Why is every master of their trade a 23 year old pretty boy? Impressions: I will have to admit that as far as these kinds of things go, this does have one of the better starts. Mainly because the lead is fairly charismatic. She’s confident, relatively competent, the period where she’s mewling in disappointment over …
First Impressions Digest 01/07/24 – Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken, Ao no Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati Hen
Ore Dake Level-Up na Ken – 01 Yeah, this is one of those times where I just don’t get it. I know Tower of God is really the only manhwa I’ve liked (though the Noblesse anime wasn’t bad), which leaves me a suspect barometer. Even so, when a series has the kind of aggregator scores …
First Impressions – Yubisaki to Renren
OP: “Yuki no Oto (雪の音)” by Novelbright Shoujo number two of the winter season bows, and it’s certainly the more important prospect for me. Yubisaki to Renren is a more familiar shoujo genre for anime, romance. And it tilts more towards the jousei side of the demographic than Momochi-san, to be sure. Ajia-do has done …
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto – 13
The two big multi-cours of the moment are moving in lockstep, to an extent. Both Sousou no Frieren and Kusuriya no Hitorigoto are big commercial hits – Frieren bigger, but not by that much. And both start off their new cours in transition. Not only that, Kusuriya too seems to be moving into an exam …
Winter 2024 Impressions: Solo Leveling, Tales of Wedding Rings, A Sign of Affection, Tank Isekai
Solo Leveling Short Synopsis: 10 years ago portals, and those with the abilities to combat that which came out of them called hunters, appeared in the world. This is the story of the weakest hunter. So I’m cheating a bit, in that I’ve already read Solo Leveling front to back. I know where it goes, …
Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu Season 2 – 01
OP: “Boku wa… (僕は…)” by Atarayo (あたらよ) As is often the case with something as good as that was, the struggle for me is twofold. Finding something to say that would add anything meaningful, and stopping myself from gushing endlessly. I’ll say this much – there’s no bigger BokuYaba fan than me, and I was …






