Underplayed Gems

Aoi Honō (2014)

Aoi Honō poster
Directed by
Fukuda Yuichi
Cast
Yagira Yuya, Yasuda Ken, Nakamura Tomoya, Muro Tsuyoshi, Sato Jiro, Kawakubo Takuji, Uechi Haruna, Endo Kaname
Genre
school anime and manga
Country
Japan
Length
11 episodes
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A college student struggles with his creative ambitions while attending art school. His daily life is filled with energetic classmates and chaotic misadventures.

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What happens

Aoi Honō (アオイホノオ; lit. 'Blue Blazes') is a Japanese coming-of-age manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiko Shimamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from March 2007 to July 2008, when the magazine ceased its publication; a chapter was published in YS Special in October 2008, before being transferred to Shogakukan's then-brand-new shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009. Aoi Honō is a fictionalized account of Shimamoto's time as a student at the Osaka University of Arts, which he attended alongside Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai. It was adapted into a television drama series, titled Blue Fire in English, that aired from July to October 2014. The drama was streamed on Viki with English subtitles. The real Takami Akai and Hiroyuki Yamaga make cameos in the television series: Akai plays a bathhouse manager in episode 10, while Yamaga plays the bartender at a restaurant where his counterpart passes out (which, according to Yamaga, is based on an actual incident) in episode 7. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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