Blue Mondays Episode 17: Jesus Was the Original Surfer

We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.

This installment we cover Episode 33 “Pacific State” and Episode 34 “Inner Flight”

Blue Mondays Episode 16: Cheerfully Selectively Mute

We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.

This installment we cover Episode 31 “Animal Attack” and Episode 32 “Start It Up”

Blue Mondays Episode 15: Talho the TradCath

We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.

This installment we cover Episode 29 “Keep On Movin'” and Episode 30 “Change of Life”

God is Dead, Long Live Takopi

Forget everything I said about Takopi’s Original Sin being “tough to recommend” and watch one of the most uncompromisingly and stunningly realised works of animated art this wretched decade has brought forth so far.

Blue Mondays Episode 14: Cool Mid-season Upgrade

We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.

This installment we cover Episode 27 “Helter Skelter” and Episode 28 “Memento Mori”

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: Gachiakuta

In a world strictly divided into the affluent and the poor, Rudo is a scavenger who takes pride in fixing and refurnishing old objects deemed “trash” by the privileged. After being framed for murder, he’s thrown into The Pit, a gaping abyss the inhabitants cast both their garbage and undesirables into. Rather than dying, Rudo finds himself in an unfamiliar world; an endless hellscape of garbage. 

First Look: Nyaight of the Living Cat

A mysterious virus that turns people into cats, a “Nyandemic” if you will, has been terrorizing the globe. One touch from a cat and you could become one too. Basically it’s like zombies, but with cats.

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: The Summer Hikaru Died

Stuck in a boring countryside town with parents who do nothing but argue, Yoshiki Tsujinaka has no one but his best friend Hikaru to rely on. Their friendship is put at risk, however, when Yoshiki discovers that Hikaru has been dead for months, and his entire being has been taken over by a mysterious eldritch creature.

First Look: With You and the Rain

A young woman encounters a mysterious animal left abandoned in the rain. She reluctantly brings it home and quickly bonds with her new pet “dog”, a tanuki-like creature that might be as smart as a human.