True Tears

Synopsis

Shinichiro is a student living in what would be a dream come true for most high school boys, but for him is mostly a frustration. A well liked girl in school named Hiromi has lived in his house for a year along with his family. Her father was a close friend of the family, and when he died they immediately took her in. She is popular and well liked, always smiles, is talented in sports- but Shinichiro knows there must be tears inside her. Having an artistic tendency, he makes watercolours of her and thinks about wishing to ease her tears. Yet he cannot bring up the nerve to talk to her even in his own home. She, too, is quiet and withdrawn in their house, quite unlike at school. Shinichiro is also distracted by teasing from his friend Nobuse for watching Hiromi from afar, a curse of bad luck from a strange girl named Noe, and being forced to perform Muhiga dancing. By helping Noe he hopes to ease his own problems, yet he seems to have difficulty helping himself.

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Cast

Makoto Ishii

Shinichiro Nakagami (voice)

Ayahi Takagaki

Noe Isurugi (voice)

Kaori Nazuka

Hiromi Yuasa (voice)

Yuka Iguchi

Aiko Ando (voice)

Hiroyuki Yoshino

Miyokichi Nobuse (voice)

Crew

Art

• Satoshi Namiki Assistant Director of Photography
• Satoshi Takabatake Art Designer
• Yusuke Takeda Art Direction
• Riko Shinohara Art Direction

Camera

• Toru Fukushi Director of Photography

Crew

• Masahiro Murakami Special Effects

Directing

• Junji Nishimura Series Director

Production

• Takayuki Nagatani Producer
• Kenji Horikawa Producer
• Yoshiyuki Ito Producer
• Ryosuke Hiramitsu Producer
• Mitsuhito Tsuji Line Producer

Sound

• Kazuhiro Wakabayashi Sound Director
• Shigeru Saito Music Producer
• Takahisa Ishino Sound Effects
• Aira Yuuki Theme Song Performance
• Toru Kadokura Sound Mixer
• Hajime Kikuchi Theme Song Performance
• Riya Theme Song Performance

Visual Effects

• Katsue Inoue Color Designer
• Yoshimasa Yamazaki CGI Director
• Kanami Sekiguchi Supervising Animation Director
• Kanami Sekiguchi Character Designer
• Yumehito Ueda Character Designer

Writing

• Mari Okada Series Composition

Seasons & episodes