First Look: Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!

Melphiera Marchalrayd is a noblewoman with a hobby gossiped about by her peers – a taste for good food, and in particular, monster meat. Not to be deterred from her passion despite the judgment (and her parents’ insistence that she secure a suitable husband no matter what), Melphiera finds a surprise match in “Blood-Mad Duke” Aristide Rogier du Galbraith – adoptive brother to the prince, and a skilled hunter with his own obsession with slaying monsters.

First Look: Wandance

Kaboku Kotani is a first-year high school student, intent on keeping his head down and blending in with the crowd – and getting by as best as he can without drawing undue attention to or being laughed at because of his stutter. However, when he sees a fellow classmate, Hikari Wanda, practicing to join the dance club, an old trauma resurfaces, which he is encouraged by Wanda’s seemingly carefree dancing to finally face head-on.

First Look: Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love

Yumeko Koda is a self-loathing young woman who is consumed by anxiety about her weight. However, an ‘accident’ sees her wake up in hospital with no knowledge of who she is – and a complete change in personality. Now outgoing and confident, she resumes company work with a newfound positivity – even when dealing with a suspected attempted murder and coworkers who must come to terms with Yumeko’s new bubbly self.

First Look: The Earthbound Mole

After an evening of drinking, Magi and Shio, two college students, bump into Mogura, a mysterious and highly eccentric “sage” who has been banned from the afterlife, and whose apparent job is to collect the ‘lamps’ of ghosts, malevolent or otherwise, within his magical lantern.

First Look: Fermat’s Cuisine

After failing to qualify for a high-level mathematics competition after the pressure gets to him during his final exam, former math pro Kitada Gaku now works at a school cafeteria, unsure of where to go next in life. However, after meeting an eccentric yet brilliant chef, Gaku is introduced to a world in which the complex perfection of mathematics intersects with the passionate creativity of cooking.

First Look: Teogonia

Kai is a young boy and rank-and-file warrior fighting alongside his comrades to defend his village against tribes of massive beast-like monsters. However, one day, gravely injured in battle, he begins to regain memories from a past life of a world far different from his own, filled with advanced technology and more.

First Look: Summer Pockets

Following the death of his grandmother, Hairi Takahara has traveled to the rural island where she lived to handle her remaining possessions. Once he begins exploring the island, he meets four girls, all seemingly with their own mysterious quirks that somehow speak to Hairi’s own unspoken, yet possibly tragic, past.

First Look: Anne Shirley

A retelling of L. M. Montgomery’s 1908 Canadian children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables, the series follows Anne, an 11-year-old orphan sent to live with the elderly Cuthbert siblings on Prince Edward Island. While initially expecting a boy rather than a girl, the Cuthberts take Anne in, where she comes of age in the fictional town of Avonlea.

First Look: Honey Lemon Soda

Previously bullied in middle school, Uka Ishimori is determined to make her high school experience a more positive one. However, old habits die hard, and she has not been able to make friends or shake off her ingrained fears. That all changes when Kai Miura, a popular blond-haired classmate with a devil-may-care attitude but a kind heart, steps up to help her fend off a clique of old bullies.

First Look: Medalist

Tsukasa always wanted to be a professional figure skater, but having only begun training during middle school, he never managed to climb to the top and has largely settled for lower ambitions. However, his life changes when he meets a young girl called Inori who has been practicing skating in secret, afraid to tell her mother of her dreams. When Tsukasa convinces Inori’s mother to allow her to train properly, he becomes Inori’s coach and vows to make her a champion.

First Look: Yakuza Fiancé

Somei Yoshino is a friendly, well-mannered high school girl who lives an entirely normal life – other than the fact that her family is yakuza. However, her peaceful days are thrown into chaos when her grandfather sends her from Osaka to Tokyo in an arranged marriage to Miyama Kirishima, the heir of another yakuza family. Although seemingly polite and even charming at first, claiming not to have any interest in the yakuza life, Kirishima is in reality a violent sociopath who at first dismisses Yoshino for being boring… only to immediately fall head over heels in love with her after she sells one of her kidneys to repay a perceived debt of honor.

First Look: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

In 15th-century Poland, religion is king, and those who suggest otherwise or fall prey to wicked beliefs are burned at the stake for heresy. Rafal, a highly intelligent but arrogant boy interested in astronomy, is sure he will live a life of privilege, lauded for his brilliance — until an encounter with a man who suggests a radical theory of heliocentrism challenges his beliefs and sends him down a far more dangerous path.

First Look: Twilight Out of Focus

Mao Tsuchiya, a member of his high school’s film club, and Hisashi Ootomo, an introverted classmate, are reluctant roommates. However, when the film club wants to cast Hisashi as the lead for their upcoming boys’ love-themed movie, Hisashi surprisingly agrees, and the two find themselves drawing closer. The only problem is that while both are attracted to men, Hisashi already has a boyfriend, and both have promised to keep their relationship purely platonic.

First Look: Viral Hit

Yoo Hobin is a scrawny high school student who’s constantly being bullied and taken advantage of by his brawnier and more popular classmates, who have a habit of using him to rake in easy money for their YouTube NewTube videos. However, when Hobin finally snaps one day and fights back, accidentally going viral online in the process, he realizes there’s a wealth of untapped potential in his newfound fame. Now that he has a way of bringing down bullies while paying his mother’s hospital bills, Hobin is determined to transform both his life and his bank account, teaming up with a former aggressor to take on the streaming world – and possibly even win the girl of his dreams.

First Look: Tonari no Yokai-san

In a society where people and youkai peacefully coexist, a 20-year-old housecat named Buchio living in the Japanese countryside is reborn as a nekomata, much to the delight of his human family. Now, Buchio sets out of a journey of self-discovery, aided by his fellow youkai neighbors. Meanwhile, one of his human family members, a girl called Mutsumi, has recently lost her father, likely to a mysterious force known as The Void. Now, her growing curiosity about her youkai friends tangles with grief over a missing family member, while the looming threat of The Void casts a palpable shadow over her otherwise quiet small-town life.

First Look: Vampire Dormitory

Orphaned as a young child and shuttled between indifferent relatives, Mito Yamamoto, a girl disguising herself as a boy for Reasons (?), is now a teenager with no family, no home, and no job. When she is saved one night by Ruka Saotome, a vampire in need of a thrall, Mito readily agrees and begins her new life living with him in Hijirigaoka Boys’ Academy dormitory. However, when she discovers that Ruka cannot drink from girls and was therefore seeking a male companion, Mito seemingly has no choice but to keep her true identity a secret.