Pan-regional anime channel ANIMAX Asia has revealed in a television advertisement the anime line-up are set to premiere within the next year.
In addition to the previously announced Assassination Classroom set to premiere this January, the channel is also set to air Black Bullet, Brynhildr in the Darkness, Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon, In Search of the Lost Future, Rage of Bahamut: Genesis, Snow White with the Red Hair and Yatterman Night.
Assassination Classroom
暗殺教室
Class 3-E is the lowest class at Kunugigaoka Junior High School. It is also the location of a government confidential assassination of their homeroom teacher, a powerful yellow octopoid creature who threatens to destroy the Earth. Despite the hefty reward of ¥10 billion, it soon dawned onto the students that it is an almost impossible mission. One, their homeroom teacher has several super powers at his disposal, capable of moving at Mach 20. Two, he is invincible. Three, he is also the best teacher they ever had. Will the students succeed in their mission to assassinate their invincible teacher before it is too late?
Assassination Classroom is set to premiere on Monday, January 4, airing two episodes back-to-back every Monday and Tuesday nights at 10:00pm MNL/SG (09:00pm JKT/BKK).
Black Bullet
ブラック・ブレット
In the year 2021, mankind was defeated by Gastrea, a parasitical virus, and is forced to live within a wall made of Varanium Monoliths, a metal that is able to subdue Gastrea. Soon, the “Cursed Children”, children born with the Gastrea virus who are able to control it—which gives them superhuman abilities—were discovered. Due to the Gastrea virus’ intervention, the Cursed Children could only be female. Civil Securities are formed to specialize in fighting against Gastrea, operating with the pair of an Initiator, who are cursed children, and a Promoter, serving to lead the cursed children. Ten years after the war, Rentaro Satomi, a high school student who is also a Promoter in his childhood friend Kisara Tendo’s Tendo Civil Security, along with his Initator Enju Aihara, receives a secret mission to prevent the Tokyo Area’s destruction. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
Brynhildr in the Darkness
極黒のブリュンヒルデ
When he was a child, Murakami was friends with a girl he called Kuroneko. One day, while trying to prove the existence of aliens to Murakami, she is killed in an accident that he barely survives. Guilty of his role in the accident, Murokami decides to dedicate his life to proving that aliens exist. Then, one day, a new student with mysterious powers transfers into his class who not only looks a lot like Kuroneko, but is named Kuroha, Neko. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon
クロスアンジュ 天使と竜の輪舞
Humanity has advanced to great heights since it obtained the information technology known as “Mana.” With that nearly magical power, problems like war, food shortages, and pollution have been eliminated. This age of peace and freedom, the Empress Angelese of the Misurugi Empire is a privileged girl with no disabilities. She learns, however, that she is a “Norma,” a kind of human who cannot use Mana and are outcasts of society. Having lost everything, she is sent to an isolated island. There she meets other Normas who ride in humanoid weapons called Para-mails, protecting the world from dragons invaders from another dimension. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
In Search of the Lost Future
失われた未来を求めて
The Astronomy Club of the protagonist Sou Akiyama is filled with the big names on campus. Just before the festival on October 1, the club receives a request from the student executive committee to calm the uneasiness among the students. There are reports of ghost sightings, accidents, sleeping sickness, and other mysterious incidents at the old building. When Yui Furukawa, a quiet girl who transferred late into the school, appears before Sou, the gears of fate slowly begin to move. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
神撃のバハムート GENESIS
Mistarcia is a magical world where humans, gods, and demons mingle together. In the past, the black-and-silver winged Bahamut has threatened to destroy the land, but humans, gods, and demons overcame their differences to fight together and seal its power. The key to that seal was split in two, one half given to the gods and the other to demons, so that they would never be united and Bahamut never released. Now, two thousand years later, the world is in an era of peace – until the day a woman steals the gods’ half of the key. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
Snow White with the Red Hair
赤髪の白雪姫
Shirayuki is a beautiful girl working as a medicine woman with red hair, a color that is considered very rare. When she is proposed and chased after by the prince of her country, she cuts her hair and runs away, only to meet Zen, the prince of a neighboring country. Finding respect for the young man, she decides to serve at his side as his court doctor. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
Yatterman Night
夜ノヤッターマン
The Yatterman took control of the Dorombo Gang after a long fight, but the Yatterman Kingdom they created is not at peace. The kingdom is impoverished, and the people lament their tyrannical government. Standing against them is Leopard, a descendent of Yatterman’s defeated rivals. She inherits the name Doronjo and becomes her successor, entering the Yatterman Kingdom with the intent of taken on the despised Yatterman. (Synopsis from Anime News Network)
Apart from Assassination Classroom, there are no word at the moment on when ANIMAX Asia specifically will air the titles for next year.
Fafner Exodus, which was also featured in the advertisement, is currently airing on the anime channel every Monday and Tuesday nights at 10:00pm MNL/SG (09:00pm JKT/BKK).
