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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction (2021)
Directed by Daihachi Yoshida
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Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others’, jobs.
Length 113 minutes
Actors
Yo Oizumi | Mayu Matsuoka | Koichi Sato | Hio Miyazawa | Elaiza Ikeda | Takumi Saito | Tomoya Nakamura | Yoshiyuki Tsubokura | Soko Wada | Kei Ishibashi | Yusaku Mori | Takenori Gotô | Hideki Nakano | Mariko Akama | Gaku Yamamoto | Shirô Sano | Lily Franky | Shinya Tsukamoto | Jun Kunimura | Yoshino Kimura | Satomi Kobayashi
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/17/2024 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
Where Anime Supremacy! is a serious take on the anime production industry, KIBA is a serious take on the serial magazine publishing industry, which is a much bigger industry in Japan (weekly publications are huge). And a similar premise where two mags are competing against each other. Knowing this would be serious it was easier to get into it (compared to the serious look at the anime industry). Overall, this is pretty good shining a light at how cutthroat it is even for competing mags under the same corporate roof.
There’s a whole weird stalker subplot with Elaiza Ikeda’s Saki character, who is the most interesting of the bunch (she’s into guns and writes under a pen name while being a fulltime model). Awesome to see Shinya Tsukamoto pop up here as the protag’s father. He’s terrific as usual in a small role. Jun Kunimura is typically great and a scene stealer. I’d love to have one of those Trinity Magazine posters w/Ikeda’s face on it. Looks like they produced a ton of them. Wonder if they just tossed them in the garbage afterwards.
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