First Look: One Punch Man
Saitama is a hero who has gained the ultimate ability to defeat anything in one punch, but the resulting ease of his heroic hobby has left him bored and disillusioned.
First Look: Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans
The year is 323 of the Post Disaster era. Centuries after a great war between Earth and Mars, Mars has been terraformed into a habitable planet that chafes under Earth’s rule. Amidst the growing Mars independence movement, Mikazuki Augus is a war orphan and member of Chryse Guard Security, a martian mercenary group. Gundam Barbatos, a weapon of a bygone era is housed at their headquarters, dormant and acting as a power supply. When CGS comes under attack from Earth’s military arm, Gjallarhorn, Augus steps into Gundam Barbatos and begins his fight against Earth.
First Look: Chivalry of a Failed Knight
Some guy is really bad at magic academy but somehow beats the most powerful, beautiful girl in school and oh god I can’t do this please send help.
First Look: The Asterisk War
Students can join magical academies and fight each other in magical battles. It’s as original as it sounds, believe me.
First Look: Owarimonogatari
Arararararagi and Ougi play an Escape the Room mystery game and no one cares because they showed a Kizumonogatari trailer afterward that looks much, much better.
Final Thoughts: Kamen Rider Drive
For an entire year now the whole world has had Drive. Zigg looks back at what’s been a hell of a journey.
First Look: Heavy Object
In the future, wars are fought by giant robot death balls covered in lasers and missiles. There’s no way you could fuck up a premise that fun right?
First Look: Young Black Jack
Set in 1968 amidst the chaos of the Vietnam War and student protests in Japan, this is the origin story of a young but physically scarred surgical genius, who will eventually become known as the infamous Black Jack.
First Look: Lance N’ Masques
The next in a long line of world-famous pick-up artists is reluctant and unsuccessful until he realises that his shtick totally works on one particularly vulnerable six-year-old. He sleeps with her the night they meet.
Kamen Rider Drive Episode 48
Shinnosuke undertakes his final mission for the Special Unit – an investigation into the terrorist cell he was pursuing a year ago.
The Wrap-Up: Summer 2015
If you go about doing a season preview, it is only obvious you also close off on a season review. In The Wrap-Up, all of our contributors get to shine a spotlight on the show they thought to be the very best of the past few weeks, as well as reflect back on the preview to see which shows let us down the most. When you watch currently airing anime or tokusatsu, eventually the question will rise which of these shows can rank amongst the medium’s true classics. Regardless of who covered what, this is where we single out the cream of the crop, and decide which shows from the past season deserve to stand the test of time.
Ultraman X Episode 11
Daichi finally remembers that his dad went missing, causing him to put on a pair of headphones and gaze thoughtfully across the office. Then he beats up another monster.
The Roundup: Summer 2015 Volume 12 – Late Edition
We’ll have a more official farewell to the Summer season later today, but we say good bye to a few other favorites in the Late edition… well, for now as Durararararara is scheduled to return for the winter and Working!!! has promised a special hour long grand finale.
The Roundup: Summer 2015 Volume 12 – Early Edition
Say goodbye to all the high school related titles as School Live, Prison School, and Classroom Crisis come to a conclusion, as well as a “see you later” to Miss Monochrome as we’ll see her next season.
Ultraman X Episode 10
Ultraman X finally realises he doesn’t need to kill every monster he meets, though we’re waiting on confirmation that he even wants to stop. There’s no rugby in this episode but there are, however, a lot of tentacles.
Kamen Rider Drive Episode 47
Recap After defeating Sigma Circular, Shinnosuke and Heart face off in a final battle to determine the ultimate fate of the world. Zigg’s Thoughts My big fear leading up to this finale was that they wouldn’t be able to pull together enough of the disparate plot threads to make it satisfying. Actually, that’s not too much…
The Roundup: Summer 2015 Volume 11 – Late Edition
Love is over as we bid farewell to Snow White and My Love Story!, or at least until next week’s episode of Working!!! We sure did have a lot of romance in this edition of The Roundup over the past few weeks, we may need to resuscitate Marlin.
Gacha! September 24th 2015
Stash away those pricey idol statues and your thirty amiibos, because we’re about to get cheap and nasty. Gacha! is your fortnightly (or thereabouts) look at the weird world of Japanese capsule toys.
GLORIO Fall 2015 Anime Guide Part 2
Like the changing of the leaves the Fall anime season brings a change in source materials, with the latest crop of shows full of light novel adaptations and anime originals. In grand Glorio Blog tradition, I’m in charge of the second part, which features the anticipated One Punch Man, the not-so-glorious return of Glorio Blog dark horse Garo and noitaminA’s umpteenth attempt at winning back people with actual standards. Furthermore, there’s girls being flirty with girls, guys being flirty with guys, girls being flirty with a guy with no personality and a guy pretending he flirts with guys because he’s not allowed to flirt with girls. Anime sure is the best, isn’t it?
The Roundup: Summer 2015 Volume 11 – Early Edition
Polar opposite reactions this week as we rave about School Live’s stellar penultimate episode and I finally let out my bottled up rage I’ve been carrying from 12 episodes of Classroom Crisis. Sadly, it’s not even the last episode.
