Losing a match leaves a bad taste in your mouth, especially when it’s the prefectural finals and a win would have led you to the nationals. It’s even worse when you had a shot at a tying goal, but instead you passed the ball to a teammate who missed. Would things have turned out differently… Read More First Impression: Blue Lock
Hitori Goto lives up to her name: “soliloquy”. She’s the girl who never had the courage to join in all the fun and games in kindergarten, who ends up eating with the teacher during school picnics, doesn’t go to after school club, and only has messages from her parents on her phone. She is a… Read More First Impression: Bocchi the Rock!
Oh no! I’m late for the new school term! Wait, I graduated years ago. Oh no! I almost forgot the new season of Iruma-kun. Yes, the new term has begun at Babyls as Iruma still wants to blend into the background lest he be discovered as the human he is. However, after the events of… Read More First Impression: Welcome to the Demon School, Iruma-Kun S3
From the remastered game of the same name, Legend of Mana – The Teardrop Crystal traces the story of several adventurers. The first is Shiloh, who meets what seems to be a goddess who somewhat quotes scripture, saying “Seek me and you will find me” (Matthew 7:7), and sends him to a town called Domino.… Read More First Impression: Legend of Mana – The Teardrop Crystal
The story begins in the kind of back alley that makes it feel like nighttime when the noonday sun is still riding high. The crashes of thunder and sheets of falling rain work like a silencer when a gunshot rings out and one more woman falls victim to the gritty mob crime of 1980s Akihabara.… Read More First Impression: Akiba Maid War
In something like an early modern European-ish kingdom, Elianna thinks she’s a fake fiancée, a placeholder for some future “real” one. For reasons she seriously doesn’t comprehend, the shiny Prince Christopher proposed to her several years ago, and she accepted because…it meant she could read more books. But from the outset, Elianna expected to be… Read More First Impression: Bibliophile Princess
Ookay, bear with me on this one, my friends, because this is gonna be BAD. Vazzrock The Animation is based on a video game called Tsukino Talent Production (TsukiPro), which features two boy band groups—Vazzy and Rock Down. As I understand it, the members of this group represent the twelve months out of the year,… Read More First Impression: Vazzrock the Animation
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