WBand-Maiko is a first extended play by Japanese rock group Band-Maid. It was released on April 3, 2019, by Revolver Records. In the EP, their maiko costumes and the music with Kyoto dialect lyrics and wagakki became a very popular topic of discussion.
WThe Eccentric Family is a Japanese novel written by Tomihiko Morimi, originally published by Gentosha in 2007, with a sequel published in 2015. An anime television series adaptation based on the first book aired from July to September 2013 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. A second season based on the second book aired from April to June 2017.
WKiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House</ref> is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Aiko Koyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine since December 2016, with its chapters collected in eighteen tankōbon volumes as of October 2021. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff premiered worldwide in February 2021 on NHK World, and it was followed by a Japanese broadcast on NHK E in October of the same year. As of March 2020, the manga had 1 million copies in circulation. In 2020, the manga won the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category.
WRurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc is a series of two original video animations created by Studio Deen that retell the Kyoto arc of Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga Rurouni Kenshin. The story focuses on the young Oniwabanshu Makimashi Misao who encounters the protagonist, the wanderer Himura Kenshin, who is on a quest to defeat the forces of his hitokiri successor Shishio Makoto.
WRurouni Kenshin: Reflection is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) which serves as a sequel to the Rurouni Kenshin anime television series, an adaptation of the manga series of the same name created by Nobuhiro Watsuki. It was produced by Studio Deen, directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and written by Reiko Yoshida and released in Japan from December 19, 2001 to March 20, 2002.
WRurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal, known in Japan as Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Rōman Tan- Tsuioku-hen , is an original video animation (OVA) series, based on the Rurouni Kenshin manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki, and it is a prequel to the anime television series adaptation of the same name. Trust & Betrayal chronicles the story of Himura Kenshin as the Hitokiri Battōsai during the final years of the Bakumatsu era while also revealing the origins of his cross-shaped scar and exploring his relationship with a woman named Yukishiro Tomoe.
WThe Tatami Galaxy is a 2004 Japanese campus novel written by Tomihiko Morimi and published by Ohta Publishing. Its first-person narrator is an unnamed upperclassman at a Kyoto university reminiscing on the misadventures of his previous years of campus life, with each of the four chapters taking place in parallel universes in which he is enrolled in a different university society.
WThe Scarlet School Trip is the 290th story arc of the Japanese manga series Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan in Japan. The arc was published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine between August and September 2017 in issues 37 to 44 and consisted of 6 chapters. The individual chapters were then collected into tankōbon volumes 94 and 95 which were released in Japan on December 18, 2017 and October 18, 2018 respectively. The majority were encapsulated into the 94th volume which became the 14th best selling manga in the first half of 2018.