Koharu Sato is known for being cold to anyone who dares approach her at school. Even Sota Oshio—who previously had a friendly talk with her in middle school—hasn’t had much success. That is, until one fateful day when she turns up at his family’s café. She’s there all by herself, fiddling around with her phone,… Read More First Impression: The Cold Sato-san Is Only Sweet to Me
Romance, creativity, anxiety, ambition, and more are all on the menu in this week’s Reader’s Corner! We’re falling for the adorably earnest The Oblivious Girl and the Maidenly Man, watching a sixty-five-year-old widow discover an unexpected new passion in The Credits Roll into the Sea, and exploring the blurry line between imagination and reality in… Read More Reader’s Corner: The Oblivious Girl and the Maidenly Man, The Credits Roll into the Sea, and Daydream Darling
Payphones. Nobody uses them anymore, right? So why are they still around? I know, you’re thinking that the authorities still haven’t gotten around to it, or something. Well, you’re wrong. The real reason lies in the doings of a secret society called PSYREN, who may use them to teleport you to another world. If you’re… Read More First Impression: PSYREN
Akira Yagami is the type of senpai you want to have: He stays late and works with you, and then, learning that today is your anniversary, lets you slip away while he completes the task. He’s such a solid guy, in fact, that it’s unfortunately no surprise when he protects a young boy from oncoming… Read More First Impression: So What’s Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin?
Noriko frequently dreams of another world, an alternate universe of green hills and vast forests, and of a golden bird flying through. But when the bird shows up in reality, Noriko chases after it and finds herself transported to the world she’s dreamed of, except this universe has dangers she hasn’t imagined: monstrous creatures who… Read More First Impression: From Far Away
Ever since her grandmother passed away, Rose, the “good Witch of the Lake,” has been brewing potions in a little hermitage all by herself. She’s able to get by just fine, but her heart aches for a man she met four years ago, Harij, who probably doesn’t even know she exists. This has been troubling… Read More First Impression: Hello, I Am a Witch and My Crush Wants Me to Make a Love Potion!
The second season of Blue Box picks up exactly where the first one ended. After the emotional ending of the first season, Taiki has definitively made his choice, and he is moving forward, being rewarded for his decision with a kind of date! Once all the misunderstandings have been cleared, Chinatsu-senpai has agreed to go… Read More First Impression: Blue Box Season 2
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