Tag: Japan
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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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Blue Period
After being enraptured by a senior classmate’s painting, the athletic riajuu Yatora Yaguchi decides to take an art class assignment seriously and later joins his school’s art club. As Yatora progresses as an artist, he struggles with capturing his creative vision, finding subjects, and seeking approval from his parents and art-minded peers. He eventually sets…
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365 Days to the Wedding
“Is it true that you’re getting married?” Quiet homebody Tokyo travel agency coworkers Takuya Oohara and Rika Honjouji are suddenly confronted by their boss with the possibility of being transferred to JTB’s new branch in Irkutsk, Siberia. Oohara wants to be able to look after his cat. Honjouji hates the cold. After finding out their…
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Summer Wars
Kenji Koiso is a 17-year-old math nerd and OZ moderator who is invited by his crush Natsuki Shinohara on a summer trip to Ueda, Nagano. But unbeknownst to him, this adventure requires him to act as her fiancé. Shortly after arriving at Natsuki’s family’s estate, which is preparing for her great-grandmother Sakae’s 90th birthday, he…
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Fate Series
Shirou Emiya is forced into a tournament to the death called the Holy Grail War. Combatants fight with summoned “servants”, heroes from all of human history, in order to have their desires granted by the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend and Christian tradition. Each servant fits a certain class, such as archer, saber, berserker, rider,…
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Natsunagu!
After the real-world 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, Tokyo student Natsuna receives a message from Itsuki, a friend living in Kumamoto she met through an online game and hadn’t heard from for four years. Itsuki’s message only contained a request to meet and an illustration of a landscape. After the game’s servers suddenly shuts down, Natsuna travels…
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Kyokai no Kanata
Mirai Kuriyama is the sole survivor of a clan of Spirit World warriors tasked with hunting down and killing “Youmu”—creatures said to be the manifestation of negative human emotions. Akihito Kanbara is a high school student who is half-Youmu and a has peculiar regenerative ability that makes him nearly invincible. Akihito must convince Mirai to…
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Your Name.
Mitsuha and Taki are total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he’s…
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Mario Kart Tour & 8 Deluxe
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a 2017 racing game in the Mario Kart series and acts as an enhanced port of Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass DLC increased the game’s total number of courses to 96. 14 of these were maps of real-word cities…