Category Archives: Features

First Impressions: Ginga e Kickoff

You would had killed yourself if you lose to a dog in football. Ginga e Kickoff. Finally, someone did a fansub of it. I’m starting to lose hope in the fansub industry for neglecting interesting kid shows. This one has those right strings that makes an interesting kids show. Actually, it is much better with [...]

First Impressions: Shining Hearts – The BREAD of happines

It’s about people and Bread. Well, it’s not that BAD as that Kakera. There’s a fare share of cute girls and bishounen. I am fine with the male lead, but he’s Yuuji everlead, so that’s not helping. The women are your stereotype bitches that has an fathomable admiration to the male lead’s bread. There’s isn’t [...]

First Impressions: Tsuritama

Tsuritama is an original anime project with a very unique and weird premise and prospect. It also sends STAR DRIVER-esque vibes due to it’s psychedelic visuals and cheery-toned characters. It’s really a pity that this is a love-it or hate-it affair, as this would have been an instant hit. I liked how the small part [...]

First Impressions: Sakamichi no Apollon

It’s the third nuke of this season! Those nukes did nothing but leveling my watchlist more and focusing it to just the interesting ones. With Jormungand airing now, Upotte! can now be safely put on-hold. And with Sakamichi no Apollon (Kids on the Slope, for those lovers of EN-translated titles), I can now enjoy better [...]

First Impressions: Kuroko Basketball

Gyaa~ I immediately fell in love with this. There’s even a Yaoi fanbait. Anyway, shounen sports aren’t really my liking, despite picking Area no Kishi. But that’s because of the drama not much on the sport. Kuroko Basketball is more in your traditional shounen troupe than the former. But it does so in an impressive [...]

First Impressions: Saki Achiga-hen

“Lolis playing mahjong” was the most prominent thought I would get if I were to make an informal survey regarding what would Saki: Achiga-hen be. Watching it would yield different results. You wouldn’t call busty bishoujo as “loli,” would you? Aside from that, it’s a game-themed anime that focuses on Mahjong. On the downside, it’s [...]

First Impressions: Upotte!

Our friendly neighbourhood bishounen already got enough stress by covering sh*t from this season and my conscience told me to get one rotten flower from the beautiful bouquet by random sampling. It turned out that the flower I got wasn’t a rotten but rather a Plumeria acuminata lost in a bouquet that’s aimed for a [...]

First Impressions: Nazo no Kanojo X

Here’s one weirdness that totally works out in putting a good first impression to the audience. The weirdness painted by the atmosphere totally jives with the chemistry between comedy and mystery. We also have unique character sets too. This is also not your typical romantic-comedy anime, which is why its definitely tolerable for me to [...]

First Impressions: Acchi Kocchi

It’s a story about … well … I don’t really know. It’s about love that is so obvious that they are blinded by the obvious fact. I’ll classify this as a romantic-comedy sitcom ( I’m still unsure on the romantic part), but we already have Polar Bear Cafe this season. This one is nowhere near [...]

First Impressions: Summer Coloured Miracles

I asked either meganekkofan or Anton if he can do a review of this, but he seems to curse this series for some reason… Oh well, I’m stuck doing a First Impression of it then… Summer Coloured Miracles is about a group of middle-school kids who aspires to be idols. Being an all female cast [...]