The long battle for the city of Priestella is now over, but the wounds inflicted are here to stay. The victims of the Archbishop of Sloth have forgotten everything, or have been forgotten by everyone. The former happened to Lady Crusch Karsten, one of the claimants to the throne, and as the cliffhanger with which… Read More First Impression: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4
Maehara Maki hates spring. High school, for him, is nothing but loneliness. Newly transferred from a neighboring prefecture, living with a mother who works too much, he hasn’t had a friend in his life. The only thing he has to look forward to is his video game/movie evenings, with cola and pizza. Even worse, he… Read More First Impression: I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class
18-year-old Nao Kanzaki is the kind of girl who goes to the police and returns a coin she found on the street. Honest to a fault, she is accustomed to hearing she’s dumb, but she does not care much. Instead, her priority is honoring the teachings of her father, a cancer patient now living his… Read More First Impression: Liar Game
What if the future becomes the past? Imagine that riots, plagues, and international war bring about the collapse of civilization. Imagine the “Japan Era” becomes a memory, and samurai like those of old battle it out among decaying skyscrapers. Aoteru Misumi, an agricultural planner, lives in such a world, the world of the Sangoku period.… Read More First Impression: NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
Yuru and Asa, “the children dividing day and night,” are twins. One of them was born at the end of the night, the other with the first light of day (so far, we don’t know which is which). Consequently, their fates are as different as can be. Asa now spends her life indoors in a… Read More First Impression: Daemons of the Shadow Realm
Time is a funny thing: There is a certain vertigo to it. Sometimes, a carved stone older than civilization pops up in the river of my city—a city with a wall built by a Roman legion, Renaissance palaces, and Visigoth churches once ransacked by Napoleon’s soldiers. As the years go by, these backgrounds become landmarks of my own… Read More The Elusive Samurai, I: Tokiyuki and the Baptism of Fire
We descend from the clouds and hear the sound of a siren. The 20th century has just begun, and Lili Ichijoin is arriving in Edwardian London on an elegant steamboat after a long journey. Lili is a painter, and she’s here to represent Japan at the prestigious St. Thomas Art Academy. Starry-eyed, determined, and perhaps… Read More First Impression: Love Through a Prism
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