First Impressions Digest – Busu ni Hanataba wo. (April Showers Bring May Flowers), Fermat no Ryori, Kimi to Ame to (With You and the Rain)

Busu ni Hanataba wo. – 01 There are two seinen romcom adaptations this season whose descriptions read like shoujo romances to me (Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku is the other). And after watching this premiere I’d still pretty much have been fooled. Labels are just labels of course, and those two demographics can have …

First Impressions – Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu (The Summer Hikaru Died)

My first reaction after a premiere like this is always a telling one. There are a severely limited number of series which premiere with the potential to be AotY. When they don’t have a known elite director or come from someplace like Bones or Wit, the uncertainty factor shoots up. Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu is …