At a certain idol production agency, a new division is created, and several promising elementary school girls are selected to be in this division, while a hot-blooded staff member is selected to be the group’s producer. Among the girls of this division is Arisu Tachibana, a girl who doesn’t like to be treated like a… Read More First Impression: The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149
Ok everyone, get comfortable—this is gonna be a wild ride! The most highly anticipated new series premiere finally dropped today not just with a single episode, nor even a double, but with a feature film-length special adapting the entire first volume of the manga. That’s right, 90 minutes of sparkly idol eyes, beaming smiles, and… Read More First Impression, Team Edition: Oshi no Ko
The animation is stunning, the voice acting flawless, and the soundtrack expansive, but what makes writer-director Makoto Shinkai’s latest film Suzume so very brilliant is the way it plays the heartstrings: this film will have you tearing up over an item of furniture and almost—almost—disliking a cat. In short, Suzume is set not only to… Read More Review: Suzume
We are in Japan and the year is 202X. Police agent Brian Nightraider (I kid you not), an East Dakotan (!) immigrant to Japan, solves more cases than any other officer in his department. But the way he does it— roughing up suspects, entering places he’s not supposed to, and rushing into danger—gets him into… Read More First Impression: The Marginal Service
Before there was Chainsaw Man, there was Mermaid Rhapsody, Little Sister’s Elder Sister, and Tatsuki Fujimoto other one-shots. We look at another collection of his early manga today, along with series about cute would-be couples, surviving the zombie apocalypse, an assassin charged with killing isekai’d humans for the church, and much more! Hit the links… Read More Reader’s Corner: The Eminence in Shadow (Vol. 6), Dandadan (Vol. 3), and Love’s in Sight! (Vol. 1)
The first episode of Dead Mount Death Play begins with quite a bit of violence, as what look like medieval soldiers battle against a necromancer named the Corpse God who takes the form of a giant skeleton who conjures powerful magic. This dark magician easily dispatches the squadron of soldiers but is then left to… Read More First Impression: Dead Mount Death Play
Ganta Nakami has a problem, bless his heart. He’s an insomniac—unable to get any sleep during the night, which leaves him feeling drained, irritable, and dreading the rising sun. Even worse, it’s time for the school’s Culture Festival and the girls in his class aren’t down with him to catching up on sleep during the… Read More First Impression: Insomniacs After School
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