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
Because of his limited means, Yuichi would be better off skipping the school trip, but he refuses to make that choice. He and his friends have promised to go together, and they love each other dearly. But things turn topsy-turvey when the two million yen the class has saved for the excursion goes missing, and… Read More First Impression: Tomodachi Game
A destroyed modern city. Why the destruction? I have no clue. Cut to former hero Leo Demonheart trudging through the snowy mountains to the ruin of Demon Queen Echidna’s castle. He marches into the throne room, and before her and her four great generals…applies for a job. After being summarily thrown out, Leo meets with… Read More First Impression: I’m Quitting Heroing
In a world much like our own, except with musical magic, Kana is a first-year high school student and a new apprentice healer: one who sings to magically heal illness and injuries. We meet her fellow apprentices Hibiki and Reimi, as well as their master, and see the clinic where they work, getting a taste… Read More First Impression: Healer Girl
Blackmailed (?) by his little sister into playing an otome game to 100% in order to unlock all the cutscenes for her, a Japanese man engages in a multi-day gaming marathon. The game never decided what it wanted to be when it grew up though, so besides the otome game romance aspects, it has magic,… Read More First Impression: Trapped in a Dating Sim
I just have to say this first… I love this first episode so very much! (If I could put that in all caps without seeming like I’m yelling at you, then I would, because I am just that excited!) Love All Play has a fantastic first episode and I’m already eagerly looking forward to the… Read More First Impression: Love All Play
When Mitsuki is isekai’d into a fantasy world, he believes this is his chance to live a changed life, perhaps through some unknown power flowing into him. Wait…this isn’t that type of story at all. Mitsuki is actually booted from the castle in which he appears, and is discovered by the priestess Menou, who kindly… Read More First Impression: The Executioner and Her Way of Life
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