Tag: Hiroshima
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Monkey Turn
Student athlete Tadano Kenji is crushed by the reality of being too short to chase professional baseball, but his aging coach recommends an alternate path: Japan’s professional hydroplane speedboat racing league called Kyotei, or BOAT RACE. Soon he enrolls in the BOAT RACE training school, where he starts to develop his general racing skills and…
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Pon no Michi
After Nashiko’s mother kicks her out of the house for being too loud, she needs to find a new place to hang out with her friends. Luckily, Nashiko’s father owns a closed-down mahjong parlor in Onomichi that is perfect for her needs. While cleaning out the place, Nashiko discovers a talking bird who introduces himself…
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Ao’s Island and One Cat
Souta Nakamura, a young city teacher, moves to the island of Nagishima after spending years away, expecting to meet his old upperclassman who offered him lodging, but finds out that he’s gone and he’s left him to take care of his teenage daughter Ao, a girl who is wise beyond her years, and who has…
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Tamayura
As a child, Fuu “Potte” Sawatari and her late father would often visit his hometown of Takehara and take pictures of the surroundings together. Now, five years since their last visit, Fuu and her family have moved to the town so that she can start attending high school. Although her father has been deceased for…
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A Place Further Than the Universe
Mari Tamaki has always dreamt of what lies beyond the reaches of the universe. Her fear continues to prevent her from taking that ambitious step forward—that is, until she has a chance encounter with a girl who has grand dreams of her own. Spurred by her mother’s disappearance, Shirase Kobuchizawa has been working hard to…
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BokuYaba (The Dangers in My Heart)
Kyotaro Ichikawa is an outsider second-year middle school student in a chunibyou phase who often reads a murder encyclopedia and anatomy textbooks. He fantasizes the beautiful class idol, Anna Yamada, as being his prime target. Often seeking solace in the library, Ichikawa frequently runs into Yamada. It is during these encounters that Ichikawa realizes his…
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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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Ryu Ga Gotoku Series
Real-world Locations from all the games published by Sega’s RGG Studios. While the Yakuza/RGG/Like a Dragon franchise spans multiple decades and a large handful of games, each game takes place in something close to a shared universe with a similar design philosophy and generally speaking, a reoccurring list of real-world Japanese urban neighborhoods. The most…