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Hero TV to Air Haikyu!! 2nd Season, Labyrinth of Grisaia, Samurai X Anime

Philippine television channel HERO TV announced on Friday that it will air the Haikyu!! Second Season, The Labyrinth of Grisaia, and Samurai X anime.

Haikyu!! Second Season will premiere on December 23.

The story of the original manga follows Shōyō Hinata, who began playing volleyball after seeing the "small giants" who played the sport when he was in elementary school. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama. So, Hinata joins Kurasuno High School's volleyball team, vowing revenge against Kageyama.

The series, inspired by Haruichi Furudate's original manga, premiered in Japan in October 2015. HERO TV aired the anime's first season in June 2015, after sister network ABS-CBN aired and then removed the show a week after its April 2015 premiere.

A third season titled Haikyu!! Karasuno Kōkō VS Shiratorizawa Gakuen Kōkō premiered in Japan on October 7. The anime franchise also received two compilation anime films in July and September of last year.

The Labyrinth of Grisaia anime special will premiere on December 25.

The anime is both a sequel and prequel to the earlier The Fruit of Grisaia anime. The anime explores Yūji's past and what led him to be the kind of man that he is at the end of The Fruit of Grisaia.

The Fruit of Grisaia takes place at the private Mihama Academy, where five girls who seem normal attend the school due to "certain reasons." A sixth student "with reasons" named Yūji Kazami transfers in. Yūji has an ego with such darkness that he does not fade in comparison to the five girls, who are so different from the norm. As they each meet each other, they deepen their understanding of one another. Through the small bits of progress they make, each of their hearts will be affected. When Yūji arrives, a story of girls who are trapped by their pasts begins.

The series is based on Frontwing's visual novel of the same name. The series premiered in Japan in October 2014. Tensho (Kin-iro Mosaic) directed the series at 8-Bit with character designs and chief animation direction by Akio Watanabe (Monogatari Series Second Season, The World God Only Knows). Elements Garden composed the music for the soundtrack.

The Fruit of Grisaia premiered in Japan in October 2014. The Labyrinth of Grisaia aired as a television special in April 2015, a week before the premiere of The Eden of Grisaia anime series. Both are similarly based on Frontwing's sequel visual novels of the same name.

HERO TV aired The Fruit of Grisaia in May, and aired The Eden of Grisaia in October.

Samurai X will premiere on December 29, and will have a new Tagalog dub by HERO TV.

Samurai X is the television anime adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki's Rurouni Kenshin manga. Watsuki first launched his Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994. The manga centers around Kenshin Himura, once a deadly assassin during the Meiji Restoration, who is trying to find a new life beyond violence. The title Samurai X is Sony Pictures' title for the franchise in areas outside of the United States.

The 95-episode television anime series ran from 1996 to 1998. ABS-CBN premiered the anime in the Philippines in 1999. QTV also aired the anime in 2006.

The manga has also received an anime film adaptation, three original video anime, three live-action films, and a stage musical by the all-female musical theater troupe Takarazuka Revue. Watsuki is returning to the manga with a new arc set in Hokkaido set to launch in spring 2017.