Tag: Fukui
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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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Chihayafuru
The young Chihaya Ayase once rescued her classmate Arata Wataya from his then-bully, Taichi Mashima, which became an inciting incident for her to pick up Arata’s sport, playing competitive Hyakunin Isshu Karuta, a Japanese card finding game based on the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu poetry collection. The three separated in middle school, but in high school,…
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I Want to Eat your Pancreas
The unnamed protagonist is a bookworm who is deeply detached from the world he resides in. He has no interest in others and is firmly convinced that nobody has any interest in him either. His story begins when he stumbles across a handwritten book, titled Living with Dying. He soon identifies it as a secret…