Leticia Dorman has spent most of her young life engaged to be married to the prince of the kingdom, Clarke. To prepare for this she’s been separated from her parents and forced to undergo a gruelling education befitting a future queen. So when Clarke one day turns up with another woman on his arm, Leticia is thrilled to be freed from her loveless pairing and immediately sets about escaping from court.
Teruaki Nakamura has moved to Okinawa and is making friends at his new high school. However, the girl he likes speaks in a very thick Okinawan dialect, meaning he rarely understands what she’s saying.
Tsukasa always wanted to be a professional figure skater, but having only begun training during middle school, he never managed to climb to the top and has largely settled for lower ambitions. However, his life changes when he meets a young girl called Inori who has been practicing skating in secret, afraid to tell her mother of her dreams. When Tsukasa convinces Inori’s mother to allow her to train properly, he becomes Inori’s coach and vows to make her a champion.
A boy gets married to a girl he hates in his class.
Minami’s favorite gacha game has reached end of service and she needs a new hobby. After failing at every possible after school activity, she has a chance encounter at a driving range that sparks her interest in golf.
In a post apocalyptic world emptied by monstrous robotic invaders, a group of five girls battles them with goofy norse-themed weapons. When shy loner Renge shows up, they take her under their wing and talk a lot about cooking.
Despite her eccentric personality and youthful appearance, Dr. Takao Ameku is a brilliant doctor and current Director of Investigative Pathology at Tenikai General Hospital. She solves cases that others can’t, whether she’s asked to or not.
It’s the podcast version of our top 10 anime, plus one more shout out to Look Back.
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2024 edition
I racked my brain for a while trying to think of what to write in a year where a) I was only deeply invested in a small handful of anime that came out during 2024, most of which will almost certainly make it onto Glorio’s annual top 10 list anyway, and b) the world kinda…
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 thirteen different films in the cosy Cameo cinema.
Euri talks about his fortunes turning around this year, and what manga he read along the way.
Rather than just write about anime, this year Zigg decided to LIVE ANIME
If there’s a pervasive theme to 2024, I think it’s the constant sense of there never being enough time. This has been a noticeable trend for years, but this year it became impossible to ignore that a lot of anime were materially compromised, either in episode count or fidelity. The age of the 52 episode TV anime is dead, and I think the end of the 26 episode TV anime is not far off. We now live in the era of 13 episode seasons; a frankly inadequate number of episodes for many kinds of stories. Watching familiar stories try to fit themselves into this new format has been awkward to say the least. The shows I’ll be talking about are the ones I think are most significant, either good or ill, to my 2024 anime watching experience.
I wish the world didn’t have to be this way, but if big franchises are the only way the creators I like can get any work, then so be it.
It is time once again for our annual look back at the past year, and my favorite anime moments from 2024.
I’m not exactly sure where Beastars Final Season and the new Gundam GQuuuuuuX fit in the anime season schedule, but we talk about those and other shows airing in Winter 2025.
Another episode where we talk about the Fall 2024 shows, perhaps for the last time?
Fate/Samurai Remnant is a decent enough Musou game, but as a Type-Moon story it’s trying to cram a square peg into a round hole.
Much of Gundam RFV’s failures are at its core, failures of its creative team to adequately understand what Gundam represents, both as a mecha franchise and as a war story.
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