2009 in anime

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Events in 2009 in anime.

Accolades

At the Mainichi Film Awards, Summer Wars won the Animation Film Award and Denshin-Bashira Elemi no Koi won the Ōfuji Noburō Award. Summer Wars also won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year. Internationally, The Sky Crawlers, Summer Wars and First Squad were nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film.

Releases

Films

A list of anime that debuted in theaters between January 1 and December 31, 2009.

Release date	Title	Studio	Director	Running time (minutes)	Notes	Ref
January 25	Afro Samurai: Resurrection	Gonzo	Fuminori Kizaki	100
March 7	Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 4: Gekishin Dragon Warriors	Sunrise	Susumu Yamaguchi	77
April 18	Tenjōbito to Akutobito Saigo no Tatakai	Kyoto Animation	Yoshiji Kigami	83
April 25	Eureka Seven: Pocketful of Rainbows	Bones Kinema Citrus	Tomoki Kyoda Hiroshi Haraguchi	115
May 13	First Squad	Studio 4°C Molot Entertainment Film Company GKIDS	Yoshiharu Ashino	73
June 27	Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance	Studio Khara	Hideaki Anno Masayuki Kazuya Tsurumaki	108
July 18	Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life	OLM	Kunihiko Yuyama	94
July 28	Cencoroll	Anime Innovation Tokyo Aniplex	Atsuya Uki	30
August 1	Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire	Studio Pierrot	Masahiko Murata	96
August 1	Summer Wars	Madhouse	Mamoru Hosoda	114
August 8	The Garden of Sinners: A Study in Murder – Part 2	Ufotable	Shinsuke Takizawa	121
August 14	Redline	Madhouse	Takeshi Koike	102
August 22	Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror	Production I.G Polygon Pictures	Shinsuke Sato	100
October 3	Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike	Namco Bandai Games Bandai Visual Production I.G	Kanta Kamei	110
November 21	Macross Frontier: Itsuwari no Utahime	Studio Nue Satelight 8-Bit	Shōji Kawamori	120
November 21	Mai Mai Miracle	Madhouse	Sunao Katabuchi	93
December 12	One Piece Film: Strong World	Toei Animation	Munehisa Sakai	113

Television series

A list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2009.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director	Alternate title	Ref
January 1 – March 26	Shikabane Hime: Kuro	12	Feel Gainax	Masahiko Murata
January 3 – March 28	Akikan!	12	Brain's Base	Yūji Himaki
January 3 – March 28	Maria-sama ga Miteru 4th	13	Studio Deen	Toshiyuki Katō
January 3 – March 28	White Album	13	Seven Arcs	Akira Yoshimura
January 4 – March 23	Maria Holic	12	Shaft	Akiyuki Shinbo
January 4 – March 29	Minami-ke: Okaeri	13	Asread	Kei Oikawa
January 5 – June 29	The Girl Who Leapt Through Space	26	Sunrise	Masakazu Obara	Sora o Kakeru Shōjo
January 5 – March 30	Zoku Natsume Yūjin-chō	13	Brain's Base	Takahiro Omori	Natsume's Book of Friends (season 2)
January 6 – June 30	Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger	26	Madhouse	Jun Shishido
January 6 – March 24	Viper's Creed	12	AIC Spirits Digital Frontier	Shinji Aramaki Hiroyuki Kanbe
January 8 – March 26	Asu no Yoichi!	12	AIC	Rion Kujo
January 8 – June 18	Kurokami: The Animation	24	Sunrise	Tsuneo Kobayashi
January 8 – March 26	The Tower of Druaga: The Sword of Uruk	12	Gonzo	Koichi Chigira
January 9 – March 27	Birdy the Mighty: Decode (season 2)	12	A-1 Pictures	Kazuki Akane	Tetsuwan Birdy Decode:02
January 10 – December 26	Kemono no Sōja Erin	50	Toei Animation Production I.G Trans Arts	Takayuki Hamana
January 10 – July 4	Major S5	25	SynergySP	Toshinori Fukushima
January 11 – March 29	Rideback	12	Madhouse	Atsushi Takahashi
January 12 – April 6	Slayers Evolution-R	12	J.C.Staff	Takashi Watanabe
January 14 – March 11	Sora o Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai	9	Kyoto Animation	Yoshiji Kigami
January 15 – March 26	Genji Monogatari Sennenki	11	Tezuka Productions TMS Entertainment	Osamu Dezaki
February 1 – January 31, 2010	Fresh PreCure!	50	Toei Animation	Junji Shimizu Akifumi Zako
April 1 – March 25, 2012	Mainichi Kaasan	142	Studio Gallop TYO Animations Dong Woo Animation	Mitsuru Hongo
April 2 – June 25	Asura Cryin'	13	Seven Arcs	Keizō Kusakawa
April 2 – September 24	Pandora Hearts	25	Xebec	Takao Kato
April 2 – September 24	Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom	26	Genco Bee Train	Kōichi Mashimo
April 2 – June 18	Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin	12	Arms	Kinji Yoshimoto	Queen's Blade: Rurō no Senshi
April 2 – June 18	Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings	12	Production I.G	Itsuro Kawasaki	Sengoku Basara
April 3 – October 1	Basquash!	26	Satelight	Shōji Kawamori Shin Itagaki Eiichi Sato
April 3 – September 18	Hayate the Combat Butler!!	25	J.C.Staff	Yoshiaki Iwasaki	Hayate no Gotoku!!
April 3 – February 26, 2010	Higepiyo	39	Kinema Citrus	Atsushi Takeyama
April 3 – June 26	K-On!	13	Kyoto Animation	Naoko Yamada
April 3 – September 25	Slap-up Party: Arad Senki	26	GK Entertainment Gonzo	Takahiro Ikezoe
April 4 – March 27, 2010	Gokujō!! Mecha Mote Iinchō	51	SynergySP Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment	Harume Kosaka
April 4 – September 26	Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact!	26	Bee Media Code	Yasuhiro Imagawa	Shin Mazinger Shōgeki! Z-Hen
April 4 – June 20	Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica Crimson S	12	Diomedéa	Toshimasa Suzuki
April 4 – September 26	Valkyria Chronicles	26	A-1 Pictures	Yasutaka Yamamoto
April 5 – March 28, 2010	Beyblade: Metal Fusion	51	Tatsunoko Production Nelvana	Kunihisa Sugishima	Metal Fight Beyblade
April 5 – March 28, 2010	Cross Game	50	SynergySP	Osamu Sekita
April 5 – March 27, 2011	Dragon Ball Z Kai	97	Toei Animation	Yasuhiro Nowatari	Dragon Ball Kai
April 5 – July 4, 2010	Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood	64	Bones	Yasuhiro Irie	Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist
April 5 – September 27	Guin Saga	26	Satelight	Atsushi Wakabayashi
April 5 – February 14, 2010	Hanasakeru Seishōnen	39	Studio Pierrot	Chiaki Kon Hajime Kamegaki
April 5 – December 27	Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables	39	Nippon Animation	Katsuyoshi Yatabe
April 5 – March 28, 2010	Jewelpet	52	Studio Comet	Nanako Sasaki
April 5 – June 29	Natsu no Arashi!	13	Shaft	Shin Ōnuma
April 5 – June 21	Tayutama: Kiss on my Deity	12	Silver Link	Keitaro Motonaga
April 6 – September 28	Saki	25	Gonzo Picture Magic	Manabu Ono
April 6 – September 14	Shangri-La	24	Gonzo	Makoto Bessho
April 6 – September 28	Tears to Tiara	26	White Fox	Tomoki Kobayashi
April 7 – September 22	07-Ghost	25	Studio Deen	Norihiro Takamoto
April 7 – September 30	Sōten Kōro	26	Madhouse	Toyoo Ashida Tsuneo Tominaga
April 7 – September 29	Sugarbunnies: Fleur	26	Asahi Production	Hiroshi Kugimiya
April 8 – June 24	Ristorante Paradiso	11	David Production	Mitsuko Kase
April 11 – June 27	First Love Limited	12	J.C.Staff	Yoshiki Yamakawa	Hatsukoi Limited
April 12 – May 9, 2010	Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia	52	TMS Entertainment Japan Vistec	Mitsuo Hashimoto
May 22 – September 11	The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya	14	Kyoto Animation	Tatsuya Ishihara	Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu
June 5 – September 18	Weiß Survive	16	Studio Hibari	Iku Suzuki
June 24 – September 17	Umi Monogatari	12	Zexcs	Yuu Kou Junichi Sato
June 25 – September 10	Fight Ippatsu! Jūden-chan!!	12	Studio Hibari	Shinichiro Kimura
July 2 – December 10	Needless	24	Madhouse	Masayuki Sakoi
July 2 – September 10	Sweet Blue Flowers	11	J.C.Staff	Ken'ichi Kasai	Aoi Hana
July 2 – September 24	Taishō Baseball Girls	12	J.C.Staff	Takashi Ikehata	Taishō Yakyū Musume
July 2 – December 24	Umineko When They Cry	26	Studio Deen	Chiaki Kon	Umineko no Naku Koro ni
July 3 – September 25	Bakemonogatari	12	Shaft	Akiyuki Shinbo Tatsuya Oishi
July 4 – September 26	Canaan	13	P.A.Works	Masahiro Ando
July 4 – March 27, 2010	Element Hunters	39	NHK Enterprises Heewon Entertainment	Yoshiaki Okumura Hunpyo Hong
July 4 – September 26	(Zan) Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei	13	Shaft	Akiyuki Shinbo
July 5 – September 27	Kanamemo	13	Feel	Shigehito Takayanagi
July 5 – June 13, 2010	Kuruneko	50	Dax Production	Akitaro Daichi
July 5 – September 20	Princess Lover!	12	GoHands	Hiromitsu Kanazawa
July 6 – September 21	GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class	12	AIC	Hiroaki Sakurai
July 7 – September 22	Sora no Manimani	12	Studio Comet	Shinji Takamatsu
July 9 – September 24	Spice and Wolf II	12	Brain's Base	Takeo Takahashi	Ōkami to Kōshinryō II
July 9 – September 17	Tokyo Magnitude 8.0	11	Bones Kinema Citrus	Masaki Tachibana
July 11 – September 26	Modern Magic Made Simple	12	Nomad	Yasuhiro Kuroda	Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō
October 1 – December 24	Asura Cryin' (season 2)	13	Seven Arcs	Keizō Kusakawa
October 1 – December 17	Nyan Koi!	12	AIC	Keiichiro Kawaguchi
October 2 – December 17	Kämpfer	12	Nomad	Yasuhiro Kuroda
October 2 – December 18	Student Council's Discretion	12	Studio Deen	Takuya Satō	Seitokai no Ichizon
October 2 – April 2, 2010	Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra	27	David Production	Toshiya Shinohara
October 2 – December 25	White Album (season 2)	13	Seven Arcs	Taizō Yoshida
October 3 – March 20, 2010	A Certain Scientific Railgun	24	J.C.Staff	Tatsuyuki Nagai	Toaru Kagaku no Railgun
October 3 – March 29, 2010	Inuyasha: The Final Act	26	Sunrise	Yasunao Aoki	Inuyasha Kanketsu-Hen
October 3 – March 27, 2010	Shugo Chara! Party!	25	Satelight	Kenji Yasuda
October 3 – March 27, 2010	Tegami Bachi	25	Studio Pierrot	Akira Iwanaga
October 3 – December 19	The Sacred Blacksmith	12	Manglobe	Masamitsu Hidaka	Seiken no Blacksmith
October 4 – December 27	Heaven's Lost Property	13	AIC	Hisashi Saitō	Sora no Otoshimono
October 4 – December 27	Miracle Train: Ōedo-sen e Yōkoso	13	Yumeta Company	Kenichi Kasai
October 4 – December 27	Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chū	13	Shaft	Shin Ōnuma Ken'ichi Ishikura
October 4 – September 26, 2010	Yumeiro Patissiere	50	Studio Hibari Pierrot	Iku Suzuki
October 5 – September 20, 2010	Anyamaru Tantei Kiruminzuu	50	Satelight Hal Film Maker JM Animation	Soichi Masui
October 5 – December 21	Shin Koihime Musō	12	Doga Kobo	Nobuaki Nakanishi
October 6 – December 22	11eyes: Tsumi to Batsu to Aganai no Shōjo	12	Doga Kobo	Masami Shimoda
October 6 – March 30, 2010	Kimi ni Todoke	25	Production I.G	Hiro Kaburaki
October 6 – March 23, 2010	Kobato	24	Madhouse	Mitsuyuki Masuhara
October 6 – December 22	Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Purezza	12	Studio Barcelona	Munenori Nawa
October 7 – December 30	Whispered Words	13	AIC	Eiji Suganuma	Sasameki Koto
October 8 – December 24	Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor	12	Bones	Tensai Okamura	Darker than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini
October 11 – December 27	Aoi Bungaku Series	12	Madhouse	Morio Asaka Tetsurō Araki Shigeyuki Miya Ryosuke Nakamura
October 12 – March 30, 2013	Fairy Tail	175	A-1 Pictures Satelight	Shinji Ishihara
October 13 – June 8, 2010	Kaidan Restaurant	23	Toei Animation	Yoko Ikeda
October 15 – March 25, 2010	Kiddy Girl-and	24	Satelight	Keiji Gotoh
October 15 – December 24	Kūchū Buranko	11	Toei Animation	Kenji Nakamura
December 4 – March 26, 2010	Weiß Survive R	12	Studio Hibari	Kenji Seto
December 21 – December 25	Hipira-kun	12	Sunrise	Shinji Kimura

Original net animations

A list of original net animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2009.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director	Alternate title	Ref
January 24 – March 5, 2010	Hetalia: Axis Powers	52	Studio Deen	Bob Shirohata
February 13 – May 15	Nyorōn Churuya-san	13	Kyoto Animation
February 13 – May 15	The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya	25	Kyoto Animation		Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yūutsu

Original video animations

A list of original video animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2009.

First run start and end dates	Title	Episodes	Studio	Director	Alternate title	Ref
January 21 – July 24	Kodomo no Jikan: Ni Gakki	4	Studio Barcelona
January 23 – March 25	Strawberry Marshmallow Encore	2	Daume	Takuya Satō	Ichigo Mashimaro Encore
February 17 – June 26	xxxHOLiC Shunmuki	2	Production I.G	Tsutomu Mizushima
February 25 – August 21	Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei	5	Studio Deen	Toshifumi Kawase
March 17 – May 15	Tsubasa Spring Thunder Chronicles	2	Production I.G	Shunsuke Tada	Tsubasa: Shunraiki
March 20 – March 19, 2010	Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar	13	AIC Spirits BeSTACK	Toshifumi Kawase	Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
April 3 – April 2, 2010	To Love-Ru	6	Xebec	Takao Kato
May 1 – December 4	Denpa teki na Kanojo	2	Brain's Base	Mamoru Kanbe
May 19 – May 29	Dogs: Bullets & Carnage	4	David Production	Tatsuya Abe
June 5 – June 23, 2010	Utawarerumono	3	Aquaplus Chaos Project	Kenichiro Katsura
June 23	Minami-ke: Betsubara	1	Asread	Kei Oikawa
June 24 – July 20, 2011	Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas	26	TMS Entertainment	Osamu Nabeshima
June 26	Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka Hardcore	1	TNK	Keitaro Motonaga
July 5 – August 25	AIKa ZERO	3	Studio Fantasia	Noriyasu Yamauchi
July 30 – November 17	Aki Sora	2	Hoods Entertainment	Takeo Takahashi
September 17 – November 17, 2010	Mahō Sensei Negima!: Mō Hitotsu no Sekai	5	Shaft Studio Pastoral	Akiyuki Shinbo
October 4 – October 10	Kanokon: Manatsu no Daishanikusai	2	Xebec	Atsushi Ōtsuki
October 17 – October 24	Mahoromatic: I'm Home!	2	Gainax	Shouji Saeki	Mahoromatic: Tadaima◇Okaeri
October 23 – September 29	Shakugan no Shana S	4	J.C.Staff	Takashi Watanabe
December 31	Kowarekake no Orgel	1	ElectromagneticWave	Keiichiro Kawaguchi