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
This first impression comes courtesy of the early premiere of the first episode at FunimationCon. One day, after overworked salaryman Ryoma Takebayashi meets an untimely end via head injury, he finds himself in the company of three gods from another world, who quickly arrange for him to be transferred over there, in the body of… Read More First Impression: By the Grace of the Gods (Anime)
If you want an exuberant perspective on the latest anime premiered at Funi-Con, TWWK has you covered. And now I’m here. Our perspectives may differ slightly. Or, you know, be totally completely different. We report, you decide, dear readers. Deca-Dence appears to be another post-apocalyptic sci-fi anime. The world was overrun by mysterious monsters called Gadoll,… Read More First Impression: Deca-Dence, Version 2.0, Now with Less Enthusiasm!
For hundreds of years, humans have waged a battle against the Gadoll, vicious bug-like creatures that vary in size from very small to monstrous. After the initial contact, which almost led to humanity’s extinction, people survived by using Gadoll they’ve killed as a resource for everything from food to energy, fueling a massive mobile fortress… Read More First Impression: DECA-DENCE