First Look: Takopi’s Original Sin

Takopi, an alien from planet Happy, crash-lands on Earth to fulfil his lifelong goal of spreading joy across the universe, and meets 9-year-old Shizuka Kuze, who is subjected to relentless bullying from her classmates. Determined to save Shizuka from her miserable predicament, Takopi quickly finds out that happiness is a lot harder to find than it might seem…

First Look: Teogonia

Kai is a young boy and rank-and-file warrior fighting alongside his comrades to defend his village against tribes of massive beast-like monsters. However, one day, gravely injured in battle, he begins to regain memories from a past life of a world far different from his own, filled with advanced technology and more.

First Look: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

UC0079. Zeon wins the One Year War, defeating the Federation and emancipating spacenoids from the rule of Earth. UC0085. Under Zeon rule, spacenoids still are not free. Amate Yuzuriha is a high schooler living on the ostensibly neutral space colony Side 6. Having lived in space all her life, she yearns for the world beyond the confines of the colony. A chance meeting with Nyaan, a refugee and smuggler, dramatically alters the trajectory of her life as she gets drawn into Clan Battle, the underground mobile suit duels that are held on Side 6. Elsewhere Challia Bull, a veteran of the One Year War, chases after sightings of the mysterious Red Gundam, once piloted by Char Aznable.

First Look: Apocalypse Hotel

After a devastating global pandemic, humanity has fled into space and abandoned Earth. Nevertheless, dutifully crewed by its all-robot staff, one hotel in a small corner of Ginza, Tokyo continues to keep the establishment in tip-top shape, awaiting the day guests will return once more.

First Look: Summer Pockets

Following the death of his grandmother, Hairi Takahara has traveled to the rural island where she lived to handle her remaining possessions. Once he begins exploring the island, he meets four girls, all seemingly with their own mysterious quirks that somehow speak to Hairi’s own unspoken, yet possibly tragic, past.

First Look: Vigilante: My Hero Academia ILLEGALS

Years before Deku becomes a hero, Kouichi Haimawari is an unassuming college student with heroic aspirations but a power ill-suited for highflying crimefighting. He’s contented with acts of minor altruism ranging from taking out the trash to helping people find lost items. However a chance meeting with vigilante heroes Knuckleduster and Pop☆Step pull him into the world of vigilante heroics.

First Look: Witch Watch

Young witch Nico was separated from her precious oni childhood friend Morihito when she went off to magic school. Now that they’re teens, they must live together as master and familiar and deal with wacky magic-based hijinks.

First Look: GUILTY GEAR STRIVE: DUAL RULERS

Taking place between the events of Guilty Gear Xrd and Guilty Gear Strive, Ky Kiske and Dizzy are soon to be married. But not all approve of the joining of human and Gear. Old wounds remain from the cataclysmic war between humanity and its creations that nearly ended the world. When a mysterious girl with a hatred for Gears declares war against the Gears and any who would aid them, Sin Kiske and Sol Badguy must go on an adventure to stop her.

First Look: Kowloon Generic Romance

Reiko Kujirai lives within the Kowloon Walled City, working as a real estate agent and nursing her crush on her co-worker, Hajime. Life goes on as usual, until Reiko uncovers a past that she can’t remember.

First Look: Lazarus

In the year 2052 mankind has become reliant upon Hapuna, a wonder painkiller developed by famous scientist Dr. Skinner. Three years ago however Skinner disappeared, and as our story opens he returns with a dire warning: In the next 30 days everyone who has taken a dose of Hapuna will die.

First Look: The Dinner Table Detective

Wealthy heiress Reiko Hosho secretly moonlights as a police detective (under the supervision of a totally different conglomerate heir who is also a cop), putting on a cool face whilst freaking out internally. Thankfully, her brand new butler and chauffeur is here to do the actual investigative work on the sly.

First Look: Anne Shirley

A retelling of L. M. Montgomery’s 1908 Canadian children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables, the series follows Anne, an 11-year-old orphan sent to live with the elderly Cuthbert siblings on Prince Edward Island. While initially expecting a boy rather than a girl, the Cuthberts take Anne in, where she comes of age in the fictional town of Avonlea.

First Look: Once Upon A Witch’s Death

On her 17th birthday, Meg Raspberry is told that she only has a year left to live. The only way to prevent this is to collect 1000 tears of joy; crystallised emotions produced when people are at their most elated around her.

First Look: Honey Lemon Soda

Previously bullied in middle school, Uka Ishimori is determined to make her high school experience a more positive one. However, old habits die hard, and she has not been able to make friends or shake off her ingrained fears. That all changes when Kai Miura, a popular blond-haired classmate with a devil-may-care attitude but a kind heart, steps up to help her fend off a clique of old bullies.

First Look: ZENSHU

Natsuki Hirose is a young animator whose meteoric rise has placed her in the upper echelon of the animation industry. However her next project stalls out, struggling to connect to the material in addition to the newfound attention she’s received. After eating a rotten bento, she wakes up to discover she’s been transported to the world of A Tale of Perishing, the childhood anime that inspired her to become an animator.

First Look: I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons

Leticia Dorman has spent most of her young life engaged to be married to the prince of the kingdom, Clarke. To prepare for this she’s been separated from her parents and forced to undergo a gruelling education befitting a future queen. So when Clarke one day turns up with another woman on his arm, Leticia is thrilled to be freed from her loveless pairing and immediately sets about escaping from court.