Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End may have come to an end, but I don’t my journey with this beautiful series will ever come to an end. Check out these lovely pieces of some of that anime’s main cast! ★ 【夜色】 「 1 // 2 // 3 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission
An off-kilter lullaby and grainy image make for an ominous opening scene as a young girl prepares for the day in what seems to be the dormitory of an abandoned underground bunker. She bids adieu to an older boy, hunched over a desk. Cut to a close-up of a blue jean-clad butt. Then to an… Read More First Impression: Mysterious Disappearances
The average anime cour adapts 4-6 volumes of manga; Bocchi the Rock adapts 1.5. Yes, you read that right, one and a half volumes ONLY! Clearly, something unusual is going on with this 4-koma manga. How could it have provided such rich fodder for adaptation with only a fraction of the material usually required for… Read More Manga Review: Bocchi the Rock Vols 1-2, Team Edition
Sato Yumiko is two girls in one wrapper. To the public, she’s Utatane Yasumi: a wholesome, innocent idol voice actress. But deep down inside, when she’s at school, she can let her true colors fly, both literally and figuratively. In school, she’s a straight-up gyaru (oftentimes referred to as a “gal” or in the US… Read More First Impression: The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio
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
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