First look: Argevollen

The nations of Arandas and Ingelmia have been at war. Ingelmia has made advances and pushed Arandas to the Great Wall, an impregnable fortress that has defended Arandas since its founding. Then it falls, because of course, this is a mecha anime. Tokimune is a mech pilot in the Arandas army and after saving a mysterious girl, he happens upon the mysterious prototype, Argevollen. Yeah.

First Look: Glasslip

With her future ahead of her, Touko Fukami is learning how to be a glass artisan while her enjoying her final Summer break with her friends. Their routine is interrupted when a mysteriously surly boy transfers to their school.

First Look: Locodol

In an effort to kickstart the local economy, a small town businessman teams up his niece with Mugi from K-ON! to form a “locodol” (local idol) group.

First look: Free! – Eternal Summer

After both a literal and an in-universe winter break, Haruka, Makoto, Rei, Nagisa and that girl reunite for another summer of swimming shenanigans, yet there’s a lot of work to be done before they can start training again. Meanwhile, Mikoshiba’s graduation leads to Rin becoming Samezakura’s new swimming team captain, with all due awkwardness.

First Look: Is the Order a Rabbit?

Cocoa is a young japanese girl moving into an idyllic German river town. Despite this being the opportunity for some fish out of water antics, as soon as she gets to her new home, everyone conveniently speaks Japanese and it transitions into a show about cute girls doing cute things in a cafe.

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: If Her Flag Breaks

A boy with a curse can see flags above people heads. He uses his genre awareness to smash those flags so that they don’t get too close to him and draw a death flag. He is introduced to a girl with no flags and a girl with seemingly limitless flags.

First Look: No Game, No Life

Our story follows two siblings who are so good at gaming they have become an urban legend. They receive an invitation from the god of another world and unwittingly accept. They soon find themselves trapped in a world where everything is decided by playing games. Is this heaven or hell for our sibling pair? Will they even want to go home?

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: Captain Earth

Daichi’s father was an astronaut who died when he was young. Now in high school, he returns to the island where the launch took place and where he encountered a mysterious boy many years before.