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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Blue Reflection Ray

Streaming: Funimation

Episodes: 24

Source: Game

Story Summary: Ruka is a quiet girl with a longing to connect with others but an inability to do so effectively. She carries regrets with her after transferring schools, and can’t seem to change her situation for the better. When her roommate Hiori returns through the window of their shared dorm room after an absence, Ruka is immediately struck by her natural, outgoing nature. Though they are very different people, they seem to share a connection; the ring that Ruka found dropped on the ground one afternoon seems to make a pair with one that Hiori received from her sister’s belongings, and both house a power that neither could have imagined.

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent

Streaming: Funimation

Episodes: 12

Source: Light Novel

Story Summary: Sei is an overworked office employee who, after being made to stay late yet again, returns home under dark of night only to be magically summoned to an alternate world called Salutania which suffering from the proliferation of a terrible miasma. In this world a figure called a “Saint” is said to have the power to hold back the miasma, but in dire cases where they do not appear organically they are often actively summoned into duty through magical means. Sei arrives with a second woman and Prince Kyle seems to take to her more quickly, whisking her away and leaving Sei to spend her days alone in boredom. But a chance meeting introduces Sei to a magical research institute, where her prior interest in herbal remedies translates very well into the distillations of magical potions. She has a knack for it, too; despite having had no idea how to use magic when she arrived in Salutania, it turns out that her magical abilities are powerful and seemingly bottomless. When a group of knights is attacked by a monster, Sei’s special 1.5-strength healing potions turn out to be a boon.

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Fairy Ranmaru

Streaming: Crunchyroll

Episodes: 12

Source: Original

Story Summary: The Fairy Queen summons a representative from each of the fairy clans to form a heroic team. Their task? To go to Earth and collect “attachments” from humans who are suffering. Fairies have rules of conduct that limit them from experiencing love (physical or emotional) with humans, yet their mission involves understanding the root causes of such things and reacting to them. Ranmaru, of the powerful Light Clan, poses as a quiet transfer student, but he almost immediately identifies a girl who’s being bullied out of jealousy. He rescues this young lady and uses the purity of her heart to put a stop to the tormenter. The Fairy Queen has received her first payment, but are her intentions truly on the up-and-up?

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Full Dive

Streaming: Funimation

Episodes: 12

Source: Light Novel

Story Summary: 10 years ago VRMMO games reached the peak of realism. However, since people play games to escape reality, it was decided that games should go back to being more game-like. In the ensuing years those games lost much of their popularity. However, that doesn’t stop Hiro, a former member of his high school track team who now spends most of his time gaming, from seeking after the most recent installment of his favorite VRMMO series. After coming up short on funds, he ends up at a shady game store where a bubbly-yet-cunning shopkeeper named Reona dupes him into buying a completely different, older game with his hard-earned funds. Hiro loads it up anyway and is initially pleased with how realistic it is – until he finds he can experience pain and then accidentally kills an NPC. When he finally encounters Reona inside the game, she’s upset to discover that Hiro’s in-game title has already become “Best Friend Killer.”

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Backflip!!

Streaming: Crunchyroll

Episodes: 12

Source: Original

Story Summary: Shotaro Futaba has been a bench-warmer all three years on his middle school baseball team. After the conclusion of their final game of the season, he happens to wander into an auditorium where a high school boys’ rhythmic gymnastics competition is taking place. Shotaro is instantly enthralled by the leaps and tumbles of the team from Soshukan High School, to the point that he chooses to attend that school the following year. He doesn’t have any experience with gymnastics, but his history with swimming, soccer, and baseball has conditioned his body to be flexible and strong. Though he may be a newbie, he falls in love with the feeling of his body being in flight and chooses to join the rhythmic gymnastics team. And since the team really needs to have six members to compete with other schools, they welcome him with open arms.

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Dragon Goes House-Hunting

Streaming: Funimation

Episodes: 12

Source: Manga

Story Summary: No matter how great or small, all creatures need a place to call home. Letty, a red dragon, is left having to find a new one after he manages to let his family’s egg get stolen by monster hunters. After wandering the land and getting into trouble one too many times, Letty finally gets a tip about an elf named Dearia who lives at the foot of Yggdrasil, and seems to have a knack for housing the many fantasy creatures who inhabit their world. Letty wanders for days to find Dearia, only for Dearia to find him; after some so-called heroes hassle Letty, the powerful elf lets loose on them and… neutralizes the threat. Perhaps now that Letty has met the person he seeks, he can finally find a place to call his own.

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Farewell, My Dear Cramer

Streaming: Crunchyroll

Episodes: 13

Source: Manga

Story Summary: Women’s sports are often underfunded and given significantly less prestige than men’s sports; the girls and women who play them sometimes have to navigate additional hurdles to find recognition. Nozomi has played on boys’ teams through middle school because she feels the members of the girls’ teams aren’t serious enough; Sumire has become a one-girl show, rivaled only by her, well, rival Midori. These players and others find their way onto the struggling girls’ soccer team at an unassuming high school, and suddenly against all odds, their competitive spirit starts to find a home. Soon after their year begins, a big name returns to the school to help coach this group into becoming a winning team.

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Seven Knights Revolution: Hero Successor

Streaming: Crunchyroll

Episodes: TBA

Source: Smartphone Game

Story Summary: The world was once saved from darkness by heroes chosen by the Goddess. Now that the land is once again haunted by terrible, demonic beasts, individuals called the Seven Knights wield the souls of those heroes. Nemo is a student about to enter Granseed Academy, when his village is attacked by man-eating demons. Luckily he’s rescued by Faria, one of the Seven Knights. As they ride toward Granseed Academy, their train is attacked by a demon and Nemo is summoned by the Goddess to receive the power of an ancient hero. Using the power of succession, Nemo helps rescue Faria.

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Let’s Make a Mug Too

Streaming: Crunchyroll

Episodes: 12 (15 minutes apiece)

Source: Tajimi City Promotional Manga

Story Summary: After her father’s company goes bankrupt, Himeno moves in with her grandmother and her father starts over by opening a café. In the café is an extensive selection of coffee cups with beautiful colors and motifs. After Himeno uses a sample of these cups to advertise the café to her new classmates, her new and very outgoing friend Mika brings her to the school pottery club building. There, Himeno learns that her late mother, a former student, was famous for her beautiful pottery (including the ones in use at the café). Even though Himeno wasn’t previously interested in joining a club, she now feels drawn to the pottery club and its connection to her mother, of whom she has very few memories. It takes a moment for her father to wrestle with the prospect of his daughter following her mother’s footsteps, but he eventually encourages her to take this first step into a new, creative world.

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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Odd Taxi

Streaming: Crunchyroll

Episodes: TBA

Source: Original

Story Summary: Odokawa is a curmudgeonly taxi driver whose sarcastic attitude is a point of minor fame among the people who’ve encountered him. As news begins to circulate about a missing high-school student, the last sighting of which occurred as she got into a cab, suspicions begin bubble up around Odokawa’s involvement and he becomes a person of interest in the case. There are also rumors floating around about a Dobu, a criminal with a violent reputation, and how he may play into all this. Even though Odokawa himself is impenetrable, his cab may contain the evidence needed to crack the case. But what if the police are in cahoots with Dobu?

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