Con season is in full swing! On the back of our coverage of all the madness and fun at Anime Expo 2025, we’re on the road again—this time to Houston, Texas, and Anime Matsuri! It’s a convention we know well, having covered it time and time again, leading to some of our favorite articles, like… Read More Anime Matsuri 2025: Cosplay, Biblical Themes in Christianity + More!
It’s a high school bowling club competition, and Mai’s turn is up. She steadies her breathing, focuses on the center pin, and releases the ball. It’s a strike! That makes a turkey or three in a row for Mai and Rina, her partner in the doubles event. But when Mai tries to follow up with… Read More First Impression: Turkey!
What if you made friends with the second prettiest girl in the class? What if your championship-hopeful soccer team was lacking in manpower? And what if the party members were the ones who killed the hero? All those questions—a whole lot more—are answered in the titles we’re reviewing in this week’s column! Dive right in!… Read More Reader’s Corner: A Reincarnated Witch Spells Doom (Vol. 6), I Made Friends with the 2nd Prettiest Girl in My Class (Vol. 1), and Who Killed the Hero?
Wada is soooo quiet and strait-laced, she totally thinks she’s better than everyone else. And Yamamoto is just plain scary—gyarus just are, right? Her glare can kill you at a hundred paces. At least, this is what everyone in class thinks about these two! But in reality, Wada is a complete spitfire of a gamer… Read More First Impression: See You Tomorrow at the Food Court
High school is the perfect chance to reinvent yourself—so thinks Renako Amaori, an introvert who played the role of friendless loner all through middle school. But now, she’s part of her class’s “in” group, led by the “flawless princess darling,” Mai Ouduka. But change isn’t easy, and one day, feeling overwhelmed by social expectations, Renako… Read More First Impression: There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless…
A yakuza messenger on a motorcycle carries out his final “delivery,” paying off his debt and lining up a new chapter in his life. Except that the new “Second Head of the Family” isn’t so keen on letting him see the dawn of a new tomorrow, and sends a fleet of gun-toting snarky yes-men to… Read More First Impression: Hotel Inhumans
Every day, heaps of trash are stored in underground galleries, forming disgusting piles never to be seen or thought of again. Rudo, a boy of the slums, revels in them. He follows the trash, he knows it intimately, and he knows where to get the best loot. He then sells what can be mended in… Read More First Impression: Gachiakuta
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