Exit (Takami FUJITA) - Recommendations

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2009

Yukihisa Matsuda is the conceited conductor of the Rising Star Orchestra, who has come to Paris to show off his "superior skills". However, despite his best laid plans and supreme self confidence, Yukihisa is in for a night from hell. After being unceremoniously dumped in front of Chiaki, the young lethario drags his unwilling rival out to a restaurant with the false premise of teaching him the way to be successful in an orchestra. Following an embarrassing meeting with Nodame, Yukihisa finds himself back on the street alone thinking that surely his evening can’t possibly get any worse...

• TV (12 eps)
• 2019

Haruma Riku begins high school with no future in sight. Then, in a passing glance, his attention is captured by the wild, animal-like movements of a student on the school's athletic field. He jumps higher, runs faster, and tries harder than anyone Riku has ever seen. That student is Kariya Akira, and the sport he plays is the one Riku attempted in the past but gave up: rugby. As he watches Akira running in a rough, unrefined gait, Riku gives him a bit of advice without thinking, and those words end up setting his passion for rugby alight again. With this first encounter between these two young men, one tactical and the other physical, a new light begins to shine on Riku's future.

• DVD Special (1 ep)
• 2010

Chiaki and Nodame are in Vienna to meet with Stresemann, but there’s just one problem: the perverted conductor has eluded his agent and fled the country back to Japan! With their plans for the trip officially cancelled, the pair, along with Kiyora, Jean and Yuko, decides to go sightseeing instead. As Kiyora spends more time with the two couples, she begins to miss her own boyfriend, Ryuutaro, and wishes she could see him again. Luckily, the young and energetic violinist has managed to make it to Paris to see Kiyora perform at the latest competition, but how will she fare, and will the pair finally be reunited?

• TV (12 eps)
• 2012

Lonely Kaoru Nishimi has lost count of how many times he has moved schools thanks to his father's naval career. Newly landed in Kyushu, he finds most of his classmates instantly antagonistic towards him and suspicious of his elite background. Only two other students seem not to mind who he is – the infamously abrasive Sentarou and the gentle Ritsuko. Unbeknownst to Kaoru they have a passion for jazz, and they're about to pull him out of his stiff, joyless world into theirs of loose, swinging self-expression. Through friendship and frustration, love and despair, Kaoru will learn that life has a wealth of experiences in store for him!

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2016

Sanpei is a boy beekeeper and the sole survivor of an accident that killed his entire family. Sanpei meets Chiyo, a girl who gets stung by a bee, and starts a new life in her village. Eventually, Sanpei cultivates the land that the villagers had abandoned, and then disappears. In the land now filled with flowers, Chiyo waits, believing Sanpei will return.

• Other (20 eps)
• 2018

30-year-old housewife Azu Takamori has opened a nail salon. She feels her husband Junpei does not love her as a woman, but goes about her daily life as normal. Then, Junpei's adultery comes to light.

• TV (10 eps)
• 2008

One day, Rahzel's father decides that she should go on a journey and see the world, so he does the only reasonable thing – he kicks her out of the house! However, Rahzel is an optimist and decides to find a traveling partner, and within minutes she stumbles upon the beautiful silver haired red-eyed Alzeid. Rahzel tells Alzeid that she will free him from his boring life and take him on a fun and wonderful adventure. Joined by a mysterious yet lecherous muscle head named Baroqueheat, the travelers head out without a destination in mind, seeking enjoyment and fulfillment, and encountering friends and enemies at every turn.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1994

• TV (13 eps)
• 2006

Lemon Angel used to be a popular band in Japan, until a year ago; at that time, all of the members of the band, except for Miki Suwa, mysteriously disappeared. In the present, Tomo Minaguchi is a first year high school student who was friends with Lemon Angel’s song writer, Yui Kono, before she passed away. When music producer Ryuuta Kogure approaches her to audition for a new Lemon Angel group, Tomo agrees in order to fulfill Yui’s wish. The competition is fierce – will Tomo have what it takes to become the newest member of Lemon Angel?

• TV (3+ eps)
• 2024 - ?

The third season of Sound! Euphonium.