Subaru Natsuki hasn’t been this happy in a long time. A year has passed since he was first summoned to this fantasy world. Gone are the sloth and envy that held him back: these days he’s working out, being himself, and helping everyone around him with his boisterous, flirtatious personality. When the calculating Anastasia Honshin… Read More First Impression: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3
It’s been fifteen years since Akira Ono, a man whose eyes are always pixelated, created Infinity Game, his vintage MMORPG passion project, and put it out for the world to enjoy. Back in the early 2000s, it took the video game scene by storm. His anonymous NEET friend told him to share a little when… Read More First Impression: Demon Lord Retry! R
Little green goblins are grunting and gobbling around a fire pit as a hooded figure watches from the shadows. There are too many of them to take on, so the figure retreats, only to step on a branch in his haste, alerting the green guys and triggering a mad dash through the dark forest. Good… Read More First Impression: Loner Life in Another World
On this week’s Reader’s Corner: Re:Zero starts a new light novel collection, puppy love starts with dog owners crossing paths, a new Sword Art Online Alternative story begins, and much more! A Condition Called Love (Vol. 9) • Dark Souls: Redemption (Vol. 1) • Father, I Don’t Want This Marriage (Vol. 1) • In Another… Read More Reader’s Corner: Dark Souls: Redemption (Vol. 1), Re:Zero: Short Story Collection (Vol. 1), and The Villainess Is the Heroine’s Biggest Fan (Vol. 3)
The saying goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” We prove it every week here on Reader’s Corner, but rarely more so than in this edition, when we show beauty in tengu love; explain how a beautiful and admirable lead does not a good spin-off make; and explain how a provocative title and cover… Read More Reader’s Corner: I Wanna Do Bad Things with You (Vol. 1), Bocchi the Rock! (Vol. 4), and The Hachioji Specialty: Tengu’s Love (Vol. 1)
Takumi Kayano is a regular 28-year-old guy who suddenly gets warped to another world. The first person he sees there calls himself a god, and tells Takumi that he accidentally killed him. The god’s explanation for how it happened is hard to follow, but Takumi doesn’t really seem to mind that too much. After all,… Read More First Impression: A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring
A Japanese woman dies of overwork. (Speaking of, what are the odds that Overwork-chan will someday eclipse Truck-kun as the number one cause of getting isekai’d? I feel like we see it more and more.) Young Dahlia learns about crafting magical items from her dad Carlo. Inspired, she decides to become a magic artificer too.… Read More First Impression: Dahlia in Bloom
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