Category: Manga
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Hokkaido Gals are Super Adorable!
Teenager Tsubasa Shiki moves from Tokyo to the city of Kitami in Hokkaido. On arrival he meets his classmate and gal [gyaru] Minami Fuyuki, who takes a liking to the city boy and takes him under her wing. The two grow closer and explore their town and greater Hokkaido together. The anime was announced for…
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Saguri-chan Tankentai
Let’s go exploring with a cute girl!! A landscape painted by the beautiful stroke of a paintbrush can be found anywhere!! An exploration manga filled with comedy that will make you say, “Let’s go there tomorrow!” As a “travel manga” of sorts, it was easy to find pretty much every location in the series. Locations…
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Koku no Hito (The Climber)
The story of Mori Buntaro, loosely based on real-world climber Kato Buntaro. After moving to a new school, Buntaro is challenged by classmates to solo climb his school building, ending in him vaulting an extreme overhang. After being chewed out by a teacher, he keeps seeking higher and higher peaks, throughout Japan and later abroad.…
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Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
Your Lie in April. Fourteen-year-old piano prodigy Kōsei Arima becomes famous after winning several music competitions. When his mother Saki dies, Kōsei has a breakdown while performing at a piano recital. Two years later, Kōsei has not touched the piano and views the world in monochrome. Kōsei is confronted by Kaori Miyazono, an audacious, free-spirited violinist whose playing…
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Skip to Loafer
Mitsumi Iwakura is a year-one high schooler who moved from a town in the outskirts of Ishikawa Prefecture facing population decline, to a prestigious high school in Tokyo, following the path to her dream of becoming the mayor of her hometown. On the day of her entrance ceremony, she gets caught in the commuter rush…
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Summer Time Rendering
Following the death of his parents, Shinpei Ajiro grew up with the Kofune sisters Ushio and Mio before heading to Tokyo to live alone. Two years later, he returns to his hometown in Wakayama to attend Ushio’s funeral following news of her drowning. However, Shinpei becomes suspicious when he receives news of strangle marks around…
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Maison Ikkoku
Maison Ikkoku is a comedic Rumiko Takahashi manga about a slow burn romance between the serial entrance-test-failing ronin Yusaku Godai and the young widow Otonashi Kyoko, who happens to be the acting landlady of Godai’s apartment. Kyoko’s dog, Soichiro, shares a name with her deceased husband. The comedy is derived from the antics of the…
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March Comes In Like a Lion (3-Gatsu no Lion)
Rei Kiriyama, a 17-year-old depressed introvert and prodigious professional shogi player, leaves his home and moves into a lonesome and barebones Tokyo apartment. In Tokyo, Rei meets a trio of sisters living in a wagashi shop. Akari, the oldest, is determined to combat Rei’s loneliness and poorly sustained lifestyle with motherly hospitality. The sisters, coping…
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Kakushigoto
Kakushi Gotou, a single father, tries to keep his job of drawing ecchi gag manga a secret from his young daughter by posing as a regular salaryman. ‘Kaku’, meaning a secret, and ‘shigoto’, meaning job. Gotou’s nearly psychotic impulse to prevent the reveal of his true career leads to some comedic situations. The Tokyo locations…