Anime starting in Winter 2015/2016

15-second television anime adaptation of pachinko and slot machine parlor Island's "Aira Project" commercials.

One day, Mim and Mam receive a present from their father at their house. When they open the present, they discover the stuffed animal Choco Mint that is 70% rabbit and 30% bear. The duo aren't sure what to make of the package, but they start to talk with Choco Mint.

Source: ANN

By her uncle's request, Nanako an ordinary high school girl teams up with her upperclassman Yukari to become their town's local idols. The two get paid by the town to do interviews at malls, appear on local TV broadcasts and hold small live events on department store rooftops. Together, the two form the locodol group Nagarekawa Girls. (Source: crunchyroll)

Christmas: Nanako, Yukari and local mascot Uogokoro-kun bring cheer to the fair in their new seasonal outfits. It also happens to be Yukari's birthday... After seeing the AWA AWA Girls' promotional video on TV, Nanako would never have thought that the Nagarekawa Girls would ever be doing one... well it turns out to be a public relations video for the city instead.

Note: The first episode aired on TBS on Christmas Eve and was shipped on Blu-rays and DVDs during March. The second one premiered in June 2016.

In the year 2071, the world's energy problems seem solved by a network of cross-dimensional electric-field inductors — coils — that extract energy from a seemingly infinite source. That source is the W dimension, a fourth plane that exists beyond the X, Y, and Z dimensions.

In this world, unofficial "illegal" coils harness powers that the police cannot hope to counter. Dealing with these coils is the job of coil-hating repo man Kyouma, whose run-in with the unique coil android Mira leads the two to form a reluctant partnership.

Note: The first episode received Niconico's preview streaming on December 26, 2015. The regular television airing started on January 10, 2016.

* Based on Team Shanghai Alice's Touhou Project.

History revolves around the many events in the lives of two students from the Outside World - Maribel Han and Renko Usami. They are the only members of the "Hifuu Club Activity Record" who are looking for those hidden worlds as Gensokyo, the Netherworld and the Moon.
The first episode tells about the events occurred during the first Genso-Lunar war.

Note: This is an unofficial fan-made anime.

A Jack of All Trades is a person who can competently do all kinds of jobs. Loser Zhang Dabao is a professional Jack of All Trades, but his living conditions are, shall we say, less than satisfactory. One day, a beautiful woman who is being harassed by a pervert approaches him for help. He accepts, and soon embarks on a mission like nothing the world has seen before.

There's a crisis in the Chinese Spirit World -- humans don't believe in gods anymore! A Door God, facing unemployment, ventures into the human world to prove his worth, leading to unexpected encounters and transformations for humans and spirits alike.

Source: IMDb

Based on Magical Patissier Kosaki-chan spinoff manga shorts of Nisekoi manga. Bundled with the 21st volume of the Nisekoi manga.

The plot concludes the spin-off parody story started in the first half of episode 8 of Nisekoi: (Season 2).

The first part of OAV called "Loss" stars Miyamoto Yuri who lost her glasses and her friends, Ichijō Raku and Onodera Kosaki who decided to help her search for them. As the search continues, the romantic tension between Ichijō and Onodera seems to be growing. In the OAV's second part called "Shrine Maiden" Ichijō experiences a large income of bad luck and his friends, Onodera, Chitoge, Mariko and Tsugumi are determined to exorcize it out of him by any means necessary.

Source: ANN

* Based on otome game Prince of Stride by Kadokawa Games.

Stride is an extreme sport that involves six people in one team who run relay races through towns. Teams from many schools compete to win Japan's top Stride competition, End of Summer.

Fujiwara Takeru and Sakurai Nana are first-year high school students at Hounan Academy who attempt to restart a closed-down Stride club, but they must recruit six members for the team. They ask Yagami Riku to join, but he turns them down by saying that Stride is the one thing he doesn't want to do. However, Takeru and Nana drag Riku into the clubroom, trying to convince him.

Source: ANN

As the result of a viral outbreak, that occurred over a decade ago, the way the human brain works is irrevocably altered in such a way that beings, thought to be figments of imagination, like ghosts or monsters, become real... now collectively known as Phantoms. Since then children have been born with special abilities. Most of these apparitions at worst are a nuisance, but some of them can turn out to be quite troublesome...

Ichijou Haruhiko is a widely-read first-year high school student at Hosea Academy, with the special ability to summon and seal away Phantoms by drawing them; always accompanied by the carefree, helpful Phantom Ruru. While his energetic upperclassman, Kawakami Mai, fights Phantoms with the ability Spirit of Five Elements. The newest member of their club, the glutton Izumi Reina, uses her Phantom Eater ability to seal away Phantoms. There is another Phantom-hunting club member in the not very highly regarded Team E at the academy: the brave yet stoic Minase Koito, who, at least initially, prefers to fight Phantoms by herself.

Together they take on contracts their teacher, Himeno Arisu, gives them, dealing with all manners of troublesome Phantoms. In doing so, they experience the ups and downs of resolving issues with paranormal life, before an incident leads them to find out the truth about this world.

— written by foo2

Note: The first episode received a special pre-airing on December 24, 2015. The regular TV airing started on January 7, 2016.

Houjou Buntarou is a student who wants to be something, but doesn't know what. One day, his classmate Kuroda Sayuki announces she is working on a bishoujo game and requests his help. Sayuki scouted him because he wrote a good script for drama club, but Buntarou doesn't know anything about bishoujo games.

Source: ANN

Class 3E is about to begin their second semester! And while some things have changed, the class assignment is still the same: kill their teacher before the end of the year! Easier said than done since Koro Sensei's made it clear he won't go down without a fight.

Source: funimation

* Based on a manga by Kotoyama serialized in Shuukan Shounen Sunday.

Shikada You owns a rural sweets shop, and his plan is for his son Kokonotsu to take it over one day, but Kokonotsu wants to be a manga author instead. One day, the heir to the well-known sweets maker Shidare Company, the cute but weird Shidare Hotaru, pays them a visit. Apparently, You is famous, and she wants him to join her father's company, but he will agree only if she can convince Kokonotsu to inherit the shop and continue the family business.

Source: MU

* Based on a light novel written by Nishio Ishin and illustrated by Vofan.

It is the afternoon of March 25, the day of the school year closing ceremony, and Araragi Koyomi's second high school year is at an end. As he, like many other perfectly normal students such as himself, heads into the spring break that precedes his third and final year, Hanekawa Tsubasa, the braided, bespectacled honour student from his grade, tells him about a rumour according to which there is a vampire in town.

That night, Koyomi finds a bloodstained woman with torn limbs seeking help on the underground platform, a woman who fits Hanekawa's description to the letter: a beautiful blonde with spine-chillingly cold eyes. That fateful meeting meant Koyomi's last spring break would not be like any other, and he himself was about to cease to be just another normal student; he had run into none other than the greatest among aberrations, the most powerful of all monsters. That night, Araragi Koyomi had met the legendary, centuries-old vampire Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade, who would remove him from the world of normal people and throw him into the nocturnal world, a chaotic world of deities, ghosts, curses, and all other imaginable sorts of supernatural beings, items, and events.

— written by Hinoe

The story revolves around Hige, a middle-aged man who loves marshmallows, and Wakabayashi, an office lady who loves Hige and enjoys teasing him with the snack. The anime follows the two as their relationship develops at the workplace.

— written by Singan

Phantasy Star Online 2 is the hottest game to hit the market. Just ask anyone at Seiga Academy — anyone except for Tachibana Itsuki, that is. Unlike his peers, Itsuki does not play video games and ended up missing out on this big trend. Thankfully, he has other good qualities. He gets good grades. He has perfect attendance. And, to the delight of his friends, he makes the perfect substitute for any afterschool activity. Who knew it was possible to be a jack of all trades in high school clubs?

Itsuki's abilities attract the attention of student council president, Izumi Rina. While Itsuki is the perfect image of mediocrity, Rina is a vision of excellence: she is good looking, popular, an amazing athlete, and she has excellent grades. There is nothing she cannot do... except for keep an eye on the extracurricular activities of the student body, of course. Rina recruits Itsuki as the new vice president of the student council and asks him to play Phantasy Star Online 2. Because the game is an MMO, it has a social aspect and she wants to know if it is affecting the student body negatively. But first, Itsuki has to learn how to play the game!

Source: MAL

An anthology collection of short slice of life stories, such as a young man beginning his journey to become a chef, two girls who wanted to become friends in high school but couldn't, and a ghost back among the living during the Obon summer festival.

Source: ANN

Ikebukuro is engulfed in a spiral of confusion. A group of individuals, each carrying the weight of their own past, gathers at Shinra's apartment, while in the city the Dollars, Yellow Scarves and Saika contend for power. However, the situation takes a turn that no one could expect when Celty's head is revealed to the public, as this tale approaches its conclusion.

Source: Crunchyroll

The Prism Show unit Over The Rainbow succeeds in its debut. Aiming to become like the boy band, more students enroll in Edel Rose. Hiro and others begin practice for the Prism King Cup, an event that is held once every four years. However, a rival called Schwarze Rose appears. The boys fight to become Prism King, the one who can make girls' hearts throb the most.

Source: ANN

In L.C. 922, mankind faces a sudden crisis.

In Tetra Heaven, the land of legend, a hundred years of war have come to an end. The evil gods who lost the war search for a new place to live, and found it in Septpia, the human world, which they proceed to invade.

The Logicalists attached to ALCA (the Another Logic Counter Agency), a special police agency whose duty it is to protect cities from assaults by foreigners, are compelled to act in defence of cities, whether they wish to do so or not. Utilizing their special ability, Logicalists can initiate Trance with goddesses from the other world, to stand a fighting chance on the battlefield.

Tsurugi Yoshichika lost his Logic card in a battle in Hong Kong a few years back, now living happily with his father Rentarou and younger sister Shiori as a civilian. But one day he is caught up in an attack on a shopping mall, where he meets a beautiful goddess named Athena. In her hands she holds Yoshichika's Logic card, letting them both fight the evil beings from Tetra Heaven.

When a certain man is released from prison, he knows exactly where he's heading first. After falling in love with a traditional comic storyteller's rendition of the story called "Shinigami", he is determined to become his apprentice. The performer, Yakumo, has never taken an apprentice before, but to everyone's surprise, he accepts the eager ex-prisoner, nicknaming him Yotarou.

As Yotarou happily begins his new life, he meets others in Yakumo's life, including Yakumo's ward Konatsu. Konatsu was the daughter of a famous storyteller, and Yakumo took her in after her father's tragic death. Konatsu loved her father's storytelling, and would love to become a performer in her own right, but that path is not available for women.

Source: MangaHelpers

Natsuki, Tomoya, Keiichi and Tsuyoshi are high school students and close friends. The four boys have no club activities, and they hurry through their studies so they can spend their days having fun. Their main topic of interest is love. Natsuki has an unrequited crush on Anna, a girl from another class, and his friends keep meddling in their relationship.

Source: ANN

Note: Each episode of Rainbow Days is divided into two parts. The first segment is the main anime series. The second is a live-action series titled club RAINBOW!, which features behind-the-scenes looks into the show's production and the Japanese voice acting career as a whole.

Maeda-san is living alone in rented accommodations for the first time after finding employment. In his tiny, no-bath apartment he is visited by Satonaka Chie, who looks like the little sister he never had, but turns out to be the landlord of this apartment building. Chie's high degree of competence when it comes to cooking and housework, sometimes makes her appear very much older than the middle school girl she actually is. Maeda-san's other neighbour, Shirai Reiko, quite jealously tries to guard the cute landlord for herself though. And so Maeda-san's otherwise uneventful life, supposedly living alone, suddenly becomes quite lively...

Lux is a former prince of an empire called Arcadia, that was overthrown in a rebellion five years earlier. Lux accidentally stumbles into the bathing area of a female dormitory, sees the princess of the New Kingdom, Lisesharte, naked, and incurs her wrath.

Lisesharte then challenges Lux to a Drag-Ride duel. Drag-Rides are ancient armoured mechanical weapons, Machine Dragons, that have been excavated from ancient ruins. Lux used to be called the strongest Drag-Knight, but now he is known as the undefeated weakest Drag-Knight since he will absolutely not attack in battle. After his duel with Lisesharte, Lux ends up attending the female-only Royal Knight Academy that trains royals to be Drag-Knights.

Source: ANN

Note: The first episode received an early screening at a joint event with Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry on December 20, 2015, at Shinjuku Meiji Yasuda Seimei Hall in Tokyo. The regular TV broadcast started on January 11, 2016.

A picture-story animation with a motif surrounded by and based off rumors and urban legends throughout the history of Japan.

Source: Crunchyroll

In a world where flying is as simple as riding a bicycle, there is a popular sport called Flying Circus. The protagonist once had a bright future ahead of him in that field of sports but due to an overwhelming defeat in addition to a certain other reason, he has left that field. However, he meets the transfer student Kurashina Asuka and regains his passion as he teaches her how to fly. With his situation changed, he participates once again in the Flying Circus. Just how high will he be able to fly this time with Asuka at his side?

This is a love story about the two who met while soaring in the skies, and the friends surrounding them.

Source: VNDB

* Based on manga series written by Futami Sui.

Hanami Yuzuka is an average girl, with a few friends until one day she finds a strange creature named Miton digging through the garbage. Miton suspiciously tells Yuzuka that she has the makings of a magical girl. However, much to her dismay, when she transforms, Yuzuka is wearing a bathing suit.

Source: crunchyroll

The World Tree, which provides energy for all plants, is on the verge of withering, so the sheep set out on a journey to save it by driving the Hip Hop Train after shrinking. On the journey, a drop of rain or a piece of fallen leaf is a huge obstacle to the shrunken sheep, and in addition, they have to defend themselves against the grey wolf who keeps coming to harass them. But they are not afraid of the difficulties and dangers, with wit and courage, and repeatedly turn the danger into an obstacle, and made a group of good friends of insects, and finally successfully completed the task, so that the World Tree once again a new life.

source: bgm.tv/deepl

A typical morning at the Toujou household: the succubus Maria yet again sets up a misunderstanding between Basara and Mio, not ending so well for Basara. Yuki is unperturbed by all of this though. And the day at school continues to put Basara into compromising situations, ending up in nurse Hasegawa Chisato's infirmary. Back at home the mischievous Maria begins the preparations for Mio's birthday...

— written by foo2

Note: Bundled with the limited edition of the manga's 7th volume.

Bundled with the limited edition of the 9th compiled volume of manga.

Chika Chika Idol is the story of three young girls in the old towns of Tokyo who dream of becoming idols.

They can't get into a talent agency, nor do they have any albums released - but they can't sit around and wait for that to happen! They want to get up on stage and perform with all their hearts - now!

Source: Kickstarter

Note: A promotional video for the crowdfunding campaign for Chika Chika Idol CG anime project. It didn't manage to secure funds for a 15-minute episode.

Asahina Mirai, a 13-year-old girl who's going into her second year of middle school, witnesses a mysterious object fall into the park. Excitedly, she brings her stuffed bear Mofurun with her to see what it was. When she gets there, she sees a girl named Riko flying on a broom. Mirai has a lot of questions, and Riko explains that she's searching for something. The two of them are wearing similar pendants. Then Batty, an ally of the dark magic user Dokurokushe, appears before them and demands the Linkle Stone Emerald. Batty creates a monster called Yokubarl and drives them into a corner. Mirai, Riko and Mofurun join hands and speak the magic words "Cure Up RaPaPa!", their pendants glow, and they become the legendary Precure.

Source: ANN

A story about a young girl named Hana and her dog Pochi.

Sixth season of Boonie Bears.

An ordinary student, who forms an advice club with her friends to help others, gains special powers after a mysterious encounter.

Source: Netflix

Note: The first 2 episodes were shown on YouTube as a sneak peek release on 25.02.2016, 4 days before the TV broadcast on 29.02.2016.

For the longest time, it's just been the two of them. Kanojo and her cat Daru are inseparable, having grown up together. Now a junior in college, Tomoka — her roommate of a year and a half — moves out of their shared apartment, and in order to keep her living space, Kanojo must find a job. Day by day, Daru watches her continued efforts from a cat's-eye view, eagerly awaiting his owner's return. When she gets back, once again, it's just she and her cat.

Source: MAL

Nobita wants to run away from home, again. He finds out that there is nowhere for him to go. All the land is owned by someone. His friends end up wanting to run away also, even Doraemon. They figure out that the only way to find land that isn't owned by anyone is to go back in time to when no humans existed. They end up helping a prehistoric boy rescue his tribe from Gigazombie.

One day, Lecty Eisenach is tasked with taking care of school animals. When she comes to a place where the animals are kept, Lecty sees a chicken she has recently saved from a cat. She names the chicken Piyo-chan and starts caring for it. However, soon it turns out that Piyo-chan is not a simple bird that it seems to be.

— written by Singan

Note: Bundled with the ninth limited-edition light novel volume.

Shorts of Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Second Season. Adapts chapters 78 ("Takebayashi no Jikan") and 79 ("Shihaisha no Jikan, Ni Jikanme"), which were published in the ninth manga volume and weren't adapted in the TV series.

Falulu is far away in the heart of the PriPara world in Puransu. The sparkle is disappearing from the idol sacred ground PriPara, and Falulu sends an SOS message to Laala and her friends. If the sparkle doesn't return, the PriPara world itself will disappear. Laala and her friends try to help Falulu, and they work together to save the PriPara world.

Source: ANN

This animation epic tells the story of the guardians of the "Heavenly Martial Treasure" of Genghis Khan, who protected it during the "Tumu Crisis" in the Ming Dynasty. After the massacre of the guardians in one night, the young lord Wuyunzong, the sole survivor of the guardians, seeks revenge and searches for the treasure. Along the way, he encounters a series of thrilling adventures involving pursuit and growth, love and friendship, conspiracy and betrayal.

source: themoviedb.org

Note: Bundled with manga's seventh and ninth volumes.

After Katta drops his curry bread into the creature world, his hamster Hamukatsu goes on an adventure to retrieve it.

Source: ANN

Note: Opened on several 360-degree panorama screens in Japan starting on March 19, with more screenings slated for Golden Week.

Hilma, Kui and Root leave their home in the sky city to look for the origin of a seed they found one day. On their adventure, they find many new plants and animals. When a caterpillar they befriended is taken away by a large bird, they challenge him to rescue their friend.

Source: ANN