Himari joins Paradise Academy with her friend Mitsuki. She wants to get 10,000 friends, but also secretly wishes to follow in the famous Mii-chan’s footsteps in becoming an AiPri (Idol Princess). One day, she accidentally finds herself transported to the AiPri world, so maybe that dream can come true!
In a society where people and youkai peacefully coexist, a 20-year-old housecat named Buchio living in the Japanese countryside is reborn as a nekomata, much to the delight of his human family. Now, Buchio sets out of a journey of self-discovery, aided by his fellow youkai neighbors. Meanwhile, one of his human family members, a girl called Mutsumi, has recently lost her father, likely to a mysterious force known as The Void. Now, her growing curiosity about her youkai friends tangles with grief over a missing family member, while the looming threat of The Void casts a palpable shadow over her otherwise quiet small-town life.
Orphaned as a young child and shuttled between indifferent relatives, Mito Yamamoto, a girl disguising herself as a boy for Reasons (?), is now a teenager with no family, no home, and no job. When she is saved one night by Ruka Saotome, a vampire in need of a thrall, Mito readily agrees and begins her new life living with him in Hijirigaoka Boys’ Academy dormitory. However, when she discovers that Ruka cannot drink from girls and was therefore seeking a male companion, Mito seemingly has no choice but to keep her true identity a secret.
Mahiru wanted to be an artist, but is now a normal, responsible high school student. After a chance encounter with a former idol, her passion for art is renewed and the two girls form the artist group “JELEE”.
On the rural island of Hinoshima, pro golfer Igarashi arrives to find the island’s only middle schooler has a talent for golf, and she’s a girl!
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.
