First Look: ViVid Strike!

Fuka Reventon is an orphaned girl who struggles to get by and often resorts to street fighting. Found beaten up and abandoned by Einhardt Stratos, a member of the Nakajima gym, she’s offered the chance to join their martial arts team and come face to face with a friend from her past.

First Look: www.Working!!

Daisuke Higashida is forced to get a part-time job after his dad’s company goes out of business. With his options limited, he decides to apply at the local Wagnaria, which as a chain, and in a remarkable moment of sensibility in an utterly senseless show, is a totally different restaurant from the original. Here, he meets some one dimensional weirdos that you hope will be fleshed out but probably won’t, and has a beatific vision of St. Valentine. Not lying about that last part, by the way.

First Look: Magical Girl Raising Project

Koyuki Himekawa’s dreams come true when her favourite mobile game grants her the opportunity to become a real-life magical girl. Keen to try out her new powers helping people and gathering ‘Magic Candies’ to enhance her abilities, Koyuki soon finds out she’s not the only magical girl in town. Though soon, she might be…

First Look: Izetta, The Last Witch

During Totally-Not-World-War-II, the princess of Totally-Not-Switzerland works to protect her country from Totally-Not-Nazi-Germany. This includes saving and befriending the eponymous Izetta, whose magical powers will almost certainly be the key to ending the war.

First Look: Time Bokan 24

The 24th Century Time-Space Administration Bureau has a mission – to travel through time and find the ‘True History’ of every era, disproving the false lies that have been printed in the history textbooks. Ordinary 21st Century middle schooler Tokio is somehow roped into this crazy quest and together with his partner Karen and their motley crew they’ll have to save history from the bad guys.

First Look: Tiger Mask W

Under the leadership of the mysterious Miss X, the Global Wrestling Monopoly is coming to Japan to take down its biggest stars. They’re led by a mysterious masked man known only as Tiger the Dark. Japan’s only hope is its own wrestling superstar, the legendary Tiger Mask!

First Look: Magic-Kyun! Renaissance

Kohana Aigasaki is a new transfer student at Hoshinomori Private Magical Arts High School, where teen Artistas – people whose magic allows them to create sparkly, sparkly art – are taught how to create even better sparkles and maybe also get into show business.

The Wrap-Up: Summer 2016

If you go about doing a season preview, it is only obvious you also close off on a season review. In The Wrap-Up, all of our contributors get to shine a spotlight on the show they thought to be the very best of the past few weeks, as well as reflect back on the preview to see which shows let us down the most. When you watch currently airing anime or tokusatsu, eventually the question will rise which of these shows can rank amongst the medium’s true classics. Regardless of who covered what, this is where we single out the cream of the crop, and decide which shows from the past season deserve to stand the test of time.

The GLORIO Fall 2016 Anime Guide – Part 3

We’ve saved the best for last as the third part of our guide seems to have the most interesting looking shows. I’ve got my eye on wacky musical comedy Classicaloid as it seems to fit my personal tastes rather well, but other shows to watch like new Shaft joint March Comes in Like a Lion and MAPPA’s latest, Yuri!!! On ICE, top off a list that seems to have a lot less duds than the previous two.

Macross Delta Episode 25

With Mikumo in captivity, Windermere begins their plan to use her powers as the Star Singer to retake the galaxy. This is bad for business, so Berger tips off both NUNS and Delta squadron to prepare a counterattack.

The GLORIO Fall 2016 Anime Guide – Part 2

Part 2 of our Fall guide features Sound! Euphonium season 2, which is possibly the most anticipated show of the season. As for the rest, it’s the usual mixed bag of sex and violence and dumb comedy, but there may be a few hidden gems lurking in this batch. No, I’m not talking about Keijo!!!!! Hip Flip Girl, at least I don’t think so…

Love Live! Sunshine!! Episode 12

Even though Aqours have made it past the Love Live preliminaries, Uranohoshi’s not out of the woods just yet. When You points out µ’s had already managed to save their school at this point in their career, Chika starts pondering why µ’s managed to succeed where they failed.

The GLORIO Fall 2016 Anime Guide – Part 1

While yes, there is a new anime season upon us, there’s going to be a lot of familiar faces this Fall. Plenty of big names are returning like Haikyuu and Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans (neither of which we’ll be covering, apologies) mixed in with what seems like an unusually high amount of magical girl, idol, and magical girl idol shows.Speaking of returning shows, part 1 of our guide is headlined by the return of Glorio favorite BBK/BRNK, which is totally good despite the 3D, we promise.