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Events in 2012 in anime .

Year in review

In Japanese polling, Newtype 's best releases of Autumn 2011 to Summer 2012 announced the best anime series as Fate/Zero , The Idolmaster , Nisemonogatari , Tari Tari and Hyouka . For movies, the poll named only three awards for the K-On! Movie , Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie and Wolf Children . [1] Another series debut was Sword Art Online . Kotaku's Richard Eisenbeis praised Sword Art Online, even before the series' conclusion, for its complex and genre-crossing storyline and intelligent portrayal of sociological and psychological issues. [2] Eisenbeis would also pick five different movies for top film of 2012, including The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki , Evangelion 3.0 , Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker , One Piece Film: Z and Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles as his top five movies. [3]

Contents

Anime News Network's, Theron Martin and Carl Kimlinger listed the best anime in America of 2012 summarized the popular works that were widely released to American audiences. The two reviewers picked Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Anohana as series of the year with runners-up Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions and Kimi ni Todoke . The staff's picks for best movies of the year, were The Secret World of Arrietty and Redline . [4]

In March 2013, the Tokyo Anime Awards recognized Wolf Children for animation of the year, Sword Art Online and Kuroko's Basketball for television series of the year. [5]

At the Mainichi Film Awards, the Animation Film Award was won by Wolf Children and the Ōfuji Noburō Award was won by Combustible . Wolf Children also won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Internationally, A Letter to Momo won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film, with three of the other four nominees being also from Japan: From Up on Poppy Hill , Niji-Iro Hotaru: Eien no Natsu Yasumi and Wolf Children .

Deaths

March 20 - Noboru Ishiguro [6]

Releases

Films

A list of anime that debuted in theaters between January 1 and December 31, 2012.

Release dateTitleStudioDirectorRunning time (minutes)NotesRef
March 17 Strike Witches: The Movie AIC Kazuhiro Takamura97
June 16 Library War: The Wings of Revolution Production I.G Takayuki Hamana 105
July 21 Wolf Children Studio Chizu
Madhouse
Mamoru Hosoda 117
October 27 009 Re:Cyborg Production I.G
Sanzigen
Kenji Kamiyama 105
November 17 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Studio Khara Hideaki Anno
Mahiro Maeda
Kazuya Tsurumaki
96

Television series

A list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2012.

First run start and end datesTitleEpisodesStudioDirectorAlternate titleRef
January 2March 26 Natsume Yūjin-chō Shi 13 Brain's Base Takahiro Omori
January 5March 29 Amagami SS+ plus 13 AIC Tomoki Kobayashi
January 4March 28 The New Prince of Tennis 13M.S.C
Production I.G
Hideyo Yamamoto
January 5March 29 Kill Me Baby 13 J.C.Staff Yoshiki Yamakawa
January 5March 28 Recorder to Randoseru Do 13SevenHiroshi Kimura
January 5March 22 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes: Act 2 12 J.C.Staff
Artland
Makoto Moriwaki
January 6March 21 High School DxD 12 TNK Tetsuya Yanagisawa
January 6March 30 Senki Zesshō Symphogear 13 Satelight
Encourage Films
Tatsufumi Itō
January 7March 17 Nisemonogatari 11 Shaft Akiyuki Shinbo
Tatsuya Oishi
January 7March 24 The Familiar of Zero: F 12 J.C.Staff Yoshiaki IwasakiZero no Tsukaima F
January 7September 28 The Knight in the Area 37 Shin-Ei Animation Hirofumi Ogura
January 8June 24 Aquarion Evol 26 Satelight
8-Bit
Shōji Kawamori
Yusuke Yamamoto
January 8June 30 Bodacious Space Pirates 26 Satelight Tatsuo Satō
January 8March 27 Brave 10 12Studio Sakimakura
TMS Entertainment
Kiyoko Sayama
January 8March 24 Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne 12 Xebec
Production I.G
Tatsuo Satō
Toshimasa Suzuki
Rinne no Lagrange
January 8December 30 Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki 52 Studio Deen Akitaro Daichi
January 9March 26 Daily Lives of High School Boys 12 Sunrise Shinji Takamatsu Danshi Kōkōsei no Nichijō
January 10March 27 Another 12 P.A.Works Tsutomu Mizushima
January 10March 27 Waiting in the Summer 12 J.C.Staff Tatsuyuki Nagai Ano Natsu de Matteru
January 11March 27 Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! 13 Feel Itsuro Kawasaki Papa no Iu Koto o Kikinasai!
January 12March 29 Inu x Boku SS 12 David Production Naokatsu Tsuda
January 12January 26 Thermae Romae 6 DLE Azuma Tani
January 23March 28 Gokujyo 12LMDFutoshi Higashide
February 2March 22 Black Rock Shooter 8 Ordet
Sanzigen
Shinobu Yoshioka
Hiroyuki Imaishi
February 5January 27, 2013 Smile PreCure! 48 Toei Animation Takashi Otsuka
March 16April 21 Ozuma 6LandQ Studios
Gonzo
Takahiro Ikezoe
Ryōsuke Takahashi
April 1December 23 Hiiro no Kakera 13 Studio Deen Bob Shirohata
April 1March 30, 2014 Saint Seiya Omega 97 Toei Animation Morio Hatano (1-51)
Tatsuya Nagamine (52-77)
Kohei Kureta (78-97)
April 1March 22, 2014 Space Brothers 99 A-1 Pictures Ayumu Watanabe Uchū Kyōdai
April 2June 25 Zetman 13 TMS Entertainment Osamu Nabeshima
April 3February 26, 2013 Ginga e Kickoff!! 39 TYO Animations Kōnosuke Uda
April 3June 26 Kimi to Boku (season 2)13 J.C.Staff Mamoru Kanbe
April 3June 19 Queen's Blade Rebellion 12 Arms Yōsei Morino
April 4September 26 Arashi no Yoru ni 26 Sparky Animation Tetsuro Amino
April 4February 19, 2014 Kuromajo-san ga Toru!! 60 Shin-Ei Animation Tetsuo Yasumi
April 4June 27 Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine 13 TMS Entertainment Sayo Yamamoto
April 4June 27 Recorder to Randoseru Re 13SevenHiroshi Kimura
April 5June 7 Is This a Zombie? of the Dead 10 Studio Deen Takaomi KanasakiKore wa Zombie Desu ka? of the Dead
April 5June 21 Medaka Box 12 Gainax Shouji Saeki
April 5June 28 Place to Place 12 AIC Fumitoshi Oizaki Acchi Kocchi
April 5June 28 Sankarea: Undying Love 12 Studio Deen Mamoru Hatakeyama
April 5September 27 Sengoku Collection 26 Brain's Base Keiji Gotoh
April 5March 28, 2013 Shirokuma Cafe 50 Pierrot Mitsuyuki Masuhara
April 6June 29 Natsuiro Kiseki 12 Sunrise Seiji Mizushima
April 7September 22 Accel World 24 Sunrise Masakazu Obara
April 7March 30, 2013 Baku Tech! Bakugan 51 Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment Takao Kato
April 7June 23 Fate/Zero (season 2)12 Ufotable Ei Aoki
April 7March 30, 2013 Jewelpet Kira Deco! 52 Studio Comet Makoto Moriwaki
April 7September 22 Kuroko's Basketball 25 Production I.G Shunsuke Tada
April 7June 30 Mysterious Girlfriend X 12 Hoods Entertainment Ayumu Watanabe Nazo no Kanojo X
April 7March 30, 2013 Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future 51 Tatsunoko Production Masakazu Hishida
April 8December 23, 2013 Beyblade: Shogun Steel 45 SynergySP
Nelvana Animation
Kunihisa Sugishima
April 8January 2, 2013 Cardfight!! Vanguard: Asia Circuit 39 TMS Entertainment Hatsuki Tsuji
April 8June 24 Dusk Maiden of Amnesia 13 Silver Link Shin Ōnuma Tasogare Otome × Amnesia
April 8September 23 Phi Brain: Puzzle of God (season 2)25 Sunrise Junichi Sato
April 8June 9 Upotte!! 10 Xebec Takao Kato
April 9May 25 Saki Achiga-hen episode of Side-A 16 Studio Gokumi Manabu Ono
April 10June 26 Jormungand 12 White Fox Keitaro Motonaga
April 10June 26 Nyaruko: Crawling with Love 12 Xebec Tsuyoshi NagasawaHaiyore! Nyaruko-san
April 12June 28 Kids on the Slope 12 MAPPA
Tezuka Productions
Shinichirō Watanabe Sakamichi no Apollon
April 13November 20 Eureka Seven: AO 24 Bones Tomoki Kyoda
April 13June 28 Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan 12 Production I.G Itsuro Kawasaki
April 13June 28 Tsuritama 12 A-1 Pictures Kenji Nakamura
April 22September 16 Hyouka 22 Kyoto Animation Yasuhiro Takemoto
April 29July 22 AKB0048 13 Satelight Shōji Kawamori
Yoshimasa Hiraike
June 4February 25, 2013 Kingdom 38 Pierrot Jun Kamiya
July 1December 24 Chitose Get You!! 26 Silver Link Takao Sano
July 1September 23 Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne (season 2)12 Xebec
Production I.G
Tatsuo Satō
Toshimasa Suzuki
Rinne no Lagrange
July 1September 16 La storia della Arcana Famiglia 12 J.C.Staff Chiaki Kon
July 1September 23 Tari Tari 13 P.A.Works Masakazu Hashimoto
July 2September 17 Humanity Has Declined 12 AIC A.S.T.A. Seiji Kishi Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita
July 2December 23 Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse 24Ixtl
Satelight
Masaomi Ando
July 2September 17 YuruYuri♪♪ 12 Doga Kobo Masahiko Ohta
July 3September 25 Chōyaku Hyakunin isshu: Uta Koi 13 TYO Animations Ken'ichi Kasai
July 4September 26 Good Luck Girl! 13 Sunrise Yōichi FujitaBinbō-gami ga!
July 5September 28 Joshiraku 13 J.C.Staff Tsutomu Mizushima
July 5September 13 Moyasimon Returns 11Shirogumi
Telecom Animation Film
Yūichirō Yano
July 5September 13 Natsuyuki Rendezvous 11 Doga Kobo Kō Matsuo
July 6September 21 Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero 12 Arms Rion KujōHagure Yūsha no Estetica
July 6September 28 Campione! 13 Diomedéa Keizō Kusakawa
July 6September 28 Love, Election and Chocolate 12 AIC Build Tōru KitahataKoi to Senkyo to Chocolate
July 6September 28 Nakaimo - My Sister Is Among Them! 12 Studio Gokumi Munenori NawaKono Naka ni Hitori, Imouto ga Iru!
July 6September 25 So, I Can't Play H! 12 Feel Takeo Takahashi Dakara Boku wa, H ga Dekinai.
July 7September 29 Dog Days 13 Seven Arcs Junji Nishimura
July 7September 29 Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (season 2)13 Sunrise Manabu OnoKyōkaisen-jō no Horizon
July 7December 22 Sword Art Online 25 A-1 Pictures Tomohiko Itō
July 7March 30, 2013 Tanken Driland 37 Toei Animation Toshinori Fukuzawa
July 8September 30 Kokoro Connect 13 Silver Link Shin Ōnuma
Shin'ya Kawatsura
July 9September 24 The Ambition of Oda Nobuna 12 Studio Gokumi
Madhouse
Yūji KumazawaOda Nobuna no Yabō
July 9September 24 Hakuōki Reimeiroku 12 Studio Deen Osamu Yamasaki
August 11October 6 BeyWheelz 13 SynergySP
Nelvana Animation
Naoki Hishikawa
September 9September 8, 2013 Battle Spirits: Sword Eyes 50 Sunrise Masaki Watanabe
October 1December 24 Kamisama Kiss 13 TMS Entertainment Akitaro Daichi Kamisama Hajimemashita
October 1December 24 My Little Monster 13 Brain's Base Hiro KaburakiTonari no Kaibutsu-kun
October 2September 24, 2013 Chōsoku Henkei Gyrozetter 51 A-1 Pictures Shinji Takamatsu
Kunihiro Mori
October 2November 20 Litchi DE Hikari Club 8Kachidoki StudioMasahiro Takata
October 3March 27, 2013 From the New World 25 A-1 Pictures Masashi IshihamaShin Sekai Yori
October 3December 19 Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life 12 Sanzigen Toyonori YamadaŪsā no Sono-hi-gurashi
October 4December 20 Busou Shinki 12 8-Bit Yasuhito Kikuchi
October 4December 20 Btooom! 12 Madhouse Kotono Watanabe
October 4December 20 Hayate the Combat Butler: Can't Take My Eyes Off You 12 Manglobe Masashi Kudo
October 4December 19 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 12 Kyoto Animation Tatsuya Ishihara Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai!
October 5March 29, 2013 Blast of Tempest 24 Bones Masahiro AndoZetsuen no Tempest
October 5December 21 Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb 12 Shaft Akiyuki Shinbo
October 5April 5, 2013 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 26 David Production Naokatsu Tsuda
Ken'ichi Suzuki
October 5December 28 K 13 GoHands Shingo Suzuki
October 5December 21 OniAi 12 Silver Link Keiichiro Kawaguchi Onii-chan dakedo Ai sae Areba Kankei Nai yo ne!
October 6March 30, 2013 Bakuman. 3 25 J.C.Staff Ken'ichi Kasai
Noriaki Akitaya
October 6December 29 Haitai Nanafa 13 Passione Hiroshi Kimura
October 6March 30, 2013 Ixion Saga DT 25 Brain's Base Shinji Takamatsu
October 6April 6, 2013 Little Busters! 26 J.C.Staff Yoshinobu Yamakawa
October 6December 30 Say "I love you" 13 Zexcs Takuya SatōSuki-tte Ii na yo.
October 6December 29 To Love-Ru Darkness 12 Xebec Atsushi Ootsuki
October 7September 29, 2013 B-Daman Fireblast 52 SynergySP Yoshinori Odaka
October 7 – December 23 Teekyu 12 MAPPA Shin Itagaki
October 7December 30 Code:Breaker 13 Kinema Citrus Yasuhiro Irie
October 7March 23, 2014 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal II 73 Gallop Satoshi Kuwahara
October 8March 31, 2016 Aikatsu! 178 Sunrise
BN Pictures
Ryuichi Kimura
October 8March 15, 2013 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 25 A-1 Pictures Koji Masunari
October 9March 25, 2016 Girls und Panzer 12 Actas Tsutomu Mizushima
October 9March 26, 2016 The Pet Girl of Sakurasou 24 J.C.Staff Atsuko Ishizuka Sakura-sō no Pet na Kanojo
October 10December 26 Jormungand: Perfect Order 12 White Fox Keitaro Motonaga
October 11December 27 Medaka Box Abnormal 12 Gainax Shouji Saeki
October 12March 22, 2013 Psycho-Pass 22 Production I.G Naoyoshi Shiotani
Katsuyuki Motohiro
October 12March 22, 2013 Robotics;Notes 22 Production I.G Kazuya Nomura
October 20April 4, 2013 World War Blue 35th AvenueTetsuya YanagisawaAoi Sekai no Chūshin de
November 9May 10, 2013 Initial D Fifth Stage 14 SynergySP Mitsuo Hashimoto
December 21March 15, 2013 Boku no Imōto wa "Ōsaka Okan" 12CharactionKōtarō Ishidate

Original video animations

A list of original video animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2012.

First run start and end datesTitleEpisodesStudioDirectorAlternate titleRef
January 18April 18 Ai no Kusabi 4 AIC Katsuhito Akiyama
February 15 Yuri Seijin Naoko-san 1 Ufotable Tetsuya Takeuchi
March 21September 27, 2017 A Channel + smile 3 Studio Gokumi Manabu Ono
August 2 Corpse Party: Missing Footage 4 Asread Akira Iwanaga
October 20 Arata-naru Sekai 1 Madhouse Yuzuru Tachikawa

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