First Look: Rainy Cocoa

Due to various circumstances, girly-looking first-year college student Aoi Tokura begins working part-time at the café “Rainy Color”, which is run and attended by a bunch of other bishounen.

First Look: Mikagura School Suite

Eruna wants to a go to a high school where she can wear a cute uniform and make out with girls. After seeing a hot girl in a brochure she decides to attend Mikagura Academy, a school in which cultural clubs do battle for glory and sweet accommodations.

First Look: Wish Upon the Pleiades

Originally an OVA collaboration between car manufacturer Subaru and Gainax, it’s now a full length TV series. Subaru is a milquetoast teenage girl who likes space. Suddenly she meets a bunch of other magic girls and becomes one herself. Their brooms make car noises.

First Look: Rin-ne

Mamiya Sakura is able to see spirits, though she doesn’t mention her strange power to her friends. Because of this, she’s often seen as easily distracted or deep in thought, when really she’s watching something no one else can see. Rokudou Rinne, the mysterious student who doesn’t often show up to school, seems to be a spirit. But is he?

First Look: MY love STORY!!

Gouda has grown up all his life falling in love, but the girls only ever have eyes for his friend Sunakawa. After graduating middle school, Gouda stops a molester on the train. He quickly falls in love with the girl he saved, but he believes that history will repeat itself once again.

First Look: Sound! Euphonium

Kumiko has just started high school away from most of her old friends. she used to be in band, but now doesn’t seem to want anything to do with it. Despite mixed feelings, her new friends slowly lead her back to the concert band.

First Look: Blood Blockade Battlefront

An interdimensional gate has turned New York City into a melting pot of the supernatural while simultaneously cutting it off from the outside world. A secret society called “Libra” fights to protect the city from unscrupulous sorts, most notably the enigmatic Femt, the “King of Depravity”.

First Look: The Heroic Legend of Arslan

Arslan is the crown prince of Pars, the prosperous Royal Captial of the kingdom of Ecbatana. However, at the age of 14, Arslan loses everything when the kingdom falls to war and treachery, and must embark on a journey to liberate his nation and reclaim the kingdom.

First Look: Seraph of the End

A cataclysmic virus has wiped out the adult population, leading an underground society of vampires to round up the children to keep as livestock. One escapes and joins the above-ground resistance (which happens to be at a high school and is totally not an allegory for Imperial Japan, you guys) and vows to kill all the vampires.

First Look: Ultimate Otaku Teacher

Nobel Laureate NEET Junichiro wants nothing more of his life than to do what he wants. When we find him, that currently means lazing around all day updating his anime blog. Since apparently the one million dollars he would have been awarded for such an achievement wasn’t enough for his family, his sister forces him to start working at his old high school. Dumb things happen afterwards.

First Look: Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Yukihira Soma is a talented 15-year-old chef who desperately wants to be able to cook better than his father. He plans to work at the family restaurant after graduating from school, and while he’d certainly be qualified to do so, his father has other ideas.

Final Thoughts: Yatterman Night

Perhaps one of the biggest breakout stars of the Winter 2015 season, Yatterman Night was a heartfelt romp rife with adventure, unyielding optimism, and bleak dystopia in equal measure. Join Gee, Iro, and Marlin as we talk about what might very well be the best of the 21st century Tatsunoko adaptations.

Final Thoughts: Death Parade

EVERYBODY! PUT YOUR HANDS UP! The games have ended and it’s time to pass judgement on Death Parade. The follow up to 2013’s one shot Death Billiards is full of emotional highs and lows, but do the moods swing too much for its own good? Join Jel, Artemis, and Aquagaze as they share their final thoughts on the series.

Final Thoughts: Shirobako

After countless schedule slips, crushed dreams and mental breakdowns, Aoi and her colleagues at Musashino Animation have finally wrapped up production on their adaptation of The Third Aerial Girls Squad. Join Aqua, Gee and Marlin as we go don-don-donuts and look back on Shirobako, a one-of-a-kind phenomenon no self-respecting anime fan should miss.