First Look: Piano Forest

Ever since he was small, Kai has been playing an abandoned piano in the middle of the forest – one which doesn’t play for anyone else. Shuhei, a new classmate, is the son of a famous pianist who aims to follow in his father’s footsteps. United by the piano in the forest, their paths intertwine.

First Look: Caligula

Ritsu Shikishima is a relatively normal high schooler (his fascination with psychology notwithstanding). Increasingly, contradictions and anomalies seem to pile up in his life, until they all explode in one moment of utter inanity.

First Look: Libra of Nil Admirari

In order to help her family, Tsugumi has agreed to marry a man of her father’s choosing whom she has never met. However, before this can happen, Tsugumi’s younger brother tries to commit suicide. The reason: he had in his possession a cursed book that has a strong emotional effect on whoever reads it. Tsugumi is then introduced to the Imperial Library Intelligence Asset Management Bureau, otherwise known as Fukurou, whose job it is to hunt down such cursed tomes.

March Comes In Like A Lion: Episodes 43-44

“Better late than never” as they always say. Hina’s hard work is put to the test. Inspired by her family, Rei decides to visit his adopted mother, who is conflicted by the feelings she has of her estranged stepson. A new beginning for Hina is marked by a farewell and a change towards the future.

First Look: Persona 5 The Animation

Ren Amamiya is a juvenile offender who was unjustly expelled from school and arrested after interfering in an attempted assault. Now transferred to urban Tokyo, he’s got a year to keep his head down and stay out of trouble.

First Look: Magical Girl Site

Aya Asagiri’s life is a living hell, much like watching this show. Things get better for Aya when a mysterious site offers her magical powers in the form of a toy gun. For us, things just get worse.

The GLORIO Spring 2018 Anime Guide – Part 3

We survived the first week of the spring ANIMEPOCALYPSE, now let’s take a look at what’s coming up next week! Part 3 of our guide features the adaptation of popular cooking manga Golden Kamuy, a show with a cute dragon that turns into a fighter jet, and the long awaited return of classic mecha school comedy Full Metal Panic. Personally I’m betting I’ll be more into the show about adult nerds falling in love at the office, but either way we can say there’s plenty of things to watch.

First Look: Dances With the Dragons

In the future, the law of conservation of energy has been broken, and that means that somehow there are dragons now? In any case, the dragons are being hunted down by magical physicists (???) known as Jushikiists.

First Look: MEGALOBOX

Junk Dog is a down-on-his-luck Megalo Boxer, throwing fixed fights and dreaming of finding glory in the upcoming MEGALONIA Tournament. But a chance encounter with the reigning champ might just give him the push he needs…

First Look: Comic Girls

Kaoruko “Kaos” Moeta is a high schooler trying to make it as a professional manga artist. When her latest work gets released to scathing reviews, her editor suggests she move into a dormitory for female mangaka.

First Look: Tada Never Falls In Love

Dogakobo does their best Tamako Market impersonation… er, Tada is taking pictures of the spring cherry blossoms when he meets a beautiful, free spirited foreign girl named Teresa. I’m pretty sure they’re going to fall in love.

First Look: Gegege no Kitaro

It’s the modern day, and strange, clearly supernatural things are happening to people. To assuage the fears of her neighbor, Mana Inuyama, asks for the help of a folk hero he tells her about, and is drawn into the world of the youkai.

First Look: Real Girl

Hikari “Tsutsun” Tsutsui is an otaku who has no interest in real girls. After losing track of time while watching anime, he’s late for school and forced to clean the pool with Iroha Igarashi, a girl with a blunt personality and a loose reputation that’s well known across the school. With fate bringing them together, the two realize that maybe their first impressions of each other were wrong.