First Look: Red River

Yuri is a typical Japanese teenager on the verge of adulthood, having just experienced her first kiss and about to embark on a new chapter in life. However, when she is suddenly pulled through a puddle by magical means, she finds herself in an ancient city in the Middle East, where she is quickly captured by the queen who summoned her to this world. Rescued in the nick of time by the queen’s stepson, Prince Kail, she must now find a way to survive the palace schemings – or else become a human sacrifice as the queen intends.

First Look: The Ghost in the Shell

In the near future, nanomachine and cybernetic technology have advanced to the point of becoming commonplace. Almost all humans have integrated technology into themselves. However, the world keeps turning, and governments and corporations alike jockey for control over the populace. Technology has merely allowed for new avenues of oppression and terrorism. Major Motoko Kusanagi and Public Security Section 9 are at the forefront of this new battlefield, fighting both technologically enhanced criminals as well as cyberspace hackers who lurk on the net. 

First Look: Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia

In the 13th century of the Khwarazmian Empire, Sitara is sold to an affluent family of scholars and begins her service and tutelage as a slave. However the Mongol Empire, at the height of its power, invades Central Asia and destroy Sitara’s homeland. Pressed into servitude to her new masters, Sitara resolves to take vengeance upon her captors.

First Look: Please Excuse My Younger Brothers

Second-year high school student Ito Narita moves home after her mother gets remarried. What she didn’t tell her daughter is that her new husband has four sons, all of whom are younger than Ito. Now living with Gen, Raku, Shu, and Rui, Ito is determined to be a model big sister, although the coolly distant Gen – a single day younger than her – may prove a bigger challenge to get along with than Ito anticipated.

First Look: Black Torch

Jiro is a mean-faced delinquent with a heart of gold and the ability to talk to animals. He nurses a mysterious black cat back to health, but it turns out to not be a cat at all: it’s the ancient mononoke Rago the Black Star of Doom. When other mononoke arrive in pursuit and Jiro is killed in the crossfire, Rago fuses their spirits together, and a new shonen battle anime begins.

First Look: Sparks of Tomorrow

In an alternate history Kyoto where electricity still fails to outpace steam power by the start of the 20th century, tinkerer Kihachi Sakamoto crosses paths with the gullible Inako Momokawa, whose family has come into the possession of Kichachi’s missing brother’s journal. Within the pages of this catalog, secrets are contained that could spark a scientific revolution — but our heroes are not the only ones who have realized its significance…

First Look: In the Clear Moonlit Dusk

Dubbed the school’s “prince” for her stunning appearance and perfect poise, Yoi Takiguchi is secretly tired of the constant admiration and attention of her peers. However, when the school’s other “prince,” Kohaku Ichimura, calls her beautiful and acknowledges her as a young woman with the same kinds of desires as any other high school girl, Yoi finds herself unaccountably flustered and, against all odds, perhaps even falling for him.

First Look: You and I are Polar Opposites

Outgoing, fashionable Suzuki and bookish, taciturn Tani are nothing alike. Nevertheless, mutual admiration for how they lead their lives without care for what others might think about them bring them closer together, starting a romance that proves opposites attract.

First Look: Hana-Kimi

Mizuki Ashiya is your seemingly cheerful, scrappy young girl living in the United States. However, after becoming enamored with a boy named Izumi Sano who she sees on TV – an up-and-coming pro high-jump athlete – she decides to move to Japan and attend the same all-boys high school, disguising herself as a boy too in order to enroll. Shockingly, however, Sano tells her he has quit the sport and never intends to compete again.

First Look: The Darwin Incident

Charlie is a normal 15 year old starting high school except for one detail – he’s the world’s first Human-Chimpanzee hybrid, a ‘Humanzee’. As he forges a friendship with loner girl Lucy, the eco-terrorists who attempted to free his mother are re-emerging with a new agenda.

First Look: Journal with Witch

When her parents die in a car accident, fifteen-year old Asa Takumi has nowhere to go — that is, until her estranged aunt Makio shows up. Despite a strained relationship with her family, in particular with Asa’s mother, Makio is determined to give Asa a new home and takes her in. This takes some getting used to for Asa, who decides to start chronicling her experiences in a journal.

First Look: Fate/Strange Fake

As ever, multiple factions of wizards and mages vie for supremacy in the Holy Grail War, summoning figures from myth and legend as Servants to battle it out until only one remains. But this time it’s happening in Snowfield, Nevada, United States of America; and all kinds of unexpected events are occurring in this strange, fake imitation of the original Grail War.

First Look: Pass the Monster Meat, Milady!

Melphiera Marchalrayd is a noblewoman with a hobby gossiped about by her peers – a taste for good food, and in particular, monster meat. Not to be deterred from her passion despite the judgment (and her parents’ insistence that she secure a suitable husband no matter what), Melphiera finds a surprise match in “Blood-Mad Duke” Aristide Rogier du Galbraith – adoptive brother to the prince, and a skilled hunter with his own obsession with slaying monsters.

First Look: Gnosia

A collection of wacky characters must determine which one of them is infected by the Gnosia virus, lest their spaceship self-destruct to contain the infection. The amnesiac Yuri is one of them, and repeatedly wakes up to a shifting set of crew members and possible infected each time they die.

First Look: Wandance

Kaboku Kotani is a first-year high school student, intent on keeping his head down and blending in with the crowd – and getting by as best as he can without drawing undue attention to or being laughed at because of his stutter. However, when he sees a fellow classmate, Hikari Wanda, practicing to join the dance club, an old trauma resurfaces, which he is encouraged by Wanda’s seemingly carefree dancing to finally face head-on.