Middle-aged novelist Makio Koudai never had a good relationship with her older sister Minori, who had always chided her for going her own way. Due to the strained relationship, Makio wasn’t particularly stricken when she received the news that Minori and her husband died in a car crash. Identifying the bodies, Makio crosses paths with […]
After falling into a depression, Tsunehiro Sasaki stops going to college and wracks up a huge gambling debt. To make matters worse, a doctor discovered a brain tumor and tells him he only has about two years to live. While fleeing from debt collectors, Sasaki falls into the ocean where he is rescued by a
After the death of his beloved dog Hanako, the last piece of family he had left, Hotaru Yuyami is left adrift and alone. Working as an author, but now paralyzed by his grief, his editor continues to grow concerned until one day she discovers that he has a new pet – a mushroom dog. Sprouting
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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Second-year high school student Shun Tokinoya lives with his mother and disabled sister. After an accident killed his father and injured his sister, he took up the roll of not only studying hard to get a good future job to support them, but working part-time at an e-sports cafe to help pay the bills. While
Social anxiety is the intense fear and anxiety that comes with talking to or interacting with others, often defined by how negatively you think they will judge you. While this makes it difficult to lead a fulfilling life in the real world, social anxiety is one of the hot new trends in anime. Perhaps it
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
For a good chunk of sports anime, the appeal isn’t in the sport it presents. You can only present soccer, basketball, or baseball in so many different ways before its not actually anything like the sport. Instead, the appeal of many sports anime is the characters and the relationships between them. Everyone loves a supportive
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Living in a rural area and previously going to a small one-room school with no other girls her age, Akebi holds the dream of going to the prestigious Roubai Academy for girls like her mother and wearing that illustrious sailor uniform. With her uniform on, she endeavors to make as many friends as possible. With
In his second year of high school, Yatora Yaguchi goofs off with his friends and studies hard enough to make good grades. However, neither makes him happy. Bound by normal activities, he wonders if there is something more. One day, he discovers the joy of drawing after becoming enchanted by a painting made by an
