[FIRST IMPRESSION] New Game!! (Season 2)

Plot:

Suzukaze Aoba starts her second year at work, daunted at the possibility of being a senpai to the new hires… only to find out that there aren’t any. (Mostly) undeterred at the prospect of being the youngest in the office for another year, Aoba proposes that she takes on more challenging characters to design. Hazuki asks the Eagle Jump employees to pitch ideas for a game, but in the meantime, everyone goes to a hanami party. There, she announces that there’ll be a competition to become the next project’s lead character designer.

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Spring 2017 Anime: Looking Ahead

With a new anime season fast approaching, I’ve decided that this time, I’m going to set myself a few rules.

I’ve recently hit my milestone of watching over 100 anime and looking at my list, I have a bit of a diversity problem. Sure, my taste ranges from Akira to YuruYuri, but I definitely tend to stick to what I know.

So I’ve proposed four rules to follow when choosing what to watch this season…

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[FIRST IMPRESSION] Yuri!!! On Ice

Plot:

Crushed after a series of losses, figure skater Yuri Katsuki returns home with his tail between his legs. Unable to pull himself out of a downward spiral following his defeat at the Grand Prix in Sochi, he starts to seriously consider retiring at twenty three. He’s ashamed of not being able to impress his idol, Victor Nikiforov, and rival skater Yuri Plisetsky resents him for not performing up to standard. Months later, he graduates college and he returns to his childhood home in Kyushu to stay with his parents until he’s figured things out. However, his retreat from public life is short-lived, once a viral video causes Yuri Katsuki to find none other than his hero sat stark naked in his family’s onsen.

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