First Look: Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions

Ron Kamonohashi has a 100% record in solving criminal cases yet spends his days at home, forbidding himself from further work. Totomaru Isshiki, a young detective, manages to secure his help for an unsolved murder case, but soon learns why Ron considers himself a danger to investigations.

First Look: Paradox Live THE ANIMATION

Absurdly pretty rapping youths duel each other with their Phantom Metal, an accessory that resonates with the wearer’s emotions to produce image and sounds. Legendary club “CLUB Paradox” hosts a rap battle competition between four teams; BAE, The Cat’s Whiskers, cozmez, and Akanyatsura. Which pretty but comically unskilled rapper will take the prize?

First Look: Overtake!

Kouya Madoka is a professional photographer who’s haunted by a traumatic incident from his past and unable to take pictures of people anymore. Assigned to cover a Super GT race by his editor, he meets teenage racing driver Haruka Asahina, who’s competing in the supporting F4 series.

First Look: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

The eponymous Frieren is an elven mage who once journeyed with the Hero and his party to defeat the Demon Lord. As the decades pass after the adventure, she contends with the consequences of her longevity and the transience of her mortal companions.

First Look: The Gene of AI

In the near future, Humans live alongside extremely lifelike androids known as Humanoids. However, this has led to a new breed of crime involving artificially duplicating Humanoids and selling them on the black market. For this reason, memory backups are illegal and strictly forbidden under all circumstances.

First Look: The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses

Komura has a crush on his classmate Mie – who normally wears glasses – and he must comically contend with the closeness of her physical presence and general inability to function without eyesight as she somehow repeatedly forgets to don her spectacles before arriving at school.

First Look: Ayaka

Yukito Yanagi has spent most of his young life in a foster home, but one day he’s summoned back to the chain of islands where he spent his early childhood, where it’s revealed to him that he has special powers to battle a breed of monsters known as ‘Mitama’.

First Look: The Marginal Service

In an alternate universe Japan, the Marginal Service arm of the Bureau of Immigration handles supernatural crime from “Borderlanders”: dangerous nonhumans who hide in our midst. They do this with construction-themed equipment and explosives.

First Look: Yuri is My Job!

Hime is aggressively cute on the surface and must maintain that at all times. When she crashes into someone and covers for them at their job at a heavily themed cafe, your façade needs to mesh with everyone elses, else things might get a bit hairy…

First Look: Skip and Loafer

Mitsumi is finally moving out of the rural sticks and into Tokyo to attend high school, but the hustle and bustle of city life is more than she bargained for. Will she even be able to make friends, let alone accomplish her dreams?

First Look: Heavenly Delusion

A child named Tokio lives in an isolated facility along with their classmates, overseen by their seemingly benevolent overseers desperate to protect them from the “hell” that lies beyond their walls. One day Tokio is offered a chance to, “see the outside.” Parallel to this story, teenage duo Maru and Kiruko explore a post apocalyptic Japan in search of something called “Heaven.” 

First Look: The Fire Hunter

After a world-altering event, humans now spontaneously combust if they come into close proximity to a naked flame. To adapt, Fire Hunters harvest a new energy source from flamelings – twisted and dangerous creatures that contain a yellow substance that can provide heat and light without the need for fire.

First Look: TECHNOROID OVERMIND

It is the future, global warming has flooded the planet and high temperatures have massively reduced the population of the world. The solution is androids of course. This story follows four androids who don’t have owners and, thus, no regular income which they need to pay the electricity bills to stay operational (read:alive). They figure that if they win some X-Factor type thing and get the prize money that everything will be sorted.