Crunchyroll: the new anime coming in 2022

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Some time ago we told you that the manga Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endō, published in Italy by the Planet Manga publishing house, would have enjoyed an animated transposition. Now, Crunchyroll has announced, during its panel at the Anime NYC event, that it will be streaming the anime along with many others! Let's see them together!

Crunchyroll: all the new anime of 2022

Spy x Family

Coming in 2022

Spy x Family anime is curated by Wit Studio (Vinland Saga) and CloverWorks (The Promised Neverland). Kazuhiro Furuhashi (Mobile Suit Gundam UC, Rurouni Kenshin, Dororo) directs the series, Kazuaki Shimada (The Promised Neverland) handles the character design and [K] NoWNAME (Fairy gone, Dorohedoro, Sakura Quest) produces the music. Takuya Eguchi plays Loid Forger.

The experienced codenamed spy has spent her life on undercover missions, all for the dream of a better world. But one day he gets a particularly difficult new order from the command.

For her mission he must form a family and start a new life?!

This is the official trailer:

Tomodachi Game

April 2022

Tomodachi Game is the animated transposition of the manga by Yuki Sato. Hirofumi Ogura (Cells at work!, Black Butler II) is directing the anime and Kenta Ihara (Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy-) is overseeing and writing the scripts for the series. Si Man Wei (Edens Zero) of Studio Tulip is the artistic director, while Tsukasa Ohira (No Game, No Life) is responsible for the artistic setting. Aiko Mizuno (Cells at Work!) Is the color key artist. Yomogiko Murano (Kono Oto Tomare !: Sounds of Life) is the compositing director of photography. MICHIRU (BEM, Ascendance of a Bookworm) is composing the music. Hiroto Morishita (Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU) is directing the sound at Studio Mouse.

The story, based on Mikoto Yamaguchi's original concept, centers on Yūichi Katagiri, a young man with a perfect student life who has four friends with difficult lives. His quiet daily life ends when 2 million yen (about $ 20,000) in tuition disappears. The puzzles open as Yuichi gets involved in a mysterious game for money and has to decide whether friendship or money matters more.

Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie

April 2022

Adaptation of the manga by Keigo Maki. Ryota Itoh (My Senpai Is Annoying) is directing the anime at Doga Kobo with Shōhei Yamanaka as assistant director. Yoshimi Narita (HappinessCharge PreCure!, Our Love Has Always Been 10cm Away, My Senpai Is Annoying) is in charge of the scripts for the series. Ai Kikuchi (Engaged to the Unidentified, New Game!, How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?) Is drawing the characters.

Shikimori seems like the perfect girlfriend: cute, fun to be with, sweet when she wants to be ... but it has a cool dark side that emerges under the right circumstances. And her boyfriend Izumi loves being there when that happens! A fun and entertaining high school romance with a sassy twist, perfect for fans of Nagatoro-san and Komi Can't Communicate!

The Dawn of the Witch

April 2022

Adaptation of the series of fantasy light novels by Kakeru Kobashiri, set in the same universe as Grimoire of Zero.

Satoshi Kuwabara (The Quintessential Quintuplets, Girlfriend) directs the anime and is in charge of series composition at Tezuka Productions. Kobashiri and Mayumi Morita (Black Jack 21) are credited for literature. Reina Iwasaki is drawing the characters. Minoru Nishida (Yasuke) is in charge of the artistic setting and Yumi Aburaya (Adachi and Shimamura) is in charge of color design. Wataru Uchida (Conquest) is in charge of editing. Satoshi Motoyama (The irregular at magic high school) is the sound director and Bit Grooove Promotion is the sound producer. Kobashiri is credited with the original work while light novel illustrator Takashi Iwasaki is credited for the original character design.

The light novel series is set in the same fantasy world as the Zero light novel series Kara Hajimeru Mahō no Sho of Kobashiri (Grimoire of Zero), now at peace after enduring a conflict between the church and the witches for 500 years. However, the embers of war still burn in some regions of the world. The story centers on Cervil, a hopeless student at the College of Magic of the Kingdom of Wenias. Cervil has somehow lost all memory of his time before he went to college. The school principal Albus sends him for special training in the southern part of the continent, where the persecution against witches is strong.

Dance Dance Danseur

2022

It is the very first anime adaptation of a manga by George Asakura (in Italy known for Piece of Cake published by Goen).

Munehisa Sakai (Zombie Land Saga) is directing the anime to the MAP. Yoshimi Narita (My Senpai Is Annoying, Our love has always been 10 centimeters apart) is responsible for the composition of the series. Hitomi Hasegawa (Twittering Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather animation director) is drawing the characters.

The manga centers on Junpei Murao, who as a child was fascinated by ballet but in his second year of middle school , his father died and he decided he had to become more "masculine", and gave up his aspirations. While still having an attachment to classical dance, he devotes himself to the martial art of Jeet Kune Do and becomes popular in his class. Then one day, a new transfer student named Miyako Godai arrives in Junpei's class, and her mother runs a ballet studio. Miyako realizes that Junpei is interested in ballet and invites him to dance together.

A Couple of Cuckoos

2022

Anime transposition of the manga by Miki Yoshikawa (known for Yamada-kun and the 7 Witches, released for Star Comics).

Hiroaki Akagi (Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, Those Snow White Notes) is the main director of the anime and Yoshiyuki Shirahata (episode director of Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Great Pretender) is directing the anime at Shinei Animation and Synergy SP. Yasuhiro Nakanishi (Kaguya-sama: Love is War both seasons, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun) is overseeing the scripts for the series, and Aya Takano (Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, Polar Bear's Café) is designing the characters.

Sixteen-year-old super-scholar Nagi Umino, a second-year student at Megurogawa Academy, was swapped at birth. While on his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the cheeky and outspoken Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend, as she doesn't really want to get married. But once Nagi arrives for dinner, he discovers that his parents have decided to settle the exchange in the hospital by having him conveniently marry the daughter his birth parents raised… who turns out to be none other than Erika herself!

AOASHI

April 2022

Anime adaptation of the manga about football by Yugo Kobayashi. Akira Sato (Release the Spyce) is directing the anime at Production I.G. Masahiro Yokotani (Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club, All Out !!, Tropical-Rouge! Precure) is responsible for the scripts of the series. Manabu Nakatake, Toshie Kawamura, Asuka Yamaguchi and Saki Hasegawa are all credited for character design, with Natake and Yamaguchi also credited as animation directors. Naho Seike, Yukiko Watabe, Miho Daidouji and Eisuke Shirai are credited as sub-character designers. Kenichi Takeshita, Jun Soga and Kenji Iizuka are credited for overseeing football. Masaru Yokoyama composes the music.

The manga centers on Ashito Aoi, a third year middle school student who lives in Ehime prefecture. Ashito has a strong talent in football but tries to hide it. Due to his very outspoken personality, he causes a disaster that serves as a huge setback for him. Then, Tatsuya Fukuya - a veteran of J-Club Tokyo City Esperion's strong team and coach of the club's youth team - appears in front of Ashito. Tatsuya sees through Ashito and sees his talent, and invites him to try out for the Tokyo youth team.

In / Specter Season 2

2022

Keiji Gotoh (Kiddy Grade, Endride, Sengoku Collection) returns to direct the second season of the anime at Brains Base and Noboru Takagi (Durarara !!, Golden Kamuy, Kuroko's Basketball) is again in charge of the series scripts. Kentarou Matsumoto (D-Frag!, In / Specter season 1 animation director) is the character designer and animation director. NAS is producing the project.

The first season, released in 2020, is available on Crunchyroll Italy:

Seventeen-year-old Kotoko is in a particular situation. When she was little she was kidnapped by spirits called yōkai and returned without a leg and an eye. Since then, you have had the ability to communicate with beings from the afterlife, both positive and dangerous. Kotoko is alone in this world until Kurō, the boy she has a crush on and whom she watches from afar, meets a yōkai! As if being touched by the supernatural wasn't enough, the boy's life is a mess too.

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