In a world under threat by a vicious enemy, pairs of pilots—usually adolescents—use special abilities to fight back while operation living mecha. One such pilot, Zero Two, is quite unusual: sporting a pair of horns and a reputation as a partner killer, she exasperates her keepers, more interested in tasting people’s skin and going skinny-dipping… Read More First Impressions: Darling in the Franxx
“Colors”, a group consisting of three young girls who have made it their mission to protect the peace of their town. There’s the leader Yui, the mischievous Sacchan, and the game-playing Kotoha, and while they’re supposed to help the town out with troubles like thieving cats, as kids they also just like having fun and… Read More First Impressions: Mitsuboshi Colors
In Hakata, fully 3% of the population work as the most dangerous of profession: hitmen. In this ward, a series of events has been set in motion involving the city’s mayor, his bodyguards, and his murderous son; a detective and his allies, close on the case; a group of avengers hired to kill a college… Read More First Impressions: Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
There’s a moment in the first episode of Violet Evergarden when the eponymous character meets Benedict, a postal employee, and ever the soldier, begins to salute him. She quickly drops her arm to her side and bows instead, though, understanding either that Benedict is not a soldier or that she’s no longer in the army,… Read More Violet Evergarden and Transitioning to a New Life
Twenty-nine year old programmer Ichirō Suzuki is in the midst of a “death march,” the final few days before a game’s release as he works out all sorts of bugs, foregoing sleep (and hygiene) as he scrambles to complete his work. Finally hitting an end point, he falls asleep in the office, but awakes to… Read More First Impressions: Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
Welcome to Pop Team Epic, the show where the skits are all absurd and the plot doesn’t matter! That’s right, the plot doesn’t matter at all, just like that fake-out opening we got for Hoshiiro Girldrop. Here are the main characters, Popuko and Pipimi, now let’s see them wreck absolute chaos! It was hard trying… Read More First Impressions: Pop Team Epic
War has ended and peace is now ascending on the land. But there are those that can’t escape war—their lives during it and the horrors that stay with them. Violet was described as a weapon, a being used simply as a machine to assist soldiers and kill. But she must now find a place in… Read More First Impressions: Violet Evergarden
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