First Look: Seven Deadly Sins

Ten years ago, a group of knights known as the Seven Deadly Sins massacred many Holy Knights in an attempt to seize the kingdom of Britannia. They quickly disappeared, and in the present day, many assume they were hunted down and killed. However, there may be more to this story than the people of Britannia are aware of.

First Look: GARO – The Carved Seal of Flames

In a dark age of witchcraft and demons running amok, the sickly King of Valiante trusts his vizier Mendoza to rid the land of misery and disease by hunting down witches and warlocks. When a witch gives birth while burning on the stake, a mysterious armour-clad fiend saves the baby and gallops off into the dark. Seventeen years later, Germán Luis reveals the truth behind the inquisition to a particularly interested prostitute, while his son León is chased by the king’s guard.

First Look: Amagi Brilliant Park

Apathetic Isuzu Sento forces prime narcissist Seiya Kanie to take her to an amusement park, though it quickly turns out that Amagi Brilliant Park is long past its prime. After making him experience the park’s miserable state first hand, Isuzu and the park’s manager present Kanie an offer he cannot refuse.

First Look: Gundam Build Fighters Try

Seven years after Sei and Reiji’s victory at the Gunpla Battle World Championship, Fumina Hoshino is the last member of the Seiho Academy Gunpla Battle club. Enthusiastic about gunpla battle, she refuses to join the plastic modeling club which has absorbed all prospective members. However, when she meets Sekai Kamiki, a boy who’s been traveling and practicing martial arts, she might have just found the best possible teammate.

First Look: Celestial Method

Kaori moves back to a small town where she once lived, but since she’s been gone a massive saucer has appeared in the sky. A mysterious, strangely dressed girl appears in her room and claims to know her from years ago.

First Look: In Search of the Lost Future

Our show starts out in some strange future lab, but quickly transitions to an established club in the middle of preparations for its big school culture fest. This club also has the strange double-duty of school mediators, both using information and force to resolve conflicts. After a conveniently tragic accident steals one of their lives, the future is somehow changed to stop it.

First Look: Rage of Bahamut: Genesis

The ginger-haired Dandy-like Favaro is a bounty hunter in a world where it isn’t that weird to summon giant demons and murder other people. Demons are also a big deal, and apparently there’s this big dragon that wrecked some stuff in a time gone by. It’s kind of hard to tell, there was no dialogue in the opening.

First Look: Kamen Rider Drive

Six months ago the world was almost destroyed by a catastrophic phenomenon known as ‘Slowdown’. Shinnosuke Tomari lost his partner that day, but now he fights against evil as the warrior on four wheels, Kamen Rider Drive!

First Look: World Trigger

Four years ago, Mikado City was the site of an extradimensional breach that led to an attack by mysterious creatures known as Neighbors. Today, the Neighbor assault continues but the city is guarded by the mysterious defence agency Border, and its agents known as Triggers.

First Look: Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon

Angelise is a princess beloved by her people and next in line for the throne. Her kingdom thrives on a magic power that can only be negated by individuals known as the “Norma”, who are quarantined and treated as sub-human. On the day of her coronation, she discovers a secret that shatters her way of life. Also, there are robots shooting dragons.

First Look: Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works

Ten years after Fate/Zero, the Fifth Holy Grail War begins, dragging Shirou and Rin into a conflict between magi and legendary heroes. Unlimited Blade Works stars Rin and not Saber as the main heroine, and deeply explores Shirou’s ideals and personality. Also, there’s a lot of dull exposition.

First Look: Wolf Girl and Black Prince

Erika is a starting freshman. She’s a pathological liar with a very vain concept of how friendship works. In order to get in good with some gaaru girls that are her neighbors, she pretends to have a boyfriend. After being pressed, she decides to take the picture of some rando named Kyoya to pretend he’s the genuine article. There’s only one problem: He goes to her school. In order for him to keep up airs, he wants to make her life an embarrassing mess.

First Look: The Fruit of Grisaia

Hoping to live a “normal” school life, Yuuji Kazami transfers to a school with only 5 other students, all of them female. They are all weird and probably have some kind of dark secrets. Other than that, I have no idea what is going on.

First Look: Log Horizon 2

A new expansion pack for the popular MMO Elder Tale transports thousands of players into a world where the game’s rules are physical laws. Trapped with no clear way home, they must band together and form a cohesive society, dealing with the many issues that arise from such a goal.

First Look: Gundam Reconguista in G

Bellri Zenam is a member of the Capital Guard in charge of protecting an orbital elevator known as the Capital Tower. When space pirates attack the elevator, Bellri runs into an advanced mobile suit known as the G-Self, piloted by a female space pirate. Managing to capture the suit, the Capital Guard take both the G-Self and its pilot into custody. However, when the space pirates return to reclaim them, things are not as they appear…

First Look: Denki-Gai

Our focus is on a book store in Akihabara’s famous Electric Town. If this is sounding familiar to long time readers, that’s because this is an adaptation to a manga previously reviewed on Iro’s old RMT. While he gave the manga a resounding “okay”, the anime seems to have elicited a different reaction.

First Look: TERRA FORMARS

In the distant future, attempts to terraform Mars have caused the creation of a race of sentient cockroaches. Akari Hizamaru is an underground fighter with special abilities. After he learns his childhood love had finally succumbed to an alien disease, he decides to join a group of humans modified to take on the aliens. Oh, by the way, the aliens look like early twentieth century racist caricatures. So yeah…