Sakuna-hime of the Lofty Realm may look like a child and act like a child, but she’s actually a genuine grown-up adult goddess of the harvest. Or at least she should be. In reality, she’s been loafing around her whole life, deep in her cups, relying on the hard work her parents—the previous goddess of… Read More First Impression: Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Over-achieving country girl Mitsumi Iwakura is heading to Tokyo to meet her destiny! Her friends and family lovingly, melodramatically see her off at the local train station, sobbing and calling her name as she’s swallowed by the horizon beyond which lies an unknown city and a life yet to be discovered. Or at least they… Read More First Impression: Skip and Loafer
The episode kicks off with a rip-roaring ’70s-style car chase, complete with a lounge music soundtrack and a mysterious motorcyclist with a few Bond-like tricks up his sleeves. Turns out, the driver of the car he’s chasing is in on the whole thing, and the two have laid a trap for some sub-par jewelry smugglers.… Read More First Impression: Buddy Daddies
The story begins in the kind of back alley that makes it feel like nighttime when the noonday sun is still riding high. The crashes of thunder and sheets of falling rain work like a silencer when a gunshot rings out and one more woman falls victim to the gritty mob crime of 1980s Akihabara.… Read More First Impression: Akiba Maid War
There’s a certain parable that’s always intrigued me. Ok, more like, bothered me. It’s the parable of the shrewd manager, the one where the guy basically defrauds his boss and is applauded for it. (Huh?) The parable is made all the more intriguing because of the unexpected twists and turns that come in the scant… Read More Ya Boy Kongming, Ep. 11: The Parable of the Shrewd Manager
Kongming is more than just a great tactician with a charmingly demure manner and surprisingly decent rapping skills. He’s also the kind of adult I aspire to be, and one I think that all of us—as we hand in our membership cards to “the young generation” (ahem, as we age)—can stand to learn a thing… Read More Ya Boy Kongming Ep. 9 & the Adult I Aspire to Be
It’s the Three Kingdoms era, and the greatest military strategist and most learned scholar Kongming is ailing in his battlefield tent. Though his work of uniting the known world is not yet done, and he fears for the future of humanity with this all-important task left unfinished, he ultimately surrenders and breathes his last. Only… Read More First Impression: Ya Boy Kongming
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