Skate-Leading☆Stars スケートリーディング☆スターズ

Genre: Sport, Tournaments, Idols, Skating, Comedy, Drama,
 
Description: 
 
Figure skater Kensei Maeshima stopped his career when he met rival Reo Shinozaki. Some years after, Maeshima, now a high schooler, uses his physical talent to help other clubs with various activities, while never committing to any one thing. One day, he sees a press conference where Shinozaki announced that he was shifting from single skating to "skate-leading." After that, he met a boy named Hayato Sasugai, who knew of Maeshima's single skating career. Sasugai invites Maeshima to the world of skate-leading, or competitive team-based skating.
 
Episode: 12
 
Original Run: January 10, 2021 – March 28, 2021

Studio: J.C. Staff

22/7 ナナブンノニジュウニ (Nanabun no Nijūni)

Genre: Music, Idols, Showbiz

 

Description: 

 

One day, Miu Takigawa suddenly receives a letter notifying her that she has been chosen as a member of a brand-new project. Half in disbelief, she heads over to the location stated on the letter. There, she finds seven other girls summoned there in the same fashion. The girls behold a giant, top-secret facility. They stand in bewilderment as they are told they are going to debut for a major record label as an idol group. A new kind of idol, never-before-seen, is about to be born here

 

Episode: 12 + 1 Special + 8 ONA

 

Original Run

Series: January 11, 2020 – March 28, 2020

Special: September 16, 2020

ONA: March 24, 2018 – November 12, 2018

Studio: A-1 Pictures

 

B-Project: Kodou*Ambitious B-PROJECT～鼓動＊アンビシャス～

Alternative Name: B-PROJECT～鼓动*Ambitious～ 

                                      (B-PROJECT~Gǔ Dòng*Ambitious~)

Genre: Idols, Music, Bishounen, Showbiz

Description: 

Tsubasa is a new hire in the A&R department of the major recording company Gandala Music. Tsubasa is immediately assigned to oversee the idol unit "B-PROJECT," which is made up of three idol groups: Kitakore, Thrive, and MooNs. This is Tsubasa's first job, and she gets involved in various incidents and accidents as she deals with this group of young men who each have their own differing personalities.

Episode: 12 + 12 + 12

Original Run 
Season 1: July 3, 2016 – September 24, 2016
Season 2: January 12, 2019 – March 30, 2019

Season 3: October 2, 2023 – December 18, 2023

Studio: A-1 Pictures (S1) / Bandai Namco Pictures (S2) / 

               Asahi Production (S3)

Kitsune no Koe 狐狸之声 (Hú Lí Zhī Shēng)

Genre: Music, Idols, Showbiz

Description: 

Hu Li is a poor but talented high school boy. He is a "ghost" singer/songwriter for the popular and narcissistic boy idol Kong Que, who is very handsome but can barely sing. Hu always wears a fox mask to hide his large facial scar caused by a traffic accident. He also uses a screen name "Mr. Fox" to publish his music online.

Episode: 12

Original Run: October 5, 2018 – December 21, 2018

Studio: Yumeta Company

Zombie Land Saga ゾンビランドサガ (Zonbi Rando Saga)

Alternative Name: 佐賀偶像是傳奇 (Zuǒ Hè Ǒu Xiàng Shì Chuán Qí)

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music, Supernatural, Idols, Showbiz

Description: 

In 2008, high school student Sakura Minamoto is on her way to audition for an idol group when she is killed in a traffic accident. Ten years later, she discovers that she, along with six other "legendary" girls from various eras of Japan's history, are resurrected as zombies by Kotaro Tatsumi to save Saga Prefecture as the all-zombie idol group Franchouchou.

Episode

Season 1: 12 + 1 Special

Season 2: 12 + 1 Movie

Original Run
Season 1: October 4, 2018 – December 20, 2018
Special: October 3, 2019

Season 2: April 8, 2021 – June 24, 2021

Movie: TBA

Studio: MAPPA

Angel's 3Piece 天使の3P! (Tenshi no 3P!)

Alternative Name: 天使的3P! (Tiān Shǐ De 3P!)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, School Life, Music, Moe, Slice of Life, School,

               Idols

Description: 

Kyō Mekui is a high school student who tends to skip school due to a trauma in his past. Kyō secretly creates songs using vocal song synthesis software as his hobby. Three girls who just entered fifth grade — the crybaby Jun "Jun-tan" Gotō, the strong-willed Nozomi "Zomi" Momijidani, and the somewhat sleepy Sora "Kū" Kaneshiro who takes life at her own pace — email Kyō. These three girls, who were raised together like sisters since childhood, want Kyō to help them break into music.

Episode: 12

Original Run: July 10, 2017 – September 25, 2017

Studio: Project No.9

Venus Project -Climax- ヴィーナス プロジェクト-CLIMAX-

Genre: Sci-Fi, Tournaments, Action, Music, Idols

Description: 

In a not too distant future, Japan's data devices and video technology have been progressing to new heights, and people are abuzz about a new form of entertainment — Formula Venus. In Formula Venus or "F-V," the chosen top idols battle in live performances with their willpower, skills, and all their experience gained.

Episode: 6

Original Run: July 12, 2015 – September 20, 2015

Studio: Nomad

Tsukiuta. THE ANIMATION ツキウタ。THE ANIMATION

Alternative Name: 月歌 (Yuè Gē)

Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life, Idols, Alternative Version, Music, Workplace

Description: 

Six Gravity and Procellarum are two rival male idol groups who happen to live in the same dorm. Six Gravity is made up of young men who represent the months of December to May, while Procellarum’s members represent June to November. Follow the daily lives of these twelve young men as they deal with the stresses of idol-hood, school, and living together.

Episode: 13+ 13 + 12 ONA

Original Run
Season 1: July 6, 2016 – September 28, 2016
Season 2: October 7, 2020 – December 30, 2020

ONA: October 7, 2020 – December 23, 2020

Studio: Studio Pierrot (S1) / Children's Playground Entertainment (S2)

Miss Monochrome ミス・モノクローム (Misu Monokurōmu)

Alternative Name: 單色小姐 -The Animation- 

                                       (Dān Sè Xiǎo Jiě -The Animation-)

Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Slice of Life, Idols, Moe, Music, Androids, 

               Showbiz, Celebrities

Description: 

In order to be more in the eyes of the public, Miss Monochrome begins working to become a top-selling idol. Spacey Miss Monochrome once again runs around the idol show biz world, being tossed around by others.

Episode

Season 1: 13 Episodes + 1 OVA + 1 ONA

Season 2: 13 Episodes

Season 3: 13 Episodes

Original Run

Season 1: October 1, 2013 – December 24, 2013

OVA: March 25, 2014

ONA: June 17, 2014

Season 2: July 3, 2015 – September 25, 2015

Season 3: October 2, 2015 – December 18, 2015

Studio: SANZIGEN & LIDENFILMS / SANZIGEN (OVA)

Million Doll ミリオンドール (Mirion Dōru)

Genre: Idols, Music, Drama

Description: 

Sūko is an idol-loving hikikomori (shut-in) who has one ability: To make any idol popular through the power of blogging. She puts her sights on the Fukuoka idol Itorio and tries to make her more popular, but she is impeded by the charismatic idol Ryūsan and the underground idol Mariko.

Episode: 11 + 1 Special

Original Run

Series: July 6, 2015 – September 21, 2015

Special: November 20, 2015

Studio: Asahi Production

Gravitation グラビテーション (Gurabitēshon)

Alternative Name: 萬有引力 (Wàn Yǒu Yǐn Lì)

Genre: Shounen-Ai, Idols, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Music, Showbiz, 

Description: 

Shuichi Shindou wants to create a famous band. He works on his band, hoping to get a chance in the public eye, with nothing on his mind but his musical ambitions. One night Shuichi writes song lyrics, his paper blows away, and a stranger picks it up. Yuki, a famous romance novelist who tells Shuichi that his writing skills are grade school level. 

From the moment on, Shuichi is determined to find Yuki and have him explain his rudeness... he just doesn't realize that he's experienced love at first sight. When Shuichi finally found Yuki, it's a journey of obstacles, frightening experience and haunting pasts trying to keep them apart. But, it's just the gravitation of fate and love always pulls theses lovers back together every time.  

Episode: 13 + 2 OVA

Original Run
Series: October 4, 2000 – January 10, 2001
OVA: July 23, 1999 – September 22, 1999

Studio: Studio Deen (Series) / Plum (OVA)

UTAPRI: Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 1000% うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪ マジLOVE1000%

Alternative Name: 歌之☆王子殿下♪ 真爱1000% 

                                      (Gē Zhī☆Wáng Zǐ Diàn Xià♪ Zhēn Ài 1000%)

Genre: Bishounen, Music, School, Drama, Romance, Reverse Harem,
               Comedy, Tournaments, Idols

Description: 

Nanami Haruka wants to be a song writer, so she attends an idol training school filled with beautiful bishounen. The school pairs each aspiring songwriter with an aspiring idol, but Haruka finds herself paired with 6 bishounen idols. To make things more difficult, Nanami is also not allowed to date any of her beautiful partners.

Episode
Season 1: 13 episodes
Season 2: 13 episodes + 1 Special
Season 3: 13 episodes
Season 4: 13 episodes + 3 Movies + 1 Special

Original Run
Season 1: July 3, 2011 – September 24, 2011
Season 2: April 3, 2013 – June 26, 2013
Special: December 25, 2013
Season 3: April 5, 2014 – June 28, 2015
Season 4: October 1, 2016 – December 24, 2016
Movie: June 14, 2019 

Special: July 31, 2022

Movie: September 2, 2022

Movie: TBA

Studio: A-1 Pictures