In a post apocalyptic world emptied by monstrous robotic invaders, a group of five girls battles them with goofy norse-themed weapons. When shy loner Renge shows up, they take her under their wing and talk a lot about cooking.
Despite her eccentric personality and youthful appearance, Dr. Takao Ameku is a brilliant doctor and current Director of Investigative Pathology at Tenikai General Hospital. She solves cases that others can’t, whether she’s asked to or not.
It’s the podcast version of our top 10 anime, plus one more shout out to Look Back.
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2024 edition
I racked my brain for a while trying to think of what to write in a year where a) I was only deeply invested in a small handful of anime that came out during 2024, most of which will almost certainly make it onto Glorio’s annual top 10 list anyway, and b) the world kinda…
Scotland Loves Animation returned this year, bringing a curated selection of movie premieres and classics to the big screen. Three of us attended the latest instalment, where we watched thirteen different films in the cosy Cameo cinema.
If there’s a pervasive theme to 2024, I think it’s the constant sense of there never being enough time. This has been a noticeable trend for years, but this year it became impossible to ignore that a lot of anime were materially compromised, either in episode count or fidelity. The age of the 52 episode TV anime is dead, and I think the end of the 26 episode TV anime is not far off. We now live in the era of 13 episode seasons; a frankly inadequate number of episodes for many kinds of stories. Watching familiar stories try to fit themselves into this new format has been awkward to say the least. The shows I’ll be talking about are the ones I think are most significant, either good or ill, to my 2024 anime watching experience.
I wish the world didn’t have to be this way, but if big franchises are the only way the creators I like can get any work, then so be it.
It is time once again for our annual look back at the past year, and my favorite anime moments from 2024.
I’m not exactly sure where Beastars Final Season and the new Gundam GQuuuuuuX fit in the anime season schedule, but we talk about those and other shows airing in Winter 2025.
Another episode where we talk about the Fall 2024 shows, perhaps for the last time?
Fate/Samurai Remnant is a decent enough Musou game, but as a Type-Moon story it’s trying to cram a square peg into a round hole.
Much of Gundam RFV’s failures are at its core, failures of its creative team to adequately understand what Gundam represents, both as a mecha franchise and as a war story.
Our excitement for shows like Dan Da Dan, Thunderbolt Fantasy, and Bananya is pitted against the disappointment of GUNDAM: Requiem for Vengeance.
We talk about Metaphor ReFantazio, Look Back, and the greatest work of fiction ever made: Thunderbolt Fantasy.
I had the opportunity to see the animated film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one shot manga. I was profoundly affected by the story when I first read it. The film hits just as hard. It’s beautiful, poignant, and deeply personal. It imbues the characters with animated humanity and warmth. To me, Look Back is about survivor’s guilt.
Eleven months into the One Year War, Red Wolf squadron is attacked by a mysterious white mobile suit. Can this zeon squad survive against the Gundam?
Metaphor: ReFantazio is undeniably a fun, highly polished game built upon decades of Atlus’s previous work, but it stumbles into familiar pitfalls and offers few changes to established genre formulas.
It’s a new season of anime and we talk about big time old shows like Dragon Ball DAIMA, big time new shows like Dan Da Dan, and, most importantly, the new GLORIO DLC for Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO.
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.
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