An adorably small Shima Rin gets off the train at a countryside station to meet her grandfather. No, this isn’t the latest installment of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, it’s actually a flashback sequence running through Rin’s mind as she goes on another of her solo camping trips. Back in 4th grade, her grandfather gave… Read More First Impression: Laid-Back Camp Season 3
Miwa Kurushima is desperately searching all around the city with her enthusiastic coworker Higuchi for a bartender. So far, they have had no luck. Each and every candidate, no matter how promising he looks, is rejected by the chief of the division, Kawashima, who conducts impossibly strict tests under instructions from above. Cardinal Hotel is… Read More First Impression: BARTENDER Glass of God
Allen is the son of a duke, but only for about thirty seconds, before he’s promptly disinherited by his blatantly villainous father for being level 1 and receiving no blessing from the gods. Secretly, though, Allen is the reincarnation of a long-dead hero and he’s super OP. He chances upon Princess Lise as she’s in… Read More First Impression: The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases
A blend of old and new releases, and first volumes and those more toward the middle fill our selections in this week’s column. As usual, love stories are among those we review this week, including the first volume of the Kimi ni Todoke spin-off, but other genres include comedy, action, sci-fi, and for the first… Read More Reader’s Corner: Dandadan (Vol. 7), Kimi ni Todoke Soulmate (Vol. 1), and Mr. Villain’s Day Off (Vol. 3)
If you were resurrected into another world, would it matter what form you were born into? Would you immediately give up on this second life if your new body was that of a monster? Would you be disgusted if your clan enslaved human women? Or would you do what’s necessary to survive with this second… Read More First Impression: Re:Monster
The gods are bored—very bored. So to alleviate the tedium, they have decided to challenge humanity to games. The system is pretty simple: the gods give some humans powers called Arises. These humans, known as apostles, can use their Arises in the games, which take place in “Elements,” a dimension in which the gods live.… Read More First Impression: Gods’ Games We Play
In a flashback, some nobles gang up on a commoner and, after mocking his puny magic, murder him. Even as he burns to death, he can’t stop admiring how cool the nobles’ magic is. He wakes up as Lloyd, the infant seventh prince of the kingdom. The OP plays, and then we’ve flashed forward a… Read More First Impression: I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability
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