First Look: Bartender Glass of God
A series following bartenders as they chase the “Glass of God”: the perfect drink that will change their world.
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.
In an alternate universe Japan, the Marginal Service arm of the Bureau of Immigration handles supernatural crime from “Borderlanders”: dangerous nonhumans who hide in our midst. They do this with construction-themed equipment and explosives.
Mitsumi is finally moving out of the rural sticks and into Tokyo to attend high school, but the hustle and bustle of city life is more than she bargained for. Will she even be able to make friends, let alone accomplish her dreams?
A decade after it came out, Mahoutsukai no Yoru is finally translated. But is it any good?
Vash the Stampede, aka the “Humanoid Typhoon”, wanders the planet Noman’s Land righting wrongs and causing problems for the establishment as he searches for his nefarious brother, Millions Knives.
In the far future, the remnants of humanity have been driven to the brink by the rise of machine lifeforms. The YoRHa model androids, including battler-model 2B and scanner-model 9S, are their last hope to battle the machines and retake Earth.
The fantasy world of Ars is beset upon by the eponymous giant beasts, which can only be defeated with entire armies or with the magical powers of Paladins and their mystical weapon-people, Clerics. A mysterious girl known as Prototype #22 escapes her captors and meets a former Paladin named Jiro the Already Dead, and the two form a new pact to fight the giant beasts.
When I whittled down this year’s list of watched shows down to smaller and smaller numbers, it turned out that almost everything on there was some kind of adaptation or reboot. What’s up with that? Were they any good?
Horny teen extraordinaire Ataru Moroboshi is randomly selected to be the representative of the human race in a contest of honor against invading aliens, and wins, saving the planet Earth! However, he accidentally proposes to Lum – the invaders’ princess – in the process. Now Ataru’s stuck between an unwanted suitor from space and his grumpy girlfriend from home, and both ladies are ready and willing to “correct” him should his eyes stray in the wrong direction.
Just as the Bleach anime returns after a decade long gap to cover the final arc of the manga, the Quincy faction returns after a thousand years to take their ultimate revenge against Soul Society. Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends might be the world’s only hope, etc. etc.
Deadbeat college student Amamiya Yuuhi wakes up one morning to find a talking lizard on his bed. It proclaims that his destiny is to join up with the other Beast Knights and protect the Princess (who turns out to also be his next door neighbor, Asahina Samidare), lest the gigantic Biscuit Hammer fall and smash the entire planet. Though indifferent over the fate of the world, Yuuhi swears to follow Samidare after she declares that the Biscuit Hammer won’t destroy Earth; she will.
The rival nations of Westalis and Ostania are locked in a cold war, where battles are won not through force of arms, but through espionage. Agent “Twilight” is Westalis’ top spy, and his newest assignment is to get close to an extremist political leader, an infamous recluse. The only path available is to meet him is via a school function, parent to parent. But Twilight is single and childless! To complete his mission, he’s got to put together a cover: a family that allows him to spy.
Nagomu returns to his family’s Kyoto wagashi shop after a decade of failed musical pursuits, ready to inherit the business. But his father has already decided on a successor: Itsuka, a ten-year-old girl who was abandoned at the shop a year ago, and she thinks Nagomu’s a lout for abandoning his responsibilities. Guess they’ll have to learn to get along!
Bounty hunter Chateau gets unexpectedly involved with professional hitman Soon Ryung-ha, who becomes unexpectedly smitten with her even as she unexpectedly gets the mission to take him down. Unexpectedly.