Nanoka Kiba is a normal third-year middle schooler—well, normal except for the intense trauma she’s gone through. She was found by rescuers at the bottom of a sinkhole, bloody and not breathing; her family had fallen in while driving when she was a first grader. Now, all these years later, Nanoka finds herself at the… Read More First Impression: Mao
Utage is sixteen, and she’s a huge fan of Tamon, an idol in the group F/ACE. To support her fandom, Utage works part-time doing housekeeping. And wouldn’t you know, her latest assignment ends up being…Tamon’s apartment! Shocking, I know. And it turns out he’s nothing like his “sexy and wild” onstage persona, instead being extremely… Read More First Impression: Tamon’s B-side
Sixteen-year-old Monica is the youngest of the Seven Sages, the greatest mages in the Kingdom of Ridill. She’s also got crippling social anxiety—indeed, she nearly flunked out of magic school because she would get too nervous to say incantations. To get around that issue, she did something unprecedented: She invented silent spell casting, no incantations… Read More First Impression: Secrets of the Silent Witch
At a luxury hotel, Princess Sisbell encounters her older sister Alice and proclaims that they are rivals, both to inherit the throne and to secure the loyalty of their knight in shining armor—Iska. He and his comrades Nene and Jhin, who were supposed to be on vacation, discuss the trouble they’ve gotten into. Meanwhile, in… Read More First Impression: Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World, Season 2
Kaoru accidentally dies when a god tries to fix a space-time anomaly. The god offers her a chance to reincarnate in a fantasy world, and she bids farewell to her family and friends in a dream. She meets another god, Celes, who grants Kaoru language comprehension, an Item Box skill, and the ability to conjure… Read More First Impression: I Shall Survive Using Potions!
This series premiered with the first three episodes combined into one huge episode, but I’ll break my summary up into separate “normal length” episodes here. Ruby Rose visits her mom’s grave to report that her big sister is going to attend Beacon Academy to become a Huntress, a warrior who defends humanity from the malevolent… Read More First Impression: RWBY: Ice Queendom
Relatively few fictional settings feature Christianity. There are a variety of reasons for this—some good and some…not. Even in the isekai stories of C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy), where the God of the Bible is recognized in other worlds, the inhabitants of those other worlds don’t actually practice “Christianity”… Read More The Curious Incident of the Christianity in the Fictional Setting
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