Rinko is a twenty-four-year-old otaku. Her apartment is her book-and-anime-focused sanctuary from the world. She makes it through the work day with hope of recharging off anime that evening. Unfortunately, her mysterious neighbor Usada pounds on the wall whenever she tries to watch most anime. Her other neighbor, Satsuki, is very kind and friendly. Somehow… Read More First Impression: Pardon the Intrusion, I’m Home!
Togo Sakuradaimon is a hyper-serious class monitor who sincerely strives to enforce school rules. Poem Kohinata is a girl who pushes the rules to their limit when it comes to things like hair color and skirt length. They don’t get along…until they both end up in supplemental math lessons. Poem is good at math and… Read More First Impression: The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt
Minato, who can see benevolent spirits but not wicked ones, becomes caretaker of an abandoned house that belonged to a distant relative. As he cleans up, he unwittingly drives out the negative spiritual energy infesting the place. Soon he also meets Yamagami, a mountain god in the form of a large talking canine creature. The… Read More First Impression: Kusunoki’s Garden of the Gods
Despite his best efforts, Natsuki had a “colorless and gray” three years of high school. Now he’s on the verge of graduating college and starting a career, but he’s still nagged by the regrets of his teenage years. Then he wakes up and its seven years earlier. He quickly accepts that he’s gotten a chance… Read More First Impression: Haibara’s Teenage New Game+
As we open, a shadowy man schemes to get Kiyotaka Ayanokoji expelled from Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School and returned to the White Room (a mad science facility where he was raised). The man issues orders to a cloaked figure. The scene then shifts to the main cast of students, who are about to… Read More First Impression: Classroom of the Elite 4th Season: Second Year, First Semester
A kid is running away from a rabbit monster. He accidentally kills it. Meanwhile, let’s have the camera linger on an elf’s huge bust. The kid’s name is Hibiki, and he’s sixteen, though he looks and sounds like half his age. The elf with the massive bust saves him from a monster. Her name is… Read More First Impression: The Strongest Job Is Apparently Not a Hero or a Sage, but an Appraiser (Provisional)!
Tiararose is a noble lady engaged to Prince Hartknights. The shock of seeing her fiancé with another woman causes her to collapse and regain memories of her past life. She realizes she’s the villainess in the world of an otome game she played, and it’s the day before the end of the game. Exactly as… Read More First Impression: The Villainess Is Adored by the Prince of the Neighbor Kingdom
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