First Impressions: King Of Prism – Shiny Seven Stars

This anime is not an anime. You know those romance/visual novel video game walkthroughs on YouTube that show you what happens when you pick all the best romance options for love interests? That's what this is. They don't even try to put in an actual viewer stand in character or stick to one LI per …

First Impressions: Senryu Girl

Senryu Girl is a short(ish) anime about a girl who communicates by writing down senryu, which are basically just haiku without the requisite nature imagery. It's cute! Kinda basic, I guess. Nothing about the series is a particular standout aside from the focus on classical poetry and the fact that hed boyfriend looks like Bart. …

First Impressions: Ao-chan Can’t Study!

The things I do for my family... A ninja. Ao-chan Can't Study! is about a high school girl who wants to study and keeps getting distracted by icky boys. Ok, so maybe it's a little more complicated than that, but that's the basic premise. Ao-chan very much wants to go to a university far, far …

First Impressions: Why the hell are you here, Teacher!?

what a lovely and not at all boob shaped cloud Why the hell are you here, Teacher!? is about a high school student who keep ending up in inappropriate situations with his teacher. Neither teacher nor student enjoy finding themselves in these situations. And yet, this is, without a doubt, one of the grossest anime …

First Impressions: Namu amida butsu! – Utena

Samurai gods fighting demons? Sounds like fun. Yo. This is not fun. Namu amida butsu! - Utena is about a couple of enlightened samurai gods new to the Material Realm trying to figure out how things work with the help of some not very helpful superiors, and occasionally fighting 'Earthly Vices', and if that description …

First Impressions: Sarazanmai

Don't do drugs, kids. Watch anime, instead. I don't even know, dude Sarazanmai is a show about three kids who get turned into kappa (kappas? kappai?) after two of them accidentally break a statue of the prince kappa. This anime is very very strange. It's not bad, per se, and the beginning is normal enough, …

First Impressions: Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki

Got damn it got awful hot awful quick. Guess that's what I get for living somewhere with no atmosphere. Oh, well. Time for anime. This short is pretty cute. This first episode primarily consisted of The Boy One making fun of The Girl One's accent in a couple of overly-literally-translated gags and then flashing back …

First Impressions: Midnight Occult Civil Servants

How could a show about supernatural beings possibly be boring? Rude. Midnight Occult Civil Servants is what happens when you combine public service with the occult in such a way as to make everything as boring as possible. I mean, the premise sounds good on paper: Angels, and demons, and just about every other supernatural …

First Impressions: Cinderella Nine

Yay, sportsball... Excuse me, miss, but where can I find that sweater? I want it. Cinderella Nine is a sports anime about a baseball team. It's fairly standard fare, except that it's about girl's baseball, which is a nice twist on the premise, I suppose. The characters are nice enough, so far, and it's cool …

First Impressions: We Never Learn: BOKUBEN

This looks like it could be very bad or kind of interesting. Let's hope for interesting. nice hair We Never Learn: BOKUBEN is about a high school boy of average intelligence trying to tutor a pair of genius girls so that they can get into the university of their choice. The only catch is, they …