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Hammer Session

One of my favourite Japanese TV genres has got to be the tough love teaching genre. You know, like Dangerous Minds but with teachers who have a background other than teaching that always comes to the surface at the worst possible time. Gokusen had a female teacher who was the grand daughter of a Yakuza …

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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon holds a special place in the hearts of millions of girls all over the world, mine included. Naoko Takeuchi created the ultimate magical girls manga, which became an anime spanning 200 episodes and a few movies. It is the ultimate guilty pleasure for girls and guys alike. Alongside Dragon Ball Z, …

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Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

If high school life in Japan is as entertaining as all their TV shows focusing on it, it’s just one more reason I wish I grew up there. Yankee-kun to Megane-chan is the story of two high school students who at first glance couldn’t possibly be any more different. Daichi used to be a model student …

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Shinzanmono

In the quiet district of Kodenma, secrets and lies begin to surface as the police investigate the murder of a woman who’d recently moved to the area. Mineko Mitsui is found strangled to death in her apartment with very few clues to aid the police; one is a button found on the floor, another a …

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