Ruri, a fashionable high school girl, loves jewelry and accessories. After being captivated by a piece of quartz jewelry, and swiftly denied an advance on her allowance to buy it, Ruri’s mother tells her that her grandfather used to find quartz in the mountains all the time. Ruri, thinking herself clever, goes to the mountains […]
After being utterly taken with a senpai, Satsuki Amamiya joins the photography club. However, the next year when her senpai graduates, she finds the club left in her care in danger of shutting down due to a lack of members. After discovering the Cinema Club is in the same situation, the members decide to combine
While yuri is the term widely used to define girl’s love anime depicting the romantic relationship between two women, the term “yuri” isn’t actually traditionally reserved for romance alone. It is a term that has more than a little nuance to it, which makes what is and is not yuri anime such hotly debated subject.
For Konohoshi Umika, her social anxiety makes her feel like an alien trapped on Earth. Due to feeling so much like an outcast, she dreams of building a rocket to take her into space so she can meet aliens who might finally understand her. One day, she meets the energetic and friendly Akeuchi Yuu, a
“Yuri bait” is a term thrown around perhaps too often that is used to describe an anime relationship between girls that are closer than friends, but never have any explicitly stated or concretely shown romantic feelings for each other. Yuri-baiting in anime is particularly common given the still-heavy stigmatization of homosexuality in Japan. This means
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Every night, Ganta Nakami is overtaken by insomnia that leaves him grumpy during the day. However, he happens across the easygoing Isaki Magari from his class sleeping in the Astronomy Club’s abandoned, supposedly haunted observatory. It turns out that she, too, suffers from insomnia and uses this room to sneak away for naps. While the
As a young girl, Hiyori’s father taught her the joys of fly fishing. Even after he unexpectedly passed away, she still uses fishing as a way to feel connected to him. One day while fishing, she meets and energetic new girl in town named Koharu who ends up fishing and eating said fish together. However,
As a child, Mira met a boy named Ao at a campsite. While they were gazing at the sky, Mira learned there was a star with her name, but none with Ao’s name. She made a promise that one day they would name an asteroid after him. Years later, Mira is reunited with Ao at
After moving, Nadeshiko decides to go see Mount Fuji. She manages to bike pretty far, but has to turn back because of the weather and ends up fainting. When she wakes up, she finds herself somewhere she has never been and no way to find her way back. It is in this wilderness where she
Among those big doe eyes and hair colors that cover every section of the rainbow, Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime remain the quintessential genre of moe. While some people vilify moe, there is a good reason moe took over anime – A larger majority clearly enjoyed it. Like the overly long title of an
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