True Tears (2008-2008)

Premiere:
January 6, 2008

# of Seasons: 1

# of Episodes: 13

Finale:
March 30, 2008

Original Title:
true tears

Alternate Titles:
Lágrimas verdaderas
True Tears
Turū Tiāzu
トゥルー ティアーズ
真實之淚 true tears

Genres:
Animation | Drama

Production Companies:
Bandai Visual
Lantis
P.A.WORKS

Countries:
JP

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 She, too, is quiet and withdrawn in their house, quite unlike at school.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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Art Designer:
Satoshi Takabatake

Art Direction:
Yusuke Takeda
Riko Shinohara

Assistant Director of Photography:
Satoshi Namiki

CGI Director:
Yoshimasa Yamazaki

Character Designer:
Kanami Sekiguchi
Yumehito Ueda

Color Designer:
Katsue Inoue

Director of Photography:
Tooru Fukushi

Line Producer:
Mitsuhito Tsuji

Music Producer:
Shigeru Saito

Producer:
Takayuki Nagatani
Kenji Horikawa
Yoshiyuki Ito
Ryosuke Hiramitsu

Series Composition:
Mari Okada

Series Director:
Junji Nishimura

Sound Director:
Kazuhiro Wakabayashi

Sound Effects:
Takahisa Ishino

Sound Mixer:
Toru Kadokura

Special Effects:
Masahiro Murakami

Supervising Animation Director:
Kanami Sekiguchi

Theme Song Performance:
Aira Yuuki
Hajime Kikuchi
Riya

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