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となりのメタラーさん
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The Lump in My Heart (あつい胸さわぎ, Shingo Matsumura, 2022)
A young woman with a growing desire for independence is thrown into turmoil by a totally unexpected diagnosis of cancer in Shingo Matsumura’s gentle coming-of-age tale
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The recently deceased watch over their loved ones from the vantage point of a familiar object in Kahori Higashi’s wistful drama.
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Itsuki Tsuchigami【土上いつき】Sakuga MAD
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Asia is One (アジアはひとつ, NDU, 1973)
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What konna koto mo arou ka to こんなこともあろうかと means in Japanese, with examples.
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Even though it has been several months since the premiere of Godzilla Minus One , the fallout dust resulting from warm reception of the film...
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今の時代において学園アイドルマスターの立ち位置とその描写理念について、少しの間だけ語らせて下さい。
Kaiba, Kyousougiga, Kyousougiga, Jinsei - Life Consulting, The Idol Master
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In Volume 1 we met Honjou Hayate, a woman with a secret identity as the hero Rapid Rabbit and her evil arch-rival Honey Trap. Honey leaves the presumably…
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The Fish Tale (さかなのこ, Shuichi Okita, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]
The infinite enthusiasm of a fish obsessive gradually brightens the world around them in Shuichi Okita’s charming portrait of an eccentric.
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Amalock (あまろっく, Kazuhiro Nakamura, 2024)
A resentful middle-aged woman’s perspective begins to change when her father suddenly marries a much younger woman in Kazuhiro Nakamura’s lighthearted dramedy.
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The Deer King (鹿の王 ユナと約束の旅, Masashi Ando & Masayuki Miyaji, 2021)
A lone survivor comes to represent both salvation and destruction in Ando & Miyaji’s fantasy adventure.
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Tonkatsu DJ Agetaro (とんかつDJアゲ太郎, Ken Ninomiya, 2020)
The nerdy heir to a tonkatsu restaurant finds his heaven on the dance floor in a surprisingly wholesome turn from Ken Ninomiya
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My Elder Brother (私の兄さん, Yasujiro Shimazu, 1934)
The wastrel brother of earnest man running a taxi firm gets a wakeup call after picking up a runaway woman from an upperclass family in Shimazu’s genial comedy.
Yamada to Kase-san, Volume 3 ( 山田と加瀬さん。)
Kase-san and Yamada moved to Tokyo last spring. Now winter is ahead of them and they are settling in, mostly. As Yamada to Kase-san, Volume 3 ( 山田と加瀬さん。)…
Yamada to Kase-san, Volume 2 (山田と加瀬さん)
Happy anniversary to Takashima Hiromi-sensei for 10 years of Kase-san and Yamada. Who could have imagined that, when the series debuted in 2010 in Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari,…
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“The Workhorse and the Bigmouth” is one of Keisuke Yoshida’s most palatable drama/comedies as it follows two characters trying to make it in the movies and offers a…
The 11 Cats (11ぴきのねこ) and Other Tales (1976, 1980)
At long last, a certain dream of mine for almost four years now has come true—namely, for Group TAC’s long-forgotten classic film The 11 Cats, which was originally…
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Okiku and the World (せかいのおきく, Junji Sakamoto, 2023)
A samurai’s daughter falls for a lowly manure man in a city on the brink of change in Junji Sakamoto’s touching dramedy.
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The Light of Spring (ひかりのどけき, Fumito Fujikawa, 2022)
Pushed to breaking point by the pressures of the contemporary society amid the coronavirus pandemic, an ordinary family undergoes a trial separation in Fumito Fumikawa’s neorealist drama