First Impressions Archives

Future Diary – Anime Series Review

This review was originally drafted in December 2012, but I do not recall if I actually published the review! This was around the time when I ran myself into a writer’s block, then other things happened that I had to take care of, until the rebrand under Centaku Media a few years later. As with […]

Anime & Manga

April 17, 2019December 25, 2019

Channel Surfing: SSSS.Gridman

SSSS.Gridman is a selection from the Fall 2018 Anime Lineup that caught my eye for a nostalgic reason. If the name sounds familiar to you, it is based on a live-action Sentai series that aired in the 1990s, called “Gridman“. It also inspired a Power Rangers style retelling in the US, called “Superhuman Samurai Syber […]