As preparations for the sports festival are taking place, the unmistakable sound of a shooting bow—the tsurune—is heard around the school. The trained ears of four students who are our old friends by now recognize it, and they all run to the archery club, which is officially closed for the day. Such a restriction is… Read More First Impression: Tsurune – The Linking Shot S2
Mahiro Oyama is your typical unemployed young man still living in his parents’ house, until one day when he wakes up and finds he’s been turned into a girl! Turns out his genius little sister put an experimental sex-changing drug into his drink, and now wants to observe the results as a “clinical trial” job… Read More First Impression: ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister!
You’ve never met a young man quite like Ray White. Open, honest, and polite to a fault, he’s talented and handsome, too. The only drawback? Ray is an “ordinary,” the first non-noble to attend the Arnold Academy of Sorcery. On his first day there, Ray meets his fair share of arrogant elites, but also students… Read More First Impression: The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World
It’s nighttime in the dregs of the Tokugawa era, Japan, and assassins abound. This particular one kills his mark, but not before the victim is able to plant a couple of clues as to his death for subsequent detection. Cut to daytime, and a young samurai is moping beneath a bridge when another young man,… Read More First Impression: Revenger
Lily is excited to finally graduate from spy academy and move on to a real mission. Having been hand-selected for one, she assumes that this is a big step toward her dream of becoming a great spy. But when she arrives at her destination, Lily runs into six other girls who all have this in… Read More First Impression: Spy Classroom
Tomo-chan is a girl who wastes no time. It’s her first year of high school and the cherry trees are still in full bloom when she confesses her love to Jun! Only, as it turns out, Tomo-chan has done nothing but waste time, as she’s been in love with her best friend for time immemorial.… Read More First Impression: Tomo-chan is a Girl!
Fuyutsuki is starting her first day at a new job, and her thoughts are consumed with questions as to whether she will be just as “stoic” in her new role as she was in school, with her tendency to express little emotion. While she is on her way to work, she comes across a man… Read More First Impression: The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
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