OP/ED Op-Eds: The Best of Fall 2014

We’re back a bit earlier this season with that feature where I can pretend to write for Pitchfork again, and in grand music industry tradition, we’ll start picking the best song of the season already when the season’s still going on, just to get it out of the way before the yearly wrap-up content.

Amagi Brilliant Park Episode 3

Kanye butts heads with Moffle as he takes some drastic actions, including closing the park for a day to clean and lowering the price of admission to 30 yen. The situation worsens between them when Kanye decides to use the girls, including Latifah, in a racy video.

First Look: Yuna Yuki is a Heroine

Yuna Yuki a member of her middle school’s Hero Club, a rag-tag bunch of goody-two-shoes who offer their help to whomever needs it. When even the Gods of their world recruit the Hero Club girls to fight mysterious invaders named Vertex, Yuna refuses to budge from her desire to become a true heroine.

Amagi Brilliant Park Episode 2

Fifty takes Kanye to a meeting with the Amagi Development Group, represented by the evil Chris Tucker. Kanye learns the full extent of Maple Land’s dilemma, but will sympathy alone be enough to convince him to join as manager?

First Look: Your Lie In April

Kousei Arima is a former child prodigy. After his mother’s death, he swears off the piano, instead deciding to spend his time like any other normal middle schooler. After being cajoled by his best friend Tsubaki, he goes to a get-together where he meets Kaori Sawabe, an energetic violin player. She has her sights set on his friend Ryota, but for Kousei, it’s love at first sight.

First Look: Gonna be the Twin-Tail!

Souji Mitsuka loves girls with twin-tails more than anything else in the world. That’s lucky, because it means he’s the perfect man to fight back against twin-tail hating evil aliens! Unfortunately the perfect ‘man’ is not exactly what’s needed in this situation…

First Look: Trinity Seven

After the sun turns black and destroys everything in his town, Kasuga Arata chooses to live in an artificial reconstruction of life before the disaster, using the power of his Grimoire. After confronting the truth, he is taken into the Magic Academy by one of the Trinity Seven, who are a group of seven ladies with incredible powers.

First Look: GARO – The Carved Seal of Flames

In a dark age of witchcraft and demons running amok, the sickly King of Valiante trusts his vizier Mendoza to rid the land of misery and disease by hunting down witches and warlocks. When a witch gives birth while burning on the stake, a mysterious armour-clad fiend saves the baby and gallops off into the dark. Seventeen years later, Germán Luis reveals the truth behind the inquisition to a particularly interested prostitute, while his son León is chased by the king’s guard.

First Look: In Search of the Lost Future

Our show starts out in some strange future lab, but quickly transitions to an established club in the middle of preparations for its big school culture fest. This club also has the strange double-duty of school mediators, both using information and force to resolve conflicts. After a conveniently tragic accident steals one of their lives, the future is somehow changed to stop it.