A young elf woman wakes up in a manor surrounded by trees, ready for another day. The brick is showing through in the walls; has this manor seen better days? She then wakes up Zenos, who sleeps in the other bed. As she hums and cooks, we learn that we are in the magical Kingdom… Read More First Impression: The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows
The adventure continues with the Rooftop Casanova of Ohananomitsu High School, Rentaro Aijou, and his trope-filled baker’s dozen of girlfriends! As a reminder, our boy Rentaro has been blessed (cursed?) with the fate of having 100 soulmates who all fall head over heels for him. The only problem is, if he settles on ONE of… Read More First Impression: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really REALLY Love You! (Season 2)
Kenichi is a 40-year-old single man who suddenly gets teleported to another world. Immediately upon his arrival, he attempts to use magic abilities he remembers from the isekai anime he watches regularly. Surprisingly, it works exactly like in the show, which results in him testing out the full extent of his power. He finds out… Read More First Impression: The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World
Life has been hard for 17-year-old high school student Uryu Kamihate. Having grown up in an orphanage after losing his mother to illness, Uryu is determined to make it into the top medical school in Japan, and as such decides to live at a shrine in Kyoto to focus on his studies, even though he… Read More First Impression: Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister
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
Our story kicks off with high school student Satou and his childhood friend/next-door neighbor Himeno about to get their summer vacation started. It’s quite clear to anyone with eyes and a pulse that these two have some chemistry, and Satou feels that the summer festival would be a great place to make his feelings known.… Read More First Impression: Tales of Wedding Rings
After a vision of a girl that dissolves in virtual bytes, our protagonist, the ill-fated Asahi Kashiwagi, wakes up in what looks like the near future, with Alexa-like AIs and cleaning robots. The weather forecast includes a futurology segment. Wait, was this always there? He is told that he’ll have lucky encounters associated with six… Read More First Impression: Love Flops
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