July is here, and so is a brand-new season of anime! Want to get ahead of spoilers or work out where to continue when the series leaves off? Read the manga!
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System is the hottest isekai story, pulling in the top number of views from the popular “shousetsuka ni narou“ isekai story website (as of January 1, 2022). “You useless son of mine! You were supposed to pull master swordsman, but I never thought it would be this tragic!“ The day a child turns fifteen, they undergo the Ritual of Divine Blessing. Already descended from a line of master swordsman, Elymas was supposed to succeed his father. However, he pulls the defective class, the Heavy Knight, and not only loses his status as future head of the household, but he’s also exiled. With their unbalanced stats and seemingly useless skills, Heavy Knights are spoken of as a class for cowards and the lazy. However, Elymas knows the truth. The world he lives in is the same as the one of the game he used to play… It is the Heavy Knight that is the most powerful class of them all. Using memories from his past life, Elymas has set out to effectively conquer this entire world.
The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System is being brought to life by GoHands (the studio behind The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, among others!) and looks absolutely stunning in this official trailer!
The World is Dancing
Born into a life of acting and dance with a traveling theater troupe in 14th-century Japan, 12-year old Oniyasha has one problem-he doesn’t know what the point of any of it is. Why must I step with the left foot here instead of the right? Why is one performance good and another, bad? Why do people dance at all? It all seems perfectly arbitrary, until a chance encounter in a run-down shack sets him down a path to revolutionizing the art form and influencing much of Japanese culture to come. A fictionalized account of the early life of Zeami Motokiyo (Oniyasha), the founder of modern Noh theater-the world’s oldest surviving theater art-this coming-of-age artist’s journey vividly brings to life a man far ahead of his time during one of Japan’s most culturally and socially vibrant eras.
Animated by Cypic (the studio behind the incredible Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray), you can watch the trailer below!
Thunder 3
An amazing blend of art styles combine with hard-SF elements and meta-comedy to create a comic truly unlike any other!
Netflix’s animation studio brings us this anime adaptation. Check it out below!
The Ghost in the Shell
From Shirow Masamune, the award-winning creator of Appleseed and Dominion, comes The Ghost in the Shell, the definitive cyberpunk manga that inspired the internationally acclaimed animated film. An epic dystopian tale of politics, technology, and metaphysics, The Ghost in the Shell has been hailed worldwide as an unparalleled visionary work of graphic fiction.
Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged with tracking down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including “ghost hackers” who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ criminal ends. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down.
Animated by Science SARU (Dandadan, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off), this reboot brings with it the classic style of the original manga! See for yourself!
The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch – Second Cour
From Yousuke Kaneda, author of Boarding School Juliet, comes a new title! Spica Virgo is an apprentice witch, but can’t use any magic. She needs someone to be her master in order to get into the academy of her dreams, but she has no money and no connections. Suddenly, a mysterious talking black cat that can use magic appears before her!! Spica wants to learn magic, and the black cat wants his curse broken—goals on the same path. Therefore, a secret master-apprentice relationship was born! But the key to breaking the curse is kissing his…?! A clumsy witch and the teachings of a black cat—the magic academy fantasy starts here!!
Spica’s adventures continue in the second half with excellent animation by LIDENFILMS (Tokyo Revengers)! The original trailer is right here!
Grand Blue Dreaming – Season 3
The hit comedy manga is now in print by popular demand! Swimsuits! Ramen! Dumb jokes! Beer! Uncomfortable nudity! After moving out on his own to a seaside town, Iori Kitahara makes a college debut he never anticipated. A new chapter of his life unfolds, full of diving with beautiful girls and shenanigans with a gaggle of lovable bastards! Idiot-expert Kenji Inoue and au naturel authority Kimitake Yoshioka bring you a glorious college tale filled with booze-fueled antics!
ZERO-G x SABER WORKS are continuing the antics, this time in Palao!
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime – Season 4 Cour 2
As players of Monster Hunter and Dungeons & Dragons know, the slime is not exactly the king of the fantasy monsters. So when a 37-year-old Tokyo salaryman dies and wakes up in a world of dragons and magic, he’s a little disappointed to find he’s become a blind, boneless slime monster. Mikami’s middle age hasn’t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he’s disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he’s not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero…
Eightbit continue to bring us more of Rimuru and company.
