Hello, friends! On today’s episode, Mike takes on a more modern anime in my recommendation, talks about his Anime North plans, and looks to a classic shounen anime and one of its main characters (Bleach and Ishida Uryu) to explain how God’s offer of salvation is gift that we choose to reject or receive. All… Read More The Power of God and Anime, Episode 20: Ishida Uryū and the Gift of Salvation
Cyber Inspector Echika begins a brain dive. Her assistant, it seems, is an android—or rather, an Amicus—and as such, he is imprinted with the Laws of Respect, aka Asimov’s Laws of Robotics. Cut to a montage of confrontations in dark, seedy alleys and dead-end streets, and then to a St. Petersburg shopping mall, where Echika,… Read More First Impression: Your Forma
King Grey is the most powerful ruler in a world with advanced technology. But one day, he suddenly collapses and is reborn in another world as a baby named Arthur. Distraught by the situation, Arthur tries to learn as much about this world as he can, presumably in order to continue where he left off… Read More First Impression: The Beginning After the End
In a world where monsters menace humanity, there are saints—women with the sacred power to fend off the monsters. They are considered essential to national defense. The Kingdom of Girtonia has the greatest saint ever, Philia Adenauer. However, she’s unable to smile, and everyone considers her charmless and arrogant; they also grouse that she disrupts… Read More First Impression: The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
More important than the final score are the sounds and sights of a baseball game; the people who contribute to those, from the players to the security guards, the beer hawkers to the fans in the stands, create a collective feeling that feeds the warmth of being at the ballpark. At MotorSuns Stadium, a “corporate… Read More First Impression: Catch Me at the Ballpark!
Meg the apprentice witch gets up in the morning, makes tea for her master, Ms. Faust, and feeds all the pets. Then her master drops this bombshell: “You are going to die in one year.” Apparently, Meg has a curse (which isn’t a hostile attack, but more like a congenital magical health condition), and it… Read More First Impression: Once Upon a Witch’s Death
Little Suzune was born with a bright red demon eye that she keeps covered with a rag. This eye is a harbinger of doom that brings abuse upon her, and her older brother Jinta is too young and weak to be her protector. He hears the hits and the begging. He hears her call his… Read More First Impression: Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō
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