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First Look: Kakegurui Twin
First-year student Mary Saotome has one goal: to rise to the top as the pretty and popular gambling prodigy of the infamous Hyakkaou Private Academy. However, she soon…
First Look: Fuuto Pi
In the sequel to the 2009 tokusatsu series ‘Kamen Rider W’, the Narumi Detective Agency protects the windy city, Fuuto, from attack by hideous monsters known as Dopants.…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 116: Endorsed by Hideo Kojima
We talk about both anime endorsed by Hideo Kojima this season, then hit the backlog because there’s not much else to watch.
I made a visual novel!
If you’re reading this blog, that probably means you’ve at least got a tangential interest in cartoon teenage girls saying things written by grown men who have never…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 115: Summer 2022 Anime First Impressions
Somehow, we are still here after 10 years! After a look back at how things looked in our first season (all the way back to Summer 2012), we…
First Look: Shine Post
Haru, Rio and Kyouka are working hard to take their idol unit TiNgS all the way to the top, but their efforts aren’t translating into audience turnouts in…
First Look: Parallel World Pharmacy
Guy dies from overwork at a pharmaceutical company, wakes up in fantasy world with medieval level medicine. Also he has magical powers, a maid, and no shadow.
First Look: When Will Ayumu Make His Move?
Urushi knows that her underclassman in the shogi club, Ayumu, is smitten with her. Much to her frustration, however, he refuses to ask her out until he’s managed…
First Look: Made in Abyss – The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
Directly following on from the events of ‘Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul’, Riko, Reg, and Nanachi have overcome the monstrous Bondrewd and look to continue…
First Look: Call of the Night
Unable to sleep, a boy named Ko sneaks out to experience life on the streets at night. Just as he’s starting to enjoy it, he encounters a mysterious…
First Look: The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting
Known as “The Demon of Sakuragi,” the violent Tooru Kirishima is the right-hand man of the well-known Sakuragi yakuza family and has a tendency to kill first and…
First Look: UNCLE FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Seventeen years ago, some uncle got isekai’d. However, he was just in a coma and woke up back in the real world with an obsession with SEGA and…
First Look: Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
Deadbeat college student Amamiya Yuuhi wakes up one morning to find a talking lizard on his bed. It proclaims that his destiny is to join up with the…
First Look: Smile of the Arsnotoria the Animation
Five girls in a magic academy sit down for tea and scones.
First Look: My Stepmom’s Daughter Is My Ex
The title says it all.
First Look: Tokyo Mew Mew New
In a new adaptation of Reiko Yoshida and Mia Ikumi’s classic manga, Ichigo Momomiya has just begun her high-school life and is already preoccupied with asking out her…
First Look: Vermeil in Gold
Bland protagonist, who is also a wizard, summons a horny demon.
First Look: Luminous Witches
In a world where World War II is fought against aliens instead of fascists, Major Grace Maitland Steward, who has retired from active duty after losing her magical…
First Look: YUREI DECO
In the virtual world of Tom Sawyer Island, a young girl teams up with an elusive hacker to find Phantom Zero – the thief stealing everyone’s love!
First Look: RWBY: Ice Queendom
In the world of Remnant, humans and human-animal hybrids called Faunus go about their days as best they can with the constant threat of monsters called Grimm hanging…
First Look: BASTARD!!
The Kingdom of Meta-licana is under attack by demons, monsters, and sinister warlocks. Only the legendary wizard, Dark Schneider, sealed into the body of mild-mannered Lucien, can save…
First Look: Teppen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laughing ’til You Cry
The Teppen Grand Prix is the pinnacle competition for high schoolers looking to show off their manzai comedy skills. Yayoi, Yomogi, and Yuzu are three students from Kazuki High…
First Look: Shoot! Goal to the Future
Hideto Tsuji is traumatised by the mere thought of playing football after losing his childhood teammate. He definitely wont be joining the school team by the end of…
First Look: Lycoris Recoil
The facade of Japan’s low crime rate is upheld by a secret group of school girl assassins, called “lycoris”. A lycoris named Takina disobeys orders on a mission…
First Look: Phantom of the Idol
Boy idols, except one of them hates being an idol so the ghost of a girl idol takes over his body and probably hilarity ensues
The GLORIO Chat Episode 114: Spring 2022 Anime Wrap Up
We bid temporary farewell to the best season of anime comedies in recent memory, including some wild Birdie Birdie speculation for Birdie Wing season 2.
The GLORIO Chat Episode 113: Summer 2022 Anime Season Preview
As we rapidly approach the GLORIO blog’s 10th anniversary, we find ourselves still trying to get excited about new anime. Please read the Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 112: Evangeline F. Kimishima
We catch up on Kamen Rider and Digimon, talk about all the shows putting the “romance” in romantic comedy, and declare Birdie Wing the greatest television show of…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 110: Real Hip-Hop
We discuss wholesome monster girls and debate who had the best bars in all the anime rap battles this season.
The GLORIO Chat Episode 109: Hold My PP
We have a serious, nuanced, and mature discussion about the serious, nuanced, and mature anime of the Spring 2022 season.
First Look: Summer Time Render
Shinpei Ajiro is returning from Tokyo to his island home in Wakayama prefecture to attend the funeral of his childhood friend Ushio. Although Ushio supposedly died while saving…
First Look: Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
Izumi is perpetually unlucky, clumsy, and unassertive. Fortunately, he has a cute and capable girlfriend to protect him! WAIT, you’re saying she’s a girl, she’s cute, AND she…
First Look: Spy x Family
The rival nations of Westalis and Ostania are locked in a cold war, where battles are won not through force of arms, but through espionage. Agent “Twilight” is…
First Look: In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki
A clan of young kunoichi live deep in the mountains, far away from any men. Tsubaki, leader of the Dog Squad, finds herself increasingly curious and obsessed with…
First Look: Tiger & Bunny 2
Kotetsu T. Kaburagi and Barnaby Brooks Jr. are back at it as the dynamic superhero duo Tiger and Bunny, fighting crime on the hit reality TV series, “HERO…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 108: Spring 2022 Anime First Impressions
We give our first impressions of the Spring 2022 season, which seems to be full of light hearted comedies and slice of life series. No complaints here!
First Look: Love After World Domination
Desumi and Fudo are hopelessly in love and learning the ins and outs of the dating game. There’s just one problem – she’s the Death Queen of the…
First Look: Dance Dance Danseur
After discovering an unexpected passion for ballet as a child, Junpei, now a middle-school student, has forsaken his childhood dream to follow in his deceased father’s footsteps as…
First Look: Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic-
The student council is back from the dead! Will Kaguya and Shirogane finally hookup? Will Ishigami earn Iino’s respect? Will Fujiwara ever stop stealing every scene she’s in?…
Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Ultra Romantic-
First Look: Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness
Nagomu returns to his family’s Kyoto wagashi shop after a decade of failed musical pursuits, ready to inherit the business. But his father has already decided on a…
First Look: Tomodachi Game
A group of five friends is kidnapped and forced to play gambling games with a bizarre child-like character, with the aim of winning the money needed to pay…
First Look: Birdie Wing – Golf Girls’ Story
Eve The Rainbow Bullet golfs in high stake matches with money on the line to support her adopted family. Having lived in poverty her whole life, golfing is…
First Look: Black Rock Shooter DAWN FALL
The year is 2062 and Earth lies devastated after the failure of the automated workforce initiative Project Artemis led to a massive AI uprising that almost wiped out…
First Look: Fanfare of Adolescence
Yu Arimura is a 15-year old boy and former idol who quits his highly successful entertainment career to become a jockey. Enrolling in a prestigious horse racing academy,…
First Look: Love All Play
Ryou Mizushima enjoys playing badminton and hopes that he can continue playing it in high school with two of his close friends. Following an unsuccessful prefectural tournament, he’s…
First Look: Aharen-san wa Hakarenai
Despite his stoic appearance, Raido Matsuboshi desperately wants to make friends in high school. He starts with the classmate assigned to sit next him: a tiny, quiet girl…
First Look: The Executioner and Her Way of Life
Menou is an executioner with one task – to kill the unfortunate souls who have been warped here from a place called ‘Japan’ before they can use their…
First Look: Ya Boy Kongming!
In the year 234CE, legendary strategist Zhuge Liang passes away, signaling the curtain call to The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the war between Wei, Shu, and…