The last thing our MC remembers from his previous life is that he went out to get a drink. Now inhabiting the 12-year-old body of Liam Hamilton, he doesn’t have long to reflect on what happened that night—he must learn about his new way of life quickly, and he’s probably right to think that it… Read More First Impression: I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin, So I Might as Well Try Mastering Magic
Mona Kawai has always been the cutest girl around and the center of attention. Boys want her and girls want to be her. She stole the show as a baby in her bassinet at the maternity ward of the hospital, and kept that streak rolling through early childhood, kindergarten, elementary school, and junior high. But… Read More First Impression: Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious To My Charms
Akira is a good girl. We know this because she provides each of the local cats with a dinner suited to its individual tastes. After noting the strange weather, Akira heads home, her good deed done for the day. As she enters the elevator in her apartment building though, things take a turn for the… Read More First Impression: Promise of Wizard
Natsuko Hirose is a young hotshot animation director who skyrocketed to fame with her first production—one that was so relevant it became a cultural phenomenon. Her next series is set to take the world equally by storm—except that she’s suffering from writer’s animator’s block. Time is getting tight and her hair is getting long (she’s… Read More First Impression: Zenshu
Leticia is a young girl who spends her days laughing with her pet dog, John, and enjoying the beautiful outdoors with all the carelessness a young child should have. All that changes though when her parents receive a notice that she is to take princess lessons at the royal castle and become a mature young… Read More First Impression: I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons
One day, former ice dancer Tsukasa sees an 11-year-old girl, Inori, try to sneak her way into an ice rink without paying. After chasing her around and scolding her for trying to bribe the rink owner with worms, Tsukasa notices that Inori has been trying to teach herself ice skating, and encourages her to talk… Read More First Impression: Medalist
Teruaki Nakamura is a high school boy whose family just moved down from the Japanese mainland to the sunny southern island of Okinawa, and even in that short time, he’s fallen in love with a bubbly classmate named Hina Kyan. There’s just one catch: he can’t talk to her—literally. Hina defaults to the old Okinawan… Read More First Impression: Okitsura: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She’s Saying
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