JoJo: Stardust Crusaders Episode 2 and 3

Jotaro is ambushed by the mind-controlled Kakyoin Noriaki and his Stand, Hierophant Green. After the battle, our heroes discover that Holly’s own Stand has turned against her, and the only way to stop it is to find and kill Dio.

First Look: Marvel Disk Wars – The Avengers

Akira and his older brother are summoned to the United States by their dad, an employee of Tony Stark. He reveals that he and Stark have been working on DISKs, a new method of capturing and locking up super-villains. However, when Stark and the other Avengers present the DISKs to the public, Loki shows up and uses a set of DISKs to summon a bunch of super-villains to his aid.

First Look: Mekakucity Actors

Shintaro hasn’t left the house for two years, spending most of his time grieving a girl he used to know and being annoyed by Ene, a nosey AI living on his computer. One day, an unfortunate accident forces him to go out shopping and even worse, he ends up in a hostage situation. Luckily, with some help from Ene and a mysterious other boy, Shintaro finds the power to fight back.

First Look: Spring 2014 Anime Shorts

We take a look at The Comic Artist and His Assistants, Keroro, Inugami and Nekoyama and Magica Wars, and see if any of them are worth your ti– Okay, yeah, sorry, I can’t finish that sentence this season either.

First Look: Ping Pong – The Animation

Sullen Makoto “Smile” Tsukimoto and lively Yutaka “Peco” Hoshino are the aces of their school’s table tennis club. Smile’s dragged down by a complete lack of motivation, however, so Peco drags him to a rival club to meet a Chinese top-level player, recruited to coach the other team back to superstardom.

First Look: Nanana’s Buried Treasure

Juugo is excited about transferring to Nanaejima – a high tech artificial island designated as a “Special Student Zone” full of schools. He gets more excitement than he bargained for when he discovers a ghost girl living in his new apartment, the secrets of her past holding out the promise of treasure and adventure.

First Look: Chaika – The Coffin Princess

After a war that tore apart the content of Verbist for three generations, lazy retired soldier Toru Acura wanders the world with no place to go. When he meets Chaika, a mysterious teen sorceress carrying a large coffin, Toru and his bossy adopted sister Akari, decide to tag along when Chaika ‘hires’ them for an infiltration job.

First Look: Black Bullet

In the future, a parasitic virus that turns humans into monsters has wiped out the bulk of humanity. The survivors live in cities walled off by a metal effective against the monsters, also used to create bullets. Some girls are born with the virus and can utilize it for superpowers, making them humanity’s last hope to fight against their enemy.

First Look: Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!!

Matsutaro Sakaguchi is a giant of a man, towering over all of his peers. Rude, rough, brash, lazy, lecherous, and a whole other slew of bad habits make him a pretty unpopular guy. Despite all that, he’s hands down one of the strongest guys in town and soon learns to use his strength in the Sumo ring, if his bad habits don’t stop him first.

First Look: Brynhildr In the Darkness

10 years after losing his childhood friend in an accident, a young man is shocked when a girl that looks just like her transfers to his school. Is her appearance just a coincidence or is she harboring some deeper secrets?

First Look: One Week Friends

Honest Yuki Hase would love to befriend the lonely Kaori Fujimiya, but she keeps pushing him away, saying she can’t make any friends. When he finally gets her to warm up to him, Kaori reveals a most inconvenient truth…

The Wrap-Up: Winter 2014

It’s that time of the year again when all of our contributors get to shine a spotlight on the show they thought to be the very best of the past Winter season, as well as reflect back on the preview to see which shows let us down the most.