As someone who absolutely fell in love with Infinite Dendrogram after being introduced to it through the Light Novel Club, the series’s anime adaptation was easily the show I was most looking forward to this season. And it doesn’t disappoint. While not without room for improvement, it was a strong introduction. If you don’t already… Read More First Impression: Infinite Dendrogram (for Light Novel Readers)
Rumor speaks of the “seven wonders” of Kamome Academy, the last of which is most frightening—an apparition. Named Hanako, this ghostly spirit haunts the stalls of the girls’ bathroom, and can be summoned forth to make a wish come true…but in exchange, the asker must give something in return. Yashiro, bent on making her wish… Read More First Impression: Toilet-bound Hanako-kun
At the encouragement of her friend, Kaede decided to try out the VRMMO “NewWorld Online,” despite not having played many games in her life. When setting up her character, she decides she would rather not get hurt at all, and puts all her stat points into VIT (vitality, essentially defense). The downside is that she’s… Read More First Impression: BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense
The physical world is immense and full of possibilities—good and bad. But the world inside our minds is even more vast, full of imagination, potential, and horror. There are those in this world that live within their minds: children who can read their parents thoughts and find themselves lost in them, unable to ever form… Read More First Impression: Pet
Have you ever wanted to enter the mind of a murderer? There have been several shows that have attempted to explore this in detail, to see why criminals do what they do when others wouldn’t. ID:INVADED dives into this theme with an investigative team trying to stop a serial killer from creating more victims. It actually… Read More First Impression – ID:INVADED
Have you ever heard of a stamp rally? The premise is simple and you’ve probably participated an analogous activity before (we did one for the Alita: Battle Angel film): get stamped at various destinations and upon completion, perhaps win a prize! A stamp rally for the Yamanashi Prefecture, where the Outdoor Activities Club girls live,… Read More First Impression: ROOM CAMP (HEYA CAMP)
I am in general always ready for a good detective show. And when I saw that ID INVADED promised me a detective who somehow entered the “personalities” of murderers in order to solve crimes, by an ability gained from having murdered himself, since revenge drove him to that extent after his daughter had been murdered —… Read More First Impression: ID INVADED
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