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Will I Be Single Forever? (ずっと独身でいるつもり？, Momoko Fukuda, 2021)

A series of young women find themselves contemplating the meaning of a modern marriage in Momoko Fukuda’s empathetic social drama

Mar 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Naoko Yamada & Friends

By Andrew Osmond. Naoko Yamada is the best-known female director in anime. Most of her directing credits are for TV series made at Kyoto Animation, where she spent…

All the Anime

Oct 6, 2022 • Subscribe

K-ON!, Sound! Euphonium, Tamako Market

In Her Room (ひとりぼっちじゃない, Chihiro Ito, 2022)

A shy dentist’s sense of reality is undermined by his relationship with a mysterious woman living in an indoor forest in Chihiro Ito’s ethereal drama.

Anime News Network - Views

Aug 27, 2023 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside

Peach Boy Riverside is currently streaming on Crunchyroll....

Jul 21, 2021 • Subscribe

Melting Sounds (ほとぼりメルトサウンズ, Kahori Higashi, 2021)

Displaced youngsters begin to find a new sense of place thanks to a warmhearted young woman and an old man’s ambient sound obsession in Kahori Higashi’s quirky drama

Apr 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Marchen Awakens Romance

ズバって

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

Infinite Ryvius, Peach Boy Riverside, Scarlet Nexus, Sonny Boy

Apr 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Summer 2021 First Impressions: Sonny Boy, Scarlet Nexus, Peach Boy Riverside

Sonny Boy Short Synopsis: Infinite Ryvius but set in the only place scarier than space: High School. Armitage: I can safely assume that most of you reading this…

Star Crossed Anime

Jul 2, 2021 • Subscribe

New Moomin 33/52 - Pappa All Alone (ひとりぽっちのパパ) (1972) (English subtitles)

Pappa is feeling underappreciated. Moomin and Mamma did not tell him about a fire, and his idea to take them on vacation for a day conflicts with Moomin's…

Toadette-IAD

Oct 3, 2022 • Subscribe

Moomin, Moomin, New Moomin

Peach Boy Riverside – 03

「サリーと岐路」 (Sarii to Kiro) "Sally and a Crossroads" “Can’t we settle this over a pint?”

Jul 15, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – 10

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Peach Boy Riverside – 04

「姫と桃」 (Hime to Momo) "The Princess and the Peach" "Once upon a time, in a faraway land, lived an old man and an old lady. The old man went to…

Jul 22, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – 07

「種族と居場所」 (Shuzoku to Ibasho) "Species and Belonging" “Oh bollocks! Of course, I can't just make a nice normal friend. No, no, that would be far too simple.”

Aug 12, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – 01

「元姫と卯人」 (Moto Hime to Boujin) "Former Princess and Rabbit" Peach Boy Riverside is at its most impressive when it pulls a rabbit or two from its hat.

Peach Boy Riverside – 11

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Peach Boy Riverside – 09

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Peach Boy Riverside – 08

「仲間と仲間」 (Nakama to Nakama) "Companion and Companion" “Nakama is a word that means your closest friend like in One Piece and there really is no English equivalent to how powerful…

One Piece, Peach Boy Riverside

Aug 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – 02

「鬼と人間」 (Oni to Ningen) "Ogres and Humans" In which Sumeragi is played by Dennis Reynolds.

Jul 8, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – 06

「キャロットとミリア」 (Kyarotto to Miria) "Carrot and Millia" The Living Forest from Mortal Kombat is not a huge fan of Hatsuki.

Aug 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – 05

「フラウと吸血鬼」 (Furau to Kyuuketsuki) "Frau and the Vampire" This time around, Sally must prevent a vampire from turning bigoted villagers into bigoted vampires.

Jul 30, 2021 • Subscribe

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.

Sep 16, 2022 • Subscribe

Episode 12 - Dr. Naoko Kato (UBC)

In this Episode, Dr. Naoko Kato (UBC) catalogues the impact of the Meiji Period on Sino-Japanese relations through the person of Uchiyama Kanzo and the Uchiyama bookstore in…

The Meiji at 150 Podcast

Dec 30, 2017 • Subscribe

Ripples (波紋, Naoko Ogigami, 2023)

A middle-aged woman becomes a devotee of a strange cult in order to restore order to her life in Naoko Ogigami’s quirky dramedy.

Sep 25, 2023 • Subscribe

見積もり

Here - How to Japanese - January 2024

Jan 11, 2024 • Subscribe

お湯割り

In the newsletter this month I wrote about 角ハイ (kakuhai). This is a combination of 角瓶 (kakubin), Suntory’s flagship whiskey, and ハイボール (highball), a mixed drink made from…

Mar 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside Episode 9

My thoughts on the ninth episode of Peach Boy Riverside.

Aug 26, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside Episode 4

My thoughts on the fourth episode of Peach Boy Riverside.

Jul 26, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside Episode 5

My thoughts on the fifth episode of Peach Boy Riverside.

Aug 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside Episode 6

My thoughts on the sixth episode of Peach Boy Riverside.

Aug 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside Episode 7

My thoughts on the seventh episode of Peach Boy Riverside.

Aug 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside (Season One)

Sally is a princess in a peaceful kingdom. She has everything she could want except that she wants to leave. Everything changes when she meets a young boy…

The Otaku Author

Jul 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – Episode 1

Among the many different retellings of the Momotaro legend, it’s nothing new to argue: “what if Momotaro was a douchebag for massacring a bunch of ogres?” But Peach…

Anime Feminist

First Look: Peach Boy Riverside

What if Momotaro but on the sidelines (or, “Riverside”) there were additional peaches and those peaches became horny ogre hunters?

The Glorio Blog

Jul 12, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside – 12 (END)

Sep 16, 2021 • Subscribe

First Impression: Peach Boy Riverside

A starving rabbit girl in a sailor school uniform and a former princess armed with a sword meet in a forest and bond over the sharing of a…

Beneath the Tangles

Sailor Moon, Peach Boy Riverside

Peach Boy Riverside Episode 8

My thoughts on the eighth episode of Peach Boy Riverside.

Aug 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Anime News Network - Views

INTERVIEW: Garden of Remembrance Director Naoko Yamada

"The reason why I create anime is because I have a huge respect for human beings in general; what everyone thinks, what people are feeling, what they're going…

Nov 7, 2022 • Subscribe

仕切り直す

Resetting - How to Japanese - January 2022

Jan 15, 2022 • Subscribe

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

Mar 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside #01 — Blood Splatter

Yes, very gory. Very puff of blood. Impressions: You know me, I can enjoy, or at least tolerate, some truly low end fantasy adventure things like Grimms…

Tenka Seiha

Anime Series Like Peach Boy Riverside

In a world where humans and demihuman creatures live at odds with each other, princess Saltorine “Sally” Aldike is on a journey to find a man named Mikoto…

Recommend Me Anime

Oct 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Fairy Tail, Fire Force, GOBLIN SLAYER, Peach Boy Riverside, Scrapped Princess

Who Was Naoko Takeuchi Before Sailor Moon’s Debut?

Though it may sound a bit counter-intuitive, one of the things I love reading about most in interviews with Ms. Takeuchi is when she opens up about subjects…

Tuxedo Unmasked

Feb 1, 2022 • Subscribe

Sailor Moon

Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie (奥様は、取り扱い注意, Toya Sato, 2021) [Fantasia 2021]

Having lost her memory, assassin turned housewife Nami is pulled into local intrigue in a tranquil seaside town in this sequel to the hit TV drama