Welcome to the life of Yukito Urabe, the guy with dead eyes. He is the skinny son of the muscular leader of a sketchy cult, whose father’s interference has made him unable to have a social life. Dying in an absurd ritual, he wishes to be isekai’d to a world without gods or religion. Sure,… Read More First Impression: KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World
Ayakashi, apparitions that often resemble cute but unusually-mutated animals, are all around us. However, they’re visible to very few. Suzu is an exception, seeing, touching, and joyfully communicating with the spirits since she was a child. Rejected by classmates who claim she’s lying about her supernatural vision, she bonds with Matsuri, a boy who can… Read More First Impression: Ayakashi Triangle
After a vision of a girl that dissolves in virtual bytes, our protagonist, the ill-fated Asahi Kashiwagi, wakes up in what looks like the near future, with Alexa-like AIs and cleaning robots. The weather forecast includes a futurology segment. Wait, was this always there? He is told that he’ll have lucky encounters associated with six… Read More First Impression: Love Flops
Michio Kaga finds himself in a videogame-like world where he gets some powerful equipment, kills some bandits, and gathers the spoils. When a villager tries to steal some of said spoils for himself, he is caught and turned into a slave, and Michio watches as the village leader personally sells off said slave to a… Read More First Impression: Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World
Alto Goldfield is a brilliant student in all ways except for the one that is fundamentally important to his studies: the field of magic, and in particular his ability to summon a familiar. Down to his last opportunity, a desperate Alto happens upon a tome containing a spell that does what he requires, but the… Read More First Impression: Vermeil in Gold
What is it that makes an anime con an 18+ convention? Going into this past weekend, I didn’t really know. Would it be because the convention featured more panels with frank and sexual language? Alcohol? General debauchery? I admit that the “18+” prefix attached to Ecchi Expo, which took place here in my home base… Read More So, A Christian Walks into an 18+ Anime Convention…
I feel rather conflicted about Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Vol. 1. But first, I should explain what the story is about. Failed Knight is set in a parallel universe where Jedi knights Mage-Knights exist. These warrior-wizards are, as one might expect, a cornerstone of military power and heavily influential (a magic samurai led Japan… Read More Review: Chivalry of a Failed Knight (Vol. 1)