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Hero TV to Air The Asterisk War, Keijo!!!!!!!! in August

Philippine television channel Hero TV revealed on Thursday that it will air The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water and Keijo!!!!!!!! anime starting this month. The Asterisk War: The Academy City on the Water will premiere on August 18, and Keijo!!!!!!!! will premiere on August 23. The channel also teased that it will air the anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day anime.

The Asterisk War anime is set after an event known as Invertia, a massive meteor shower that results in tragic levels of death and destruction on Earth. However, Invertia also gave rise to new technologies: a hidden element within the meteors leapfrogged human technology, and also gave rise to the "Genestella," humans born with special powers. A massive collection of six schools, situated on an artificial island platform known as Rikka – also known as "The Asterisk" – take in these Genestella and teach them how to use their abilities. Each year they hold annual combat competitions that pits each school's contestants against each other. The story centers on Ayato Amagiri, who attends Seidōkan Academy, one of the Asterisk schools. He is investigating the disappearance of his sister. He meets Julis-Alexia, a princess of a minor European nation that is in the school to earn money for her nation. Together, they train in their powers, and stumble into secret truths about the Asterisk.

The anime adapts Yuu Miyazaki and okiura's light novel series. The first anime premiered in October 2015, and the second premiered in April 2016.

Manabu Ono (A-Channel, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, The irregular at magic high school) served as general director of the series at A-1 Pictures. Kenji Seto (Wooser no Sono Higurashi Kakusei-hen, assistant director on A-Channel and Saki) directed the series, Tetsuya Kawakami (Nanana's Buried Treasure, Robot Girls Z, Shigofumi - Letters from the Departed, Toei Robot Girls) handled the character designs and served as animation director, and Rasmus Faber (Lagrange - The Flower of Rin-ne theme songs) composed the music.

Keijo!!!!!!!! takes place in an alternate Japan where a sport called "Keijo" by law in 2003 became a sport alongside horse racing, boat racing, and cycling that allows for gambling. In the sport, contestants stand on platforms floating on the water and must use their butts and chests to fight against each other to push each other off the platform. Nozomi Kaminashi, a high school student, aims to join the sport after she graduates. Nozomi was raised in a poor family and hopes to make lots of money by playing Keijo. She grew up training in gymnastics, and she has good balance and flexibility. After high school, Nozomi joins a training boarding school and enters the world of Keijo.

The anime adapts Daichi Sorayomi's manga of the same name. The series premiered last October. Sorayomi launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2013, and ended it on April 21. Shogakukan published the 18th and final compiled volume on July 18.

Hideya Takahashi (Fantasista Stella director, Fafner EXODUS episode director) directed the anime at Xebec, and Takao Kato (To Love-Ru, Triage X director) was in charge of series composition. Keiya Nakano (AOKANA: Four Rhythm Across the Blue, Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky) was in charge of character designs. AiRI performed the opening theme song "DREAMxSCRAMBLE!," and voice actresses Lynn, M.A.O, Kaede Hondo, and Saori Ōnishi performed the ending theme song "Fantas/HIP Girlfriends!"

Anohana's story centers on five former friends who drifted apart after the death of their friend Menma during their childhood. Each of them feels some level of responsibility for her death, and responded to the death in different ways. The protagonist, Jinta Yadomi, once the leader of the group of friends, has become a shut-in who cares little for high school. One day, he begins to see and be able to talk to what he believes is the ghost of Menma, who asks him to grant her an unfulfilled wish and promise that they made in childhood. Because of this, the friends who had drifted apart begin to reconnect again, but everyone has changed, and not all of them agree with each other.

The anime premiered in 2011. The anime inspired a manga, a 2013 film sequel, and a 2015 live-action special.

The anime is the second collaboration between director Tatsuyuki Nagai (Waiting in the Summer), scriptwriter Mari Okada (Hanasaku Iroha, A Lull in the Sea), and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka (your name.). The trio had previously collaborated on the Toradora! anime, and reunited once again after anohana for The Anthem of the Heart film. Nagai and Okada would reunite again to work on the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans anime. A-1 Pictures animated the series.

[Via Anime Pilipinas (link 2)]