Tsubaki is part of a kunoichi clan, where a bunch of girls live and train together to learn the ways of the ninja, without any interaction with anyone in possession of a Y-chromosome. Naturally, this leads to very distorted views among the girls about what men are like, with their teacher adding fuel to the… Read More First Impression: In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki
Second-year high school student Izumi sets off on the first day of the new school year. His mom’s warning as he leaves sounds like a joke…until we learn he’s some kind of bizarre accident magnet. Even when he avoids an accident, he just winds up on the cusp of a different pitfall. Fortunately, he has… Read More First Impression: Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie
It’s the Cold War. Somewhere in East Berlint, world peace is under threat. What would happen if this came out? If the world realized that the foreign minister…duh duh duh…wears a toupee?! Thankfully, Twilight, Master of Disguise, the one-man wonder and greatest spy to have ever donned a mask, is equal to any task and… Read More First Impression: SPY x FAMILY
Junpei is your typical 13 year old boy, obsessed with looking cool and teetering on the edge of falling for the mysterious, beautiful transfer student with the mole that he likens to “the sound of a premonition”. Umm, so maybe he’s not your typical teenaged boy. Anyhow, he’s trying really hard to be your typical… Read More First Impression: Dance Dance Danseur
The lights of an office building keep shining well into the night. Horror movie angles here and there lead us to an, ahem, “differently horrific” scene. Fushihara Shachiku is, yet again, trying to meet an impossible deadline by pulling an all-nighter. You know the type. She is young, she has perpetual dark circles under her… Read More First Impression: Miss Shachiku and the Little Baby Ghost
Nagomu has been working for ten years to make it as a musician (with meager results) when a package of his family’s traditional sakura manju arrives bearing a little something more than its customary deliciousness: a letter, with news startling enough to get the wayward son to hop on a train home right away. Upon… Read More First Impression: Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness
Eve doesn’t play golf; she just hits a ball with a stick to make money. The U-15 hustler needs that money to pay off the corrupt cops in her run-down Southern European town and keep her found family from being busted up and farmed out to foster care or worse. With the help of her… Read More First Impression: Birdie Wing: Golf Girls’ Story