On the outside, Oji Mitsutaka is your typical section leader businessman with all that comes with it—a good-paying job with dependable employees under him, a decent apartment he shares with his college-bound nephew, and even a divorce for good measure! However, once he gets behind closed doors, our salaryman divorcee indulges in his dark secret.… Read More First Impression: Uncle’s Obsession with Cute Things
“Please, God! I cannot lose this money!” The pink-haired young woman gasps out a desperate plea as the line continues to plunge downward on her foreign exchange investment. “If you can hear me, please rewind time!” Cue the flashback. Kurumi-chan is in the final year of middle school when the world economy plunges into recession.… Read More First Impression: FX Fighter Kurumi-chan
Minato, who can see benevolent spirits but not wicked ones, becomes caretaker of an abandoned house that belonged to a distant relative. As he cleans up, he unwittingly drives out the negative spiritual energy infesting the place. Soon he also meets Yamagami, a mountain god in the form of a large talking canine creature. The… Read More First Impression: Kusunoki’s Garden of the Gods
Lisel is dressed, coiffed, and accessorized like a noble, but no one can tell he is one unless he tells them. That’s what he thinks, anyhow, as he determines to keep his identity secret while ambling through a sparsely populated town market he later describes as “lively.” After selling some of his accoutrements for the… Read More First Impression: A Gentle Noble’s Vacation Recommendation
When Asa is fifteen, her parents die in a car crash, leaving her orphaned and alone and terribly, terribly numb. She walks through the early days of her loss in a daze, her wide green eyes dry as no tears come. Her future is uncertain; her relatives outdo one another in explaining why she is… Read More First Impression: Journal with Witch (Ikoku Nikki)
Anime is full of catchphrases, from Kamehameha and tuturuu to “I am the bone of my sword” and “In the name of the moon, I will punish you!” But there’s something special about the catchphrase that underpins Turkey! Time to Strike. It’s not made up of nonsense syllables or random foreign words strung together, nor… Read More The Grace of Turkey: A Bowling Girls’ Gospel
In the first episode of Season 2, Azusa meets again the deity who brought her to this isekai when she reincarnated after death by overwork. Pretty much everything about the episode’s depiction of divinity is pure silliness: The goddesses are likened to idols on the performance circuit, complete with glow sticks and other merch, a… Read More I’ve Been Killing Slimes’ Unexpected Insight into the Heart of God
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