Akira is a good girl. We know this because she provides each of the local cats with a dinner suited to its individual tastes. After noting the strange weather, Akira heads home, her good deed done for the day. As she enters the elevator in her apartment building though, things take a turn for the… Read More First Impression: Promise of Wizard
Natsuko Hirose is a young hotshot animation director who skyrocketed to fame with her first production—one that was so relevant it became a cultural phenomenon. Her next series is set to take the world equally by storm—except that she’s suffering from writer’s animator’s block. Time is getting tight and her hair is getting long (she’s… Read More First Impression: Zenshu
Uchimura Dennosuke was living the life of a lowly salaryman, constantly passed up for promotions, his work being ignored by the higher-ups, and even getting transferred overseas multiple times. However, someone else has been observing his work and wants his talents, and that someone is none other than the Demon Lord of another world! This… Read More First Impression: Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!
Takumi Iruma is the unfortunate victim of a summoning mistake by a goddess from another world. Goddess Norn intended to summon a group of heroes, but Takumi is merely an ordinary salaryman. After apologizing for her mistake, Norn addresses something important: she can’t return Takumi to Earth anymore. He takes this news better than most… Read More First Impression: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time
Christmas happens in the second season of Log Horizon, but it’s just an incidental part of a multi-episode arc (or maybe it’s two parallel arcs, depending on how you look at it). These are “Christmas episodes” only in the sense that the holiday is a background detail—lights twinkle and vendors dressed like Santa hawk strawberry… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Log Horizon’s Resurrections
As bold, colorful lights stream down from the heavens, Aishia, Rio’s contracted spirit, feels a spiritual jolt to her soul; there’s no doubt that something monumental is happening. Rio, who is together with her and his former professor Celia, rushes toward three of the lights and finds two youngsters from Japan held captive with many… Read More First Impression: Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, Season 2
Dolan is a regular young peasant who works hard and is respected by his loved ones. There’s one thing they don’t know about him though: he was an ancient dragon in his previous life. When the lizards disappear from the region, Dolan travels into the woods to find out what’s wrong. The first person he… Read More First Impression: Goodbye, Dragon Life
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