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Now showing — “CHILDHOOD” · 5 works

  • From Up on Poppy Hill Anime · 2010s

    Meet Kaito Takagi, your typical high schooler with a low profile. He spends his days exploring dungeons in Japan, hunting slimes for some extra cash. On the side, he quietly admires his childhood friend, the popular girl in class. One day, a rare golden slime shows up, and after Kaito defeats it, he finds a super va...

    PowerFolkloreIdentity
  • Ivan's Childhood Film · 1960s

    Ivan's Childhood is a 1962 film from Soviet Union, associated with Andrei Tarkovsky. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • Never Have I Ever Television · 2020s

    Never Have I Ever is an American comedy-drama television series starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. Though it takes place in the San Fernando Valley, the show has been reported to be loosely based on Kaling's childhood experiences in the Boston area, while Kaling herself has said...

    PowerIdentitySurveillance
  • Kids on the Slope Anime · 2010s

    Introverted classical pianist and top student Kaoru Nishimi has just arrived in Kyushu for his first year of high school. Having constantly moved from place to place since his childhood, he abandons all hope of fitting in, preparing himself for another lonely, meaningless year. That is, until he encounters the notor...

    IdentityPowerUrban isolation
  • Wandering Son Anime · 2010s

    Effeminate fifth grader Shuuichi Nitori is considered by most to be one of the prettiest girls in school, but much to her dismay, she is actually biologically male. Fortunately, Shuuichi has a childhood friend who has similar feelings of discomfort related to gender identity: the lanky tomboy Yoshino Takatsuki, who,...

    IdentityPowerFolklore
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  • Music Has the Right to Children Music
  • Childhood Music
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  • Never Have I Ever Television
  • From Up on Poppy Hill Anime