{"id":12373,"date":"2008-04-03T13:14:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T17:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12373"},"modified":"2008-04-15T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T18:34:14","slug":"werent-there-supposed-to-be-fewer-anime-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/werent-there-supposed-to-be-fewer-anime-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Weren&#8217;t There Supposed to be Fewer Anime This Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just this past February when Tokyo Anime Center executive Masakazu Kubo said, &#8220;After the April 2008 television program schedules are laid out, the drop in the number of animated programs will be clearly seen.&#8221; Really? By my count there were 46 anime series premiers in the 2007 spring season, and there are 45 anime series premiers this spring season. (Actually, there are 47 new anime this season if you include the continuing third season of Kirarin Revolution and the Soul Eater Late Show, which I didn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p>The full list of this season&#8217;s new Japanese anime follows.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Alison to Lillia<br \/>\nAmatsuki<br \/>\nBlassreiter<br \/>\nBlue Dragon: Tenkou no Shichi Ryu<br \/>\nBus Gamer<br \/>\nChi&#8217;s Sweet Home<br \/>\nCode Geass: Lelouche of the Rebellion R2<br \/>\nCrystal Blaze<br \/>\nDa Capo II Second Season<br \/>\nDual Masters Cross<br \/>\nFireball<br \/>\nGag Manga Biyori 3<br \/>\nGolgo 13<br \/>\nHaken Taiken Daisuki! Shimajiro<br \/>\nHimitsu ~Top Secret~<br \/>\nIkuze! Gen-san (web only)<br \/>\nItazura na Kiss<br \/>\nJunjo Romantica<br \/>\nKaiba<br \/>\nKamen no Maid Guy<br \/>\nKanokon<br \/>\nKurenai<br \/>\nKyou Kara Maoh 3rd series<br \/>\nKyouran Kazoku Nikki<br \/>\nMacross Frontier<br \/>\nMonochrome Factor<br \/>\nNabari no Ou<br \/>\nNeo Angelique Abyss<br \/>\nNet Ghost Pipopa<br \/>\nNijyu Menso no Musume<br \/>\nOnegai My Melody Kirara<br \/>\nPenguin Musume Heart (web only)<br \/>\nPenguin no Mondai<br \/>\nRD Sennou Chosashitsu<br \/>\nSoul Eater<br \/>\nSpecial A<br \/>\nSugar Bunnies Chocola!<br \/>\nToLOVEru<br \/>\nToshokan Sensou<br \/>\nTower of Druaga<br \/>\nUchi no San Shimai<br \/>\nVampire Knight<br \/>\nWagaya no Oinarisama<br \/>\nxxxHOLiC Kai<br \/>\nYu-Gi-Oh 5 D&#8217;s<br \/>\nZettai Karen Children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just this past February when Tokyo Anime Center executive Masakazu Kubo said, &#8220;After the April 2008 television program schedules are laid out, the drop in the number of animated programs will be clearly seen.&#8221; Really? By my count there were 46 anime series premiers in the 2007 spring season, and there are 45 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}