As is the case with a lot of detective anime, there’s been a rash of drowning murders in the area over the last nine months, and the higher-ups at the Metropolitan Police Department are getting frustrated. Every able-bodied man is put on the case…except poor Totomaru Isshiki; our eager detective bro is told to take… Read More First Impression: Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions
A snazzy comic book-style intro and voice-over catch us up on the state of the world: it seems that planet Earth is awash with…peace and tranquility? That’s right, mina-san, world peace! And with it has come a wide array of national superheroes, complete with head-to-toe lycra outfits and transformation bracelets. Japan’s hero is 14-year-old Teru… Read More First Impression: SHY
It’s December 1989 and elderly couple Youko and Osamu Sonoyama are looking to adopt a child. At the Soramame House orphanage, there are many kiddos to pick from, but one, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy named Hitori, stands out from the rest. Of course, they adopt him and bring him home with all his stuff. However,… Read More First Impression: Migi & Dali
When the cute witch Alyssa stumbles upon an abandoned human baby in the middle of a forest, she immediately falls in love and decides to raise the girl. Sixteen years later, Viola has grown up, way up, to the point that other villagers believe that she’s the witch and Alyssa is her apprentice. But make… Read More First Impression: The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch
An…oddly…dressed figure (a face mask and underwear) defeats the dark lord, then attacks the NPC who was cheering him on. It’s Faeria Chronicle Online, also nicknamed Failia for how bad it is. High schooler Rakuro’s hobby is beating bad VR games—”trash games.” Assorted other things happen. His mom collects butterflies and beetles. At school, a… Read More First Impression: Shangri-La Frontier
Destiny can be ironic. Or so feels Ragna, the all-powerful dragonslayer, as he turns reptiles into liquid silver on a land covered in ice. The lethal techniques he has honed throughout his life would have been helpful in the past, back in the year 480 of the Sun Age, when he was a teenager and… Read More First Impression: Ragna Crimson
With Tokyo burning and Edogawa ward being destroyed by fires (and something else too?), fire sergeants and partners Daigo and Shun venture into burning buildings to help those trapped inside. With Daigo pushing himself further than what is deemed safe, the stakes feel higher than usual as they rescue those affected by the smoke, as… Read More First Impression: Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange
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