What Will I Watch? Summer 2017 Anime Season

The Summer 2017 Anime Season is coming just beyond the horizon, and I thought it would be fun to make this list to inform you on what series I am most looking forward to watching. As for now these are the only series that I will be watching from this upcoming anime season, however I will consider watching a few others considering how well it is received by others. This list includes: 18if, Dive!!!, In Another World with My Smartphone, Love & Lies, Musashino, Princess Principle, and RoboMasters. I will also be watching a bunch of other Spring 2017 anime season leftovers, in which I will be mentioning in this list as well. If you by the off chance that you feel as if I have missed something, then feel free to mention it in the comments down below.

Be sure to check back in a few weeks when I (hopefully) release my first impressions post on the Summer Season.

Note: This list will be updated as more information is released on each series.

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Anime Title: 7O3X Fastest Finger First
Production Studio: TMS Entertainment
Episode Count: 12 eps.
Air Date: Tuesday
Source Material: Manga
Genres: Game, School, Seinen
Description: “As soon as he entered high school, the first year student Koshiyama Shiki was invited to the mysterious Quiz Study Group led by his senpai. What will Shiki run into when being dragged along by his classmate Mari into the dazzling world of competitive quizzes?!”

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Anime Title: Altair: A Record of Battles
Production Studio: MAPPA
Episode Count: N/A… confirmed Two-Cour
Air Date: Friday
Source Material: Manga
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Shounen
Description: “Tughril Mahmut is a young pasha serving on the Divan of the Türkiye Stratocracy. The clouds of war are gathering over his country due to the threat of an aggressive Empire. With the Divan split between warmongers and the pacifists, Mahmut begins his quest to keep the peace at any cost. As he finds himself deeper and deeper in the politics of the ancient world, new enemies and allies surface. Who will prevail? What will Mahmut do if war proves to be inevitable?”

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Anime Title: Cleanliness Boy! Aoyama-kun
Production Studio: Studio Hibari
Episode Count: N/A
Air Date: Sunday
Source Material: Manga
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life, Sports, Seinen
Description: “The handsome young soccer genius named Aoyama is a Japan representative. His play style is “cleanliness.” He doesn’t tackle and doesn’t head the ball. If he’s doing a throw-in, he’ll only do it if he’s wearing gloves.”

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Anime Title: Fate/Apocrypha
Production Studio: A-1 Pictures
Episode Count: N/A
Air Date: Saturday
Source Material: Light Novel
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural
Description: “There was once a Holy Grail War waged by seven Mages and Heroic Spirits in a town called Fuyuki. However, a certain Mage took advantage of the chaos of World War II to steal a Holy Grail. Several decades have passed, and the Yggdmillennia family, who took upon the Holy Grail as its symbol, defected from the Mages’ Association and declared their independence. Furious, the Association sent a force to deal with the Yggdmillennia, but they were defeated by the summoned Servants. With the Holy Grail War system changed, war at an unprecedented scale, with seven versus seven, breaks out. And so, the curtain rises on the epoch-making Great Holy Grail War.”

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Anime Title: Kakegurui: Compulsive Gambler
Production Studio: MAPPA
Episode Count: 12 eps.
Air Date: Saturday
Source Material: Manga
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, School, Shounen
Description: “Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you’re the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it’s not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. It’s reading your opponent, the art of the deal. What better way to hone those skills than with a rigorous curriculum of gambling? At Hyakkaou Private Academy, the winners live like kings, and the losers are put through the wringer. But when Yumeko Jabami enrolls, she’s gonna teach these kids what a high roller really looks like!”

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Anime Title: Katsugeki/Touken Ranbu
Production Studio: ufotable
Episode Count: N/A
Air Date: Saturday
Source Material: Mobile Card Game
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Martial Arts
Description: “The year is 1863 as the tumultuous samurai era is coming to an end, Japan is split between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. The fate of the world is threatened as an army of historical revisionists are sent from the future to alter the course of history. In order to bring these forces down and protect the real history, two sword warriors, spirits who are swords brought to life by Saniwa (sage), rush to Edo. The polite and thoughtful Horikawa Kunihiro and the short tempered yet skillful Izuminokami Kanesada, who served the same master, confront the invading army along with a lively gang of other warriors including Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, Yagen Toushirou, Tombokiri, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga. As the fate of history lies in these hero’s hands, what meets the blade is yet to be uncovered…”

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Anime Title: Made in Abyss
Production Studio: Kinema Citrus
Episode Count: N/A
Air Date: Friday
Source Material: Manga
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Description: “An enormous pit and cave system called the “Abyss” is the only unexplored place in the world. Strange and wonderful creatures reside in its depths, and it is full of precious relics that current humans are unable to make. The mysteries of the Abyss fascinate humans, and they head down to explore. The adventurers who venture into pit are known as “Cave Raiders.” A little orphan girl named Rico lives in the town of Ousu on the edge of the Abyss. Her dream is to become a Cave Raider like her mother and solve the mysteries of the cave system. One day, Rico starts exploring the caves and discovers a robot who resembles a human boy.”

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Anime Title: My Hero Academia 2nd Season
Production Studio: Bones
Episode Count: 25 eps.
Air Date: Saturday
Source Material: Manga
Genres: Action, Comedy, School, Shounen, Supernatural, Super Power
Description: “Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not going to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies. Now, the only thing standing between him and his first class is the academy’s formidable entrance exam—nothing a little private tutoring from the world’s mightiest hero can’t solve.”

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Anime Title: Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul (Season 2)
Production Studio: MAPPA
Episode Count: 24 eps.
Air Date: Friday
Source Material: Mobile Card Game
Genres: Action, Adventure, Demons, Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural
Description: “The story place 10 years after the world escaped destruction due to the revival of Bahamut. Humans at the royal capital gather wealth, the demons are enslaved to assist with the capital’s revival, and the gods lose their power due to a decrease in religious piety. The world is thrown off balance as humans, gods, and demons hold their own ideas of justice.”

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Anime Title: Re:Creators
Production Studio: TROYCA
Episode Count: 22 eps.
Air Date: Saturday
Source Material: Anime Original
Genres: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Description: “Humans have designed countless worlds—each one born from the unique imagination of its creator. Souta Mizushino is a high school student who aspires to be such a creator by writing and illustrating his own light novel. One day, while watching anime for inspiration, he is briefly transported into a fierce fight scene. When he returns to the real world, he realizes something is amiss: the anime’s headstrong heroine, Celestia Yupitilia, has somehow returned with him.

Before long, other fictional characters appear in the world, carrying the hopes and scars of their home. A princely knight, a magical girl, a ruthless brawler, and many others now crowd the streets of Japan. However, the most mysterious one is a woman in full military regalia, dubbed “Gunpuku no Himegimi,” who knows far more than she should about the creators’ world. Despite this, no one knows her true name or the world she is from.

Meanwhile, Souta and Celestia work together with Meteora Österreich, a calm and composed librarian NPC, to uncover the meaning behind these unnatural events. With powerful forces at play, the once clear line between reality and imagination continues to blur, leading to a fateful meeting between creators and those they created.”

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Anime Title: Restaurant To Another World
Production Studio: Silver Link
Episode Count: N/A
Air Date: Monday
Source Material: Light Novel
Genres: Comedy, Cooking, Fantasy, Mystery
Description: “On the first basement floor of a building at a corner of a shopping district near an office area, there is a shop. It is the restaurant Youshoku no Nekoya (Western Cuisine Cat Restaurant), whose door is adorned with a picture of a cat. Founded five decades ago, it has since been filling the bellies of the salarymen from the office area.

While it is described as Western cuisine, it is an extraordinary restaurant with menus beyond Western cuisine that are rich and sumptuous. However, for people from that world, it is even more especially unique.

There is a secret in Nekoya. Every Saturday when the shop takes a day off, Nekoya is teeming full of special customers. With the jingling of the bell, it serves the rarest, most wonderous of delicious cuisine at the request of customers from all walks of life, upbringing, and ethnicity.

Certainly, for the office workers, it is a familiar place with familiar dishes. However, for the Saturday customers or people from that world, it is nothing but cuisine never seen or heard before … an Alternate-World Restaurant.”

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Anime Title: Sakura Quest
Production Studio: P.A. Works
Episode Count: 25 eps.
Air Date: Wednesday
Source Material: Anime Original
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Description: “Five young women have one thing in common—the careers they planned for themselves weren’t working out. Job dissatisfaction, trying to make ends meet, and personal insecurities lead each of them to start working at a local tourism bureau where their lives become intertwined. As the girls experience their first year on the job, they learn a lot about their town, their industry, and themselves.”

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Anime Title: The Reflection
Production Studio: Studio Deen
Episode Count: 12 eps.
Air Date: Saturday
Source Material: Anime Original
Genres: Action, Mystery, Super Power
Description: “After THE REFLECTION, some of the people in all parts of the world are discovered with super powers. Some become heroes, and others villains. How did the Reflection happen? What was the cause of it? With many unsolved mysteries, the world is lead into turmoil.”

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Anime Title: Vatican Miracle Examiner
Production Studio: J.C. Staff
Episode Count: 12 eps.
Air Date: Friday
Source Material: Novel
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Supernatural, Shounen
Description: “Hiraga Josef Kou, a genius scientist, and Robert Nicholas, an archives and cryptanalysis expert. The two work as a team as the Vatican’s “miracle examiners,” traveling the world to investigate the authenticity of claims of miracles.”

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Anime Title: Welcome to the Ballroom
Production Studio: Production I.G
Episode Count: N/A
Air Date: Saturday
Source Material: Manga
Genres: Comedy, School, Sports, Shounen
Description: “Feckless high school student Tatara Fujita wants to be good at something – anything. Unfortunately, he’s about as average as a slouchy teen can be. The local bullies know this, and make it a habit to hit him up for cash, but all that changes when the debonair Kaname Sengoku sends them packing. Sengoku’s not the neighborhood watch, though. He’s a professional ballroom dancer. And once Tatara Fujita gets pulled into the world of the ballroom, his life will never be the same.”

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