A Very GLORIO 2025: The Top 10
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2025 edition
A Very GLORIO 2025: Zigg Catches the Wave
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.
A Very GLORIO 2025: Euri Becomes a Sumo Fan
Euri chucked in anime this year… for sumo?
A Very GLORIO 2025: Jel’s Best Anime Moments
Another year down, another GLORIO year to look back on
A Very GLORIO 2025: Gee’s Year of the Horse
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.
A Very GLORIO 2025: Iro’s Watching Science Fiction 21 Years Later
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.
God is Dead, Long Live Takopi
Forget everything I said about Takopi’s Original Sin being “tough to recommend” and watch one of the most uncompromisingly and stunningly realised works of animated art this wretched decade has brought forth so far.
A Very GLORIO 2024: The Top 10
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2024 edition
A Very GLORIO 2024: Euri Decided to Read (again)
Euri talks about his fortunes turning around this year, and what manga he read along the way.
A Very GLORIO 2024: Zigg Went to Japan
Rather than just write about anime, this year Zigg decided to LIVE ANIME
A Very GLORIO 2024: Gee’s Year in Review
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.
A Very GLORIO 2024: Franchises – The Ever Distant Utopia
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.
A Very GLORIO 2024: Jel’s Best Anime Moments
It is time once again for our annual look back at the past year, and my favorite anime moments from 2024.
A Very GLORIO 2023: The Top 10
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2023 edition
A Very GLORIO 2023: Zigg’s State of the Union
In his traditional end-of-year roundup, Zigg (who has never once wet his bed) talks about why so many shows this year ended up being disappointments, and highlights a few which bucked the trend to produce memorable moments.
A Very GLORIO 2023: Artemis’ Things That Aren’t Anime
I know it seems like people probably say this every year, but 2023 has not been a stellar year for anime. I had one or two favorites, but even the majority of anime I liked overall had some pretty serious caveats attached, particularly when it came to later or finale episodes (see: Heavenly Delusion, Oshi…
A Very GLORIO 2023: Euri Decided to Read
A benefit of reading manga on your phone is that you don’t need to leave your bed ever. So that’s what Euri did.
A Very GLORIO 2023: Gee’s Last Will and Testament
Dramatic title aside, I’ve come to appreciate these posts as a way of leaving behind a definitive footprint. My feelings for these may change as time passes but here and now in 2023, this is what I had to say about anime.
A Very GLORIO 2023: I don’t know what I expected.
Iro looks back on the media of 2023 and considers what he expected to get and what he wanted to get.
A Very GLORIO 2023: Jel’s Best Anime Moments
It is time once again for our annual look back at the past year, and my favorite anime moments from 2023.
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