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

A Very GLORIO 2025: Gee’s Year of the Horse Despite our constant complaining, anime still finds a way to surprise me. I'll tell you what, I never predicted I'd be this obsessed with anime horse girls.

A Very GLORIO 2025: Iro’s Watching Science Fiction 21 Years Later As always, the people of the past have much more ambitious views of the future, even if that ambition is in how bad it'll get and why.

Blue Mondays Episode 23: Open-Source Eureka 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 203: Ubel Is the Drake of Evil Anime Women In our last episode of the year, we sneak in a few previews for next season before sharing what will likely be final thought on this season's anime.

Blue Mondays Episode 22: Stewie Novac 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 installments…

@glorioblog.bsky.social I spent a lot of time listening to your stuff this year. Been watching alongside my nostalgia trip down Eureka Seven 🙏🙏

The GLORIO Chat Episode 202: Tatsuki Fujimoto Is Cancelled Every week it gets harder to choose which Oguri Cap face to use as the podcast header image.

Blue Mondays Episode 21: Vodarac Don’t Crack 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 201: Cyborg Versus Santa Claus In addition to our regularly scheduled anime, we talk about more Super Sentai drama, the new anthology based on the early works of Chainsaw Man's Tatsuki Fujimoto, and most importantly, I finally got Iro to play Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 200: Tokusatu Takeover The Tokusatsu faction of GLORIO join the chat and talk about the end of Super Sentai, as well as the small amount of anime we're still watching this season.

Blue Mondays Episode 20: Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Taliban 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 199: Fall 2025 Anime First Impressions We talk about the new shows we're watching, and wow did I have to watch a lot of shows about robot girls.

First Look: Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! Melphiera Marchalrayd is a noblewoman with a hobby gossiped about by her peers – a taste for good food, and in particular, monster meat. Not to be deterred from her passion despite the judgment (and her parents’ insistence that she secure a suitable…

First Look: Gnosia A collection of wacky characters must determine which one of them is infected by the Gnosia virus, lest their spaceship self-destruct to contain the infection. The amnesiac Yuri is one of them, and repeatedly wakes up to a shifting set of crew members and possible infected each…

Blue Mondays Episode 19: A Second Coralian Has Hit the Tower 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…

First Look: Wandance Kaboku Kotani is a first-year high school student, intent on keeping his head down and blending in with the crowd – and getting by as best as he can without drawing undue attention to or being laughed at because of his stutter. However, when he sees a fellow classmate, Hikari…

First Look: Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! Two rival scientists put their differences aside to create the world's first artificial human. To their surprise, she wakes up and expects them to be her parents. In order to avoid suspicion and protect her identity, they decide to present themselves as…

Fuck AI.

First Look: Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love Yumeko Koda is a self-loathing young woman who is consumed by anxiety about her weight. However, an ‘accident’ sees her wake up in hospital with no knowledge of who she is – and a complete change in personality. Now outgoing and confident, she resumes…

First Look: Touring After the Apocalypse Two girls ride around on a motorbike through post-apocalyptic Japan.

First Look: Digimon Beatbreak In a world where humanity's thoughts and emotions - their 'e-pulse' - powers advanced AI technology, Tomoro Tenma is a weird glitch in the system. When digital monsters emerge attempting to devour his e-pulse, he's forced to team up with violent gremlin Gekkomon to…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 198: Summer 2025 Anime Wrap-Up We say goodbye to remaining shows from the solid Summer 2025 season. See you in 2040 for Newer Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt.

Blue Mondays Episode 18: Ken-Goh is Chuck D, Holland is Flavor Flav 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…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 197: Fall 2025 Anime Preview It's season preview time and we have an ACTUAL, legit reason to talk about Umamusume.

Blue Mondays Episode 17: Jesus Was the Original Surfer 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…

First Look: Kamen Rider Zeztz Baku Yorozu is an ordinary, everyday young man, living an ordinary, everyday life. In his dreams however he is the heroic super spy codenamed 'Seven', who battles to save the world. Now, as monsters called Nightmares invade the dreams of humanity, Baku will have to…