Yatora Yaguchi is a walking contradiction, embodying what are usually the mutually exclusive extremes of the teenaged delinquent and the honor student. He spends his nights hanging out with his friends, smoking “socially”, watching the game, and binging on ramen for breakfast, then dons his tie and blazer and pulls off straight As in class.… Read More First Impression: Blue Period
In this story set in the Taisho period (the 1910s-1920s), Tamahiko is the second son of the well-off Shima family, but when a car accident makes him unable to use his dominant hand, he is deemed useless to the family and is exiled to a villa in the mountains. Brought into a deep depression from… Read More First Impression: Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Orphaned, abused, and without any comfort or hope, Mirai Kakehashi leaps off a skyscraper the day of his high school graduation, resolute in his decision to commit suicide. But to his shock, Mirai does not die. He doesn’t even hit the ground. Nasse, a “special rank” angel, rescues him, explaining that her role is to… Read More First Impression: Platinum End
On April 19, 1973, the Earth was invaded by aliens that came from the Moon and quickly began to overcome mankind. They wiped out billions, while what remains of civilization holds on by fighting back the BETAs (Beings of extra-terrestrial origin and adversaries of the human race). Gundam-like fighters were developed to battle these monstrous… Read More First Impression: Muv-Luv Alternative
Somewhere in another world, some girls infiltrate an aristocrat’s illegal slave auction and lay waste to the participants. But before we get too far into this, we’re shown a grizzly old assassin in the modern world, finishing up his final job before he takes up a post to teach up-and-coming assassins. However, it turns out… Read More First Impression: The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
Breathing. Ice. Suddenly, an ice hockey game is taking place before our eyes at lightning speed. The voices of our young girls with gem-like hair and eyes. Their coordination is just perfect. Japan versus Canada, tie on the scoreboard, and five seconds to the end. A shot nearing the end of the game results in… Read More First Impression: Puraore! Pride of Orange
Once known as Gideon, knight and elder brother of the divinely appointed Hero Ruti, the man using the alias Red is now living as a lowly D-rank adventurer out in the distant, rural frontier, far from the war against the Demon Lord that’s consuming the continent. Ares the mage (a strikingly Hamaan-esque character with the… Read More First Impression: Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside
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