Hey everyone. 2022 marked a turning point in my relationship to media, and that makes the start of a new year exciting. 2023 is where I interact with my hobby having built a new sense of media literacy and knowledge, and I'm interested to know how I'll think about seasonal anime given all the time I spent writing about the media I experienced this year. That being said, the nature of these first impressions lists aren't changing a single bit. As always, I'll be trying out at least one episode of nearly every single Winter 2023 seasonal anime. I will only be excluding sequels to shows I haven't caught up to, and a few adaptations of video games I want to play and not be spoiled on (so Nier and Trails of Cold Steel). I'll be explaining my thoughts on each of them here, and I'll rank them as well. As always, I want to advise everyone to not focus too much on my rankings, given that this is a first impression of a single episode. If you saw my best of 2022 list,