“This is a world where things like killing and torture have been legalized,” announces the opening title, following a pretty mid OP. In this world, the employees of independent torture contractor, Spirytus Co., banter, chain smoke, and chug cans of black coffee with abandon in the break room in between sessions of torture. Their “appointments”… Read More First Impression: The Daily Life of a Part-Time Torturer
A blurry circle of lights turns into a chandelier as an eye opens. A white-haired young lady smiles from above. Our viewpoint character, a newborn baby with crazy video game stats and differently colored eyes, starts wondering if this regal figure may be his own mother. Suddenly, a new face appears: that of an elderly,… Read More First Impression: Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed, So I’ll Obtain Ultimate Power
When Asa is fifteen, her parents die in a car crash, leaving her orphaned and alone and terribly, terribly numb. She walks through the early days of her loss in a daze, her wide green eyes dry as no tears come. Her future is uncertain; her relatives outdo one another in explaining why she is… Read More First Impression: Journal with Witch (Ikoku Nikki)
Utage is sixteen, and she’s a huge fan of Tamon, an idol in the group F/ACE. To support her fandom, Utage works part-time doing housekeeping. And wouldn’t you know, her latest assignment ends up being…Tamon’s apartment! Shocking, I know. And it turns out he’s nothing like his “sexy and wild” onstage persona, instead being extremely… Read More First Impression: Tamon’s B-side
Yamada Kenichi is a hardcore gamer, but he’s sick of games that end their service after a few years, and he scoffs at the hardest level of most games, deeming them not challenging enough. But his curiosity is piqued when he discovers a game that is said to go on perpetually and offers a “hell… Read More First Impression: HELL MODE: The Hardcore Gamer Dominates in Another World with Garbage Balancing
Imagine finding yourself waking up in a coffin as a pair of black horses and a carriage come storming towards you, when all you were doing just a moment ago was waiting for the bus to arrive. To make matters worse, when you come out of this supposed coffin, you’re the only person who has no idea… Read More First Impression: Disney Twisted-Wonderland The Animation: Episode of Heartslabyul
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, season one of Star Wars: Visions—a series of animated shorts produced by anime studios—debuted on Disney+ to strong reviews (including our own). Following a second season of international shorts, season three of Star Wars: Visions debuts tomorrow (!) with nine more films from famed… Read More Review: Star Wars: Visions, Season 3
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