In a world full of unusual beings like aliens and animal/human hybrids, Tonome is a detective who is also an invisible man. While he can make it so that people at least see the clothes he wears, he can also go fully invisible, which certainly helps with his detective work, though it can cause minor… Read More First Impression: The Invisible Man and His Soon-to-Be Wife
Lisel is dressed, coiffed, and accessorized like a noble, but no one can tell he is one unless he tells them. That’s what he thinks, anyhow, as he determines to keep his identity secret while ambling through a sparsely populated town market he later describes as “lively.” After selling some of his accoutrements for the… Read More First Impression: A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation
When it comes to our favorite anime, I believe we’ve all experienced hoping for that sequel or that next season to come out after a hiatus. But imagine my shock when I heard that a sequel to the original Samurai Troopers was to come out after a hiatus of thirty-seven years! The original 1989 Samurai… Read More First Impression: Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers
In Fruits Basket, Tohru cares deeply and sacrificially for Kyo, but it takes him a lot of time to work through self-loathing caused by all the hurt he’s suffered and to accept that love. On today’s episode, Mike dives into that relationship and how the parable of the Prodigal Son similarly shows the love of… Read More The Power of God and Anime Podcast, Episode 34: The Prodigal Kyo
Once, Van was two years old. His father told him to study day and night, or he’d be useless. Once, he was two years old…Wait, what? You see, every day, our protagonist would take a train to his computer job, and every night, he would barely catch the last train back home. It is probably… Read More First Impression: Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord
Night has fallen on the highway overpass. There’s a hole in the chain link fence protecting pedestrians from the drop. Car lights flash by, illuminating the lone strand of ivy fighting for life in this dark concrete world, before fading into twin dots of red. The music swells. It is atmospheric. Ominous. It knows something… Read More First Impression: Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
Hajime Shinonome is a well-respected adventurer who makes his living by slaying monsters and selling the meat. He enjoys the simplicity of his daily routine, but one day, he notices the main door to the dungeon has been left open. When he goes in to investigate, he finds a young child having trouble fighting the… Read More First Impression: An Adventurer’s Daily Grind at Age 29
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