Servamp
| Alternative title | サーヴァンプ |
| Source Material | Manga series by Strike Tanaka |
| Casts | Ayumu Murase as Hugh the Dark Algernon III Genki Okawa as Ryusei Hiro Shimono as Misono Arisuin Kazuma Horie as Snow Lily Kenjiro Tsuda as Jeje Kotaro Nishiyama as Koyuki Nobunaga Shimazaki as Licht Jekylland Todoroki Ryohei Kimura as Lawless Takuma Terashima as Mahiru Shirota Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Tsubaki Tetsuya Kakihara as Mikuni Arisuin Yoji Ueda as Toru Shirota Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Belkia Yuuki Kaji as Kuro Yuuki Ono as Tetsu Sendagaya Yuuto Suzuki as Sakuya Watanuki |
| Director | Hideaki Nakano (Aoharu x Kikanjuu) |
| Scenario | Kenji Konuta (Aoharu x Kikanjuu, Blade & Soul, Diamond no Ace) |
| Original Character Design | Junko Yamanaka (Aishiteruze Baby, Aoharu x Kikanjuu) |
| Opening Theme | “Deal With” by OLDCODEX |
| Ending Theme | “Sunlight Avenue” by Takuma Terashima |
| Studio | Brain’s Base j.o Platinum Vision |
| Official website | http://www.servamp.jp/ |
| @anime_servamp | |
| Broadcast date | 5 July 2016 (1400 GMT/ 2100 WIT/ 2300 JST) |
Mahiru Shirota has been left by his parents since kid and taken care by his uncle. Live without his parents is what make Mahiru to be a boy who can live by his own. Now he’s turn 15 and live by himself. One day he found a stray cat on the street and call him Kuro. But Kuro is not just a cat because Kuro is actually a vampire. Despite being a bloodsucking vampire, Kuro is a slacker and a shut-in Vampire. Mahiru then make a contract with Kuro, a slacker vampire which is also a Servant, or being called as Servamp.
Another action anime for this season. Told a story about vampire, Servamp came with a little darker atmosphere. There are some bloodsplattered intense battle in this anime. Despite that, when you see Kuro there’s another stuff presented, a slacker vampire who messed Mahiru’s everyday live. (Rafly Nugroho/KAORI Newsline)
Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara
| Alternative title | 食戟のソーマ 弍ノ皿 |
| Source Material | Manga by Shun Saeki and Yūto Tsukuda |
| Casts | Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Sōma Yukihira
Risa Taneda as Erina Nakiri Minami Takahashi as Megumi Tadokoro
Junichi Suwabe as Akira Hayama Nobuhiko Okamoto as Ryō Kurokiba Natsuki Hanae as Takumi Aldini Saori Ōnishi as Hisako Arato Chinatsu Akasaki as Alice Nakiri Hiroki Yasumoto as Subaru Mimasaka |
| Director | Yoshitomo Yonetani (Yuusha Ou Gaogaigar, Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Beginning, Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Rising) |
| Scenario | Shogo Yasukawa (Chō Jigen Game Neptune The Animation, Terraformars) |
| Original Character Design | Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman, Kiss×sis) |
| Sound Director | Jin Aketagawa (Dimension W, Suisei no Gargantia, Aldnoah.Zero) |
| Music | Tatsuya Katou (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya, Love Live! Sunshine!!) |
| Opening Theme | “ROUGH DIAMONDS” by SCREEN mode |
| Ending Theme | “Snow Drop” by nano.RIPE |
| Studio | J.C.STAFF (Toradora!, Sakurasō no Pet na Kanojo) |
| Official Website | http://shokugekinosoma.com/ |
| @shokugeki_anime | |
| Broadcast Date | 2 July 2016 (1300 GMT/ 2000 WIB/ 2200 JST) |
After the qualifying test with curry dishes, eight contestants have entered the quarterfinal of Autumn Elections: Sōma, Megumi, Takumi, Hisako, Alice, Kurokiba, Hayama, and Mimasaka. Their next challenge: bento.
We finally get sequel to a very popular anime with much more great visuals with the artistic animations of cooking battle scenes. The story begins with Sōma being forced to enter the elite Tōtsuki Culinary Academy when his father decides to close the family restaurant. With the aim to beat his father and ultimately become the best chef, he faced off against many cooking showdowns known as “Shokugeki” to climb towards a path to become one of the Tōtsuki’s elite graduates where only a few are known to graduate. Skip to the current season and we are finally going to witness a heated battle amongst the eight contestants that have qualified for the quarterfinal of the autumn elections. Equipped with great soundtracks and epic battle scenes, the show didn’t forget to be funny constantly cracking random jokes. I am personally looking forward for the weekly memes and the ecstatic scenes after tasting the food. (Eri Gunawan Suriana/ The Indonesian Anime Times)
Show By Rock!! Short
| Alternative Title | SHOW BY ROCK!!しょ～と!! |
| Source Material | Rhytm Game by Geechs |
| Voice Actors | Sumire Uesaka as Chuchu
Eri Inagawa as Cyan Ayane sakura as Moa Manami Numakura as Retoree |
| Director | Takahiko Ikezoe |
| Scriptwriter | Touko Machida |
| Character Design | Masaru Oshiro |
| Ending Theme | Doremifa Party – Plazmagica |
| Studio | BONES |
| Official Site | http://showbyrock-anime.com/short/ |
| @sb69a | |
| Broadcast date | 4 July 2016 (1500 GMT/ 2300 WIT / 2000 JST) |
A short sequel from the same series. Show by Rock!! Short tells us about short comedy of the daily lives of Plazmagica’s and ShinganCrimsonZ’s members.
Not much to say, but the cute girls of Plazmagica and Handsome boys of ShinganCrimsonZ is back. Even though it’s a short anime, the hilariousness of Cyan, Chuchu, Moa and Retoree, their rivals and ShinganCrimsonZ’s members will entertain us once more with this short sequel (Naufalbepe/KAORI Newsline)
Taboo Tattoo
| Alternative title | タブー・タトゥー |
| Source Material | Manga series by Shinjiro |
| Casts | Akari Kito as Aryabahta
Chika Anzai as Touko Ichinose Eri Kitamura as Lisa Lovelock Hitomi Nabatame as Kar Shekhar Kenjiro Tsuda as R.R. Lurker Makoto Furukawa as Seigi Akazuka Mikako Komatsu as Bluesy “Easy” Fluesy Shiori Izawa as Iltutmish Tessho Genda as Colonel Sanders Tomokazu Sugita as Tom Shredfield Toshiyuki Morikawa as Brad “BB” Blackstone |
| Director | Takashi Watanabe (Boogiepop Phantom, Hidan no Aria, dan Mito no Daibōken: Futari no Joō-sama) |
| Scenario | Masamitsu Otake & Mayori Sekijima |
| Original Character Design | Shinya Hasegawa (Golden Time) |
| Opening Theme | “Belief” by May’n |
| Ending Theme | “Egoistic Emotion” by TRIGGER |
| Studio | J.C. Staff |
| Official website | http://tabootattoo-anime.com/ |
| @tabootattoo_ani | |
| Broadcast date | 4 July 2016 (1705 GMT), 5 July 2016 (0005 WIT/ 0205 JST) |
Once in a night, Seigi Akatsuka, an ordinary middle school students fights the street punks to save a person who is previously attacked by those punks. After beat those punks, he is given a mysterious tattoo from the person he just saved as a thanks for saving him. But that tattoo is not an ordinary tattoo. The next morning, Seigi suddenly meets with a girl who knows secret behind his mysterious tattoo.
As an action themed anime, Taboo Tattoo came with the good excecution. Since the very beginning, there were already some intense action scene in the first episode of this anime. The combination between 2D animation panning and 3D background animation made the fighting scene in this anime looked adorable. Although packed with clenched fists and battles, but there were also some comedy in this anime. (Rafly N/KAORI Newsline)
Tales of Zestiria the X
| Alternative Title | テイルズ オブ ゼスティリア ザ クロス |
| Original Source | Video Game by Bandai Namco Entertainment |
| Cast | Ai Kayano as Alisha Diphda
Daisuke Ono as Dezel Kenjiro Tsuda as Zaveid Mikako Komatsu as Rose Misato Fukuen as Edna Noriko Shitaya as Lailah Ryohei Kimura as Sorey Ryota Ohsaka as Mikleo |
| Director | Haruo Sotozaki (Tales of the Symphonia the Animation) |
| Oroginal Character Designi | Daigo Okumura
Kousuke Fujishima Minoru Iwamoto Mutsumi Inomata |
| Opening Theme | “Kaze no Uta” by FLOW |
| Closing theme | fhana |
| Studio | Ufotable (Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night:unlimited Bladeworks, Godeater) |
| Official Site | http://toz-thex-anime.tales-ch.jp/ |
| @TOZtheX | |
| Broadcast date | 3 July 2016 ( 1400 GMT/ 2100 WIB/ 2300 JST) |
Sorey is a human youth who grew up among the “seraphim” (tenzoku), spiritual beings invisible to human eyes. He believes in the folklore that every human was able to see the seraphim long ago and dreams of unraveling the ancient mystery to make the world a place where people and seraphim can live together in peace. During a visit to the human capital, he becomes embroiled in an incident during which he pulls out a holy sword embedded in a rock and ends up becoming a “Shepherd,” one who casts away calamity from the world.
Tales of Zestiria the X is an animated TV series adapted from Bandai Namco Entertainment’s game titled Tales of Zestiria for the 20th Anniversary of Tales game franchise. Episode 0 (some others streaming sites use episode 1) is the prologue or introduction session to make us know what is the problem that will happen in this series’s story. Audience were just introduced with one of the main character, Alisha Diphda. Ufotable shows their speciality in creating animation with beautiful digital composting. The cinematography plays with camera shot and visual elements, especially colour, to create the right mood in every scene in this animation (Andira Indrawan / KAORI Shop)
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