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.

First Look: Medalist

Tsukasa always wanted to be a professional figure skater, but having only begun training during middle school, he never managed to climb to the top and has largely settled for lower ambitions. However, his life changes when he meets a young girl called Inori who has been practicing skating in secret, afraid to tell her mother of her dreams. When Tsukasa convinces Inori’s mother to allow her to train properly, he becomes Inori’s coach and vows to make her a champion.

First Look: Sorairo Utility

Minami’s favorite gacha game has reached end of service and she needs a new hobby. After failing at every possible after school activity, she has a chance encounter at a driving range that sparks her interest in golf.

First Look: Momentary Lily

In a post apocalyptic world emptied by monstrous robotic invaders, a group of five girls battles them with goofy norse-themed weapons. When shy loner Renge shows up, they take her under their wing and talk a lot about cooking.

First Look: Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective

Despite her eccentric personality and youthful appearance, Dr. Takao Ameku is a brilliant doctor and current Director of Investigative Pathology at Tenikai General Hospital. She solves cases that others can’t, whether she’s asked to or not.

First Look: Yakuza Fiancé

Somei Yoshino is a friendly, well-mannered high school girl who lives an entirely normal life – other than the fact that her family is yakuza. However, her peaceful days are thrown into chaos when her grandfather sends her from Osaka to Tokyo in an arranged marriage to Miyama Kirishima, the heir of another yakuza family. Although seemingly polite and even charming at first, claiming not to have any interest in the yakuza life, Kirishima is in reality a violent sociopath who at first dismisses Yoshino for being boring… only to immediately fall head over heels in love with her after she sells one of her kidneys to repay a perceived debt of honor.

First Look: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

In 15th-century Poland, religion is king, and those who suggest otherwise or fall prey to wicked beliefs are burned at the stake for heresy. Rafal, a highly intelligent but arrogant boy interested in astronomy, is sure he will live a life of privilege, lauded for his brilliance — until an encounter with a man who suggests a radical theory of heliocentrism challenges his beliefs and sends him down a far more dangerous path.

First Look: Ranma 1/2

Akane learns she is betrothed to a boy named Ranma, the son of her father’s friend. While waiting for Ranma and his father to arrive, a girl and giant panda appear instead. Turns out Ranma and his dad can transform when splashed with water, and hilarity ensues.

First Look: The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Be Magicians

Ever since an encounter with a witch as a child, Kurumi Mirai has dreamed of attending the prestigious Redrun Magic School. Yet somehow, despite topping her junior high classes, she’s failed the admission test for the main course. Now she’ll have to adapt to life lower down on the academic scale, and deal with the quirky new teacher who’s been assigned to her.