No luck. That’s how Sasaki Tsunehiro’s life goes. He’s in heavy debt that keeps accumulating, spending his days in a rut playing Pachinko, and apparently, sometimes attempting suicide. Most devastating though, is that he has a terminal illness that leaves him only about two years to live. Depressed but with a tiny bit of fighting… Read More First Impression: Negative Positive Angler
Dolan is a regular young peasant who works hard and is respected by his loved ones. There’s one thing they don’t know about him though: he was an ancient dragon in his previous life. When the lizards disappear from the region, Dolan travels into the woods to find out what’s wrong. The first person he… Read More First Impression: Goodbye, Dragon Life
Gaku and Haru have been friends since middle school, even though they make a bit of an odd pair. It all started when tall, handsome, charismatic Haru stepped in to beat up a group of delinquents who were about to steal the diminutive bespectacled Gaku’s brand new laptop—the one he’d saved up for ten years… Read More First Impression: Trillion Game
“So, to sum up Hikaru’s story,” says one of Hikaru’s friends, as they walk to school in a futuristic Japanese city, “last night, Hikaru, a troubled third year in Kitakagami junior high school, was gazing at the starry sky, as he often does…” We see a shoujo protagonist screaming with passion. “No. I thought I… Read More First Impression: Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms
Takuya Ohara and Rika Honjoji are coworkers at a travel agency, but despite working in the same office, they don’t often talk to each other. You see, they’re both introverts, so neither of them goes out of their way to speak to anyone if they can help it. They’re not proud of their lack of… Read More First Impression: 365 Days To The Wedding
Sport runs in the veins of the Inomata family. In her time, Taichi’s mother played basketball at the same high school her son goes to. Less suited for team efforts, her son has taken up badminton, where the struggle and the glory rest squarely on his shoulders. At the gym, the turmoil of bouncing basketballs,… Read More First Impression: Blue Box
On the 49th day since the death of his beloved dog, Hanako, storybook writer Hotaru Yūyami spots a pink mushroom growing in his yard. Not thinking much of it at first, Hotaru goes about his daily life, including mourning for Hanako and appearing at a book signing with his editor and childhood friend, Komako Amano.… Read More First Impression: Kinokoinu Mushroom Pup
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