Meet Noor, the well-beloved local strongman of a big medieval town. He has been digging all night to clean the sewer of a small street. Noor is big and frank, with scars all over his face and arms and a smile always on his face—the product of fourteen years of fruitless training, cultivating the minor… Read More First Impression: I Parry Everything
Shin is strong player who saved thousands of players who were locked in a realistic VR MMORPG called The New Gate. But after he thought he finished the game, a surprise was waiting for him. Before he has the chance to leave the game, he seems to skip 500 years into the future of that… Read More First Impression: THE NEW GATE
A young samurai hopeful is taking cover in the forest, tracking the bandits whose defeat at his hands will bring him one step closer to becoming the heroic swordsman he is so desperate to become, when a couple of kids step in and…confront the bandits?! Telling them to cease their brigandry and get decent jobs?!?… Read More First Impression: Sengoku Youko
It’s the first day of school in a vaguely medieval Ottoman-like world (with robots) when timid Yuno first encounters Lucelles, the sparkling, confident girl who quickly becomes her best friend. They bond over a Word Arts training montage and dream about the peaceful futures that lie before them now that the Demon King is dead.… Read More First Impression: Ishura
A silent figure walks in the snow, fully covered to protect himself from the arctic chill. Under the ice, there are clouds, lights, and strange animals. Meanwhile, enormous insects are repairing an enormous hole. Full of enthusiasm, our hunter prepares his harpoon gun and goes after one that’s bearing delicious eggs. We are under the… Read More First Impression: Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
Blood is flowing from a sharpened metallic umbrella as our protagonist, Hyoma, watches in disbelief, the inflicted trauma reflected in his eyes. His older brother and sister, members of an order that deals with spirits tied to physical objects, have just been killed by one of them. Cut to the present, where Hyoma disregards the… Read More First Impression: Malevolent Spirits: Monogatari
What does it mean to be free? And further, what does it mean to live free? I was pondering these questions recently after a conversation with my husband. For the past few months, he and I have been watching One Piece. I came in prepared to laugh and enjoy this thrilling pirate adventure, but I… Read More One Piece Stirs A Call to Freedom, A Call to Adventure
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