Welcome everyone! BigHeart711 and I prepare the best Fall 2014 Anime Guide for you guys and gals. Here are our quick impressions of shows that have caught our eyes. Stay tuned for the OVAs & Movies Guide that is going to hit this week as well as the Fall 2014 Simulcast Guide for the next 2 weeks.
BigHeart711
I'm also looking forward to Seven Deadly Sins, Terra Formars and Fate/Stay Night 2014 alongside The Circumstances in My Home's Bathtub, Rage of Bahamut: Genesis, Parasyte, and Ronia, The Robber's Daughter. These six ended up being the shows that I will most likely check out this Fall and I hope at least one of them ends up being really entertaining. I'm enjoying the manga forSeven Deadly Sins as well and I've been seeing some good anticipation out of Parasyte and Terra Formars around. This is a lot of shows on my plate, but I hope this season's a real good one (as long as College doesn't rip me a brand new one).
Taka
Hello everyone, here are my shows that stood out to me besides the sequels and remakes. I'm looking forward to watching Seven Deadly Sins, World Trigger, Terra Formars, and Wolf Girl & Black Prince. I have a lot more, but these are my top 4 shows. I'm familiar with Seven Deadly Sins, but the other three are completely new. Terra Formars is my horror show, World Trigger is a recommendation, and Wolf Girl & Black Prince is a beautiful twisted piece of romance to watch. Speaking of sequels and remakes, I haveChaika 2, Psycho-Pass 2 Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works, and Log Horizon 2. It's a great season of anime to end this year. Hope you guys join in the discussion threads!
Please share what shows you are going watch this season!
- Credits: Both BigHeart711 and Taka work on adding discussion threads. While BigHeart711 prepared an awesome banner, Taka created the guide's tables.
- Sources: Anime News Network
Fall 2014 Anime Series
 | Aikatsu! 3
Plot The third season of Aikatsu! In place of Ichigo Hoshimiya who was the protagonist in the first two seasons (she will still be in the story as a supporting character), the new season will feature her underclass girl Akari Ozora with her classmates. |
 | Ai Tenchi Muyo!
Plot In the story, the world is in trouble because Washu is stirring up trouble again. In order to save the world from crisis, Tenchi goes undercover as a teacher in a girls' school. However, many problems arise as Tenchi is predisposed to finding trouble. |
 | Amagi Brilliant Park
Plot 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. |
 | April is Your Lie
Plot Kousei Arima was a piano prodigy until his mother died when he was eleven years old. The shock of losing her made him lose any interest in piano, and his life has felt monotonous ever since. Then, when he's fourteen, his childhood friend Tsubaki introduces him to her classmate Kaori, a free-spirited violinist. Her enthusiasm reignites his interest in music and in life. |
 | Bonjour Koiaji Pâtisserie
Plot The show revolves around Sayuri Haruno, a young woman that goes to the elite confectionery school Fleurir on a scholarship. While there to follow her dream to open a pastry shop, she ends up meeting and dealing with a number of rather charming young men. |
 | Chaika - Coffin Princess Avenging Battle
Plot Toru Acura is a 20-year-old retired soldier meandering through life now that the war has ended. He encounters Chaika Trabant, a 14-year-old sorceress carrying a coffin, and follows her in hopes of finding meaning to his life again. The two travel with Toru's adopted sister, Akari, the employed member of the group and thus Toru's source of income. (Summary of Season 1) |
 | Cross Ange
Plot Humanity has advanced to great heights since it obtained the information technology known as "Mana." With that nearly magical power, problems like war, food shortages, and pollution have been eliminated. This age of peace and freedom, the Empress Angelese of the Misurugi Empire is a privileged girl with no disabilities. She learns, however, that she is a "Norma," a kind of human who cannot use Mana and are outcasts of society. Having lost everything, she is sent to an isolated island. There she meets other Normas who ride in humanoid weapons called Para-mails, protecting the world from dragons invaders from another dimension. |
 | Daitoshokan no Hitsujikai
Plot The story revolves around the main protagonist Kyotaro Kakei, who is the sole member of the Library Club at Shiomi Academy. One day he receives an email from the "shepherd" (hitsujikai) who is said to be able to fulfill any wishes. It says, "You will experience a life changing event today." After an encounter with a second-year girl Tsugumi Shirasaki on the day, more and more girls join the club to be with him. |
 | Denkigai no Honya-san
Plot The "youthful bookstore comedy" revolves around the folks who work in a manga shop deep in a certain "Electric Town" neighborhood. ("Denki-Gai" or "Electric Town" is a popular name for shopping areas that specialize or used to specialize in electric and electronic items, like Tokyo's Akihabara.) The protagonist Umio works part-time at "BOOKS Umanohone" along with his senior at work (but not in age) Hiotan. As many dedicated manga fans visit the store, there is always something going on. |
 | Donten ni Warau
Plot In the eleventh year of the Meiji era carrying swords was forbidden by the government and those known as samurai were slowly fading away. However, there were plenty who didn't like those changes taking place in Japan and inevitably the crime rates increased. The country's only solution was an inescapable lake prison. Since the prison had no other way to access it except by water, the three boys of the Kumo family were assigned to transport the criminals to their new "home". |
 | Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Plot Based on the Type-Moon's visual novel, the anime adaptation features Rin's route, Unlimited Blade Works, from the visual novel as the major female character. Prior to this anime adaptation, there is a movie adapted to Rin's route,Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, which is produced by Studio Deen in 2010. |
 | Garo: Honoo no Koukin
Plot Mendosa, the chief adviser of the king of Valiante, begins a campaign to hunt down "witches," resulting in the deaths of many magical knights and their sorcerer assistants. Anna, a sorceress married to the knight Herman Lewis, gives birth to a son before her execution. Herman takes their child, Leon, and flees, raising him to be the heir of the legendary Golden Armor. By the time Leon grows up, Valiante is completely in the control of Mendosa, who drives out Prince Alfonso and his mother. Alphonso decides to seek out the man who inherited the Golden Armor to reclaim the throne and save his people. |
 | Girlfriend Beta
Plot An anime adaptation of a Smartphone game developed by CyberAgent for iOS and Android devices. The game is a dating simulator which features over 100 different virtual girls each with their own unique voice actress. |
 | Gugure! Kokkuri-san
Plot A little girl named Kohina ends up summoning by a Kokkuri-san, a lower-ranking ghost in Japanese folklore. The Kokkuri-san she calls ends up being a white-haired handsome, young man. Although he had intended to merely haunt her at first, he becomes worried about her terrible eating habit of cup ramen for every meal, so he decides to haunt her in order to protect her. |
 | Gundam Build Fighters Try
Plot It has been seven years since Sei Iori won the 7th Gunpla Battle Championship World Tournament. Gunpla Battle is now more popular than ever, with new rules and new ways to battle. Fumina Hoshino is the president of the Gunpla Battle Club at Sei's old school, Seiho Academy, and a big fan of the game, but unfortunately, she cannot attend the upcoming All-Japan Gunpla Battle Championship tournament without a three-person team. Desperate to participate, she meets transfer student and young martial artist Sekai Kamiki, as well as a young Gunpla builder named Yūma Kōsaka. The three decided to join up to form Team "TRY FIGHTERS", a new team of Gunpla builders and fighters that will together face the challenge of winning the tournament. |
 | Gundam Reconguista in G
Plot The series takes place in the timeline after Universal Century, called Regild Century (R.C.), in the year R.C. 1014, and follows the story of a young pilot cadet named Bellri Zenam (ベルリ・ゼナム), who is a member of the Capital Guard, an organization charged with protecting the orbital elevator, the Capital Tower. When the Capital Tower was under attack by a band of space pirates called the Pirate Corps, Bellri encounters and captures a highly advanced mobile suit, the G-Self, and its pilot, Aida Surugan (アイーダ・スルガン). Feeling an immediate connection with both the G-Self and its pilot, Bellri was somehow able to pilot the mobile suit, which is only operable by a few. Joining the Pirate Corps to fight the Capital Army, Bellri and the rest of the pirates would be involved in a plot that will shake the entire Regild Century era. |
 | I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying
Plot 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. |
 | Inou Battle Within Everyday Life
Plot In the original novel series' story, the five members of the literature club awakened with extraordinary powers half a year ago. Although the members expected to be thrown into a world of super-powered battles (inō-battle) at their school, their normal daily routine continued. No secret organizations bent on world destruction, no super-powered wars, no braves or demon kings. However, the members still look forward to the possibilities of adventure, and continued to believe that with each day, they were getting ever closer to those days of fantasy. Their days of romantic comedy and battles with extraordinary powers begin! |
 | Log Horizon 2
Plot The story begins when 30,000 Japanese gamers are trapped in the fantasy online game world Elder Tale. What was once a "sword and sorcery world" is now the "real world." The main lead Shiroe attempts to survive with his old friend Naotsugu and the beautiful assassin Akatsuki. Nyanta is a mysterious player who looks like a cat.(Season 1 Summary) |
 | Madan no Ō to Vanadis
Plot The titular Vanadis of Tsukasa Kawaguchi's fantasy series are beautiful girls who ride into battle, brandishing weapons received from dragons. There are seven such Vanadis who rule seven territories and instill fear in neighboring countries. A boy named Tigre is a minor noble in the kingdom of Buryūnu who encounters a Vanadis in battle. She is the silver-haired, red-eyed "silver fraulein" Ellen. She defeats him, but instead of killing him, she takes him prisoner. |
 | Magic Kaito 1412
Plot High school student Kaito loves magic. His father was a genius magician with a secret identity as the Phantom Thief Kid. Unfortunately his father died in an unforeseen accident in a magic act. Eight years later, Kaito unexpectedly learns of his father's secret identity, and that he may have been murdered. In order to uncover the truth, he dons a silk hat and a white cape to follow in his father's footsteps as the Phantom Thief Kid. |
 | Mushishi: The Next Chapter
Plot They existed long before anyone can remember. They are simple and strange in nature, not resembling any other plant or animal in this world. In ancient times, people revered these bizarre creatures and called them “Mushi.” People once again began to believe in the existence of these "Mushi" when they began affecting their lives in inexplicable ways. The one who connects the world of “Mushi” to the world of humans—they were called the "Mushi-Shi." All life exists not to hinder others in this world. They are simply there to live as they were meant to. |
 | Mysterious Joker
Plot The thief Mysterious Joker doesn't just steal things. An audacious and elusive miracle-maker, he travels the world searching for treasure with his partner and cook Hachi. As they circle the globe, they must avoid traps set by the police and compete in various competitions to reach their final goal, the Timeslip Treasure. |
 | Ore, Twintails ni Narimasu.
Plot The protagonist of the story is ordinary high school boy Souji Mitsuka, who is obsessed with twintail hair style. One day, he meets a mysterious girl named Thouars from a different-dimension world. At the same time, monsters appear in the town where he lives. Thouars gives him an imaginary armor "Tail Gear" which can be activated with the strong love for twintail. Obviously, he is the perfect candidate. He transforms into a twintail soldier "Tail Red," which looks like a loli-girl, and starts fighting against the enemies. |
 | Parasyte: The Maxim
Plot Shinichi Izumi is a normal high school boy whose right hand has become infected with an alien parasite that names itself "Migi" ("right"). Migi is the first parasite to develop a symbiotic relationship with its host, as he and Shinichi slowly develop a grudging friendship. Migi isn't the only Parasite on earth, however, and as cases of Parasites killing humans begin to emerge, humans seek to kill off Parasites. Shinichi and Migi find themselves caught in between these two sides of the struggle over planet earth. |
 | Psycho-Pass 2
Plot Having learned the true nature of the Sybilla System, Akane Tsunemori chose to obey the system, believing in both humanity and the legal order. She's part of a new police section and spends her everyday life facing down criminals. Unbeknownst to Akane, however, a monster who will shake the system to its core is about to appear before her. |
 | Rage of Bahamut Genesis
Plot Mistarcia is a magical world where humans, gods, and demons mingle together. In the past, the black-and-silver winged Bahamut has threatened to destroy the land, but humans, gods, and demons overcame their differences to fight together and seal its power. The key to that seal was split in two, one half given to the gods and the other to demons, so that they would never be united and Bahamut never released. Now, two thousand years later, the world is in an era of peace - until the day a human woman steals the gods' half of the key. |
 | Ronia, The Robber's Daughter
Plot The story revolves around Ronia, the only daughter of Mattis, the chief of a tribe of bandits who live in a large castle in a forest. Ronia studies the ways of the mysterious creatures who live in the forest. |
 | Selector Spread Wixoss
Plot WIXOSS is a card game that's popular with teenagers. Supposedly there exist "LRIG Cards," female character cards with wills of their own. Special girls can hear the voices of the LRIGs, and those who possess them are called "Selectors." These Selectors have card battles in a dimension that other humans cannot access. It's said that whoever triumphs in these battles will have their wish granted. Ruko Kominato is the latest girl to find a LRIG card. She names hers Tama, and without any further explanation is thrown into her life as a Selector. (Season 1 Summary) |
 | Shirobako
Plot Five girls chase their dreams. The story revolves around the everyday troubles and hardships that occur when working in the anime industry, and the results and conflicts that happen day-to-day among the group of girls. |
 | Sora no Method
Plot The story begins one winter day when the wish of a few girls was realized with a miracle, changing the landscape of a town. "In the skies above this town, a disc is always there." |
 | Terra Formars
Plot The story of the original manga begins in the year 2577, hundreds of years after scientists sent cockroaches and mold to terraform Mars. However, when the first manned ships land on Mars, they encounter large humanoid cockroaches with great strength, and are wiped out. Humanity then sends elite warriors to Mars to eliminate the cockroaches. |
 | The Circumstances in My Home's Bathtub
Plot Tatsumi is a high school student who lives on his own, until a merman named Wakasa takes up residence in his bathtub. His solitary lifestyle is turned upside down by the self-centered (but handsome) new roommate. |
 | The Fruit of Grisaia
Plot The story of the anime takes place at the private Mihama Academy, where five girls who seem normal attend the school due to "certain reasons." A sixth student "with reasons" named Yūji Kazami transfers in. Yūji has an ego with such darkness that he does not fade in comparison to the five girls, who are so different from the norm. As they each meet each other, they deepen their understanding of one another. Through the small bits of progress they make, each of their hearts will be affected. When Yūji arrives, a story of girls who are trapped by their pasts begins. |
 | The Seven Deadly Sins
Plot When they were accused of trying to overthrow the monarchy, the feared warriors the Seven Deadly Sins were sent into exile. Princess Elizabeth discovers the truth - the Sins were framed by the king's guard, the Holy Knights - too late to prevent them from assassinating her father and seizing the throne!Now the princess is on the run, seeking the Sins to help her reclaim the kingdom. But the first Sin she meets, Meliodas, is a little innkeeper with a talking pig. He doesn't even have a real sword! Have the legends of the Sins' strength been exaggerated? |
 | Tribe Cool Crew
Plot Haneru is a middle school student who loves dance to the point he can hear rhythm in the sound of chalk during class. One day after school, in the secret spot where he practices dancing, he meets Kanon, who's there to practice as well. The have a great time dancing together, and eventually face off against rivals in dance battles as they grow up. |
 | Trinity Seven
Plot This series' story is set in a world changed by a strange incident called "Houkai Genshyo (Collapse Phenomenon)", during which the protagonist Arata Kasuga's cousin Hijiri was transported into another dimension. In order to get her back and solve the mystery, Arata enrolls in the Royal Biblia Academy where he can learn sorcery. But first he must get through the the bishoujo sorcerers called "Trinity Seven" who stand in his way. |
 | Ushinawareta Mirai o Motomete
The story is set one autumn at the beginning of the 21st century in the Uchihama area. Uchihama Academy is growing by leaps and bounds. With the construction of a new school building, there will be one last General Club Festival at the old building that is slated to be closed. The students vow to go all out to make this final cultural festival a success. The Astronomy Club of the protagonist Sou Akiyama is filled with the big names on campus. Just before the festival on October 1, the club receives a request from the student executive committee to calm the uneasiness among the students. There are reports of ghost sightings, accidents, sleeping sickness, and other mysterious incidents at the old building. When Yui Furukawa, a quiet girl who transfered late into the school, appears before Sou, the gears of fate slowly begin to move. |
 | Wolf Girl & Black Prince
Plot The story centers around Erika Shinohara, a vain 16-year-old girl who tells her friends about her romantic exploits, but she actually has no boyfriend. She claims that a handsome boy in a candid photo is her boyfriend, but it turns out that boy is a schoolmate named Kyouya Sata. She has no choice but to make him her fake boyfriend. Unfortunately, Sata may look like a sweet person, but he is actually an ultra-black-hearted sadist. Sata takes advantage of Erika's weakness and treats her like his dog. |
 | World Trigger
Plot Weekly Shonen Jump's newest series is out of this world! A gate to another dimension has burst open, and from it emerge gigantic invincible creatures that threaten all of humanity. Earth's only defense is a mysterious group of warriors who have co-opted the alien technology in order to fight back! |
 | Yona of the Dawn
Plot King Il of Kouka, a land said in legends to have been founded by four dragons, has only one remaining heir, a daughter named Yona. She lives a happy life in the palace with her cousin Soo-won, who she loves in spite of her father's opposition to them marrying. Her life is turned upside down when Soo-won murders her father and steals the throne. Yona, with her childhood friend and bodyguard Hak, must retreat to gather allies and reclaim her place as ruler of the kingdom. |
 | Yowamushi Pedal 2
Plot Onoda Sakamichi is a rather timid, anime-loving first-year student at Sohoku High School. Upon entering high school, he tried to join the anime research club, but after meeting Imaizumi Shunsuke, a renowned cyclist since middle school, and Naruko Shoukichi, who swept the Kansai cycling championship, he ended up joining the competitive cycling club.(Season 1 Summary) |
 | Yūki Yūna wa Yūsha de Aru
Plot Yuna Yuki is an ordinary second-year middle school student. She gets up in the morning, gets ready for school, goes to classes, participates in club activities, and has fun with her friends. But there is one extraordinary thing about Yuki -- she belongs to the “Brave Hero Club.” What does the Brave Hero Club do? Who is the mysterious being called “Vertex?” Yuki Yuna and her friends’ story takes place in Year 300, Era of the Gods. |
About the Authors
 | BigHeart711 is a proud anime fan of the Blue Roses and Magical Mages! Follow him @MasterMenos |
 | Kerry Chhay (Takashichea) is an Asian American Studies student who is a big wiki and anime nerd. He serves as a wiki mod in Anime Vice and an Admin in To Hollywood and Beyond Wikia(a 2nd home for Screened users). Follow him @Takashichea |
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