Tag: Japan
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Kaguya-sama: Love is War
In the senior high school division of the prestigious Shuchiin Academy, student council president Miyuki Shirogane and vice president Kaguya Shinomiya appear to be a perfect match. Kaguya is the daughter of a wealthy conglomerate family, and Miyuki is the top student at the school and well known across the prefecture. Although they like each…
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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…
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Harukana Recieve
In Okinawa, Tokyo transfer student Haruka Ozora has an extreme complex about her tall height, while her Okinawan cousin Kanata Higa is very self-conscious about being short. With help from their experiences, the two girls decide to form a duos beach volleyball club at their school. Harukana Recieve is a 2018 Studio C2C anime directed…
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Dagashi Kashi
Shikada Dagashi, a countryside shop (a dagashi-ya 駄菓子屋) selling cheap domestic candy and snacks (dagashi 駄菓子) has been run by the Shikada family for nine generations, but heir-apparent Kokonotsu does not want to take over the shop from his father, instead aiming to become a manga artist. The mysterious Hotaru Shidare visits the shop one…
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Ocean Waves
Kochi highschooler Taku Morisaki is going about his work when his friend Yutaka Matsuno calls and asks him to get to their school as soon as possible. Taku arrives, and Matsuno introduces him to the beautiful Tokyo transfer student Rikako Muto. After a chance encounter during their Hawaiian class trip, Taku suddenly finds himself more…
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Little Witch Academia
Little Witch Academia takes place at Luna Nova Magical Academy, a prestigious school for young girls training to become witches. Having been inspired by a witch named Shiny Chariot, a girl named Atsuko “Akko” Kagari enrolls at Luna Nova Magical Academy to become a witch, but struggles due to her non-magical background. This all changes…
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Whisper of the Heart
Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば Mimi wo Sumaseba, lit. “If You Listen Closely”) is an animated film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and produced by Studio Ghibli and was released alongside On Your Mark on July 15, 1995. The film is based on the 1989 manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi and published by…
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Toradora!
Ryuuji Takasu is a gentle high school student with a love for housework, but he has an intimidating face that often gets him labeled as a delinquent. On the other hand is Taiga Aisaka, a short girl, who is anything but cute and fragile, is instead equipped with a wooden katana and feisty personality. One…
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Kageki☆Shojo Revue Starlight
Inspired by a play called Starlight, Karen Aijo and Hikari Kagura make a childhood promise to perform that very play together someday. Hikari moves away, and twelve years later Karen has enrolled in Seisho Music Academy to continue working toward their promise. As the 99th Graduating Class rehearses for their annual production of Starlight, a…