First Look: ZENSHU

Natsuki Hirose is a young animator whose meteoric rise has placed her in the upper echelon of the animation industry. However her next project stalls out, struggling to connect to the material in addition to the newfound attention she’s received. After eating a rotten bento, she wakes up to discover she’s been transported to the world of A Tale of Perishing, the childhood anime that inspired her to become an animator.

First Look: I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons

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.

First Look: Medalist

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.

First Look: Sorairo Utility

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.

First Look: Momentary Lily

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.

First Look: Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective

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.

A Very GLORIO 2024: Gee’s Year in Review

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.