First Look: Overtake!

Kouya Madoka is a professional photographer who’s haunted by a traumatic incident from his past and unable to take pictures of people anymore. Assigned to cover a Super GT race by his editor, he meets teenage racing driver Haruka Asahina, who’s competing in the supporting F4 series.

First Look: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

The eponymous Frieren is an elven mage who once journeyed with the Hero and his party to defeat the Demon Lord. As the decades pass after the adventure, she contends with the consequences of her longevity and the transience of her mortal companions.

First Look: A Girl & Her Guard Dog

At 5 years old, Isaku Senagaki became an orphan when her parents died in a car accident. Taken in by her grandfather, a yakuza boss, Isaku has been watched over nearly her entire life by Keiya Utou, the family’s loyal servant and her steadfast guardian. Now a high school student who longs for a normal life, far from the yakuza hijinks of what she’s used to at home, Isaku is ready to finally make some friends and maybe even find love. She’s therefore aghast when, with the permission of her grandfather, the 26-year-old Keiya bribes his way into the school to pose as a student and continue to protect Isaku from any perceived threat.

First Look: The Gene of AI

In the near future, Humans live alongside extremely lifelike androids known as Humanoids. However, this has led to a new breed of crime involving artificially duplicating Humanoids and selling them on the black market. For this reason, memory backups are illegal and strictly forbidden under all circumstances.

First Look: My Happy Marriage

Ever since her mother’s death, Miyo Saimori has lived like a servant in her own home, disregarded by her father and treated cruelly by her stepmother and stepsister. Years of neglect and drudgery have turned Miyo into a passive, downtrodden young woman with little hope for the future, although she remains kindhearted and grateful for the smallest pieces of happiness in life. When she is maliciously arranged to marry a military commander named Kiyoka Kudou, so famed for his coldness that every one of his previous fiancées have fled, Miyo fears the worst – but is there more to her new husband-to-be than meets the eye?

First Look: The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses

Komura has a crush on his classmate Mie – who normally wears glasses – and he must comically contend with the closeness of her physical presence and general inability to function without eyesight as she somehow repeatedly forgets to don her spectacles before arriving at school.

First Look: Ayaka

Yukito Yanagi has spent most of his young life in a foster home, but one day he’s summoned back to the chain of islands where he spent his early childhood, where it’s revealed to him that he has special powers to battle a breed of monsters known as ‘Mitama’.

First Look: The Marginal Service

In an alternate universe Japan, the Marginal Service arm of the Bureau of Immigration handles supernatural crime from “Borderlanders”: dangerous nonhumans who hide in our midst. They do this with construction-themed equipment and explosives.

First Look: Insomniacs After School

Ganta Nakami suffers from insomnia, and it’s ruining his school life. One day he attempts to take nap in the old school observatory, only to encounter a girl who beat him to it. The two become fast friends as they bond over their… lack of sleep?

First Look: A Galaxy Next Door

Ichirou Kuga is a struggling manga artist who must balance his professional life with taking care of his two young siblings – no easy task when reliable assistants are so hard to come by. With looming deadlines threatening to overwhelm him, Kuga is thrilled when a beautiful young woman named Shiori Goshiki applies for the assistant position and turns out to be extremely talented. However, there’s far more to Goshiki than meets the eye, and Kuga’s life is transformed when he discovers that she’s no human but an alien princess… to whom he’s apparently just become engaged.