First Look: A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
After being cornered by rebels, Sara da Odin escapes through a portal to another world. She quickly meets a detective, who is forced to look after her.
After being cornered by rebels, Sara da Odin escapes through a portal to another world. She quickly meets a detective, who is forced to look after her.
Takumi lost his job and applies to be a chef at an old boarding house and meets the caretaker, Mira. They hit it off, there’s some weird residents and Mira is an alien. Oh yeah, there’s that.
A series following bartenders as they chase the “Glass of God”: the perfect drink that will change their world.
High school student Shintaro Tokumitsu lives alone, studying and working by day and living a lonely existence at home at night. However, his life changes when one morning, he wakes up to find a girl fast asleep on his apartment balcony – and when he discovers that Towa is a literal angel sent by God to study mankind (and repay Shintaro’s kindness by bringing happiness into his life), things will clearly never be the same.
Haruka Sakura has moved to a new town to try and escape the bullying he used to receive over his appearance. Although he’s joined a school notorious for its problems with delinquency, he finds out that the students have actually banded together to form a gang which protects the town.
Kraft Lawrence is a traveling merchant delivering goods to a village during a harvest festival. While passing through, he picks up an unexpected companion: a girl claiming to be the harvest god the village has been praying to.
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 twelve different films in the cosy Cameo cinema.
It’s been a pretty solid season, but do any of these shows break The Curse of Kenjiro Tsuda?
We say a few words on the passing of Akira Toriyama, then dive into our Spring 2024 anime preview.
There are a LOT of anime adjacent video games hitting us all at once, so we hit the GLORIO Gaming no Korner in addition to our usual anime coverage.
Does Relink deliver the true Granblue Fantasy experience? My answer is… not quite.
We’ve trimmed down our watch list to a lean six shows, but most of them are pretty good… even Metallic Rouge?
Metallic Rouge is bad but should we blame prolific voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda? Will Sengoku Youko be the one to break the curse?
New year, new season, new anime for us to love (or hate). Sengoku Youko is good, we promise!
Arajin Tomoshibi enrolls in a new high school, dominated by punks and delinquents of every stripe. A naturally timid kid, he’s struggling with his new surroundings. To make things even more hectic, a genie by the name of Senya decides to take up residence in his head.
A young woman named Guideau, once cursed by a witch, now journeys across the land in search of a cure – and hungry for vengeance. She is accompanied by Ashaf, a mage with a coffin strapped to his back, whose job seemingly entails uncovering the cause of harmful magical events and putting an end to those who use witchcraft for their own violent ends.
The US military and the JSDF are engaging in training exercises with their Titatonostrider (TS) mecha when the planet is attacked by a mysterious alien force. Ao Isami and Lewis Smith find themselves in the middle of a fight for the survival of the human race. Things don’t look good for them, until a mysterious new robot arrives to save the day.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion… I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to die.
In Japan, it is said that being a virgin at thirty will give you magic powers. Much to Kiyoshi Adachi’s shock, this oft-repeated canard turns out to be true when he discovers that thirty years of involuntary celibacy have granted him the ability to read minds. Could this power be what he needs to change his love live for the better?
In the tumultuous Eiroku Period, the fox spirit Tama and the sage Jinka travel the land righting wrongs and stopping evil-doers, joined by the hapless samurai Shinsuke.