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Animax Asia to Air Chaos;Child, Chain Chronicle, Matoi the Sacred Slayer

Southeast Asian channel Animax Asia began streaming a video on Thursday. The video reveals that the channel will air the Chaos;Child, Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas, Matoi the Sacred Slayer, Servamp, ēlDLIVE, and Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club anime. The channel did not reveal an air date for the anime.

Chaos;Child premiered on January 11 and ended on March 29.

Masato Jinbo (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!, Shomin Sample, Nozo × Kimi) directed the anime and also handled series composition. Kazuyuki Yamayoshi served as chief animation director and adapted Mitsumi Sasaki and Yukihiro Matsuo's character designs for animation. SILVER LINK animated the series. Takeshi Abo (Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes) and onoken (Accel World) composed the music.

Kanako Itou (Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes) performed the opening theme song "Uncontrollable," and Konomi Suzuki (Re:Zero, WATAMOTE) performed the ending theme song "Chaos Syndrome."

In the psycho-suspense story, after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hits Tokyo's Shibuya ward on November 6, 2009, a black fire spreads and causes mass panic on the day of the earthquake. The sudden disaster that becomes known as the "Shibuya Earthquake" kills 3,851 people and injures 30,927 more.

The original game the anime is based on is set in a reconstructed Shibuya district in October 2015. A string of mysterious deaths occurs in Shibuya amidst the reconstruction. People begin to take notice as the strange events start on the same day that chaos broke out in Shibuya with a certain incident five years earlier. The events are called the "Return of the New Generation Madness."

The game is 5pb. and MAGES' fourth science-adventure title, after Chaos;HEAd, Steins;Gate, and Robotics;Notes.

The Chain Chronicle: The Light of Haecceitas anime project has both a theatrical and a television version. The theatrical version is split into three films, and each film screened in a two-week limited engagement in theaters. The first film debuted in Japan on December 3, the second debuted on January 14, and the third film debuted on February 11. The 12-episode television anime version premiered on January 7, and ended on March 25. Each of the three anime films has the same story content as four television episodes.

Masashi Kudo (Kyō no Asuka Show, Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties, Ikki Tousen: Extravaganza Epoch) directed the anime and designed the characters at Telecom Animation Film and Graphinica. Touko Machida (Allison & Lillia, The IDOLM@STER, Chaika - The Coffin Princess) supervised the scripts. Daisuke Jinba (Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens, Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You, anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day) was in charge of art direction. Masato Kōda (Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova, Maria the Virgin Witch, KonoSuba – God's blessing on this wonderful world!!) composed the music, and Shoji Hata (Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, Fairy Tail, One-Punch Man) was in charge of sound direction. Takeo Ogiwara (Princess Tutu, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Penguindrum) was the director of photography.

Matoi the Sacred Slayer premiered in October and ended in December.

The anime's official website describes the anime's story:

It is 2016. Matoi Sumeragi, a second-year junior high school student, works part-time as a shrine maiden at Tenman Shrine in the city of Kamaya. Ever since being separated from her mother in early childhood, Matoi has been entrusted to her grandparents on her father's side, but three months ago, she finally began to live with her father Shingo. In those circumstances, she only wishes for a peaceful, normal life.

Her close friend and part-time workmate Yuma Kusanagi is part of the family of the shrine's chief priest, and is a candidate to be the successor shrine maiden. For generations, her family has performed exorcisms of evil spirits. She invites Matoi to one of these exorcism ceremonies, a so-called "Divine Possession" that she will attempt.

One day, Matoi and Yuma walk from the school to the shrine as usual, but when they arrive, they are greeted by the shrine's now damaged grounds, and Yuma's parents have both collapsed from their wounds. Matoi's father Shingo, a police detective, launches an investigation, and he comes upon a man who does not seem entirely sane: his only witness. When he holds down the man, Yuma begins the ritual of Divine Possession.

Something strange then happens, not with Yuma, but with Matoi. Matoi Sumeragi, who had only wanted a normal, peaceful life, takes the role of a god, and gains the power to banish evil spirits! To get her precious everyday life back, Matoi must conduct exorcisms!

Masayuki Sakoi (Celestial Method, Princess Resurrection) directed the anime at WHITE FOX, and Yousuke Kuroda (My Hero Academia, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Big Windup!) oversaw and wrote the scripts. Mai Toda (animation director for Baby Steps, One-Punch Man) was the character designer and chief animation director, and Seiichi Shirato (Jormungand, Drifters, Joker Game) was in charge of setting research. Tatsuya Katou (Love Live! Sunshine!!, Celestial Method) composed the music.

Mia REGINA performed the opening theme "Chōmusubi Amulet" (Bowknot Amulet) and the group Sphere performed the ending theme song "My Only Place."

The Servamp television anime premiered last July. The anime adapts Strike Tanaka's manga of the same name.

The anime production reunited the main staff and studio of the Aoharu x Machinegun anime. Itto Sara, who served in a supervisory position in Aoharu x Machinegun, served as chief director for Servamp. Hideaki Nakano directed the anime at Brains Base. Kenji Konuta was in charge of series composition, and Junko Yamanaka designed the characters for animation.

Tanaka launched the manga series the anime is based on in Monthly Comic Gene in 2011, and Kadokawa published the manga's 10th compiled book volume last July. The manga has been on hiatus since January due to health reasons for the author, but will return on April 15.

ēlDLIVE premiered in Japan on January 8, and ended on March 26.

Takeshi Furuta (The Comic Artist and His Assistants, Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold, Utano Princesama Legend Star) directed the series at Studio Pierrot with assistant director Tomoya Tanaka (Blood Lad). Toshimitsu Takeuchi (Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold, Shōnen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan, Weiß Survive R) was in charge of the series scripts. Han Seungah (Seung Ah Han) served as character designer and chief animation director with sub-character designer Keiichirou Matsui (Deadman Wonderland). Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippūden, Fairy Tail, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal) of Team-MAX composed the music.

Female singer Alfakyun performed the opening theme song, while The Super Ball duo (The Morose Mononokean) performed the ending theme song.

Akira Amano (Reborn!) launched the original manga series the anime is based on in full color on Shonen Jump+'s predecessor app Jump Live in August 2013. The manga switched to Shonen Jump+ when the app launched in September 2014.

The Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club anime premiered in Japan on January 6, and aired its 12th episode on March 24. The anime's 13th episode is indefinitely delayed.

The story begins with Hiromi Maiharu, a girl who moved from Nagasaki to Kamakura. She begins her new life in Kamakura and her first day in high school by bicycling to her school, but she has not ridden a bicycle since she was young. On the way to the ceremony for the first day, she meets Tomoe Akitsuki, and Tomoe helps her train to be better at bicycling.

Susumu Kudo (Mardock Scramble: The First Compression, Dear Boys) directed the anime at J.C. Staff and ACGT, and Kurasumi Sunayama (Bakuon!!, scripts on Yowamushi Pedal) wrote the script. Ryoichi Oki (Potemayo, Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise) was both the character designer and chief animation director. Chikako Shibata (Honey and Clover, Toradora!) was credited for background art, while Tomonori Kuroda (A Certain Scientific Railgun, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma) was the art director. Rumiko Suzuki (Gakkyū-ō Yamazaki) was in charge of color design. Yutaka Kurosawa (Golden Time, Love Stage!!) was director of photography. AŌP performed the opening theme song "Jitensha ni Hana wa Mau" (Flower Dances With Bike), and Ikasan performed the ending theme song "Nij Yume Road" (Rainbow Dream Road).