A series of women wander around Tama New Town each searching for something in Yui Kiyohara’s wistful drama.
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Remembering Every Night/全ての夜を思い出す
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Just Remembering (ちょっと思い出しただけ, Daigo Matsui, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]
Former lovers are confronted by reminders of their failed romance amid the loneliness of the coronavirus pandemic in Daigo Matsui’s melancholy drama.
Drive into Night 夜を走る (2022) Director: Dai Sako
Drive into Night 夜を走る, from director Dai Sako, is a solid crime film that offers some social realism and solid characterisation for most of its runtime. When it adds…
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KimStim Acquires North American Rights to Remembering Every Night
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Hold Me Back (私をくいとめて, Akiko Ohku, 2020)
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【基本のキ】読みやすい&リズムの良い漫画の"つくり"を解説 Composition of A Good Manga Easy to Read & with A Nice Tempo
漫画家・浦沢直樹の「浦沢チャンネル」。読みやすい漫画を描く基本や、漫画においてよく使われる"嘘"などについて説明しました。浦沢直樹短編集「初期のURASAWA」電子版は2023年5月30日解禁です！ “Urasawa Channel“, a Youtube channel by a Japanese manga artist, Naoki Urasawa. Urasawa explains the basic tips and some "lies" that manga artists often use in order to…
My Sorry Life (愛のくだらない, Kozue Nomoto, 2020)
A self-absorbed TV producer gets a wake up call when her boyfriend announces he’s pregnant in Kozue Nomoto’s ironic dramedy
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The Nighthawk’s First Love (よだかの片想い, Yuka Yasukawa, 2021)
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野獣死すべし OST - Akihiko Takashima
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Watashi o Tabetai, Hito de Nashi, Volume 3 (私を喰べたい、ひとでなし)
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“What Can You Do about It?”, from director Yoshifumi Tsubota, is a heartfelt documentary that transforms from depicting his relationship with a distant relative with a developmental dis…
Drifting Flowers, Flowing Days (この日々が凪いだら, Yutaka Tsunemachi, 2023)
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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.
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)
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今期で注目しているアニメ その他諸々
シングルの発売以来、リリリリさんのMaihimeをヘビロテしているけど、未だに「代替できない仲間」を「大体できない仲間」と聞き間違えてしまう。のは、ここだけの秘密です。どうもこんにちは、麦です。 さて、早くも4月がやってまいりました。ということは、もうすぐ新作アニメが雪崩を打って到来します。かれこれ20年程、アニメの海に溺れている者としては、その荒波に揉まれるのもやぶさかではないといいますか…
墓碑銘の楽しき混乱 A Fun Derangement of Epitaphs
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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.
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『プラネテス』や『コードギアス』の監督谷口悟朗のロングインタビュー。
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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.
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When we first met Miwa, she was unsure of herself. And when we met Saeko she seemed very confident. As we’ve got to know them, we’ve come to…
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You know how you feel after you’ve had a fever, when the fever breaks and you’re soaked in sweat? You don’t feel “good,” per se, but you feel…