Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s NHRV Staff Contest.  We now have the difficult task of picking the winners.  We hope to have an announcement in the next few days, but this year’s decision might take a little longer than usual owing to the high quality of applications we’ve received this time, so […]

Japan’s idealized vision of Paris and French culture has been observed and sometimes results in an affliction known as Paris syndrome. This idealization manifests in the lovingly-rendered city of Paris in one of our latest reviews for the Ikoku Meiro no Croisée anime, which turns out to be a good iyashikei anime.
C3 is anything but […]

The Staff Contest is still ongoing, but there’s only nine days left to get your entry in, so for those of you who are thinking about being a part of our exciting young (sort of) team, now is the right time to get your application in order.
We have two new anime reviews today: Squid Girl […]

Take off the words “seventy” and “trombones” from the title and you get the ratings for our two newest reviews today! (Free cookies for everyone who gets the reference.) First up we have Sorrow-kun’s Tamayura: Hitotose review, which notes that, despite the director of the series being the one who did ARIA the Animation, it […]

This year’s NHRV Staff Contest has now officially started. We’re looking for two new staff members to help us with writing anime and live action reviews and/or contributing to the Behind The Nihon Review blog. Applications will be open until Monday, 6 February, so if you’ve ever contemplated joining the NHRV staff, submit […]