First Look: Granblue Fantasy The Animation
After meeting a girl who fell out of the sky, Gran ends up in a poorly-balanced fight with a five-headed dragon. Later, we have adventures!
After meeting a girl who fell out of the sky, Gran ends up in a poorly-balanced fight with a five-headed dragon. Later, we have adventures!
Eren Yeager and his boxcutter-wielding friends are back, murdering more naked giants and encouraging people to cosplay. We pick up where we left off in season one, after the capture of someone notable and with a dorky face peeking through a crack in the wall.
A shinigami drops a killer notebook down to Earth and a teenager decides to become judge, jury and executioner. You know the one.
Schoolgirls, magic academies and monsters. That’s all you need to know.
Set some time after the events of ChäoS;HEAd, a group of students are investigating a series of deaths that look awfully like the return of the New Generation Madness murders.
Maiharu Hiromi is about to start at a new school, so she decides to cycle there even though she can’t remember how to ride a bike. She probably joins a bike club in the next episode.
Yuu Haruna, our protagonist, gets beaten up by a girl he hasn’t met before when she thinks he’s taking photos of her panties. Then they form a band?
There’s no better way to avoid the drama of 2016 than by watching drama. And hey, it was a decent year for foreign J-drama fans. Here’s what I watched this year.
The Yamaneko is a masked thief, determined to steal money from the morally corrupt. However, they’re no Robin Hood; the Yamaneko is always looking out for number one, stealing for the cash and the thrill rather than for justice. Or so it seems.
At 17 years old, Rei Kiriyama is already living alone, funded by his winnings as a renowned shogi prodigy. Outside of his professional life however, things are much tougher as Rei struggles in his relationship with family and friends.
The anime industry needs another group of schoolboys to sell their merchandise, and it seems the sports genre is popular right now. With no swimming, basketball or volleyball this season, it’s rugby’s time to shine.
Aspiring manga artist Kurasawa Kanae has noticed her husband becoming increasingly distant, and soon discovers that he’s cheating on her. Furious, she starts to look into options for a divorce, but quickly realises she doesn’t have the money to pay for an attorney. The stress causes her manga to suffer, and all hope seems lost until a chance meeting with Hakamada Yukio, a divorce lawyer who claims Kurosawa can win millions from her husband, and with no up-front fees.
Gacha! is your fortnightly (or thereabouts) look at the weird world of Japanese capsule toys. In this instalment, we pretend it wasn’t half a year ago that we last did this.
After a re-imagining of Osomatsu-san’s first episode, we’re excited to reveal the first episode of the long-awaited Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei prequel.
Hanae Ashiya is looking forward to starting high school, but finds himself unable to get there after a strange yokai begins following him around. After a week of not making it to class, he calls on the help of an exorcist to help rid him of the creature.
Tokunaga, one half of the comedy duo Sparks, can’t find success. He’s due to enter his second year in the industry without anything to show for it until he meets Kamiya, a fellow comedian. Kamiya is somewhat successful, and is well known for his inappropriate jokes. After a night of drowning their sorrows together, Tokunaga asks to become his apprentice. Kamiya agrees on one condition: Tokunaga must write his biography.
Nao Yoshikawa is moving into an apartment and is excited to have picked up an absolute bargain close to the school. It’s short lived, however, as while she begins to unpack her things, an unlikely guy from her school shows up. It turns out Hisashi Uehara, one of the school’s most beloved boys, is also due to move in to the same apartment.
Makoto Kowata moves in with some relatives that live in the countryside in order to finish her witch training. The people around her slowly get a glimpse of what the witching world is like, broomsticks, black cats and all.
There’s an evil dragon called Dagan Zot that needs killing, for reasons not quite explained. Only Protag, long-winded attacks and made-up words can defeat it.
Sakura Hane is persuaded to join the motorcycle club at school. Shenanigans ensue whilst The Stig silently watches.