Robby Yarge is a man with a weakness for women. This has led him into untold amounts of debt on get-rich-quick schemes. A chance meeting with Hachi Kita brings both characters to reflect on the nature of predictability. Later, it turns out Hachi is working for the very debt collector that is after Robby. After that point any semblance of reason is abandoned and it’s really dumb.
The Thirteen Buddhas have appeared in the present day to rid the world of earthly vices, and yet somehow there isn’t much for them to do? So they just hang out at a temple and chill waiting for the next big bad thing to happen.
In a world where fairies and humans live among each other, some humans have gained the ability to summon a fairy partner as a weapon. After a long war, many of these users, known as “Fairy Soldiers,” reintegrated into society in a variety of ways, from government service to organized crime. Maria is searching for her long lost childhood friend, Veronica, and in the process ends up gaining the power to summon her own fairy. Faced with potential imprisonment, she joins the government organization “Dorothea,” tasked with responding to fairy related crimes.
It’s a ‘cute girls play baseball cutely’ show, except it insists on you observing a ditzy catgirl in the hope that you will later buy merchandise of her.
Arata Miyako is the new hire at the Shinjuku Ward’s office for maintaining mankind’s relationship with the supernatural, and the only employee capable of understanding their otherworldly speech. He also might be the reincarnation of the famed onmyogi, Abe no Seimei.
Takuya, a mysterious professional courier who will deliver anyone and anything for the right price, accepts the job of escorting Yuki, the mysterious lone survivor of a mysteriously disappeared city, back to the only home she knows. However, a mysterious agency seems hell bent on obtaining Yuki for their own mysterious purposes, and together, Takuya and Yuki will have to unravel the mystery of the lost city before anyone remembers they’re supposed to care.
Takezou Kurata is the only member of the koto club remaining after the rest graduates, and some bullies have taken to using the club room as their hangout. With a new school year starting, all he wants is for them to disappear so he can recruit some new members.
Tanjiro’s family is slaughtered by demons and his only surviving sister is starting to become one of them. In order to avenge his family and find a cure for his sister, he decides to become a Demon Slayer.
Rizu is great at science and math but wants to get a liberal arts degree. Fumino is great with writing and literature but wants to get a science degree. Caught between them is a boy who just wants a good scholarship, but to get it he has been charged with tutoring the two girls.
Tohru Honda is a hard-working girl with a tragic past. After her already tenuous living situation becomes upended, she starts living in a tent in the woods. She happens to set up camp in the land of the Soma family, including her classmate Yuki. After finding out about their situation, they decide to take her into their home, and Tohru quickly finds out Soma family has a bizarre secret.
Hitori is extremely shy and struggles to make friends. To help overcome her shyness, her only friend from elementary school has challenged her to make friends with everyone in her new middle school class.
We continue across the sea of stars, where Gee and Iro watch the seminal 1988-1997 Legend of the Galactic Heroes OVA a few episodes at a time. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat as we work our way through the history books. This time: Episodes 53-54, and Season 2 wrap-up!
We saved the best for last as Part 2 of our guide is anchored by two shows featuring two big name directors with two big name studios. The musical sci-fi of Carole & Tuesday pairs the legendary Shinichiro Watanabe with BONES, while the kappa-themed fantasy of Sarazanmai brings together the infamous Kunihiko Ikuhara with MAPPA. With new shows already coming in hot, what’s everyone watching?
Takuya Arima is a horny jerk but I guess we’re supposed to cut him some slack because his parents are dead. He spends his days hanging out at school with a suspcious amount of hot older ladies until he receives a mysterious package from his allegedly dead father. The package contains an ancient relic that probably alters time or space or dimensions or something, also there is a naked magical elf girl.
We kick of the Spring 2019 season with part 1 of our preview guide, featuring the return of shoujo classic Fruits Basket and P.A. Works taking another stab at dark action fantasy with Fairy Gone.
Jel, Iro, and Gee give their final thoughts on the Winter 2019 season. That’s about it.
Many years ago, Ultraman came to Earth to protect it from annihilation at the hands of giant monsters and aliens. Nowadays it’s just a distant memory, but not for Shin Hayata, the human host of Ultraman. His time as a host caused him to inherit some otherworldly powers, which were then passed down to his son, Shinjiro Hayata. With sightings of an evil, Ultraman-like figure, Shinjiro must learn about the origin of his powers, and how he can use them to protect Earth.
We continue across the sea of stars, where Gee and Iro watch the seminal 1988-1997 Legend of the Galactic Heroes OVA a few episodes at a time. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat as we work our way through the history books. This time: Episodes 51-52.
What do you do when you want to write a top ten list, but you’re too lazy to come up with ten whole entries? Just ask your friends to chip in! Our Two Cents is a feature in which the writers of The Glorio Blog take turns to throw in their proverbial two cents on one topic at a time. That’s one far-fetched question, with up to ten entirely unsolicited answers! Today, we’re discussing those creators from outside the anime industry we’d like to see attempting a transfer.
Jel, Iro, Gee, and Marlin attempt to preview the new anime season without going off on too many tangents. We failed.
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