Maiko Kawai is a first year university student who is afraid to try new things. While she enjoys cooking and wants to try the food around her, she is often thwarted by shyness and hesitation. Unexpectedly, she runs into her elementary school friend, Shinon Ogawa, at her college. Shinon manages to convince her to start […]
Chika Suzugamori is a rookie manga artist that, after winning a new artist award for her debut, has had every draft she brought to her editor rejected. On the verge of giving up, she decides to use some of her prize money to take a trip. On that trip, she finds the natural scenery healing
After her gacha game shuts down service, Minami Aoba is left adrift without anything to do. Realizing she has wasted her high school years on mobile games, she decides to try out different clubs around school, only to quickly find out that she is unfit for pretty much all of them. When Minami stumbles upon
Teruaki Nakamura has recently moved to Okinawa. On his first day of school, he runs into the energetic Kyan. However, he quickly realizes that she can only speak the Okinawan dialect, and he can’t understand a word of what she is saying. Thankfully, Higa steps into to translate what Kyan is saying, helping Teruaki grow
At Japan’s middle school cheerleading nationals, Kanata Misora played a crucial role in securing victory with her squad. Excited to try to rise to even greater heights, she and her friend Megumi Kaionji joined Takanozaki Prefectural High School together in order to join their talented cheer squad. However, after an incident at a competition, Misora
I enjoy engaging plots and tautly paced storytelling as much as the next person, but sometimes you just have a day, you know? You have a day, and you no longer wish to think about anything, even whatever entertainment you choose to unwind with. You just want to sit down and enjoy something that is
There are a lot of different ways that anime tries to hook and reel in potential fans. Some go for big, exciting action with dynamic and well-choreographed fights like shounen action anime. Others go for capturing those tender feelings of love in many different forms like the entirety of the romance anime genre. A few
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As Japan is one of those countries that sit in the perfect sweet spot just the right distance away from the equator, it has afforded them the ability to experience the four seasons in distinction. None of that “three days of autumn” before winter or a winter of rain that some other countries get. Each
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Before their last match in middle school, Michi Sonoda announces to her teammate Sanae that she won’t be continuing judo in high school, believing that youth should be spent having fun and getting a boyfriend. However, her goal to go out with a bang is smashed when she is embarrassingly defeated by talented newbie, Towa
After the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cutting edge technologies have taken over and the old way of doing things is left in the dust. For childhood friends Serufu Yua and Miku Suride, they both applied to the elite Yuyu Girls’ Vocational High School that excels in teaching new technology. However, due to her grades, care-free accident-magnet
