Chihayafuru

Spring is in the air and Japanese schools are back in session. What better way to experience the springtime of youth than by joining a club? Between the cultural clubs, sports clubs, music clubs, and more, there's bound to be a club here that catches your eye!

Which club will you choose to join?


Spring 2022 Official Challenge Stack
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2. Complete at least 1 anime by May 31!

Critics & Connoisseurs was a club that was founded in 2008 and ended club activities on the 31st of 2022.

The goal of the club was to come up with a list of highly recommended quality shows that are exemplary either within its genre or universally. An anime needed a 70% approval rate in our voting to get on the relation list. The following anime are all part of said list.

You can see the club page here:
https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=2913

Anime Relation List Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/328
Manga Relation List: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/334

These are the cream of the crop when it comes to slice of life romance anime. All of these shows do one thing exceptionally well, whether that be comedy, characters, or romance.

Main character goes through great trials and tribulations (and maybe a training montage or two) to get to the top. Starts out weak or with little to no power or skill, and becomes stronger/ more powerful/ skillful.

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Full List Links Here ~ MyDramaList
https://mydramalist.com/list/1xrm2q93

These are the animes that targets the young girls of all generations, well recommended ones for fans of shoujo and josei magazine. These animes made me feel a young girl's vibes, even I'm not the target audience. It's because I'm a boy XD Complete variations of genres that shoujo/josei fans might truly enjoy.

Slice of Life can be divide into two kinds, the fun one and the deep one. And this is my collection for truly slice of life drama animes. It represents the epitome of human nature and feelings. These animes might be inspirational ones that might hit you like a bullet to the heart.

anime that have solid female friendship, some aren't part of main theme of the show, but wholesome nonetheless

Anime with unique teachers

Anime with traditional Japanese sports, games, arts, folklore or food!

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good trope i'll now proceed to look for 500 diff anime that fit it


(actually send me recs for this pls thx)

Kinda unpopular anime that for some reason are unpopular and more people should watch it.

A list of Romance/School focused animes. There are also some comedy animes, besides some drama but not a heavy one.

I wrote a note in every anime I've watched.

Check the other rom-com stacks for more recommendations.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3212
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3214

Kansai-ben, Touhoku-ben, Hokkaido-ben, ... Japan is rich with their dialects, accents and expressions. I find certain charms to these and will try to maintain this stack adding animes involving some of these dialects.
It might take me some time to gather series and regions but I will try my best.
If you have suggestions, my comments are opens |ω･)ﾉ
(will try to take time to inform where's the dialect are from)

Each of the following are one of the most popular anime set in or heavily inspired by an associated Japanese prefecture. They are ordered from Hokkaido to Okinawa (roughly north to south).

A comprehensive watch order of the Chihayafuru series, which includes every entry of the Chihayafuru franchise.
Original Guide: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1865201

AEGC Interest Stack index: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2017008

This is a part of a series of stacks that are about artistic tendencies in anime (and that border the fine line between sophisticated and pretentious).

This stack is a work in progress.

Bibliography:
Drazen, Patrick. “Bushido: The Way of the Warrior.” Anime Explosion. Stone Bridge Press, 2003. 120-125
LightSparker. “What is Spokon?” Forums – MyAnimeList.net. 13 May 2018.
Schodt, Frederic L. “The Spirit of Japan.” Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. Kodansha USA, 1997. 79-87.

Anime where the male lead (or major supporting actor) wears glasses