We often want to go back home, but where is home now? As we live, cities change, the mighty of yesterday fall, new players rise, and unthinkable things happen. Our little worlds become increasingly unrecognizable, things just go on without a clear narrative, and one day, it’s our own time to go. That’s just life:… Read More Blood of the Wise, Blood of the Fool
A silent figure walks in the snow, fully covered to protect himself from the arctic chill. Under the ice, there are clouds, lights, and strange animals. Meanwhile, enormous insects are repairing an enormous hole. Full of enthusiasm, our hunter prepares his harpoon gun and goes after one that’s bearing delicious eggs. We are under the… Read More First Impression: Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
Tsuyoshi Mukōda is a 27-year-old Japanese who has become as familiar with the isekai genre and its trappings as you, dear readers, no doubt are by now. When he is suddenly summoned to a medieval-looking fantasy kingdom to fight the demon lord with three or four young compatriots, he knows what to expect. A floating… Read More First Impression: Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skills
Blood is flowing from a sharpened metallic umbrella as our protagonist, Hyoma, watches in disbelief, the inflicted trauma reflected in his eyes. His older brother and sister, members of an order that deals with spirits tied to physical objects, have just been killed by one of them. Cut to the present, where Hyoma disregards the… Read More First Impression: Malevolent Spirits: Monogatari
Opening the door of a magic dungeon—accompanied by an old wizard, a fairy healer and a female knight—Saitou, level 8, feels accomplished. He used to be another disposable locksmith and handyman whose clients would simply refuse to pay 7,000 yen for “just a minute of work.” But now, he opens locks and chests better than… Read More First Impression: Handyman Saitou in Another World
Being a demon lord in Dickensian London is no fun. The extremely bored, quite friendless, and eternally young Marbas, one of the Thirteen Calamities, is hanging around Big Ben and wishing his life would just end already when he comes across Wisteria, a young silver-haired beggar girl who has the ability to see his kind.… Read More First Impression: The tale of outcasts
As preparations for the sports festival are taking place, the unmistakable sound of a shooting bow—the tsurune—is heard around the school. The trained ears of four students who are our old friends by now recognize it, and they all run to the archery club, which is officially closed for the day. Such a restriction is… Read More First Impression: Tsurune – The Linking Shot S2