Little Jirou would sometimes come back from school in the summer, complaining that the other kids called him a “weirdo animal whisperer,” and the warm words of his motherly white dog would always cheer him up. But after an artsy, moody, quite inventive opening, we find out that he has become a teenager, and has… Read More First Impression: BLACK TORCH
Noble scion Elymas undergoes the Ritual of Divine Blessing to receive a class. During the rite, he realizes he has reincarnated into a setting with classes derived from Magic World, a VR game he played in his past life. He becomes a Heavy Knight, his favorite class. Unfortunately, in this world, the Heavy Knight is… Read More First Impression: The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System
Lisel is dressed, coiffed, and accessorized like a noble, but no one can tell he is one unless he tells them. That’s what he thinks, anyhow, as he determines to keep his identity secret while ambling through a sparsely populated town market he later describes as “lively.” After selling some of his accoutrements for the… Read More First Impression: A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation
Hajime Shinonome is a well-respected adventurer who makes his living by slaying monsters and selling the meat. He enjoys the simplicity of his daily routine, but one day, he notices the main door to the dungeon has been left open. When he goes in to investigate, he finds a young child having trouble fighting the… Read More First Impression: An Adventurer’s Daily Grind at Age 29
There’s something satisfying about an old-fashioned revenge story—seeing justice served and the bad guys getting their just deserts. But what is the price of vengeance? And what sort of culture does it breed? These are some of the questions Mamoru Hosoda explores in his latest film, Scarlet, a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Scarlet retains the… Read More Film Review: Scarlet
There once was a hero who was incredibly shy, particularly in the presence of the opposite sex, though this didn’t stop him from developing a killer punch that could slay a spider dragon in a single blow. There were also three deadly women—a diminutive magical girl (daughter of the Demon Lord), a voluptuous priest with… Read More First Impression: The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses
A raindrop falls from a tree and wakes up a red-haired boy who is reclining against an ancient stone. He stands up and jumps. We see fire and stars. A melancholic, evocative female voice starts singing. This is the opening, and our protagonist stands strong among villagers with spears, facing fire and destruction. We see… Read More First Impression: Teogonia
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