Five children have been injured on the swings at Hanamugi Kindergarten this past week alone, some of them complaining about being pushed. And Kaya-chan always seems to be nearby…When it happens again, Kaya-chan shows her cards and stands guard in front of the swing, forbidding anyone else to have a turn. This is not the… Read More First Impression: Kaya-chan isn’t Scary
The narrator may have a cutesy voice, but the message is sinister: “Hey you there! Are you on social media? I bet you are. Now, picture this…What is going to happen to your account when you die?” For his part, Soji Enishiro has probably never given such techno-philosophical questions any consideration; he’s too busy jumping… Read More First Impression: Dead Account
Luna lives with her many animal familiars in a mushroom (champignon) house deep in the Black Forest, where she spends her days making medicines for the nearby townsfolk, though they know it not. If they did, they wouldn’t use the medicine, no matter how effective it is at curing any and all ailments. That’s because… Read More First Impression: Champignon Witch
Lisel is dressed, coiffed, and accessorized like a noble, but no one can tell he is one unless he tells them. That’s what he thinks, anyhow, as he determines to keep his identity secret while ambling through a sparsely populated town market he later describes as “lively.” After selling some of his accoutrements for the… Read More First Impression: A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation
Night has fallen on the highway overpass. There’s a hole in the chain link fence protecting pedestrians from the drop. Car lights flash by, illuminating the lone strand of ivy fighting for life in this dark concrete world, before fading into twin dots of red. The music swells. It is atmospheric. Ominous. It knows something… Read More First Impression: Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
Seiichiro Kondou is a diligent salaryman who wrestles with receipts from day until night, even on his days off, so that before he knows it, he’s closing in on thirty with no life to speak of. One night, as he drags his weary body home after yet another futile battle, he hears a girl screaming… Read More First Impression: Isekai Office Worker: The Other World’s Books Depend on the Bean Counter
“This is a world where things like killing and torture have been legalized,” announces the opening title, following a pretty mid OP. In this world, the employees of independent torture contractor, Spirytus Co., banter, chain smoke, and chug cans of black coffee with abandon in the break room in between sessions of torture. Their “appointments”… Read More First Impression: The Daily Life of a Part-Time Torturer
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