Keisuke Niijima used to be a productive salaryman on the sales team; he used to have a little joie de vivre too, as did his adult daughter, Mai. But ten years ago, the light of their lives was snuffed out when wife and mother Takae was killed in an accident. Then one evening, as the… Read More First Impression: Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru (My Wife Has Become an Elementary Schooler)
University buddies Tokiwa, Hagi, and Asagi are a little nervous. They’re about to go to their first grown-up mixer, at the invitation of a cute girl, Suo-san, no less. Only, when they rock up to the restaurant, there’s a bunch of handsome dudes sitting at the table?! When one of them calls out, though, it’s… Read More First Impression: How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer
Gaku and Haru have been friends since middle school, even though they make a bit of an odd pair. It all started when tall, handsome, charismatic Haru stepped in to beat up a group of delinquents who were about to steal the diminutive bespectacled Gaku’s brand new laptop—the one he’d saved up for ten years… Read More First Impression: Trillion Game
Chizuko is spending the week with her Grandpa. Mom is busy with work stuff, so it’s off to small-town life near the Sea of Japan for the glum middle schooler. She’s a polite kid though, not wanting Grandpa to feel bad when he too needs to jet off, leaving her on her lonesome at the… Read More First Impression: Acro Trip
Like her friends, our heroine is a big fan of a certain otome game. Unlike her friends, she would choose to be reincarnated as the villainess and not the goody-two-shoes, lip service-spouting commoner heroine. No sooner does she think it, than…she wakes up as seven-year-old Alicia Williams in the world of the otome, destined to… Read More First Impression: I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
Six childhood friends make a pact to become hunters when they grow up—er, at least five of them do. Krai is a little…noncommittal about it all. Flash forward to a dreary city street as Krai, now a dreary young man, face obscured by his hood, voices a dreary monologue as he queues up outside the… Read More First Impression: Let this Grieving Soul Retire
Little green goblins are grunting and gobbling around a fire pit as a hooded figure watches from the shadows. There are too many of them to take on, so the figure retreats, only to step on a branch in his haste, alerting the green guys and triggering a mad dash through the dark forest. Good… Read More First Impression: Loner Life in Another World
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