Ikoku Nikki

Ikoku Nikki is one of those shows where I just know a lot of people won’t even give it a chance. You look at the genre and the Josei demographic, and it doesn’t sound “exciting.” And yea, I understand why. It’s not something you can casually put on in any mood; it requires emotional engagement. But if you give it that…

Ikoku Nikki is an anime that’ll get robbed and won’t even make it into the AOTY nominations. What’s notable is what the show doesn’t do. It doesn’t milk grief. The parents’ death exists, but it’s not weaponized. The loss is just there. It sits in the background and leaks into everything without being pushed in your…

This is a slice of life series that seemingly combines a somewhat atypical premise with a theme or topic that I’m fond of, so it became instantly interesting for me to check out. The second one is childcare, as in, an adult character seeing their life changing because they start to take care of a child, in the likes…