Tag: Japan
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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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Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
Yukio Tanaka, known as “Koyuki” by his friends, is a regular 14-year-old Japanese boy starting eighth grade in junior high school. His boring life is changed when he saves an odd-looking dog, named Beck, from some kids. Beck’s owner turns out to be an emerging rock musician, 16-year-old Ryusuke Minami, who soon influences Koyuki to…
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Fruits Basket
Tooru Honda has always been fascinated by the story of the Chinese zodiac that her beloved mother told her as a child. A sudden family tragedy leaves her all alone. She forced to live in a tent, but little does she know that her temporary home resides on the private property of the esteemed Souma…
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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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Robotics;Notes
Another Science Adventure visual novel adapted to anime. “What would really happen if you tried to create a giant robot?” For years, the members of the Central Tanegashima High School Robotics Research Club have contributed to its progress and it is now Akiho Senomiya’s goal to finally make the dream of all the past club…
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Low Tier Tomozaki
Fumiya Tomozaki is one of the best gamers in Japan when it comes to the character-based platform fighting game “Attack Families”. As a friendless outcast, in his opinion, the ‘game of real life’ is one of the worst; a kuso-ge. No clear-cut rules for success, horribly balanced, and nothing makes sense. But then he meets…
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Masaki no Pan
Having lost his confidence as a breadsmith, Hoshino Masaki works for a bakery and boarding house in Otaru, Hokkaido. A story full of heart unfolds. As Masaki sees the smiles on the people eating his bread, he grows to maturity one step at a time as a baker and a person. Masaki no Pan picks…
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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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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,…