There’s an area of Japan named Okinawa, and that’s where Harukana Receive takes place. It starts off with the story of Haruka, who goes to live with her cousin Kanata while her mom leaves to travel. Once she arrives, the sight of the ocean and beach leaves her jumping for joy and immediately gets into the water.… Read More First Impression: Harukana Receive
Chio is your typical below-average high school girl who loves playing video games and hates standing out. Her love of video games sometimes gets her in trouble when she stays up all night playing them, then finds herself running late for school… and when the shortcut that will still get her to school on time… Read More First Impressions: Chio’s School Road
After witnessing a violent event, Rachel Gardner is taken to a hospital for counseling. But she awakes to find herself not in a clinic, but in a strange, dark building, filled with literal questions and most frighteningly of all—a crazed man with a bandaged face wielding a scythe. As Rachel tries to escape this killer,… Read More First Impression: Angels of Death
TR, the administrator of Golden Plume Press, an OEL manga firm, is covering Anime Expo 2018 for us! Check out his thoughts below and follow us on Twitter, as TR live tweets his way through all the ups and downs of this massive event. Yeahhhhh! A thunderous applause shook the ballroom as the next wave… Read More Anime Expo 2018 Wrap-Up: Day 1
Welcome to the third meeting of our light novel club! I don’t know how it is where you are, but where I am it is sizzling, and a hot summer is the perfect time to pick up a book and an iced drink of your choice. In that sense, our selection this time, volume one… Read More BtT Light Novel Club Chapter 3: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom! (Vol. 1)
Hey, fam! We’re super excited to have a presence at this year’s Anime Expo, one of the premiere anime conventions in America. We’ve always produced some convention content here on the blog, but over the past year we’ve delved deeper, conducting more interviews, posting more photos, and tweeting out more thoughts—and on that last note,… Read More Beneath the Tangles Will Be at Anime Expo!
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