A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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 She, too, is quiet and withdrawn in their house, quite unlike at school.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.
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:
Toru Fukushi
Line Producer:
Mitsuhito Tsuji
Music Producer:
Shigeru Saito
Producer:
Kenji Horikawa
Yoshiyuki Ito
Ryosuke Hiramitsu
Takayuki Nagatani
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
Riya
Hajime Kikuchi
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