Umineko When They Cry (Japanese: うみねこのなく頃に, Hepburn: Umineko no Naku Koro ni, lit. “When the Seagulls Cry”) is a Japanese dōjin soft visual novel series produced by 07th Expansion. Its first episode debuted at Comiket 72 for Windows in August 2007. The story focuses on a group of eighteen people on a secluded island for a period of two days, and the mysterious murders that befall them. Readers are challenged to discern…
TAMALA 2010: A Punk Cat in Space is a 2002 Japanese animated film written, directed and featuring music by the two-person team t.o.L (“trees of Life”), known individually as K. and kuno. The film features both 2D and 3D computer animation, and is mostly black-and-white. The characters, designed by t.o.L and Kentarō Konpon, are reminiscent of Sanrio‘s Hello Kitty and 1960’s anime and manga such as Astro Boy. TAMALA2010 was originally envisioned…
Oira Sukeban (Japanese: おいら女蛮, “I’m a Sukeban”), sometimes called Sukeban Boy, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai, serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1974 to 1976. It is a comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke (or Sukeban) has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school to try and clear his…
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Japanese: マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝, Hepburn: Magia Rekōdo: Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika Gaiden) is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by f4samurai for Android and iOS, which was released by Aniplex in Japan on August 22, 2017. A North American version was available from June 2019 to October 2020. The game is a spin-off of the 2011 anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and…
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (Japanese: かぐや様は告らせたい ～天才たちの恋愛頭脳戦～, Hepburn: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Ren’ai Zunōsen, lit. “Lady Kaguya Wants to Make Him Confess: The Geniuses’ War of Hearts and Minds”) is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series written and illustrated by Aka Akasaka. It was first serialized in Shueisha‘s seinen manga magazine Miracle Jump from May 2015 to January 2016, and later transferred to Weekly Young Jump, where it ran from March 2016…
Family! (Japanese: ファミリー!, Hepburn: Famirī!) is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Taeko Watanabe, the author of Kaze Hikaru. The story follows the lives of the Andersons, a conventionally dysfunctional family in which the parents are as childish as the children are mature; nevertheless, they manage to live happily together. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine from the July 1981 issue to the…
Bad Boys (stylized as BADBOYS) is a manga series written and illustrated by Hiroshi Tanaka. It was adapted into an OVA and a live action film and it was adapted into a Japanese television drama series. As for 2021, the manga has sold 55 million copies. Characters Tsukasa Kiriki (Kento Nakajima, TV series) Jouji Kawanaka (Kenyu Horiuchi, TV series) References ^ “Manga-based Live-Action Bad Boys J Show…
Zombie-Loan (stylized as ZOMBIE-LOAN) is a Japanese manga series created by Peach-Pit: Banri Sendo and Shibuko Ebara. It is published by Square Enix and is serialized in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine GFantasy. The series is licensed in the United States by Yen Press. An anime adaptation produced by Xebec M2 was announced and started broadcast on the Japanese network TV Asahi on July 3, 2007. It contained a total of eleven episodes, with…
Umimachi Diary (Japanese: 海街diary, lit. “Seaside Town Diary”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s josei manga magazine Monthly Flowers from the August 2006 issue to the August 2018 issue (both sold on June 28 of their respective years). A film adaptation titled Our Little Sister, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and starring Suzu Hirose, was first announced in the June 2014 issue…
Tamagotchi! (たまごっち!) is a 2009 Japanese fantasy slice of life anime series produced by OLM‘s Team Kamei division, officially based on the Tamagotchi digital pet jointly created by Bandai and WiZ. It is directed by Jōji Shimura (Pokémon) and written by Aya Matsui (Boys Over Flowers), with character designs done by Sayuri Ichiishi, Shouji Yasukazu and Miwa Sakai. It officially aired on TV Tokyo and other affiliate stations in Japan from 12…
Nanbaka (ナンバカ), also known as Nanbaka – The Numbers, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shō Futamata. An anime television series adaptation by Satelight aired between 5 October 2016 and 22 March 2017. The title is a play on words, combining the name of the prison, which is the Japanese transcription of the word “number”, and the Japanese word “baka”…
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (マギ, Magi) is a Japanese fantasy adventure manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Ohtaka. It was serialized in Shogakukan‘s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from June 2009 to October 2017, with its chapters collected in 37 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media. Taking place in a fantasy world that borrows elements from One Thousand and One Nights,…
