After many years, the Monogatari series has finally returned! The “author” of the first episode of this Off & Monster Season is Yotsugi Ononoki. She has been tasked with keeping an eye on Tsukihi Araragi, who on the outside might appear to be Koyomi Araragi’s little sister; but in reality she’s a phoenix, an immortal… Read More First Impression: MONOGATARI Series OFF & MONSTER Season
Young Tokiyuki Hojo is a consummate master at hide-and-seek, which wouldn’t be that strange if he wasn’t also the heir to the Kamakura Shogunate. The year is 1333, and Tokiyuki prefers hiding in treasure vaults, jumping from roofs, and running in front of his bodyguards to archery training or his lordly duties. Some at the… Read More First Impression: The Elusive Samurai
Nikola lives in a farming village. And then the frog-dragons attack! She meets a strange man named Haga who seems to be some kind of researcher. Nikola gives us a geography lesson. The villagers speculate that Haga is a King’s Seeker, a kind of elite investigator (a theory he later confirms when Nikola visits him… Read More First Impression: Quality Assurance in Another World
Second-year high schooler Makoto Hanaoka is waiting in the classroom at the end of the day for the author of a mysterious note to show up. Who will it be? The note almost sounds like it could be the lead-up to a confession, but that’s impossible, right? Sigh. Just as Makoto decides to give up… Read More First Impression: Senpai Is an Otokonoko
Three years ago, Clay’s father, a powerful thief and adventurer, disappeared while venturing into a dungeon. Since then, Clay has worked hard to follow in her father’s footsteps—and things are going well. She’s on a dungeon floor lower than any surviving adventurer has passed, and she is able to fight powerful monsters by herself. But… Read More First Impression: Dungeon People
Meet Noor, the well-beloved local strongman of a big medieval town. He has been digging all night to clean the sewer of a small street. Noor is big and frank, with scars all over his face and arms and a smile always on his face—the product of fourteen years of fruitless training, cultivating the minor… Read More First Impression: I Parry Everything
Second-year high school student Masamune Okumura is a guy who has sworn off the 3D world with regard to women. Having been abandoned by his mom at 8 years old, having his feelings rejected by a girl he liked in grade school, and being labeled a gross otaku by girls in his class, Masamune passes… Read More First Impression: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction
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