So yesterday I was looking for something new to watch, and remembered I hadn’t yet tried this new series, The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace. Since it isn’t an isekai, it slipped lower on my priority list; now there’s actually two episodes out. So I’ve seen both now, and, um, wow. It’s an experience. The… Read More First Impression: The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace
After a vision of lines of light arising from the 3D world and connecting with each other, we cut to a nocturnal Japanese city. The world is close to ours, but flying drones kindly remain the citizenry that the worshipping of gods and Buddhas is forbidden, that nothing but the material is real, and that… Read More First Impressions: Night Head 2041
A boy lying on the floor of a classroom, staring at the ceiling. Seated on the teacher’s podium, a snot-nosed cat with sleep crusting its eyes. A strange girl appears, peering down at the boy and asking if it’s fun to lie on the floor. The setting is familiar enough, but the details are…incongruous to… Read More First Impression: Sonny Boy
A smug kid plays video games. Then on his way to school, a monster attacks him. He flees into a half-demolished building (?) and barely fends off of the zombie-thing. But wait! Now he gets wrecked by a creepy purple catgirl with an annoying voice. Awaking to find himself among a group of fellow prisoners,… Read More First Impression: Battle Game in 5 Seconds
Kanon Shibuya loves singing, but she has difficulty singing under pressure, which led to her failing the audition to get into Yuigaoka High School’s prestigious music program. Enrolling in the school’s general program, she does some no-pressure singing on the way there, and encounters Keke Tang, an overseas student from China who wants to start… Read More First Impression: Love Live! Superstar!!
Ryuhei is a typical teenager who plays video games, hangs out with his friends, and also boxes in a gym in his free time. But after taking a nap, he wakes up in a dream-like world—one where he has some incredible jumping skills. Of course, moments after that, he is chased by some ugly hand… Read More First Impression: D_CIDE TRAUMEREI THE ANIMATION
A typhoon is roaring outside, and disgruntled salarymen are forced to go to work anyway l, to the great satisfaction the muscular Kinji Ninomiya, who stays at home at his luxurious penthouse and looks down on the whole world. Because, unlike them, he is the Uber-Pro-NEET, a real-estate investor and landlord who, through various schemes,… Read More First Impression: Meikyuu Black Company
“I guess she wasn’t cut out for it.” With those words from her manager, Fuuka Miyazawa’s childhood hopes of idol fame are soundly put to rest. Truly, she’d tried her hardest to excel as an idol, throwing herself into practices and spending late nights practicing her routines. But she simply wasn’t as good or as… Read More First Impression: The aquatope on white sand
Long-time followers of Beneath the Tangles or my own blog Curiously Dead Cat may know that I have a thing for isekai. I will watch all but the trashiest and most offensive new releases if they include a poor(?) Japanese sap who gets whisked off to a fantasy setting and—oh, the horror!—finds himself or herself… Read More First Impression: Drug Store in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist
Tohru is the best maid out there. It’s simply an unquestionable fact—as a dragon, she’s best at everything she does, whether it’s destroying worlds or folding loads of laundry for Kobayashi, her human master. So when the local maid cafe boasts the best maids in town, Tohru can’t help but feel slighted. She decides to… Read More First Impression: Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S