Tag: Okinawa
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Azumanga Daioh
Chiyo Mihama begins her high school career as one of the strangest students in her freshman class—a tiny, 10-year-old academic prodigy. But her homeroom teacher, Yukari Tanizaki, is the kind of person who would hijack a student’s bike to avoid being late, so “strange” is a relative word. There certainly isn’t a shortage of peculiar…
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Monogatari Series
The Monogatari series is a Japanese light novel series written by Nisio Isin (stylized NISIOISIN) and illustrated by Vofan. The plot centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survives a vampire attack and finds himself helping girls involved with a variety of apparitions, ghosts, beasts, spirits, and other supernatural phenomena, which often…
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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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Non Non Biyori
Elementary school student Ichijou Hotaru has moved with her parents from Tokyo to rural Ashigaoka in the middle of the country. Now she must adapt to her new school, where there are a total of 5 students in the same class who range through elementary and middle school ages. Much emphasis is places on illustrating…
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Grand Blue
Grand Blue is a manga with one anime season which is about sea diving on paper, but really turns out to be a gag manga about drinking with your friends and being a a college guy. Iori Kitahara moves to Izu for his freshman year at university, and moves into a back room at Grand…
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Ryu Ga Gotoku Series
Real-world Locations from all the games published by Sega’s RGG Studios. While the Yakuza/RGG/Like a Dragon franchise spans multiple decades and a large handful of games, each game takes place in something close to a shared universe with a similar design philosophy and generally speaking, a reoccurring list of real-world Japanese urban neighborhoods. The most…
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Komi-san wa Komyushou Desu.
Komi-san Has a Communication Disorder. Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that’s just the way he likes it. All that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi-san. He quickly realizes she isn’t aloof—she has trouble communicating. Now he’s made it his…