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Winter 2019 First Impressions – The Magnificent Kotobuki

In a barren frontier where people trade goods with each other in order to help each other survive, the Kotobuki Squadron are bodyguards for hire, led by a strict but beautiful squadron leader, an unreliable commanding officer, and a true artisan of a crew chief. Alongside pilots who don’t lack for personality, they take to the air in dogfights, letting the engine noise of their Hayabusa fighters ring out in the skies. – ANN

Streaming: HIDIVE

Episodes: 12

Source: Original

Episode Summary: Being a pilot-for-hire is a rough job, and because of that there’s some amount of trash-talking and bragging involved in a pilot’s down time. When a young man from the Nazarene Squadron gets full of himself and starts to hit on the young women from the Kotobuki Squadron, he doesn’t realize what he’s getting into. These ladies have seen it all and then some, and don’t have time to play with little boys whose 11 stars don’t stack up to their combined 200.

During a nighttime transport of goods, a transport airship is predictably targeted by air pirates. While the Nazarene Squadron is taken out fairly early in the fight, the Kotobuki Squadron, piloting their Hayabusa fighter planes, manages to fend off the attackers with little collateral damage. Kirie, the group’s hot-headed fighter, notices a familiar insignia on the wing of one of the enemies and decides to engage with it one-on-one, which turns out to be a poor decision. For some reason, though, the enemy leaves her alone after connecting a few warning shots.

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Winter 2019 First Impressions – Dimension High School

One day, on his way to high school, student Junpei picks up an unusual looking rock. Thinking nothing of it, he heads to class. While in the middle of a session, the rock comes to life and transports him and four others to an animated world. To make matters more interesting, the group is introduced to a giant sphinx who is determined to take over the world. Now, to protect their world from invasion, the group must work together as anime characters and real-world humans. – ANN

Streaming: HIDIVE

Episodes: 12

Source: Original

Episode Summary: Junpei finds a strange rock one day as he’s heading to his physics tutoring session. The teacher’s lesson about the Doppler effect is about as boring as it gets, until the rock that’s stashed in Junpei’s desk begins to take on a life of its own. It is, in fact, no ordinary rock, but a life form searching for some heroes who can help save the world from certain destruction. Junpei and his classmates, along with their professor, seem like they can take up the challenge.

The students are drawn into another dimension where they appear in the form of anime characters. The novelty of their situation wears off quickly when a giant, threatening Sphinx arrives and starts demanding the answers to riddles. It all seems like fun and games until they get a question wrong; the Sphinx then eats their teacher’s spirit. Luckily, their lesson on the Doppler effect turns out to be more useful than they anticipated, because it turns out to be the key to solving the next puzzle. With their teacher back in hand the group returns to the real world, but only until the Sphinx’s next deadly challenge.

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