The GLORIO Chat Episode 205: Winter 2026 Anime First Impressions
New year, new season, new anime. Some of them are actually good!
New year, new season, new anime. Some of them are actually good!
35 years after the events of the original series (known as Ronin Warriors here in the US), a new group of Samurai Troopers is assembled to battle invading demons.
Mizuki Ashiya is your seemingly cheerful, scrappy young girl living in the United States. However, after becoming enamored with a boy named Izumi Sano who she sees on TV – an up-and-coming pro high-jump athlete – she decides to move to Japan and attend the same all-boys high school, disguising herself as a boy too in order to enroll. Shockingly, however, Sano tells her he has quit the sport and never intends to compete again.
Kinme is a young woman who runs a laundry service. She really loves laundry.
Charlie is a normal 15 year old starting high school except for one detail – he’s the world’s first Human-Chimpanzee hybrid, a ‘Humanzee’. As he forges a friendship with loner girl Lucy, the eco-terrorists who attempted to free his mother are re-emerging with a new agenda.
When her parents die in a car accident, fifteen-year old Asa Takumi has nowhere to go — that is, until her estranged aunt Makio shows up. Despite a strained relationship with her family, in particular with Asa’s mother, Makio is determined to give Asa a new home and takes her in. This takes some getting used to for Asa, who decides to start chronicling her experiences in a journal.
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.
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 47 “Acperience 4” and Episode 48 “Ballet Mechanique”
It’s the podcast version of our top 10 list
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2025 edition
Zigg talks a little about his major creative project this year and how it’s helped him gain renewed appreciation for one of his favourite shows.
Another year down, another GLORIO year to look back on
Despite our constant complaining, anime still finds a way to surprise me. I’ll tell you what, I never predicted I’d be this obsessed with anime horse girls.
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.
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 45 “Don’t You Want Me?” and Episode 46 “Planet Rock”
In our last episode of the year, we sneak in a few previews for next season before sharing what will likely be final thought on this season’s anime.
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 43 “The Sunshine Underground” and Episode 44 “It’s All in the Mind”
Every week it gets harder to choose which Oguri Cap face to use as the podcast header image.
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 41 “Acperience 3” and Episode 42 “Star Dancer”
In addition to our regularly scheduled anime, we talk about more Super Sentai drama, the new anthology based on the early works of Chainsaw Man’s Tatsuki Fujimoto, and most importantly, I finally got Iro to play Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society (Now available on PS4/5, Steam, and Nintendo Switch).