First Look: Carole & Tuesday

Born into a wealthy family in a provincial town, Tuesday dreams of becoming a musician – something nobody around her seems to understand. Meanwhile, a similarly aged girl named Carole, scraping a living in the metropolis of Alba City, has the same aspirations. When Tuesday runs away and the pair chance to meet, they aim to make their shared dream a reality.

First Look: RobiHachi

Robby Yarge is a man with a weakness for women. This has led him into untold amounts of debt on get-rich-quick schemes. A chance meeting with Hachi Kita brings both characters to reflect on the nature of predictability. Later, it turns out Hachi is working for the very debt collector that is after Robby. After that point any semblance of reason is abandoned and it’s really dumb.

First Look: NAMUAMIDABUTSU! -UTENA-

The Thirteen Buddhas have appeared in the present day to rid the world of earthly vices, and yet somehow there isn’t much for them to do? So they just hang out at a temple and chill waiting for the next big bad thing to happen.​

First Look: Fairy Gone

In a world where fairies and humans live among each other, some humans have gained the ability to summon a fairy partner as a weapon. After a long war, many of these users, known as “Fairy Soldiers,” reintegrated into society in a variety of ways, from government service to organized crime. Maria is searching for her long lost childhood friend, Veronica, and in the process ends up gaining the power to summon her own fairy. Faced with potential imprisonment, she joins the government organization “Dorothea,” tasked with responding to fairy related crimes.

First Look: Midnight Occult Civil Servants

Arata Miyako is the new hire at the Shinjuku Ward’s office for maintaining mankind’s relationship with the supernatural, and the only employee capable of understanding their otherworldly speech. He also might be the reincarnation of the famed onmyogi, Abe no Seimei.

First Look: Afterlost: Where I End and You Begin

Takuya, a mysterious professional courier who will deliver anyone and anything for the right price, accepts the job of escorting Yuki, the mysterious lone survivor of a mysteriously disappeared city, back to the only home she knows. However, a mysterious agency seems hell bent on obtaining Yuki for their own mysterious purposes, and together, Takuya and Yuki will have to unravel the mystery of the lost city before anyone remembers they’re supposed to care.

First Look: Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life

Takezou Kurata is the only member of the koto club remaining after the rest graduates, and some bullies have taken to using the club room as their hangout. With a new school year starting, all he wants is for them to disappear so he can recruit some new members.

First Look: We Never Learn: BOKUBEN

Rizu is great at science and math but wants to get a liberal arts degree. Fumino is great with writing and literature but wants to get a science degree. Caught between them is a boy who just wants a good scholarship, but to get it he has been charged with tutoring the two girls.

First Look: Fruits Basket

Tohru Honda is a hard-working girl with a tragic past. After her already tenuous living situation becomes upended, she starts living in a tent in the woods. She happens to set up camp in the land of the Soma family, including her classmate Yuki. After finding out about their situation, they decide to take her into their home, and Tohru quickly finds out Soma family has a bizarre secret.

The GLORIO Spring 2019 Anime Guide – Part 2

We saved the best for last as Part 2 of our guide is anchored by two shows featuring two big name directors with two big name studios. The musical sci-fi of Carole & Tuesday pairs the legendary Shinichiro Watanabe with BONES, while the kappa-themed fantasy of Sarazanmai brings together the infamous Kunihiko Ikuhara with MAPPA. With new shows already coming in hot, what’s everyone watching?​

First Look: YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World

Takuya Arima is a horny jerk but I guess we’re supposed to cut him some slack because his parents are dead. He spends his days hanging out at school with a suspcious amount of hot older ladies until he receives a mysterious package from his allegedly dead father. The package contains an ancient relic that probably alters time or space or dimensions or something, also there is a naked magical elf girl.​

First Look: Ultraman (2019)

Many years ago, Ultraman came to Earth to protect it from annihilation at the hands of giant monsters and aliens. Nowadays it’s just a distant memory, but not for Shin Hayata, the human host of Ultraman. His time as a host caused him to inherit some otherworldly powers, which were then passed down to his son, Shinjiro Hayata. With sightings of an evil, Ultraman-like figure, Shinjiro must learn about the origin of his powers, and how he can use them to protect Earth.