Teki Cometh (敵, Daihachi Yoshida, 2024) by Windows on Worlds / Anime Blog Tracker

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.

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Mar 6, 2024 • Subscribe

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.

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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…

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Jan 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

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…

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Mar 23, 2025 • Subscribe

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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Jun 16, 2023 • Subscribe

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…

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Nov 29, 2022 • Subscribe

Electromagnetic Girlfriend

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…

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Oct 18, 2023 • Subscribe

Electromagnetic Girlfriend

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…

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Anime Boston 2023: The Cosplay Cometh

Editor: Samantha Ferreira It seems that each Anime Boston finds new ways to add to the electric hum that emanates from fans’ excitement, as attendees

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May 26, 2023 • Subscribe

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…

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Jan 31, 2021 • Subscribe

Kemono Jihen

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…

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Ep. 110: The Yakuza's Bias, by Teki Yatsuda

Back to the Yakuza Comedy Well, for a Manga About Korean Pop Music...

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Jan 21, 2024 • Subscribe

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

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Nov 15, 2024 • Subscribe

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…

Eve Healy

May 26, 2023 • Subscribe

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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Jun 26, 2021 • Subscribe

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…

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May 23, 2018 • Subscribe

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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Jun 22, 2021 • Subscribe

Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway

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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Jun 22, 2021 • Subscribe

Hatena Illusion, Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, Overlord, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Toradora!

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.

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Dec 31, 2022 • Subscribe

[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.

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Oct 12, 2022 • Subscribe

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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…

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Aug 13, 2023 • Subscribe

Bleach

Tune of the Week(ish): Parallel World Pharmacy’s “Musō-teki Chronicle”

This is fast becoming my personal favorite of the season, cause there is just something fun about watching a show like this! The Tune of the Week is…

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Jul 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Parallel World Pharmacy

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

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Jan 15, 2025 • Subscribe

[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…

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Oct 26, 2022 • Subscribe

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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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Jan 17, 2023 • Subscribe

Chainsaw Man

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…

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Jul 11, 2022 • Subscribe

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.

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Jul 1, 2023 • Subscribe

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…

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May 5, 2022 • Subscribe

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.

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Aug 4, 2021 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

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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Feb 15, 2022 • Subscribe

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Silver Spoon, Yu-Gi-Oh!

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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Aug 28, 2023 • Subscribe

[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.

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Jan 25, 2024 • Subscribe

Magic Knight Rayearth

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

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Aug 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Kiba

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.

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Oct 15, 2024 • Subscribe

Tower of God Season 2, Tower of God

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.

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Apr 20, 2021 • Subscribe

High School Girls

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.

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Oct 20, 2023 • Subscribe

Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy

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…

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Oct 27, 2024 • Subscribe

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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May 30, 2024 • Subscribe

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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Mar 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Belonging (2024) review [Japannual 2024]

Higashi delivers a touching exploration of love after death.

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Nov 3, 2024 • Subscribe

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.

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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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Mar 2, 2024 • Subscribe

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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Aug 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Mouse

Blue Imagine (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A powerful reminder of the sexual transgressions that structurally plague the Japanese film industry

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Apr 1, 2024 • Subscribe

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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Mar 23, 2024 • Subscribe