First Look: Tamayomi

Yomi Takeda gave up baseball in Junior High after her catcher was unable to catch her special ‘Magic Pitch’. Now in high school, a chance reunion with a childhood friend reawakens her passion for the sport.

GLORIO goes Ghibli — Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

To fill in a gaping hole in his credibility as an anime lover, Aqua takes a look at the films that cemented the legacy of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takehata’s legendary Studio Ghibli.

This week, he checks out Miyazaki’s second film and first independent effort, a rousing call to arms for anyone who cares about anything, really.

First Look: Toilet Bound Hanako-kun

If you visit the third stall of the third floor girls’ bathroom, you might meet Hanako-san. Hanako will grant you a wish but at great cost… or so the rumors at school will tell you. Nene will do anything to have her wish granted and decides to see if the rumors are true.

First Look: Somali and the Forest Spirit

In a world inhabited by fantasy creatures, golems are charged with protecting the forest. One day the current Golem protector of the forest finds something extremely rare: a human child. Together, the two go on a journey to find where the other humans have gone.

The GLORIO Decade: The State of Fate

We’ve entered a reality where Fate is one of the biggest franchises around. Fate/Grand Order (the gacha-based mobile game) alone passed the $3 billion marker in gross revenue in 2019, meaning it’s made about as much money as the entire Legend of Zelda game series combined. How did this franchise, unknown in 2010, become an international juggernaut?