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Recommendations from Iwamoto-Senpai
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Taito Ban
Kodo Iwamoto (voice)
12 eps
Yuki Sakakihara
Kai Haramachi (voice)
12 eps
Kent Ito
Soichiro Amaha (voice)
12 eps
Akira Ishida
Bokyo Kizujo (voice)
12 eps
Masaya Fukunishi
Oni Okuaki (voice)
12 eps
Takuma Nagatsuka
Shizuma Aonuma (voice)
12 eps
Gen Sato
Ryu Sazame (voice)
12 eps
Shinnosuke Tokudome
Mizuhi Awadama (voice)
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Recommendations from Iwamoto-Senpai actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Recommendations from Iwamoto-Senpai reads strongest on World Building, Spectacle and Cliffhanger Intensity.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
1910s, Japan. A town with mysterious black snow. Kodo Iwamoto, a student at a military school dedicated to studying the paranormal, is sent to investigate. There, he meets a boy who believes he’s sick, but Kodo recognizes the illness as something else: supernatural abilities. Kodo recruits the boy to the school and sets off across the country, chasing mysteries and searching for others like him.
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The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Cinematography
- Ken AzetsuboDirector of Photography
Music
- Yoshiaki DewaOriginal Music Composer
- Toru IshitsukaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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