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Some anime soundtracks are perfect to listen to while studying because their mellow instrumentals and soothing themes promote focus. Doraemon's extensive soundtrack and movies offer diverse songs perfect for studying. "Stand By Me 2" has standout tracks for study sessions. Chihayafuru's soundtrack, resembling a quiet autumn, features high-tension instrumentals and light opening and ending themes.

The best anime soundtracks to listen to while studying will provide a variety of vibes, from creating zone-in rhythms to soothing instrumentals. Furthermore, the comprehensive soundtracks will provide songs that are fit for all types of study, as different students work best under different situations, such as one who can’t focus when listening to lyrics, or one who thrives with upbeat tempos.

For the most part, slow, mellow, but focused music is what works best for students. When considering which series or studios fit this model best, one name comes to the forefront: Studio Ghibli.

Nowadays, parody entertainment tends to get a bad reputation due to the excessive amount of atrocious spoof movies released, particularly out of Hollywood. Features that are painfully unfunny, merely cashing in on the success of what is popular then and simultaneously coming off as insulting, have almost become a cursed tradition in modern filmmaking. Sadly, a commendable art form such as tokusatsu entertainment has frequently fallen into this trap. Yet, if remarkable talents such as Mel Brooks have proven anything, it's that parody projects can be good. They can also come from a place of love of the material being reimagined for comedic effect. The internet has even seen its fair share of funny parodying of popular properties. A recent example is Yoko Higuchi's fun non-profit short film “Everydayman: A Fantasy Tokusatsu Parody.”

Yoko Higuchi is an independent filmmaker and cinephile, frequently active online, sharing his admiration for the art of filmmaking.

Shunsuke Kikuchi, the composer for the popular “Dragon Ball” anime series, died on Saturday at a medical facility in Tokyo, according to the Japanese music industry outlet Oricon News. He was 89.

According to Oricon, Kikuchi was undergoing medical treatment for aspirational pneumonia.

Kikuchi began his composing career in the 1960s, and the first film he worked on was 1961’s “The Eighth Enemy.” He went on compose the music and theme songs for several long-running anime series and TV dramas into the 2010s.

The Japanese anime “Dragon Ball,” produced by Toei Animation, premiered in 1986, and Kikuchi composed the music for the series, which gained massive popularity around the world. He also joined the sequel series “Dragon Ball Z” in 1989, a follow-up movie and the remastered series “Dragon Ball Z Kai,” and composed the music for them as well.

Some of his other composing credits include “The Unfettered Shogun (Abarengō Shōgun),” the theme song for “Doraemon,...

Due to the strong impression left on the first film, the same creative crew returned for this brazen and highly-enjoyable follow-up that carries on the sensational adventures of detective Li Koryu. Rushed to theaters three months after the original, this wild and utterly frenzied sequel is now part of the complete Sister Street Fighter Collection released by Arrow Films on March 5 in a 2-disc Blu-Ray set.

After a detective is killed, detective Li Koryu is assigned to look into the case involving the diamond smuggler Kazushige Osone who lives in Japan. After arriving in Yokohama and meeting her sister Li Ban-lan (Tamayo Mitsukawa), Koryu immediately finds herself in the bosses’ crosshairs, as he carries out a scheme involving the smuggling of diamonds from Hong Kong to Japan inside the bodies of prostitutes and then being removed, of which her friend Birei (Hisako Tanaka) is included in. Forced...