Tag: Saitama
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Shuumatsu Train
The introduction of 7G Network technology plunged Japan into chaos and rapidly altered its physical landscape. In a seemingly ordinary rural town of Agano, all residents over 21 have seemingly turned into animals. But Shizuru Chikura is more concerned for her missing friend. Determined to find her, Shizuru and three other girls board an abandoned…
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Lucky☆Star
Lucky☆Star follows the daily lives of four cute high school girls—Konata Izumi, the lazy otaku; the Hiiragi twins, Tsukasa and Kagami; and the smart and well-mannered Miyuki Takara. As they go about their lives at school and beyond, they develop their eccentric and lively friendship and making humorous observations about the world around them. Be…
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Yubisaki to Renren
For university student Yuki Itose, born with congenital hearing loss, silence has been the norm. Her world is small and isolated; she commutes to campus, interacts with her best friend Rin Fujishiro, and communicates through writing and text messages—a lifestyle that offers little to no change. One day, during her commute, Yuki has an awkward…
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Sword Art Online
In 2022, a MMORPG called Sword Art Online was released for the NerveGear, a VR headset that controls game worlds via capturing brain waves. On November 6, 10000 players log into SAO’s launch build for the first time, only to discover that the only way to log out is to beat all 100 floors of…
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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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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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BokuYaba (The Dangers in My Heart)
Kyotaro Ichikawa is an outsider second-year middle school student in a chunibyou phase who often reads a murder encyclopedia and anatomy textbooks. He fantasizes the beautiful class idol, Anna Yamada, as being his prime target. Often seeking solace in the library, Ichikawa frequently runs into Yamada. It is during these encounters that Ichikawa realizes his…
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The Moomins
The Moomins are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, and a comic strip by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. They are a family of white, round fairy-tale characters with large snouts who live in a house in a land called Moominvalley. While they might look like hippopotamuses at first glance,…
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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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My Dress-Up Darling
Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru. After being mocked for the ‘girliness’ of his craft, Hina doll [雛人形] artisan apprentice Wakana Gojou passes his high school days alone, finding solace in the sewing room. Suddenly, he crosses paths with the bubbly gyaru Kitagawa Marin, who after seeing Gojo’s skill with the sewing machine, asks…