Category: Drama
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I Want to Eat your Pancreas
The unnamed protagonist is a bookworm who is deeply detached from the world he resides in. He has no interest in others and is firmly convinced that nobody has any interest in him either. His story begins when he stumbles across a handwritten book, titled Living with Dying. He soon identifies it as a secret…
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Ocean Waves
Kochi highschooler Taku Morisaki is going about his work when his friend Yutaka Matsuno calls and asks him to get to their school as soon as possible. Taku arrives, and Matsuno introduces him to the beautiful Tokyo transfer student Rikako Muto. After a chance encounter during their Hawaiian class trip, Taku suddenly finds himself more…
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Kageki☆Shojo Revue Starlight
Inspired by a play called Starlight, Karen Aijo and Hikari Kagura make a childhood promise to perform that very play together someday. Hikari moves away, and twelve years later Karen has enrolled in Seisho Music Academy to continue working toward their promise. As the 99th Graduating Class rehearses for their annual production of Starlight, a…
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Tsurukichi Sanpei
Sanpei Mihira is a boy from rural Japan who loves all kinds of freshwater fishing. Takao Yaguchi’s original Fisherman Sanpei manga was serialized by Kodansha from 1973 to 1983. It was adapted to an anime that got big in Italy. Some fishing video games were made in the late 80’s for MSX computers based on…
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Tsuneo Suzukawa is a 22-year-old university student studying marine biology. He works part-time at a diving shop. On his way home after a lecture, he saves a paraplegic young woman named Kumiko Yamamura, who insists on being called “Josee”. After being invited over for dinner as a token of gratitude, Tsuneo receives a job offer…
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Barakamon
As a punishment for punching a famous Calligrapher, young handsome Calligrapher Handa Seishu is exiled on a small island. As someone who has never lived outside of a city, Handa has to adapt to the quirks of his closely-knit new wacky neighbors, like the whole town coming to help him move in, unwanted visitors who…
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Maison Ikkoku
Maison Ikkoku is a comedic Rumiko Takahashi manga about a slow burn romance between the serial entrance-test-failing ronin Yusaku Godai and the young widow Otonashi Kyoko, who happens to be the acting landlady of Godai’s apartment. Kyoko’s dog, Soichiro, shares a name with her deceased husband. The comedy is derived from the antics of the…
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March Comes In Like a Lion (3-Gatsu no Lion)
Rei Kiriyama, a 17-year-old depressed introvert and prodigious professional shogi player, leaves his home and moves into a lonesome and barebones Tokyo apartment. In Tokyo, Rei meets a trio of sisters living in a wagashi shop. Akari, the oldest, is determined to combat Rei’s loneliness and poorly sustained lifestyle with motherly hospitality. The sisters, coping…