The GLORIO Chat Episode 142: Adult Vending Machines
We talk about more new shows, go in-depth on Shin Kamen Rider, and Iro resists a possible career as an isekai light novel writer.
We talk about more new shows, go in-depth on Shin Kamen Rider, and Iro resists a possible career as an isekai light novel writer.
A saint going by the name of Saint Cecilia lives with Pastor Lawrence in a church. There’s some unrequited love going on and some divine protection stuff, I dunno it’s cute religious people doing cute things.
It’s our 11th anniversary and we get a little nostalgic, daring to ask if anime is better or worse than it was in 2013. This might not be the best anime season to ask that question, but hey, we did find some things to watch!
Akira Tendou, a 24-year-old office worker, finds himself living a life devoid of all meaning or enjoyment when he gets stuck in an exploitative company, often working for days on end for a bullying boss without proper food or sleep. However, everything changes when he gets up to work one morning and finds himself in the midst of a sudden zombie apocalypse. Now fighting for survival, Akira is not fearful but elated at the thought of finally being free from his job and the corporate world, and he is determined to live out the rest of his life, no matter how long it may be, with absolutely zero regrets.
In the near future, Humans live alongside extremely lifelike androids known as Humanoids. However, this has led to a new breed of crime involving artificially duplicating Humanoids and selling them on the black market. For this reason, memory backups are illegal and strictly forbidden under all circumstances.
Fukuzawa is a hard working young woman who spends most of her day at the office, then comes home to her pet cat. This particular cat just happens to be the size of a human, and masterfully handles all the household chores.
We share our final thoughts on the Spring 2023 season, a solid group of shows that managed to survive some bumpy endings. Yes, that includes Birdie Wing and Gundam.
Ever since her mother’s death, Miyo Saimori has lived like a servant in her own home, disregarded by her father and treated cruelly by her stepmother and stepsister. Years of neglect and drudgery have turned Miyo into a passive, downtrodden young woman with little hope for the future, although she remains kindhearted and grateful for the smallest pieces of happiness in life. When she is maliciously arranged to marry a military commander named Kiyoka Kudou, so famed for his coldness that every one of his previous fiancées have fled, Miyo fears the worst – but is there more to her new husband-to-be than meets the eye?
A vending machine otaku is ironically killed in a accident where he is crushed by a vending machine. He is reincarnated as a vending machine into a fantasy world. Vending machine.
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.
Shinozaki is constantly doted on by his senior coworker, a petite woman with comically oversized breasts.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Yukito Yanagi has spent most of his young life in a foster home, but one day he’s summoned back to the chain of islands where he spent his early childhood, where it’s revealed to him that he has special powers to battle a breed of monsters known as ‘Mitama’.
Self-proclaimed stalker-type Wataru Sajō is being creepy over his classmate, then a brush with a potential injury causes him to realise he’s wasting his time and to stop.
We’ll be back soon though!
Tired of idol “mixed media projects”? Sick of generic fantasy? ¿Por qué no los dos?
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury will haunt me for years.
We do our best to preview the Summer 2023 season, but still end up talking about Birdie Wing and Gundam.
Aqua has dared to question the unassailable Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story, and we wonder if our favorite shows this season will cross the finish line without falling apart.
Look, I didn’t want to have to write this. But what the fuck happened to Birdie Wing, man?