After an exciting year for the Misuzawa High School karuta club, a new semester begins as two new members join the group. More passionate than ever for the ancient card game, Chihaya sets ambitious goals for herself and for her friends.
Continuation of the first series. Chihaya and her friends have entered their second year of high school, and they are anxious to recruit new first year members for the karuta club and to strengthen their team. However, the new members don`t seem to share Chihaya`s passion for karuta, and a potential rival for Taichi`s affections appears.
Source: ANN

Four girls make up Kameido High School`s Tennis Club, but they don`t actually get in much tennis practice. Oshimoto Yuri is the club`s only freshman and the only sane person in this collection of eccentric personalities. Each day is spent in fun with her sophomore seniors, Shinjou Kanae, who is utterly inept at tennis, Takamiya Nasuno, who attempts to solve every problem with money, and Bandou Marimo, who, despite her elegant looks, is quite the pervert.
~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston
Note: The title is a wordplay on a Japanese term for tennis, teikyuu.

Following the end of the Holy Road soccer tournament, Matsukaze Tenma returns to Raimon Junior High after a break, only to find out that all of his friends and teammates no longer play soccer, and the soccer club apparently doesn`t exist. He is soon after approached by a mysterious person called Alpha who reveals himself to be a time traveler (from an organization in the future known as El Dorado) on a mission to destroy soccer.
Together with the help of Fey Rune, Tenma must travel through time and save soccer before El Dorado rids the world of it forever.

In the story, Kagami Taiga has just enrolled into Seirin High School when he meets Kuroko Tetsuya of the school`s basketball team. Kuroko happens to be the shadowy sixth member of the legendary Generation of Miracles basketball team. Together, Kagami and Kuroko aim to take their team to the inter-high school championship — against Kuroko`s former teammates.
Source: ANN

The story centers around Aizawa Kakeru, the younger brother of the Kamakura School soccer team captain Suguru. While Suguru is so talented in soccer that he has been made part of Japan`s national under-15 team, Kakeru is so weak at the sport that he is nicknamed Mr. No Goal. Kakeru`s life changes however, after a tragic accident.
Source: ANN

* Based on a manga by Konomi Takeshi, serialised in Jump Square.
Middle school students fought fiercely against one another in a national tournament. Now, 50 chosen representatives return to fight against high schoolers! The stage is the U-17 (Under Seventeen) Japanese Representative Training Camp. Middle school students have been invited for the first time to a camp known to produce the best Japanese tennis players.
National champions from Seigaku, Hyotei, Rikkai, Shitenhoji…With all the rivals from the national tournament attending, everyone eagerly awaits their reunion. At first, the middle schoolers do not expect much from their high school opponents. However, the training camp is not so easy!
Athletes with skills incomparable to those they previously faced and their mysterious coach appear before them. Faced with numerous demanding challenges, can the middle schoolers survive in this meritocratic training camp? The new chapter of Prince of Tennis begins here! The curtain rises on a new stage.
Source: Crunchyroll

* Based on a manga written and illustrated by Suetsugu Yuki, serialised in Be Love and published by Kodansha.
6th-year grade-schooler Ayase Chihaya`s dream is for her sister to be Japan`s top model. However, transfer student Wataya Arata admonishes her that a dream must be about one`s own self. Thus, she takes up karuta, a Japanese card game, competitively. Together with Arata and Mashima Taichi, Chihaya`s childhood friend, they have great fun playing each other, but separate after graduation.
4 years later, Chihaya returns to town. Although Arata no longer plays the game, she believes that they will eventually reunite as long as she continues karuta. Together with Taichi, she establishes the Mizusawa High-school Karuta Club.
~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston

* Season four of the Inazuma Eleven series.
Matsukaze Tenma, a first year who loves soccer, has exceptional dribbling skills, but still has lots of room for improvement. The story starts with him entering Raimon Jr. High ten years after the first Football Frontier International, where Raimon has become famous for its soccer. However, an organization called Fifth Sector has taken control of soccer over the years, and the passion that Raimon once had for soccer is no longer there.
Source: MAL

* Based on Iwasaki Natsumi`s Moshi Koukou Yakyuu no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no Management o Yondara (Moshidora) business novel.
When 2nd-year high-school student Kawashima Minami`s close friend, Miyata Yuuki, is admitted into the hospital, Minami declares that she will take over Yuuki`s role as manager of the baseball club. However, Minami has absolutely no idea of what it means to be a manager of a baseball club, so she goes to the bookstore to get some source material… And picks up one of Peter Drucker`s books!
~ translated and adapted from official site by Cranston

* Based on a light novel series by Iruma Hitoma with illustrations by Buriki.
The story revolves around a high school boy named Niwa Makoto. He lives with his aunt`s family since his parents are away on business. It is there that he meets his mysterious same-aged cousin Touwa Erio — who happens to tie a futon mattress around her upper body and is a self-proclaimed alien. Her staple food is pizza.
Erio had been missing for half a year and was found floating in the sea. She does not remember anything about what happened during that period of time, but begins to think that it was the act of an alien and starts to wander the neighbourhood wrapped in a futon.

* Based on a manga by Azuchi Ryou, serialised in Monthly Comic Blade.
The five spirited middle school girls of the Shiratama Middle School Soft Tennis Team have high hopes in winning tournaments and making it into the nationals.
There is the energetic, always enthusiastic klutz Harukaze Asuna, the strict Sawanatsu Kotone, very skilled in Karate, scares easily, but has a decidedly violent streak, the busty air-headed glutton Akiyama Chitose, captain of the team but actually the least skilled, the sporty, tanned Fuyukawa Kurusu, a soft tennis ace, who loves to wear strange masks and scare Kotone, and finally the blond-haired exchange student from the UK, Elizabeth Warren, a gifted “real” tennis player with a crush on sensei.
Together with Mishimagi You, a former tennis prodigy as teacher and coach, the team`s high goals might well be attainable. But will the quirky personalities of these girls be an asset or a hindrance in this endeavour?
— written by foo2

* The second season of Sora no Otoshimono.
Sakurai Tomoki`s peaceful life is long gone, since he now has to deal with the two beautiful Angeloids — Ikaros and Nymph, his busty tsundere childhood friend Mitsuki Sohara, along with all the other quirky friends from school.
Recently, Tomoki is plagued by a recurring dream, of an angel warning him of “heavens rage”. Then one day a new angel, Astraea, as powerful as Ikaros, arrives on Earth with the sole purpose of terminating Tomoki`s life. Apparently Tomoki`s dreams have created a connection between Earth and the Synapse (where the Angeloids originated), something the masters of that other realm do not view kindly. Luckily, Astraea does not seem to be a very competent assassin.
Will Tomoki and the New World Discovery Club uncover the secrets of the Synapse and the Angeloids?
— written by foo2
Note: The first episode was aired during a special event on Sunday, September 19, 2010 in Laforet Museum Roppongi, Tokyo. The television broadcast started on 02.10.2010.

* Based on a media franchise that started with characters created by illustrator Fuke “Huke” Ryouhei and later inspired a song of the same name by Ryo, a music video and figures.
Kuroi Mato just got into junior high school, and on the first day, someone catches her eye; her classmate Takanashi Yomi. The two meet. The innocent and naive Mato. The mature Yomi. Seemingly opposites, but the time they spend together only strengthens a growing friendship. But as they go into their second year at the school, they get placed in separate classes, and they begin to grow apart.
But somewhere simultaneously… In another world, a young girl, blue fire residing in her eyes, Black Rock Shooter faces another young girl; this one holding a jet-black scythe, Dead Master, and a battle to the death begins to unfold.
iNote: A “Pilot Edition” of the anime was released on DVD/Blu-ray Disc (BD) on 30.09.2009. The full version of the anime was originally announced to be streamed for free as part of a promotional campaign from 25.06.2010 to 31.08.2010, however that was cancelled. The DVD was decided to be included with the September issue of Hobby Japan magazine instead, pushing the first release date to 24.07.2010.
The DVD itself was already prepared for the worldwide fans by having subtitles in English, Chinese, Spanish, German, French and Italian./i

* Based on Okita Masashi`s romantic comedy light novel series.
The story centres around Ookami Ryouko, a high school freshman girl known for her fierce looks, unusual canine teeth when she smiles, and wild demeanour (her family name is homonymous with the Japanese word for wolf). Akai Ringo is a short high school freshman girl with seemingly cute, angelic looks but a dark demeanour (her name is a Japanese wordplay on apple and Red Riding Hood). Together with their odd friends, the two fight to change the world, one issue at a time.

* Based on a novel by Morimi Tomihiko.
The story of The Tatami Galaxy follows an unnamed third year university student in Kyoto, Japan and what he views as his wasted time in a particular club (also called circle) at his university. He meets Ozu, another student, whose encouragement sets him on a mission of dubious morality. He contemplates his affection for a second year engineering student, Akashi, and makes promises to her, usually of and within a romantic subtext. The culmination of his dubious missions often conflict with his interest in her in some way. The story is one of a number that draw on the author`s experience in Kyoto University.
Source: Wikipedia

* Based on a seinen manga by Tsunamoto Masaya and Tsujitomo serialised in Weekly Morning.
In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan`s top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost 5 matches in a row. The losses haven`t done much to team morale, because it was already low. Fan support, on the other hand, is looking bleak. In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team the end is near. Teams don`t recover. Coaches are fired, players are sold, and teams drop to smaller divisions where profits often prevent them from ever being successful against even mediocre top division programs. East Tokyo United (ETU) can only blame their coach right now. And Coach is ready to give up this next game to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation he can make this team win.

Picking up where the original series left off, Mihashi Ren, the ace pitcher of the newly-formed Nishiura High School baseball team, and his teammates face the Sakitama High School team in the next round of the High School Baseball Invitational Tournament as they aim to play in the finals at legendary Hanshin Koshien Stadium.
Source: ANN

* Based on the seinen slice-of-life comedy manga by URL=Yuuto/URL serialised in Young GanGan.
Anzu goes to a preschool with her friends, the shy-crybaby Koume and the eccentric-genius-prodigy Hiiragi.
Together they try to get the attention of their caretaker, Tsuchida Naozumi. However, he is clearly more interested in Yamamoto Nanako, who supervises the class next door. Tsuchida has just started working at the Hanamaru Kindergarten, and, as the first and only male teacher at the school, he is particularly nervous.
His first day does not go quite as smoothly as planned when he turns up late and is greeted by Anzu, who claims that he was putting some smooth moves on her earlier! Though managing to initially clear up the misunderstanding, Anzu proceeds with her claims of destined, never ending love and that she will one day be his bride.
Additionally, Anzu`s mother, who also happens to be Tsuchida`s high school senior, is openly supporting them all the way.
Now as Tsuchida attempts to become the best teacher he can be, he must also try and quell the rumours created by Anzu, and try his luck at the beautiful and kind… yet ultimately clueless… Yamamoto-sensei.

* The adaptation of the light novel series by author Igarashi Yuusaku.
The story centres on the daily life of a respected high school girl, who hides the fact that she is an obsessive anime otaku.

* Based on a light novel series by Aoi Sekina, with illustrations by Inugami Kira.
A private high school has a student council chosen entirely by popular vote. Sugisaki Ken is the only male in an otherwise all-girl student council who may enter the “hallowed halls” of the council`s meeting room. The council president records the minutes of the meetings, which consist of daily conversations about the students.

* Based on a shounen manga by Fujiwara Sato, serialised online in the shounen web comic magazine FlexComix Blood.
Kousaka Junpei is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Mizuno Kaede, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beans the local neko-jizou-sama (the guardian deity of cats). He finds he can now understand what cats are saying, including his family`s own ill-tempered cat, Nyamusasu. However, if he does not grant cats a total of 100 wishes, he will turn into a cat himself.

* Based of a light novel series by author Kagurazaka Atsushi and illustrator Koike Sadaji.
In 1925 (year 14 of the Taisho period), after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as what the boys do and they face many difficulties when searching members, getting permission from their parents and when learning about the sport itself.

* Series based on a manga story authored by Kobayashi Ritz.
Miyanaga Saki is a high school freshman who does not like mahjong. Ever since she was a child, she would lose her New Year`s gift money during her family`s mahjong game. If she won, her parents would be upset, and if she lost, well, she lost. As a result, she has learned to play in such a way that her score always remains plus/minus zero: Not good enough to win, but not bad enough to lose. When we meet her, she is being dragged to her school`s mahjong club by an old friend. How will a girl who hates mahjong, yet has become adept at the game as a result of her upbringing, cope in this environment?
Source: MangaUpdates

* Based on a shounen manga by Adachi Mitsuru, serialised in Weekly Shounen Sunday.
Cross Game is the story of Kitamura Kou and the four Tsukishima sisters, Ichiyou, Wakaba, Aoba, and Momiji. The Tsukushima family runs a batting center with an attached coffee shop, and Kou`s father runs a neighboring sporting good store. Wakaba and Kou were born on the same day in the same hospital, and have been close friends since childhood — close enough that Wakaba treats Kou as her boyfriend, even though nothing is officially declared. Aoba, who is one year younger than Wakaba and Kou, doesn`t like how Kou is taking her sister away from her and claims she hates him.

The daily life of Yuuki Rito, a high school boy, continues, still living with the mysterious alien girl Lala and his sister Mikan under one roof.
Rito has to overcome several hair-raising adventures: Like the strange device that turns him into a girl. Or when he sees his sister Mikan in a state of undress and she runs out of the house, upset. The visit to a quite dangerous holiday resort. The gang`s trip into virtual reality, where they have to overcome a outlandish, yet life-threatening quest. To round things off Nana and Momo, Lala`s mischievous younger twin sisters drop in for a surprise visit.
— written by foo2
Note: The first OVA was released with the 13th volume of Hasemi Saki and Yabuki Kentarou`s iTo Love-Ru manga on April 3, 2009./i