4 anime that help you understand about Japanese culture

Kabukibu! (カブキブ!?) is a light novel series written by Yūri Eda, with illustrations by Ishinoya. The series began on August 24, 2013 and has since collected five volumes, published by Kadokawa Shoten as of December 2016. The series is about Kurogo Kurusu, a boy who is obsessed with kabuki and decides to form a kabuki club at his high school. A manga adaptation by Chizu Kamiko is being serialized on Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace since March 2017. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Studio Deen (with original character designs by CLAMP) has been set to premiere on April 6, 2017.

Hikaru no Go (ヒカルの碁?, lit. "Hikaru's Go") is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go, written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1998 to 2003, with the chapters collected into 23 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha.

It was adapted into an anime television series by Studio Pierrot, that ran for 75 episodes from 2001 to 2003 on TV Tokyo, with a New Year's Special aired in January 2004. Viz Media released both the manga and anime in North America; they serialized the manga in Shonen Jump in addition to releasing its collected volumes in entirety, while the anime aired on ImaginAsian in addition to a DVD release that was cancelled prematurely.

Hikaru no Go was well-received, with over 25 million copies in circulation and winning the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003. It is largely responsible for popularizing Go among the youth of Japan since its debut,[1] and considered by Go players everywhere to have sparked worldwide interest in the game, noticeably increasing the Go-playing population around the globe.

March Comes in like a Lion (Japanese: 3月のライオン Hepburn: Sangatsu no Raion?, lit. March Lion; alternatively called Sangatsu no Lion or 3gatsu no Lion) is an ongoing manga series by Chica Umino, best known for Honey and Clover.[1][2] It began serialization in Hakusensha's seinen manga magazine Young Animal from its fourteenth issue in 2007 (published on July 13, 2007).[3]

Hakusensha aired a television commercial announcing the series on numerous Japanese television stations, also posting it on its official website.[1] Twelve tankōbon volumes of the series have been released as of January 2017. A television anime adaptation by Shaft premiered on October 8, 2016 on NHK.[4][5][6] A two-part live action film adaptation of the same name is scheduled for release in March and April 2017.

Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (昭和元禄落語心中 Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū?, lit. "Shōwa Genroku Era, Rakugo, and Double Suicide") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruko Kumota. It began serialization in Kodansha's ITAN magazine in 2010.[1] The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha Comics USA. The manga was adapted into two original video animations which were bundled with special editions of the seventh and eighth manga volumes on March 6 and August 7, 2015, respectively.[1][2] It was also adapted into a television anime series which premiered on January 9, 2016.[3] A second season of the television anime series premiered on January 7, 2017