Happy #Fall all!

Our team is back at it again with First Impressions for the #Fall2023Anime season!

Check out our master post here and stay tuned for more first impressions from our staff of the upcoming anime. https://beneaththetangles.com/2023/09/27/fall-2023-anime-first-impressions/

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Fall 2023 Anime First Impressions

Did the lack of great series during the summer season get you down? Not to worry! The fall 2023 anime season is already upon us, with premieres already dropping tomorrow! Yes, you heard that right!…

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First Impression: A Girl And Her Guard Dog

Isaku Senagaki is a girl with some issues. As though losing her parents at the age of five due to a car accident were bad enough, Isaku now must go live with her grandfather, who just so happens to…

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First Impression: My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer

Retired adventurer Bel is now a teacher, gardener, manager, and caretaker, but he was once a warrior of renown. An incident left him without the lower half of one of his legs. And while the conditi…

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First Impression: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

Crunchyroll debuted Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End by airing its first four episodes. To preserve our first impression format and help those who are avoiding spoilers from episodes two through…

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First Impression: Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange

Ever wonder what a day in the life of a firefighter would be like or how hard it is to become a firefighter in Japan? If so, Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange might just be for you! With Tokyo b…

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First Impression: MF Ghost

The future is here and gas-powered cars are going the way of the dinosaur. Well, unless you go to the track where real fossil fuel-guzzling race cars still reign supreme in the new motorsport serie…

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First Impression: Ragna Crimsom

Destiny can be ironic. Or so feels Ragna, the all-powerful dragonslayer, as he turns reptiles into liquid silver on a land covered in ice. The lethal techniques he has honed throughout his life wou…

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First Impression: Shangri-La Frontier

An…oddly…dressed figure (a face mask and underwear) defeats the dark lord, then attacks the NPC who was cheering him on. It’s Faeria Chronicle Online, also nicknamed Failia for how bad …

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First Impression: OVERTAKE

Kouya Madoka is a photographer who is having trouble with his work. He gets tense and anxious before a photo shoot, and this is causing him to be behind in his projects. His boss gives him a job to…

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First Impression: Berserk of Gluttony

In a world of goblins, magic, and knights, Fate Graphite finds himself near the bottom of society. One’s skill—a power bestowed by the gods when you’re born—determines your place in the…

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First Impression: The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch

When the cute witch Alyssa stumbles upon an abandoned human baby in the middle of a forest, she immediately falls in love and decides to raise the girl. Sixteen years later, Viola has grown up, way…

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First Impression: Migi & Dali

It’s December 1989 and elderly couple Youko and Osamu Sonoyama are looking to adopt a child. At the Soramame House orphanage, there are many kiddos to pick from, but one, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed…

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First Impression: SHY

A snazzy comic book-style intro and voice-over catch us up on the state of the world: it seems that planet Earth is awash with…peace and tranquility? That’s right, mina-san, world peace! And with i…

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First Impression: Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions

As is the case with a lot of detective anime, there’s been a rash of drowning murders in the area over the last nine months, and the higher-ups at the Metropolitan Police Department are getting fru…

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First Impression: A Playthrough of a Certain Dude’s VRMMO Life

When you’re a 38-year-old salaryman, you just don’t have all the time in the world to sink into an online game. But no matter the age, gamers still get excited about new releases. So wh…

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First Impression: I’m in Love with the Villainess

All of us have our unusual picks for our favorite characters in anime or games. But for salarywoman Rae, her favorite is maybe a little more unusual than most, as is her dedication to the character…

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First Impression: Paradox Live THE ANIMATION

What if today’s rappers had the technology to create illusions and hallucinations to accompany their songs? That is the question explored in Paradox Live THE ANIMATION, where the use of “phantometa…

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First Impression: BULLBUSTER

For the past year, Ryugan Island has been overrun by large, hulking creatures known as “Giant Beasts.” To deal with the creatures and make the island inhabitable again, President Tajima…

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First Impression: The Eminence in Shadow, Season 2

The corruption, conspiracies, and battles of the Bushin Festival arc are complete and peace has returned—at least that’s what the members of Shadow Garden believe. But something even more sin…

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First Impression: I’m Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness

Allen is a powerful, misanthropic wizard who lives by himself in a forest. One day, he encounters Charlotte, the former fiancee of a prince from a neighboring country who is now a wanted criminal. …

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First Impression: The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent S2

Season two of The Saint’s Magic Power Is Omnipotent starts off with the saint looking, well, anything but omnipotent. Episode one opens with some nature cinematography that is stunning, as if…

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First Impression: 16bit Sensation – Another Layer

All you 90s kids, have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back to that time? Konoha Akisato gets the chance and is now stuck in 1992 with no way of returning (as of episode 1)! Konoh…

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First Impression: UNDER NINJA

If ninjas still existed, operating in the shadows as they once did, would they be wearing outrageous clothing and proclaiming their love for ramen? Or would they have infiltrated Japanese society, …

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First Impression: KamiErabi GOD.app

“Be forewarned that what’s to come isn’t a very pleasant story.” So says Goro, a blue-haired schoolboy who is about to tell us how he became…God? We meet him as he adm…

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First Impression: The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons

It’s a typical day in the Yuzuki household. Older brother Hayato is getting his younger brothers out the door and on the road to school. Having lost their parents a few years earlier, Hayato, a hig…

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First Impression: Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me

Runa Shirakawa is the prettiest girl in the school and to Ryuto Kashima, a geek with few friends, she is completely out of reach. Even when a brief interaction makes him fall for her, he knows all …

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First Impression: The Kingdoms of Ruin

A technological revolution is changing the world. As airships, metropolitan areas, speedy trains, and smartphones transform the planet, humans are now taking their destiny into their own hands. Led…

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First Impression: Undead Unluck

A palimpsest of tragedy plays out before our eyes: a snowscape of post-apocalyptic desolation; young lovers who breathe their first shared breath and their last; an engine bursting into flames and …

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First Impression: Goblins Slayer S2

Let me just say up front that, if you’re interested in season two of Goblin Slayer, you’ve probably already seen season one. You know what you’re getting into. Season two’s …

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First Impression: My New Boss is Goofy

Momose has endured horrible treatment from his boss to the point that it mentally stressed him out and even gave him an ulcer. Due to this, he decides to get a new job, but anticipating his first d…

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First Impression: Tearmoon Empire

Revolution has come to the Empire of Tearmoon and Mia, its First Princess, is experiencing her worst nightmare. Stripped of her rank, jailed in a dark cell, and force-fed rotten food, she is then l…

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First Impression: SPY x FAMILY Season 2

The Forger family, consisting of a deadly assassin, world-class spy, a telepathic grade school, and precognitive pooch is back for more hijinks! The beginning of season two’s first episode be…

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First Impression: I Shall Survive Using Potions!

Kaoru accidentally dies when a god tries to fix a space-time anomaly. The god offers her a chance to reincarnate in a fantasy world, and she bids farewell to her family and friends in a dream. She …

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First Impression: Protocol: Rain

Shun works as a part-timer at an Internet cafe, along with his friend and former gaming teammate Nozomi, while another one of his former teammates, Akito, visits the place frequently to play games.…

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First Impression: A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special

In the year 3636, the world has been decimated by a black fog that kills every living thing it touches. Warriors, mages, priests, and other adventurers are sent to the Shadow World to defeat their …

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First Impression: Butareba -The Story of a Man Turned into a Pig-

The narrator slowly returns to consciousness, only to find himself in a pigpen? Huh?! The last thing he remembers is eating some raw pig liver, as you do when you’re a scrawny, bespectacled otaku s…

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First Impression: The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess

Beast folk in uniform are being annihilated on the battlefield and victory will soon be within grasp thanks to the genius leadership of the fearsome Commander Terakomari! All hail Terakomari!! Hurr…

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First Impression: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You

Rintaro Aijo has a bit of a problem. Our bro tends to love hard and love often. When we first meet him after graduating junior high, he has confessed his love to no less than 100 girls and been rej…

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First Impression: The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of the Rust Mountains

The Faraway Paladin, Will, is back—older and with a deeper voice than ever before! Yes, a couple of years have passed since our technically isekai’d protagonist accepted a position as governo…

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First Impressions: The iDOLM@STER Million Live!

Mirai Kasuga is seeking direction in her life. She’s in at least eight different clubs, trying to find something she wants to do, when she happens to get ahold of a ticket for an idol concert…

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First Impression: Kawagoe Boys sing

As the episode begins, we are introduced to Tenshi Dei, whose first name means “angel” in Japanese, while his surname means “God” in Latin. Tenshi, though, doesn’t loo…

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First Impression: Stardust Telepath

For as long as she can remember, Umika has been obsessed with space, stars, and most specifically, other worlds filled with aliens. The reason? She wants to find a friend, and her shy and timid nat…

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First Impression: Dead Mount Death Play Cour 2

The Polka is back! No, not that kind of polka. The fake Polka. No, not that kind of fake polka either. Look, it’s a story by Narita Ryōgo (Baccano, Durarara, etc.), all right? So of course it…

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