Second-year high schooler Makoto Hanaoka is waiting in the classroom at the end of the day for the author of a mysterious note to show up. Who will it be? The note almost sounds like it could be the lead-up to a confession, but that’s impossible, right? Sigh. Just as Makoto decides to give up… Read More First Impression: Senpai Is an Otokonoko
Three years ago, Clay’s father, a powerful thief and adventurer, disappeared while venturing into a dungeon. Since then, Clay has worked hard to follow in her father’s footsteps—and things are going well. She’s on a dungeon floor lower than any surviving adventurer has passed, and she is able to fight powerful monsters by herself. But… Read More First Impression: Dungeon People
Meet Noor, the well-beloved local strongman of a big medieval town. He has been digging all night to clean the sewer of a small street. Noor is big and frank, with scars all over his face and arms and a smile always on his face—the product of fourteen years of fruitless training, cultivating the minor… Read More First Impression: I Parry Everything
Second-year high school student Masamune Okumura is a guy who has sworn off the 3D world with regard to women. Having been abandoned by his mom at 8 years old, having his feelings rejected by a girl he liked in grade school, and being labeled a gross otaku by girls in his class, Masamune passes… Read More First Impression: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction
Tamako Yashiro is on the all-too-familiar job hunt. After quitting her former job where she was mistreated, she is looking to make a change with a brand new employer. At the prompting of her aunt, she goes to Ramen Akaneko to put in an application. There’s just one thing—it’s run entirely by cats. Led by… Read More First Impression: Ramen Akaneko
Second-year high school students Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Otomo have a very interesting living arrangement at their all-boys school dormitory. The two boys live within three rules: Mao never reveals that his roommate is gay and has a boyfriend; Hisashi never develops romantic feelings for Mao; and if either of them needs…ahem…personal time…they will offer… Read More First Impression: Twilight Out of Focus
Rin joins the high school drama club and winds up flirting with her clueless senpai Eiji, under the guise of practicing acting as different characters (referred to as Tsundere-chan, Cool-chan, Spoiled-chan, Imp-chan—a veritable “harem”). That’s it. Silly flirting. That’s literally the whole episode. So, it’s another high school romcom. Well, Rin is cute, and Eiji… Read More First Impression: Pseudo Harem
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