First Look: MY love STORY!!

Gouda has grown up all his life falling in love, but the girls only ever have eyes for his friend Sunakawa. After graduating middle school, Gouda stops a molester on the train. He quickly falls in love with the girl he saved, but he believes that history will repeat itself once again.

First Look: Sound! Euphonium

Kumiko has just started high school away from most of her old friends. she used to be in band, but now doesn’t seem to want anything to do with it. Despite mixed feelings, her new friends slowly lead her back to the concert band.

First Look: Blood Blockade Battlefront

An interdimensional gate has turned New York City into a melting pot of the supernatural while simultaneously cutting it off from the outside world. A secret society called “Libra” fights to protect the city from unscrupulous sorts, most notably the enigmatic Femt, the “King of Depravity”.

First Look: The Heroic Legend of Arslan

Arslan is the crown prince of Pars, the prosperous Royal Captial of the kingdom of Ecbatana. However, at the age of 14, Arslan loses everything when the kingdom falls to war and treachery, and must embark on a journey to liberate his nation and reclaim the kingdom.

First Look: Seraph of the End

A cataclysmic virus has wiped out the adult population, leading an underground society of vampires to round up the children to keep as livestock. One escapes and joins the above-ground resistance (which happens to be at a high school and is totally not an allegory for Imperial Japan, you guys) and vows to kill all the vampires.

First Look: Ultimate Otaku Teacher

Nobel Laureate NEET Junichiro wants nothing more of his life than to do what he wants. When we find him, that currently means lazing around all day updating his anime blog. Since apparently the one million dollars he would have been awarded for such an achievement wasn’t enough for his family, his sister forces him to start working at his old high school. Dumb things happen afterwards.

First Look: Plastic Memories

The SAI Corporation has developed a series of androids called “Giftia” that are nearly indistinguishable from humans. The only catch is they have a 9 year life span before they must shut down and have their memories erased. Tsukasa Mizugaki begins his new job with SAI’s Terminal Service, tasked with retrieving the Giftia when they run out of time.

First Look: Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Yukihira Soma is a talented 15-year-old chef who desperately wants to be able to cook better than his father. He plans to work at the family restaurant after graduating from school, and while he’d certainly be qualified to do so, his father has other ideas.

First Look: Re-Kan!

Hibiki Amami is starting high school. She can see and communicate with supernatural beings which, hilariously enough, includes cats. She tries to befriend the class rep, who hates all things related to the occult.

First Look: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

The Goddesses have chosen to live as humans and have descended to the land of Orario. They grant powers to their Familias – groups of their followers that are dedicated to exploring the eponymous Dungeon for riches and glory, etc. etc. Bell, the sole follower of the Goddess Hestia, is inexperienced and weak but is determined to get stronger so he can attract girls.

Gundam Build Fighters Try Episode 25 and Final Thoughts

Weeks after the U-19 Championship match, our heroes attend the Meijin Cup Contest. For the first time in perhaps Try’s entire run, it finally remembers what made Gundam Build Fighters so good in the first place. Gunpla addicts Gee and Iro share their thoughts about the sequel to the hottest toy commercial of 2014, and why exactly it failed to live up to those expectations.

The Wrap-Up: Winter 2015

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…

Final Thoughts: Yatterman Night

Perhaps one of the biggest breakout stars of the Winter 2015 season, Yatterman Night was a heartfelt romp rife with adventure, unyielding optimism, and bleak dystopia in equal measure. Join Gee, Iro, and Marlin as we talk about what might very well be the best of the 21st century Tatsunoko adaptations.

Final Thoughts: Death Parade

EVERYBODY! PUT YOUR HANDS UP! The games have ended and it’s time to pass judgement on Death Parade. The follow up to 2013’s one shot Death Billiards is full of emotional highs and lows, but do the moods swing too much for its own good? Join Jel, Artemis, and Aquagaze as they share their final thoughts on the series.

Final Thoughts: Shirobako

After countless schedule slips, crushed dreams and mental breakdowns, Aoi and her colleagues at Musashino Animation have finally wrapped up production on their adaptation of The Third Aerial Girls Squad. Join Aqua, Gee and Marlin as we go don-don-donuts and look back on Shirobako, a one-of-a-kind phenomenon no self-respecting anime fan should miss.