Diving With Friends | finding treasure in 2025

12 friends share their favorite Japanese art discoveries

Movies

Talking movies | Gothicmade

nobody's ever gothicmade an anime quite like this

In Translation | "You Dropped Your Shadow" by Masako Yashiro

Yashiro? more like Yass, She Hero (i respect women you see)

Translation

In Translation | Little Tama's an Angel by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko

The obscure newspaper debut from the duo that would bring the world Doraemon.

Games

Talking games | Ridge Racer V

The weight of the millennium.

Translation

In Translation | The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin (dir. Shoichiro Sasaki, 1981)

The TV movie that inspired a generation, now in English.

Books

Talking books | The Summer of the Ubume

The tragedy of mysteries and the mysteries of the truth.

Movies

Talking movies | Kinki

Reviewing the latest from horror master Koji Shiraishi

Translation

In Translation | "I Saw!" by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

A twisty crime story from the father of gekiga

Translation

In Translation | "The Cockatoo" by Masami Kuroda

Part four of the proto-gekiga publication, Kage.

Translation

In Translation | "The Speckled Band" by Macoto Takahashi

When the king of shoujo turns to crime.

Translation

In Translation | "The Cursed Diamond" by Shouichi Sakurai

The second story from the legendary book, Kage.

Translation

In Translation | "The Mischievous Detective" by Takao Saito

The birth of gekiga

Fiction

Fiction | Tripping Backwards into Heaven

"Mom used to say all our furniture had soul..."

Movies

Talking movies | Urusei Yatsura 4: Lum the Forever

dissecting the ultimate anime girl

Anime

Talking anime | Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, "Android and I"

the past is present and present a memory

Translation

In Translation | "Tomorrow a Bride" by Tatsuhiko Yamagami & Hiromichi Kinjo

A one-shot of time and life and chance connections.

Fiction

Fiction | Headless Statues Eat for Free

"I'm going to kill you."

Games

Talking games | Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special

piledrive the abyss and the abyss piledrives back

Games

oops i made a visual novel

I made a short visual novel and you can play it (for free)!

Movies

Talking movies | Baby Assassins: Nice Days

Being a slacker is a moral, ethical good actually.