Here at HOM, both of us were diligently following the fall anime Yuri on Ice!!!!! We decided to do an end of season follow-up joint post about half-way through the anime. We didn’t realize at the time how massive the fan following would become. According to this poll and this poll, it ended up being the most popular anime...

LDK is currently running in Betsufure, or Bessatsu Friend, a magazine published by Kodansha. It began publication in 2009 and is currently up to 21 tankobans in Japan.  In April 2014, it was nominated for the 38th Kodansha manga award for best shojo manga. We recently got word that it will be coming to a conclusion soon in Japan and...

Zutto Mae Kara Suki Deshita: Kokuhaku Jikkou Iinkai (I’ve Always Liked You: Confess Your Love Committee) is a little over an hour long animated movie that tells the story of a group of high school friends and their struggles with love confessions. The story is based on a light novel and music project by HoneyWorks, previously know for their...

That Wolf-Boy is Mine!, adapted from Watashi no Ookami-kun, is a four volume shoujo manga by Yoko Nogiri that ran in Aria manga magazine from August 2014 to March 2016. The series is being published in North America by Kodansha USA and the first volume came out in August 2016. The Gist: Kusonoki Komugi lives with her mother in...

Chihayafuru is a series I’ve wanted to read for a long time. I asked many years ago about it getting licensed, but I was told that it was too esoteric of a subject matter to appeal to a broad audience.  I’ve watched the anime, but that doesn’t cover the whole story. So I’ve started picking it up in Japanese....