Welcome to hell—I mean, NewTubu! Here, streamers with demonic faces and low morals reign supreme, caught in a neverending loop of easy cash, cheap popularity, and bulldozing the lives of others. After a compilation-style video anticipates the key moments of the episode you’re about to watch, a bloodstained opening theme shows us the face of… Read More First Impression: Viral Hit
Kazuma, the isekai’d antihero at the center of the Konosuba story, is going through a midlife crisis (as a teenager, no less). He reflects on how close he’s come to romance/getting laid in the previous two seasons, the movie, and the spin-off Megumin-focused series (providing a convenient flashback of his adventures for us, the audience)… Read More First Impression: KONOSUBA -God’s blessing on this wonderful world! Season 3
Haruka Kiyomine and Kei Kaname are the strongest battery in middle school baseball. With Kiyomine’s prodigious pitches and Kaname’s precision catches, this duo once had ambitions of shutting down anyone who dared step up to the plate, including the rather plain Taro Yamada, who lost at the hands of the duo and swore off baseball… Read More First Impression: Oblivion Battery
Stoic prince Oscar wanders the desert with his servant Lazar, who is endlessly critical of his every decision and would annoy a statue, but not his ever-patient liege. They’re searching together for the witch who lives in the Azure Tower and is said to grant you a wish if you overcome her challenge. They hope… Read More First Impression: Unnamed Memory
To say that Masaki and Hiromu Fujiyoshi have an unusual relationship would be an insult to the word “unusual”…and it’s not because they’re both males. In this world, people are given the classification of being Alphas or Omegas, with Alphas seen as a higher social class than Omegas. Marriage between the two divisions is extremely… Read More First Impression: Tadaima, Okaeri
The world of fantasy is on full display in the light novels and manga our writers review this week, from Setsuna’s continuing journey in both peaceful and dangerous circumstances to gods and goddesses off to war in Agents of the Four Seasons. In between, we also review the opening volume of a book less heavy… Read More Reader’s Corner: Agents of the Four Seasons (Vol. 2), Adults’ Picture Book: New Edition (Vol. 1), and I Want to Be a Receptionist in This Magical World (Vol. 3)
Banaza is the nicest merchant in Paluma, but his videogame-like stats are nothing to write home about. Nevertheless, he is kind and amiable even toward demihumans (who are often discriminated against and enslaved), treating them to a meal after a day of work. But alas, it is not to be. As he is chatting with… Read More First Impression: Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
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