[signoff icon=”alert”]The Otaku’s Study is proud to support the international anime industry, and recommend that all anime fans check out their local publishers to find out where they can legally and officially watch or otherwise purchase the seasons listed in this post.
Madman Entertainment content can be purchased via their official website or local anime retailers across Australia and New Zealand. It is also possible to view select episodes via their AnimeLab video-on-demand service.[/signoff]
During Supanova: Pop Culture Expo in Perth last weekend, Australian anime publisher Madman Entertainment announced a plethora of titles which will be legally and officially available for streaming via their AnimeLab video-on-demand service. Some of these announcements are with regards to upcoming simulcasts, while others are older titles that they are opening up to a wider Australian and New Zealand market.
Information on all these titles can be found below. Do note that information and synopses in this post are sourced from Madman Entertainment.
InuYasha
Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kagome Higurashi, whose family tends a shrine, falls into an old well one day and literally tumbles into ancient Japanese history. On the other side she meets Inu yasha, the dog-like demon (inu means dog in Japanese) who claims she smells just like the woman who fifty years ago pinned him with her arrow to a tree, where he’s been all this time.
Unwilling allies at first, the two become closer as their search for the sacred “Jewel of Four Souls” continues. If Kagome really is the reincarnation of the shrine-maiden Kikyo, can it be that she’s becoming jealous of herself…?
Cardcaptor Sakura
Curiosity is part of any 10-year old’s life, but Sakura just broke the seal on a magical book and released all of the mischievous spirits imprisoned on the cards inside! Kero, the “Guardian of the Clow Cards” is horrified to find all of the cards gone and tells Sakura she must become the “Cardcaptor” and retrieve the spirits before they work their mischief in the world.
Free! Eternal Summer (Dub)
The Iwatobi Swim Club returns! As their third year begins, Haruka, Makoto and Rin are still swimming strong, but choosing plans for their futures loom, and as friends both new and old make their way into the picture, rivalries will take root once again. Will the team make it out stronger than before or sink under pressure?
Haikyuu!!
Ever since Hinata saw a short-statured volleyball pro dominate in a 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 play in junior high, his team was defeated in their first and only match against a team lead by up-and-coming setter Tobio. Now in high school, Shoyo finally has a chance to join a real team. The catch is: he must learn to play on a team with his old nemesis.
DuRaRaRa!!x2 Ten (Simulcast)
Ikebukuro, a city teeming with the most peculiar characters and the twisted schemes they indulge in. In the aftermath of the assault against the information broker, signs of new disorder begin to develop like ripples across the water. Holding his own ideals, the young man who gains the powers of both the “Dollars” and the “Blue Squares” treads the path to total annihilation. Someone struggles to save their best friend while a psychopath creeps up on a popular idol. Slowly but surely a new threat gains power within the city’s shadows… Paths cross and trouble brews as the plot thickens in this complicated web of conspiracies.
Fairy Tail (Simulcast)
Madman Entertainment are “extremely proud” to announced that they’ll be simulcasting Fairy Tail. This is set to begin from next month.
Actually, I Am (Simulcast)
Kuromine Asahi is terrible at keeping secrets, but he’s just found out that the cute girl he has a crush on is a vampire! If anyone finds out, she’ll be immediately expelled. Can Asahi keep her secret?
A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist
The story is set 16 years after the “Law for Public Order and Morals in Healthy Child-Raising” banned coarse language in the country. Tanukichi Okuma enrolls in the country’s leading elite public morals school and is soon invited into the Anti-Societal Organization (SOX) by its founder, Ayame Kajō. As a member blackmailed into joining by Ayame, Tanukichi ends up taking part in obscene acts of terrorism against the talented student council president Anna (for whom Tanukichi has a crush).
Classroom☆Crisis (Simulcast)
This story of young high school hopefuls is set in Fourth Tokyo in a Japanese Martian prefecture.
A new classmate is kidnapped en route to Mars and the students realise that they’ll have to be the ones to embark on an unprecedented rescue mission!
Charlotte (Simulcast)
The story centers around the special abilities that occur among a small percentage of adolescent boys and girls. Yuu Otosaka uses his power without others knowing, so he can lead a satisfying school life.
One day, a girl named Nao Tomori suddenly appears before him and their encounter reveals the destiny for wielders of special abilities.
Sky Wizards Academy (Simulcast)
The story is set in a world where humanity, driven off the land by the threat of magical armored insects, now live in aerial floating cities. Thus wizards — aerial combat mages who fight the insects with magical powers — came into being.
Kanata Age (Eiji) is a young man who lives on the floating wizard academy city of “Misutogan.” He was once celebrated as the “Black Master Swordsman,” the elite ace of the S128 special team. However, he is now despised as the “traitor of the special team.” One day, he is assigned as the instructor of E601, a team that has suffered 10 consecutive defeats. E601 has three girls — Misora Whitale, Lecty Eisenach, and Rico Flamel — with one or two peculiar quirks.
Junjo Romantica 3 (Simulcast)
Misaki has a lot to worry about. He’s trying to get into the prestigious Mitsuhashi University, though his grades are less than stellar. Also, his new tutor is the famous author Akihiko Usami, a moody, pushy man who’s giving him some shockingly sexual advances. But the biggest problem of all is that Akihiko is using a pen name to write explicit boy’s love novels starring himself and Misaki’s brother!
Overlord (Simulcast)
The story takes place in the year 2138 when virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, the protagonist Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as “the most powerful wizard.” The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.
Aquarion Logos (Simulcast)
Once upon a time, human voices had defined the true nature of all things, yet the invention of text changed the status quo, while creating a “Logos World” between the voice and the truth. Millennia have passed since then, advancements of civilizations have made the “Logos World” too big to control “texts.” A group of young people dedicate themselves to counter chaotic “texts” with “Creative Voice Power,” and among them, a boy named Akira Kaibuki living in Asagaya.
