Journal with Witch
Reclusive novelist Makio Koudai has always preferred the company of books—but when her sister and brother-in-law pass away, Makio unexpectedly...
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Wolf Children
The theme of the film is the love between parents and children. The story covers 13 years and begins with a 19-year-old college student named Hana...
The Secret World of Arrietty
Arrietty, a tiny but tenacious 14-year-old, lives with her parents in the recesses of a suburban garden home, unbeknownst to the homeowner and her...
Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette
Based on the famous classic novel Les Miserables. Being a single mother is hard in early 19th Century France. When young Cosette was traveling...
Her Blue Sky
The story is set in a town nestled in the mountains and centers on high school second-year student and aspiring musician Aoi Aioi, her older...
Only Yesterday
Taeko Okajima is a typical "office lady" in a big company in a big city. When she takes a sabbatical to the countryside in Yamagata Prefecture,...
Candy Candy
This story is about a girl, Candy, who is a orphan. She is a nice and optimistic girl and she has a warm heart. When she was a child, she lived in...
Heidi, Girl of the Alps
After becoming an orphan, Heidi is forced to live with her grandfather Öhi, who lives in the Alps. She learns he's a very bitter man who only...
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Spring time in April and the last of the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. The usually aloof bookworm with no interest in others comes across a...
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
The people of Iorph live far away from the lands of men, weaving the happenings of each day into a fabric called Hibiol. They live for centuries...
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Okina is a bamboo cutter in ancient rural Japan. One day in the forest, he finds a tiny baby in the folds of a bamboo shoot. He brings the...
Hanasaku Iroha ~Blossoms for Tomorrow~
After her single mother decides to run off with a boyfriend to dodge debt collectors, the young and energetic Ohana is sent to live with her...
Somali and the Forest Spirit
The world is ruled by a diversity of inhuman beings, who persecuted humans and drove them to near-extinction. One day, the forest guardian Golem...
The Yuzuki Family’s Four Sons
The Yuzuki family consists of four brothers: Hayato, Mikoto, Minato, and Gakuto. The eldest son, Hayato, happily lives every day to the fullest....
Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
It’s Komichi Akebi’s first year of junior high and she has her heart set on one thing: Robai Private Academy’s sailor uniform. As the next chapter...
From Up on Poppy Hill
Yokohama, 1963. Umi is a high school student living in her family's hillside home overlooking the sea. Every morning she hoists two signal flags...
Nobody's Boy Remi
Remi is a boy living happily with his mother in the French countryside. But everything changes when his estranged father comes home and, in...
The aquatope on white sand
Kukuru Misakino is a 18-year-old girl who works at an aquarium and she encounters a former idol who lost her place in Tokyo and escaped to Okinawa...
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