Autumn New Anime Hot Movies Vol.1 "HIQUE! and "Seraph of the End" and other highly-anticipated second season works

The new fall anime are finally coming out, and there are quite a few of them this season. Akiba Research Institute (Anipota) has published "2015 Autumn Anime," a quick and comprehensive list of new fall anime, and as of September 16, a whopping 62 new titles have been picked up. As of September 16, a whopping 62 new works have been selected. For those who are at a loss as to which ones to watch, the main purpose of this series is to introduce the most noteworthy works under each theme.

In this first installment, I would like to focus on the so-called "sequels," or "second season works. This is because there are quite a few "sequels" to popular works in this fall's anime season. Just a quick glance at the number of them exceeds 20, but this time, I picked up 6 works that are particularly noteworthy among them. All of them are works whose "first season" became quite popular. If you read the synopsis of the first season in the following, you should be able to easily enjoy the works even if you are watching them from the second season.

For a detailed list of TV anime (fall anime) that will start this fall, please check "2015 Fall Anime" here.

Haikyuu! Second Season

Based on the manga by Haruichi Furudate (serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2012), which has sold 2.5 million copies in total, the volleyball anime "HIQUE! is a textbook story of sports anime, centered around the hot protagonist Shoyo Hinata and the cool-headed genius setter Tobio Kageyama, as the members of the Karasuno High School volleyball club, full of individuality, grow up while facing various difficult enemies. The straightforward expression with laughter and tears, as well as the sweaty but refreshing performance that only an athletic club can provide, has moved many fans.

The first season depicted the story up to the inter-high qualifying round in the final year of the third year, when they were the core members of Karasuno High School, and the second season, which will begin in the fall, will depict the story after that. What will happen to the members of the Karasuno High School volleyball team who were defeated in the inter-high qualifiers, and will a new strong enemy appear?　What will happen to the members of the Karasuno High School volleyball team that lost in the inter-high qualifiers?

Seraph of the End: The Second Cool "Nagoya Decisive Battle Arc

An anime work based on a manga serialized in "JUMP SQ." (original story: Takaya Kagami, manga: Yamamoto Yamato, content composition: Daisuke Furuya). It is a dark fantasy set in a world where the population has been drastically reduced by an unknown virus and the world is threatened by vampires.

In the first season, which aired from April to June this year, the main character Yuichiro, a member of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army's vampire extermination unit, battled vampire forces in Tokyo and was eventually reunited with his childhood friend Mikaela, who lived as a vampire, on the battlefield at the Battle of Shinjuku. At the scene of the battle, Yuichiro activates his supernatural power called "the last seraph. What is the "last seraph" really?　What is the Japanese Imperial Demon Army planning?　And what will happen to Yuichiro and Mikaela?

In the second season, which will start in the fall, many secrets that remained a mystery in the first season are expected to be revealed. In fact, the original comic itself has not yet been completed, but Kagami, the author of the original comic, wrote the manuscript for this second course, which is set in Nagoya. The fact that the story will be told in advance of the anime is also of great interest to fans of the series.

Noragami ARAGOTO

This is an anime work based on a manga (currently serialized in Monthly Shonen Magazine) by Adachi Toka. The story is a human drama about a god named Yoruoto who accepts requests from humans for 5 yen in order to build his own shrine, a junior high school girl named Hiyori Iki who became a half-demon when she tried to save Yoruoto, and Yukine, who becomes Yoruoto's divine vessel.

The first season of the popular anime version of "Noragami," which aired from January to March 2014, focused on the feud between Yoto and Yukine, but the detailed expressions of emotions and feelings of regret, combined with the beautiful artwork by Bones, struck a chord with many fans. The quirky characters were played by popular voice actors such as Hiroshi Kamiya, Marei Uchida, and Hiroki Kaji, and the "Yoru-To Phone," a telephone voice service featuring the voice of Hiroshi Kamiya, received more than 1 million calls, which became a topic of conversation.

The second season will be a sequel to the first season and will include the popular episode "Bishamon Arc" from the original work. The staff and cast will continue to work on the series, and many fans are looking forward to seeing the story world of Yato and his friends once again.

Blue Sky Fafner EXODUS (2nd season)

Soukyu no Fafner EXODUS" is a new TV series that is the second season of "Soukyu no Fafner," which was originally produced as an original TV animation series by XEBEC in 2004. The first half of the series was aired from January to April this year, and the second half will finally be aired from this fall. The series is composed by the popular scriptwriter Ubukata Tow, and the overall story has a tragic and profound tone, which is why the series has a large number of fans.

The first half of the series, the first season, depicts a fierce battle between the Fafner unit and the "Festum," a life form from outer space. The world tree, Mir, towers over Esperanto's stronghold, Area Shrinagar. Festum attacks it, and Fafner's unit makes a desperate defense. The battle is fierce, and the Fafner unit is driven to the brink of extinction...

Originally planned to be a two-cour production, the first half of the film is still a mystery to the viewer. The second half, which will begin in the fall, will reveal everything and bring a new period to the "Fafner" series, which has spanned 10 years. The second season of "Fafner" will be a very interesting one to watch.

The second season of the "Fafner" series will be very interesting to see how it unfolds.

An anime work based on Koi's four-frame manga (serialized in Manga Time Kirara MAX). It is a so-called "yuru-fuwa" (loose and fluffy) work, and although it is set in a coffee shop called "Rabbit House" where rabbits live and the daily lives of the girls who gather there are depicted, it has a strange addictive quality and has slowly gained popularity mainly on the Internet since its broadcast. In particular, the simultaneous live broadcasts on "Nico Nico Douga" attracted a lot of attention, and the famous line, "Oh, my heart is so excited," which became a popular phrase, was born out of it.

Following the first season's great popularity, the second season will begin this fall. Incidentally, in addition to this work, anime based on "Manga Time Kirara" four-frame manga series include "Hidamari Sketch," "K-ON! KIN-IRO MOSAIC," etc., the second season of the series is likely to be a classic yuruwafu work as well.

K RETURN OF KINGS

K" was broadcast from October to December 2012, and became a hot topic because it was written and scripted by "GoRA," a group of seven masked writers, and featured a large number of beautiful characters and popular voice actors. Although this work is more of an action piece for women, three years after the first season aired, the long-awaited second season has finally begun (a movie version, "K MISSING KINGS," was released in July 2014).

The world of "K" is set in modern Japan, where history is slightly different from reality. There, seven "kings" are fighting each other, and the boys and girls who get caught up in their battles use their supernatural powers (xenobiotics) to battle it out. The second season of the TV series, "K RETURN OF KINGS," is said to depict the world after the movie version "K MISSING KINGS," which was released in July 2014.

With a large number of characters and most of them being beautiful boys, this season is sure to be a must-see for female fans in particular.

In the second installment of our "Autumn New Anime Spotlight" series, we plan to introduce "revival blockbusters," which will be a common topic in this fall's anime season. Please look forward to it!