Darwin’s Game Series Review: Download, Update, Survive

Darwin’s Game

One day, Kaname Sudo receives an invite to join a mobile app called Darwin’s Game. With an absentminded, almost accidental push of a button, this once average teenager’s whole life suddenly becomes a living nightmare. It turns out, Darwin’s Game is a real-life battle royal that forces players to face one another in bloody fights to the death. Although users are granted unique powers for combat, most new players don’t survive their first encounter.

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No Guns Life Series Review: Gun Head

No Guns Life

During the last great war, cybernetic enchantments advanced astronomically, and a handful of soldiers became devastating weapons. Then the war ended, and the company responsible for this technology, the Beruhren Corporation, released their tech to the public, the Extended. Given the dangers Extended criminals pose, it takes a special kind of enforcer to keep the peace, and his name is Juuzou Inui.

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Rifle: A Beautiful Series Aiming Higher Than Expected

Rifle is Beautful

Competitive rifle shooting isn’t the most popular sport, but for those who play, it is a way of life, as is the case for Hikari Kokura and the Chidori High Shooting Club. Hikari and her fellow shooting enthusiasts attend Chidori High, Izumi Shibusawa, Erika Meinohama, and Yukio Igarashi are ready to take their skills to the national stage. But they suppose they better get in some good practice first.

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Oresuki: Are you the only one who loves me? Series Review: Two-Faced Love

Oresuki: Are you the only one who loves me?

Amatsuyu “Joro” Kisaragi is an extraordinarily kind but typical high schooler, and out of nowhere, he gets invitations from two of his school’s most popular students, Sakura “Cosmos” Akino and Aoi “Himawari” Hinata, to meet them respectively on two separate days. At the climax of these back-to-back dates, Cosmos and Himawari lean in close and confess that for the longest time, they have had feelings for…Joro’s best friend. This news hits hard because, in actuality, Joro has only played the goody-two-shoes so that he could hopefully achieve the relationship granted to all romantic-comedy protagonists, and it appears his efforts have failed spectacularly. However, there is one person who not only knows of Joro’s true identity but prefers it, Sumireko “Pansy” Sanshokuin, and she is not someone who intends to take no for an answer.

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Ascendance of a Bookworm Series Review: Knowledge Is Power

Ascendance of a Bookworm

One day, a frail young girl wakes up in a world she does not recognize, and in a body she does not know. The girl learns her name is Myne, and somehow, her old life had ended, and she had been reborn in a strange new place. Although this is concerning, Myne thinks she can get by so long as she can spend her days reading but is horrified to learn books and other writing materials are incredibly expensive, and only the richest have any real need for them. Undeterred, Myne decides that if she cannot buy a book, she will need to make one herself, and in her quest, she brings about advancements in many different disciplines, and soon enough, everyone will come to learn her name.

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Assassins Pride Series Review: Oh No

Assassins Pride

The last refuge of humanity lives within the city-state of Flandore, and the gap between nobility and commoners is wide since noble bloodlines contain mana. With this power, it is up to mana users to protect the populace from dangerous monsters. To fight these terrible battles are the assassins like Kufa Vampir, and his newest mission is to serve as bodyguard and tutor for the daughter of the prestigious Angel family, Melida. Although Melida’s family is known for its mighty mana warriors, Melida herself appears to have no such talent, but Kufa sees potential in his young student.

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Vinland Saga Series Review: Way of the Vikings

Vinland Saga

It is the early 9th century on the frozen shores of Iceland, where young Thorfinn lives with his family. One day, Thorfinn’s father goes off to fight for the Danish during their conquest of England, and Thorfinn sneaks along. However, before reaching their destination, Thorfinn watches in horror as his father is killed by the Viking pirate Askeladd. This act of violence steers Thorfinn onto a path of revenge as he determinately follows Askeladd and his crew to the battlegrounds of England.

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Kono Oto Tomare 2nd Season Series Review: For the Sound

Kono Oto Tomare 2nd Season

The Tokise High School Koto Club has come a long way from its near disbandment nearly a year ago. Now, this group of underdogs has a real shot at playing and possibly winning on the national stage. Club president Takezou Kurata, koto prodigy Satowa Houzuki, and reformed delinquent Chika Kudou have dedicated themselves to ensuring their club becomes something great. But all those who oppose the Tokise High School Koto Club fail to realize that this team’s passion is real and not so easily destroyed.

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We Never Learn Season 2 Series Review: The Lessons Continue

We Never Learn Season 2

With graduation creeping ever closer, the pressure is mounting for Nariyuki Yuiga. With his future on the line, he continues to do everything he can to ensure that his three genius pupils, Fumino Furuhashi, Uruka Takemoto, and Rizu, get into the universities they are aiming for. After spending so much time with Fumino, Uruka, and Rizu, Nariyuki has grown to care for each of them. The same is true for the girls as well; more so, in fact.

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Fairy Gone 2nd Season Series Review: Could Have Been Worse, Could Have Been the First

Fairy Gone 2nd Season

The elite forces of the Dorothea remain on the hunt for the mysterious Black Fairy Text. Making matters worse, the opponents the Dorothea must face were once close allies and friends who became corrupted by the bitterness and anger formed during the devastating War for Unification. Not only that, some of the people the Dorothea are charged with protecting were responsible for many unforgivable atrocities. Regardless of the complications, should the Dorothea fail, it will mean the end to humanity.

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Hoshiai No Sora (Stars Align)

Hoshiai No Sora (Stars Align)

Before jumping into this article, here’s a quick rundown of the series. The narrative of Hoshiai No Sora also known as Stars Align is based on a middle school kid named Katsuragi Maki. He transfers from another school and gets persuaded by an old friend from his childhood to join the school’s delicate club, the…

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