It’s night in the city. Under the starry sky, Rudra, the teenager whose ponytail shines like fire, uses her hacking abilities to steal some mecha designs stored at a colossal neon cruise ship. A chase ensues as the mysterious vocal music intensifies in the background, and mask-wearing goons follow her on their water scooters. Now… Read More First Impression: DARK MACHINE THE ANIMATION
Two superpowered teams of teens compete in a parkour-style capture the flag game, and the territory goes to the winner. This time, fortune does not smile on young Araki’s team, the “Polis Hoppers” (is this a reference to the polis, the ancient Greek city-state, or to the police, or to something else?), and their insignia… Read More First Impression: Mebius Dust
On Sunday, June 28, 1914, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the commoner wife he had married for love were murdered in Sarajevo. In his pocket lay the rosary he had begun to pray not long before. The chain reaction after that changed history forever. But what if the dominoes had been aligned a… Read More First Impression: Leviathan
Takopi is an alien from Planet Happy with one simple, yet admirable goal: Spread happiness to Earth-dwellers! The first person he gets to talk to and befriend is Shizuka Kuze, a kind young girl. Each chance he gets, he introduces a Happy Gadget, intended to bring joy by the power of Happian technology. To his… Read More First Impression: Takopi’s Original Sin
“So, to sum up Hikaru’s story,” says one of Hikaru’s friends, as they walk to school in a futuristic Japanese city, “last night, Hikaru, a troubled third year in Kitakagami junior high school, was gazing at the starry sky, as he often does…” We see a shoujo protagonist screaming with passion. “No. I thought I… Read More First Impression: Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms
If you were looking for a conclusive ending…then you haven’t been paying attention to Battle Angel Alita. Volume nine, which ends the manga run proper (Kodansha does bundle in an alternate ending of sorts and there are additional entrants in the series that continue the tale), is as furious in its action as volume eight,… Read More Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 9: And Our Story Goes On
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