Shizuka Ishibashi – MRQE

Nagi Notes

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect, travels from Tokyo to visit her friend and former sister-in-law, both women find themselves at a crossroad, each searching for ways to let go of the past and define their identities. Yuri’s brief escape from the city settles into a quiet confrontation of loss and probing for the two women in bucolic Nagi.

Anoko wa kizoku

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hanako Haibara was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20’s, she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry. Miki Tokioka was born in a province. She studied very hard and entered a prestigious university in Tokyo. She experienced difficult financial times, but she now works at an IT company. Due to a man, Hanako Haibara and Miki Tokioka meet each other.

Tezuka’s Barbara

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka’s reimagining of “The Tales of Hoffmann”. Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named “Barbara”.

Kimi no tori wa utaeru

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With a contagious sense of abandon, three young adults lives become intimately entangled over the course of a long summer in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

Yozora wa itsudemo saikô mitsudo no aoiro da

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky. Can loneliness be experienced together?

Rakuen

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.