Did the lack of great series during the summer season get you down? Not to worry! The fall 2023 anime season is already upon us, with premieres already dropping tomorrow! Yes, you heard that right! You won’t have to wait until October 1st, even, for the new shows. And as a matter of fact, if… Read More Fall 2023 Anime First Impressions
In a world of goblins, magic, and knights, Fate Graphite finds himself near the bottom of society. One’s skill—a power bestowed by the gods when you’re born—determines your place in the world, and Fate has a useless one, “gluttony,” which only has the power to make his belly grumble endlessly it seems. Of course, it… Read More First Impression: Berserk of Gluttony
Kouya Madoka is a photographer who is having trouble with his work. He gets tense and anxious before a photo shoot, and this is causing him to be behind in his projects. His boss gives him a job to photograph a race called F4, which is the bottom rung of Formula 1 (which would be… Read More First Impression: OVERTAKE
An…oddly…dressed figure (a face mask and underwear) defeats the dark lord, then attacks the NPC who was cheering him on. It’s Faeria Chronicle Online, also nicknamed Failia for how bad it is. High schooler Rakuro’s hobby is beating bad VR games—”trash games.” Assorted other things happen. His mom collects butterflies and beetles. At school, a… Read More First Impression: Shangri-La Frontier
Destiny can be ironic. Or so feels Ragna, the all-powerful dragonslayer, as he turns reptiles into liquid silver on a land covered in ice. The lethal techniques he has honed throughout his life would have been helpful in the past, back in the year 480 of the Sun Age, when he was a teenager and… Read More First Impression: Ragna Crimson
The future is here and gas-powered cars are going the way of the dinosaur. Well, unless you go to the track where real fossil fuel-guzzling race cars still reign supreme in the new motorsport series known as MFG (Not MSG…this is not an anime about monosodium glutamate). Enter our male lead from overseas, 19-year-old Kanata… Read More First Impression: MF Ghost
With Tokyo burning and Edogawa ward being destroyed by fires (and something else too?), fire sergeants and partners Daigo and Shun venture into burning buildings to help those trapped inside. With Daigo pushing himself further than what is deemed safe, the stakes feel higher than usual as they rescue those affected by the smoke, as… Read More First Impression: Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange
Crunchyroll debuted Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End by airing its first four episodes. To preserve our first impression format and help those who are avoiding spoilers from episodes two through four, the first two paragraphs below discuss just episode one. However, you can hit the jump for further discussion of the entire premiere. Fifty years after… Read More First Impression: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End