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Philippines' TV5 Brings Back ANiMEGA Anime Block in 2017

Philippine television channel TV5 announced on Tuesday that it will bring back its ANiMEGA anime programming block in 2017, and it will air the Kan Colle, Myriad Colors Phantom World, Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 2000%, Knights of Sidonia, and Attack on Titan: Junior High anime.

The block last returned in early 2015.

Kan Colle is set in a world where humanity has lost control of the seas. The threat that has taken over the seas is the "deep sea fleet." The only ones who can counter this threat are Kan-musume (literally, warship girls), girls who possess the spirit of naval vessels from days gone by.

The base for the fleet arrayed against the "deep sea fleet" is Chinjufu. There, many various Kan-musume have gathered to live together and work hard everyday in training and other matters. One day, a Kan-musume arrives at Chinjufu. She is a special class of destroyer. Her name is Fubuki. "I am Fubuki! Nice to meet you!" Fubuki's story — as well as the Kan-musume's story — begins now.

The anime premiered in Japan in January 2015. The anime also got an anime film sequel, which opened in Japan on November 26, and is currently screening.

Keizou Kusakawa (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha franchise, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?) directed the anime of Kadokawa Games' moe-character card battle game at the studio Diomedea (Squid Girl, Problem children are coming from another world, aren't they?). Jukki Hanada (Love Live! School idol project, Steins;Gate) was in charge of the series scripts.

Myriad Colors Phantom World's story, based on the original novel by Sōichirō Hatano, takes place in the near future, in a world born of human imagination. What humans would call ghosts or monsters appear, and they come to be called "phantoms." The main character, Haruhiko Ichijō, is a first year at Hosea Academy along with his upperclassman Mai Kawakami, who fights phantoms with the ability "Spirit of Five Elements," Reina Izumi, who has the ability "Phantom Eater," and Koito Minase, who fights phantoms in solitude. They experience the ups and downs of high school life before a certain incident leads them to the truth of this world.

Tatsuya Ishihara (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, Sound! Euphonium) directed the series at Kyoto Animation, and Kazumi Ikeda (Clannad television anime, second Kanon television anime, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!) designed the characters and served as chief animation director. Shirabi provided the original illustrations for Hatano's novel. Fumihiko Shimo (Kokoro Connect, Infinite Stratos, Clannad) was in charge of series composition, and EFFY composed the soundtrack.

The anime premiered in Japan on January 6.

Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 2000% adapts a dating simulation video game for female players developed by Broccoli. In the slapstick romantic comedy, the female protagonist goes to a school for the performing arts with boys who are budding idols.

The anime aired in Japan in April 2013.

The staff is as follows:

• Original Creator: Kanon Kunozuki & Broccoli
• Director & Storyboard: Yuu Kou
• Original Character Design: Chinatsu Kurahana
• Character Design & Chief Animation Director: Mitsue Mori
• Music: Elements Garden
• Animation Production: A-1 Pictures
• Production: UTA PRI 2 PROJECT

The anime is a sequel to the Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000% anime, which aired in 2011. The series further expanded with a sequel series titled Utano☆Princesama Revolutions in April 2015, and another sequel series titled Utano☆Princesama Legend Star which premiered on October 1.

Knights of Sidonia, based on Tsutomu Nihei's original "traditional science-fiction" story manga, takes place after humans flee Earth due to the devastating invasion of alien creatures called Gauna. Humans travel through space in giant ships while the Gauna continue to pursue them. As a new human culture develops, people fight the Gauna with Morito (Guardian) robotic mecha . A young man named Nagate Tanikaze trains as a Morito pilot aboard the spaceship Sidonia and defends its people from Gauna attacks.

The series premiered in Japan in April 2014. The second 12-episode season, titled Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine, premiered in April 2015. Netflix streamed both seasons of the anime adaptation after they aired in Japan. A theatrical film compiling all 12 episodes of the first season with new sequences and redone sound effects opened in Japan in March 2015.

Kobun Shizuno (G.I. Joe: Sigma 6, Detective Conan movie) directed the anime at POLYGON PICTURES with co-director Hiroyuki Seshita (Street Fighter x Tekken, Final Fantasy). Sadayuki Murai (Steamboy, Millennium Actress) wrote the scripts and served as series script supervisor, and Yuki Moriyama (Street Fighter x Tekken, Dino Dominion) adapted the characters for animation.

Attack on Titan: Junior High, based on Saki Nakagawa's comedy spinoff of Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan manga, re-imagines Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and other characters from the original manga as students and teachers at Titan Junior High School. The cast members from the original Attack on Titan anime returned for the anime.

Yoshihide Ibata (Ashiaraiyashiki no Jūnin-tachi, episode director for Kill la Kill, Haikyu!!) directed the series at Production I.G. Midori Gotou (Hozuki's Coolheadedness, Genshiken: Second Generation) handled the series composition, Yuuko Yahiro (Diabolik Lovers, B Gata H Kei - Yamada's First Time) was the character designer, and Asami Tachibana (Haikyu!!, Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, Robotics;Notes) composed the music.

Linked Horizon (Attack on Titan's two opening themes) performed the show's opening theme song "Seishun wa Hanabi no Yō ni" (Youth is Like Fireworks). Yuuki Kaji (Eren), Kishô Taniyama (Jean), and Yui Ishikawa (Mikasa) performed the ending theme song "Hangeki no Daichi" (Ground's Counterattack) under the unit name "Attackers."

The series premiered in Japan in October 2015.

The show features an anime part, and then a live-action "special corner" part that aired after the anime portion of each episode. The live-action portion of the show features the the voice actors and voices actresses for Eren, Mikasa, Armin (Marina Inoue), and Bertholt (Tomohisa Hashizume) in a section called "Shingeki! Treasure Hunt." The live-action portion also features the voice actress for Sasha (Yu Kobayashi) in a section titled "Sasha Tries ?? By Herself!!," which she hosted alongside a mascot character "Titan-kun."

[Via Anime Pilipinas]

Thanks to Ian Pete Titular for the news tip.