Akira may be a bit of a curmudgeon (as far as perky 17-year-olds go), but he’s a good son and devoted friend. He’s just been a little bit on the outs since he failed in his pursuit of baseball. Luckily, his friend, karaoke partner, and former teammate Kacchan is there to tell him like it… Read More First Impression: UniteUp!
A young woman plummets off a cliff toward certain doom, screaming that she doesn’t want to die. Repeatedly. It seems to work because in the next scene, she wakes up in the middle of a field of grass! Shaking off her confusion, Mitsuha searches her memory for advice from her big brother about what to… Read More First Impression: Saving 80,000 Gold in Another World for my Retirement
In all fiction, characters come along who stand the test of time and make an impact like no other. Such a character is Catha Crunoah of the Anos Voldigoad Fan Union…and of course Anos and the other main characters of the series. And they’re all back, still feeling the effects of the war that ended last season. Students… Read More First Impression: The Misfit of Demon King Academy Season 2
The story opens with our protagonist Dariel, a low-ranking soldier in the Demon King’s Army, in a bit of a bind. There has just been a major force restructuring and you know how those go—a pack of new officers come in with a load of bright ideas for how they’re going to whip this sorry… Read More First Impression: Chillin’ in my 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army
Young Seika is the third child of a noble household. Born from a mistress and unable to wield magic, his position is lower than his brothers, and Gly, the middle one, constantly reminds him of that. But Seika hides two secrets. He’s about to reveal the first, which is that he actually does hold incredible… Read More First Impression: The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World
Things kick off with a bang, and the bangs—and booms, and crashes, and explosions, and laser beams—just keep coming the whole episode long and it is glorious. A blindfolded woman piloting a flying mecha through the sky to an industrial wasteland of an island shows incredible skill as she dips and dives and brute forces… Read More First Impression: NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
Vash the Stampede, a man with a $$6,000,000 bounty on his head, is found hanging upside down from a rope (but still alive) by Meryl Stryfe, who is on the hunt for an interview with him. She’s with veteran reporter, Roberto, who believes Vash to be a monster who has taken many lives, but Meryl… Read More First Impression: Trigun Stampede
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