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Friendship and Jazz in Kids on the Slope

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  I asked my one friend, an avid anime viewer, what anime he’d recommend to me. He had quite a few suggestions, but he seemed particularly enthusiastic about Kids on the Slope ( Sakamichi no Apollon ). So, I decided to watch it for this blog, and I’d say I made the right choice. A show full of emotion, it depicts high-schoolers coming together from different walks of life, drawn together by music. It has twelve episodes, each named after a jazz song. The anime takes place in the 1960's, in the city of Sasebo (4) on Japan's southernmost island, Kyushu.  The music the characters play is recorded especially for the anime, with different musicians “playing” the characters Kaoru and Sentaro. (3) Watanabe Shinichiro directed, adapting it from the manga of the same name. (4) Kodama Yuki created the manga for the josei target audience, (4) made up of women older than shojo . (2) MAPPA and Tezuka Productions (founded by Tezuka Osamu (6)) made the anime, which came out in 2012 (4). ...
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Otaku no Blossay: My Decision to Watch Anime

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  My Decision to Watch Anime Anime interested me, but I never really got around to watching it. It was always in my periphery. I have friends who watch it. People who like the same things I like seem to like it. And I’m a fan of some video games from Japan, which have anime-like character designs. But I never got into anime myself. I felt it would be too much work. I have trouble keeping up with all the entertainment content in the world today. The summer before last I finally got around to watching Parks and Recreation, a show my friends have been talking about since like 2015. Star Wars keeps pumping out new shows like someone’s life depends on it. A couple years ago I watched my first Marvel movie, so now I follow that fandom too. It feels like a chore, and every time I meet up with friends or go online, it seems everybody else has seen a ton of other movies and shows I haven’t seen yet. The last thing I needed was a vast addition to my mental list of things I want to watch, a...
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