Winter 2014 Anime Lineup

Pupipo~!
Studio: AIC Plus+
Official Website: http://pupipo.tv/
Adapted from: Manga
Synopsis (from MAL):
Himeji Wakaba is a 5th year elementary school student, and she has the ability to see things that others can’t. They are mostly frightening evil spirits, and they tend to do bad things to people who are close to her. As a result, Wakaba has no friends and rarely smiles. On a couple of occasions, she brings home stray animals, but her parents won’t let her keep them. However, they’re worried about their sad, creepy daughter, so one day they decide that whatever Wakaba brings home next, they’ll let her keep.
The next thing she brings home is a pink monster called “Pupipo”, but her parents stand by their decision and let her keep it. No one is quite sure what Pupipo is, but it protects Wakaba from the other things she sees. Pupipo also helps Wakaba make friends with an occult-obsessed transfer student and solve problems with bullying. Wakaba’s life is a much better place with her pet pink monster!
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Robot Girls Z
Studio: Toei Animation
Official Website: http://www.robot-girlsz.com/
Adapted from: Original Series
Synopsis (from ANN):
There is a new team of “Toei robot girls” named “Team Z” that is made up of three girls based on Toei’s Mazinger Z franchise: Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and UFO Robot Grendizer. Usually they perform in activities around Nerima ward in Tokyo to raise the awareness of the promising future energy source “Photon Power”. However, there are times when “Mechanical Beast” team of girls emerge from the “Subterranean Empire” and attempt to steal the energy. Thus “Team Z” has to battle them to prevent this, though sometimes they just go and beat up the “bad girls” to relieve stress.
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Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiin da ga.
Studio: Project No. 9
Official Website: http://www.imocyo-anime.com/
Adapted from: Manga
Synopsis (from ANN):
A girl named Mitsuki Kanzaki lives with her step-brother Yuya after her mother remarries. One day, Mitsuki is possessed by the self-proclaimed spirit of a young girl, Hiyori Kotobuki. Hiyori (in Mitsuki’s body) must fall in love with Yuya to move toward the “Gates of Heaven.”
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[Sequel] Saki Zenkoku-hen
Studio: Studio Gokumi
Official Website: http://www.saki-anime.com/
Adapted from: Manga
Synopsis (of first season, from ANN):
Miyanaga Saki is a first year high school girl whose family would get angry if she won the family mahjong games. But losing would also have its consequences. Because of this she develops a new way of playing that allows her to stay on the thin line between winning and losing, the +/- zero score, an almost impossible score. In a game that relies mainly on luck, the +/- zero score is harder than winning, but Saki can achieve this every time. Having always hated the game, her friend from middle school, Suga Kyotoro, forces her to play in the schools mahjong club. Her developed skill and superhuman luck has made her a worthy mahjong opponent, even to the middle school's national mahjong champion.
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Sakura Trick
Studio: Studio DEEN
Official Website: http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/sakura/
Adapted from: Manga
Synopsis (from ANN):
Haruka Takayama and Yuu Sonoda were inseparable during their junior high school years, but upon entering their senior high school, they end up being seated on opposite sides of the classroom. Having to spend time with more friends, the two decide to do something to make their relationship special.
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[Sequel] Seitoukai Yakuindomo *
Studio: GoHands
Official Website: http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/seitokai/top.html
Adapted from: Manga
Synopsis (of first season):
Takadoshi Tsuda has entered Ousai Academy, a high school that was recently turned co-ed. There, he met Amakusa Shino and became the Student Council Vice President on his first day. The episodes mostly involve short scenes with the other members of the Student Council and female students, along with numerous bleeps, censored images and seemingly endless sex humor.
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Sekai Seifuku ~Bouryaku no Zvezda~

Studio: A-1 Pictures
Official Website: http://www.sekaiseifuku-zzz.com/
Adapted from: Original Series
Synopsis (from MAL):
What does it take to conquer the world?! Every leader of the past has thought of it… but all they have done was to merely dream of its greatness. World domination… nobody has been able to achieve it. Until one little girl by the name of Kate Hoshimiya came along. Kate Hoshimiya will shock the world! How was she able to carry out such a magnificent stunt? So frightful! So glorious! Could this be… the Zvezda Plot?! Let the light of our great Zvezda shine upon this land far and wide!
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SoniAni -SUPER SONICO THE ANIMATION-
Studio: WHITE FOX
Official Website: http://soniani.jp/
Adapted from: Original Series
Synopsis (from ANN):
Super Sonico is an 18-year old college student who plays guitar for the three-girl band Fastest Speed in Space and models for pin-ups. In spite of her busy schedule, she still finds time to her grandmother at her restaurant. One night, her band members Suzu and Fuuri, are late to a concert, forcing her to play alone. The result of that show will have far-reaching consequences for Sonico.
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SPACE☆DANDY
Studio: BONES
Official Website: http://space-dandy.com/
Adapted from: Original Series
Synopsis (from ANN):
Space Dandy is a space hunter, someone who is paid to search for new, undiscovered alien species. It’s an industry where the prize goes to the person who finds aliens the fastest. Dandy searches unknown planets for strange beings with his companions, QT the worn-out robot and Meow from Betelgeuse. Meanwhile, they’re being chased by minions of the Gorgol Empire, for reasons that are still a mystery.
Additional Info:
A manga adaptation of the series has also started running, with its first chapter released last December 20, 2013.
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Strange+
Studio: Seven
Official Website: http://www.dreamcreation.co.jp/stpl/
Adapted from: Manga
Synopsis (from ANN):
Kou is searching for his older brother Takumi, who left home and has gone missing in the city. Worried that he’s in trouble, Kou decides not to go home until he’s found him, only to find him all too easily. Takumi, it turns out, has become head of the Mikuni Detective Agency, and has no intention of going back home. Kou decides that if he can’t make Takumi return, then he’ll join the agency himself.
Additional Info:
The series will only run for five minutes per episode.
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