Category: Drama
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Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Apollon)
Two different students – a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent – form a friendship through their love of listening to and performing jazz. Watanabe’s 12-episode adaptation is based on a 10-volume manga written by Yuki Kodama. A live-action drama movie was produced in 2018. Kids on the Slope takes place between…
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Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia
Insomniacs After School In the small city of Nanao, insomniac Ganta Nakami tries to catch a nap in his school’s abandoned astronomical observatory. There he stumbles upon a sociable and carefree girl named Isaki Magari who has the same problem. The two form an awkward friendship and reestablish their school’s defunct astronomy club. This anime came…
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Do It Yourself!!
High school girls working on Do-It-Yourself (DIY) projects, as they struggle but don’t give up and see the projects through to their end. The story depicts the lives of those girls as they take the first step toward the future. Do It Yourself!! takes place around Sanjo in Niigata (in the near-future). From MAL, “The…
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Patlabor
Patlabor is a science fiction mecha series about cops with humanoid robots, ‘Labors’, that look like Tokyo Metropolitan Police patrol cars, hence combined as ‘Patrol’ ‘Labor’, ‘Patlabor’. Outside of the MPD, Labors are used as heavy machinery for construction. Most continuities begin as Tokyo MPD Special Vehicle Section 2, Department 2 welcomes series protagonist Noa…
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Initial D
If there was ever a single piece of homegrown media responsible for making drift racing popular outside of Japan, it was Initial D. It’s a Japanese street racing manga by Shuichi Shigeno that was serialized from 1995 to 2013. The manga was adapted into an eleven part anime series, beginning with First Stage in 1998 and ending with Final…