Who is Yagami Light? Yagami Light is a highly intelligent and ambitious high school student who discovers the Death Note, a supernatural notebook that allows its user to kill anyone whose name is w…
6 days ago • Subscribe
More like this
Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月)
Saki loves piano. Or does she? She loves taking lessons with her teacher, she’s sure of that. But her teacher is leaving… In Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月),…
Oni to Yoake Yuzikiyo (鬼と夜明け 夕月夜)
While shopping in random bookstores in Japan at the end of last year I kept seeing book,s with girls in school uniforms wielding swords. I did that thing…
How could Light Yagami see Ryuk (Death Note)
Light Yagami has the ability to see Ryuk although Ryuk still has his death note, so why is that? Other Death Note video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKqymMkoiQ&t=112s
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 2 ( 雨夜の月)
In Volume 1, we met Saki, a high school student who plays piano, and her classmate (and piano teacher’s daughter), Kanon, who is hard of hearing. Kanon is…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 4 ( 雨夜の月)
Well, wow. A whole lot of story happened in this volume. First, Saki finds Kanon’s former best friend – the one Kanon feel betrayed her – and learns…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 8 (雨夜の月)
Volume 7 of Kuzushiro’s school life drama, finished up the school festival arc and, while it had its fair share of maid costumes and cat-eared girls, it also…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 3 ( 雨夜の月)
2022 has been an absolute celebration of amazing Yuri manga licenses and releases. Almost everything I wanted to have been licensed has been. Of the two remaining that…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 6 (雨夜の月)
Do you remember Morinaga Milk’s series Girl Friends? It was an incredibly popular and influential Yuri manga in the early 2010s, so more than a decade ago. The…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月)
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月) is absolute perfection. It was so good, that the moment I finished it, I started from the beginning and read it again.…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 5 (雨夜の月)
In my fevered anticipation for The Moon on a Rainy Night, Volume 1 coming from Kodansha next week, I was thrilled to have the newest volume of the…
Anime Couples MBTI Analysis: Light Yagami and Misa Amane
If you saw them at some restaurant, or even passed them on the street, you would think they were a perfectly normal couple. As the girl chatters on…
WHY LELOUCH AND LIGHT YAGAMI ARE VIRTUALLY THE EXACT SAME
No I don’t mean they’re copies of each other. Instead, they’re the two sides of the SAME coin. Both stories portray the theme of what power does to…
Variable Barricade Nayuta Yagami Walkthrough
Official Website: Aksys GamesGame Link: Nintendo eShop General Tips: All routes are available at the start of the game. There are 4 types of endings: Marry End, Love End, Bad…
Yagami-kun No Katei No Jijou
What’s this?! Another seemingly trashy retro OVA that I stumbled upon?! Well, Yagami-kun No Katei No Jijou sounds like the perfect script for a porn story. I mean,…
Thousand and One Nights (千夜、一夜, Nao Kubota, 2022)
Two women are united by the search for answers in the disappearances of their husbands but take very different paths in Nao Kubota’s melancholy tale of unanswerable longing.
Writing Prompt: Which anime character would do a better job with the Death Note than Light Yagami?
While Light Yagami tried so hard and got so far… perhaps it would have been best for someone else to pick up the Death Note. As to who,…
Variable Barricade – Nayuta Yagami Walkthrough (Spoiler‑Free)
Kaley's spoiler-free walkthrough for Variable Barricade: Nayuta Yagami! Includes Bad End (18).
New Moomin 37/52 - The Bell That Rings On Moonlit Nights (月夜になる鐘) (1972) (English subtitles)
On moonlit nights, Moominvalley's bell tolls mysteriously, and the culprit seems even stranger, leaving leaves behind. When everyone tries to take the bell down to figure out who…
Bi-weekly Booty: Ko Yagami from New Game!
I’ve never watched it, but I can still appreciate it! The bi-weekly booty is Ko Yagami from New Game!
Seiyuu Highlights: Hiroshi Kamiya 神谷 浩史
From the voice that brought you humanity's strongest soldier from Attack On Titan, Hiroshi Kamiya is one of the most popular voice actor in our recent time, having…
The Whale God (鯨神, Tokuzo Tanaka, 1962)
A young man wrestles with the destructive legacy of vengeance in a traditional fishing village on the verge of eclipse in Tokuzo Tanaka’s parabolic drama.
Himegami no Miko (姫神の巫女)
by Rachel Gruber, Guest Reviewer As a teen growing up in the 2000s, my introduction to yuri anime naturally came in the form of the “big three:” Strawberry…
It Walks By Night / 夜歩く
It Walks By Night is an awful book that no one should read. This isn’t going to be a roast, because it’s not that kind of awful,…
Nanayo (七夜待, Naomi Kawase, 2008)
A young woman travels to Thailand in search of herself but discovers the traumatic legacies of colonialism and the inefficiency of language as a tool for communication in…
"Wouldn't you use "は" after "夜"?" #learnjapanese
Learn Japanese with Me - https://bit.ly/4drmyU2
Best Pantyshot Moments in Anime – Kou Yagami from New Game!
Sometimes you come across a show that hasn’t got any sort of ecchi tag. But at the same time, the amount of pantyshots almost justifies having one. New…
Ride On (龙马精神, Larry Yang, 2023)
A former stuntman springs into action when loansharks and eccentric businessmen come for his beloved horse in Larry Yang’s meta Jackie Chan vehicle.
Nightshade Flower (夜来香, Kon Ichikawa, 1951)
A couple who met briefly in Manchuria are reunited in Kobe but find their joy short-lived amid the vagaries of the post-war society in Kon Ichikawa’s tragic romance.
![Featured image for Hello! Tapir (嗨！神獸, Kethsvin Chee, 2020) [Fantasia 2021]](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20210905/1630800194.20760.46681.jpg)
Hello! Tapir (嗨！神獸, Kethsvin Chee, 2020) [Fantasia 2021]
A small boy begins to process grief and loss while searching for nightmare-eating tapirs in Kethsvin Chee’s charmingly retro fantasy adventure
A Holy Family (神人之家, Elvis Lu, 2022)
Documentarian Elvis Lu (The Shepherds) turns the camera on his own devoutly religious Taoist family on returning home after many years away.
Shanghai Blues (上海之夜, Tsui Hark, 1984)
There’s a strange kind of melancholy optimism born of false courage and desperation that colours Tsui Hark’s Shanghai Blues (上海之夜). A clown soon to become a soldier tells…
Golden Demon / 金色夜叉 / Konjiki yasha (1954)
Obscure Japanese Film #175 Jun Negami and Fujiko Yamamoto 1890. Miya (Fujiko Yamamoto) is a young woman in love with her adopted broth...
Tokyo Lullaby (東京夜曲, Jun Ichikawa, 1997)
A meditation on lost love and middle-aged regret, Jun Ichikawa’s Tokyo Lullaby weaves a melancholy path through a lonely city but finds in it a sense of comfort…
The Moon (月, Yuya Ishii, 2023)
A writer overwhelmed with grief takes a job at a care home, but it is shocked by what she finds in Yuya Ishii’s hard-hitting drama.
The New God (新しい神様, Yutaka Tsuchiya, 1999)
Documentarian Yukata Tsuchiya’s personal documentary explores his friendship with a right-wing punk duo despite not sharing any of their nationalist views
Drive Into Night (夜を走る, Dai Sako, 2022)
Small-town futility leads to tragedy when two frustrated scrapyard workers attempt to cover up a crime in Dai Sako’s dark psychological drama.
Wolves of the Night (夜の狼, Yoichi Ushihara, 1958)
A heartless yakuza becomes conflicted on being confronted with the consequences of his actions in Yoichi Ushihara’s slice of Nikkatsu Noir.
Yuri Light Novel: Kunoichi Bettegumi Igarashi Satsuki, Volume 1 (くノ一別手組ー五十嵐五月)
In late Edo Japan, she was cool, That successful businesswoman Vlad Dracul. With Satuski her guard Who was handy with a sword. My complaints with this book are…
hyper light drifter
Art by Narciso Espiritu Jr. I’ve become kind of fed-up with AAA games. Well, maybe “fed-up” is too strong a phrase — let’s go with a less intense…
Light Novel Recommendations
While we’ve never been a review site, visitors and supporters still naturally ask for our take on anime and related properties. While you’ll find our thoughts scattered throughout…
October – Light Schedule
Tried to find a word that wasn’t ‘hiatus’ and kinda failed – but in short, I’m slowing things down on the blog this month and I think I’ll…
Jomyeonggage (Light Shop)
Plot: The series follows the story of a group of strangers who are all having a hard time processing a horrible experience from their past. Each of them…
child of light
Over the past decade, I’ve managed to build up a staggeringly large library of digital games that have mostly just collected digital dust since I clicked ‘Buy’ —…
Kalafina – One Light
One Light Mahiru (真昼) Samidare ga Sugita Koro ni (五月雨が過ぎた頃に) One Light -TV Size- One Light This is the type of song I was waiting from Kalafina. I…
Detective vs Sleuths 神探大战 (2022) Director: Wai Ka-Fai
Detective vs Sleuths 神探大战 is a solid crime film from veteran director Wai Ka-Fai. It features a top performance by Sean Lau and great action scenes.
Those Who Hunt Elves / Elf wo Karu Mono-tachi (Volume 1) by Yagami Yu
An early ecchi isekai from 1994, Those Who Hunt Elves has the distinction of being one of 38 Japanese anime that was banned by the Chinese Ministry of…
Light Novel Kindling: The Shoujo Light Novels are Omnipresent
Welcome back to Light Novel Kindling! Here, I will take a look at our next Light Novel Club selection and give my thoughts on something related to it.…
Junpaku no yoru / 純白の夜/ (‘Pure White Nights’, 1951)
Obscure Japanese Film #161 Michiyo Kogure Ikuko (Michiyo Kogure) is a young woman happily married to Tsunehiko (Seizaburo Kawazu), a banke...
365 Nights (三百六十五夜, Kon Ichikawa, 1948)
A noble architect’s life is ruined by an obsessive stalker in Kon Ichikawa’s stylish though improbably post-war melodrama.