#3-Gatsu no Lion

[thegoddamnhat]

there's nothing quite like a random piece of media you consumed ages ago and loved at the time but kinda forgot about after coming back to you years later absolutely out of nowhere like "you thought you could forget about me? don't worry! i'm here to be the only thing you care about yet again" and then the cycle repeats

it's fun but also painful because the intensity of the obsession revived makes it hard to focus on anything else like someone get these fictional people out of my head please

[tubzly]

practically uploading a whole episode but I think this ~8 minute clip encapsulates everything I love about March Comes in like a Lion (spoilers for episode 5.. can you spoil this?? does it count??) if you haven't seen this show and aren't sure if you'd like it, I would say watch this (again if you don't mind some spoilers)

hopefully this doesn't get taken down for copyright LOL

[shushuush]

Family

(Next slide is my reference :D)

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i get so excited about rei and nikaidou they are frolicking around inside my brain. yippee !!! hooray !!!

[obscureanimeoftheday]

Obscure Anime of The Day:

Sangatsu no Lion

Aired: 2016-2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Psychological, Romance, School, Seinen, Slice of Life, Sport

[setteidreams]

✿ 3-gatsu no Lion 2nd Season ┊ 69 sheets ✿

… a 2017 TV series with character designs by Nobuhiro Sugiyama has been added to Patreon.

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[twerg45]

excerpt from chapter 4 of the March comes in like a lion manga that I adore

anime adaptation version below the cut

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[haveyouseenthisanime-poll]

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group H Round 2: #H6 vs H4

#H6: Cozy slice of life about a high school girl with a camera

#H4: Teen Shogi prodigy grows up and battles his mental health

Details and poll under the cut!

#H6: Tamayura: Hitotose

Summary:

In her last year of middle school, Fuu Sawatari had trouble dealing with her emotions following the sudden death of her father. Through the help of her brother and childhood friend, she rediscovered her love for photography, an activity she and her father often did together. In addition, she decided to attend high school in Takehara, her father's hometown and a place they often visited when she was younger.

It has been one month now since Fuu moved to Takehara and became close with her current group of friends: carefree Kaoru Hanawa, excitable Norie Okazaki, and quiet Maon Sakurada. Together with them and several acquaintances around town and abroad, Fuu continues her mission of capturing the joys of everyday life using her father's camera, while also helping her friends discover their own passions.

Propaganda:

No stakes, only warmth. Tamayura: Hitotose is the single coziest anime I have ever watched. It is like Moomins or Studio Ghibli (without all the excitement), in that after watching it you feel like the greatest magic the world has ever known is a home-made bowl of soup, a trip to the mountains, a photograph of a memory. Which is all true. Animes like this teach you to live right, and that's why we need them. Also to teach us to be "more aggressivu!" If you ever have a really rough day/week/month/year/decade, let your soul be soothed and watch Tamayura: Hitotose.

Trigger Warnings: Unknown.

#H4: March Comes in Like a Lion (Sangatsu no Lion)

Summary:

Having reached professional status in middle school, Rei Kiriyama is one of the few elite in the world of shogi. Due to this, he faces an enormous amount of pressure, both from the shogi community and his adoptive family. Seeking independence from his tense home life, he moves into an apartment in Tokyo. As a 17-year-old living on his own, Rei tends to take poor care of himself, and his reclusive personality ostracizes him from his peers in school and at the shogi hall.

However, not long after his arrival in Tokyo, Rei meets Akari, Hinata, and Momo Kawamoto, a trio of sisters living with their grandfather who owns a traditional wagashi shop. Akari, the oldest of the three girls, is determined to combat Rei's loneliness and poorly sustained lifestyle with motherly hospitality. The Kawamoto sisters, coping with past tragedies, also share with Rei a unique familial bond that he has lacked for most of his life. As he struggles to maintain himself physically and mentally through his shogi career, Rei must learn how to interact with others and understand his own complex emotions.

Propaganda:

Sangatsu no Lion is a series that gets praise and has some awards, but it gets rarely talked about. It’s ranked highly on anime lists as being a good anime to watch, but there’s little fan engagement or video essays about it like other promising titles.

Maybe it's because the series is a slow-paced slice-of-life drama that goes over topics like mental health and the trauma of losing loved ones at a young age, and how those factors impacts the lead deeply.

Rei is a hard character to watch sometimes. He’s a doormat, shy and quiet, with crippling low self-esteem. He’s a social outcast. He puts a lot of burden on his own shoulders and blames himself for living up to people’s expectations. He’s a flawed and traumatized teenager forced to grow up too quickly.

Rei lives isolated, and that's how we're introduced to him. He has a strained relationship with his adoptive family. He has trouble interacting with his classmates. He has a few tentative friendships with the people he plays Shogi against, but Rei struggles to connect with others. It doesn't help that he feels pressured by the expectations placed on him as the fifth ever Shogi player to go pro in middle school, making him a prodigy. He's losing multiple matches and stagnating, struggling because of his mental health taking a downward spiral.

When Rei meets the Kawamoto girls, his life seems to get better. Rei initially doesn't want to get to close to the Kawamoto family for fear of rejection, but he ends up visiting often. With them, he receives the care and affection he never had in his foster home. He also learns to socialize and rely on others with his interactions with the Kawamotos, growing as a person.

Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Mild child neglect from adopted family, death of birth family, healing from mental health issues.

The plot revolves around Rei and him trying to cope with the stress of life and growing as a person. A part of this is him having to make peace with the trauma of losing his biological family and having a strained relationship with his adoptive family, who are neglectful and bitter towards him. The anime overall goes over Rei healing from his mental health issues, including battling his anxiety and issues with self-worth.

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[tubzly]

more excerpt posting for myself from March comes in like a lion (Chapter 22)

(skipping a few pages) (spoilers? I guess?)

(after he gets taken to the kawamoto's house)

[maidoftheday]

Today’s Maid of the Day: Momo Kawamoto from 3-gatsu no Lion

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THE SUN AND THE MOON!!!!!!

[silveranimefan]

Today's Manga: "March Comes in Like a Lion" ("Sangatsu no Lion") by Chica Umino

-Localization: Denpa, LLC. -Translation: Jocelyne Allen -Proofreading: Varrick Robinson -Production: Glen Isip, Nicole Dochych, Risa Cho