“I’ve always gone where people have invited me, just going with the flow…” Shoutarou Futaba is okay with sitting in the baseball’s team bench and watching the birds over the field when the game is boring. Having previously tried soccer and swimming, he has never been a regular, but has good grades and to this… Read More First Impression: Bakuten!! (Backflip!!)
In line with our approach to the entirety of season one, Beneath the Tangles will be offering dual first impression posts for The Promised Neverland, one for viewers who are new to the series and one for those who have read the manga. This post is for manga readers and may include spoilers for the… Read More First Impression: The Promised Neverland Season 2 for Manga Readers
In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. Then He created the animals. Or so it was supposed to go, but it got too tedious so He outsourced it. That’s literally the introduction to the first episode of Heaven’s Design Team. Shimoda, a new angel assigned to said team, will be the go… Read More First Impression: Heaven’s Design Team
In line with our approach to the entirety of season one, Beneath the Tangles will be offering dual First Impression posts for The Promised Neverland, one for viewers who are new to the series and one for those who have read the manga. This post is for beginners and will only include spoilers up to… Read More First Impression: The Promised Neverland Season 2 for Newbies
Kansai: The future. There are holograms everywhere, IA cars, robot policemen, zeppelins in the sky with bright advertisements, floating neon lights, a bladerunnerian orange fog, and bus-like boats in the river, and everyone stops and salutes when a multicolored light shines over the city. Enter our genki girl protagonist, a young lady who would risk… Read More First Impressions: Akudama Drive
An elite academy exists on a remote island, where children with superpowers are trained to fight “the enemies of humanity,” unspecified monsters which could have Lovecraftian and alien-like form, or human form. Among them, a leader is to be chosen. Meet our protagonist, Nanao Nakajima, a seemingly talentless student who is bullied by the rest,… Read More First Impression: Talentless Nana
Without much of an introduction, Kurumi, the girl in the red dress, begins fighting Queen, the girl in white dress/military uniform in a pretty cool-looking church with vitrals. Our protagonist uses guns and a giant magic clock, Zaphkiel, while her rival uses a sword and her own magic clock, Lucifugus. It seems that the girl… Read More First Impressions: Date a Bullet: Dead or Bullet
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