Boys Love (BL) continues to go strong through summer 2022 and beyond

In the past few years alone we’ve seen series such as Pornographer/The Novelist, ever-loved Given, popular manga adaptation Kieta Hatsukoi/My Love Mix-Up!, Utsukushii Kare/My Beautiful Man, and “hit of the read more

PD-RADAR: Our readers’ “NEXT BREAK” stars for 2022 have been decided

“Which young Japanese movie/drama stars do you think will get their ‘break’ in the next year?” That was the question we’ve been asking our readers since early November 2021, and read more

A new generation is coming, so keeping only a single few favorites will be hard if not impossible (Part4)

It’s been a while since we’ve added to our long and clearly never-ending list – I mean, we have four (1/2/3/4) articles filled with them by now + one actress read more

April 10th is Sibling day? That calls for some famous acting siblings!

“12nin no Shinitai Kodomotachi” (2019) – a murder mystery gone a different route

What happens when you put 12 suicidal teens in a building together, when all they hope for is never coming back? 12nin no Shinitai Kodomotachi (12nin), or literally Twelve Children Who read more