As bold, colorful lights stream down from the heavens, Aishia, Rio’s contracted spirit, feels a spiritual jolt to her soul; there’s no doubt that something monumental is happening. Rio, who is together with her and his former professor Celia, rushes toward three of the lights and finds two youngsters from Japan held captive with many… Read More First Impression: Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, Season 2
A golden-eyed king charges a prisoner girl with treason against the Crown, and she begs him (in her thoughts?) to look at her one last time. Cue the opening, then back in time. Blood is thicker than water, and street urchin Nina learns this the hard way. After her parents perish in the plague, she… Read More First Impression: Nina the Starry Bride
When Kotaro Kawaii (!) was a little kid, he learned from his favorite show to make slime by mixing borax solution with laundry starch. The newly created slime, though, fell over his drawing of a penguin, and became a sentient, talking, shape-shifting being. A starry-eyed Kotaro shouted “Kawaii!” and named the slime “Puniru.” He would… Read More First Impression: Puniru is a Kawaii Slime
Keisuke Niijima used to be a productive salaryman on the sales team; he used to have a little joie de vivre too, as did his adult daughter, Mai. But ten years ago, the light of their lives was snuffed out when wife and mother Takae was killed in an accident. Then one evening, as the… Read More First Impression: Tsuma, Shougakusei ni Naru (My Wife Has Become an Elementary Schooler)
The Healer Who Was Banished from His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest, so why is he known around town as “Laust the Ignoramus”? Why is he walking with a wooden plank around the Adventurers’ Guild, searching in vain for an adventuring group? Not that Narsena is fooled for even an instant. She remembers the… Read More First Impression: The Healer Who Was Banished from His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest
In his own words, Hitoyoshi Yokoya is an average sophomore high school student. He has had the house to himself for a while now, which has resulted in a large buildup of trash inside. It wouldn’t be an inopportune time for a maid to offer her services, and guess what? That’s precisely what happens. But… Read More First Impression: You Are Ms. Servant
Rafal is a child prodigy in the 15th century in a country named P, at a time when people thought differently about many things. Back then, theology was considered the most important field of study. Naturally, this is the field that Rafal will dedicate his life to, not because he considers it noble but simply… Read More First Impression: Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
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