Glorio Special Report: ATLUS Fighting Championships

We here at The Glorio Blog are big fans of Bearsona 4 Arena, so when I learned that a tournament was being held at an arcade a mere 15 minutes’ drive away, I figured I just had to go check it out. I’m the best P4A player among us by a fair margin (and was the closest to the location by a huge margin), so I was the obvious choice to go claim glory and prizes in the blog’s name. So, how did it go?

The Ethereal Horizon

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions Episode 7

Rikka and Touka bring the club to their grandparents’ beach home for Summer break. While the rest of the group has fun at the beach, Rikka seems more distant and detached than usual. As Yuuta tries to figure out what’s wrong, he uncovers the Takanashi sisters’ painful past.

Magi: Episode 6

Some time has passed since we last saw Mogiana, and she is now traveling with a caravan headed toward her homeland. Before Morgiana reaches her destination the caravan leader tells her that they are going to avoid that town due to stories of thieves in the hills. Morgiana ventures off on her own to clean out these thieves so that the caravan may continue.

From the New World Episode 7

Summary:  Saki and Satoru fall into the thick of the civil war, but are rescued by the arrival of the Giant Hornet clan. They reunite with the others and attempt to evade an unexpected danger and return home.

DO IT! PULL THE TRIGGER!

Total Eclipse Episode 19

With tensions between the competitors running high, the commanding officers overseeing Blue Flag decide to send everyone on a hike to relieve some stress. The hike leads them to a natural hot springs, where the girls find themselves in competition for Yuuya’s attention.

The legend will never die

Ixion Saga DT Episode 6

Growing impatient with ED’s… performance, a mysterious organization dispatches an assassin to finish his job. Our party has bigger problems though, as Sainglain and Mariandel grow more and more concerned the princess is entering a “hyperactivity period”.

Glorio Special Report: Final Fantasy Distant Worlds: The Celebration

For several years now the Distant Worlds concert series has been recreating the music of the Final Fantasy series in the form of stunning orchestral rearrangements, but to celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of the series, they’ve decided to do something a little special. The Celebration is a special, limited run program featuring music from all 14 mainline Final Fantasy games.…

My Little Monster Episode 7

Haru seems to finally have a grip on his feelings, only to have Shizuku drift away from him in favor of her studies. Being the socially deficient guy he is, he starts creeping on her, driving them further apart. However, after another chat on the long staircase home, a little blood rushes to her cheeks once again.

OP/ED Op-Eds: Macross Frontier [Diamond Crevasse]

Yoko Kanno gets a ton of credit for her musical scores, and deservedly so. It’s worth noting though that she can also write a mean pop song, usually under one of her various pseudonyms. No where is this more evident than with Macross Frontier, with Kanno composing both the score and the majority of the…

Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb Episode 6 – Gestaltzerfall

Summary: In the completely irrelevant first half, Yuno and Miyako have to draw themselves in class. The lesbian subtext flies through the roof, launches itself into the moon’s orbit, and crash lands somewhere in Russia. In the surprisingly grim second half, Hiro sinks into a depression and runs to Miss Yoshinoya and — of course…

Little Busters: Episode 6

This week Komari’s story comes to close as her sad back story is fully revealed. Whenever she sees someone or something die she remembers that her brother is gone, and breaks down. Komari is unable to face the truth head on so eventually she manages to find solace in forgetting that it ever happened.

All Your Monies: November 12th

Hello, and welcome to All Your Monies, where The Glorio Blog’s resident toy and figure collecting crew (and Aquagaze) will run down the last week’s new preorders, turning a loving or scathing eye over what’s been put out for you to spend your hard earned cash on. Zigg is away this week, so in the absence of his refined British dignity we’re getting in as much Touhou, Idolm@ster and Queen’s Blade as we can. Toss in a few other oddities and this may be our most disturbing AYM yet. You have been warned!!!

Robotics Notes Episode 5

While Aki is struggling with financing, Kei investigates the weird reaction his tablet had in the last episode. What he uncovers may bring him to face against a publicly benign but secretly militant scientific body. Wait, haven’t I heard that plot hook before?

So, About K…

Hey, you know that one thing with the bad boys trying to act all cool but actually being very lame, all the random barely dressed girls skipping around for no reason? That one thing with all the sub-par hip-hop and all the incomprehensible rambling? You thought I meant K? Yeah, no, I was talking about…