“So, to sum up Hikaru’s story,” says one of Hikaru’s friends, as they walk to school in a futuristic Japanese city, “last night, Hikaru, a troubled third year in Kitakagami junior high school, was gazing at the starry sky, as he often does…” We see a shoujo protagonist screaming with passion. “No. I thought I… Read More First Impression: Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms
Sport runs in the veins of the Inomata family. In her time, Taichi’s mother played basketball at the same high school her son goes to. Less suited for team efforts, her son has taken up badminton, where the struggle and the glory rest squarely on his shoulders. At the gym, the turmoil of bouncing basketballs,… Read More First Impression: Blue Box
Subaru Natsuki hasn’t been this happy in a long time. A year has passed since he was first summoned to this fantasy world. Gone are the sloth and envy that held him back: these days he’s working out, being himself, and helping everyone around him with his boisterous, flirtatious personality. When the calculating Anastasia Honshin… Read More First Impression: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
It’s been fifteen years since Akira Ono, a man whose eyes are always pixelated, created Infinity Game, his vintage MMORPG passion project, and put it out for the world to enjoy. Back in the early 2000s, it took the video game scene by storm. His anonymous NEET friend told him to share a little when… Read More First Impression: Demon Lord Retry! R
From ancient times, the boundless night sky and the numberless stars have captured the human imagination. For Aristotle, the birth of philosophy lay in the contemplation of the stars, while Plato wanted the wise to train themselves in astronomy, and Virgil and Seneca liken virtue to a “path to the stars.” Twenty-five centuries later, the skies above still fascinate… Read More Planetes in the Planetarian: a Church of Men and Angels
A damsel with wings (one black, one white) is chained to a pillar in a heavenly realm with columns and stairs. She begs a young man with a black uniform for help. A flashback reveals that Kai is an unusually thorough cadet of the Humanity Aegis Agency, Vishal Branch. Aegis is the unified defense force… Read More First Impression: Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?
When bookish, compassionate Jun moves into the house next door, young Rumi is instantly lovestruck. As the years go by, it is clear that they are opposites in every way: she is into sports, he is a living encyclopedia. He loves to talk about authors and books, she cares for appearances. She fails to stop… Read More First Impression: Love Is Indivisible by Twins