Tag: Tokyo
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Senpai ga Uzai Kouhai no Hanashi
My Senpai is Annoying. The ridiculously short Futaba Igarashi finds it challenging to be acknowledged as a legitimate businesswoman due to her well-built work senpai, Harumi, constantly doting on her. Despite encountering embarrassment, Futaba begins to develop a closer bond with her outspoken colleague. Uzai Senpai started out as a web manga and got a…
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Steins;Gate
After discovering time travel, university student Okabe Rintaro and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil Organization and their diabolical plans. Steins;Gate is the second entry in the Science Adventure visual novel trilogy and has an anime adaptation, movie, and prequel series. Steins;Gate happens around several landmarks in Akihabara. Akihabara…
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Uzaki-chan wa Asobitai!
Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! Hana Uzaki is thrilled to discover that she is attending the same college as her fellow high school upperclassman, Shinichi Sakurai. However, after a year of watching him just laze around, she comes to the conclusion that he has turned into a loner. Uzaki decides to spend as much time…
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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…
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Bocchi The Rock!
The tragically relatable Hitori “Bocchi-chan” Goto is a lonely high school girl whose heart lies in her guitar. After she meets Nijika Ijichi, she joins up with “Kessoku Band.” Can Bocchi confront her social anxiety with the help of her music? Bocchi started as a 4koma manga before its insane single-season anime adaptation. Bocchi and…
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Love Live! The School Idol Movie
In the Love Live movie, the school idol group μ’s (Muse) embarks on a journey to New York City for a special performance. They’re also in for a big surprise on their return home. The dance choreography scenes are depicted in 3D, but regardless, part of the spirit of New York from the outsider perspective…
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Patlabor
Patlabor is a science fiction mecha series about cops with humanoid robots, ‘Labors’, that look like Tokyo Metropolitan Police patrol cars, hence combined as ‘Patrol’ ‘Labor’, ‘Patlabor’. Outside of the MPD, Labors are used as heavy machinery for construction. Most continuities begin as Tokyo MPD Special Vehicle Section 2, Department 2 welcomes series protagonist Noa…
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Edomae Elf (Otaku Elf)
For more than 400 years, the Takamimi Shrine has stood in Tsukishima, Tokyo, enshrining the local goddess: Elda, an elf summoned from another world during the Edo period. After human girl Koito Koganei turns 16 years old, she becomes Elda’s miko. This proves to be difficult because Elda is a total otaku NEET who loves…
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Persona 5
A JRPG from the Persona/Megami Tensei franchise published by Sega/Atlus in 2016. The high school student protagonist, ‘Joker’, is accused of a crime and sent to Shibuya on probation. There, he discovers ‘Personas’ and joins a group known as the ‘Phantom Thieves’. Together, they delve into a hidden world born from society’s collective desires. As…