2012 in anime

Table of years in anime: 2008 2009 2010 2011 – 2012 – 2013 2014 2015 2016

This is a list of the events of 2012 in anime.

Year in review

In Japanese polling, Newtype's best releases of Autumn 2011 to Summer 2012 announced the best anime series as Fate/Zero, The Idolmaster, Nisemonogatari, Tari Tari and Hyouka. For movies, the poll named only three awards for the K-On! Movie, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie and Wolf Children.^[1] Another series debut was Sword Art Online. Kotaku's Richard Eisenbeis praised Sword Art Online, even before the series conclusion, for its complex and genre-crossing storyline and intelligent portrayal of sociological and psychological issues.^[2] Eisenbeis would also pick five different movies for top film of 2012, including The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki, Evangelion 3.0, Detective Conan: The Eleventh Striker, One Piece Film: Z and Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles as his top five movies.^[3]

Anime News Network's, Theron Martin and Carl Kimlinger listed the best anime in America of 2012 summarized the popular works that were widely released to American audiences. The two reviewers picked Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Anohana as series of the year with runners-up Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions and Kimi ni Todoke. The staff's picks for best movies of the year, were The Secret World of Arrietty and Redline.^[4]

In March 2013, the Tokyo Anime Awards recognized Wolf Children for animation of the year, Sword Art Online and Kuroko's Basketball for television series of the year.^[5]

At the Mainichi Film Awards, the Animation Film Award was won by Wolf Children and the Ōfuji Noburō Award was won by Combustible. Wolf Children also won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Internationally, A Letter to Momo won the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film, with three of the other four nominees being also from Japan: From Up on Poppy Hill, Niji-Iro Hotaru: Eien no Natsu Yasumi and Wolf Children.

Deaths

March 20 - Noboru Ishiguro^[6]

Releases

English name	Japanese name	Type	Demographic	Regions
009 Re:Cyborg		Movie
Accel World		TV
Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero		TV
AKB0048		TV
Battle Spirits: Sword Eyes		TV
Beelzebub		TV
Black Rock Shooter		TV
Blast of Tempest		TV
Btooom!		TV
Code:Breaker		TV
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia		TV
Eureka Seven Ao		TV
Evangelion: 3.0		Movie
From the New World		TV
Girls und Panzer		TV
High School DxD		TV
Houkago Midnighters		Movie
Humanity Has Declined		TV
Initial D Fifth Stage		TV
Jormungand: Perfect Order		TV
Kids on the Slope		TV
Kill Me Baby		TV	Seinen
Kokoro Connect		TV
Kuroko's Basketball		TV
Library War: The Wings of Revolution		Movie
Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!		TV
Medaka Box		TV
Moyashimon Returns		TV
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse		TV
My Little Monster		TV
Mysterious Girlfriend X		TV
Natsume Yuujinchou Shi		TV
Place to Place	Acchi Kocchi	TV
Polar Bear Cafe		TV
Saint Seiya Omega		TV
Say "I love you"		TV
Space Battleship Yamato 2199		TV
Strike Witches Movie		Movie
Sword Art Online		TV	Shounen
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna		TV
The Knight in the Area		TV
To Love-Ru: Darkness		TV	Shounen
Wolf Children		Movie
Yuru Yuri		TV	Seinen

See also

• 2012 in animation

References

1. "『アイドルマスター』7冠、『Fate/Zero』5冠！ "ニュータイプ アニメアワード"受賞結果発表！【マチ★アソビ vol.9】". Famitsu. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
2. "Sword Art Online Is the Smartest Anime I've Seen in Years (And It's Only Half-Done)". Kotaku. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
3. "Japan's Most Recommended Anime Films of 2012". Kotaku. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
4. "Anime in America: The Best (And Most Notable) of 2012". Anime News Network. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
5. "Wolf Children, SAO, Kuroko's Basketball Win Tokyo Anime Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
6. "Yamato, Macross Director Noboru Ishiguro Passes Away". Animenewsnetwork.com. Retrieved 2012-03-23.