedy Website: http://www.anime-majikoi.com	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: School Days) Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Kimagure Orange Road, Freezing) Yamato: Bakemonogatari's Koyomi Araragi, Macross Frontier's Michel Blanc
Summary: In the city of Kawakami— famed for its samurai heritage —second-year high school student Yamato has learned the value of a strong Fighting Spirit. He remains close to his friends, a solid group of four boys and three girls...but at the beginning of the new semester, two new girls them, and things begin to change...

	Title: AIC Spirits Genre: Comedy Website: http://maken-ki.com	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: You're Under Arrest: Full Throttle) Series Composition: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Takeru: Library War'sAtsushi Doujo)
Summary: Students at Takeru Oyama's elite private school don't just study— they battle one another using unique items called "maken." But Takeru's problems aren't merely martial in nature: he also has to deal with Inaho, who claims to be his fiancée, the mysterious girl Kodama, and his childhood friend Haruko.

	Title: Manglobe Genre: Romance Website: http://www.mashiro.tv	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Sasameki Koto) Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Boys Over Flowers' animation direction) Shingo Uryu: Romeo X Juliet's Romeo)
Summary: Shingo Uryu's elite academy is merging with a prestigious school for girls in the same town. A batch of boys— including Shingo, of course —are sent to the girl's school early to partially integrate before the full merger...but all of the girls hate boys. Shingo must befriend the girls and convince them to give his fellow classmates a shot.

	Title: Nico Nico Douga Studio: Aslead Genre: Suspense/Drama Website: http://www.future-diary.tv	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Koe de Oshigoto!, Shuffle!) Yukiteru: Student Council's Discretion's Minatsu Shiina) Deus Ex Machina: Sengoku Basara's Oda Nobunaga)
Summary: Loner Yukiteru Amano uses his cell phone to report everything that he sees to his imaginary pal "Deus Ex Machina." One day, Deus talks back, launching Yuki into a deadly game— each player's phone reports the future in exactly the style that the player would have written it, meaning that not everyone has complete information. Oh, and they're all supposed to try and kill each other...the last player standing wins godhood.

	Title: AIC A.S.T.A. Genre: Supernatural Drama Website: http://www.p4a.jp	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Angel Beats!) Music: Persona -trinity soul-) Returning cast: the cast of the original game will return for this anime adaptation.
Summary: AIC animates the popular Persona 4 videogame, which revolves around the (fictional) rural Japanese village of Inaba. Protagonist Yu Narukami arrives in the village to live with the Dojima family for one year, but finds himself squarely involved in a rash of murders in the town. Accused of the murders, Yu must find the real culprit.

	Title: Tennis no Ouji-sama: Best Match (MSC Genre: Action/Sports Website: http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/tenipri-best	Notable Cast/Staff: Returning Director: Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations) Returning Art Director: ESPer Mami) Returning Cast: the original television cast will return for the new series.
Summary: Several months after the final tournament in the original The Prince of Tennis, Ryoma and his team mates are among a mere 50 students invited to participate in a special camp for tennis elites, the Japanese High School Representatives Selection Camp, to train. At the camp they will undoubtedly have to deal with new enemies, friends, challenges, and adventures.

	Title: Boys Love Website: http://sekai-ichi.jp	Notable Cast/Staff: Returning Director: Nodame Cantabile: Paris) Returning Screenplay: When They Cry - Higurashi) Opening Theme Performance: Natsume Yūjin-Chō, Persona -trinity soul-)
Summary: In the first season, editor Ritsu Onodera left his father's publishing company to prove that he wasn't simply riding his dad's coattail, winding up at a shoujo manga department...and getting romantically entangled with his (male) boss, Masamune Takano. In the second season, the romance and the drama continue in Marukawa Publishing's infamous "Emerald" division.

	Title: Sengoku Paradise Kiwami Starts: Tuesday, October 4 at 3:15 a.m. JST on TV Tokyo Studio: TBA Genre: Historical/Romance Website: http://sengk.jp/pc	Notable Cast/Staff: Character Design: Aki Sora) Date Masamune: Tetsuya Kakihara (Minami-ke's Fujioka, Romeo X Juliet's Mercutio) Tokugawa Ieyasu: Sam Houston)
Summary: Little information has been released about this anime title, which is based on a popular mobile phone game aimed at female players. In the game, players establish their own domain in Japan's Sengoku era and can interact with gorgeous versions of popular Sengoku-era historical figures, as well as with one another via diary entries and illustrations.

	Title: Shakugan no Shana III (Final) Starts: Saturday, October 8 at 1:30 a.m. JST on Tokyo MX TV Studio: J.C. Staff Genre: Supernatural Drama Website: http://www.shakugan.com	Notable Cast/Staff: Returning Director: Boogiepop Phantom) Returning Music: Blade of the Immortal) Returning Opening Theme Performance: Please Teacher!)
Summary: The final Shana, who hunts down those who would steal the life force of humans.

	Title: diomedéa Genre: Comedy Website: http://www.ika-musume.com	Notable Cast/Staff: Returning Director: Valkyria Chronicles) Returning Series Composition: Nabari no Ō) Returning Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Gakuen Alice, Kodomo no Jikan)
Summary: The Squid Girl invades once again in the second season of this hit gag comedy! Ika Musume is a powerful humanoid squid who is determined to take over the entire planet. The Aizawa family, which runs a noodle shop on the beach which she first tries to conquer, puts up with her antics and damage...in exchange for her help around the restaurant, of course.

	Title: Hal Film Maker Genre: Slice-of-Life/Comedy Website: http://www.tamayura.info	Notable Cast/Staff: Director/Original Creator: Aria the Animation, Kaleido Star) Opening Theme Performance: Maaya Sakamoto (Evangelion 2.0's Mari Makinami, Black Butler's Ciel Phantomhive) Fu: K-ON!'s Azusa Nakano)
Summary: Amateur photographer Fu Sawatari returns to the town of Takehara, Hiroshima— her late father's hometown —after a five-year absence and begins her first year of high school. There, she manages to establish a set of friends despite her shyness: childhood friend Kaoru Hanawa, plus Maon Sakurada and Norie Okazaki. The four friends stick together through a variety of high school adventures.

	Title: A-1 Pictures Genre: Comedy Website: http://www.wagnaria.com	Notable Cast/Staff: Director: Atsushi Ootsuka (Ladies versus Butlers!) Series Composition: Sky Girls) Returning Chief Animation Director: Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW)
Summary: The colorful employees of the Wagnaria restaurant return in this sequel. These include the impressively short, clumsy, and hard-Working'!! Popura, "newbie" Sota (who has a problem with voicing his inner monologue), violently androphobic Mahiru, and lazy manager Kyoko, to name but a few! In the Wagnaria family restaurant, the employee comes before the customer...after all, they're doing all the work!

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