Jiro is a mean-faced delinquent with a heart of gold and the ability to talk to animals. He nurses a mysterious black cat back to health, but it turns out to not be a cat at all: it’s the ancient mononoke Rago the Black Star of Doom. When other mononoke arrive in pursuit and Jiro is killed in the crossfire, Rago fuses their spirits together, and a new shonen battle anime begins.
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.
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.
A collection of wacky characters must determine which one of them is infected by the Gnosia virus, lest their spaceship self-destruct to contain the infection. The amnesiac Yuri is one of them, and repeatedly wakes up to a shifting set of crew members and possible infected each time they die.
One of the Dark Lords of magical beasts, the eponymous Clevatess, decides on a whim to raise a human child. Violent antics ensue.
Young witch Nico was separated from her precious oni childhood friend Morihito when she went off to magic school. Now that they’re teens, they must live together as master and familiar and deal with wacky magic-based hijinks.
Wealthy heiress Reiko Hosho secretly moonlights as a police detective (under the supervision of a totally different conglomerate heir who is also a cop), putting on a cool face whilst freaking out internally. Thankfully, her brand new butler and chauffeur is here to do the actual investigative work on the sly.
I wish the world didn’t have to be this way, but if big franchises are the only way the creators I like can get any work, then so be it.
Fate/Samurai Remnant is a decent enough Musou game, but as a Type-Moon story it’s trying to cram a square peg into a round hole.
Metaphor: ReFantazio is undeniably a fun, highly polished game built upon decades of Atlus’s previous work, but it stumbles into familiar pitfalls and offers few changes to established genre formulas.
Ordinary high school student Hikaru has his life turned upside down after he unwittingly forms a connection with “Alma”, a sentient mechanical arm now permanently attached to his hoodie. Pursued by an evil organization, he must use Alma’s power to overcome their diabolical schemes.
Even with the caveat of Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- only being the first part of an incomplete project, what is here is not only a much-appreciated expansion of the original work but a rare big-budget visual novel easily deserving a standalone release. Perhaps even more importantly, it’s an affirmation of the work’s position and importance after years of relative obscurity within Type-Moon’s catalog.
At the end of the Kamakura Shogunate, Hojo Tokiyuki flees the Siege of Kamakura, desperate to gather allies and take vengeance for his family’s death. Also he is a small anime boy who’s real good at parkour.
A series following bartenders as they chase the “Glass of God”: the perfect drink that will change their world.
In the tumultuous Eiroku Period, the fox spirit Tama and the sage Jinka travel the land righting wrongs and stopping evil-doers, joined by the hapless samurai Shinsuke.
Ten years ago, dimensional vortexes began opening all across Earth, releasing all manner of fantasy monsters immune to conventional weaponry. Only magically empowered humans called “Hunters” can fight them, but protagonist Sung Jinwoo is “the Weakest Hunter”. Perhaps by leveling up he can one day become…. the strongest Hunter?
In a fantasy world at the nexus of dimensions, the Demon King has finally been defeated. Without a common enemy, the “Shura” – beings from other worlds powerful enough to face the Demon King in open combat – now war with each other to determine who is the strongest, with no regard for collateral damage.
Iro looks back on the media of 2023 and considers what he expected to get and what he wanted to get.
The eponymous Frieren is an elven mage who once journeyed with the Hero and his party to defeat the Demon Lord. As the decades pass after the adventure, she contends with the consequences of her longevity and the transience of her mortal companions.
Komura has a crush on his classmate Mie – who normally wears glasses – and he must comically contend with the closeness of her physical presence and general inability to function without eyesight as she somehow repeatedly forgets to don her spectacles before arriving at school.
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