Review by: Josh Dunham
Director: Shin Onuma
Animation Production: Silver Link
Based off the light novel by Kenji Inoue

Synopsis
Set in a high school where students are segregated according to their grades, and disputes are settled with battles, Baka to Test to Shokanju centers around Akihisa Yoshii and his fellow classmates as they aim to be the best in school. In each battle, students summon familiars, whose powers are equivalent to the student’s test scores. Being in the lowest class with the worst scores, can Akihisa and company really make it to the top?

Review by: Josh Dunham
Director: Keitaro Motonaga
Animation Production: White Fox
Based on the novels by Nisio Isin

Synopsis
Katanagatari tells the story of Yasuri Shichika, the only living man who posses the legendary Kyoto-ryo style of anti-sword martial arts. Although exiled, he is sought out by a woman named Togame, who recruits Shichika on a quest to collect 12 swords of extreme craftsmanship. Battles ensue as they attempt to seize them from their masters. 

Review by: John-Paul Natysin
Director: Takahiro Omori
Animation Production: Brains Base
Based on the novels by Ryohgo Narita

Synopsis

Ikebukuro is a weird place where weird things happen.

John-Paul's Thoughts

In July 2007, Brains Base released an anime called Baccano!, and it was good. It was based on a series of novels by Ryohgo Narita and directed by Takahiro Omori. With its Pulp Fiction-esque storytelling style and exploitative violence, Baccano! was, hands down, one of the best shows to come out that year. Three years later, the crew that brought us Baccano! is back again adapting another of Narita's novels.

Review by: John-Paul Natysin
Director: Keizo Shimizu
Animation Production: Magic Bus
Based on the manga by Buichi Terasawa

Synopsis

Cobra is the man—nuff said.

Reviewed by: Sean Russell

Directors: Seiji Mizushima

Animation Production: Gainax

Original Creator: Yuto

Summary
Tsuchida-sensei is a first year teacher at Hanamaru Kindergarten. His first day teaching is filled with comical misunderstandings, romance and rekindled friendships. A kindergarten student named Anzu makes new friends and discovers a new world of water fountains and jungle gyms.

Review by: Jd Banks

Director:  Hiraku Kaneko

Animation Production:  Taki Corporation

Synopsis

At St. Mikhailov Academy, students, Mafuyu Oribe and Tomo Yamanobe find a strange silver-haired boy after the dean’s mysterious disappearance. When a woman attacks Mafuyu looking for an icon on their campus grounds, the boy saves our heroine. Unfortunately, the boy is a Qwaser with the power to manipulate electrons, and he’s not interested in making friends.

Reviewed by: Jd Banks

Directors: Akiyuki Shinbo and Ryouki Kamitsubo

Animation Production: Shaft

Based on the comic strip by Ume Aoki

Synopsis

Yunocchi’s dream to attend Yamabuki Art High School has finally come true. With her three friends who live in the same apartment complex, she’s set on becoming an artist.

Review by: Sean Russell
Director: Shinji Ushiro
Animation Production: ZEXCS
Based on the Manga by Matra Milan

Synopsis
Yuto Amakawa finally becomes a man on his sixteenth birthday. While most kids get a driver’s permit, Yuto gets his very own cat demon with oversized mammary glands. The cat demon’s name is Himari and she is a descendant from a long line of sword-wielding spirits that pledged their service to Yuto’s family. A magical charm, given to him by his grandparents, begins to wilt, unleashing an unholy terror of creatures that want to destroy our hero. Armed with a sword and a tenacious appetite for PDA, Himari pulls her blade of justice in the defense of her master, vanquishing her own kind in the process.