First Look: Dandadan

Momo Ayase, a high school girl descended from a family of spirit mediums, meets Okarun, an occult geek. Momo believes in ghosts but not aliens, while Okarun believes in aliens but not ghosts. To prove the other wrong, Momo agrees to investigate a UFO sighting while Okarun visits a tunnel rumored to be haunted. Turns out they’re both right. Momo gets abducted by aliens while Okarun gets possessed by a ghost. Together, they must fight the paranormal forces that threaten their everyday lives.

First Look: Blue Box

Taiki Inomata is obsessed with badminton and the cute girl who practices her basketball in their school’s gymnasium. Will he ever muster up the courage to go talk to her? Does anyone care?

First Look: Acro Trip

Chizuru is a quiet, withdrawn girl who finds an outlet for her passion in following the local magical girl, Berry Blossom. Unfortunately, interest in Berry Blossom is decreasing due to how easily she can beat her arch-enemy Chrome. It’s with this in mind that Chizuru decides to team up with Chrome, improve his evil plans, and put Berry Blossom back in the spotlight.

First Look: 365 Days to the Wedding

A travel agency in Japan is looking to open a branch in Alaska but can’t find any volunteers to move there. They announce mandatory transfers with priority on single employees, leaving two co-workers with no choice but to pretend they are getting married if they want to stay in Japan.

First Look: Uzumaki

A small Japanese coastal town is haunted by the shape of the spiral. The shape seems to manifest in every facet of of the town, from whirlpools and ferns to spiral patterns appearing on peoples’ bodies. As the inhabitants of are drawn deeper into the mystery, the town is grotesquely transformed by the spiral’s curse. 

First Look: Negative Positive Angler

Tsunehiro’s life has fallen apart, culminating in news from his doctor that he only has two years left to live. After accidentally falling off a bridge, he is rescued by a group of rogue fishermen (gender neutral) who force him to chill and try some fishing.

First Look: Kamen Rider Gavv

A young man named Shoma flees from his mysterious enemies through a magical realm of doors, and falls through one to be washed up on a beach. Rescued by a local boy, he soon finds that stomach-mouthed monsters are abducting ordinary people. Thing is, Shoma also has a stomach-mouth, except he’s got a taste for justice as the snack-powered hero Kamen Rider Gavv!

Final Thoughts: Kamen Rider Gotchard

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…”

Review: Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-

Even with the caveat of Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- only being the first part of an incomplete project, what is here is not only a much-appreciated expansion of the original work but a rare big-budget visual novel easily deserving a standalone release. Perhaps even more importantly, it’s an affirmation of the work’s position and importance after years of relative obscurity within Type-Moon’s catalog.

First Look: Makeine — Too Many Losing Heroines!

By mere coincidence, Kazuhiki Nukumizu witnesses his classmate Anna Yanami having her heart broken by the boy she has been in love with for years. Much against his wishes, this makes him the ideal person for Anna to vent her frustrations to, sparking the beginning of a peculiar friendship.

First Look: Mayonaka Punch

Masaki used to be a member of a popular livestream group, but after getting fired for punching one of the other members she needs a new hook for her solo channel. Fortunately it doesn’t take long for her to run into Live, a vampire who’s dead-set on sucking her blood.

First Look: My Deer Friend Nokotan

A former delinquent has changed her ways and is now a perfect student living a perfect school life. All of this falls apart when she meets Nokotan, a bizarre girl with deer antlers who threatens to reveal her past.