Sixteen-year-old Monica is the youngest of the Seven Sages, the greatest mages in the Kingdom of Ridill. She’s also got crippling social anxiety—indeed, she nearly flunked out of magic school because she would get too nervous to say incantations. To get around that issue, she did something unprecedented: She invented silent spell casting, no incantations… Read More First Impression: Secrets of the Silent Witch
Allen has failed the court sorcerer’s exam, and accepts a job tutoring a duke’s daughter. He meets Tina (the aforementioned daughter), the butler, a young maid named Ellie, and Duke Walter Howard (Tina’s father). Plot twist: rather than preparing Tina to attend the royal academy…Walter secretly hopes Allen will convince her to give up on… Read More First Impression: Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter
A raindrop falls from a tree and wakes up a red-haired boy who is reclining against an ancient stone. He stands up and jumps. We see fire and stars. A melancholic, evocative female voice starts singing. This is the opening, and our protagonist stands strong among villagers with spears, facing fire and destruction. We see… Read More First Impression: Teogonia
A high school girl stumbles into a flower shop designed by Shaft Studios and is met with a blue rose, a fast-talking pink-haired girl, the promise of a song, and…a fight among the employees? Just what exactly is this place? Cut to the outside world. Yuina, she of the pink hair, is the kind of… Read More First Impression: Maebashi Witches
From the dawn of time, mankind’s intelligence has been used for war. Its crown achievement was the fearsome living weapons known as Gears, against which the Crusades were fought. But one day, Ky Kiske, the sword-wielding guardian of Humanity and chief of the International Police Force, fell in love with a Gear: Dizzy, of the… Read More First Impression: Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers
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
We gaze into a dark, bottomless abyss placed in a cavernous underworld. A desperate man is looking down alongside us. The path is here. “This…This is my fault, for being so weak.” Dark music, choir, violin. The man is falling. He wonders in his mind what purpose his life held, then disappears into the darkness.… Read More First Impression: Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest
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