Togo Sakuradaimon is a hyper-serious class monitor who sincerely strives to enforce school rules. Poem Kohinata is a girl who pushes the rules to their limit when it comes to things like hair color and skirt length. They don’t get along…until they both end up in supplemental math lessons. Poem is good at math and… Read More First Impression: The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt
Mona Kawai has always been the cutest girl around and the center of attention. Boys want her and girls want to be her. She stole the show as a baby in her bassinet at the maternity ward of the hospital, and kept that streak rolling through early childhood, kindergarten, elementary school, and junior high. But… Read More First Impression: Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious To My Charms
Two high school students are married, and they don’t like it. Rewind. Akane (girl) gets on Saito’s (guy) case for sloppy work on the daily class record. They bicker until their classmate Himari (girl) comes over and asks why Akane gets on Saito’s case so much. She doesn’t have an answer. Another student, Shisei (girl),… Read More First Impression: I’m Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class
Sport runs in the veins of the Inomata family. In her time, Taichi’s mother played basketball at the same high school her son goes to. Less suited for team efforts, her son has taken up badminton, where the struggle and the glory rest squarely on his shoulders. At the gym, the turmoil of bouncing basketballs,… Read More First Impression: Blue Box
When bookish, compassionate Jun moves into the house next door, young Rumi is instantly lovestruck. As the years go by, it is clear that they are opposites in every way: she is into sports, he is a living encyclopedia. He loves to talk about authors and books, she cares for appearances. She fails to stop… Read More First Impression: Love Is Indivisible by Twins
Rin joins the high school drama club and winds up flirting with her clueless senpai Eiji, under the guise of practicing acting as different characters (referred to as Tsundere-chan, Cool-chan, Spoiled-chan, Imp-chan—a veritable “harem”). That’s it. Silly flirting. That’s literally the whole episode. So, it’s another high school romcom. Well, Rin is cute, and Eiji… Read More First Impression: Pseudo Harem
Fuyutsuki is starting her first day at a new job, and her thoughts are consumed with questions as to whether she will be just as “stoic” in her new role as she was in school, with her tendency to express little emotion. While she is on her way to work, she comes across a man… Read More First Impression: The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
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