Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Ripe for the Picking 2024

  ★★★ Watched 24 Feb 2025

  The English name honestly gave me the ick, but the show is really nice to watch and very relatable. It's awkward but there's a gentleness in there that I really appreciate. But I do think that it's a little too short for the number of stories that they wanted to tell, so every side story seems a bit on the surface level.

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  All the Long Nights 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 23 Dec 2024

  JFF 2024
  #5

  The moment they mentioned PMS and panic disorder, my expectations went up really high and those expectations weren't fully met. Don't get me wrong, the movie was good, but I guess I'd expected things to delve a lot deeper, especially on the PMS side, because I rarely get to see any portrayal of PMS in the media. But I do appreciate that they didn't make those two conditions the characters' whole personality and that they didn't make this story into a romantic one.

Popular reviews

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  MIU404 2020

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Feb 2023

  I love this one. The chemistry is superb. Both Hoshino Gen and Ayano Go played against type here and they've done very well, especially Ayano Go.
  I feel that this series, along with Unnatural (both written by Nogi Akiko and basically in the same universe) can be explored a lot more and I do hope to see more of them.

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  Weakest Beast 2018

  ★★★★ Watched 31 Oct 2021

  This show starts slow and continues to go slow until the end but every plot progresses and resolves nicely. Some people might find it boring but I think it's such a great one. I don't consider this a pure romance series, it's more of a life drama with romance because it deals with so much more than that. There's a lot of subtlety and complexity in the way they portray each character and their relationships. Some parts are quite frustrating…