A punk, a high school girl, and a strong, silent type who looks like he’s faced death once or twice before are running for their lives inside an abandoned warehouse. The horrors chasing after them close in, pushing at the doors, scraping at the windows, crawling in the air ducts, their inhuman braying getting louder… Read More First Impression: Nyaight of the Living Cat
A girl walks around a sepia-tinted city. She sees a white rabbit on a manhole cover, the Cheshire Cat on a screen, and an arcade. “Auld Lang Syne” randomly starts to play. Renji works at the arcade. The girl turns out to be a foreigner. Renji takes pity on her after seeing her strive for… Read More First Impression: Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl
Ruri likes bright, shiny things. So when a crystal pendant catches her eye at the shopping mall, she begs her mom for an advance on her allowance, dancing on the spot and whining like a three-year-old, though she’s probably more like thirteen. When mom tells Ruri that grandpa used to come home with those “pointy… Read More First Impression: Ruri Rocks
A boy wakes up in a very tidy cabin with two books and a knife on the table. He steps outside and summons water, which morphs elaborately in the air above him before dripping away to the ground. Ryo has reincarnated into a world with magic, and he’s one of the twenty percent of humans… Read More First Impression: The Water Magician
Little children are playing happily in the park, swinging without a care in the world—until they turn to ash and blow away! Kafu is the only child left standing, er, swinging, and she races home in understandable panic, passing burned-out, crumbling corpses along the way, only to find her parents in a similar state inside… Read More First Impression: Kamitsubaki City Under Construction
“Is that…a dog?” On her way home during a downpour, Fuji comes across what seems to be an abandoned animal. However, it doesn’t look like a dog (more like a tanuki…) and it doesn’t sound like a dog (instead of barking, it writes notes to communicate). But Fuji, who obviously doesn’t write a lot about… Read More First Impression: With You and the Rain
It’s summer and it’s hot. High school buddies Yoshiki and Hikaru cool off with a frozen treat in their small village, as Hikaru confirms that he is not actually Hikaru; that human boy died when he disappeared last winter, and “Hikaru” is now…something else—something that goes all psychedelic ink blotty and red-eyed when his emotions… Read More First Impression: The Summer Hikaru Died
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