First Look: Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo is plagued by a string of gruesome murders, committed by vicious, cannibalistic creatures known only as Ghouls. Ken Kaneki soon finds himself at the mercy of one, but miraculously manages to survive… at a cost.

First Look: Akame ga Kill!

A young mercenary sets out from home to earn riches in the capital and save his starving village. What he finds is a capital rank with corruption. He will see just how dark the corruption is when he gets involved with a group of famous assassins.

First Look: Rail Wars

In an alternate universe where Japan’s rail system is still run by the government, a bunch of high school kids join the train security force.

First Look: DRAMAtical Murder

Aoba is living a peaceful life, working at his grandmother’s junk shop and hanging out with his robo-doggie computer. That comes to an end when he gets sucked into Rhyme, a popular and apparently dangerous new virtual reality game.

First Look: Sword Art Online II

Nearly one year after the Sword Art Online incident, the government recruits Kirito to help investigate a series of mysterious murders. To find the killer he must enter Gun Gale Online, the only MMO in Japan with professional players.

First Look: Sailor Moon Crystal

Usagi Tsukino is an ordinary 14 year old girl who’s clumsy and bad at her studies. One day though she rescues a mysterious talking cat and is granted the power to transform into the defender of love and justice, Sailor Moon!

First Look: Aldnoah.Zero

In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission led to the discovery of long lost technology on the moon in the form of a hypergate, eventually leading to the colonization of Mars. Not long after, the Vers Empire, a coalition of the humans who left for Mars, return claiming the technology as their own, leading to conflict between Earth and its distant brethren.

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.