Fall 2011 Anime

This is a list of TV Anime series that are planned to air between September to November 2011, along with their Laconic descriptions.

Forum thread.

See Summer 2011 Anime for the previous season and Winter 2012 Anime for the one after that.

TV Series:
Bakuman｡ Season 2 Airing from October 1st for 25 episodes

Second season of the Bakuman｡ anime based on the manga, a series about a couple of aspiring mangaka trying to make it in Shonen Jump.

Ben-To (Trailer) Airing from the 8th of October

Based on a Light Novel series, this is an Action-Comedy show about the epic battles between the customers of the local supermarket, in order to claim one of the rare, half-priced bentos. Really, that's the plot.

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (trailer) Airing from October 6th

The protagonist, Kodaka, looks like a delinquent and scares everyone. The female lead, Yozora, is sullen and talks to imaginary friends. Together they decide to start a club for people without any real friends.

C3 - Cubex Cursedx Curious (trailer) Airing from October 1st, for 1 cour

The main character is an otherwise Ordinary High School Student that is resistant to curses. He regularly receives cursed items from his father, including, one day, a mysterious, heavy cube. That night, he wakes up from a noise from the kitchen and finds a naked young woman stealing some rice crackers. She is the human form of the cube, and the two of them go on to fight other cursed items.

Chihayafuru (forum thread) Airing from October 4th, for 25 episodes

An anime about a young woman who used to aspire to follow her sister's path in fashion modeling until she meets a New Transfer Student who plays "Karuta", a card game. Serious Business ensues.

Digimon Xros Wars the Young Hunters Leaping Through Time Airing from the 2nd of October

The sequel to Digimon Xros Wars, and the seventh Digimon series overall. Taiki, Shoutmon, Yuu and Damemon will be returning, along with new tamers and Digimon and a new threat.

Fate/Zero (Trailer)(Trailer 2) (forum thread) Airing October 1st, for 25 episodes, with a one-hour premiere.

The Animated Adaptation of the Light Novel prequel to Fate Stay Night, to be animated by ufotable. It tells the story of the fourth Holy Grail War, ten years before the start of the series.

Guilty Crown (trailer) (forum thread) Airing from October 13th, for 2 cours (probably totalling 22 episodes)

An anime about a seventeen-year-old boy with a psychic ability in his right hand which allows him to extract tools from his friends. He meets a girl from a La Résistance which fights against the government using Humongous Mecha. Scheduled to air during the NoitaminA block.

Hunter X Hunter 2 Airing from October 2nd for over 45 episodes.

A retelling of the popular shounen manga from the beginning.

Kimi to Boku (trailer) Airing from October 3rd, for 13 episodes, with a second season sometime in 2012.

Literally "You and Me". An Animated Adaptation by J.C.Staff of a high-school Slice of Life manga about four childhood friends and a half-Japanese transfer student. Unlike the two dozen other anime with this premise, these are male friends.

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon (trailer) forum thread Airing from October 1st, for 1 cour, with a second season sometime in 2012

Translated as Horizon in The Middle of Nowhere. An After the End series by Sunrise in which humans move to an "upper world" after the Earth is devastated. The upper world is also destroyed after a war, and humans return to a mostly uninhabitable Earth as they rebuild the upper world.

...This sounds depressing, but the series is mostly about large-breasted girls fighting each other in ridiculous outfits.

Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam (Trailer) (forum thread) Airing from the 7th of October

Last Exile : Fam, the Silver Wing is a new original tale in the Last Exile universe. It features new characters, new mechanics and an all new story centered around the young ace vanship pilot, Fam, and her trusted navigator, Giselle, as they pilot their vanship, Vespa, through the free and peaceful skies.

Maken-ki! (trailer) Airing from the 4th of October, for 1 cour

A normal guy ends up going to an Extranormal Institute where Duels Decide Everything. Cue fight scenes. And ecchi. Lots of ecchi.

Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai (trailer) (forum thread) Airing from October 1st

Based on an Eroge Visual Novel, a Slice of Life Harem Comedy about a close group of friends, four boys and five girls.

Mashiro-iro Symphony (Trailer) Airing October 4th for 1 cour

A boys' school and a girls' school are merging. Our protagonist is sent to attend the girls' school for an integration period before the actual merger. The problem? All the girls there hate guys.

Mirai Nikki (OVA teaser Short PV) Airing from October 9th, for 26 episodes.

The Animated Adaptation of the manga about twelve people given "diaries" which can predict the future and are forced to kill one another in a survival game created by God.

Mobile Suit Gundam Age (trailer) Airing from October 9th

In A.G 108, seven year old Flit Asuno lost his mother when UE attacked his colony "Ovan". His mother left him a memory unit "AGE" which had stored data of an ancient mobile suit Gundam. In A.G. 114, Flit completes the Gundam AGE and counterattacks against GAFRA Ns.

Persona 4 The Animation (Trailer 11 (with OP)) (Forum thread (anime)) Airing October 6th, for 2 cours

The Animated Adaptation of the hit JRPG. A high-school student transfers to a rural town immediately before strange murders occur and discover a world inside a TV. He and his newly-formed group of True Companions set out to solve the murders, their relation to the TV world, and their new powers.

Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle (trailer) (forum thread) Airing October 2nd, for 25 episodes

An anime original adventure story by Sunrise, about a group of high school students fighting a mysterious organization through solving puzzles.

Sekaiichi Hatsukoi: Season 2 (Trailer) Airing from October 7th.

Second season of the Boys Love anime featuring three different couples.

Shakugan no Shana III Airing from October 7th, for 24 episodes.

The third and final season of the Shakugan no Shana series.

Shinryaku! Ika Musume Airing from September 26th.

The second season about the Slice of Life Comedy adventures of the Squid Girl who wants to take over the world.

Tamayura: Hitotose Airing from the 3rd of October for 1 cour

A peaceful Slice of Life series following it's first OVA version. The story takes place in the town of Takehara at the Seto Inland Sea and is about a girl who likes taking pictures.

Towa no Quon Airing biweekly from the 14th of October for 6 hour-long movies

Children are beginning to wake up with strange powers and an unnamed group is attempting to capture them.

Un-Go (trailer) Airing from October 13th, for 11 episodes.

An original NoitaminA series produced by Bones. Will be a re-imagining of Ango Sakaguchi's Meji-era detective stories in a near-future setting.

Working: Season 2 (Trailer) (forum thread) Airing regularly from October 1st, with an early premiere on September 3rd.

Second season of the anime about a seventeen-year-old boy hired to work for a family restaurant. He loves small things ranging from insects to children. The restaurant employees are an equally strange crew of workers.