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The following features a discussion of suicide and self-harm. It also contains spoilers for Oshi no Ko Episode 6, "Egosurfing."

Oshi no Ko's recent episode has caused mixed reactions among viewers in Japan for the same reason it has received positive reception.

Since the airing of Episode 6, "Egosurfing," many viewers have drawn parallels between what happened to Akane Kurokawa in Oshi no Ko to the real-life tragedy and death of pro-wrestler Hana Kimura as both have been victims of cyberbullying after participating in a reality show. As reported by Yahoo! Japan article, Kimura's mother, Kyoko Kimura, was upset, not at the story itself and how it had similar aspects to what happened to Hana, but at how the slanderous comments used in the episode seemed to take from the Tweets directed at her daughter before she died. Kimura's mother said she despised how her daughter's death was treated as source material to sell the anime.

Bored yet? Depending on where you are in the world, you’ll be at varying stages of lockdown fatigue. Luckily, though, there’s always new content to occupy you just around the corner. Like, for instance, these new movies and TV shows coming to Netflix this week. Hooray, no more boredom.

Here’s the day by day list of what’s arriving on the streaming service between April 6th and April 12th…

April 6th:

Bleach (New Season) Mine 9 (2019) The Big Show Show (Season 1) The Florida Project (2017)

April 7th:

Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 (Part 3) The Ghost Who Walks (2019)

April 9th:

Hi Score Girl (Season 2) The Circle France (Season 1)

April 10th:

Brews Brothers (Season 1) La Originals (2020) Love Wedding Repeat (2020) School Life (2019) The Main Event (2020) The Trial (Season 1) Tigertail (2020) Time to Hunt (2020)

April 11th:

Code 8 (2019)

Ok, so it’s not the most dazzling batch of titles Netflix have ever added to their platform.

Netflix is about to make your next month of social distancing a whole lot easier.

On Tuesday, the streaming service announced all the movies and shows coming to the platform in April, and it’s jam-packed with content to keep you busy while you’re stuck at home thanks to coronavirus.

Go on a family adventure with The Willoughbys (available April 22), an animated comedy featuring the voices of Alessia Cara, Maya Rudolph, Terry Crews, and Ricky Gervais, or watch hilarious baking fails on Nailed It!: Season 4, available April 1.

Other highlights next month include Never Have I Ever (available April 27), a coming-of-age comedy series,...

Netflix released lists of its most popular content in Japan, Korea, India and Malaysia on Monday, showing that a mix of American shows and local language content best captured hearts and eyeballs in Asia this year — with Michael Bay’s “6 Underground” the only title that proved a top hit in all territories.

Netflix said the most-watched lists had been made by tallying the number of accounts that had streamed at least two minutes of the content in question during its first 28 days on the platform in 2019.

In Japan, five out of ten of the top ten works of the year are Netflix originals. Three are animated, while a fourth is a live-action adaptation of an anime. The top-viewed content was the semi-biographical live-action Japanese-language series “The Naked Director,” which chronicles Japan’s porn industry in the 1980s through the story of real-life, controversial adult video director Toru Muranishi, played by Takayuki Yamada.