Category: Manga
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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (All Parts)
The story of the Joestar family and its descendants, who are possessed with intense psychic strength, and the bizarre adventures each “JoJo” encounters throughout their lives. Apart from the 90’s OVA treatment of Stardust Crusaders by Studio A.P.P.P., JoJo is currently being adapted into an anime by David Production, which as of writing has reached…
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Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san
Nishikata’s classmate Takagi loves to tease him on a daily basis, and she uses her extensive knowledge of his behavior to predict exactly how he will react to her teasing, making it nearly impossible for Nishikata to ever make a successful comeback. Despite this, Nishikata vows to someday give Takagi a taste of her own…
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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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Bocchi The Rock!
The tragically relatable Hitori “Bocchi-chan” Goto is a lonely high school girl whose heart lies in her guitar. After she meets Nijika Ijichi, she joins up with “Kessoku Band.” Can Bocchi confront her social anxiety with the help of her music? Bocchi started as a 4koma manga before its insane single-season anime adaptation. Bocchi and…
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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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Edomae Elf (Otaku Elf)
For more than 400 years, the Takamimi Shrine has stood in Tsukishima, Tokyo, enshrining the local goddess: Elda, an elf summoned from another world during the Edo period. After human girl Koito Koganei turns 16 years old, she becomes Elda’s miko. This proves to be difficult because Elda is a total otaku NEET who loves…
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Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai.
AnoHana: The Flower we Saw That Day. In Chichibu, Saitama, a group of six childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko “Menma” Honma, dies in an accident. One summer day five years after the incident, the ghost of an older-looking Menma appears beside Jinta Yadomi, the group’s former ‘leader’, and asks to have…
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Yofukashi no Uta
Call of the Night Wracked by insomnia and wanderlust, Kou Yamori is driven onto the moonlit streets every night. His nightly ritual is marked by purposeless intro-spection until he meets vampire Nazuna. Kou’s new companion could offer him dark gifts and a vampire’s immortality. But there are conditions that must be met before Kou can…