Haikyuu!! is one of my favorite manga and anime series of all time. The boys from Karasuno are continuing their trek in the national tournament. This episode picks up right where the last cour left off in Spring 2020. Due to the pandemic, this part of the series was delayed until now. So, if you… Read More First Impression: Haikyuu!! To the Top (Second Cour)
Supernatural shounen adventures in high school. Need I say more? Well, we open with a masked man announcing he’s about to murder the apparent protagonist. The highly athletic Itadori Yuuji loses his grandfather, leaving Itadori alone in the world. Gramps’s dying words are an exhortation to help others and build strong relationships so that Itadori… Read More First Impression: JUJUTSU KAISEN
One day after class, Yotsuya Yuusuke finds himself in a game-like fantasy world, along with the popular Shindou Yuu and shy Hakozaki Kusue. Shindou was actually the first summoned to the fantasy world. When she completed a quest, she got to go home…but also received a quest to become friends with Hakozaki. Upon completing that… Read More First Impression: I’m Standing on a Million Lives
There’s a medieval fantasy kingdom. The king is unwell. There was a big war with demons a century ago. The kingdom discriminates against the dark elves. Dark elf mercenaries and their leader Riheet hope to exact revenge on their oppressors. There’s an obviously corrupt noble working with the dark elves, but it’s unclear to what… Read More First Impression: King’s RAID: Successors of the Will
Rail Romanesque is a short form period piece that is supposedly set in the 1980s. Supposedly. But this is in an alternate version of Japan where rail is the primary mode of transportation and all rail lines are controlled by Raillords that are living, female embodiments of the trains. The first episode introduces a group… Read More First Impression: Rail Romanesque
With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun is a short form anime series about a woman who owns a dog and a cat (shocker). The first episode is less than two minutes long and features cliche jokes about cats being mean and dogs being super friendly. The dog begs for food, the… Read More First Impression: With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun
Burn the Witch, a short movie released by Crunchyroll as three episodes (this post covers episode one), starts out with two girls in uniform, flying on some kind of dragon-like broomstick, while fighting a dragon. They get into a squabble over whose kill it was, and then we get an introduction into the world and… Read More First Impression: Burn The Witch
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