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Featured image for Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire [シスターズロワイヤル 5姉妹に嫌がらせを受けて困っています] (PlayStation 4) UnboxingBackground image for Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire [シスターズロワイヤル 5姉妹に嫌がらせを受けて困っています] (PlayStation 4) Unboxing

Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire [シスターズロワイヤル 5姉妹に嫌がらせを受けて困っています] (PlayStation 4) Unboxing

A few days ago I received a shoot em up from Japan, and it came with some interesting goodies.

The Normanic Vault

Oct 30, 2021 • Subscribe

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或るバイトを募集しています

Aru baito o boshū shite imasu (或るバイトを募集しています) is a collection of eight short horror stories conveyed in the form of documentary-style found footage. Each story is prefaced by…

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Apr 19, 2025 • Subscribe

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Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me? (先生、私の隣に座っていただけませんか?, Takahiro Horie, 2021)

A mangaka and her cheating husband become locked in a cat and mouse game of ambiguous revenge in Takahiro Horie’s deliciously cynical anti-rom-com

Windows on Worlds

Dec 21, 2021 • Subscribe

浦沢直樹より重大なお知らせ。YouTube更新が止まっていた理由… Important Notice from Naoki Urasawa

漫画家・浦沢直樹の「浦沢チャンネル」。1981年に新人賞を受賞してから2021年でちょうど40年の節目に、〇〇を解禁します。 The year 2021 marks exactly 40 years since I won the Rookie Award in 1981, so I will be starting XX for my very first time. #浦沢直樹 #NaokiUrasawa #重大発表 ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー ◆浦沢直樹電子書籍特設サイト https://bigcomicbros.net/urasawadigital/ Naoki…

浦沢チャンネル -URASAWA CHANNEL-

Dec 27, 2021 • Subscribe

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All Under the Moon (月はどっちに出ている, Yoichi Sai, 1993)

Citizens of post-Bubble Tokyo struggle to reorient themselves amid changing realities in Yoichi Sai’s lighthearted comedy.

Windows on Worlds

Oct 14, 2023 • Subscribe

Remembering Every Night/全ての夜を思い出す

In 2017, director Kiyohara Yui released her first feature film, Our House (私たちの家), and established herself as a talent to watch. Though that film at times felt a…

eiga files

Oct 26, 2023 • Subscribe

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「全部磯チルドレンでいいんじゃないかと思っています」- 沓名健一インタビュー

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Full Frontal

Jul 9, 2023 • Subscribe

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"Would it Be これがいりますか?" #learnjapanese

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That Japanese Man Yuta

Dec 10, 2024 • Subscribe

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Small, Slow But Steady (ケイコ 目を澄ませて, Sho Miyake, 2022)

An aspiring boxer begins to lose the will to fight in Sho Miyake’s empathetic character study.

Windows on Worlds

Oct 5, 2022 • Subscribe

Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu., Volume 7 (兄の嫁と暮らしています。)

Kuzushiro’s Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu. (兄の嫁と暮らしています。) lurches along, awkward, uncomfortable, neither a romance nor something else, and yet, I cannot look away. I last reviewed Volume 5,…

Okazu

Jun 23, 2020 • Subscribe

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飲ませられる or 飲まれさせる? #learnjapanese

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That Japanese Man Yuta

Feb 28, 2025 • Subscribe

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Remembering Every Night (すべての夜を思いだす, Yui Kiyohara, 2022)

A series of women wander around Tama New Town each searching for something in Yui Kiyohara’s wistful drama.

Windows on Worlds

Jul 2, 2023 • Subscribe

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Love, Life and Goldfish (すくってごらん, Yukinori Makabe, 2021)

An elitist banker learns to embrace his sensitive side when demoted to a country backwater obsessed with goldfish in Yukinori Makabe’s charmingly quirky musical

Windows on Worlds

Mar 7, 2022 • Subscribe

【LIVE】浦沢直樹 ~Rhythm & Drawing~ 2019.8.19 at 晴れたら空に豆まいて

2019.8.19 晴れたら空に豆まいて 代官山 浦沢直樹「~Rhythm & Drawing~」 Percussion / 林久悦 【LIVE情報】 URASAWA BAND Love Songs TOUR 2025 ~Rhythm & Drawing~ \チケット詳細はこちら/ eplus.jp/urasawanaoki/ ◆2025.8.31(日) OPEN 17:00 / START 17:30 東京・duo MUSIC EXCHANGE ゲスト:小室哲哉・坂本美雨・尾崎博志・voice four ◆2025.9.23(火) OPEN 17:00 / START 17:30 大阪・YES THEATER ◆2025.9.29(月)…

浦沢チャンネル -URASAWA CHANNEL-

Jul 23, 2025 • Subscribe

Private ha Honnin-tachi ni Makasete Orimasu (プライベートは本人たちに任せております)

I picked up a copy of Private ha Honnin-tachi ni Makasete Orimasu (プライベートは本人たちに任せております) (translated in English on the frontispiece as Private Life Is Left To Them, Yuri Talext…

Okazu

Jan 11, 2024 • Subscribe

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入りませんか? vs 入ります? #learnjapanese

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That Japanese Man Yuta

Feb 27, 2025 • Subscribe

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Follow the Light (光を追いかけて, Yoichi Narita, 2021) [Fantasia 2021]

An alienated young man resentful of his forced relocation to the countryside bonds with an intense classmate in Yoichi Narita’s gentle coming of age drama

Windows on Worlds

Jan 2, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia

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I Never Shot Anyone (一度も撃ってません, Junji Sakamoto, 2020)

An unsuccessful writer staves off a sense of existential despair living by night in Junji Sakamoto’s darkly comic tale of late life ennui

Windows on Worlds

Oct 1, 2021 • Subscribe

Jinsei - Life Consulting

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When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to be Dead (家に帰ると妻が必ず死んだふりをしています。, Toshio Lee, 2018)

A dull and aggressively conventional salaryman is confused when his wife develops a habit of pretending to be dead when he gets home in Toshio Lee’s marital comedy.

Windows on Worlds

Oct 20, 2024 • Subscribe

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Real-life Japanese vs Textbook Japanese #1 ですから・ますから

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Sep 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 4 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

In Tamifull’s Yuri drama Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 4 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな), we are confronted with something we don’t see very often at all in Yuri…two people who may just…

Okazu

Jul 2, 2020 • Subscribe

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Kono Naka ni Hotori, Imouto ga Iru! この中に1人、妹がいる!

Mikadono Shougo, son to a rich and powerful company chairman, has to attend school to find a girl he is serious on before he can inherit the company.…

Yuu's Sanctuary

Apr 13, 2020 • Subscribe

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Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 5 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

As a reviewer, I understand that spoilers are sometimes unavoidable in order to make a review make sense. As a reader, I don’t particularly mind spoilers…until I do.…

Okazu

Jan 14, 2021 • Subscribe

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あとになってわかったこと

Collector's Mindset - How to Japanese - February 2025

How to Japanese

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Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, Volume 9 (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ)

When we left this series in Volume 8, there were rainbows and doves flying because an entire volume had passed without making me feel unpleasant thoughts in the…

Okazu

Sep 25, 2023 • Subscribe

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

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Oshi ga Budokan Itterkuretara Shinu, Volume 8 (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ)

Yippee! A whole volume of this manga in which I never once wanted to shake the daylights out of the creator! Ahem. But seriously, Oshi ga Budokan Itterkuretara…

Okazu

Mar 3, 2022 • Subscribe

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, Volume 6 ( 推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ )

In Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, Volume 6 ( 推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ ), we meet another local idol group, the Starlights, when the two groups end up in a double…

Okazu

Mar 13, 2020 • Subscribe

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Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, Volume 7 (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ )

Until late last night, this review was going to be completely different. I had a whole review planned out and was all ready to joke about Path #5…

Okazu

Aug 9, 2021 • Subscribe

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

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Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu Live-Action (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ)

For various reasons I have spent the last few weeks playing catch-up with everything I have meant to watch and read and listen to but never got around…

Okazu

Sep 27, 2023 • Subscribe

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu, Volume 10, (推しが武道館いってくれたら死ぬ)

Volume 9 left me weak with relief as Eripyo and Maina actually had a conversation. But as we look at the cover of Oshi ga Budokan Ittekuretara Shinu,…

Okazu

May 8, 2025 • Subscribe

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

定規を使って線を引く方法をご紹介します。The most basic of basics, how to draw a line with a ruler.

漫画家・浦沢直樹の「浦沢チャンネル」。線を引くための特訓方法や普段使用しているペン、線を綺麗に引く秘密兵器などをご紹介します。 “Urasawa Channel”, a Youtube channel by a Japanese Manga artist Naoki Urasawa. Urasawa sensei demonstrates a special training he imposes on new disciples, introduces a pen he always…

浦沢チャンネル -URASAWA CHANNEL-

Jun 8, 2021 • Subscribe

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Memories of His Scent (においが眠るまで, Kahori Higashi, 2024)

A young woman travels Japan looking for the scent of her later father in Kahori Higashi’s gentle summer move.

Windows on Worlds

May 9, 2024 • Subscribe

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Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 4 (おとなになっても)

In previous volumes of Otona ni Nattemo, we met Akari and Ayano, who met in a bar and spent the night together, Ayano’s husband Wataru, who has wondered…

Okazu

Jun 23, 2021 • Subscribe

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I Go Gaga, Welcome Home Mom (ぼけますから、よろしくお願いします。~おかえりお母さん~, Naoko Nobutomo, 2022)

In a followup to her hugely popular documentary, Naoko Nobutomo follows her parents as her mother’s health continues to decline.

Windows on Worlds

Jun 29, 2022 • Subscribe

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What's The Difference Between 行かないです and 行きません? #learnjapanese

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That Japanese Man Yuta

May 6, 2025 • Subscribe

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Teiji ni Ageretara, Volume 4 ( 定時にあがれたら)

As Teiji ni Ageretara, Volume 4 ( 定時にあがれたら) opens, we find ourselves in a story that is  so grounded in reality that it seems almost magical.^_^ Kaori and…

Okazu

Feb 10, 2021 • Subscribe

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Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 5 (おとなになっても)

Previous volumes of Shimura Takako’s adult life drama have centered on three adults whose life has been thrown into turmoil by unexpected emotions. Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 5…

Okazu

Dec 9, 2021 • Subscribe

Sisters Royale Review Link

Review of a “Bullet Hell” vertical Shoot-em Up where five sisters duke it out to see which one is worthy of marrying a guy who has no idea…

The Yuri Empire

Sep 2, 2020 • Subscribe

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Visitors – Complete Edition 悪魔がはらわたでいけにえで私 (2024) Director: Kenichi Ugana [Nippon Connection 2024]

Visitors – Complete Edition 悪魔がはらわたでいけにえで私 (2024), by director Kenichi Ugana, serves as an affectionate love letter to splatter horror of the 80s with lots of references to classics like Evil…

Genkinahito

Jun 24, 2024 • Subscribe

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ズバって

What we should be reading in Japanese - How to Japanese - April 2021

How to Japanese

Apr 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 2 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった)

In Volume 1, we met Ohsawa Aya, a fashionable girl in most ways – except for her retro taste in music. When she walks into a shabby CD…

Okazu

Mar 15, 2024 • Subscribe

Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 3 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった)

Up until this volume, there has been almost no conflict of any kind in Arai Sumiko’s school and music Yuri series. In Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume…

Okazu

Mar 23, 2025 • Subscribe

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Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Janakatta, Volume 1 (気になってる人が男じゃなかった)

Aya is a high school student who loves music of the 90s-00s. She’s content to sit and listen to the Foo Fighters in her ear buds, but when…

Okazu

Aug 14, 2023 • Subscribe

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Struggling Man (私はいったい、何と闘っているのか, Toshio Lee, 2021)

A dejected middle-aged man experiences a crisis of masculinity when his home and work lives come under threat in Toshio Lee’s warmhearted comedy.

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Sep 16, 2022 • Subscribe

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Hit Me Anyone One More Time (記憶にございません!, Koki Mitani, 2019)

Japan’s “all time worst” prime minister undergoes a change of heart after getting hit on the head with a rock in Koki Mitani’s lowkey political satire

Windows on Worlds

Jun 8, 2021 • Subscribe

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Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete, Volume 4 (私の拳をうけとめて!)

Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete, Volume 4 does something wonderful. But first…. Soramori and Takebe are taking a trip. To an onsen. Overnight. Yeah, and don’t think they…

Okazu

Apr 13, 2021 • Subscribe

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Here Because of You (君たちがいて僕がいた, Ryuichi Takamori, 1964)

Post-war teens take on injustice in the form of a problematic parent at their school in Ryuichi Takamori’s cheerful youth movie.

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Sep 9, 2023 • Subscribe

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Common Japanese Mistake No.6 と思います

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Nov 26, 2024 • Subscribe

No.6

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Manga Kodomo Bunko (まんがこども文庫) Bonus Song - Come the Day After Tomorrow (あさっておいで)

Sung by (歌): Columbia Yurikago-kai (コロムビアゆりかご会) Lyrics (作詞): Eriko Kishida (岸田衿子) Composition and Arrangement (作曲・編曲): Seiichirō Uno (宇野誠一郎) Very special thanks to PopKorn Kat for transferring and scanning this record!

Toadette-IAD

Jun 24, 2023 • Subscribe

Manga Kodomo Bunko

Yagate Kimi ni Naru Saeki Sayaka ni Tsuite, Volume 3 (やがて君になる 佐伯沙弥香について)

Saeki Sayaka, very serious, prone to overthinking things, has met someone who will change her life. Edamoto Haru, first year in college has confessed to liking Sayaka, and…

Okazu

Apr 5, 2020 • Subscribe

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Unlock Your Heart (ひらいて, Rin Shuto, 2021)

A straight-A student enters a self-destructive tailspin on discovering her longterm crush has a secret girlfriend in Rin Shuto’s intense psycho-romance.

Windows on Worlds

Oct 3, 2022 • Subscribe