In the year 199X, the world had been mostly destroyed by nuclear war. Water, food, plants, and humanity have almost gone extinct. This leaves the remaining people to fend for themselves, piliging and murdering just to get basic sustenance. Everything seems to be a desolate wasteland with nothing but ruins and dust. Ken, a wandering… Read More First Impression: Fist of the North Star: Hokuto no Ken
Have you ever been knocked out in real life? I haven’t, but I have been punched in the face a few times in middle and high school. I went to a pretty rough middle school, and for the most part, it was full of disrespectful kids. Some did drugs and others wanted to pick a… Read More MEGALOBOX S2 – Fighting for a Second Chance
One of the staples of popular anime has always been robots, often giant in scale and battling in space. Long before Gundam and others, Astro Boy, created by Osamu Tezuka, was the first to make this genre popular. It’s also widely considered the “first” anime. The new Netflix anime PLUTO reimagines one of the arcs from Astro Boy, “The Greatest… Read More First Impression: PLUTO
The Forger family, consisting of a deadly assassin, world-class spy, a telepathic grade school, and precognitive pooch is back for more hijinks! The beginning of season two’s first episode begins with a review of season one before getting right back into the action with the Forger household. Yor, The Thorn Princess, has completed the job… Read More First Impression: SPY x FAMILY Season 2
All you 90s kids, have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back to that time? Konoha Akisato gets the chance and is now stuck in 1992 with no way of returning (as of episode 1)! Konoha is an illustrator for a video game company that creates half-rate bishojo games about beautiful… Read More First Impression: 16bit Sensation – Another Layer
Kouya Madoka is a photographer who is having trouble with his work. He gets tense and anxious before a photo shoot, and this is causing him to be behind in his projects. His boss gives him a job to photograph a race called F4, which is the bottom rung of Formula 1 (which would be… Read More First Impression: OVERTAKE
Have you ever wanted a sweet that was to die for? Well, in Sweet Reincarnation that’s exactly what happens to our main protagonist. He is vying for the role of top pastry chef, but when he presents his creation to the judges, it accidentally falls on top of him! So instead of our usual Truck-kun sending our hero to… Read More First Impression: Sweet Reincarnation
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