With word that we might hear about some new spring simulcasts at their Anime Detour convention appearance this weekend, FUNimation is making sure fans know which series of theirs are continuing on into the spring season. With little in the way of multi-season series, it’s a pretty light list, but it has a bit of weight when you consider the episode counts. From the winter season, only Assassination Classroom is continuing directly on into the spring season. Of the longer running works, One Piece continues to roll on as we inch closer to 700 episodes while Fairy Tail in its second series continues to add to its overall total.
Assassination Classroom will have new episodes every Friday at 1:50pm ET and their Broadcast Dub of the series has new episodes released every Wednesday at 8:00pm ET as part of the DubbleTalk block!
Plot concept: Forget about homework and pop quizzes. The students of Class 3E have a far more important assignment: kill their teacher before the end of the year! A tentacle-d sensei that moves at Mach 20 is out to conquer the classroom after destroying seventy percent of the moon. In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, the murderous monster behind the lectern will teach his students everything he knows about the assassination game. Should some eager beaver prove to be a quick study in killing, he or she will save Earth from extinction – and collect a hefty reward. But they’d better take some serious notes while class is in session because their slaughtering sensei has eight deadly tentacles just waiting to wreak havoc on humanity!
One Piece is continuing on as it always does as the latest and greatest episodes of the series debut every Saturday at 10pm ET.
Plot concept: Monkey D. Luffy is a boy with big dreams. This daring rubber-man refuses to let anyone or anything stand in the way of his quest to become king of all pirates. With a course charted for the treacherous waters of the Grand Line, Luffy strikes out in search of a crew – and a boat. Along the way he’ll do battle with scallywag clowns, fishy foes, and an entire fleet of marines eager to see him walk the plank. The stakes are high, but with each adventure, Luffy adds a new friend to his gang of Straw Hat Pirates! Like his hero Gold Roger, this is one captain who’ll never drop anchor until he’s claimed the greatest treasure on Earth – the Legendary One Piece!
And finally, with Fairy Tail, new episodes are available every Friday at 10pm ET.
Plot concept: Across the Fiore kingdom, wizards join guilds and make their pay by filling magical needs—but one guild has a reputation as the roughest, rowdiest, most dangerous of all: Fairy Tail! When four young Fairy Tail members unite, their bond is forged by a power found in neither muscle nor magic and grows stronger with every mission. Whatever you do, don’t mess with these friends or you’ll get a taste of Natsu’s flaming fist or Gray’s ice hammer, suffer a painful blow from one of Lucy’s celestial spirits or catch the edge of Erza’s mighty blade! Whether they’re stopping demons from devastating the world or wrestling in the mess hall, this mystical team manages to inflict as much damage to their rivals as they do to the surrounding area!
