Eyes in the dark. The hunter. The prey. A girl with an orange scarf runs through the forest, trying to escape a host of incredibly cool ninjas drawn in old-style animation. Against the violet sky, shuriken fly. We get some Samurai Jack-level cutting and striking visuals in 3:4 resolution. Traditional Japanese music accompanies the chase.… Read More First Impression: A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
Welcome to Gingarou Hotel! A slick ad reel showcases what makes the hotel so luxe, presenting a world where the customer is king and life is good—until flashes from the news media begin to intercut, revealing that all is not well on planet Earth. In fact, the air is so full of poison that humanity… Read More First Impression: Apocalypse Hotel
A little girl, red pigtails braided sedately, and a spindly woman dressed in Edwardian fashion hurry to catch the train. A new life is about to begin for the girl, an orphan, who is being delivered to an elderly brother and sister duo who live at Green Gables in Prince Edward Island, Canada. To say… Read More First Impression, Team Edition: Anne Shirley
Silver-haired Sakamoto was the coolest of all hitmen. He could take on twenty men at once, John Wick style, and leave a mountain of bodies behind. Every hitman, young Shin especially, looked up to him, and he was a big man in the criminal underworld. But, tale as old as time, he fell in love,… Read More First Impression: Sakamoto Days
Disaster strikes for Minami when the mobile game she was so invested in gets hit by the dreaded end-of-service notice. Encouraged by her friend to find a club to join, she tries several, but her lack of physical skills discourages her from sticking with any of them. While looking for something out in town to… Read More First Impression: Sorairo Utility (TV)
On the 49th day since the death of his beloved dog, Hanako, storybook writer Hotaru Yūyami spots a pink mushroom growing in his yard. Not thinking much of it at first, Hotaru goes about his daily life, including mourning for Hanako and appearing at a book signing with his editor and childhood friend, Komako Amano.… Read More First Impression: Kinokoinu Mushroom Pup
From ancient times, the boundless night sky and the numberless stars have captured the human imagination. For Aristotle, the birth of philosophy lay in the contemplation of the stars, while Plato wanted the wise to train themselves in astronomy, and Virgil and Seneca liken virtue to a “path to the stars.” Twenty-five centuries later, the skies above still fascinate… Read More Planetes in the Planetarian: a Church of Men and Angels
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