A retired professor’s gradually slides into fantasy as he awaits the arrival of a mysterious enemy in Daihachi Yoshida’s surreal character piece.
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (騙し絵の牙, Daihachi Yoshida, 2020)
A maverick magazine editor attempts to ride the waves of the Japanese publishing industry while in the middle of a succession crisis in Yoshida’s literary farce


Not so Surly Summary: Winter 2024 Cometh
I hope all my readers across the globe had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the new year. If you don’t celebrate Christmas for whatever reason…


Snowdrop (スノードロップ, Kota Yoshida, 2024)
The confrontation with the misery of her life pushes one woman towards despair and desperation in Kota Yoshida’s gritty indie drama.


Missing (ミッシング, Keisuke Yoshida, 2024)
The mother of a missing girl finds herself in an uneasy relationship with the media in Keisuke Yoshida’s empathetic drama.


So Beautiful, Wonderful and Lovely (素敵すぎて素敵すぎて素敵すぎる, Megumi Okawara, 2025)
Is it better to have a dream that will never come true or to have no dreams at all? That’s a question that Nozomi can’t help asking herself…


Kemono Jihen – 04 – The Iceboy Cometh
The next case with Kabane and now Kon on board involves Yoruno, a young man who has fallen in love with a woman who is actually a nekomata…
Interview: Reiko Yoshida
By Jonathan Clements. “I have loved novels, films and animation since I was a child,” says scriptwriter Reiko Yoshida, “and I was hugely interested in the world of…
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Snowdrop スノードロップ Director: Kota Yoshida [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]
Snowdrop スノードロップ, by director Kota Yoshida, is a socially conscious domestic drama/character study that looks at the welfare system via a woman chased by the trauma of abandonment…


OVA October: Denpa-teki na Kanojo
We’re back with my second selection for this year! Which was… completely at random. To tell the truth I had a different very modern OVA in mind to…


Denpa teki na Kanojo (Electromagnetic Girlfriend)
This is a pair of two OVAs based on a three volume novel series of the same name. It only adopts two of it’s volumes however, with the…


Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (腑抜けども、悲しみの愛を見せろ, Daihachi Yoshida, 2007)
The petty resentments of a dysfunctional family quickly escalate when a failed actress returns home in Daihachi Yoshida’s dark farce
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So Beautiful, Wonderful and Lovely 素敵すぎて素敵すぎて素敵すぎる (2025) Director: Megumi Okawara [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2025]
Megumi @okawara_megumi Okawara’s surreal imagination sparkles in her comedy drama about surviving loveless despair in So Beautiful Wonderful and Lovely 素敵すぎて素敵すぎて素敵すぎる [Osaka Asian Film Festi…


Trash Boi Cometh (Raincode Part 3) Featuring Mathwiz!
Continuing my stream series of Kodaka games, I'm playing Master Detective Archives: Raincode+ alongside my good friend Mathwiz! Start/End/Break Animations from Dwarf Fortress Music from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFA9AfikOcE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/craftsdwarf Twitter: https://twitter.com/Craftsdwarf MAL: https://myanimelist.net/profile/Craftsdwarf


Ep. 110: The Yakuza’s Bias, by Teki Yatsuda
This week, get ready to learn the Yakuza's Bias on Mangasplaining! Deb brings the group to this Yakuza Comedy that's actually about... K-POP?!


Ep. 110: The Yakuza's Bias, by Teki Yatsuda
Back to the Yakuza Comedy Well, for a Manga About Korean Pop Music...


Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – 19 – The Ice Queen Cometh
Ichigo’s training is now complete, and he’s dressed in layers in order to get through the 72 layers between the Royal Palace and Soul Society. The Squad 0…


Manga Review | A Home Far Away by Teki Yatsuda
Alan never feels more uncomfortable than he does when he is at home. His parents are intensely religious to the point that they are stunted into praying their…
Higehiro: is Yoshida a Good Person?
Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, or just Higehiro is a great anime airing this season. It is really, really good.…
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Intolerance (空白, Keisuke Yoshida, 2021)
A angry old man struggling to accept his daughter’s death is forced to reassess his relationships in Keisuke Yoshida’s intense social drama.


A bit on Yoshida From Watamote
Introduction The short 12 episode anime Watamote sadly never introduced some great characters that show up later in the manga. One of them is Yoshida Masaki. Yoshida…


Higehiro: is Yoshida a Good Person?
Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, or just Higehiro is a great anime airing this season. It is really, really good.…
Hatena Illusion, Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, Overlord, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Toradora!


Blue (BLUE/ブルー, Keisuke Yoshida, 2021)
A trio of dejected boxers contemplate their place inside and outside of the ring in Keisuke Yoshida’s unconventional boxing drama
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[Interview] Konami Yoshida (Umi Ryuuzaki – Voice Actress)
From being a fan to giving voice to one of CLAMP’s characters, Umi Ryuuzaki, this is Konami Yoshida’s story in the Rayearth anime.


Sunset Sunrise, How to Forget You, Muromachi Burai, Teki, Japanese Film Trailers
Sunset Sunrise, How to Forget You, Muromachi Burai, Teki, Japanese Film Trailers


The Great Lie of Yoshida Hirofumi | Chainsaw Man Explained
#chainsawman #csm Yoshida Hirofumi isn't telling us the truth. In Chainsawman there are a lot of things that don't quite add up- today I want to get…
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[Interview] Konami Yoshida (Rayearth OVA – Umi Ryuuzaki – Voice Actress)
Konami Yoshida is the Japanese voice actress that gave her voice to Umi Ryuuzaki in the anime and OVA. After a long time without playing Umi, it was…


Thicker Than Water 犬猿 Director: Keisuke Yoshida (2018)
Billed as a comedy, Thicker Than Water by director Keisuke Yoshida turns into a mirthless drama as he piles the misery on the characters. Thicker Than Water 犬猿…


The god of anime designs – Long interview with Ken’ichi Yoshida
Interview with legendary anime character designer Ken'ichi Yoshida about his work with Mitsuo Iso, Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hayao Miyazaki.


Those Swell Yakuza (極道渡世の素敵な面々, Seiji Izumi, 1988)
A former banker flees the corporate world for an old school sense of manly autonomy as a gangster in Seiji Izumi’s ironic yakuza drama.
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Sexual Drive (性的衝動, Kota Yoshida, 2021) [Fantasia 2021]
A strange spirit of sexual liberation visits three troubled couples in Kota Yoshida’s odyssey of food-themed eroticism.


The Transcendent One-Sided Love of Yoshida the Catch GN 1
From the creator of Hatsu*Haru comes a story about a gorgeous salaryman named Yoshida as he yearns for the one woman who has zero idea that he's got…


Reader’s Corner: Yoshida the Catch, Falling Drowning, and Yu-Gi-Oh!
Fungus and Iron, Vol. 1 Dante is an unusual case among the soldiers of Amigasa. He doesn’t become angry on cue at their enemy, the Ether. He complains…
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[Interview] Wings of Hope – Konami Yoshida (Rayearth OVA – Umi Ryuuzaki – Voice Actress)
Konami Yoshida is the Japanese voice actress who gave her voice to Umi Ryuuzaki. In this brief interview, Konami gives hints about how special Umi is to her.


Hige wo Soru Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou - Episode 3 - Sayu Speaks to Yoshida
Hige wo Soru Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou - Episode 3. Sayu confronted Yoshida about why he hasn't tried to bed her yet, in her underwear.


Newtype exclusive interview: Tower of God Season 2 Series Composition/Scriptwriter Erika Yoshida
Scriptwriter Erika Yoshida shares the most important theme of season two and how the series' characters have changed.


Final Fantasy XVI Producer Naoki Yoshida on the Game's Anime Influences and Design Philosophy
Find out how various anime served as inspirations for the final game.


A-Yokai-A-Day: The Apparitions in Yoshida Sōtei’s House; or, The Power of Poetry
I'm back from Kyoto's Uzumasa film studio. It was an exhausting event, but really fun! According to the studio, it was the greatest attendance the park has seen…


God Seeks in Return (神は見返りを求める, Keisuke Yoshida, 2022)
A middle-aged nice guy decides maybe he should ask for something in return after all only to get more and less than he bargained for Keisuke Yoshida’s thorny…
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Amalock (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A narrative that fluidly combines comedy and tragedy to deliver an experience of smiles and tears.
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Suton (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
Rikako Watanabe’s narrative succeeds to echo the unvocalized ‘pandemic’ truth of many.
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Belonging (2024) review [Japannual 2024]
Higashi delivers a touching exploration of love after death.
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Snowdrop (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A complex character portrait that touchingly illustrates how easy it is to misrecognize the logic of the subject-supposed-to-be-in-need.


The Workhorse and the Bigmouth ばしゃ馬さんとビッグマウス (2013) Director: Keisuke Yoshida
“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…
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Wash Away (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A pleasant narrative that offers a fresh but familiar exploration of the subject’s fundamental desire for recognition/love and the problematic yet medicative function of consumption.
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Sumiko 22 (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A subtle but playful narrative about a subject who slowly tries to crawl out the hole of emptiness and diminished self-worth.
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Blue Imagine (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A powerful reminder of the sexual transgressions that structurally plague the Japanese film industry


Leaving on the 15th Spring (旅立ちの島唄~十五の春~, Yasuhiro Yoshida, 2013)
“How many of them will come back?” a man on the shore ominously asks as he watches the young people of his island ship out to pursue their…
Farewell, 2024…
This post is brought you by Ave Mujica where this girls’ band from BanG Dream! will make its debut next year. This is a direct sequel to BanG…


Otakon 2024
I only bought two Lupin TV specials this year


2024 Outlook
Brief overview of what’s happening for this blog in 2024.