“The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” is a light novel written by Nagaru Tanigawa. It is a TV animation based on the Haruhi Suzumiya series. The anime ran for 14 episodes in 2006 and 28 episodes over the course of 2009.A film was released in 2010, and the theme song “Hare Hare Yukai”, with its catchy melody and the dances performed by the characters, attracted...
“WORLD TRIGGER” is a Japanese shōnen manga by Daisuke Ashihara, serialised since 2013. An anime has been broadcast on TV since 2014. Synopsis Sangmon City, with a population of 280,000, is threatened by invaders from another dimension, the Neighbours. A junior high school student there, ‘Osamu Mikumo’, who has a strong sense of justice, meets a mysterious transfer student, ‘Yuma Kuga’.One day, a gate...
“Violet Evergarden” is a light novel by Kana Akatsuki. It was the first work to win the Grand Prize at the Kyoto Animation Awards. In 2018, a TV animation produced by Kyoto Animation was broadcast and simultaneously distributed simultaneously from Japan to the world; a film was released in 2019 and a completely new film was released in 2020. Synopsis Violet Evergarden is an...
BERSERK is a manga and anime by Japanese manga artist Kentaro Miura. Serialization of the manga began in 1989, and the series has been published in book form both in Japan and abroad, garnering support around the world.In 2002, it won the 6th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for Manga Excellence, and as of September 2023, a total of approximately 60 million copies have been...
“THE FABLE” is a Japanese manga series by Katsuhisa Minami, serialised from 2014 to 2019 and renamed as “THE FABLE The second contact” from 2021 to 2023. Two live-action films were released in 2019 and 2021, and an anime adaptation has been broadcast on TV since 2024. Synopsis The greatest genius assassin of all time… But can’t he kill? Fabre, a.k.a. “Fabre”, is an...
“Girl Who Leapt Through Time” is a science fiction novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. It was serialized from 1965 to 1966. It was published in 1967 as the fifth volume of the series. Since its TV dramatization as “Time Traveler” in 1972, it has been adapted to film nine times, including a live-action film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi (1983) and an animated film directed by...
“OSHI NO KO” began as a manga series in 2020, with an animation released in 2023. A live-action film adaptation is scheduled to be released in winter 2024. Since the TV animation started, related words have been trending on Twitter every week, and the music video for the theme song “Idol” by YOASOBI has had more than 100 million views in about a month...
“BUNGO STRAY DOGS” is a Japanese manga series by Asagiri Kafka (original story) and Harukawa 35 (artwork), serialised since 2013, with an anime broadcast on TV from 2021. Synopsis “BUNGO STRAY DOGS” is an anime about a group of detectives based on real-life literary giants. BUNGO STRAY DOGS | Recommendations “BUNGO STRAY DOGS” Highlights include a very easy-to-see, beautifully deformed drawing style. The drawing...
