“Jisogi: Anime Studio Tycoon”, is a board game about running your oxn anime studio, but does it actually deliver on this promise, or is this yet another abstract efficiency puzzle with a fancy coat of paint? And, perhaps most importantly, is it any fun to play? Let’s find out.
Technology is a fickle mistress sometimes
This is the first time that I’ve been to a birthday party that turned into a funeral halfway through.
We add You and I are Polar Opposites, Oshi no Ko, and Isekai Office Worker into the mix, also Digimon War Crimes.
Blue Mondays is taking a week off due to that ever present nemesis, ‘unforseen issues’
We add Frieren season 2 to the watch list and nerd out over Fate/Strange Fake for forty minutes.
We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.
This installment, it’s the grand finale as we cover Episode 49 “Shout to the Top!” and Episode 50 “Wish Upon a Star”
Dubbed the school’s “prince” for her stunning appearance and perfect poise, Yoi Takiguchi is secretly tired of the constant admiration and attention of her peers. However, when the school’s other “prince,” Kohaku Ichimura, calls her beautiful and acknowledges her as a young woman with the same kinds of desires as any other high school girl, Yoi finds herself unaccountably flustered and, against all odds, perhaps even falling for him.
Outgoing, fashionable Suzuki and bookish, taciturn Tani are nothing alike. Nevertheless, mutual admiration for how they lead their lives without care for what others might think about them bring them closer together, starting a romance that proves opposites attract.
In a modern fantasy world, Yakou is a blind woman who works for a detective agency run by an invisible man named Tounome. There is a mutual attraction between the two, and they find time in their busy schedule to go on a date.
New year, new season, new anime. Some of them are actually good!
35 years after the events of the original series (known as Ronin Warriors here in the US), a new group of Samurai Troopers is assembled to battle invading demons.
Mizuki Ashiya is your seemingly cheerful, scrappy young girl living in the United States. However, after becoming enamored with a boy named Izumi Sano who she sees on TV – an up-and-coming pro high-jump athlete – she decides to move to Japan and attend the same all-boys high school, disguising herself as a boy too in order to enroll. Shockingly, however, Sano tells her he has quit the sport and never intends to compete again.
Kinme is a young woman who runs a laundry service. She really loves laundry.
Charlie is a normal 15 year old starting high school except for one detail – he’s the world’s first Human-Chimpanzee hybrid, a ‘Humanzee’. As he forges a friendship with loner girl Lucy, the eco-terrorists who attempted to free his mother are re-emerging with a new agenda.
When her parents die in a car accident, fifteen-year old Asa Takumi has nowhere to go — that is, until her estranged aunt Makio shows up. Despite a strained relationship with her family, in particular with Asa’s mother, Makio is determined to give Asa a new home and takes her in. This takes some getting used to for Asa, who decides to start chronicling her experiences in a journal.
As ever, multiple factions of wizards and mages vie for supremacy in the Holy Grail War, summoning figures from myth and legend as Servants to battle it out until only one remains. But this time it’s happening in Snowfield, Nevada, United States of America; and all kinds of unexpected events are occurring in this strange, fake imitation of the original Grail War.
We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.
This installment we cover Episode 47 “Acperience 4” and Episode 48 “Ballet Mechanique”
It’s the podcast version of our top 10 list
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2025 edition
Zigg talks a little about his major creative project this year and how it’s helped him gain renewed appreciation for one of his favourite shows.
Euri chucked in anime this year… for sumo?
Another year down, another GLORIO year to look back on
Despite our constant complaining, anime still finds a way to surprise me. I’ll tell you what, I never predicted I’d be this obsessed with anime horse girls.
As always, the people of the past have much more ambitious views of the future, even if that ambition is in how bad it’ll get and why.
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