Tag: Osaka
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Haruhi Suzumiya series
During class introductions, Haruhi Suzumiya boldly announces her boredom with “normal” people and her intention of meeting supernatural beings. Dumbfounded, normal guy Kyon learns of her frustration with the lack of paranormal-focused clubs at their school and unwittingly inspires her to start her own club. Haruhi starts the Spreading Fun all Over the World with…
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Fate Series
Shirou Emiya is forced into a tournament to the death called the Holy Grail War. Combatants fight with summoned “servants”, heroes from all of human history, in order to have their desires granted by the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend and Christian tradition. Each servant fits a certain class, such as archer, saber, berserker, rider,…
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Monogatari Series
The Monogatari series is a Japanese light novel series written by Nisio Isin (stylized NISIOISIN) and illustrated by Vofan. The plot centers on Koyomi Araragi, a third-year high school student who survives a vampire attack and finds himself helping girls involved with a variety of apparitions, ghosts, beasts, spirits, and other supernatural phenomena, which often…
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The Moomins
The Moomins are the central characters in a series of novels, short stories, and a comic strip by Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson. They are a family of white, round fairy-tale characters with large snouts who live in a house in a land called Moominvalley. While they might look like hippopotamuses at first glance,…
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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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Show-Ha Shoten!
Azemichi Shijimi and Taiyo Higashikata both love comedy. After learning that Azemichi is a famous mail-in joke writer, Taiyo gets him to be his partner for a manzai sketch comedy routine during their school’s cultural festival. After getting the grand prize at the festival, they decide to take manzai seriously and formally name their comedy…
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Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia
Insomniacs After School In the small city of Nanao, insomniac Ganta Nakami tries to catch a nap in his school’s abandoned astronomical observatory. There he stumbles upon a sociable and carefree girl named Isaki Magari who has the same problem. The two form an awkward friendship and reestablish their school’s defunct astronomy club. This anime came…
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Ryu Ga Gotoku Series
Real-world Locations from all the games published by Sega’s RGG Studios. While the Yakuza/RGG/Like a Dragon franchise spans multiple decades and a large handful of games, each game takes place in something close to a shared universe with a similar design philosophy and generally speaking, a reoccurring list of real-world Japanese urban neighborhoods. The most…