Breathing. Ice. Suddenly, an ice hockey game is taking place before our eyes at lightning speed. The voices of our young girls with gem-like hair and eyes. Their coordination is just perfect. Japan versus Canada, tie on the scoreboard, and five seconds to the end. A shot nearing the end of the game results in… Read More First Impression: Puraore! Pride of Orange
Once known as Gideon, knight and elder brother of the divinely appointed Hero Ruti, the man using the alias Red is now living as a lowly D-rank adventurer out in the distant, rural frontier, far from the war against the Demon Lord that’s consuming the continent. Ares the mage (a strikingly Hamaan-esque character with the… Read More First Impression: Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside
Hey guys, Josh here once again with another First Impression. And you know what? This is actually the second draft of this particular Impression. I originally had my typical play-by-play commentary written out for this first episode, but after sleeping on it, (and then subsequently OVERSLEEPING–don’t judge me) I realized something pretty quickly; this show… Read More First Impression: The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
What does a vampire hunter do when he finds out where the evil Draluc (yes, that’s not a typo) lives? He goes and hunts him so he can get paid of course! When the heroic Ronaldo shows up to his castle, he accidentally kills Draluc by hitting him with the front door. This weak vampire… Read More First Impression: The Vampire Dies in No Time
We’re in a bright and bluish Okinawa, at a small, nice, wooden hotel by the beach. A girl is checking in on arriving guests, complimenting them with a smile. A biwa is playing in the background, the sun shines, the people lazily sunbathe and swim, but not the expressive Higa Maise, the aforementioned girl, who… Read More First Impression: “Deji” Meets Girl
2061. The XXI Century has been very hard on Japan. A staggering economical crisis, the disastrous policies of the Government and the aging of population combined with low birthrate did cause its near-total collapse, and it became a failed State. Four powerful foreign nations (new flags, though one of them is called Oceania) stepped in… Read More First Impression: AMAIM: Warrior at the Borderline (Kyoukai Senki)
Music-hating monsters from space invaded Earth. Pairs, a Conductor and a Musicart, do mellifluous battle with the fiends. Takt (a Conductor) and Cosette (a Musicart) are one such dynamic duet; also, it’s not clear just what Cosette is, but she’s apparently not a normal human. They are traveling to New York from somewhere out west,… Read More First Impression: takt op.Destiny
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