Sometimes the best laid plans go awry. For Satoru Fujinuma, unsuccessful manga creator and current pizza delivery man, it’s a life of what ifs and struggling with his own emotional expression. For myself, it was intending to do a quick first impression and quickly losing the better half of a day to an anime embroiled […]
Tag: First Impressions
First Impressions: Freedom Planet (WiiU)
GalaxyTrail’s Freedom Planet made a rumbling across the web following a successful Kickstarter run and subsequent release on Steam in 2014. Following several delays it finally hit the WiiU last month, and after getting some hands-on time with the game, I have to say I’m impressed. Thus far into the game (which is admittedly only […]
First Impression: One Punch Man
The much anticipated anime One Punch Man was officially released on the 5th of October 2015. OPM is an action-comedy series, which was originally a webcomic released in 2009 with below average artwork, but despite that it went viral and became so popular that it was later redrawn and eventually made it into the weekly […]
First Impressions: Mobile Suit Gundam – Iron Blooded Orphans
With the new season off and running, it’s time for some more First Impressions, starting with the new Gundam anime, Iron Blooded Orphans.
First Impressions: Street Fighter V Beta (PS4)
Last week word filtered out that Street Fighter V was back in action for beta testers, and after a few false starts I was able to jump in to give it a whirl! First impressions are good – the UI is nice a clean, character selection is slick and even things like loading screens are […]
Dragonball Xenoverse PS4 – First Impressions
I’ve recently gotten my hands on Dragonball Xenoverse on the Playstation 4. Xenoverse is the first Dragon Ball game to appear on the next gen systems. I never had the pleasure of owning any of the previous Dragon Ball games on previous systems such as the famous Budokai trilogy, but I always heard great things […]
J-Stars Victory Vs+ PS4 – First Impressions
J-Stars Victory VS+ is a brawler that takes some of Shonen Jump’s biggest anime characters and battles them against each other in what can only be described as explosive fan-service battles. This game was released to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Shonen Jump. On launch of the game you are greeted with a stylish cell […]
First Impressions: Working!!! (3rd Season) Episode 1
This is the third (and final, I believe) season of this quite hilariously done Comedy/Slice of Life anime adapted from manga by the same name. We once again follow Souta Takanashi at his part-time job; the Wagnaria family restaurant. Along with his daily interactions with fellow employees, and family members. A-1 Pictures once again […]
First Impressions: Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri Episode 1
A portal in Japan opens, with a slew of Roman-inspired soldiers, dragons and all manner of monsters appear, slaughtering civilians left and right. On the outskirts of this we have Youji Itami, a JSDF officer and otaku, on his way to a doujinshi events. Interrupted by screams, dragons and fantasy monsters killing randomly, he jumps to, saving […]
First Impressions: Charlotte Episode 1
P.A. Works try their hand at an original anime this time around. Having just come off from a rather successful series (Shirobako), they went with something completely new, using no source material. Now, on the surface Charlotte seems like a typical super powered, coming-of-age anime, but I like that misdirection. It lends itself on a lot […]