2015 Winter Anime Roundup! Slice of Life & Comedy Edition

2014 has been a year of many hot anime, but it’s almost over. To all you anime fans wondering what kind of anime are in store for next year, here’s an introduction to the new anime beginning in January along with their trailers. In this first part, we’ll look at 10 slice of life, comedy, and school life series!

Yuri Kuma Arashi
Some time ago, the asteroid Kumaria exploded in deep space. When the fragments of Kumaria rained down on Earth, for some reason all the bears simultaneously began attacking humans! Not long after, a gigantic wall called the “Wall of Extinction” was erected to distance humans from bears and achieve a state of mutual nonaggression… Arashigaoka Academy students Kureha Tsubaki and Sumika Izumino are both friends and lovers. They gaze at each other. And at that moment, the “Bear Alarm” shrilly rings out! A story that heaps on mystery after mystery! The curtain splendidly opens on Yuri Kuma Arashi!

Kamisama Hajimemashita (Second Season)
The curtain opens on the second season of the comedy about a high school girl who becomes a land god! Nanami Momozono is still inexperienced in being the land god of Mikage Shrine. One day, she receives an invitation from the wind god Otohiko to attend the “God Conference,” a gathering of gods from all over the country that happens every year in Izumo.

Binan Koukou Chikyu Bouei-bu Love!
In a certain Japanese town called Binan, the local high school has a “Earth Defence Club” (aka the “do nothing club”). The five members of the club are soaking in a bathtub at a public bath house when a pink creature named Wombat suddenly appears out of thin air. The five guys then begin to follow around Wombat, who wants to save the planet through the power of love, and Wombat gives them strange bracelets that transform them into a team that spreads love to protect Earth called Battle Lovers…!

Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
Otaku high school student Tomoya Aki has a fateful encounter with a certain girl on a hill covered in sakura petals dancing in the breeze. Tomoya comes up with the idea of having the girl be the main heroine in a galge he’s creating. Afterward, however, he is astonished to find out that she is his painfully ordinary classmate, Megumi Kato. But Tomoya has already committed to making her the heroine of his game, no matter what…

The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
346 Productions is a talent agency with a history of signing on many idols. Now a new project is about to begin: Cinderella Project! “Previously normal” girls who were chosen to be up-and-coming idols step out into a sparkling new world for the first time in this Cinderella story as they ascend the steps toward the castle. The magic begins now––

Assassination Classroom
One day, the moon suddenly explodes and 70% of it is destroyed. The culprit is a mysterious octopus...or rather creature. For some reason, the creature calls itself a teacher at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. The creature, which not even an army can kill, possesses abilities beyond that of human understanding and vows to destroy the earth next March if he is not killed. Reluctantly, the world’s leaders decide to put him in charge of a certain class...Class3-E, a class of misfits nicknamed “End Class.” And then there’s the reward for completing the mission: 10 billion yen! Will these students be able to assassinate their teacher, Koro-sensei, before they graduate…?!

Death Parade
“Welcome to Queen Dekim. Please come in.” There to greet the two completely clueless guests are the mysterious bar Queen Dekim and its white-haired bartender, Dekim. “I cordially invite you two to a game in which your lives hang in the balance,” he says. It’s an invitation to a death game. Before long, the guests’ true characters are laid bare. At the end of the game, Dekim reveals that he is an “Arbiter.” As such, he decides who of the two shall be the victor…

The Rolling Girls
Main character Nozomi Moritomo is the daughter of a family that runs the fried dango shop Moritomo in Tokorozawa, a new trainee in the vigilante group Hiyoshi Town Propellers, and an extremely ordinary high school girl. Her nature is to protect things, and, with unflinching resolve, she sets out on a journey to protect the peace. What awaits her on her path? Magicians? Monsters? Or perhaps robots…? Nozomi is a girl who’s ordinary in every way and burdened by fate. Get ready for a new kind of adolescent road trip movie intertwined with her equally ordinary friends! Can “ordinary” save the world?!

Kuroko’s Basketball (Season 3)
Among the glorious history of the Teiko Middle School basketball team is the “Generation of Miracles” comprised of one genius player along with five others. Even now that they’ve entered high school, the admiration they receive is unchanged. Taiga Kagami and Tatsuya Kuroko are students of Seirin High who also show off their attack power on the basketball team. The Seirin team is on cloud nine after their performance in the Winter Cup, crushing Too Academy, which Aomine plays for, and Yosen High, which Murasakibara plays for. Finally, they’ve advanced to the semifinals…!

Tantei Opera Milky Holmes TD (Season 4)
Incidents involving idols’ music being stolen have become frequent in the detective capital of Yokohama. Even super idol Marine Amagi’s hit song “Kiseki no Uta” has been stolen. And Milky Holmes are on the case. Just who is stealing the idols’ songs, and for what reason?! How will Milky Holmes get the songs back?! A new battle for the Milky Holmes girls begins!!

Yuri Kuma Arashi © Mamonaku Ikunigo / Yuri Kuma Nikuru
Yuri Kuma Arashi © Mamonaku Ikunigo / Yuri Kuma Nikuru
Kamisama Hajimemashita (Second Season) © Julietta Suzuki / Hakusensha, 2015 Kamisama Hajimemashita Production Committee
Kamisama Hajimemashita (Second Season) © Julietta Suzuki / Hakusensha, 2015 Kamisama Hajimemashita Production Committee
Binan Koukou Chikyu Bouei-bu Love! © Kurari Umatani / Kuro Tamayu
Binan Koukou Chikyu Bouei-bu Love! © Kurari Umatani / Kuro Tamayu
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata © 2015 Fumiaki Maruto, Kurehito Misaki, Kadokawa Fujimi Shobo / Saenai Production Committee
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata © 2015 Fumiaki Maruto, Kurehito Misaki, Kadokawa Fujimi Shobo / Saenai Production Committee
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls © BNGI / Project Cinderella
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls © BNGI / Project Cinderella
Assassination Classroom © Yusei Matsui / Shueisha Inc., Anime Assassination Classroom Production Committee
Assassination Classroom © Yusei Matsui / Shueisha Inc., Anime Assassination Classroom Production Committee
Death Parade © Yuzuru Tachikawa / Death Parade Production Committee
Death Parade © Yuzuru Tachikawa / Death Parade Production Committee
The Rolling Girls © 2015 The Rolling Girls Production Committee
The Rolling Girls © 2015 The Rolling Girls Production Committee
Kuroko’s Basketball (Season 3) © Tadatoshi Fujimaki / Shueisha Inc., Kuroko’s Basketball Production Committee
Kuroko’s Basketball (Season 3) © Tadatoshi Fujimaki / Shueisha Inc., Kuroko’s Basketball Production Committee
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes TD (Season 4) © Milky TD Production Committee
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes TD (Season 4) © Milky TD Production Committee

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