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Madman Entertainment Announce NINE New Anime Acquisitions

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During their Supanova Pop Culture Expo panel today on the Gold Coast, Australian anime publisher Madman Entertainment announced nine brand new anime acquisitions. These are all series which will be either or both added to their AnimeLab streaming service and released in stores via DVD/Blu-ray.

For more information on each announced title, check out the full list below:

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Golden Time

Many people think that lawyers live in a separate reality, but at one private law school in Tokyo that may literally be true.  For example, when would-be law student Banri Tada tumbled off a bridge, he learned more than just that legal eagles can’t fly.  Or, to be more accurate, he unlearned everything, as the accident not only left him with retrograde amnesia, but also split a portion of his psyche into a separate being that carries all of his memories prior to graduating high school!  And the disgruntled spirit now following Banri around isn’t the school’s only stalker.  Banri’s friend Mitsuo is also being pursued.  In Mitsuo’s case, though, it’s a prior commitment.  The lovely Kouko Kaga is relentlessly hounding him, determined to hold him to a childhood agreement to eventually wed.  And if you think those characters are out of order, the jury’s still out on Nijigen-kun, who’s given up on the 3D world and reverted to 2D!  But don’t rush to judgment just yet!  Join in a paper chase through some very uncivil actions and exposed legal briefs and arrive at your own verdict in GOLDEN TIME!

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Haikyuu!!

Shoyo Hinata may be a small guy, but he’s got big ambitions. Ever since he saw a short-statured volleyball pro dominate the scoreboards in the National Championship, he’s been determined to become the next big thing in High School Volleyball. Unfortunately, he’s barely played the game. The only time he was able to assemble enough players to form a team was in junior high, when the team suffered a crushing defeat in their first and only match against a team lead by up-and-coming setter Tobio Kageyama. Now, as his first year of high school begins, Shoyo’s finally getting the chance to join a real club and play with a real team. There’s just one problem: Tobio Kageyama’s decided to attend the same school, and he’s established a reputation as being one of the best players in the game. Can this small fry hold his own against the King of the Court? Or could the rivalry and competition actually be the best thing for both of them? Get ready for a knock down, throw down, ultimate show down barrage of volleys, spikes, and blocks as Shoyo leaps for the glory and Kageyama aims for the stars in HAIKYUU!!

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The “Hentai” Prince and the Stony Cat

Koto is a complete and total pervert, but he doesn’t think that’s a problem.  What bothers him is that every time he tries to bluff his way through one of his indiscretions, his inability to drop his emotionless façade inevitably digs him in even deeper.  Tsukiko also has an issue and wants to get rid of her childish habit of blurting out whatever she happens to be thinking.  So when they learn about a statue of a cat that can take away a single personality trait that you want to get rid of, they’re both eager to try it out.  However, what neither of them realizes until it’s too late is that the cat doesn’t just take the personality trait away from you, it GIVES it to somebody else!  Now Koto can’t keep himself from saying exactly what’s on his mind, while Tsukiko has picked up a complete inability to display emotion!  Could the solution be finding the original owners of all the assorted problems and arranging an un-swap?  And if it is, just how are they going to find everyone?  A crazed game of musical personalities encompassing a very surprising cast of characters has only just begun in HENTAI PRINCE AND THE STONY CAT!

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Hozuki No Reitetsu

There are hard jobs and jobs that seem outright impossible, but in the end, the most difficult job in all creation probably belongs to Hozuki, Deputy Chief to the Great King Enma.  Because the Great King spends all his time sitting in judgment on the recently deceased, it’s up Hozuki to keep the dark half of the afterlife running smoothly, which would be hellishly complicated even if Hell wasn’t constantly short on good help.  Fortunately, Hozuki’s not the typical bureaucratic hothead you’d expect to find heading a department of infernal affairs.  Fiendishly clever and determined enough to dedicate multiple lifetimes to a task (though not necessarily his OWN lifetimes), he’ll get the job done even if it means breaking a few unbreakable rules and running rings around Hell’s normal operating procedures.  As for patience… well, Hell hasn’t frozen over quite yet, so the verdict’s still out on that, but he doesn’t suffer fools lightly, let alone damned fools.  After all, that Highway to Hell isn’t going to get paved with just good intentions, so if someone has to suffer for all eternity, Hozuki’s damned sure that it’s not going to be himself in HOZUKI NO REITETSU!

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Magical Warfare

The last few years haven’t been easy for Takeshi Nanase. His parents are distant and his little brother despises him since “the accident,” while his relationship with his girlfriend isn’t exactly romantic. Even one of the few high points in his existence, studying the Japanese swordfighting technique of Kendo, seems to be a dead end, as while he’s got a definite knack for it, it’s not something that’s likely to have any practical application in a future career. Or so he thinks until he runs into an unconscious girl in an unknown uniform and suddenly has his world turned upside down. In short order, he’s being held at (magical) gunpoint, rescuing damsels in distress, and finding himself facing off with a group of magic users! But as shocking as finding his life in danger and learning that magic is real may be, what’s even more stunning is the revelation that Takeshi’s been changed into a magician himself! So maybe those sword lessons aren’t going to end up being so irrelevant after all! Especially since he’s now got a big magical target on his back and the only way to survive is through MAGICAL WARFARE!

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The Pet Girl of Sakurasou

Banished from normal housing for the crime of adopting stray cats, Sorata Kanda’s life has gone to the dogs and he’s been impounded in Sakura Hall, a notorious den of troublemakers, geniuses and weirdos.  And since he has a penchant for taking in small, cute but sometimes not completely loveable creatures, he’s been tasked with keeping fellow resident Mashiro Shiina, an acclaimed but highly dysfunctional and unfocused artist, from forgetting to eat, brush her hair or wear clothes.  Then there are the other residents of Sakura Hall, all of whom have their own unique quirks and challenging relationships.  Attentions stray, passions play and sanity frays in the housebreaking complete collection of The Pet Girl of Sakurasou!

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Sunday Without God

On Sunday, God Abandoned the World…Fifteen years ago, God abandoned the world and closed the gate to Heaven, leaving the souls of humankind trapped in limbo. With the dead unable to rest and the living unable to have children, the world is slowly coming to a halt. The only key to mankind’s salvation rests with the Gravekeepers, mysterious beings charged with the task of sending the deceased to their final resting place. Twelve-year-old Ai, one of the last children in the world, soon finds herself shouldered with the burden of becoming her village’s newest Gravekeeper. But beneath the village’s unassuming exterior lies a dark secret that is revealed with the arrival of a gun-wielding stranger in black. With her position as a Gravekeeper now uncertain, Ai has no choice but to set out to put the living dead to rest. But in a world where no one can die, is death truly the ultimate blessing? A journey unlike any other begins as Ai unlocks the secrets to life and death on SUNDAY WITHOUT GOD!

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So, I Can’t Play H!

Never make a deal with a wet goddess you’ve only just met.  That’s a lesson Ryosuke Kaga learns the hard way when he foolishly agrees to let Lisara Restole use some of his “essence” to stay in this world.  Because despite her smoking hot appearance, Lisara’s actually a Shinigami, a Goddess of Death.  However, she doesn’t steal years off his life like any decent Shinigami would do.  Oh no, instead she sucks off his lecherous spirit, draining his ability to enjoy… well, the things that teenage boys normally spend most of their time thinking about!  And now the poor degenerate’s only hope of getting his licentiousness renewed is to join the Lisara on her quest, since when she leaves our mortal plane he regains his normal immorality!   But Shinigami can be really harsh mistresses and it’s going to be anything but easy to go back to being sleazy in So I Can’t Play H!

Sam
Sam
Founder of The Otaku's Study. I have been exploring this labyrinth of fandom these last fifteen years, and still nowhere close to the exit yet. Probably searching for a long time to come.

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