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Tenmaku Cinema

Also known as Tenmaku Cinema.

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life , Supernatural

The exciting new series from the creators of Food Wars! Extreme movie-lover Hajime Shinichi and the ghost of the mysterious genius screenwriter Takihiko Tenmaku--their meeting will provide some serious plot twists! It's ready, set, action for this coming-of-age series!



Tags: Acting , Ghost , School Club , Male Protagonist , Shounen , School , Work , Filmmaking , Urban Fantasy , Educational

Umi ga Hashiru End Roll

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life

After turning 65 and bereaved of her husband, Umiko visits a cinema for the first time in decades. A shocking, life-changing event awaits her. When she meets Kai, an art student majoring in film, Umiko realises that she wants to make a film. She realises that she is on the side of "the people who want to make films"... Lured by the waves that stir her heart, the 65-year-old dives into the sea of film!

Tags: Female Protagonist , Filmmaking , Photography , College , Primarily Adult Cast , Elderly Protagonist , Shoujo , LGBTQ+ Themes , Iyashikei , Asexual , Aromantic

Kine-san no Hitori de Kinema

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Slice of Life

Kine Machiko is a thirty-something office worker, who loves nothing more than watching movies and writing her review blog. She hides her passion for movies from her co-workers due to unpleasant past experiences, but she still wants friends with whom she can share her love of movies. What will be the next movie she watches? What dark, geeky secret will haunt her next? Will she ever make any movie friends?

Tags: Female Protagonist , Office Lady , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Female Cast

act-age

Also known as ACT-AGE.

Status: Cancelled
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

Lights! Camera! ACTION! Kei Yonagi wants to be an actress! But an already-difficult dream to achieve has become much harder since her father left and her mother died. She's now taking care of her two little siblings on her own.

Without much money left, will she have to give up her dream?!



Tags: Acting , Work , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Shounen , Filmmaking , Educational , Primarily Adult Cast , Twins

Gekiga Hyouryuu

Also known as A Drifting Life.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. Now the visionary creator of "The Push Man and Other Stories" and "Good-bye" has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, "A Drifting Life" is Tatsumis' most ambitious, personal, and heart felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form.Using his life long obsession with comics as a frame work, Tatsumi weaves a complex story that encompasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, this is the masterful summartion of a fascinating life and a historic career.



Tags: Autobiographical , Historical , Non-fiction , Drawing , Tragedy , Work , School , Seinen

Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!

Also known as Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

Midori loves to design worlds. Tsubame loves to animate. Sayaka loves to make money! And at Shibahama High, they call them Eizouken--a three-girl club determined to produce their own spectacular science fiction anime!

But with no budget from their school and a leaky warehouse for a studio, Eizouken is going to have to work hard and use their imagination...the one thing they've got plenty of!



Tags: Otaku Culture , Drawing , School Club , Primarily Female Cast , Filmmaking , Meta , Urban , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Surreal Comedy , Educational , Urban Fantasy , Tomboy , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

Houga Present Joushi Kousei Houkichi! Eiko-san

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy

Tags: Josei , Otaku Culture , Parody

R15+ ja Dame desu ka?

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Akane Amou, who grew up with her parents forbidding any kind of entertainment, is a little bad with "stimulating" stuff, to the point she can't even watch a kissing scene in a drama. Now that she’s a highschool student, she somehow wants to overcome it! Those are her intentions, but it’s not that easy. Meanwhile, she got acquainted with a movie otaku named Fuyumine. Will she be able to watch an R15 movie…?

Tags: Coming of Age , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Female Protagonist , Heterosexual , School Club , Seinen , Filmmaking