First Look: 91 Days

Seven years after the murder of his family and during Prohibition, Angelo Lacuza, now going under the name Avilio Bruno, returns to the mafia-controlled town of Lawless. His plan: infiltrate the Vanetti family by befriending the don’s son, Nero, and finally exact his revenge. Presumably within 91 days.

First Look: Handa-kun

After a re-imagining of Osomatsu-san’s first episode, we’re excited to reveal the first episode of the long-awaited Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei prequel.

Love Live! Sunshine!! Episode 2

Despite having met over half a dozen potential new members in the span of a single episode, Chika still hasn’t come any closer to realizing her dream of starting her own school idol group. When Riko refuses her offer for the umpteenth time, Chika and You set out to help fix whatever it is preventing the transfer student from joining their club. By any means necessary.

First Look: Taboo Tattoo

Justice Akazuka (no really) saves a homeless man from a group of street thugs, and is rewarded with a mysterious tattoo on his palm. Soon he finds out that it’s actually a deadly weapon which gives him incredible powers.

First Look: The Morose Mononokean

Hanae Ashiya is looking forward to starting high school, but finds himself unable to get there after a strange yokai begins following him around. After a week of not making it to class, he calls on the help of an exorcist to help rid him of the creature.

First Look: SERVAMP

​Nice Guy™ Mahiru is always ready to help someone in need. This comes back to bite him (pun intended) when he picks up a seemingly harmless stray cat, leading him into the world of servant vampires or SERVAMPS. Wait, don’t leave! It was actually kind of OK!

First Look: New Game!

In the most unconvincing premise of the season, a high school graduate gets hired without any credentials or prior experience at a company led by a woman.

First Look: Orange

High school student Naho receives a letter that claims to have been written by her future self. Though skeptical at first, Naho is surprised when the letter correctly predicts that a new transfer student is joining her class that day. Worried by the letter’s ominous vision of her future, she decides to follow its instructions in order to prevent its future of origin from ever happening.

First Look: First Love Monster

Kaho is a spoiled rich girl who decides to go to high school in the city. She moves into a dorm full of hot guys, the thing is they are all… well I don’t want to spoil the surprise.

First Look: Days

Tsukushi, a shy and clumsy boy completely new to the world of soccer, finds himself with a sudden passion for the sport after being asked to help out in a futsal match by classmate and budding soccer genius Jin. Despite his lack of skill or experience, and the fact that his high school is known nationwide for its amazing soccer team, Tsukushi decides to sign up.

First Look: Love Live! Sunshine!!

Inspired by μ’s, Chika Takami is determined to change her normal life by starting an idol club at her sleepy country school. With the conservative student council president opposed and seemingly no one else interested, assembling a group will be an uphill battle.

First Look: Berserk (2016)

Set in a fantastical and medieval-style universe, Guts, also known as the Black Swordsman, is a wandering mercenary pursued by dark forces. Branded as an unholy sacrifice, he must fight off the literal demons that continually hunt him while seeking vengeance against the man who made him what he is.

First Look: ReLIFE

After an unfortunate incident caused him to lose his job, Arata Kaizaki has been struggling to return to the job market. One day, however, a man named Ryo Yoake approaches him with a proposal that seems to absurd to be true. Yoake claims to work for the ReLIFE Laboratory, an organization tasked with ‘rehabilitating’ NEETs (Not undergoing Employment, Education or Training) like Kaizaki by sending them back to high school for a year.

The GLORIO Summer 2016 Anime Guide – Part 3

We’ve made it to the final part of our seasonal anime preview, with a few more surprises left in store. In parts one and two, we already covered the shows set to premiere in the first week of July, now it’s time to take a look at all the leftovers; including a new anime original…

OP/ED Op-Eds: The Best of Spring 2016

With the season more than halfway over, it’s time to once again dig into our favorite songs from shows that have been airing for the past few months. While our Winter 2016 slate was impressively diverse, it seems the crew have pretty much converged on the best songs en masse this time round. Still, since it’s been a really good season for OPs and EDs that’s not exactly a problem.

First Look: Big Order

Ten years ago, so-called “Orders” started showing up – people granted incredible powers to make their wishes come true. Eiji is one of them, yet after he foolishly wished for the power to destroy the world and caused a great calamity, he has decided to dedicate his life to caring for his sickly sister. Until another Order shows up who claims Eiji’s wish killed her parents, and Eiji finds out he might not have been responsible for the world’s destruction after all…