My Neighbour Totoro – Satsuki and Mei’s House

1. Your Name – Gifu Prefecture

Your name- Kimi No Nawa is a famous emotional story with a sprinkle of fiction about a high school girl named Mitsuha Miyamizu and a high school boy doing a part-time job with future endeavors to become an architect named Taki Tachibana....

2. Chihayafuru – Ōmi Shrine

This is a story about a girl which fascinated by hard work and hope. Chihaya Ayase who is the main character has a keen interest in and a talent for Karuta, a sport. She has mostly spent her life in helping her sister in her modeling career but it is now time to utilize the talent she has. Ayase meets a boy whose name is Arata Wataya who supports her while realizing that she can be a good karuta player but sooner she gets separated from her friends. Yet she continues her passion....

3. Princess Mononoke -Yakushima

It delivers the culture of a forest-living people and a clan where the main character is seen supporting both sides in the war. The people living in a forest considered to be a clam area were suddenly been attacked by an accursed boar....

4. My Neighbour Totoro – Satsuki and Mei’s House

Exploring towards the beauty and wonders of the nature two sisters have shifted to the new house located in a forest. In no time they realize that their neighbour is quite fascinating and is a forest spirit named as Totoro. It is an eye-catching adventure for the two sisters Satsuki and mei who is four years old....

5. Haikyuu!! – Kamei Arena Sendai

The genre is comedy, drama and Sports, where Shōyō Hinata joins his middle school volleyball club with the goal of becoming the next “Little Giant” after witnessing a match. He gradually becomes passionate about volleyball connecting to the audience by showing the message “Hard work definitely pays to the success”....

6. Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – Tamachi

Exploring the genre of romance, this anime has received Best romantic anime award and Best comedy award. An Academy called as Shuchiin having a student council carries their own daily tasks, while Miyoki Shirogane is the president and Kaguya Shinomiya. She belongs to a very wealthy family who is yet strict but she manages to confront to her friends and Shirogane. The academy flourishes with new joinees and daily assignments....

7. Weathering With You – Tabata Station (South Exit)

This story is also an island adventure where a high school boy named Hodaka leaves his home and moves to Tokyo on an isolated island. Gradually the main character realizes that he has no money for living so he applies for jobs. He gets a job as a writer in a strange occult magazine trying to cope up with his needs....

8. Kiki’s Delivery Service – Shōdoshima Olive Garden

Kiki is a small girl who shall follow a tradition of becoming a witch and in order to achieve such she is enterprising by delivery service. The source of the anime is Disney showing the utmost adventure by flying delivery service and enterprise of her own. Liki usually flies off from the city and sets up high levels and she also has a companion cat whom she usually talks to....

9. Food Wars! – Shinagawa Station

Food Wars Shokugeki no Soma is the story of Souma which is directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani. Protagonist is the son of the proprietor of a small café in Japan. Despite his youthful age, Souma possesses remarkable culinary bents, frequently creating unconventional dishes with unanticipated component combinations. After some time, Souma’s father decides to leave the family business and join his friend, putting Souma’s eatery at the point of check....

10. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Itto-seki Split Boulder

Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga which is written by Koyoharu Gotoge, where the protagonist becomes a slayer of demons after his family was brutally murdered by the demon king and eventually turns her sister into a demon. The protagonist named Tanjiro Kamado sets out to avenge his family and to find a way to cure her sister by honing his skills with a special blade aka Nichirin Swords, the only sword that can kill a demon....

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