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Release Date:
October 11, 2019
Original Title:
空の青さを知る人よ
Alternate Titles:
Here Blue Sky
Here, Blue Sky
SORAAO
Sora no Aosa o Shiru Hito yo
The Person Who Knows How Blue the Sky Is
Genres:
Animation | Romance
Production Companies:
Aniplex
CloverWorks
Fuji Television Network
KADOKAWA
Story
TOHO
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 6 ES: 12 ID: 13+ JP: G RU: 12+ SG: PG
Runtime: 108
High school student Aoi Aioi lives with her elder sister, Akane, after a tragic accident took their parents away 13 years ago. Because Akane has since been taking care of her single-handedly, Aoi wants to move to Tokyo after her graduation to relieve her sister's burden and pursue a musical career, inspired by Akane's ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke "Shinno" Kanamuro. Shinno was part of a band until he left for Tokyo to become a professional guitarist after the sisters' parents passed away, and he was never to be seen again.
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Animation Director:
Ai Yukimura
Masayoshi Tanaka
Koji Odate
Saki Takahashi
Kazutaka Sugiyama
Sachiko Tsuji
Akira Takata
Kanako Ueda
Art Direction:
Takashi Nakamura
Assistant Editor:
Misato Takikawa
Background Designer:
Toshiyuki Sakae
Hiroyuki Nemoto
Akemi Ito
Kimiko Kubo
Shiori Iwashige
Mayumi Okabe
Noriko Ooishi
Kaede Iizuka
Kaori Fujii
Tsutomu Ishigaki
Ayumi Takasaki
Hayato Sakama
Osamu Tayama
Sachi Takahashi
Shinji Matsuura
Nami Maniwa
Chiho Wada
Misaki Ono
Kaori Masaki
Sakura Yamamoto
Shuta Yuasa
Mao Miyake
Takuya Sato
Mizuki Oguro
Hiroyuki Hasegawa
Nanae Soji
Moe Kumamoto
Hiroshi Kanno
Kohei Kobayashi
Masaru Sato
Bui Minh Phuoc
Huynh Ngoc Long
Nguyen Thi Nguyet Hieu
Nguyen Thi Thu Hoa
Dang Hai Phi
Do Thi My Thanh
CGI Director:
Hiroyuki Moriyama
Character Designer:
Masayoshi Tanaka
Color Designer:
Kazuko Nakashima
Compositing Artist:
Hiroyuki Moriyama
Naho Hasegawa
Shota Harada
Shota Kodera
Yu Akiyama
Yuki Oshima
Kosuke Nakanishi
Hiroki Takano
Daichi Nogami
Choi Seung-goo
Mutsuki Aoki
Satomi Okuhara
Ke Luan
Haruhi Goto
Kenta Hayashi
Maki Yamaguchi
Kenji Takahashi
Wakana Moriya
Misako Otsu
Chiyuki Kojima
Hikaru Yamamoku
Noriyuki Murakami
Iori Ogawa
Mayuko Fukazawa
Koki Fujiwara
Minako Maeda
Naoki Ishikawa
Director:
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Director of Photography:
Hiroyuki Moriyama
Editor:
Shigeru Nishiyama
Executive Producer:
Atsuhiro Iwakami
Ryu Utsui
Minami Ichikawa
Yoshihiro Furusawa
Shinichirou Inoue
Akira Shimizu
Foley Artist:
Masafumi Watanabe
Foley Editor:
Keisuke Sogo
Key Animation:
Koji Maruoka
Saeko Oofuji
Ai Yukimura
Masato Anno
Kazuyuki Asaka
Takayuki Kikuchi
Yuri Ichinose
Nao Naito
Tadashi Sakazaki
Mitsuko Baba
Masayoshi Tanaka
Koji Odate
Saki Takahashi
Kazutaka Sugiyama
Sachiko Tsuji
Kanako Ueda
Hiroyuki Terao
Atsushi Saito
Takayuki Onoda
Yaeko Watanabe
Takashi Torii
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Makoto Makabe
Shouta Sannomiya
Hiroko Watanabe
Iwao Teraoka
Tatsuya Mizuno
Tomomi Kawatsuma
Manami Umeshita
Yoshiaki Taniguchi
Kana Miyai
Michio Hasegawa
Yuuma Yokomatsu
Masahiko Ozawa
Reina Kawasaki
Kouhei Yamazaki
Kim Kyung-eun
Tomoko Ito
Aika Kawasaki
Jun Yamazaki
Youichi Shimizu
Tomoko Nitta
Moeka Kuga
Aiko Komamoto
Haruka Tsuzuki
Tatsuaki Okamoto
Hisako Tsurukubo
Tomoya Kosakai
Hiroki Itoh
Osamu Sakata
Iori Nonoshita
Yuriko Ishii
Keigo Sasaki
Atsushi Nishigori
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Shuichi Seki
Online Editor:
Ayaka Minami
Tetsuro Tsukada
Orchestrator:
Kana Hashiguchi
Original Music Composer:
Masaru Yokoyama
Original Story:
Mari Okada
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Masayoshi Tanaka
Producer:
Noriko Ozaki
Narumi Odagiri
Shunsuke Saitou
Hiroyuki Shimizu
Genki Kawamura
Production Assistant:
Shinnosuke Awano
Munehiro Kakuda
Akira Nagata
Production Supervisor:
Mikihiro Iwata
Prop Designer:
Shouta Iwasaki
Screenplay:
Mari Okada
Second Unit Director:
Miyuki Kuroki
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Sound Director:
Jin Aketagawa
Sound Effects:
Rei Ueno
Sound Mixer:
Nobuhiro Negishi
Special Effects:
Tasuku Ishibashi
Storyboard Artist:
Tatsuyuki Nagai
Supervising Animation Director:
Masayoshi Tanaka
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