It’s a typical day in the Yuzuki household. Older brother Hayato is getting his younger brothers out the door and on the road to school. Having lost their parents a few years earlier, Hayato, a high school teacher, has taken it upon himself to support his family: Mikoto, Minato, and Gakuto. Middle child Minato sees… Read More First Impression: The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons
“Be forewarned that what’s to come isn’t a very pleasant story.” So says Goro, a blue-haired schoolboy who is about to tell us how he became…God? We meet him as he admires videos of idol singer Honoka on the rooftop of a school where the students wear ridiculous shirts without sleeves. I’d be sad, too!… Read More First Impression: KamiErabi GOD.app
If ninjas still existed, operating in the shadows as they once did, would they be wearing outrageous clothing and proclaiming their love for ramen? Or would they have infiltrated Japanese society, keeping an eye on situations and individuals as they blend into the background as students, deliverymen, and bystanders? In Under Ninja the latter is… Read More First Impression: UNDER NINJA
All you 90s kids, have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back to that time? Konoha Akisato gets the chance and is now stuck in 1992 with no way of returning (as of episode 1)! Konoha is an illustrator for a video game company that creates half-rate bishojo games about beautiful… Read More First Impression: 16bit Sensation – Another Layer
Season two of The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent starts off with the saint looking, well, anything but omnipotent. Episode one opens with some nature cinematography that is stunning, as if the animators decided season one somehow hadn’t been up to snuff and it was time to pull out all the stops. But with this… Read More First Impression: The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent S2
Allen is a powerful, misanthropic wizard who lives by himself in a forest. One day, he encounters Charlotte, the former fiancee of a prince from a neighboring country who is now a wanted criminal. Allen does not believe for a moment that the claims of her criminal acts are true, and he takes the girl… Read More First Impression: I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness
The corruption, conspiracies, and battles of the Bushin Festival arc are complete and peace has returned—at least that’s what the members of Shadow Garden believe. But something even more sinister is on the horizon. What it is…the Shadow knows! (Congratulations to the two of you who got that reference.) For a red moon is rising… Read More First Impression: The Eminence in Shadow, Season 2
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