It’s Ichigo Momomiya’s first day of high school and she knows exactly what she needs to do: fall in love for the first time. She manages it within about 60 seconds flat, with the object of her newly minted affections being kendo star Aoyama-kun. (It’s something about the way he says “Men!” when scoring the… Read More First Impression: Tokyo Mew Mew New
In the year 2030, Kathleen Funada is seeking a cure for a horrible disease that has ravaged the planet, one which turns humans into monstrous creatures. Gibiate, as the virus is known, spreads when a creature, known as a gibia, stings a human. It is irreversible. In 1600, samurai Kanzaki Sensui has been exiled, taking… Read More First Impression: Gibiate
After a rather abrupt and heart-breaking split from his girlfriend, first year college student Kazuya Kinoshita, in a fit of frustration and desperation, installs an app on his phone that allows him to…wait for it…rent a girlfriend…for a specific amount of money per hour to do normal date-type things. See, I’m from Louisiana, and we… Read More First Impression: Rent-A-Girlfriend
A cataclysmic earthquake strikes Japan, something unlike what the residents have ever experienced before, leaving in its wake tumbled buildings, airline crashes, and untold deaths. In the midst of this, the Mutoh family must find one another and stay together, as the consequences of this event are only just beginning to unfold in this series,… Read More First Impression ~ Japan Sinks: 2020
The city of Seoul, Korea, is having a tournament called The God of High School. It’s a martial arts tournament where the best of the best—selected to be there by special commissioners—fight until there is only one left standing. The reward is any wish granted by the organizers of the battle. Mori, the main character,… Read More First Impression: The God Of High School
The summer 2020 anime season is here! By all accounts, it’s a weird one—we have several series series that already re-started, and so already had a first impressions post (we’ll add these below anyway in case they’re new to you), and others with a delayed start. And it’s summer, which means there won’t be as… Read More Summer 2020 Anime First Impressions
Tiara has managed to get into the prestigious Flora Girl’s Academy to pursue her dream of becoming a great witch. Not only that, but she even gets to be in the same student group as her childhood friend Rosetta that she hadn’t seen in a few years. As she learns about what goes on in… Read More First Impression: Lapis Re:LiGHTs
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