The GLORIO Chat Episode 178: The Top 10 Anime of 2024
It’s the podcast version of our top 10 anime, plus one more shout out to Look Back.
It’s the podcast version of our top 10 anime, plus one more shout out to Look Back.
The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2024 edition
If there’s a pervasive theme to 2024, I think it’s the constant sense of there never being enough time. This has been a noticeable trend for years, but this year it became impossible to ignore that a lot of anime were materially compromised, either in episode count or fidelity. The age of the 52 episode TV anime is dead, and I think the end of the 26 episode TV anime is not far off. We now live in the era of 13 episode seasons; a frankly inadequate number of episodes for many kinds of stories. Watching familiar stories try to fit themselves into this new format has been awkward to say the least. The shows I’ll be talking about are the ones I think are most significant, either good or ill, to my 2024 anime watching experience.
Before diving into our usual anime coverage, we say a few words on the passing of voice actress Atsuko Tanaka, laugh at the absurd English language release of Girls Band Cry, and share final thoughts on the disappointing Kamen Rider Gotchard.
I’m not finna argue with a Sasuke avi. Incel mad, I’m a weeb and a baddie
Artemis joins to revive some shows the rest of us dropped, we catch up on Sandland, and then we spend a lot of time talking about girls being stressed about music.
Dungeon Meshi is better than Frieren, fight me.
We talk about our Spy x Family CODE White theater experience, classic (?) 1986 video game Rolling Thunder, and, of course, more Drake vs. Kendrick rap beef.
We talk about the new Spring 2024 shows including the hottest new show of all: Drake vs. Kendrick rap beef.
Looking to start a new life in the big city, high school dropout Nina bumps into Momoka Kawaragi, the guitarist of her favourite up-and-coming band. Unfortunately, the band in question has just decided to call it quits, and Momoka is preparing to give up on music entirely.