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Happy New Year 2016 — Anime Style! Part VI

posted on by Lynzee Loveridge

For generations, people in Japan have celebrated New Year's Day by sending specially designed cards — nengajō — to each other. As part of the tradition, postal workers store all the nengajō that are mailed in the final weeks of the old year, and then deliver every single one on New Year's Day. Many nengajō mark the Chinese Zodiac by depicting the animal of the year. (In 2016, that animal is the monkey.) Here are some New Year's greetings from the folks that will be bringing you anime, manga, and games in the new year.

Aikatsu!

The first tweet advertises a Blu-ray box set on Rakuten Books that comes with a poster calendar.



Takahiro Arai (Les Misérables)

The tweet mentions that the manga is heading towards its climax.


Assassination Classroom

[Link]

Durarara!!×2 Shō

The site tells your fortune (a Japanese New Year's tradition). Pictured is Izaya's prediction of misfortune in love, work, and finding lost things. [Link]

Garo the Animation



Honwa (illustrator)



Hybrid Mind Market

The tweet advertises a K: Return of Kings grab-bag.


K dani L (Minarai Megami Purupurun Sharum)



Kawana (illustrator)




Kohske (Gangsta.)

Kohske mentions that these drawings were originally supposed to be on the second manga volume ("probably").


Luck and Logic

In keeping with New Year's fortune-telling, series creator Yuuya Takahashi sits down with Kyōya Ueda, an astrologist, to learn what the new year has in store for Luck and Logic's characters, and how compatible they are with each other.

[Link]


Katsunori Matsui (La Sommelière)



Mr. Osomatsu

[Link]

My Hero Academia



Shinobu Nakazawa (illustrator)



Rekomaru Otoi (Ojisan to Marshmallow)



Ponkichi (Mugen Knights)



Prince of Stride: Alternative

[Link]

Saburouta (Citrus)



Kikuko Sadakata (Twin Star Exorcists)



Sankaku Head (Himouto! Umaruchan)



Shake-O (Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary)



sprite/fairys (Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythms)



Tokyo Ghoul



Masako Tomii (No-R Gyuru)

"A New Year's temple visit with a classmate."


Aosa Tsunemi (Roku de Nashi Majutsu Kōshi to Akashic Records)



Twin Star Exorcists

[Link]

U35 (Hyōryū Ōkoku)



Yoshitaka Ushiki (Dream Eater Merry)



Takeyuki Yanase (Onsen Yōsei Hakone-chan)



Takahiko Yoshida (Yowamushi Pedal character designer)



Nobuteru Yuki (Space Battleship Yamato 2199 character designer)



This article has a follow-up: Happy (Belated) New Year 2016— Anime Style! Part VII (2016-01-02 17:45)
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