Usagi-tei

Tubi has all 75 episodes of Bakuman free with ads in the US; the services you would guess first do not carry it. Season 1 is 25 episodes from the Death Note authors, where the sport is drawing manga and the scoreboard is a weekly reader survey. Plus the one character I never warmed to.

Attack on Titan: The Final Season streams on Crunchyroll and Hulu in the US, not Netflix. All 28 episodes, split into 16 for Part 1 and 12 for Part 2, and the opening one drops you into somebody else’s war with none of the cast you know. Here is what the season is doing, and why its first stretch loses people.

Attack on Titan Season 3 streams on Crunchyroll and Hulu in the US, not Netflix. All 22 episodes, and for the first 12 the Survey Corps barely fights a Titan. Here is what the Uprising arc is actually doing, and why I called this season a perfect story right up until I read what came after it.

Sing has left Netflix in the US, and no subscription carries it for now. A view from Japan, where the dub re-recorded every song: why a playlist of pop standards carries the film, and the practice montage it never shows.

In Japan this film is called Hiccup and the Dragon, and that title is the more accurate one. Where to stream the 2010 DreamWorks original in the US, and why the boy never gets stronger.

Pixar’s Up is famous for its wordless first ten minutes. Watched from Japan, they read as a run-up rather than a peak. Where the film streams in the US as of August 2026, and the one thing it gets wrong.

In Japan, Woody has had the same voice for 30 years. A look back at the first fully computer-animated feature: where it streams now, and what holds up at 81 minutes.

The Summer Hikaru Died streams only on Netflix. A rural Japanese summer turned into a horror device, a village that says nothing, and 12 episodes that end with the questions still open.

A kid joins professional sumo purely for the money and ends up falling for the sport itself. Sanctuary streams only on Netflix. A review of all eight episodes, and why episode 7 is worth the run-up.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure (1997) has left the Criterion Channel and is rent-only in the US. What Mamiya does, what the last scene means, and why every killer in it is an ordinary working adult.