Carredura Antiques is at it again, making dreams come true and then laughing maliciously as they turn into nightmares. How much more havoc will this snake oil saleswoman with her more-than-meets-the-eye sancta wares wreak on Cururunelvia, the Land of Prayer? We get a front row seat to the horrific consequences of people’s hopes for recognition,… Read More Review: Riviere & the Land of Prayer, Vol. 3 (Light Novel)
Sixteen-year-old Monica is the youngest of the Seven Sages, the greatest mages in the Kingdom of Ridill. She’s also got crippling social anxiety—indeed, she nearly flunked out of magic school because she would get too nervous to say incantations. To get around that issue, she did something unprecedented: She invented silent spell casting, no incantations… Read More First Impression: Secrets of the Silent Witch
Allen has failed the court sorcerer’s exam, and accepts a job tutoring a duke’s daughter. He meets Tina (the aforementioned daughter), the butler, a young maid named Ellie, and Duke Walter Howard (Tina’s father). Plot twist: rather than preparing Tina to attend the royal academy…Walter secretly hopes Allen will convince her to give up on… Read More First Impression: Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter
Spring has come to pseudo-medieval China. We check in briefly with a bunch of established characters, and get some goofy interactions between our favorite eccentric apothecary, Maomao, and our favorite court eunuch, Jinshi. The latter undertakes an effort to promote literacy in the rear palace by distributing copies of a popular novel, and sure enough,… Read More First Impression: The Apothecary Diaries, Season 2
At a luxury hotel, Princess Sisbell encounters her older sister Alice and proclaims that they are rivals, both to inherit the throne and to secure the loyalty of their knight in shining armor—Iska. He and his comrades Nene and Jhin, who were supposed to be on vacation, discuss the trouble they’ve gotten into. Meanwhile, in… Read More First Impression: Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Season 2
A Japanese woman dies of overwork. (Speaking of, what are the odds that Overwork-chan will someday eclipse Truck-kun as the number one cause of getting isekai’d? I feel like we see it more and more.) Young Dahlia learns about crafting magical items from her dad Carlo. Inspired, she decides to become a magic artificer too.… Read More First Impression: Dahlia in Bloom
A warm welcome back, everyone! Here we are again, for the third year running, celebrating some of our favorite women creatives who work in anime, manga, and light novels. Now, anime is known for its cute girls and strong female protagonists, and some incredibly talented women seiyuu voice them. But on International Women’s Day, we… Read More IWD 24: Celebrating the Women of the Anime, Manga, and Light Novel Industries
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