Anime Bingo 2016: Sixth Month

Fast update since Comiket’s next month and that’s another heavy load.

• Let me get this out of my system – YESSSSS LWA TV ANIME, GOD BLESS YOSHINARI.
• Nanoha is getting one new anime. Two new anime? But one isn’t Nanoha. It’s also not the sequel to that other spinoff, despite kinda sharing its title. No it’s not the movie they announced either. What movie? What’s a Nanoha. Help.
• A lot of people predicted a No Game No Life sequel and are currently cursing themselves for specifying it would be a TV series rather than the movie it’s getting.
• After releasing enough chapters to eventually be able to compile another volume of the manga, Togashi’s putting HxH on hiatus again. Which would sound cynical if he weren’t sort of dying from back pain.
• Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii Desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii Desu ka? AKA SukaSuka is getting an anime. I heard this one’s a surprisingly interesting LN, but please keep your titles to one entire sentence at most.
• UQ Holder anime you say? When has an Akamatsu adaptation gone wro- oh.
• Masamune-kun no Revenge is getting an anime adaptation as well, and all I’m asking is that it keeps the chapter where a girl cosplays as Cure Black.
• Mamoru Oshii is back to anime and the results so far are so underwhelming I’m boycotting any punchline.
• Crunchyroll will start releasing BD/DVD, effectively mocking the home media industry they sort of killed. The anime overlords are merciless.
• BUMP singing the opening and ending for the upcoming Sangatsu anime might be the least surprising but most satisfying news this month.
• Mandatory sales predictions update: Jojo is underperforming as some people expected. Why do you make me type this.

4 points: zana, Thomas, Suzu, Mecasonic13, jonjon, Tursake

3 points: Hibari, HachiKirra, Ayami, shinsei, iblessall, Kraker2k, vestenet, Kasa, A. Libellule, Alemisty, ZakuAbumi, Fencedude, deepbluejeer Deem, bitmap, whemleh, Divinenega, processr, Ashita, Micchy, Game8910, zetsubouzhainu, Futsuu, kc_alex2

2 points: CRSMK, conan-edw, Helltilt, Lor, Reki, Rosa_FOEtida, petting_sinon, Felice, Lusama, c001357, Hitokiri, Neomo, Uznare, Katapan, ZlSgiiNofdl, ultimatemegax, osama___a, Shushutto, Elliot, marie, Fouton, Eric, Blue-kun

1 point: overlord_jet, Nyanko the victim, Cral, opn, fuyu, ravesaki, WestCoastAnime, fullOanime, Aeolonox, Zatheyll, liborek3, RonSnow, Stark, vinhnyu, Lusama, flowers, tim, Hazukari, Zepwich, Sasquatchulous, Stuart E., ottocycle, Dominik, Yoshi, Psyris, Bloodystar, SeHNNG, Bash, Craig McLeod, Fungi, Hakase, secondsun, Power, korol, Andrea Ritsu, buildknuckle, DC, Tsun, Frank, Super, bug, Cory, Tuna, Neidhardt, FabledHunter, Sa10-kun, Psyris, gemon, tamerlane

Anime Bingo 2016: Fifth Month

Shorter summary only highlighting some things this month, because unexciting updates make me lazy.

• Honestly, nothing all that big this mon- Oh. New Cardcaptor Sakura anime. Well. Nevermind.
• A new Digimon multimedia series could also be considered huge, though it has less of an impact with Tri already existing. At least we get to laugh at their attempt to modernize the franchise being called “Appmon” and featuring “Gachamon”. Truly the Digimon of our times.
• And Nisekoi is finally ending! That is, unless its readers/victims are about to experience the biggest fakeout in anime history and they plan to continue it in another magazine. Which… they wouldn’t, right. Right?
• Violet Evergarden is getting an anime, as announced by a very flashy commercial. Who’d have thought that the only grand prize winner at the KyoAni Awards (which once again gave no actual prizes this year, also as predicted by someone) would get an adaptation.
• Time Bokan 24 will be replacing Ace Attorney and airing this fall season. Seems like the least experimentative recent Tatsunoko reboot, perhaps someone wasn’t all that happy about Yoru no Yatterman’s poor sales.
• Yuki Hayashi keeps trying to take over the anime industry with cool BGM and he’s already up to 3 new TV series, aside from the upcoming One Piece film.
• The Weird MMD Anime niche has been rewarded with a new Koutarou Ishidate series, about… Mahou Shoujo? I’m not the one doubting, the ? is in the title.

4 points: zana, Thomas, Suzu

3 points: Hibari, HachiKirra, Ayami, shinsei, iblessall, Kraker2k, jonjon, vestenet, Kasa, A. Libellule, Alemisty, Tursake, ZakuAbumi, Mecasonic13

2 points: kc_alex2, whemleh, CRSMK, conan-edw, Divinenega, deepbluejeer, Helltilt, Lor, Reki, Rosa_FOEtida, processr, petting_sinon, Felice, Micchy, Lusama, zetsubouzhainu, c001357, Fencedude, Hitokiri, Neomo, Uznare, Katapan, Game8910, ZlSgiiNofdl, ultimatemegax, osama___a, Deem, bitmap, Shushutto, Elliot, Ashita

1 point: overlord_jet, Nyanko the victim, Cral, opn, fuyu, ravesaki, Fouton, WestCoastAnime, Blue-kun, fullOanime, Aeolonox, Zatheyll, liborek3, RonSnow, Stark, vinhnyu, Lusama, Eric, flowers, tim, Hazukari, Zepwich, Sasquatchulous, geso, Stuart E., ottocycle, Dominik, Yoshi, Psyris, Bloodystar, SeHNNG, Bash, Futsuu, Craig McLeod, Fungi, Hakase, secondsun, Power, korol, Andrea Ritsu, buildknuckle, DC, Tsun, Frank, Super, bug

Anime Bingo 2016: Fourth Month

I definitely didn’t forget to publish this post until 6 hours after I’d finished it.

• The mysterious nisioisin countdown lead to the announcement of a Zaregoto anime adaptation! If only they’d also announced which corpse at SHAFT will be in charge of it.
• People keep asking for more Hyouka, so we’re getting a new novel in the Kotenbu series and a live action movie. Anime? What the hell’s that.
• A WIXOSS sequel has been revealed, an objectively good announcement since that means a new WIXOSS title that follows the glorious formula of “attach two terms that aren’t even words”. I have no idea what a Lostorage Incited is, but I love it.
• Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon is getting an anime adaptation, which is good for people who liked yuri and dragons. Excellent news if you like both.
• Saiki Kusuo no Psinan is getting an anime as well, but all I care about is that it’ll be produced by a studio called EGG FIRM. Which is apparently a play on Egg Farm. Anime is good.
• We got more details about the promised Gundam Build Fighters OVAs, which are now slated to be a Try TV special. Where’s the BF one, Bandai. You promised. I won’t forget.
• And speaking of the good Build Fighters, it’ll get a physical release in the US! Good news if you live in a bad country but enjoy good cartoons.
• Oh and Crystal to-
• Sales roundup this month include people wishing terrible sales to BBK and all of 3DCG anime and getting their wish fulfilled.

4 points: zana, Thomas, Suzu

3 points: Hibari, HachiKirra, Ayami, shinsei, iblessall, Kraker2k, jonjon, vestenet, Kasa

2 points: ZakuAbumi, kc_alex2, whemleh, CRSMK, conan-edw, Divinenega, A. Libellule, deepbluejeer, Helltilt, Lor, Reki, Rosa_FOEtida, processr, petting_sinon, Felice, Micchy, Lusama, zetsubouzhainu, Tursake, c001357, Fencedude, Hitokiri, Mecasonic13, Neomo, Alemisty, Uznare

1 point: bitmap, Shushutto, overlord_jet, Nyanko the victim, Cral, Game8910, opn, fuyu, ravesaki, ultimatemegax, osama___a, Fouton, WestCoastAnime, Blue-kun, fullOanime, Elliot, Aeolonox, Zatheyll, liborek3, RonSnow, Ashita, Stark, vinhnyu, Lusama, ZlSgiiNofdl, Deem, Eric, flowers, tim, Hazukari, Zepwich, Sasquatchulous, geso, Stuart E., ottocycle, Dominik, Yoshi, Psyris, Bloodystar, SeHNNG, Bash, Katapan, Futsuu, Craig McLeod, Fungi, Hakase, secondsun, Power, korol, Andrea Ritsu, buildknuckle

Anime Bingo 2016: Third Month

AnimeJapan happened, effectively drowning the world in cartoon news.

• We’re getting a fifth season of Natsume Yuujinchou handled by both Omori and Deai, proving the existence of a benevolent deity.
• Equally good news is knowing that Sayo Yamamoto’s ice skating Animator Expo film will be (kinda) expanded into a full TV anime.
• Fans were also delighted to find out that Majestic Prince is getting a sequel. The series had a cult following despite featuring Hirai designs and CG robots, two naturally evil elements.
• One of the event’s megatons was the announcement that Touken Ranbu isn’t getting one but two anime adaptations. A cute one by Dogakobo, followed by ufotable’s for the demographic of fun-haters.
• AJ’s biggest ruse might have been filling the Fate stage with F/GO promotion and then announcing a Fate/Extra anime by SHAFT instead.
• They did announce that Heavens Feel will be a 2017 trilogy scored by Kajiura however, as expected.
• Forget about everything else anyway, AJ’s most important reveal was that MORE YUYUSHIKI IS HAPPENING.
• Last month also had the noitaminA event, announcing titles that were in multiple ballots like Saekano S2 and Scum’s Wish. No I’m not insulting the people who hoped for it, that’s its title.
• Final Fantasy XV is getting an anime adaptation – two if you also count the 3DCG movie. Square Enix seems to enjoy putting all the eggs in one basket which is already on fire.
• I’ve decided to boycott the Haikyuu S3 news because the show dared to make Oikawa sad.
• Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans is also getting the sequel that was hinted at, something that might make some people happy. People other than MBS’ producers having to deal with its awful ratings.
• Someone predicted Ace Attorney’s official subs would be extremely localized like the games, and that turned out to be true at least for one track.
• The cool staff predictions of the month include Sejoon Kim going back to Sunrise to animate some robots (good!) and Ryouma Ebata producing an opening sequence by himself again (extremely good!).

4 points: zana

3 points: Hibari, Thomas, HachiKirra, Ayami, shinsei, Suzu

2 points: ZakuAbumi, kc_alex2, whemleh, CRSMK, conan-edw, Divinenega, A. Libellule, vestenet, deepbluejeer, Helltilt, Lor, Reki, iblessall, Rosa_FOEtida, Kasa, processr, Kraker2k, petting_sinon, Felice, jonjon, Micchy, Lusama, zetsubouzhainu, Tursake, c001357

1 point: bitmap, Shushutto, overlord_jet, Nyanko the victim, Cral, Game8910, opn, fuyu, Fencedude, ravesaki, ultimatemegax, osama___a, Fouton, WestCoastAnime, Blue-kun, fullOanime, Elliot, Aeolonox, Zatheyll, liborek3, RonSnow, Ashita, Stark, Hitokiri, Uznare, vinhnyu, Lusama, ZlSgiiNofdl, Deem, Eric, flowers, tim, Hazukari, Zepwich, Sasquatchulous, geso, Stuart E., ottocycle, Neomo, Psyris, Bloodystar, SeHNNG, Bash, Katapan, Alemisty, Futsuu, Craig McLeod

Anime Bingo 2016: Second Month

Heavy month, as the biggest anime event approaches and early announcements trickle down.

• *clears throat* HOLY CRAP HUNTER X HUNTER IS BACK.
• Eromanga Sensei is getting an anime adaptation. Sadly that does not refer to the Australian town but to the series by Oreimo’s author.
• Symphogear is getting the 4th season everyone expected, and to stop people from spamming Anime Bingo 2017 with season 5 predictions they went ahead and announced that too.
• Many people predicted a second season of Mahouka, but Mahoukadude outsmarted them by getting a movie instead. Sasuga oniisama.
• Mahoutsukai no Yome is getting an anime! And it looks fantastic! Wait, what do you mean that PV has no real footage. Well, surely we can trust WIT to live up to their promotional material.
• And more popular series getting animated, this time Ichigo Takano’s orange. Hamasaki ran away from Racist Roaches 2 to direct this instead, very smart of him.
• Netflix must have been upset over all the jokes about their misleading ‘original Netflix anime’ promotion so they greenlit a legit one. Legit in nature at least, because the synopsis makes it sound like a parody of western-appeal anime.
• Urara Meirocho is getting an anime. Finally a show about cute girls doing… cute divination things?
• Etsuko Yakushimaru will perform the new Sailor Moon Crystal opening, so now we’ll have the pleasure to see it listed alongside titles like Tatami Galaxy, Penguindrum and Space Dandy.
• All Out, the show about rugby and butts, will be produced by Madhouse – partially at least, since TMS and Telecom are also involved in their current campaign to take over the whole industry.
• We’re blessed to live in a world where the new Precure All Stars movie is a musical. A musical featuring 44 magical girls. How is this not the greatest thing.
• Also on good Toei news, Masayuki Sato is in charge of the character designs for the new One Piece movie. It’s not always pain for its fanbase.
• Doukyuusei is getting a US theater run, which is fantastic news as long as you’re not a dirty europeasant like myself.
• Yuuki Hayashi will compose HeroAca’s soundtrack, once again working with his pal Nagasaki. He’s likely not the only person by that name who’ll work on the show, funnily enough.
• More staff news for the dorks: Teraoka will storyboard Gundam IBO’s final battle. It’s almost like they’re aware he’s super good at this.
• And the usual sales roundup to end this month, pretty much just “conrevo is doomed“.

3 points: zana, Hibari

2 points: ZakuAbumi, Thomas, kc_alex2, whemleh, CRSMK, shinsei, suzu, conan-edw, Divinenega, A. Libellule, vestenet

1 point: bitmap, Shushutto, overlord_jet, Nyanko the victim, Cral, Game8910, jonjon, c001357, opn, fuyu, Fencedude, ravesaki, ultimatemegax, osama___a, deepbluejeer, Fouton, Helltilt, Reki, HachiKirra, Rosa_FOEtida, WestCoastAnime, Kasa, Blue-kun, fullOanime, Elliot, Aeolonox, processr, Zatheyll, kraker2k, liborek3, RonSnow, Ashita, Stark, Hitokiri, petting_sinon, Felice, Uznare, vinhnyu, Micchy, Lusama, zetsubouzhainu, ZlSgiiNofdl, Ayami

Anime Bingo 2016: First Month

I really wish I had a funnier joke than “Urobuchi’s project was chinese puppets“.

• Someone technically had a point before the ballots post even went up, thanks to the Magic of Stella anime announcement. Talk about fast.
• It’s not quite Barakamon, but its spinoff prequel Handa-kun is getting an anime. Sadly lacking in Naru, but good nonetheless.
• Keijo!!!!!!!! is also getting an anime adaptation, as well as the award for the most overly enthusiastic title.
• Many people predicted Osomatsu-san would sell outrageously well, yet no one actually called it’d be one of the best selling volumes of all time.
• The Mob Psycho 100 staff reveal fulfilled many staff wishlists, what’s with Tachikawa directing and Kameda being in charge of the character designs. Somehow even better than the Natsume&co dreams.
• Speaking of staff, Imaishi’s new short series Space Patrol Luluco also surprised us by featuring more big Trigger names than expected.
• Aikatsu’s mobage Photokatsu finally managed to launch this February… just in time for the leaks that the series is getting rebooted. Only Bandai could manage this.
• Speaking of disasters, remember Kancolle Kai? The PS Vita port that got delayed about a million times? It’s finally being released! A lot of time well spent to make sure it had an even cheaper looking interface than its free to play source.
• And to end on that somber note, “people predict anime will sell awfully” returns for 2016. The first victim was Comet Lucifer, which barely pushed more than 300 copies.

1 point: ZakuAbumi, Hibari, bitmap, Thomas, kc_alex2, Shushutto, overlord_jet, zana, CRSMK, shinsei, A. Libellule, Nyanko the jerk, Cral, Game8910, jonjon, Divinenega, c001357, opn

Anime Bingo 2016 Ballots

The motto this year was “get enough people to make predictions about the anime industry so that this post breaks everyone’s browsers”. It seems to have worked.

 

Fuyu: 1/9

• Ore no Real to Netgame ga Love Comedy ni Shinshokusare Hajimete Yabai – Bought the first volume on instinct. Trust my instincts.
• Ikai Shinki to no Reunion as the light novel adaptation that no one has heard prior to this
• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari anime – Shieldbro has suffered enough in the light novel, at the very least they can grace him with his own anime series.
• Eromanga Sensei anime – I HATE THIS BUT I CAN’T DENY THE PLAUSIBILITY.
• Saki Zenkoku-hen S2 or an equivalent – Ritz’s time is coming.
• Mondaiji S2 – I said I’d have faith, and here it is. Placing all my faith in here.
• Index S3 – It’s a popular enough series with enough material that it’s unlikely to not happen at some point.
• Studio TRIGGER takes another LN series up in 2016
• SubaHibi anime – Honestly doubting this will happen, but FAITH.

Craig McLeod: 1/9

• Sailor Moon Crystal season 2 to be released as a series of OVAs ala Digimon Tri with a volume of the 2003 shins?ban per ‘movie’ (6 total)
• Digimon Adventure Tri licenced by Funimation, incorporates as much of the Saban cast (and terminology) as possible – Joshua Seth, previously retired as of 2003 returns as Taichi.
• The Seven Deadly Sins Season 2 is released on Netflix within a month of being concluded in Japan
• Chivalry of a Failed Knight Season 2 Announced
• Light Novels that have been officially released in the US but in paper format exclusively (SAO, AW, Index, Devil is a Part Timer, The Isolator, etc) will begin their Digital releases
• Dragon Ball Super US release is confirmed to be held back until DB Kai: The Final Chapters concludes on Toonami (sometime in ’17)
• Glitter Force does the right numbers for a continuation, Saban adapts Heartcatch PreCure as “Glitter Force Heart” -?Bonus: It turns out that Saban had to use another title due to YTV and Toei’s licensing agreement for Futari wa Pretty Cure
• Viewster’s Omakase Crate Box is abandoned, becoming an subscription model for Ad free Viewing of content
• Crunchyroll’s first CoPro announced: It is an adaptation of UQ Holder with Shaft

Fencedude: 3/9

• Idolmaster Million Live TV anime – I’m lazy and didn’t replace my LoveLive Sunshine guess so it got changed to this [No Fence this one doesn’t count, but I really did this to everyone else]
• Saki Shinohayu anime announced
• Saki Zenkoku-hen anime announced for 2017
• Citrus anime adaption
• Some sort of Nanoha anime announced
• Shirobako Season 2 not announced
• Girls und Panzer season 2 announced
• Symphogear Season 4 announced
• A highly anticipated Sakuga anime fails to deliver
• Some yuri anime other than Citrus comes out of nowhere

ZakuAbumi: 3/9

• HxH manga returns from hiatus – This actually worked out for me once, 1 year is a long span of time and I don’t see Togashi stalling the manga for any longer also pls continue this already ffs.
• Violet Evergarden adaptation – KyoAni’s LNs getting adapted is a thing sadly but with this one, we might just get something decent actually!
• New Yasuhiro Yoshiura project – HEY KVIN I’M SURE YOU’D LIKE TO SEE THAT EVE NO JIKAN SEQUEL RITE???
• Anime project that has been on long hiatus (f.i. Despera, Savanna Game, Mushi-Uta 2) to actually happen – More recycling! Okay so that Mushi-Uta S2 will probably never happen (thanks, person who’s at fault) but my suspicion is Hamasaki’s summer anime being Despera with how he claimed that he’d get to a show he’s been wanting to do for a while now and Konaka’s teasing in his interview being rather not subtle.
• Rokka no Yuusha sequel
• Yuzuru Tachikawa directs something entirely new – Also, please stay away from stuff like Terror, kthx.
• More Mononoke anime – Obligatory “This won’t happen anyway but if it does, everyone will kiss my ass” pick.
• Hikaru Sakurai’s new project is at Lerche – Also, please be a TV series.
• More Teekyuu – Just as I had printed something out I realized that on the backside of the sheet of paper were numerous Bingo picks I had written down way back and forgotten about, this one being one of them. That must have been fate. And cheapassery.

ravesaki: 1/9

• Aikatsu doesn’t get a fifth season
• OPM doesn’t get a sequel
• Macross Delta doesn’t outsell Frontier
• Gundam IBO isn’t split cour like 00, Sunrise announces another Gundam AU by the end of the year
• Fafner gets yet another final movie
• Still no news about the 3rd Nanoha movie
• Another Precure series ends up on Netflix
• Pripara lives for the entirety of 2016
• Persona 5 gets a TV anime/movie

Fungi: 1/9

• Asahinagu anime
• Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon anime
• Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro anime
• Juuhan Shuttai! anime
• Minamoto-kun Monogatari OVA adaptation
• Ajin-chan wa Kataritai anime
• Shibito no Koe o Kiku ga Yoi anime
• Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san
• CANDY POP NIGHTMARE anime

ultimatemegax: 2/9

• Ero-manga Sensei will have an anime announcement this year – Dengeki’s been promoting it lately, it has manga adaptations already, and there’s now enough content to make a full season. I wouldn’t be surprised if they/Aniplex decide to go back to something successful.
• Adachi and Shimamura will not have an anime announcement this year – While this seems overly negative, it is a light novel series with at least 5 volumes in print. Generally that’s when there’s a potential for an anime series, but AdaShima is too short for a TV series. Also Dengeki isn’t publishing a manga adaptation yet either.
• Munto will not get a BD release this year – This is my “”gimmie”” point. Munto was published by KyoAni and distributed by Kadokawa and Movic in 2009 and didn’t sell that well (even with the KyoAni Shop) then. It’s incredibly unlikely they’ll release it on BD despite it being the one series produced by them not on BD.
• Sound Euphonium’s sequel will broadcast starting in July – Recap movie three months earlier, enough production time following Phantom World, and before Koe no Katachi. Check.
• Sword Art Online’s movie will open in under 75 cinemas – SAO is a big franchise, but it’s not /that/ big. I can’t see Aniplex reserving this many, but I could see around 50 or so, thus 75 seemed like a risky, but not overly risky prediction.
• Violet Evergarden will have an anime announcement this year, but will not be broadcast/screened in 2016 – The schedule is full, so something following Eupho/Koe no Katachi seems natural.
• While Kadokawa will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Haruhi anime, no additional anime will be announced – It’s not happening!
• There will be no Kyoto Animation event this fall – They seem to be doing a “”every other year”” timeline and the staff will be moving to a new building this year anyways.”
• Accelerator manga will get an anime adaptation announcement, but nothing new for Railgun/Index’s anime series – Index S3 never. NEVER!

osama___a: 2/9

• Koudai Watanabe will be in charge of the character designs for something – *vomiting blood*
• New latenight anime by Toei Animation
• Finally we will hear about Takashi Otsuka’s upcoming project
• Masayuki Sato will be the designer for One Piece’s new movie
• At least two full scale 3DCG movies by Toei Animation.
• Shigeyasu Yamauchi works in Jojo’s Part 4
• Yuki Hayashi credited for key animation outside his studio at least four times
• Information about Shinichiro Watanabe’s next project – Maybe a Space Dandy movie, maybe something else.
• Toei produces a new series based on a videogame

Coelho: 0/9

• Chaos;Child airs in fall – I hope this time it won’t be crap.
• Tsujidou-san no Jun’ai Road anime announced – Takahiro wills it.
• No Game No Life S2 announced – Brazilian editor said it would happen in a event over here
• Fate/Grand Order anime announced – Gotta get those Fate and Mobage bucks.
• More animated Yozakura Quartet – There are no gimmicks, no tricks. Just wishful thinking.
• Anything Raildex animated is announced – Kazuma Miki-kun will make it happen.
• Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho anime announced – Because the world needs more Shimakaze.
• Okitegami Kyouko anime by Shaft – Well.
• Against all odds, Muv-Luv Extra/Alternative get an anime – 2016 will the year of Muv-Luv.

One Piece&Naruto’s #01 fan: 1/9

• That jump sumo Manga gets an anime – HeroAca got an early announcement so I’m betting this will too even if it’s only an ova or something screened at JumpFesta.
• Fate/apocrypha anime – Seems like they’re hyping something for the AnimeJapan panel and it’s a bit soon for a Fate/GO anime, this seems like the most likely choice for a new fate thing.
• An old shonen manga (over 25 years) will get a new anime adaptation – Seems to be happening often lately what with D.Gray-Man and Berserk, so why not.
• No Game No Life season 2 – Ishizuka please ;_;
• Mushoku tensei anime – T-this year for sure.
• WIT will die again (huge production trainwrecks) – Only so Shingeki With Trains can truly be Shingeki With Trains.
• Another Toei series director will leave and become either freelance or join another studio
• Rie Matsumoto will show up in another BONES series – Speaking of ex-Toei staff I kinda expected her to show up in noragami, and while that never happened maybe she’s doing something there since BBB ended.
• Tokyo 7th sisters anime – All hail our idol overlords.

deepbluejeer: 3/9

• White Album 2 Closing Chapter adaptation – Every year until it happens.
• A Fate/ property gets a new anime adaptation – Fate/Grand Order is selling like hotcakes despite the constant issues; I can see Aniplex deciding to capitalize off this by animating either Apocrypha or Fragments. Please be Fragments.
• Arcueid becomes playable in Fate/Grand Order – Half-joking but they could use this to promote the Tsukihime remake (笑).
• More Symphogear – Hello, free points.
• Mushoku Tensei anime – Picked up the LNs and it’s definitely going to be popular with the ‘stuck in fantasy world’ crowd. As much as I don’t want to see a butchered adaptation of this, it’s probably gonna happen sooner or later.
• Shuumatsu ni nani wo shimasuka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukuttemoratte ii desu ka? (SukaSuka) anime adaptation – Apparently it’s ending on April 1st and it seems to be garnering a good reputation.
• Sakurai Hikaru gets credited for scriptwriting outside of Meian no Kerneter – Self-explanatory.
• Announcement of a Tokyo 7th Sisters anime project – Could be a teaser OVA, animated music videos; TV anime is probably unlikely but I think the game’s getting enough attention for something to be animated.
• The Saki manga will not reach the last round of the tournament finals by the end of the year – Because Ritz pls.

Deem: 3/9

• Touken ranbu gets anime – It’s popular enough + AJ stage.
• New D.Gray-Man anime will be 2-cours
• KyoAni have a 2016 anime targeting women – Whatever HattaP hinted at.
• New Card Captor Sakura anime – 20th anniversary!
• No Game No Life sequel announced
• Nozaki-kun sequel announced
• Girls’ Work won’t be released in 2016
• Something new about Despera is announced
• Phantom world v1 sells more than 6000 copies

Fouton: 2/9

• Dungeon Meshi anime
• Yuyushiki S2 – ;_; Believers shall be rewarded. And with BD-Box and new event coming I will not lose my faith.
• Robot Heart Update anime – KyoAni is stacked for 2016, but who knows. We might get a cool and moe LN adaptation for 2017.
• Biblia Koshodou anime – It will happen one day, and I think it might be the year.
• Yama no Susume 3 – Every year, until it happens.
• Tokyo 7th Sisters anime – I think it has to happen before Im@s Million Live. Probably OVA though.
• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari anime – Well-selling LN that still is adaptationless.
• Masamune-kun no Revenge anime – It’s finally time to see some animated Tiv-sensei artwork.
• Mahoutsukai no Yome anime – Come on, we all know it’s more than likely.

Kurogane Shiroikaze: 0/9

• Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Mahou anime adaptation announcement
• Kizumonogatari Part 3 gets delayed to next year
• The last Evangelion remake movie gets a release date – Might not be this year.
• Idolmaster Million Live anime adaptation
• Macross Delta gets a split cour broadcast
• New Madoka Magica project is a TV anime airing Fall 2016
• Zokuowarimonogatari TV anime announcement
• Ishigami Shizuka gets more than 2 leading heroine roles in 2016
• Marina Inoue or Nakamura Yuuichi marriage announcement

Cory: 1/9

• Symphogear season 4 announced for 2017
• Funimation finally does something with Outlaw Star
• Ponycan USA gives up
• Tomino express interest in working on new Love Live project
• Rebuild 4.0 become the most torrented anime cam-rip of all time
• Yozakura Quartet somehow gets another OVA
• A US publisher picks up Maoyuu
• Togashi puts out at least a volume’s worth of chapters this year
• Discotek gets Gdgd Fairies

Jarmel: 0/9

• Full Metal Panic will be produced at Xebec with the Yamato 2199 crew and will be released in the form of an OVA series – I expect the director to be either Takemoto or Chigira. The producer for FMP, Ito, has connections at Xebec and has done multiple shows there. There was also a tweet from two animators, one who has done some work on Yamato, that sorta implied that one was working on the production.
• Darker than Black S3 will be announced as the big BONES original for 2017 -?It’s been sorta rumored and wished but 2017 is the 10th anniversary of the airing date.
• Blood Blockade Battlefront will have a 2nd season announced – It sold a shitload of BDs. Money is as good a reason as ever.
• Fate/Grand Order will have an anime announced at Anime Japan – There was a tweet from some of the F/GO VAs promoting the event.
• Madoka Season 2 will be announced for 2017 – Money on the table. On the table.
• EVA 4.44 isn’t coming out this year – Bit risky as I could see Khara finally getting their act together but eh might as well live large. It’s clear that the new EVA movie has had a really rocky development but that’s not anything new for Anno I suppose.
• WIT will have at least one production that will go haywire this year and end up a visual trainwreck – Free spot.
• Hataraku Maou-sama S2 announced – I don’t really expect this but might as well keep the hope alive for the potential oddball.
• No Game No Life S2 announced – There was that thing in Brazil so I can see it happening.

Lossthief: 0/9

• Discotek Media will license the entire Macross franchise – Anything is Possible if you believe hard enough and send enough voodoo dolls to Harmony Gold’s offices.
• Symphogear Season 4 will be officially announced, but won’t air before the end of the year – This one’s basically a gimme considering, but I like to live safely inside my blanket fort sometimes.
• Rie Matsumoto will be announced for directing a new TV series, but not at Bones – After the production quagmire with BBB’s finale I suspect Matsumoto won’t want to hang around at Bones, but given the show’s success regardless I don’t imagine she’ll be long between new productions.
• Nisekoi will get a 3rd anime announced before the end of the manga – I want a 3rd season of Nisekoi.
• The My Hero Academia anime will sell about average in disc sales (4~6k), but the manga will more than double sales per volume after it airs.
• The Bleach manga will NOT end before the year is finished – Tite Kubo hates me specifically and will extend my torture as long as physically possible.
• Aside from the projects she’s already attached to (Gundam IBO, Kiznaiver, Mayoiga), Mari Okada will be announced to be writing 3 new TV series before the end of the year – Okada is secretly 3 prolific gnomes in a trench coat.
• Black Clover will get an anime at Studio Pierrot – Again this is the safest of bets but it’s fitting that Wizard Naruto get sent to the same studio.
• Dogakobo will finally announce Love Lab Season 2 – And it’ll be great and wonderful and bring the light back into our eyes and Maki and Riko will hold hands for a minute and it’ll be the cutest thing ever.

Helltilt: 2/9

• Yamauchi Shigeyasu will direct something – Even an episode of a random show is okay, just let him live.
• Studio Pablo will be in charge of MahoPri’s BGs
• Geso Ikuo will direct a new series
• Masayuki Yoshihara will also direct a new series
• New Doremi anime
• No Fate Heaven’s Feel this year
• Eromanga sensei anime adaptation
• Citrus anime adaptation
• Yuuki Hayashi will be the character designer for an upcoming Toei series

Lor: 2/9

• Gothicmade home video finally available – Since Nagano started working again on FSS I guess it will come out eventually.
• Break Blade new series/movie announcement
• Full Teekyuu year (at least one per season, spin-offs included) – Teekyuu is unstoppable.
• Horimiya anime announcement – This is just too good for still not having one.
• Heaven’s Feel adaptation will be in multiple movies – Heaven’s Feel is the longest route, I can’t imagine how they would compress everything in a single full lenght movie.
• Baby Step S3 announcement – Since there is a lot of material, I can only hope.
• Full series/full lenght movie announcement for at least one Animator Expo short – There were a lot in these last years that were pretty good.
• A-RISE spinoff/short/OVA/something similar announcement – Seriously guys, I need it.
• Horizon S3 announcement – I want to be there when this will happen.

Reki: 2/9

• Touken Ranbu anime
• Mahotsukai no Yome anime
• Flying Witch twitter account will continue to tweet the weather long after the show airs
• Dream Machine is finally finished
• KyoAni continues down its fujo path, with another new project blatantly marketed towards women primarily
• Gainax comes back from the dead with hit original IP
• Eva 4.0
• Douman Seiman series gets an anime
• New Free! anime thing – More Haru-chan.

Hibari: 3/9

• Kasumi to get a second remodel in Kancolle
• More Mahouka anime announced
• Comet Lucifer’s first volume sells less than 1frt (883 copies)
• Eromanga-sensei anime announced
• Dungeon Meshi anime announced
• Donald Trump to win US presidential election – Trump is anime so this counts, I say.
• More Teekyuu seasons will be announced
• Phantom World’s first volume sells at least 5k combined week1
• Jet planes introduced in Kancolle

Mecasonic13: 4/9

• Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka? anime adaptation announced
• No Game No Life Season 2 announced
• Schwarzesmarken will outsell Total Eclipse
• Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere Season 3 announced
• Anime adaptation of a Nisio Isin novel series that is not Monogatari
• Fate/Grand Order anime adaptation announced
• Another old Tatsunoko anime will get a TV series remake announced
• Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou anime adaptation announced
• Saiki Kusuo no Sainan TV anime adaptation announced

iblessall: 3/9

• Yutaka Nakamura will animate 10+ scenes over the course of the year – 8 scenes in 2014, 9 scenes in 2015, Yutapon is on a roll. For him. With BONES going crazy with shows next year, he’ll have plenty of chances to bless us with his talents.
• My Hero Academia will become BONES’ second-best selling production of all time – fly, BONES, fly and make money.
• Gundam Build Fighters will finally get a US physical release – RightStuf has acknowledged that they’re aware of the series’ popularity. With a few years in between 2016 and the show’s airing, it’s time.
• The Devil is a Part-Time S2 – Last chance, if it doesn’t happen this year I’ve got very little hope it’ll ever happen. 😦
• Haikyuu S3 – Cute volleyball boys ar good I guess.
• Ryouma Ebata will solo KA at least another OP/ED this year – Ebata’s been busy with Dimension W, but after the winter season is over he should have more time to make these.
• Chihayafuru S3 announced – Team Chihayafuru is done with Ore Monogatari!! and the manga is to the point where there’s plenty of material for another full season. The time is now.
• Anime adaptation for Potion, Wagami wo Tasukeru announced – The character designs on the light novel cover are cute. *prays* may they be just as cute in the anime.
• Crunchyroll gets a complete site overhaul – I believe.

bitmap, but not @bitmap, that’s someone else: 3/9

• YUYUSHIKI S2 – Every year until it comes true. no event good life.
• Hakoiri Drops anime – Let’s believe CUTE BLUE AHOGE.
• Zettai Karen Children anime thing – The wounds of unlimited have healed.
• New seasons of Teekyuu stop being made every season – Sadly, the Teekyuu train ends here.
• Photokatsu releases by mid-february – And I fall back into mobage hell.
• Violet Evergarden anime – *shrugs*
• Weva 3.0+1.0 lives – Something. Anything.
• Abe Youichi does not reach chapter 10 of shin chimoguri ringo to kingyo otoko by 2017 – Abe-sensei pls.
• Kagura kenbu no aerial anime – Always bet on shitty GA fantasy LNs.

Eric: 2/9

• Hinomaru Zumou TV Anime
• Ufotable’s Heaven Feel doesn’t come out in 2016
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5 gets an anime
• The final Evangelion Rebuild film doesn’t come out in 2016
• Yukari Tamura retires from voice acting
• Nanoha Vivid gets a 2nd season/2nd cour
• Symphogear gets a Movie
• Nisekoi gets a season 3 – Almost impossible, but I want one.
• Boruto TV anime – They’ll keep the franchise going as long as possible.

Paul: 0/9

• Darker than Black Season 3 announced – I can dream.
• Rakudai Kishi Season 2 in Fall
• Rurouni Kenshin remake by a decent staff/studio announced – Again, I can dream.
• Million Live anime announced
• GoHands does nothing for the whole year
• Toei ups the animation quality for Dragon Ball Super
• Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou sells surprisingly well
• Mayoiga becomes one of the more popular Spring anime (top5 sellers)
• Bungou Stray Dogs also becomes one of the more popular Spring anime

Thomas: 4/9

• Season 2 of Shirobako announced
• Season 2 of Prison School announced
• A fully CG full length anime sells less than 1000 BDs – Go away CG, nobody likes you.
• An old school 80s or 90s shoujo is rebooted with an anime series
• Sayo Yamamoto’s new anime project announced
• Reboot of Dirty Pair announced
• Another non Monster Musume monstergirl series gets an anime greenlit
• Ancient Magus Bride/Mahoutsukai no Yome gets an anime greenlit
• A girls sports series gets an anime, not counting biking since we already have seen those – Idols also won’t count as sports. Teppu totally counts.

Tuna: 1/9

• UQ Holder to get animated – It’s been running long enough now and has decent sales so it should be bound to happen.
• Assassination Classroom s3 announced to finish out the source manga content – Manga sells well enough and if they keep s2 focused on just one school semester then there is plenty to still animate to finish out the series.
• Black Clover to get animated – I believe it will be fast tracked along to be animated just as HeroAca and World Triger were (meaning anime announced before it hits chapter 90 this year).
• Real Account to be animated – It’s still going and selling strong so I think this is a wise one for someone to get. Trapped in a game world series are all the rage these days and it is good. And who wouldnt want to see king of derp face Yuuma animated.
• KANA-BOON continues to do songs for anime, I’ll predict at least two more ops/eds this year from them
• Naruto continues to be animated all throughout 2016 – I dont see the studio or the tv station wanting to give up on Naruto just yet and with the combination of fillers, Itachi story, and hopefully more original content they will keep it going throughout the year. I can’t imagine life without Naruto anime.
• Another popular BL series gets a TV anime – Super Lovers is already coming, so I just hope for either a Ten Count anime or a His Favorite (Aitsu no Daihonmei) anime.
• The Devil Is A Part Timer finally gets an s2
• Daisuki.net gets a much needed makeover and gets a much larger share of the anime simulcast market – That is, it expands much beyond Bandai and Aniplex anime.

HachiKirra: 3/9

• Mahoutsukai no Yome anime – I want this to happen ;-;
• Natsume Yuujinchou season 5
• Koutetsujou no Kabaneri becomes a production disaster – It’s a WIT show, this one should give me at least a single point.
• Hoozuki no Reitetsu s2 – There are enough chapters to adapt & it was the best-seller (show) of Winter 2014, I hope there would be at least an announcement this year.
• Kono Oto Tomare anime
• Soredemo Boku wa Kimi ga Suki anime – Already had a live-action drama/movie but an anime would be great.
• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari anime
• New Kotomi Deai show
• Tetsuya Takeuchi & Ryo Araki working on Titans s2 – Hahaha if not SAO III.

Rosa_FOEtida: 2/9

• Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel movie adaptation split over multiple films – Same as last year.
• There will be more mobage TV anime adaptations announced this year than LN ones – Because mobages are destined to take over Japan.
• Symphogear 4th season announced – Best-selling show of Summer 2015, and it has a sequel hook so…
• Bones will announce an anime with at least one major staff member (director/animation director, series composer/scriptwriter, character/mecha designer) who has worked on at least one similarly major role in series produced by Toei Animation – You know it’s going to happen
• Boruto TV anime announced – Because Shounen Jump refuse to let Naruto die.
• The first volume of Oshiete! Galko-chan will sell at least 5,000 combined BD+DVD sales
• An adaptation of Jojo Part 5 will NOT be announced this year
• Mamoru Hoshino (AKA: SSOGuy) will AD at least one MahoPri episode
• Teekyuu will reach at least ten seasons by the end of this year, not counting spin-offs

Jacob: 0/9

• Shida Naotoshi finally does key animation for Dragon Ball Super – Somehow Shida has managed to avoid doing any key animation for Dragon Ball for nearly three years now.
• Tate Naoki finally does something good again and animates a long fight (over 30s) – It’s been eons since Tate Naoki managed to hit the heights he did while working on One Piece throughout 2007-2010 but even as the production schedule on Dragon Ball Super somehow grows worse and worse and worse I want to believe he’ll pull through.
• Tate Naoki quits being an animation supervisor for Dragon Ball Super and becomes a chief animation supervisor for it – Fed up with the shitty scheduling and correcting the even shittier drawings of rushed or simply bad animators, Tate switches to the role of chief animation supervisor so he can re-filter already corrected drawings into his style and save himself a lot of heartache.
• Oonishi Ryou acts as an animation supervisor for Dragon Ball Super – Having provided animation in the past for Dragon Ball, not to mention being one of the six animation supervisors for the 2013 film, Oonishi will make his debut as an animation supervisor for Dragon Ball Super and completely blow the world away with a cool episode that ignores Yamamuro Tadayoshi’s designs and kicks major ass.
• Yamamuro Tadayoshi will storyboard and act as animation supervisor for another episode of Dragon Ball Super – As with Episode #13 somehow miraculously being overseen by Yamamuro I suspect he will supply the series with another trite episode where the only highlight is a brief bit by a good animator while the rest of the episode makes me want to gouge out my eyes with its shitty storyboarding.
• Dragon Ball Super Series Director Chioka Kimitoshi will storyboard an episode – It’s got to happen sometime, right?
• Itaoka Nishiki will solo an episode of PreCure – It’s got to happen sometime. Itaoka literally breaths in PreCure.
• Hatano Morio will be announced as the director of the next Dragon Ball movie – Hatano’s two episodes of Dragon Ball Super have been two of the best in the series thanks to his adeptness at making conversations interesting. With the gloriously well-done Saint Seiya Omega Episode #51 also under his name he’s a prime candidate to direct a new film, especially if Chioka Kimitoshi doesn’t.
• Kobayashi Naoki will direct and storyboard an episode of Naruto Shippuuden – Kobayashi’s been gone for far too long at this point to be up to nothing in particular. If he isn’t acting as an animation supervisor for an episode then he’s probably made his way to storyboard artist and director, especially as we grow closer and closer to the end of Shippuuden.

flowers: 1/9

• New Geass OVA series announced
• Toei announces/opens a western distribution label a la Pony Canyon.
• A new Fate series announced by a new studio – aka not ufo or Silver Link.
• KyoAni releases a flop (<2k BD+DVD average)
• Tomino says he plans on retiring but doesn’t actually retire
• Mari Okada involved on at least one unique project each season
• Shoujo anime adaption of a classic/old manga that is set in space
• New Imaishi series that sells average at best (max 5k)
• Gainax releases more than just commercials

Kudanshita: 0/9

• Otoyomegatari gets an anime adaptation
• Evangelion 4.0 still has no release date
• Some sort of Digimon Tamers revival project is announced
• Choujikuu Robo Meguru has a release date
• Macross Delta gets a western simulcast
• Still no news about Girls’ Work
• The Naruto anime ends
• Ikuhara is directing something
• Osomatsu-san becomes the most popular doujin subject with female circles at Comiket

【ST@RTING DAYS】ハルちゃん+: 1/9

• The IDOLM@STER SideM anime – Scamco take the wheel.
• Sword Art Online: Alicization anime – Did you know: less than half of Sword Art Online has been animated so far.
• Yasuhiro Takemoto directs an anime about boys – I hope Takemoto gets his wish.
• Yonezawa Honobu writes more Kotenbu – He wrote something in December, maybe he’ll do it again sometime in the next twelve months???
• IDOLiSH7 anime – This popular male idol mobage is sure to get an anime this year.
• Yumeiro Cast anime – This popular male idol mobage is sure to get an anime this year.
• Ai*Chu anime – This popular male idol mobage is sure to get an anime this year.
• Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100-nin no Oujisama anime – This popular sleeping prince mobage is sure to get an anime this year.
• Touken Ranbu anime – This popular male sword mobage is sure to get an anime this year.

Bednorz: 0/9

• More Overlord anime to be announced
• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari anime to be announced
• More Madoka Magica anime to be announced
• More Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru anime to be announced
• Mushoku Tensei anime to be announced
• A new animated project with Maeda Jun working on it
• Still no known date of release for New Evangelion 4
• An anime based on a work by Kawahara Reki to be announced
• Fate/GO full anime adaptation announced

WestCoastAnime: 1/9

• Evangelion 4.44 still is not given a release date – Just what you’d expect from the master, Anno.
• New Madoka Magica anime (TV, OVA, or movie) announced – SHAFT loves those sweet dollars.
• Urobuchi will not write a full original series that isn’t a continuation of anything else – He hasn’t done this in the last three years why start now?
• Aikatsu season 5 announced – Trying to get a free point.
• A second season of One Punch Man anime is announced – I feel this is almost guaranteed to happen.
• Shirobako season 2 not announced – We live in the worst timeline.
• Hunter x Hunter manga doesn’t come off hiatus – Ganbare Togashi-sama.
• Naruto TV anime still doesn’t end – I have faith in their ability to drag it out.
• Symphogear S4 announced

The_M_B: 0/9

• Black Clover anime announcement – The anime itself isn’t necessarily airing in 2016.
• Shirobako S2 happening
• Bones to produce a Space Dandy movie
• Yuki Hayashi will be a sakkan for an episode or the movie of Maho Girls Precure
• Aya Komaki announced to be a series director for a Toei show
• At least two studios announce bankruptcy
• Hunter x Hunter will have no new chapters released all year long, again
• Toei to produce two new original movies in 2016 (not for a running anime), one full CGI and the other 2D, aside from Osamu Tezuka Buddha 3
• Terraformars Revenge to outsell the first season of Terraformars by at least 50% per volume

Tsun: 1/9

• More Madoka stuff is announced – They’ve been teasing quite a bit, something must be in the works.
• More One-Punch Man – All this popularity is easy money.
• Another dormant franchise (+5 years) is brought back – In the vein of Utawarerumono and Mushishi.
• Details about a new anime series Gen Urobuchi actually writes the entirety of – Not necessarily released this year.
• Rie Matsumoto directs something (full project) – Could be a second season of Kekkai Sensen, or maybe something else.
• No new Shirobako – A point is not more Shirobako but at least I get a point.
• Trigun returns in some form – With the decent success of Kekkai Sensen, anything is possible.
• Hayashi Yuuki scores at least 3 anime series – Does good work and did quite a bit in 2015.
• Space Dandy returns – My other longshot guess, but hey it could happen.

kc_alex2: 3/9

• More Symphogear (Season 4/Movie/OVAs/whatever) – Because Romain said it’s going to happen.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V is going to end in 2017 – Time runs fast. We’re going to reach the end of another 3-year cycle. I expect an announcement in December.
• Girls Work won’t happen – Cheap development hell point.
• Luck and Logic 2nd cour announcement – I can’t see this one being a one-cour show because the Card Game itself is new and needs proper advertisement. L&L will most likely go the Wixoss route.
• @sakuratrick_pr is still not dead at 06/30/2016 – It still refuses to die.
• First Volume of Osomatsu-san DVD/BD will sell at least 35000 copies – Early bingo point.
• More Gakkou Gurashi! anime – Probably filled with Anime Original Content.
• Boku no Hero Academia’s first episode achieves at least a 6,5 in Average Household TV Rating – I needed a replacement after LL Sunshine was announced one week too early. The BnHA manga is really popular and the anime got a prime time slot on MBS/TBS. So, I want to try a TV rating-prediction.
• ゆるキャン△ anime announcement – Maybe. Maybe not.

Hazukari: 1/9

• New LOGH anime airs
• Gothicmade home video release
• Final Rebuild movie is released
• New Saber Marionette J anime
• Build Fighters Season 3
• No Heavens Feel movie till 2017
• Blue Uru is released
• New Urusei Yatsura anime
• BAOH 2

Dominik: 1/9

• 3rd Kizumonogatari film will be scheduled for the end of 2016 but will be delayed until unknown date in 2017
• New Im@s anime will be announced following the reveal of the PS4 game
• Closing Chapter of White Album 2 this year – Never going to stop hoping if even FMP gets more anime.
• New Love Live! will be the top seller of its season – But not by as wide a margin as everyone expects)
• KyoAni’s Phantom World will (relatively speaking) underperform with <5.000 average reported BD sales
• Some time after the last episode of Koyomimonogatari, the second season of Owarimonogatari will be announced for next fall or winter
• Nozaki-kun sequel – It’s gotta happen.
• No Shirobako – I’m so sorry but the world is a cruel place.
• Citrus anime announced this year

Kasa: 3/9

• Cardcaptor Sakura gets a remake 100% faithful to the manga
• Myriad Colors Phantom World is going to flop (<2k average)
• SAO gets another season
• Bakumatsu Rock gets a second season
• All Out is animated by Madhouse
• Osomatsu-san averages over 15k total
• New anime original directed by Seiji Kishi
• Touken Ranbu gets an anime
• Tsukihime gets an anime

Hakase: 1/9

• The second half of Owari+Zoku Owarimonogatari will air in the summer season
• Taichi Ogawa will take over as series director or director for Euphonium’s sequel – Someone’s gotta take over Yamada’s spot (Eupho needs two directors) and Ogawa tends to be that guy now.
• Yukiko Horiguchi will return as character designer/chief animation director for Koe no Katachi – This is the “”miracle prediction”” that won’t come true.
• There will be 3 previously unannounced new noitaminA movies
• No K-On! anime announced in 2016 – It’s over. Let’s not tarnish our memories.
• Rewrite’s sales estimates are under 9k – This would be the worst for a Key adaptation and their name doesn’t mean as much as it used to. Aniplex is stupid.
• New Kotenbu series novel released – There’s a few shorts that haven’t been collected in a novel and a new story just started in the magazine it runs it. Seems natural to have one this year.
• Kumiko KyoAni figure announced – Someone can hope, can’t they?
• Final Eva Rebuild movie opening date announced during, but not planned for 2016 – It’s too early for a release date with Shin Godzilla, but I can see the official date being announced this year.

Zepwich: 1/9

• Cardcaptor Sakura remake announcement, celebrating 20th anniversary
• Gintama will take a 6 month/2 season break after the Farewell, Shinsengumi Arc
• The Part 4 Jojo ED will be The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup.
• Symphogear movie announcement
• Touken Ranbu TV anime announcement
• Shi ga Futari wo Wakatsu Made/Until Death do us Part anime announcement
• Space Dandy movie announcement
• No news regarding the Legend of Galactic Heroes re-adaptation will surface in 2016
• Compilation movies of Phantom Blood, Battle Tendency & Stardust Crusaders announced.

Blue-kun: 2/9

• New Symphogear project announced at the end of Symphogear GX Live – I’m tempted to say we’re getting a movie to wrap up the events hinted at the end of GX, but it might be a new season too, or even a movie similar to the Nanoha 1st/2nd projects. Anyhow, with how well GX sold, as well as Thomas teasing that the series will return, I’m just making a bet that it’s going to be sooner rather than later.
• Ookiku Furikabutte S3 announced – My bingo ballots are respecting tradition, and tradition dictates I must save anime year by year with my wishlists. In 2015 I finally got Sangatsu anime confirmation, so time to double down on Oofuri so we can get more examples of beautiful friendships between boys, all seen through the eyes of a woman. Hand holding, blushing, it’s the whole package, plus some of the finest anime baseball ever made!
• Nana Mizuki announces marriage/relationship w/ SOMEONE – Speaking of tradition, here’s another one. It’s time for the Nana shipping corner, except this year I regret to inform that Takanori has missed his chance. His unsightly behaviour at Kouhaku, being kicked out of Ura Talk several times, all while being too hyped for Love Lives put the nail to the coffin of my previous ship. As such, I have no idea who’s worthy of Nana right now that isn’t already married, like Miyano. Which leads us to SOMEONE. Here’s hoping SOMEONE turns out to be someone cool.
• Megumi Hayashibara cast for next Symphogear project – I think I’m going to end this year w/o a single point, but Megumi seems to be back in action and getting lots of roles lately, she’s signed to Starchild/King, is one of their better/most popular anison singers, and Symphogear is all about moving those chara CDs too. Not only that, she’s also friends with Nana IRL, so I imagine she’d be a great fit for a new villain or even a new ally. Basically, wishlist tier stuff, but boy I’d for it to happen. Against it I guess is the fact that Megumi might be /too/ big for ‘just’ chara singles, but… yeah.
• Nanoha the 3rd Movie gets back into existence (basically news about it) – I’m not even sure how to describe this, but holy shit it’s been long enough without news, and I’m very optimistic right now so there we go. People are gonna come out and say the movie still exists, is being produced and hopefully will be released in my lifetime.
• Yasuharu Takanashi to score Sousei no Onmyouji anime – They haven’t announced the composer for the series yet, but considering their choice for Wagakki Band in the OP/ED department and the story’s tone, I wouldn’t be too surprised if Yasuharu ended up filling the composer slot. His style seems like it’d be a great choice for the show, and one I’d definitely approve of.
• Mahouka S2 finally happening – Onii-sama had to take a break during 2015 and open way to his arguably cooler clone, Kurogane Ikki, but now it’s time for the king of ORETUEEEEEEEEEEE protagonists to come back and nuke things. All while gallantly ignoring all the women in the planet who want a piece of him.
• Yasuhiro Irie to return in 2016 to direct something – I tried this last year and got absolutely nothing out of it, but here we go again, I suppose. Someone, please, give Irie some work to do. Irie is great. Let’s not have the last thing Irie’s directed be Code:Fucking:Breaker of all things, even though even C:B was rather entertaining to watch thanks to his involvement.
• Girls’ Work still not happening in 2016 – This is like my safety net, I don’t want to end this with 0 points so Girls’Work is brought back as it is never going to happen or something. Now watch them confirm it just to spite me 🙂

Sasquatchulous: 1/9

• Gothicmade is finally released on home video
• The Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel movie won’t come out this year
• No anime (production) Kickstarters launched in 2016 will be successful
• Full Metal Panic is back in the hands of Gonzo
• Yasuhiro Imagawa finally directs a mecha show again
• New anime based on a Go Nagai property is announced
• Macross Delta movies announced after TV show is over
• G-reco movie announced
• Joshi Kouhei anime announced

Neidhardt: 1/9

• Railgun S3 – I said I would give up on predicting Index last year, so I’m going with this instead. Watch the irony bite me back.
• Boku Girl anime – The world needs more genderfluid anime!
• Kizu Part 2 delayed into 2017 – Because I tend to lose hope in things.
• Nisekoi S3 – You don’t just introduce Haru and not do anything with her.
• New Horimiya anime (OVAs aside) – I still believe it can do more than just OVAs.
• New Haruhi anime – While I don’t particularly enjoy having hopes for Haruhi, seeing as it’s been ten years since animated Haruhi I believe this would be the only appropriate time to take a wild guess.
• Taiyou no Ie anime – I’m gonna keep predicting this until it actually happens.
• Youkai Shoujo anime – Riding off the coattails of Monmusu, I think this has a decent chance of being a thing.
• UQ Holder anime – If Negima can have crappy adaptations, this one can, too.

fullOanime: 1/9

• Haruhi S3 will be announced for the 10th anniversary of the anime series
• Idolmaster Million Live will get an anime announcement this year for 2016-17 airing
• Eromanga-sensei anime project will be announced
• Oregairu’s final LN volume will be announced and will be followed with an third anime project
• A continuation to the Nozaki-kun anime will be announced
• FUNimation will finally release all of Haruhi (S1, 2, Disappearance) on Blu-Ray as part of the 10th anniversary of the anime airing
• PONYCAN US will announce and/or release Tamako Love Story on Blu-Ray
• VIZ Media will announce a physical release of some sort for Maison Ikkoku
• A continuation to the Himouto! Umaru-chan anime will be announced

Ayami: 3/9

• Natsume Yuujinchou fifth season
• Second season of Gundam IBO
• Black Clover anime announced
• Hinomaru Zumou anime announced
• Fate Strange Fake anime announced
• Sunrise’s Mirai Arise airs in summer
• Boku Girl anime announced
• Watashi ga Motete Dousunda anime announced
• Furuhashi Kazuhiro directs a new mecha anime

Shushutto: 2/9

• Shigeyasu Yamauchi will direct episodes for Diamond is Unbreakable and/or MHA – 2015 was a strangely inactive year for him but since two of his designer pals are on major shows there’s a strong chance of him showing up.
• Haruka Kamatani will direct the Maho Girls Precure movie – She’s had incredibly stellar work in GoPri, and young directors being given the opportunity to direct Precure movies has happened before.
• Yoshimichi Kameda will be the character designer/chief AD for Mob Psycho 100 – Some speculation that it’s him after the BONES 2016 flyer revealed what the mc will look like in the anime.
• Yuzuru Tachikawa will direct a new original series
• The menace known as Sailor Moon Crystal will devour yet another talented director we like
• Jewelpet will return with a new movie – I refuse to believe it’s dead.
• Hunter×Hunter will break a new record, reaching a second year without a new chapter – R.I.P.
• Imagawa and Koike will work together for the first time for a series of OVAs
• A Tribe Cool Crew movie about Baku1 Machine Guns will be announced – Because who the heck is Riki?

overlord_jet: 1/9

• Chihayafuru season 3 – Please ;_;
• Bones concrete revolutio 2nd cour will be a huge hit
• Chaos;Child will be a madhouse project – Maybe another trainwreck.
• NGNL season 2 happens
• Clockwork planet is an Atsuko Ishizuka x Madhouse project
• There will be another delay in God Eater – At least an episode. Dont disappoint me, ufotable.
• Yuzuru Tachikawa’s new anime project gets announced, maybe a movie
• Toei will announce an entirely new long running project
• MadHouse-NTV will also launch a new long running (52 eps at least) TV anime

secondsun: 1/9

• More Animator Expo in 2016 – Whatever, I just want Mahiro Maeda to get out of Khara’s basement and make more awesome things.
• Mahouka S2 announced – Ew please no.
• New Angel Beats TV series announced – God help us all.
• White Album 2 sequel series/OVA/movie announced – I didn’t even really like that show anyway, but dammit I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.
• Anime adaption of another Nisioisin work – Somebody’s gonna get desperate once Monogatari runs dry.
• Seiji Kishi to direct at least 5 shows in 2016 – He’s either a robot, a demon, or a pseudonym. I can’t decide.
• Bungou Stray Dogs sells 10k – The power of Bones and fujoshi combine again. I mean shit, if Kekkai Sensen can do it, why not this?
• Inio Asano does character design for another show – Maybe this time he’ll work on a show that’s actually good.
• Prison School S2 – #BELIEVE

marie: 2/9

• New franchise for girls from Toei
• Fate/Prototype TV series
• Episode 19 of Maho Girls Precure will be a very sakuga episode
• New Rie Matsumoto project
• More LWA
• New Yuyushiki anime project
• New Takashi Otsuka show debuts this year
• New Doremi anime project
• New Cyclone Graphics TV series

BlackDragonHunt: 0/9

• Saki Nationals II – I don’t care if I’m cursed, I won’t let this one go.
• Yozakura Quartet S2 – Or this.
• Soul Eater remake – Can you curse something that has no chance of happening in the first place?
• Rokka no Yuusha S2 – The Seventh Brave is that you’ll never be free from Seventh Brave jokes.
• Gainax tries to reassert its existence again, giving up on magical girls and hopping back on the Nisioisin train with Medaka Box S3
• Kimura Subaru AND Omigawa Chiaki have at least one leading role in a series or movie – Because pushing for just one underappreciated seiyuu is no fun. Hard mode: it’s the same show. Very hard mode: they’re not love interests.
• Higashide Yuuichirou joins the eroge-writer-turned-anime-writer crew with his own original anime – An adaptation of something he’s written counts too, but only if he’s actually working on it. He was on Gakkou Gurashi last year, and they’ve got him on Danganronpa 3 this year, so that’s the logical next step, right?
• Murai Shuusei starts composing for anime again after Terra Formars knocked him out of commission for the entirety of 2015
• Ikuhara’s new project turns out to be a light novel adaptation―of a series on someone else’s list – Because the market has decided we don’t deserve good things.

JY: 0/9

• A third season of Haruhi by Satelight announced – Let’s start this list with a bang!
• Hyouka film announced – KyoAni has been making a lot of films and there is still some unanimated Hyouka material, right?
• All of a sudden, the Love Live film will not be shown in Toronto theatres – I am pessimistic.
• No idolmaster seiyuu at Anime North 2016 – I am pessimistic.
• Tokyo 7th Sisters anime announced – I will make this prediction every year for the next 18 years.
• 2 cours idolmaster Million Live anime announced for 2017 – I wish I had less idol-related predictions.
• New Hidamari Sketch× season announced – It will be a party, or maybe a festival.
• English dub of One Punch Man airs on a Canadian TV channel
• A new character from Dream Academy in Aikatsu 2016 – I will dream.

Elliot: 2/9

• Macross Delta movie announced
• 2nd season of Blood Blockade Battlefront announced
• One-Punch Man season 2 green-lit
• Sakura Card Captors anime project announced
• 3rd season of Noragami announced
• Boruto anime series green-lit
• New THE IDOLM@ster anime project announced
• Yoru no Yatterman 2nd season announced
• HxH manga resumes

zana: 4/9

• Chihayafuru season 3 – I’m not giving up.
• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun season 2
• Orange (Ichigo Takano) anime adaptation
• Another season of the Ace Attorney anime is announced, adapting Trials & Tribulations
• A 2016 anime to have an opening or ending by Goose House
• Mahoutsukai no Yome anime adaptation
• More Barakamon (Barakamon s2 or Handa-kun adaptation)
• More Uchuu Kyoudai
• Touken Ranbu anime

MH MD: 0/9

• Dungeon Meshi manga will get an announcement of its anime adaptation – The manga is really popular in Japan right now , I would be surprised if it didn’t get one sooner or later.
• Tokyo Ghoul re anime announcement – You know it will happen.
• Imaishi’s new full length TV anime announcement in 2016 – I noticed that there is a pattern between each of his projects, there is a 3 year gap between them , his last TV project was in 2013 so… If it wasn’t for Kiznaiver I would guess it’d air in 2016 but I don’t think that will happen. Edit: They announced that Imaishi is actually directing a new anime this spring… however I will keep this submission anyway even if the chances of this happening have decreased greatly and it defies all logic and sense. As Kamina says, ” Kick logic to the curb and do the impossible!
• Gen Urobuchi to write a new anime series in 2016 that is not Madoka related – This is kinda cheating cause apparently he just tweeted that his next project will be announced soon.
• Official announcement of a new Yuasa project – Most likely a movie, based on some rumors at least.
• Kekkai sensen / Blood Blockade Battlefront season 2 announcement – After the huge success of the first season, maybe even one of the most successful BONES projects ever, I’d be surprised of this didn’t get another season.
• Last Eva Rebuild movie in some way, shape or form, maybe a trailer ? – Please don’t disappoint us Anno.
• Watanabe’s glorious return to anime – He will return in some way, whether it is a new project or the long-awaited Space Dandy Movie.
• Zoku-Owarimonogatari anime announced – That’s a given, it is almost cheating to include it here and I should feel guilty about it, but I won’t.

KoA21: 0/9

• Black Clover gets an anime anouncement – It’s being pushed incredibly hard by WSJ so it has to happen soon. It will probably also be animated by Toei.
• Studio Gonzo closes down – Gonzo dosnt do anything anymore. Manglobe died, so Gonzo should go too.
• Boku no Hero Academia gets an anime original ending – Bones.
• Third season of Non Non Biyori is announced – I really liked Non Non Biyori Repeat.
• Second season of Shirobako is announced – Shirobako was great.
• Hayao Miyazaki comes back out of retirement and works on a new movie – He makes good movies.
• One Punch Man season 2 announcement – It’s popular internationally and the arc after the Boros arc is pretty cool.
• Kana Hanazawa will voice exactly 17 characters – I come from the future.
• Anime is banned in preparation for the 2020 Olympics – Anime was a mistake.

Aeolonox: 2/9

• An anime adaptation of The Ancient Magus’ Bride (Mahoutsukai no Yome) will be announced – May be premature (if planned at all) seeing as how the manga is relatively young, but it’s already a hot seller both in Japan and stateside without an anime to help promote it.
• Some form of controversy will arise relating to Under the Dog this year
• Kenichi Kasai directs something this year (besides Amanchu!)
• A new announcement of a Nanoha anime comes up with a release date – 3rd movie, whatever’s left of Nanoha ViVid A-1 can retrieve from the void… anything.
• Evangelion 3.0+1.0 does not release this year
• An anime adaptation of Citrus will be announced – Hoping that statement from the publisher looking for a studio to adapt it is a sign of bigger things.
• There will be a new Yasuhiro Yoshiura-headed project
• fhana has at least two more OP/EDs for anime this year (not counting HaruChika’s OP)
• Either the Chihayafuru manga or anime is licensed in the United States

alexey: 0/9

• Horimiya anime
• Nozaki-kun S2
• Build Fighters S3
• SHAFT anime produced by TBS
• More anime with Asano Inio involvement
• New anime by Yuasa announced
• More Space Dandy
• Despera project shows some signs of life
• SHIROBAKO S2

Frank: 1/9

• Kyoto Animation announces Airbiscuit [エアビスケット!!], an animated series focused on horse racing – Sometimes I have really accurate visions… this is not one of those times.
• I summon Kaiji Season 3 with a blood sacrifice and the help of Benfrosh – I won’t tell you what we sacrificed to get it.
• More Saki – Taking a page out of Akagi’s book.
• Accelerator, the greatest and most beloved character from the Index series gets his own spin-off anime, A Certain Magical Accelerator – Index fans all spontaneously combust.
• SHAFT does some animation for a video-game – Similar to the Palutena trailer from Smash 4.
• Poor sap gets suckered into a harem of anthropomorphized objects/animals/monsters – Is this illegal to write down? Am I going to get put on a list?
• Everyone gets really excited about a Chihayafuru announcement until they realize it’s not a new anime season – In fact it’s an annoucement for a set of Chihayafuru brand Karuta cards.
• Even though the Naruto manga has long since ended another triple A Naruto fighting game will be announced, maybe even two – Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 comes out in February, but I’m talking after that.
• I’m out of ideas so… Supporting character w/ cool facial hair turns out to be evil all along – Is this allowed? I have a good feeling about this one.

whemleh: 3/9

• Tokyo 7th Sisters anime announcement – Highly popular idol mobage *without* an anime? No way can that last.
• Mahou Tsukai no Yome anime announcement – What might possibly be wishful thinking tells me this is a sure bet. It would certainly make me very happy!
• Despera release date announced – I don’t necessarily think it’ll air this year but I’d like to think by the end of we’ll know it’s set to broadcast in Spring 2017 or something. P-please?
• Symphogear Season 4 announced – The meteoroids have burned, fallen and disappeared. The distant stars have become music. We have held our determination to fist. It can’t stop now.
• Mamoru Oshii decides he’s doing anime again – Film, TV series, OVA heck even storyboard an OP or something idk just PLEASE RETURN.
• New Yasuhiro Yoshiura-helmed production announced that is OVA-length or longer – So basically he directs something longer than an Animator Expo short.
• Majo no Shinzou anime greenlit – I have no basis to believe this could happen, but hey I like the manga & this is also a wishlist, right? Sure would like to see those very pretty backgrounds in anime format.
• Mirai Arise announced for Fall + 2 cours – It looks so cooooool! Don’t disappear on us…
• At least 3 more anime are announced which seem to heavily involve girls riding bikes – I actually hope there’ll be about 8 announced, but I’ll keep my guess conservative.

el_golaso: 0/9

• My Hero Academia will be longer than 2 cours
• Steins;Gate 0 will get an anime announcement for early 2017
• Eva 4.0 still won’t get a release date
• Fate/SN Heaven’s Feel will be the most voted film in the Sakuga Awards
• Koe no Katachi will receive an award for best movie of 2016
• Attack on Titan will get even more recap movies after the 2nd season is over 
• The Berserk movie will cut stuff out from the manga and end with an anime original cliffhanger, all with crap CGi
• Fate/hollow ataraxia anime will be announced with no release date
• Kikko gets killed off in Concrete Revolutio’s second season

Stuart E.: 3/9

• Right Stuf and Sunrise release After War Gundam X during August or September
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans gets a second season
• Break through with Macross licensing in North America
• Mirai Arise airs during the latter half of the year
• Shingeki no Bahamut S2 gets an air date
• Nozomi licenses the second season and the movie sequels for Tamayura Hitotose
• Sentai releases The Legend of the Galactic Heroes on Blu-ray and DVD
• The new Full Metal Panic! project is a TV anime NOT animated by Kyoto Animation
• Miss Hokusai is brought over to the west by G-Kids

Chiffon: 0/9

• Shirobako S2
• Sasameki Koto S2
• Aoi Hana S2
• Chihayafuru S3
• Hourou Musuko S2
• A Bride’s Story anime
• No new TV series directed by Yamada
• Kancolle S2 is just as disappointing as S1
• One-Punch Man S2

bug: 1/9

• Toei announces Ojamajo Doremi 16 – Lol this won’t happen.
• Dreaming Machine is completed – This also won’t happen.
• Further news on Girls Work – Any sort of info about the project officially released.
• Tokyo 7th Sisters TV anime
• Mirai Arise ends up not airing in 2016 – It looks cool so it’ll probably be forgotten.
• White Album 2 Closing Chapter anime announced – Pls japan I can’t read Japanese.
• Another Kenji Nakamura original is announced
• A new original mahou shoujo not based on any previous franchise airs
• More Love Live in some form (aside from Sunshine) – Idk I’m running out of ideas but this will probably happen?

processr: 3/9

• No Teekyuu S8 – That hurt to write.
• Final Fantasy XV anime adaptation – I bet it’ll be CG instead and you’ll not allow it. If so, fuck you kViN. [I will allow it, you jerk.]
• Orange anime adaptation – More hoping than predicting tbh…
• Confession Rehearsal anime adaptation – Peeps love them some Vocaloid shit.
• No new noitaminA series in 2016 after Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress – noitaminA should have stopped after Ping Pong.
• Attack on Titan S2 delayed to at least 2017 – Low hanging fruit.
• Final Hyouka novel to be adapted – A MAN CAN DREAM.
• Strobe Edge anime adaptation – I’m really struggling by this point.
• Undertale anime – lmao.

Ryan The 1st, Sir William Wallace’s heir, rider of trolleys, the maddest Disgaea: 0/9

• The iDOLM@STER Million Live Anime – 10th provided us with a PV that hints towards an anime even more than Cinderella Girls’ did, so I’m making this my safe point this year. Highly likely we’ll see the announcement during ML3rd’s final tour day.
• Nishigori won’t be directing it – Much as I’d like based god Nishigori, his allegiance mainly seems to be with the main 765s, so I can see him stepping back and letting someone else direct while he either takes on a smaller role or just doesn’t get involved whatsoever.
• It also won’t be a production disaster like Cinderella Girls – After the reactions dereani got I’d be amazed if they let something like this happen again. This is mainly wishful thinking though.
• Megumi Kouno solo ep – After last year’s Kouno bingo leading to one great AD’d ep followed by nothing but disaster, the choice this year was either solo ep or she does character design for a show. Character design feels like something for next year though, so let’s cross our fingers and go with this.
• Matsumoto Rie ditches BONES to make good anime once more, Kugyu is once again involved in said anime – The double Rie combo must live forever.
• New original anime written by Maruto Fumiaki – Possibly an obvious one, but I’m curious if he really does plan on dipping his hands into anime for the long term. And hey, after Classroom Crisis delivered you won’t see me complaining if he does!
• Girls’ Work #happening – Dreams came true for everyone last year with Kizu and FMP, so this year for sure we’ll here some more about this.
• White Album 2 Closing Chapter – I WON’T GIVE UP.
• Kurosawa ‘Moyochi’ Tomoyo establishes herself as the true shittweeting master – She’s shown much potential throughout the past year, and with the aid of my guidance, it’s only a matter of time until she surpasses her teacher.

Zatheyll: 2/9

• To Aru Kagaku no Accelerator gets an anime – S3 of Railgun and Index are never happening, and since the franchise is popular enough, an Accelerator adaption makes sense.
• Mahou Tsukai no Yome gets an anime – Very popular manga, everyone wants an anime.
• Shirobako gets a 2nd season
• New Madoka project will be a TV anime without Urobuchi’s involvement
• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun gets a 2nd season
• Himouto! Umaru-chan gets a 2nd season
• No Game No Life gets a 2nd season
• Oregairu will get a couple of OVAs to finish off the anime, animating the final book and finishing off the story
• Masamune-kun no Revenge gets an anime

AbZeroNow: 0/9

• Shirobako Season 2 gets announced this August
• Pluto manga announced to get a TV anime done by MAPPA
• Dragon Ball Super gets a TV Special crossover with Dr. Slump
• Tiger & Bunny gets a 2nd season announced
• Hyouka gets licensed by Funimation this year
• Harmony Gold declares bankrupcy, trademarks revert to Big West and Studio Nue
• Crunchyroll acquires streaming rights for Future Boy Conan
• Arpeggio of Blue Steel receives an English dub
• Next PreCure series to be localized on Netflix will be Suite PreCure

FabledHunter: 1/9

• New 2016 Fate anime project is going to be Fate/Apocrypha – It’s probably the best choice if they want to promote Fate/grand order anyway.
• Prisma Illya 3rei anime is once again 10 episodes long and ends with an announcement for it to continue in 2017
• Chaos;Child gets its anime adaption before Steins;Gate 0 and airs sometime in 2016
• New Saki anime season announced
• Kyoukaisenjou no Horizon s3 announced
• Urobuchi has his name attached to an anime airing in 2016 that actually does well – i.e. is as popular as Fate/Zero, Madoka or Psycho-pass.
• White Album 2 sequel announced
• Hunter x Hunter manga comes back to release at least 10 new chapters before going back into hiatus.
• 2016 ends with no release date information about the final Evangelion movie

ottocycle: 1/9

• Majestic Prince gets a sequel
• Steins;Gate Zero gets an animation adaptation
• Uchida Yuuma gets more lead roles than Matsuoka Yoshitsugu for workyear 2016
• Yoshiura Yasuhiro announces a new feature film in the works at Rikka
• Chihayafuru S3 greenlit
• Sahashi Toshihiko returns to score for FMP
• Nomi Yuuji does the score to Koe no Katachi
• Sagisu Shirou fails to return for the new Berserk adaptation
• New Imagawa robot show announced!

Brian Smith: 0/9

• Teekyu movie announced
• A Hell Teacher Nube anime project announced
• Yu Yu Hakusho TV remake announced
• Rurouni Kenshin TV remake announced
• Dragon Ball (original) TV special to celebrate 30th anniversary of the anime
• Tatsunoko / NTV revive The Genie Family
• AllTheAnime finally manage to release Nerima Daikon Brothers in the UK
• Diskotek pick up the licence to Cyborg 009 vs. Devilman
• Earlier Lupin III series (1,2,3) territorial availability expanded on Crunchyroll so they are available in the UK

Neomo: 2/9

• A second season of Saekano will be announced for noitaminA
• A second season of Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei will be announced
• Funimation will make plans to expand into Europe (non-UK)
• We’ll get another Madoka Magica April Fool video that will fool us for about 6 hours
• Hyouka will get a Western release
• GAINAX will release another show with product placement
• Sailor Moon Crystal will get a US physical release
• Funimation will finally get around to releasing Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou on Blu-ray/DVD
• The second season of Attack on Titan will be cancelled/postponed due to actual titans flooding Tokyo – Or in less silly terms, a natural disaster.

Kraker2k: 3/9

• Masami Obari works on an anime OP/ED
• Sejoon Kim works on a Sunrise anime sometime this year
• Iwao Teraoka does the storyboard on Gundam IBO’s season ending battle – NOT NECESSARILY THE FINAL EPISODE.
• More details regarding those Gundam Build Fighters OVAs are announced
• Mirai Arise gets another PV
• SRW OG gets another anime adaptation
• A new Gundam animated project is announced
• A classic Sunrise anime from the 80s gets a BD remaster
• Horizon In The Middle Of Nowhere season 3 is announced

liborek3: 1/9

• Vol.1 of a BONES anime sells over 10k copies
• KAMEDA Naoyuki Asano does character designs for Mob Psycho 100 anime
• The Ancient Magus’ Bride gets TV anime
• New FMP anime won’t be produced by Bones
• Yuuki Hayashi composes music for My Hero Academia
• More info about Mirai Arise revealed
• Sayo Yamamoto storyboards and directs at least one anime OP/ED
• Rie Matsumoto storyboards an anime episode outside her own series
• Shinichiro Watanabe reveals an entirely new project

CRSMK: 2/9

• Atsushi Nishigori character designs for a new anime
• Mahoutsukai no Yome anime adaptation
• Dungeon Meshi anime adaptation
• Euphonium S2 airs in Summer 2016
• Kodai Watanabe does animation direction in Mahoutsukai Precure
• Otsuka shows up in Mahoutsukai Precure too, to direct at least an episode
• Umakoshi works with Nagahama on his upcoming superhero anime
• The first volume of Osomatsu-san sells over 50k BD+DVD
• Saki Shinohayu gets an anime adaptation

Psyris: 1/9

• Bones’ huge 2017 project is with Shinichiro Watanabe – A lot of people are hoping for DtB, but I’m not sure how “huge” that’d actually be.
• ufotable original anime announced – While I’d like to see Tsukihime or Fate/strange Fake, it’s about time they do something that isn’t a game or Type-Moon adaptation.
• Entirely new Madhouse + Morio Asaka TV anime
• Clockwork Planet is being adapted by Madhouse – Madhouse has only a single title announced for 2016 and this one seems a little more likely than most (considering it’s the NGNL author).
• More Yuyushiki anime announced – Seems very likely considering S1 is a getting a rerun and there’s an event coming up.
• More Haruhi anime announced (Not Nagato) – It’s about time.
• Urobuchi will be the sole writer on an anime airing this year and it will be the best seller in its season
• Despera anime re-announced – Abe said he was in talks with a new director awhile back. There hasn’t been news since, however there’s a chance!
• Susumu Hirasawa will be doing the score for the new Berserk – The PV hurt, but this would make everything OK.

RonSnow: 1/9

• At least one Yasuomi Umetsu work per season.
• New season of Sword Art Online announced
• Naruto Shippuden ending before Summer 2016 with at least: One episode written, boarded and directed by Toshiyuki Tsuru; one ep boarded, directed and supervised by Hiroyuki Yamashita; one ep supervised/animated by Norio Matsumoto, Naoki Kobayashi or Tetsuya Nishio
• New season of Kingdom announced
• New anime directed by Morio Asaka
• At least one episode of Dragon Ball Super directed and boarded by Kimitoshi Chioka
• At least two openings directed by Masashi Ishihama
• First Crunchyroll coproduction announced
• New anime with Kazuto Nakazawa involved in some way, DAYS aside

joinedforfal: 0/9

• Hinamatsuri manga adaptation announced, directed by Mizushima Tsutomu – The shows from here on are an attempt to protect these stories from the dark hand of being poly’goned.
• Aphorism adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix
• Jisatsutou adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix
• darwinsgame adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix
• Wolfsmund adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix
• destroy&revolution adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix
• Vinland Saga adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix
• FukushuuKyoushitsu adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix
• Kamisama no Iutoori Ni adaptation announcement in 2016 by Polygon studios/netflix

Bloodystar: 1/9

• Haikyuu!! third season annoucement
• Kekkai Sensen second season annoucement
• Psycho-Pass third season annoucement – The movie was a huge success.
• No Haruhi sequel – Because Kadokawa is shit.
• Sword art Online third season annoucement – Maybe after the movie.
• Still no Girls’ Work anime – Because ufotable is ufotable.
• No Madhouse anime will get a sequel this year – Because… *cries*
• Drifters will be an OAV series like Hellsing Ultimate – Because we need gore.
• Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu will have bad sales (<1k) – Because Japan hates good shows.

: 1/9

• At one point or another, there’s going to be an announcement for another season of Yuyushiki
• In September, they’ll announce an adaptation (12 episodes) of Ran and the Grey World – It’ll be directed by Tsutomu Mizushima.
• At least one of the Animator Expo shorts will find a full-length TV anime adaptation – One of these announcements will occur in May, July, or October of 2016.
• Yutaka Nakamura will draw exactly two cuts in the Dies Irae anime
• RWBY gets adapted to 2D anime Announcement comes sometime after June, the studio is either going to be A-1, Dogakobo, or I.G. Backgrounds will be done, at least in part, by Thomas Romain.
• Symphogear S4 brings back Garie
• You know what? We’ll get a Madogatari crossover short – They may as well go /somewhere/ with all this promo material.
• Another ED or OP by the dude who did the Perfect Insider ED – In a Summer 2016 anime.
• Another Romeo Tanaka eroge gets an anime adaptation

shinsei: 3/9

• iDOLM@STER Million Live TV anime announced within the year – IDOLS WILL NEVER DIE…AS LONG AS THERE IS EVIL IN THE HUMAN HEART…… – They /did/ make the short animated pv, didn’t they? #believeinidols.
• At least one of the remaining 3 Owarimonogatari arcs (Mayoi Hell/Hitagi Rendezvous/Ougi Dark <—-HOPEFULLY THIS ONE) is animated – Seems pretty obvious, since they pledged to animate it all.
• Phoenix Wright anime gets a second season announced – The games are popular and have tons of fans, and the upcoming anime isn’t going to cover all of the material so I feel pretty safe betting on this.
• Tsutomu Mizushima works on another TV anime that isn’t his already announced Mayoiga show – He multitasked a lot in 2015 and hopefully his diligence continues into this year.
• An official twitter account belonging to a company or celebrity that has never been associated with anime before randomly starts tweeting about anime and anime twitter goes crazy about it for a while and then proceeds to forget it ever happened – If this does not happen I will make it happen.
• More animated Mahouka – Yes, I am willing to sell my soul and revive the devil in order to win this dumb online contest for internet points that will ultimately mean nothing and contribute nothing to my life and career.
• More details (Title or synopsis or maybe even a trailer/date) regarding Yuasa’s original project that he said he was working on – This is mostly wishful thinking but I need more Yuasa in my life.
• More animated Shirobako – SINCE KIZUMONOGATARI HAPPENED WE NEED SOMETHING TO REPLACE IT.
• More animated Yuyushiki – ONLY DREAMS NOW.

Richard Beaubien: 0/9

• Umakoshi supervised Heartcatch Precure movie based on the Novel announced
• New Nanoha anime announced, but it’s not Vivid or the 3rd movie, it’s INNOCENT
• Gundam Build Fighters gets a new TV anime for Fall 2016
• BNP/Sunrise make an Aikatsu/Love Live spin off with robots, Obari directing
• Shirobako movie announced and airs in Fall 2016
• Jojo Diamond is Unbreakable ending will be David Bowie’s Lets Dance
• Yotsuba! Anime announced and airs in 2016
• New 12 Kingdoms anime announced, airs in 2016
• Non Non Biyori Movie announced, also airs in 2016

Power: 1/9

• Shingo Natsume and his sakuga bros do it again – There’s the chance he’s directing the Mob Psycho 100 adaptation, and we could also be getting more OPM announced. Hell we could even be getting more Space Dandy with all that reairing and BDbox rereleasing.
• Prison School gets an S2 – Seems pretty feasible considering the show’s success and the OVA continuing where S1 left off, plus Mizushima’s availability doesn’t seem to be an impediment.
• More Nisio anime that isn’t Monogatari – I’d like to say Zaregoto but lol. Okitegami maybe? An original project would be interesting though.
• One of Inio Asano’s works gets an anime adaptation – Maybe a bit early for DDD but there’s a couple other works they could pick up.
• Tatsuya Oishi gets a new project – This might also be quite early but with Kizu finaly releasing (hopefully?) this year I’d very much like to see him getting some new stuff to work on.
• Animator Expo gets another season – Rebuild 4 is not even happening and I’d gladly take more expo over anything Eva.
• Gochiusa gets S3 or a movie – Dem sales tho.
• Including its spin-offs Teekyuu manages to air through the whole year – Do I even need to explain why http://i.imgur.com/tOmmGaM.jpg
• Yuyushiki gets S2 – We are making this happen my brothers.

Ashita: 3/9

• A new Gundam anime will be announced, to be precise the adaptation of Gundam Crossbone’s manga – It can be a new TV show or a series of movies/OVAs/whatever.
• Nishiki Itaoka will be forced to work on another Toei project besides Maho Girls Precure this 2016.
• Togashi will publish some HxH chapters this 2016 – It is not a random guess, the release of new chapters will happen to promote his Jump-Ryu issue.
• Chihayafuru will get a third season
• UQ Holder will get an anime adaptation
• BONES will crash this upcoming spring – i.e. lots of out-sourcing, complaints about QUALITY, etc.
• Dungeon Meshi will get an anime adaptation
• Nisekoi (manga) ends this year
• Miura will publish less than 4 Berserk chapters next year

nompodi: 0/9

• The JSDF finances at least one anime – It’s a heavily militaristic, xenophobic propaganda piece.
• Idolmaster SideM anime series announcement
• Tsurezure Children adaptation, as a 2 cour 24 minutes series
• Hiromu Arakawa is in charge of the character designs for the Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake
• After becoming really popular with japanese DJs and a staple in mogra’s setlists, Hechizeros Band’s El Sonidito is sampled in the theme song of a short anime
• A North American company licenses the new Initial D movies – They change the soundtrack with something more in line with the western tuning/racing culture, including hits like Danza Kuduro and Bandolero.
• By December there will be 4 different Teekyuu spinoff running concurrently – This will herald the begining of the Winter of the Japanese Culture, all future creative endeavors will be essentially sterile imitations of this Golden Age.
• Minarai Diva Second Season
• A new series with Kitakubu’s key staff

Super: 1/9

• Teekyuu ends, gracefully
• Tesagure gets another season – I want to believe. I want it to go on forever.
• For some bizarre reason, yet another milky holmes TV anime is announced – Decreasing sales obviously can’t stop them and the movie shows they’re still quite alive.
• Oomuroke, the yuruyuri spin-off, gets an anime – It’s too soon for another season of Yuruyuri but this manga is perfect for a short anime.
• Himouto Umaru-chan season 2 – Dogakobo isn’t fond of doing second seasons and the sales were not remarkable, but there’s plenty of manga left to adapt and the character obviously became very (in)famous throughout the internet so there’s a glimmer of hope.
• Knights of Sidonia finally gets its final season – The manga just ended and the previous seasons were well received so its only a matter of time.
• An anime directed by Sugahara Souta gets a new season – The gdgd fairies twitter account made a new year’s tweet and that’s all the evidence I need to keep hope alive.
• A new original anime directed by Ishidate Koutarou – After Minarai Diva he’s just relied on tesagure for a while but it seems he’s out of that so I can only hope he does something new.
• Teekyuu gets at least 2 episodes were they actually play tennis – I know I’ve asked for some unreasonable stuff but this is probably pushing too far.

Basu, Mocho-Mocho-Man: 1/9

• Million Live anime – 3rd tour is ending in April and it’ll probably be announced during. We got a PV this year after all.
• Mocho gets a main character role in an anime
• Mocho gets a solo artist debut
• Mocho gets a photobook
• Mocho gets a solo radio show
• Mocho wins a seiyuu award
• Mocho appears in an anime that also has Obari working on it
• Natsukise sequel/prequel starring Trysail announced
• Xenoglossia gets in a proper non smartphone game SRW

MVB: 0/9

• Ordet will produce a heartbreaking work of genius and commercial hit
• Yukari Tamura will not retire
• Seiji Kishi will direct another poorly-received adaptation outside Persona 3
• More Yama no Susume anime will be announced
• Saki Shinohayu anime will be announced
• Rose Guns Days anime will be announced
• Aquors will not outsell μ’s
• Kon Chiaki will direct a work and it will be bad – As judged by kvin. [I almost considered this cheating considering the recent announcement that she’s in charge of the new season of Sailor Moon Crystal.]
• Rie Murakawa will appear in an anime directed by Rie Matsumoto

SA10-kun: 1/9

• Attack on Titan S2 delayed to 2017 – The world will cry.
• Kingdom S3 at St.Pierrot – Pierrot will definitely kill this manga after its new boost.
• SHIROBAKO sequel
• Masashi Ishihama return as director on a TV anime opening
• Cencoroll 2 will finally airs this year – This is the new Kizumonogatari.
• Dungeon Meshi anime announcement
• Escape Speed (novel) anime announcement
• New show directed by Aoki Ei and produced by Aniplex
• Keiji Inai announced as composer for HeroAca

Suzu: 4/9

• Index s3 anime – EVERY YEAR UNTIL IT HAPPENS.
• New Natsume Yuujinchou anime – Bringing back Good Anime Year.
• Eromanga-sensei anime – As much as I do not want this to become true the number of good things we’re getting this year is a sign that something bad’s bound to happen.
• Haruka Chisuga will get 3 more lead roles for upcoming anime, not counting her winter shows and the one already announced
• Haruka Chisuga will also win the seiyuu award somehow
• Phantom World will sell just OK (under 6k first week)
• More Yasuda stuff gets animated – inb4moreyozakura
• New musical anime project – Because apparently people actually enjoy silly singing cartoons.
• More Kishi directed anime on noitaminA

Good Haro: 1/9

• Idolish 7 anime adaptation is announced – If we’re lucky Bones.
• Idolm@ster Side-M anime adaptation announced – Probably really late in the year.
• Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii anime adaptation announced – Possibly shorts (but that would be lame).
• Dungeon Meshi anime adaptation announced
• Ikuhara vaguely announces another project – What is it? Nobody knows…
• Gothicmade is still not released on BD/etc
• The last Eva rebuild film does not come out – If somehow something is released it won’t be the last film in the series.
• We get some concrete information about the new LoGH anime… thing before the end of the year – Maybe a trailer.
• CROSS ANGE SEASON 2

flap: 0/9

• Chihayafuru season 3
• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun season 2
• Nobunaga no Chef adaptation
• Citrus (Saburouta) adaptation
• Boku girl adaptation
• Black Clover adaptation
• New Minami-ke series
• Tokyo 7th sisters adaptation
• Shirobako OVA

Stark: 1/9

• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari gets anime adaptation – 11 volumes published, licensed last year, and seems popular enough. It’s going to happen. I can feel it.
• Horimiya TV anime adaptation – I have big dreams. This is one of them.
• Yankee-kun to Megane-chan anime adaptation
• Mahoutsukai no Yome gets anime – It got a drama CD adaptation already. One of my favorite fantasy series as of recently, I think it’s going to happen. A matter of not if but when
• Magika no Kenshi to Basileus anime – Every year, it happens. Some popular LN gets an anime. I looked at some of the stuff on Baka-tsuki and picked this.
• Rewrite will be a 2 cour show
• Symphogear gets another season or some sort of new anime but won’t premiere this year – Already hinted before and there’s a live event coming in Feburary.
• Diamond is Unbreakable will get similar treatment of airing double split cour by David Production – 25 episodes each for Spring and later Winter.
• Shirobako gets another season because it just needs to happen

Kuro Reloaded: 2/9

• Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken: Diamond wa Kudakenai will sell less than 10,000 BD+DVD copies per volume
• Naruto Shippuden’s TV Anime will finish this year
• Animation Studio “SHAFT” will only produce two TV Anime series this year
• Not even one TV Spokon released this 2016 will sell more than 10,000 BD+DVD copies per volume
• Dungeon Meshi will get a TV Anime this year
• Koukyuu Rakuen Kyuujou: Harem League Baseball will get a TV Anime this year
• Not even one entirely new TV Anime released this 2016 will sell more than 30,000 BD+DVD copies per volume – Excluding sequels, prequels, spinoffs…
• The Unnamed Trigger Project that is scheduled to air in April of 2016 will get a delay by at least one season
• Bump of Chicken will perform 3-gatsu no Lion’s Opening

Hitokiri: 2/9

• Tokyo 7th Sisters TV anime announced – Already had it in last year’s Bingo, will keep saying it until it happens.
• Sasami-san @ Ganbaranai season 2 announced
• Nanoha Vivid home media release continues to not exist
• Citrus aside, new yuri TV anime announced
• Muv-Luv (not a spin-off) anime announced
• Seven Arcs remembers they announced a 3rd Nanoha movie and some sort of new information on the it comes out
• New Madoka Magica anime (TV, movie, or OVA) announced
• AKB0048 season 3 announced
• New season of Symphogear announced

petting_sinon: 2/9

• Symphogear S4 announced, presumably at the live – Failing that, a game would be cool too.
• Idolmaster Million Live TV anime
• Tokyo 7th Sisters anime announced – Digging around for free points here.
• More Yuyuyu-related stuff announced, aside from more novels
• Kancolle anime sequel has a different protagonist than Fubuki – Hahahahahaha this ain’t happening.
• The Manaria Friends anime actually manages to keep a male lead out – Based on the game, the leads should be just Anne and Grea if that does indeed happen.
• HORIZON IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE S3 – #believe
• Entirely new Type-Moon anime announced – FGO? idk m8.
• Swap ⇔ Swap anime announced – It’s cute and it’s in one of the Kirara magazines.

Axos: 1/9

• The final Kizumonogatari film won’t be out this year
• No Nanoha Vivid home video release
• We will get a release date for the third Nanoha film
• KyoAni animate the Full Metal Panic OVA
• Gainax announce a third Gunbuster series
• Hideki Anno follows up working on Godzilla by working on something other than Evangelion
• A new Madoka anime is broadcast this year
• Pragmatic, cynical choice: Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei series 2
• Eternal optimism choice: Yuyushiki series 2

Reiseng: 0/9

• Love Lab S2 announcement – My heart tells me this needs to come true.
• Akatsuki no Yona S2 announcement – My heart tells me this needs to come true and there is lots left in the manga to adapt.
• A proper TV (not OVA) Horimiya adaptation announcement – My heart tells me this must come true. Also, the manga is excellent and probably popular given its length. Probably. Hopefully…
• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun S2 announcement – My heart tells me this needs to come true and I am sure yours does as well.
• Last Game gets an anime announcement – My heart tells me this must come true.
• Wakabayashi Toshiya’s 4-koma Collection (Tsurezure Children) gets a TV short adaptation – My heart tells me this needs to come true and I am sure yours does as well.
• The New Gate LN gets an anime announcement – A bit of a long shot, but the Webnovel got turned into a LN and it is one of them “trapped in a game” stories.
• A Centaur’s Life gets an anime announcement – If Monster Musume can get an anime, then surely…
• Hitomi Sensei no Hokenshitsu gets an anime announcement – If Monster Musume can get an anime, then surely…

Felice: 2/9

• Touken Ranbu anime annoucement
• Tomo-chan wo onnanoko anime
• Adekan anime
• Maaya Sakamoto pregnancy
• Mamoru Miyano making his Kouhaku debut
• More seasons for Osomatsu-san
• Kamiya Hiroshi’s 1st solo live dvd annoucement
• AD-LIVE 2016 cast list: Sakurai Takahiro, Mitsuo Iwata, Tachibana Shinnosuke, Hino Satoshi, Kamiya Hiroshi, Maaya Sakamoto
• Hino Satoshi and Tachibana Shinnosuke’s solo debuts (Elekiter Round 0 not disbanding)

Link0306: 0/9

• First Heaven’s Feel movie comes out within 2016 – Don’t fail us ufotable.
• Update on Girls’ Work – DON’T FAIL US UFOTABLE/METEO.
• Million Live TV anime announced – And no Mark, Ayumu will not be the MC.
• Chaos;Child anime is by Madhouse – I mean, what could go wrong? It’s not like Madhouse did a terrible adaptation of Chaos;Head or anything.
• Anime written (series composition) by Hikaru Sakurai airs – Been a while since this was announced and he/she worked on some anime last year, so this is the year of the Sakurai!
• Phoenix Wright anime ends up being at least 4 cour – With the staff working on it, it seems kinda likely.
• Hyouka anime licensed for English release – With all the licenses last year, Hyouka is one of the big name series left without one now!
• SHAFT manages to get the 3rd Kizumonogatari movie out this year – BELIEVE.
• Hamasaki Hiroshi to direct Despera – The guy did do Texhnolyze and please come out Despera.

my spouse kastel: [I swear this is the name he signed up with] 0/9

• Ritz will not take a break or a hiatus because she has the well-deserved rest and can finish Saki in one swoop
• GUST decides to adapt a game into an anime and it’s not Totori, YoruKuni, or Sophie: It’s Robin Lloyd
• Nisio announces he will be finishing Monogatari once and for all – I haven’t watched or read past Neko Black, but I predict Araragi will end up with Kaiki.
• The successful Lady Jewelpet will either get a sequel or a spiritual successor
• Ichigo will return as a main character in Aikatsu
• Mahouka s2 will be announced before the eventual Sukasuka anime adaptation – Oniisama deserves it.
• Since I am following the theme of things that will never happen, let’s also include this: Hidamari Sketch will get a new season – (X ‘________’ X)
• The VN I edited, Ikikoi, gets an official localization – Finally, a good porn game
• And finally, we will get Horizon season 3

League of Extraordinary Rustic Men: 0/9

• TV anime for 12 Beast – Tadao Iocoscima .
• TV anime for Rose Guns Days – Kaw.
• TV anime for Otoyomegatari – Crabman.
• TV anime for Mushoku Tensei – Maddo & mirkosp.
• Short anime for Sukumizu – Crabman.
• TV anime for Gekitotsu no Hexennacht – Byakko.
• TV anime for Dungeon Meshi – Cusy.
• New Fate project by A-1 – Cusy.
• At least one part of Koishi Komeiji’s Heart-Throbbing Adventure finale will air before the end of the year – Kaw.

korol: 1/9

• An 80’s magical girl series (e.g. Minky Momo, Creamy Mami, Persia) revives in some form
• The second and/or third Kizumonogatari films get delayed
• Kouji Kumeta is involved with a new anime in some way
• Another non-Monogatari Nisio work is adapted
• Million Live starts airing in the autumn season
• Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho anime announced
• Oishi directs Zokuowarimonogatari
• Another season of Osomatsu-san is announced
• A new season of Saki actually airs

conan-edw: 2/9

• Official announcement of Yuasa’s project
• Announcement of Togashi resuming HxH
• Something new animated for Nozaki-kun
• Natsume&bros handling mob psycho 100 – God please.
• Jojo gets a split cours broadcast
• Hiroshi Hamasaki directs something significant
• Any official word on EVA 3.0+1.0
• More Yuru Yuri
• Umakoshi does something for Jojo

Divinenega: 3/9

• Mahoutsukai no Yome/Ancient Magus Bride anime
• Urobuchi doing actual series composition for an anime
• HQ Holder anime
• Another reboot of an old shonen property (+25 years)
• Naruto anime doesn’t end this year
• Black Clover anime
• Another trainwreck production from WIT
• Funimation, Crunchyroll and Netflix coproduce more anime 
• OPM doesn’t get a sequel

Andrea Ritsu: 1/9

• Tokyo 7th Sisters anime (finally…) gets announced
• Love Live! Sunshine!!’s first volume breaks 100,000 sales
• Dragon Quest anime gets announced
• Selector (WIXOSS) anime sequel gets announced
• Citrus anime adaptation gets announced
• Another Yuru Yuri anime sequel gets announced
• Another Sword Art Online anime sequel (unfortunately…) gets announced
• Kantai Collection’s 2016 movie gets delayed
• THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls anime sequel gets announced

A. Libellule, Lord of Pink: 3/9

• Satoko Kiyuduki starts a new series – Because I refuse to be affected by GA ending.
• Yuyushiki S2 announced – Because I too like nice things.
• Magic of Stella anime announced – Because it has the same number of volumes as New Game and MTK seems to like promoting it.
• Hakoiri Drops anime announced – Because it’s adorable.
• Urara Meiro Cho anime announced – Because we are owed another Miracle.
• Hara Yui restarts Wakaba Girl – Because it was far too short.
• Yen Press licences a new MTK 4-koma series for English publication – Because it’s been far too long.
• Locodol S2 announced – Because they’ve commissioned two new OVAs and more Mikku is always appreciated.
• Million Live anime announced – Blame Basu for this one. [I always do, mate.]

haca, good bad tweets man: 0/9

• Rakugo Shinjuu is not only licensed, but is set to receive a localization. Called ‘Wake Me Up (Before You Raku Go Go)’, award-winning voice actor Vic Mignogna is set to play Yotarou
• Free! prequel High Speed! to receive English-language release, thanks to the grassroots efforts of Canadian Prime Minister @monoids. As with the previous seasons, renowned evangelist Vic Mignogna not only returns to voice Rin, but now he voices everyone – Yes, including Gou.
• NIS America finally pulls a cast together for an English dub of the hit High School Musical parody, Love Live: School Idol Project – Who else to helm the project as the lead idol Honoka but best-selling recording artist Vic Mignogna? The singles also get the dubbing treatment, due in no small part to NIS America’s utmost faith in its talent.
• Hot on the heels of the English-dubbed Love Live anime’s success, Love Live Sunshine is also slated for an English release. And because world-famous Risembool Rangers chief Vic Mignogna did such a good job with it, he’s set to play a part in it too – Whichever girl you liked the most, that’s who he’s playing.
• Looking to recoup their losses, Kill Me Baby is rereleased in Japan, with all of Agiri’s lines dubbed over by renowned 外人タレント、ヴィック-ミニョーナさん。
• Kizumonogatari trilogy to bomb at the box office. Outraged, the production staff draft an all-new cast for the remake to be released by 2020. Kiss-shot to be voiced by Fullmetal Alchemist veteran Vic Mignogna
• Hayao Miyazaki to make press release: “I was wrong about anime being a mistake. I have learned a lot from this brilliant man here.” To his right is future president of the United States, Vic Mignogna
• Sound! Euphonium is given the localization in the same vein as Sailor Moon, with all homosexual subtext removed. They’re cousins now – Thanks, Vic Mignogna.
• Shirobako season two is announced. None of the original production staff are associated with it, but it’ll have some kind of clever subtitle – “”Back 2 Bako””, maybe.

Vic Mignogna.

Psyris: 1/9

• Vinland Saga anime will be announced – Will air on NTV or its music will be handled by VAP.
• A Hollywood film adaptation of One Piece will be announced
• More One Punch Man anime will be announced… in the form of a compilation film.
• Attack on Titan season 2 will not actually drop in 2016 – At best another OAD will be on the way.
• There will be a legit Academy Award push for Masaaki Yuasa’s upcoming film from whoever acquires it in the US
• MAPPA announces tangible movement on The Dreaming Machine before or at Otakon
• Tsutomu Mizushima will be attached as director to an anime project that isn’t Shirobako, Prison School or Mayoiga
• MAPPA will get to remake an anime based on a Shonen Jump property
• Assassination Classroom Second Season ends with an announcement that the final arc will be adapted in film form

jonjonaug: 4/9

• Urobuchi related TV anime announcement happens
• Go Nagai anime, film, or live action TV announcement
• Shinozaki-san Ki o Ota Shika ni! gets some kind of anime announcement – At least a promotional animation.
• An Oshimi Shuzo work gets an anime adaptation of some kind – Not necessarily TV anime.
• English publisher picks up another yuri manga – Gotta be Seven Seas.
• Heaven’s Feel movie (or at least the first one if they go the multiple film route) not released in 2016 – I like Heaven’s Feel, but after everything ufotable’s done recently I want them to take their time with this.
• Yet another Cool Kyoushinsha work gets an adaptation – Hopefully it’ll be one of the ones I like this time.
• English company announces a yaoi visual novel
• I ran out of things I could think of for a wish list so I’ll just put “a new generic ‘person gets transported/reincarnates into another world’ TV anime gets announced” down here

Uznare: 2/9

• Part 4 vol 1 sells over 10k – Part 3 kinda bombed hard so this is a gamble.
• Mitsuo Iso does anything at all – I’m the worst necromancer of all time.
• Wakamoto stops being dead (at least 1 show that isn’t recurring (ie: gintama, utapri))
• Kizu over 3bn for the 2016 movies
• Urobuchi meme anime where he didn’t actually do shit
• Esakuga covers a Bones show – I could probably fund this on my own depending on the show lmao.
• Animator Expo BD release – Please and thank you.
• Conrevo averages under 2k – Aikawa sux more like conkekvo.
• Idolish 7 full series (under Bones obviously) – I need more yutapon dancing, fug conkekvo.

vinhnyu: 1/9

• New Game anime sequel
• New Gundam Build Fighters anime series
• Evangelion Q won’t be released in 2016
• New Full Metal Panic series to be animated by LIDEN FILMS
• Love Live Sunshine first blu-ray will outsell Love Live 2nd season first blu-ray in its first week
• Taiyou no Ie anime adaptation
• Kono Oto Tomare anime adaptation
• Himouto Umaru-chan 2nd season anime announced
• The Ancient Magus Bride anime adaptation

Malcolm Loo: 0/9

• There will be a new Gen Urobuchi anime series where he’ll be writing most of the episodes
• A new Garo anime will be announced this time taking place in a sci-fi setting
• Dimension W will get a recap episode due to production problems
• Evangelion Final teaser will be released: The teaser will be live-action footage intercut with clips of End of Evangelion.
• A sequel to Baccano will be announced, but it will have poor animation
• Kaoru Mori will be hired to do the character designs for a new anime
• Boruto will get an anime series – It’ll be the Dragon Ball GT of Naruto.
• Otaro Maijo will be writing a new anime series
• A third of the main cast of Iron-Blooded Orphans will be killed

tamerlane: 1/9

• Imaishi USAT is Trigger Girls
• Under the Dog releases no earlier than October if at all
• Shingo Natsume directs Mob Psycho
• No updates on Takeuchi/Sakurai collab
• Either Silent Voice or Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni are pushed back to 2017
• Full Metal Panic is Xebec, Liden, or Gonzo
• Yuasa’s movie is noitaminA
• Umakoshi is NOT character designer for Nagahama/Stan Lee thing
• Yamada doesn’t direct a single episode of Euphonium S2

Micchy: 3/9

• Doukyuusei is screened somewhere in the United States that’s not Massachusetts.
• Genocidal Organ will not be released – RIP Manglobe.
• Crunchyroll and Funimation share more than three new simulcasts in one season.
• Mamoru Miyano performs an anime OP
• Sayo Yamamoto is episode director for a TV anime
• Volume 5 of Nokemono to Hanayome is released – I will never give up hope in Ikuni and Asumiko Nakamura.
• Kuzu no Honkai anime announced – It’ll never happen but it’s such glorious trash I can’t help but root for it.
• Boku wa Mari no Naka gets a print release stateside – I mean, if I’m stabbing blindly in the dark for one trash manga (see #7) I might as well beg for the other one.
• One Punch Man confirmed for Toonami run

DC: 1/9

• More information about Girls’ Work will emerge – Anything. Something. They can’t hide it forever. I know it still exists!
• More Saki anime will be announced – Either Shinohayu or more of the main series.
• New Tsukihime anime announced
• Mitsuo Iso works on a TV anime – He’s been a bit more visible lately, it’s time for his return.
• Rie Matsumoto directs an anime NOT at BONES – Free Rie!!
• Megumi Kouno is the main animation director for something – She deserves it.
• A yuri LN gets an anime
• Keiichi Okabe composes music for a new anime
• Maho Girls Precure pulls in more toy money in 2016 than Go Princess Precure did in 2015 – It might be too optimistic to hope for the downward trend of Precure’s sales to reverse, but this is the year of Cure Miracle.

Nainko: 1/9

• Yuzuru Tachikawa to helm a new show – ( ￢￢)
• No Girls’ Work – Might also predict “Aniplex to announce the ‘Girls’ Work’ anime project is no more.”
• Osomatsu-san in the Top 3 of best-selling series of 2016 – How is this not daring this early into the year?! In spite of the huge sales predictions, it is already kinda sure to finish third to Attack on Titans S2 and Love Live! Sunshine. so the Madoka sequel just needs to launch this year to send me flying.
• Nichigo’s lineup for the year as follows; Spring/Summer: Boku no Hero Academia, and Fall: Nanatsu no Taizai S2 – As per the Nichigo tradition, HeroAca is very likely to be two cours long, even though Bones’ schedule for the year makes it hard to believe it will be so.
• Takashi Kojima to work on Under the Dog – The Ando connection, etc. Plus the guy’s last work goes back to last year’s April, so almost a year ago. So I suspect he is on something big, which Under the Dog i- *freezes as he realizes this point is DOA.*
• Also, I’ll keep predicting this until the fuckers at Pony Canyon make Hataraku Maou-sama! S2 happen
• Hikaru Sakurai to write again for a TV anime – Might also be that finally Karneter comes back from the dead.
• News about Masa’aki Yuasa’s movie
• Overlord S2 – Great disc sales, big LN sales boost. Well.

Bash: 2/9

• A Yuyushiki anime sequel will happen – Never lose hope.
• Bakuon will bomb hard (<1k average) – OAD’s & a full series is basically too good to be true, so something has to go wrong here.
• XEBEC 2 makes a full series of “”bang dream”” for Fall, it doesnt take off – Bushiroad attempting “”rock”” Love-Live-style multimedia project means an anime seems inevitable.
• Love Live Sunshine will be the best selling anime of the year, higher than LL s1 but Lower than LL s2 – Unless a madoka TV sequel/spinoff appears out of nowhere this is a free point.
• Ari Ozawa will have 9 main roles in one season – Basically KanaHana 2.0, I’m too young to know who the pre-kana equivalent was.
• There will be at least 7 more series in 2016 with the basic Episode 1 premise of “”boy goes to “”magic”” high school, see’s a girl naked & fights her”” – A little ambitious here, but this late 2015 trend may very well define 2016 as well.
• A non-crowdfunded Little Witch Academia Series will be announced, but wont air until 2017 – Netflix dubbing this basically means they’re thirsty af for it.
• Shouji Saeki will direct another mahou shoujo in 2016 – It won’t suck but it also wont sell much.
• Million Live will be announced for Fall AND a western licensor will pick it up for actual release – This is me actually dreaming.

Katapan: 2/9

• IM@S sideM anime
• B-project anime
• Gunka no Baltzar anime
• Starmyu movie
• HeroAca gets a BUMP OF CHICKEN OP
• Araki’s not-Titans flops terribly on disc (we’ll say sub-1k BDs first week)
• Omori does something that isn’t DRRR
• A male idol TV series has an OP single that sells over 50k (UtaPri doesn’t count)
• The Ace Attorney anime has an episode with a 7.*% rating

Yoshi: 1/9

• Hiromi Kato is the character designer for the Granblue Fantasy TV anime
• Cencoroll 2 finally comes out this year
• Idolish7 anime with NAZ as the animation studio
• The Idolm@ster SideM anime
• The Adventure of Sinbad anime sells less than the Magi anime
• More Natsume Yuujinchou anime, possibly the last
• Yugami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga Inai anime
• ryochimo directs an anime – Save him from 3DCG Ajin.
• Bee Train produces a new TV anime project

duckroll: 0/9

• Yutaka Nakamura will storyboard and animate a major action scene at BONES again
• Takahiro Shikama will animate the final fight in the Garo movie
• Se Joon Kim will animate a scene in the Concrete Revolutio finale
• Yoshimichi Kameda will direct Mob Psycho 100
• Tomoki Kyoda will direct the second OP for My Hero Academia
• The final boss in G-Tekketsu is Gundam Amon
• Maaya Sakamoto will announce her first pregnancy this year
• Mitsuo Iso will return to direct a Denno Coil movie in December
• Under the Dog will have a TV series announcement by the end of the year

c001357: 2/9

• Idolm@ster Million Live TV anime – It’s also going to be the top seller of its season if it airs this year. Please have a Konomi ep please have a Konomi ep.
• Idolm@ster sideM TV anime – They got a bunch of seiyuus all at once and gamiP said he’s up for it so why not.
• A new ova/movie/season for the idolm@ster Cinderella Girls – I loved the show, flawed and divisive as it is and I believe a sequel is just the thing it needs. Kouno-san please save us.
• A new fate/something anime – Either any of the LN spinoffs or grand order because Aniplex’s thirst cannot be sated.
• Chaos;child by Seiji Kishi
• Persona 5 TV anime – This will have fukujun hamming it up as our dashing thieving protag and it will be the best.
• Tokyo 7th Sisters anime – Is it even legal to animate Susu and Uebasu
• Sakurai Hikaru anime to be announced – Still has a better chance than Girl’s Work.
• A classic manga (+25 years) will get a new adaptation – It’s a trend I think will safely continue this year. I hope.

gemon: 1/9

• Euphonium S2 will air in summer 2016, Yamada still credited as series director
• Miku Kadowaki will be the character designer for the Koe no Katachi movie
• Taiichi Ogawa will work as a director on the Koe no Katachi movie
• Rie Matsumoto will direct at least one episode of My Hero Academia
• More Little Witch Academia announced
• Million Live anime announced, Goripon is the director
• Solo KA episode by Hironori Tanaka
• Tokyo 7th sisters anime announced
• Cinderella Girls movie

Lem: 0/9

• Announcement of Index season 3 – If not now, then never.
• Announcement of Baccano season 2 – I feel it.
• New Darker than Black anime project – Haha.
• Announcement of NGNL season 2
• Announcement of Chihayafuru season 3
• Announcement of a YU-NO anime
• Announcement of new anime origial project by Maruto Fumiaki
• Announcement of Horizon season 3 – Sunrise pls, fuck Accel World.
• Alderamin gonna be 24-26 episodes adaptation of the first 7 volumes of light novel

Lusama: 2/9

• Yuki Kajiura composes the OST for Heaven’s Feel
• Second season of Shingeki no Kyojin gets an OP/ED by Hiroyuki Sawano
• Mahou Tsukai no Yome adaptation
• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari adaptation
• Mahouka season 2 announced
• Tenkyou no Alderamin is a 2-cour series
• We’ll get a release date for the third Nanoha movie
• Naotoshi Shiotani directs an OP
• Atsushi Ikariya directs at least 2 episodes this year, Utawarerumono aside

Cral: 1/9

• All of Kizu in theaters in 2016
• First volume of Jojo part 4 anime sells over 10,000 copies
• Good smile company is on the production committee for at least 9 shows
• 2 cours of Kiznaiver
• The rest of Owarimonogatari announced
• Mob Psycho 100 anime is directed by Natsume Shingo
• Imaishi’s USP anime doesn’t have Sushio character designs
• First BD of Love Live Sunshine sells over 45,000 copies
• Animator Expo gets a BD release

buildknuckle: 1/9

• Ojamajo Doremi 16 will be adapted this year, directed by Nagamine – I just want it to happen there’s no good reason otherwise.
• No chapters of Hunter x Hunter will be published this year either as Dragon Quest XI is coming up soon
• There will be an adaptation of Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer – I know it’s a bit late for something like this to get adapted but who knows, crazier things have happened.
• Hyouka will get licenced in North America and Europe – I doubt it’ll get called Girlock Holmes though :p.
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans will air on Toonami – It seems like it’d fit well on there.
• An adaptation of Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam will be announced after Thunderbolt ends – It’s one of the more popular Gundam side stories and Sunrise seem to be upping the amount of Gundam they produce nowadays.
• By the end of this year Teekyuu will have had 9 seasons not including the spinoff – Surpassing what they originally predicted that one time.
• There will be a 3rd season of iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls that has some of the idols that didn’t make into the original two seasons
• There will be a new anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara announced this year – Somehow even after Yurikuma I’m thinking he’ll get another shot at making a series.

Game8910: 3/9

• Amanchu ani- Oh wait… Since Love Live Sunshine is getting an anime, Vol 1 of the BD will include a registration to a very possible Aqours concert or event and break 45k week1 sales guaranteed
• Light novel series Nareru SE gets an anime announcement
• Ken Akamatsu’s UQ Holder will get an anime announcement
• Seiyuu agency Intention will get a new member
• SHIROBAKO SEASON TWO
• Yuuki Yuuna will get a second season announcement
• Nisekoi manga ends this year
• Kancolle Kai (PS Vita) will finally be released this year
• Toyama Nao will become my wi- Toyama Nao will get a single debut this year

Nick: 0/9

• Kyoukaisen S3
• Magika no Kenshi to Basileus anime
• Subahibi anime
• Aikatsu s5 because I really don’t want it to end
• More Mondaiji
• Tokyo 7th Sisters anime
• Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari anime adaptation
• Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou anime
• Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records anime

Alemisty: 3/9

• Violet Ever Garden anime announcement
• Osomatsu-san gets a second season
• The Heaven Feel’s movie will be a trilogy
• Yutapon animates at least 12 scenes throughout the year
• A Nisio Isin novel that isn’t Monogatari gets an adaptation
• Owarimonogatari second season is announced with a post-credits trailer on Kizumonogatari 3
• Ebata storyboards atleast one opening or ending per season
• Ikuhara announces a new anime project
• Shirobako season 2 anime announcement

vestenet: 3/9

• Yuureitou anime
• Shuhei Morita directs an original series
• New Wixoss TV series
• One of Inio Asano’s manga gets some form of anime adaptation
• Eva 3.0+1.0 definitely for sure once and for all comes out this year
• Ancient Magus’ Bride anime
• Eunyoung Choi acts as chief director on some project
• Etsuko Yakushimaru performs an OP or ED
• Aku no Hana season 2 announced – The dream is real.

zetsubouzhainu: 5/9

• Crunchyroll announces a home video release in 2016
• Netflix or Hulu announces that it is on the committee for (or has otherwise funded the creation of) an original Japanese-made anime – Just randomly calling a show a “”Netflix original”” obviously doesn’t count.
• An English-language release of one of the Diabolik Lovers games is announced
• Idolm@ster sideM anime project is announced – Because it didn’t happen in 2015 and I swear 2016 will be the year okay.
• New Free! or High Speed! anime project is announced – Because while I’m pretty sure this won’t happen, it definitely won’t happen with THAT kind of attitude.
• Idolish 7 anime is announced
• Touken Ranbu anime is announced – This one is probably too easy. I would say that it ends up actually selling better than Kancolle anime, but I think we won’t find out until 2017.
• A new buffet-style all-you-can-read manga service with subscription opens in North America – And also it’s primarily NOT porn.
• Kadokawa opens a North American distribution branch for its anime or manga

ZlSgiiNofdl: 2/9

• Idolmaster Xenoglossia Cinderella Girls
• Tomino working on new Ideon
• Fifth Rebuild of Evangelion film announced
• No one wins at the 7th KyoAni awards
• No Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro anime announcement
• New season of Symphogear
• Love Live Sunshine second season
• Jinraiger doesn’t air in 2016
• Bakuon outsells K-ON!

Futsuu: 3/9

• SukaSuka anime – This needs to happen. I need this to happen.
• Ono Manabu will go back to direct the sequel of a show he previously worked on
• Oregairu movie – Volume 12 is taking suspiciously long to come out, and while this might be due to Watari’s other projects, I get the feeling something’s brewing behind the scenes.
• The Rewrite anime will prompt an official western release of the game
• The Sakurai/Takeuchi thing will air/be released this year
• The official subs for the Ace Attorney anime will remain faithful to the games loc – Causing mixed feelings everywhere.
• Saekano S2 in Summer
• Hamaou S2 – the Return of the King. Show me some love, come on.
• Another game with a 90+ median on EGS will get an official western release – 2015 saw MLA and Subahibi happen, and there’s no reason to believe it won’t happen again in 2016.

Tursake: 4/9

• Index s3
• Horizon s3
• Natsume Yuujinchou s5
• Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer anime
• New Hatakeyama original series – Rakugo was finished ages ago.
• Violet Evergarden anime
• Entirely new Type-moon anime
• UQ Holder anime
• Tomo-chan anime

kViN: 1/9

• Official announcement regarding Despera – Kizumonogatari used to be my dream/memetic guess, but Oishi went and made it happen for real! Going with Despera as a replacement, since out of all the forever stalled projects it seems like the most likely to succeed (yes, still can’t imagine Dream Machine working without Kon). ABe having acknowledged its existence a few months back is the hope to cling up to!
• Two Tsutomu Mizushima projects get announced – If it were about any other director in the industry, this prediction would be immediately doomed. Nothing this winter and an already announced Spring 2016 show would give him one extra show at best, but since Mizushima is Mizushima I’ll bet on at least two. The man’s a machine known for his crazy management skills, and his demand is high. Make it happen, even if it doesn’t involve Shirobako S2.
• Atsuko Ishizuka directs another 2016 anime – And speaking of multitasking directors, Ishizuka’s very long absence before PoS where she did nothing whatsoever still seems suspicious. Expecting her to be up to more than we know.
• Commercial release of Animator Expo – I used to be entirely convinced that Expo would be released on Bluray, both months keep passing and still no word on it. Pretty please?
• Mirai Arise actually happens within 2016 – Soon it’ll be a year since it was quietly revealed at AnimeJapan with a teaser than Bandai’s never officially uploaded anywhere, yet AJ 2016’s site doesn’t even list it (yet) amongst its featured titles. I want to believe, but at this point it’s doubtful whether it still exists or not.
• KyoAni key staff debut this year (director, series director, character designer) – The obvious candidate is Ogawa becoming the series director for Eupho S2 (something he hasn’t done for a TV series yet), but we could even be surprised by a new designer stepping up to cover the hole Horiguchi left.
• Koe no Katachi breaks 1.5 billion box office gross – Seems like more or less the point where it’d be considered an unarguable hit, since it’s the level where popular manga like Gintama or Naruto tend to have their films around. Chances are the movie will be released late in 2016 and thus rank well into 2017 so it better be successful fast!
• Hiroyasu Ishida directs a new piece of animation – It’s been years since the last one at this point, and I’m not exactly a fan of Colorido’s new director after Noruda so I’ll believe in Tete to save me.
• Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku anime – As usual, ending with an LN adaptation randomly chosen on Amazon. This one sure has a lot of LN words in its title.

 

Launching Anime Bingo 2016!

Somehow this is already the 4th iteration of this silly contest, time really does fly. No fundamental changes this year – you only need to send 9 anime related predictions, accompanied by your reasoning of why you chose them if you feel like explaining your thought process. Won’t get you extra points, but it gives you more bragging rights in case you correctly guess something. This year I’ll be using Google Forms to make submitting your ballots even easier, just fill in this survey before January 15. Those who have already sent me their lists beforehand can go ahead and resubmit them there, otherwise I’ll do it myself. The form page allows editing your responses so you’re all free to change them as much as you please before the deadline. You can contact me on twitter @Yuyucow if you have any questions about this.

Rules:

• The contest consists of two parts: the first person to reach 5 points and the grand award for the one with the most correct predictions by the end of the year.
• Anything qualifies as long as it’s related to anime and newsworthy. New anime announcements are going to populate everyone’s lists, but anything from “Mizuki Nana to marry Yukari Tamura” to “My little sister is a Zombie becomes this decade’s top seller” is fair game. That includes western news, if they’re remarkable enough (so “Sentai licenses every show of any given season” is a no-go, but “Nozomi to release Utena’s blurays on the US” works). In any case, I’ll contact you if there’s any entry that clearly breaks this rule.
• Predicting rumored announcements is allowed as long as there hasn’t been an official source mentioning them beforehand, but participants are encouraged to be brave with their guesses. Sure to happen news kill the fun, and anyone who goes overboard with those will be asked to change their list.
• Since it happened multiple times last year – don’t worry if one of your predictions comes true before the 15th, it obviously won’t count but you can send a replacement. And yes, as of writing this in 2016 it’s already happened.

As usual, good luck everyone! Newcomers are welcome, no expertise is required to have fun with this.

Anime Bingo 2015 is over!

And so Anime Bingo 2015 ends, with all participants realizing that the real award was the friends we made along the way.

• Just a quick rundown for the final update, since there are way too many things to list this time. Partly thanks to all the ‘X won’t happen within the year’ predictions, once again coming true thanks to projects like Girls Work and the last Rebuild film. Special mention to the multiple people who guessed no chapter of HxH would be published in 2015 – the first full year Togashi’s missed! Y-Yay! A bunch of staff predictions came true too, with the projects by directors like Matsuo, Shinkai and… Kishi? Ouch.

Final Scores:

7 points: liborek3

6 points: Nainko, Helltilt

5 points: Hibari, kViN, FoutonS, zetsubouzhainu, ZakuAbumi, Sanchi, Zeroblade, Time Master, Magicmew, Suzu, Katapan

4 points: CRAL, ABCBTom, shaokthx, Opn, Shinsei, cheersanime, geso, Game8910, delorean, Yuujin_A, Soulstrider, Uznare, tamerlane, Yoshi, bitmap

3 points: bednorz, Dis, FOE-tan, iblessall, Peytral, goldensneer, conan-edw, Futsuu, rootofjustice, DCSW502, Sataniel, kraker2k, Blue-kun, c001357, Tursake, Basu

2 points: Reki, jet, osama__a, HDKirin, vinhnyu, korol, Reiseng, Neidhardt, tim, deepbluejeer, crazz, sage, Kaw, Kaisos, zepwich, tuna, heartunderb1ade, seung, Fencedude, BDH, uncreative, omo, Hitokiri, jonjon

1 point: syao, hacaplus, kortir, Andrea Ritsu, quintasan, Fuyu, Phos, kastel, leafgun, funk, Divinenega

Quite pleased by how this year turned out, since the multiple long-awaited dreams that 2015 brought us – things like Kizu, Prism Nana, D-Gray Man – awarded the people who didn’t play it safe. On that note I’m still amused that in a year with a new FMP anime finally happening, no one got a point for it since all related predictions said that it wouldn’t happen still. Of course there were a bunch of high profile, popular manga like OPM and HeroAca that tons of participants predicted as well, but the LN predictions in general decreasing have made things more entertaining.

As usual, Anime Bingo 2016 will launch within the next few days, but for now let’s congratulate liborek3 for his victory!

Anime Bingo 2015: Tenth Month

Following this year’s trend of long due anime fan dreams coming true, people got points because of FMP’s upcoming anim- Wait, they didn’t? Everyone who mentioned FMP said it wouldn’t happen? Oh.

• Diamond is Unbreakable’s TV anime got announced, and we didn’t even have to wait until Jump Festa! Arguably one of the best arcs of arguably one of the best series, pretty damn cool.
• And speaking of Jump Festa, Hero Academia’s anime announcement (yay!) didn’t wait for that either – despite Bones’ president having said the news about their new show would happen in December. Things never go as Minami plans.
• HeroAca is also doing its job as a staff wishlist, since it’s both Nagasaki’s comeback to Bones and Umakoshi’s new series.
• 今日も一日がんばるぞい！
• Theatrical anime recap movies are on the rise, and Euphonium didn’t skip the chance for one to promote its upcoming sequel. Busy times for Naoko Yamada.
• While it wasn’t its main purpose, the PR for Crunchyroll’s new venture as an active anime producer also confirmed that the site has over 700k paying users.
• It took them months, but it’s finally been confirmed that the Terraformars sequel will indeed be a TV series. With fairly different staff, but it still counts.
• Heavy Object has been confirmed as a 2 cours series, which sounds like a lethal dose of Kamachi.
• The idol mobage wars reach a new level as Aikatsu joins the fight. Humanity is doomed.

7 points: liborek3

5 points: Hibari, kViN, FoutonS, zetsubouzhainu, ZakuAbumi, Sanchi, Helltilt

4 points: Time Master, Katapan, CRAL, Suzu, ABCBTom, shaokthx, Opn, Shinsei, cheersanime, geso, Game8910, delorean, Yuujin_A

3 points: bednorz, Yoshi, Dis, FOE-tan, bitmap, iblessall, Peytral, goldensneer, conan-edw, tamerlane, Uznare, Nainko, Futsuu, rootofjustice, DCSW502, Sataniel, Soulstrider

2 points: Reki, jet, osama__a, Zeroblade, Basu, HDKirin, vinhnyu, korol, c001357, Reiseng, Tursake, Neidhardt, tim, Magicmew, deepbluejeer, crazz, sage, Blue-kun, Kaw, Kaisos, kraker2k, zepwich, tuna, heartunderb1ade

1 point: syao, seung, hacaplus, kortir, Andrea Ritsu, Hitokiri, Fencedude, quintasan, uncreative, jonjon, Fuyu, BDH, Phos