Trigger Warning: This anime deals with the topic of suicide. Though played in a humorous manner, it does depict methods. If these affect you negatively, you’d better skip this one. In a gray world, deluged by the rain, a writer only known as “Sensei” is heading towards a turbulent river to die with his lover.… Read More First Impression: No Longer Allowed in Another World
What do you desire the most? Riches? Power? Truth? All those things await you at the top of the Tower! Our protagonist has rejected that idea, yet he continues to climb, trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. The first season told us the story of Rachel, the girl with golden eyes who left everything to climb,… Read More First Impression: Tower of God S2
Young Tokiyuki Hojo is a consummate master at hide-and-seek, which wouldn’t be that strange if he wasn’t also the heir to the Kamakura Shogunate. The year is 1333, and Tokiyuki prefers hiding in treasure vaults, jumping from roofs, and running in front of his bodyguards to archery training or his lordly duties. Some at the… Read More First Impression: The Elusive Samurai
Meet Noor, the well-beloved local strongman of a big medieval town. He has been digging all night to clean the sewer of a small street. Noor is big and frank, with scars all over his face and arms and a smile always on his face—the product of fourteen years of fruitless training, cultivating the minor… Read More First Impression: I Parry Everything
As a little kid, Toka Mimori would be kicked around by an abusive adult who laughed and laughed like the Joker. Meanwhile, his mother just looked at the TV, her back to them. Time has passed, but Mimori’s world still plays by the same rules: in the present, his classmate Oyamada (who looks a bit… Read More First Impression: Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells
Izuku Midoriya is recovering from the last months, hanging his clothes to dry and reflecting as his country becomes a failed state. The comforting presence of his classmates balances the feeling of impending dread. He still wants to save his nemesis, Tomura Shigaraki, and the kid he sees suffering inside of him. Nevertheless, he remembers… Read More First Impression: My Hero Academia Season 7
“I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. We put all our trust in alchemy, but in the end…what is it?” In the episode “Rain of Sorrows” in FMA:B, Edward Elric shows himself to be a very different man than his FMA incarnation. Lost in regret rather than horrified denial, he confesses his doubts about alchemy, the Potteresque science/magic at… Read More A Tale of Two Alchemists, II: The Brotherhood of Everything