First Impressions: Devil Survivor 2 – The Animation

Alternate Titles: Neon Fallout Pokémon, Not-Persona Video Game Adaptation by Bridge Simulcast on Crunchyroll Premise: Generic hero guy Hibiki Kuze (Hiroshi Kamiya) learns of a mysterious viral phone app named Nicaea from his best friend Daichi Shijima (Nobuhiko Okamoto). Daichi tells him Nicaea allows you to see videos of how your friends will die, yet as soon…

First Impressions: Photo Kano

Dating Sim Adaptation by Madhouse Premise: Our boring harem protagonist has received a camera from his father and wants to make photography his new hobby. Typical dating sim antics ensue.

Chihayafuru 2 Episode 13

The fight between Chihaya and Megumu gets heated as we get more time to understand our opponent’s point of view. For the first time I’m starting to get weary of how slow Chihayafuru is going.

First Impressions: Date A Live

“Spacequakes” ravage the landscape of the world occasionally, and it turns out they’re caused by cute girls appearing from another world. The only way to solve this without killing them is to date them.

First Impressions: The Flowers of Evil

Alternate Titles: Aku No Hana, Les Fleurs Du Mal Manga Adaptation by ZEXCS Simulcast on Crunchyroll Premise: Takao Kasuga (Shinichirou Ueda) is an introverted high school student who takes pride in his taste in literature. Particularly obsessed with the works of Charles Baudelaire, Takao pends most of his days daydreaming, trying to get along with his frat…

First Impressions: Samurai Bride

Premise: Muneakira returns from a journey of enlightenment to find that the girls, who have fallen on hard financial times and haven’t received any compensation or recognition for saving Japan, have turned the sacred dojo into a maid cafe.

First Impressions: The Severing Crime Edge

Manga Adaption by Studio Gokumi Simulcast on Crunchyroll Premise: Kiri loves hair. Like, REALLY loves hair. So when he finds a mysterious girl with more hair than she can handle, it seems a dream come true. But things are not all they seem…

First Impressions: Red Data Girl

Izumiko is a frail technowitch who is trying to change the way her life has been lead for her. Unfortunately, forces beyond her control seem to be guiding her life towards Miyuki, an asshole with an even greater asshole of a father.

Little Witch Academia

As part of the Young Animator Training Project which is dedicated to the training of young animators, the fledgling studio Trigger, created from the ashes of Gainax’s old talent, has created a short animation. As a huge fan of Gainax’s work, ranging from Gunbuster to Panty and Stocking, I was quite excited to see what Trigger would…

Chihayafuru 2 Episode 12

Recap: We’re given a lot of backstory that i suppose would help if Megumu was going to be a recurring character, but she’s still just an opponent at this point so Idno why we have to know so much about her.