Tag: Kanagawa
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From Up On Poppy Hill
Umi Matsuzaki lives in her grandmother’s boarding house at the top of a hill in Yokohama. As a part of her morning routine, she raises some signal flags in honor her naval veteran father. When Umi meets Shun Kazama, a rabble-rousing member of the school’s newspaper club, they decide to clean up the school’s clubhouse,…
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Release the Spyce
One night, awareness-sensitive teenager Momo Minamoto sees suspicious distant shades belonging to a group of spies. This leads to her being recruited by their captain, Yuki Hanzoumon, a senior at her school. The members of their secret agency, called the Tsukikage, have the power to gain strength after ingesting spices. Momo joins the Tsukikage’s missions…
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Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction
Three years ago, the arrival of the “Invaders” over Tokyo sparked the greatest war humanity had ever faced. The Japanese government scrambled to fight back. Weapons were mass-produced, sparking controversy and pacifist movements. Despite the tense and precarious state of their environment, high school students Koyama Kadode and Nakagawa Ouran live their lives with some…
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Lucky☆Star
Lucky☆Star follows the daily lives of four cute high school girls—Konata Izumi, the lazy otaku; the Hiiragi twins, Tsukasa and Kagami; and the smart and well-mannered Miyuki Takara. As they go about their lives at school and beyond, they develop their eccentric and lively friendship and making humorous observations about the world around them. Be…
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Sword Art Online
In 2022, a MMORPG called Sword Art Online was released for the NerveGear, a VR headset that controls game worlds via capturing brain waves. On November 6, 10000 players log into SAO’s launch build for the first time, only to discover that the only way to log out is to beat all 100 floors of…
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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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Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Bunny Girl Senpai, or Seishun Buta Yarou, is a light novel series. In the library where Sakuta Azusagawa studies, he runs into a girl in a bunny-girl outfit. She turns out to be Mai Sakurajima, a famous fellow student. His surprise at seeing Mai wear such risqué attire in the library, however, is nothing compared…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Fifteen years after a global cataclysm called the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to Tokyo-3 by his father Gendo Ikari, the director of the special paramilitary force NERV. Humanity is facing an existential threat called the Angels, a race of colossal, powerful beings with impenetrable shields called AT Fields. NERV’s gigantic humanoid Evangelion…
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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.…