1. Haikyu
Plot
Haikyu!! (ハイキュー!!, Haikyū!!, from the kanji 排球 "volleyball") is a
Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruichi Furudate.
Junior high school student, Shoyo Hinata, becomes obsessed with
volleyball after catching a glimpse of Karasuno High School playing in
Nationals on TV. Of short stature himself, Hinata is inspired by a
player the commentators nickname 'The Little Giant', Karasuno's short
but talented wing spiker. Though inexperienced, Hinata is athletic and
has an impressive vertical jump. He joins his school's volleyball club –
only to find he is its sole member, forcing him to spend the next two
years trying to convince other students to help him practice. In the
third and final year of junior high, some of Hinata's friends agree to
join the club so he can compete in a tournament. In his first official
game ever, they suffer a crushing defeat to the team favored to win the
tournament – that included third-year Tobio Kageyama, a prodigy setter
nicknamed 'The King of the Court' for both his skill and his brutal play
style. The two spark a short rivalry, and after the game, Hinata vows to
defeat Kageyama in high school.
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2. A Whisker Away
Plot
A Whisker Away (Japanese: 泣きたい私は猫をかぶる, Hepburn: Nakitai
Watashi wa Neko o Kaburu, lit. "Wanting to Cry, I Pretend to Be a Cat")
is a 2020 anime romantic fantasy film produced by Studio Colorido, Toho
Animation and Twin Engine. Directed by Junichi Sato and Tomotaka
Shibayama, the film was released on June 18, 2020, on Netflix in
Japanese. Miyo Sasaki is an unhappy middle school girl living in the
town of Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture. She does not get along with her
stepmother Kaoru. She always flirts with her crush, Kento Hinode, in
spite of his repeated rejections. One day, she receives a magical Noh
mask from a mysterious mask seller, which lets her become a cat. As
"Tarō", she spends time with Hinode, keeps him company while he studies
Japanese pottery, and listens to his problems. She longs to confess that
the cat he loves and the girl he barely knows are the same person. One
day, Miyo overhears two boys at school talking trash about Hinode and
loudly intervenes by jumping off the school building to defend his
honor. She hurts herself during the jump, and for the first time, Hinode
shows warmth as he takes her to the nurse and shares his lunch with her.
Later that evening, as Tarō, Miyo learns that Hinode's family is closing
their pottery shop, as the family can no longer afford it. The need to
cheer him up inspires Miyo to confess her love in a letter. In class, a
boy snatches the note before she can deliver it and reads it aloud,
embarrassing Miyo and Hinode. Hinode saves face by publicly telling Miyo
that he hates her.
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