The GLORIO Chat Episode 217: Summer 2026 Anime First Impressions We kick of Year 15 of the GLORIO era with a record length episode, featuring a record amount of nudity and drug use.

First Look: Red River Yuri is a typical Japanese teenager on the verge of adulthood, having just experienced her first kiss and about to embark on a new chapter in life. However, when she is suddenly pulled through a puddle by magical means, she finds herself in an ancient city in the Middle East,…

First Look: The Ghost in the Shell In the near future, nanomachine and cybernetic technology have advanced to the point of becoming commonplace. Almost all humans have integrated technology into themselves. However, the world keeps turning, and governments and corporations alike jockey for control…

First Look: Chainsmoker Cat Yani Neko is struggling to get through everyday life. To cope, she spends most of her days laying around her grimy apartment, chain smoking as many packs of cigarettes as she can afford.

First Look: Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia In the 13th century of the Khwarazmian Empire, Sitara is sold to an affluent family of scholars and begins her service and tutelage as a slave. However the Mongol Empire, at the height of its power, invades Central Asia and destroy Sitara's homeland.…

First Look: Please Excuse My Younger Brothers Second-year high school student Ito Narita moves home after her mother gets remarried. What she didn’t tell her daughter is that her new husband has four sons, all of whom are younger than Ito. Now living with Gen, Raku, Shu, and Rui, Ito is determined…

First Look: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha EXCEEDS Gun Blaze Vengeance For thirty years now Earth has been under attack by bad CGI monsters. With society teetering on the brink of collapse, Shiina Kuze makes her living hunting the invaders while trying to juggle caring for her little sister Setsuna.

First Look: Black Torch Jiro is a mean-faced delinquent with a heart of gold and the ability to talk to animals. He nurses a mysterious black cat back to health, but it turns out to not be a cat at all: it's the ancient mononoke Rago the Black Star of Doom. When other mononoke arrive in pursuit…

First Look: Sparks of Tomorrow In an alternate history Kyoto where electricity still fails to outpace steam power by the start of the 20th century, tinkerer Kihachi Sakamoto crosses paths with the gullible Inako Momokawa, whose family has come into the possession of Kichachi's missing brother's…

Blue Mondays is Complete! "I think my eyes never shone so bright as they did when I was young"

The GLORIO Chat Episode 216: Spring 2026 Anime Wrap-Up We try to hide our disappointment as we give our final thoughts on the Spring 2026 season.

Preview of the next podcast episode

Blue Mondays Episode 30: Chopped & Mid & Washed We have come to the end of our ride on the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 215: Summer 2026 Anime Preview We're back with some previews for the Summer 2026 season and final thoughts on season 2 of Dorohedoro.

Blue Mondays Episode 29: Reborn as the Villainess in My Favourite Mecha Anime! We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out…

No Podcast This Week No, I didn't cancel the podcast because Dorohedoro ended, we're just taking a break this week. We'll be back with more GLORIO Chat and Blue Mondays soon.

The GLORIO Chat Episode 214: Sweet Child O’ Mine We catch up on Tokusatsu, talk about the Gundam Hathaway movie, and Jel gets cut due to technical difficulties (and not because of the Go For It, Nakamura-kun! episode 8 discourse).

The GLORIO Chat Episode 213: Graphic Design Is My Passion We're now deep into the Spring 2026 season. Some shows are hanging in there, some are getting dropped, but one thing we know for sure: Smoking is cool.

Blue Mondays Episode 28: Footage Not Found We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 212: Anime for Old People We talk about the rest of the new Spring 2026 shows, Jel attempts to get cancelled multiple times, and we sound REALLY old.

The GLORIO Chat Episode 211: Winter 2026 Final Thoughts (and some Spring First Looks) A split episode this time as we wrap up the Winter 2026 anime season and start talking about the Spring season. DOROHEDORO IS BACK!!!

The GLORIO Chat Episode 210: Spring 2026 Anime Preview We preview the Spring 2026 anime season which most importantly means DORORHEDORO IS BACK.

Blue Mondays Episode 27: I Have Never Punched a Child In My Life We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 209: Shout Out to Women We celebrate International Women's Day by talking about anime.

Blue Mondays Episode 26: Come Home Young Man, the War is Over We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 208: The End of Super Sentai We talk about the end of Number One Sentai Gozyuger and Super Sentai in general, along with our regular slate of Winter 2026 anime.

Is the board game about running an anime studio worth playing? "Jisogi: Anime Studio Tycoon", is a board game about running your oxn anime studio, but does it actually deliver on this promise, or is this yet another abstract efficiency puzzle with a fancy coat of paint? And, perhaps most…

Blue Mondays is delayed…again Technology is a fickle mistress sometimes

Final Thoughts: Number One Sentai Gozyuger (& Super Sentai) This is the first time that I've been to a birthday party that turned into a funeral halfway through.

The GLORIO Chat Episode 207: Pokemon Could Never We add You and I are Polar Opposites, Oshi no Ko, and Isekai Office Worker into the mix, also Digimon War Crimes.

Blue Mondays will return on February 16th Blue Mondays is taking a week off due to that ever present nemesis, 'unforseen issues'

The GLORIO Chat Episode 206: Cyborg Priest Versus Vampire We add Frieren season 2 to the watch list and nerd out over Fate/Strange Fake for forty minutes.

Blue Mondays Episode 25: Over the Hills & Far Away We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main…

First Look: In the Clear Moonlit Dusk Dubbed the school's "prince" for her stunning appearance and perfect poise, Yoi Takiguchi is secretly tired of the constant admiration and attention of her peers. However, when the school's other "prince," Kohaku Ichimura, calls her beautiful and acknowledges…

First Look: You and I are Polar Opposites Outgoing, fashionable Suzuki and bookish, taciturn Tani are nothing alike. Nevertheless, mutual admiration for how they lead their lives without care for what others might think about them bring them closer together, starting a romance that proves…

First Look: The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife In a modern fantasy world, Yakou is a blind woman who works for a detective agency run by an invisible man named Tounome. There is a mutual attraction between the two, and they find time in their busy schedule to go on a date.

The GLORIO Chat Episode 205: Winter 2026 Anime First Impressions New year, new season, new anime. Some of them are actually good!

First Look: Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers 35 years after the events of the original series (known as Ronin Warriors here in the US), a new group of Samurai Troopers is assembled to battle invading demons.

First Look: Hana-Kimi Mizuki Ashiya is your seemingly cheerful, scrappy young girl living in the United States. However, after becoming enamored with a boy named Izumi Sano who she sees on TV – an up-and-coming pro high-jump athlete – she decides to move to Japan and attend the same all-boys high…

First Look: Wash It All Away Kinme is a young woman who runs a laundry service. She really loves laundry.

First Look: The Darwin Incident Charlie is a normal 15 year old starting high school except for one detail - he's the world's first Human-Chimpanzee hybrid, a 'Humanzee'. As he forges a friendship with loner girl Lucy, the eco-terrorists who attempted to free his mother are re-emerging with a new…

First Look: Journal with Witch When her parents die in a car accident, fifteen-year old Asa Takumi has nowhere to go — that is, until her estranged aunt Makio shows up. Despite a strained relationship with her family, in particular with Asa's mother, Makio is determined to give Asa a new home and…

First Look: Fate/Strange Fake As ever, multiple factions of wizards and mages vie for supremacy in the Holy Grail War, summoning figures from myth and legend as Servants to battle it out until only one remains. But this time it's happening in Snowfield, Nevada, United States of America; and all…

Blue Mondays Episode 24: Gulliver the Hero We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it celebrates its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main…

This is the shirt I was wearing while recording the top 10 anime podcast for @glorioblog.bsky.social. Apocalypse Hotel is really good!

The GLORIO Chat Episode 204: The Top 10 It's the podcast version of our top 10 list

A Very GLORIO 2025: The Top 10 The best anime according to the GLORIO crew, 2025 edition

A Very GLORIO 2025: Zigg Catches the Wave Zigg talks a little about his major creative project this year and how it's helped him gain renenwed appreciation for one of his favourite shows.

Euri chucked in anime this year... for sumo?

A Very GLORIO 2025: Jel’s Best Anime Moments Another year down, another GLORIO year to look back on