Spring has come to pseudo-medieval China. We check in briefly with a bunch of established characters, and get some goofy interactions between our favorite eccentric apothecary, Maomao, and our favorite court eunuch, Jinshi. The latter undertakes an effort to promote literacy in the rear palace by distributing copies of a popular novel, and sure enough,… Read More First Impression: The Apothecary Diaries, Season 2
Tasokare (twilight) is a fitting name for this hotel because it’s for guests who are unsure whether they’re dead or alive. Tsukahara suddenly arrives in this place without knowing anything about herself. The peculiar-looking but friendly enough hotel manager informs her that she can discover her identity and fate by investigating her hotel room. She… Read More First Impression: Tasokare Hotel
Whether it’s a young child suffering from a Vitamin A overdose or an old fisherman in pain after a fishing expedition, the patients of Teniki General Hospital can rest easy knowing that if their hard-working resident doctors can’t solve their ailments, the Department of Investigative Pathology—headed up by the brilliant yet eccentric director, Dr. Takao… Read More First Impression: Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective
It’s Tokyo, 1897—only it’s not quite the Tokyo we know from the history books. Here, the rabble are entertained not by kabuki or sumo, but by bare-knuckle brawls between the monsters and ghouls that once roamed the land of Edo on the one hand, and a tattooed man nicknamed the Oni Slayer on the other.… Read More First Impression: Undead Murder Farce
In something like an early modern European-ish kingdom, Elianna thinks she’s a fake fiancée, a placeholder for some future “real” one. For reasons she seriously doesn’t comprehend, the shiny Prince Christopher proposed to her several years ago, and she accepted because…it meant she could read more books. But from the outset, Elianna expected to be… Read More First Impression: Bibliophile Princess
It’s the dead of night and a palace coup is afoot. Murder and mayhem! Vengeance and usurpation! The commoner prince takes out his wrath on the elderly Dowager Empress, and then storms to the secluded palace of the Raven Consort—where no man or woman dare set foot—in order to demand a favor of the mysterious… Read More First Impression: Raven of the Inner Palace
I liked Vol. 2 of Unnamed Memory. There’s tragedy, mystery, history. “Oh, sorry. I guess it really is a kraken after all.” War, the emptiness of revenge, vacation. Time travel (maybe). “Why did you end up killing another country’s god when you just went out on a short observation mission?!” And entertaining banter between the… Read More Review & Rambling: Unnamed Memory Vol. 2
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