We tear ourselves away from Fire Emblem for a couple of hours to talk about the very good Summer 2026 anime season.

We return after a short break, just in time to preview the Fall 2026 season.

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep"

We go in depth on The Dusk Bloods before diving into our weekly anime, including the return of Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You.

We start to make a case for Chainsmoker Cat as anime of the year, plus some spirited debate about The Ghost in the Shell.

Summer 2026 continues to indulge our vices with lots of smoking propaganda and lesbian robots.

We kick of Year 15 of the GLORIO era with a record length episode, featuring a record amount of nudity and drug use.

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, where she is quickly captured by the queen who summoned her to this world. Rescued in the nick of time by the queen’s stepson, Prince Kail, she must now find a way to survive the palace schemings – or else become a human sacrifice as the queen intends.

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 over the populace. Technology has merely allowed for new avenues of oppression and terrorism. Major Motoko Kusanagi and Public Security Section 9 are at the forefront of this new battlefield, fighting both technologically enhanced criminals as well as cyberspace hackers who lurk on the net. 

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.

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. Pressed into servitude to her new masters, Sitara resolves to take vengeance upon her captors.

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 to be a model big sister, although the coolly distant Gen – a single day younger than her – may prove a bigger challenge to get along with than Ito anticipated.

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.

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 and Jiro is killed in the crossfire, Rago fuses their spirits together, and a new shonen battle anime begins.

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 journal. Within the pages of this catalog, secrets are contained that could spark a scientific revolution — but our heroes are not the only ones who have realized its significance…

"I think my eyes never shone so bright as they did when I was young"

We try to hide our disappointment as we give our final thoughts on the Spring 2026 season.

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 podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show This week it's the fifth and final of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss the conclusion of the reboot film trilogy in 'Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution'

We're back with some previews for the Summer 2026 season and final thoughts on season 2 of Dorohedoro.

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 of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show This installment it's the fourth of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss further adventures in reboots in 'Anemone: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution'

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.

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).

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.

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 of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show. This installment it's the third of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss the reboot movie 'Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 1'

We talk about the rest of the new Spring 2026 shows, Jel attempts to get cancelled multiple times, and we sound REALLY old.

A split episode this time as we wrap up the Winter 2026 anime season and start talking about the Spring season. DOROHEDORO IS BACK!!!

We preview the Spring 2026 anime season which most importantly means DORORHEDORO IS BACK.

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 of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show. This installment it's the second of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss the alternate continuity movie 'Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers'

We celebrate International Women's Day by talking about 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 for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show. This installment it's the first of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss the show's manga adaptation 'Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven' by Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondou

We talk about the end of Number One Sentai Gozyuger and Super Sentai in general, along with our regular slate of Winter 2026 anime.

"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 importantly, is it any fun to play? Let’s find out.

Technology is a fickle mistress sometimes

This is the first time that I've been to a birthday party that turned into a funeral halfway through.

We add You and I are Polar Opposites, Oshi no Ko, and Isekai Office Worker into the mix, also Digimon War Crimes.

Blue Mondays is taking a week off due to that ever present nemesis, 'unforseen issues'

We add Frieren season 2 to the watch list and nerd out over Fate/Strange Fake for forty minutes.

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 of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show. This installment, it's the grand finale as we cover Episode 49 "Shout to the Top!" and Episode 50 "Wish Upon a Star"

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 her as a young woman with the same kinds of desires as any other high school girl, Yoi finds herself unaccountably flustered and, against all odds, perhaps even falling for him.

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 opposites attract.

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.

New year, new season, new anime. Some of them are actually good!

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.

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 school, disguising herself as a boy too in order to enroll. Shockingly, however, Sano tells her he has quit the sport and never intends to compete again.

Kinme is a young woman who runs a laundry service. She really loves laundry.

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 agenda.

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 takes her in. This takes some getting used to for Asa, who decides to start chronicling her experiences in a journal.

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 kinds of unexpected events are occurring in this strange, fake imitation of the original Grail War.

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 of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show. This installment we cover Episode 47 "Acperience 4" and Episode 48 "Ballet Mechanique"