How is everyone enjoying the Winter 2019 anime season so far? If you want a quick index of all the first impressions posts we’ve written so far and can’t see the index on the sidebar to the right, here you go: Endro~! KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note… Read More First Impressions Roundup: Winter 2019
On Naral Island, the legend goes that a legendary Hero defeated the Demon Lord, and since then, every time the Demon Lord was resurrected, a Hero would appear to defeat it. Yulia Chardiet, a.k.a. “Yusha”, is supposedly that hero, but no Demon Lord seems to be in sight, so she’s just a classless, airheaded girl… Read More First Impression: Endro~!
Kaguya Shinomiya, Shuchiin Academy’s student council vice president, is heiress to automobile fortune (think Crazy Rich Asians level of rich). Miyuki Shirogane, the student council president, has grades that put him at the top of the school. Rumors abound that the two are dating, but little does the student body know that Shinomiya and Shirogane… Read More First Impression: KAGUYA-SAMA: LOVE IS WAR
Uesugi Fuutarou has a problem. No, it’s not that he’s frugal, or that he doesn’t have any friends, or that the whole student body looks upon him with disdain—none of those things bother him. The problem is that his family needs money, and just when he’s been given an opportunity to tutor a family for… Read More First Impression: The Quintessential Quintuplets
The orphans at Grace Field House have it really good: there’s a caretaker that loves them like a mother would, a big yard and forest that they can go play in, and each gets the chance to live with foster families by the time they’re 12 years old. Sure, there’s some unusual rules that come… Read More First Impressions: The Promised Neverland (from Readers of the Manga)
Emma, Norman, and Ray are a gifted trio, three youngster who excel among a group of 38 “siblings,” children all under the age of 12 who live a simple, fairly happy existence in a forest orphanage. They spend their days in play and learning, with the occasional stressful test being performed, and under the tutelage… Read More First Impression: The Promised Neverland
Yuki isn’t all that different from a typical preteen: she loves to have fun, hates the heavy study required of her, and enjoys the company of friends. But the difference here is that on her 12th birthday, Yuki is assuming queenship of her family’s kingdom. Not that she’s alone—Yuki is joined by advisors, including her… Read More First Impression: The Price of Smiles
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