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…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 196: End of Summer The weather might be cooling down but these HOT TAKES sure aren't... sorry, that's the best I got for today... We catch up on Kamen Rider, then get one last chance to about our Summer shows before they end.

Blue Mondays Episode 16: Cheerfully Selectively Mute 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…

The GLORIO Chat Episode 195: It All Comes Back to Horses Jel and Gee still can't shut up about Horse Girls, but we do find time to talk about all the other great anime happening right now.

Blue Mondays will return on September 1st! There will be no episode of Blue Mondays this week because Zigg has gotten fed up with our abuse and run away. He'll be back, though, the little brat.

The GLORIO Chat Episode 194: Takopi Died For Your Sins We talk about some really good anime as we give our final thoughts on Takopi's Original Sin and talk about the amazing episode 5 of CITY The Animation.

Blue Mondays Episode 15: Talho the TradCath

God is Dead, Long Live Takopi Forget everything I said about Takopi's Original Sin being "tough to recommend" and watch one of the most uncompromisingly and stunningly realised works of animated art this wretched decade has brought forth so far.

The GLORIO Chat Episode 193: Banned In the UK We get too hot for the UK's Online Safety Act by talking about shows like Call of the Night and New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.

Blue Mondays Episode 14: Cool Mid-season Upgrade

The GLORIO Chat Episode 192: Summer 2025 First Impressions It’s the GLORIO blog’s 13th anniversary, and we explore both the darkest and silliest sides of humanity in the Summer 2025 season. It’s a good one!

First Look: The Earthbound Mole After an evening of drinking, Magi and Shio, two college students, bump into Mogura, a mysterious and highly eccentric “sage” who has been banned from the afterlife, and whose apparent job is to collect the ‘lamps’ of ghosts, malevolent or otherwise, within his…

First Look: Gachiakuta In a world strictly divided into the affluent and the poor, Rudo is a scavenger who takes pride in fixing and refurnishing old objects deemed "trash" by the privileged. After being framed for murder, he's thrown into The Pit, a gaping abyss the inhabitants cast both their…

First Look: CITY The Animation A look into the daily lives of a few ordinary people in the city.

First Look: Nyaight of the Living Cat A mysterious virus that turns people into cats, a "Nyandemic" if you will, has been terrorizing the globe. One touch from a cat and you could become one too. Basically it's like zombies, but with cats.

First Look: Fermat’s Cuisine After failing to qualify for a high-level mathematics competition after the pressure gets to him during his final exam, former math pro Kitada Gaku now works at a school cafeteria, unsure of where to go next in life. However, after meeting an eccentric yet brilliant…

First Look: The Summer Hikaru Died Stuck in a boring countryside town with parents who do nothing but argue, Yoshiki Tsujinaka has no one but his best friend Hikaru to rely on. Their friendship is put at risk, however, when Yoshiki discovers that Hikaru has been dead for months, and his entire…

First Look: With You and the Rain A young woman encounters a mysterious animal left abandoned in the rain. She reluctantly brings it home and quickly bonds with her new pet "dog", a tanuki-like creature that might be as smart as a human.

First Look: Clevatess One of the Dark Lords of magical beasts, the eponymous Clevatess, decides on a whim to raise a human child. Violent antics ensue.

Blue Mondays Episode 13: Anyway Here’s Wonderwall 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: Detectives These Days Are Crazy! In his youth, Nagumo was famous for being a boy genius detective. Now at the ancient age of 35, he's tired, broke, and washed up when a young girl bursts into his office and begs to be his assistant.

First Look: Takopi’s Original Sin Takopi, an alien from planet Happy, crash-lands on Earth to fulfil his lifelong goal of spreading joy across the universe, and meets 9-year-old Shizuka Kuze, who is subjected to relentless bullying from her classmates. Determined to save Shizuka from her miserable…

Final Thoughts: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux Studio Khara's entry in the Gundam franchise is done and dusted, so it's time to ask the big questions. Were the robots cool, and was the war bad?