Summer 2012 Anime

This chart is a list of the known TV anime series that were expected to air between July and September 2012, along with their Laconic descriptions.

See Spring 2012 Anime for the previous season and Fall 2012 Anime for the next one.

TV Series
Arcana Famiglia

An Otome Game adaptation about the eccentric members of a vigilante organization on a mediterrean island, and the Mafia Princess who just moved there.

Binbo-gami ga! (The God of Poverty!) Airing from the 4th of July

A comedy manga adaptation, produced with the director of Gintama, about a Rich Bitch who involuntarily absorbs other people's happiness energy to stay successful, and a poverty god who tries to take it away.

Campione (PV) Airing from the 6th of July

A harem comedy Light Novel adaptation. A high school boy killed a god before the story begins, gaining the title of "Campione". Though he doesn't like fighting, this title drags him into new battles.

Chitose Get You Airing from the 1st of July

An elementary school girl pursues the affections of a working man. Hilarity Ensues.

Dakara Boku Wa H Ga Dekinai (I Told You I Can't Act Dirty) Airing from July 6

The main character made a contract with a beautiful death goddess, but lost his erotic spirit in the process.

Dog Days' Airing from July 7

Yes, the apostrophe is how you tell it apart from the first series.

Ebiten

A high school boy accidentally joins the club for Yaoi Fangirls.

Hagure Yuusha No Estetica (The Brutish Aesthetics of a Wayward Hero) (PV) Airing from July 6

The Hero defeats the Satan king in the fantasy world of Alleyzard and returns to the real world. He is sheltered by the international organization BABEL, which protects and controls people transferred from the outer worlds. BABEL is astonished to know Akatsuki has really defeated Satan and brings Satan's daughter from Alleyzard. In the academy of BABEL, Akatsuki confronts other "returners", who have psychic powers.

Hakuouki Reimeiroku

A prequel this time.

Jinrui Wa Suitai Shimashita (Humanity Has Declined) (PV) Airing from the 1st of July for 12 episodes

The story is set several centuries into the slow decline of mankind. Earth has now become the realm of 10-centimeter-tall fairies. The human protagonist of the story serves an important duty as the international arbitrator between the fairies and humans, and she returns to her former hometown of Kusunoki.

Joshiraku (Girls' Rakugo) (CM)

About a group of female rakugo performers having Seinfeldian Conversations. Based on a manga by the creator of Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei.

Kingdom Airing from June 4 for 38 episodes

A Warring States historical action manga adaptation, about a young boy who grew into a great general, and all the trials and bloodshed that led him there.

Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate - (Love, Elections, and Chocolate) (PV) Airing from July 6

A Visual Novel adaptation about a boy named Yuuki who enters the Serious Business world of student politics in order to keep his and his friends' club from being disbanded for the sake of the school's budget. He finds romance along the way.

Kokoro Connect (Heart Connect) (PV)

A light novel adaptation, about five members of a high school's Culture Club, two boys and three girls, who get Freaky Friday Flipped with each other.

Kono Naka Ni Hitori Imouto Ga Iru (One of the Girls Here is My Little Sister!) (PV) Airing from July 6

A light novel adaptation, about a boy who has to find a girlfriend at school if he wants to inherit the family business. Complications arise when it turns out that his long-lost sister also attends his school, and he doesn't know what she looks like.

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon 2 - (Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere 2)

Season two of the Fall 2011 Anime series.

Moyashimon Returns Airing from July 5

Second season.

Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse (PV) Airing from July 1

Based on the Light Novel spinoff of the epic mecha/romance Visual Novel series, Muv-Luv.

Natsuyuki Rendezvous (Summer Snow Rendezvous) (PV) Airing from July 5

A Josei manga adaptation, running in the NoitaminA block, about a love triangle between a young man who works part time at a flower store, the widow who owns the store, and the ghost of her deceased husband.

Oda Nobuna No Yabou (Oda Nobuna's Ambition) (PV) Airing from July 8

A Sengoku love comedy. Sagara Yoshiharu is a 17-year-old high school boy. One day, he time-travels to the Sengoku period, where all the major Samurai lords are cute girls. Yoshiharu meets Oda Nobuna, the girl counterpart of Oda Nobunaga, and begins to serve her as a substitute of Kinoshita Tokichiro, who has been dead in the world.

Rinne no Lagrange 2 12 episodes

The second half of the Winter 2012 Anime series

Sword Art Online (PV)

A genius programmer named Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya enters a MMO world called Sword Art Online. There is no escape from this world unless the player clears the game, but "game over" means the death of the player. Based on the Light Novel series.

Tari Tari (PV) Airing from the 1st of July

Anime original story, from the creators of Hanasaku Iroha.

Utakoi (Poem of Love) (PV) Airing from July 2

A historical romance story based on a manga, that is itself an unique interpretations of Japanese old poetry known as "Hyakunin Isshu" (The Hundred Poems).

Yuru-Yuri ♪♪ (Easygoing Yuri) Airing from July 3

Those "♪♪" things are the new season's subtitle. If you liked the first series, you might wish to remember that ALT+Numpad1+Numpad3 is the necessary Cheat Code to call the next one by its proper name. Or you can just call it "Yuru Yuri 2", but where's the fun in that?