Tsuki_ga_Kirei

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Tsuki ga Kirei

Japanese anime television series


Tsuki ga Kirei (月がきれい, transl. As the Moon, So Beautiful.[lower-alpha 1]) is a Japanese romance anime television series produced by Feel. It originally aired from April 6 to June 29, 2017.[3] Crunchyroll has licensed the series in North America.[4]

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As a coming-of-age contemporary romance, the story follows the lives of two junior high school students, Akane and Kotarō, who fall in love for the first time and struggle to maintain their relationship.

Plot

Kotaro Azumi and Akane Mizuno become third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. They are put in charge of the equipment for a sports festival and slowly grow closer via LINE. These two, along with fellow students Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers through mutual understandings and feelings. As their final year at junior high school progresses, the group overcome their challenges to mature and become aware of changes in themselves.

Characters

Main

Kotarō Azumi (安曇 小太郎, Azumi Kotarō)
Voiced by: Shōya Chiba[5] (Japanese); Stephen Sanders[6] (English)
Student of class 3-1 who belongs to the literature club. He's aiming to become a novelist and respects Osamu Dazai. He generally has a calm and composed attitude. He initially is too embarrassed to show his novels to others, but upon learning Akane's love for running and openness to use embarrassment as a method of improving oneself, he begins to open up. From early childhood, Kotarō has received instruction in the performance of traditional dance and festival music accompaniment, Hayashi, at a local Shinto shrine. He secretly starts dating Akane, but later let Takumi know about this secret.
When Akane is forced to move to Chiba due to her father's work, Kotarō tries to get into the same school as her, despite his parents' objections, but is unsuccessful. He is unable to see Akane off on her moving day, but he publishes an online story promising to love her forever. Despite their long-distance relationship, they are still in contact with each other and visit each other. The final shot at the end of the anime shows them married with a child years later.
Akane Mizuno (水野 茜, Mizuno Akane)
Voiced by: Konomi Kohara[5] (Japanese); Apphia Yu[6] (English)
Student of class 3-1 who belongs to the track and field club. She's an easy going character, but can be self-conscious and timid at times. When feeling nervous, she would squeeze her potato mascot plushie. Akane moved to Kawagoe, Saitama when she was a fifth grader in Primary school. She secretly starts dating Kotarō, but later reveals this to Chinatsu and Takumi, who inform the class about that.
When she is forced to relocate to Chiba due to her father's work, she becomes anxious over her future relationship with Kotarō, but cheers him on as he tries to get into the same school as her. When Kotarō fails to get in, she again becomes anxious, however she finds new hope when she reads his online story, which is a promise to love her forever.
Takumi Hira (比良 拓海, Hira Takumi)
Voiced by: Atsushi Tamaru[5] (Japanese); Daman Mills[6] (English)
The president of track and field club. He's been in love with Akane since first year.
Chinatsu Nishio (西尾 千夏, Nishio Chinatsu)
Voiced by: Rie Murakawa[5] (Japanese); Megan Shipman[6] (English)
One of Akane's best friends in track and field club who's easy going. She begins to catch feelings for Azumi.

Class 3-1

Daichi Ogasawara
Voiced by: Makoto Kaneko (Japanese); Tyson Rinehart (English)[7]
One of Kotarō's best friends who is in the school's judo club. He laments his lack of popularity with girls which he attributes to the membership of the judo club.
Roman Yamashina
Voiced by: Eishin Fudemura[7] (Japanese); Brandon McInnis[6] (English)
One of Kotarō's best friends who has easy going personality and constantly wanting to read Kotarō's novel, despite of the latter's rejection. He's in love with his homeroom teacher Ryōko and won't hesitate to show it.
Aira Miyamoto
Voiced by: Manaka Iwami[7] (Japanese); Kristen McGuire[6] (English)
Akane's friend in class 3-1 who's belonged in the tennis club. She falls for Kaneko and dates him.
Setsuko Satō
Voiced by: Misono Suzuki[7] (Japanese); Kristi Rothrock[6] (English)
Akane's friend in class 3-1 who is dating Nagahara. She constantly pays for the fees whenever her boyfriend brings her to a love hotel, even during their school trip to Kyoto.
Miu Imazu
Voiced by: Haruka Chisuga[7] (Japanese); Bryn Apprill[6] (English)
Akane's friend in class 3-1. She has a somewhat black-hearted personality and always henpecks Inaba.
Sakura Tanaka
Voiced by: Honoka Inoue (Japanese); Michelle Rojas (English)[7]
A bespectacled girl in class 3-1 who always fantasizes about being popular with the boys, despite her plain looks.
Shō Nagahara
Voiced by: Yūya Hirose[7] (Japanese); Austin Tindle[6] (English)
Setsuko's boyfriend. A flashy boy who always brings his girlfriend to a love hotel and makes her pay.
Yasuhito Inaba
Voiced by: Mark Ishii[7] (Japanese); Ben Phillips[6] (English)
Miu's "boyfriend", the status of which is often questioned by Inaba himself because of Miu's henpecking.
Aoi Takizawa
Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi[7] (Japanese); Felecia Angelle[6] (English)
A member of the school's track team. She is popular with both girls and boys, but she adopts a hostile attitude towards boys in general and displays no interest in romance.
Tsubasa Kaneko
Voiced by: Kentarō Kumagai[7] (Japanese); Aaron Dismuke[6] (English)
A member of the school's baseball team in class 3-1 who manages to make Aira fall for him. He is skilled in dealing with his girlfriend's jealousy.
Daisuke Tachibana
Voiced by: Mutsuki Iwanaka[7] (Japanese); Ian Sinclair[6] (English)
The employee of a bookshop that Kotarou frequents. He reads Kotarou's novels and gives helpful advice on both novel writing and romance.
Ryōko Sonoda
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama[7] (Japanese); Jamie Marchi[6] (English)
Class 3-1's homeroom teacher. She is in love with Roman and struggles to wait until his graduation to express her love. She is also the target of affection of Hidaka-sensei.

Others

Ryūnosuke Azumi
Voiced by: Kazuo Oka[7] (Japanese); Kent Williams[6] (English)
Kotarou's father. Supports his son's novel writing aspirations.
Junko Azumi
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue[7] (Japanese); Alex Moore[6] (English)
Kotarou's mother. Does not want Kotarou to write novels or take Akane's high school entrance examination.
Hiroshi Mizuno
Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata[7] (Japanese); Sonny Strait[6] (English)
Akane and Ayane's father, who is protective of his daughters, but he is also shown to be accepting of their boyfriends once he gets to know them better.
Saori Mizuno
Voiced by: Chiwa Saito[7] (Japanese); Monica Rial[6] (English)
Akane and Ayane's mother.
Ayane Mizuno
Voiced by: Ryōko Maekawa[7] (Japanese); Morgan Garrett[6] (English)
Akane's elder sister who is currently in high school. She is dating Kasai, an aspiring carpenter.

Production and development

An original anime television series produced by Feel was announced in January 2017. Seiji Kishi directed the anime while Yūko Kakihara penned and supervised the series' scripts, and Kazuaki Morita adapted Loundraw's original character designs.[3] Takurō Iga and FlyingDog composed and produced the music, respectively, while Nagano served as the series' producer.[8] It aired on April 6, 2017 on Tokyo MX with further broadcasts on MBS, BS11 and TVA[9] then ended on June 29, 2017. Nao Tōyama sung both the opening and ending theme titled "Ima Koko" (イマココ) and "Tsuki ga Kirei" (月がきれい), respectively.[10] Tōyama also performed the insert song for episode 3, "Hatsukoi" (初恋).

Crunchyroll licensed the series and streamed it outside of Asia,[11] and Funimation dubbed the series and released it on home video in North America as part of their partnership with Crunchyroll.[12][13]

Use in daily life

"月が綺麗ですね" "Tsuki ga kirei desune" is a Japanese phrase used to imply that you are in love with the person listening. It is a subtle way to make a love confession without directly telling the listener that you love them. Usually when a person says this phrase to the person they are confessing to, the listener will respond with "そうですね" "Soudesune" if they reciprocate those feelings.[14]

Episode list

All episodes are named after notable works in Japanese literature.

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Notes

  1. While directly translated as "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?" the phrase "Tsuki ga kirei desu ne." (月が綺麗ですね。) is a common Japanese phrase that means to "I love you." The phrase is commonly attributed to Meiji-era novelist Natsume Sōseki since he believed that two people in love do not need direct words to convey their feelings.[1][2]
  2. All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.

References

  1. "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?". ASAHI NIHONGO. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  2. "オリジナルTVアニメ『月がきれい』が4月に放送決定". Animate Times (in Japanese). January 30, 2017. Archived from the original on July 8, 2017. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  3. "Crunchyroll to Stream Tsukigakirei Anime". Anime News Network. April 5, 2017. Archived from the original on March 10, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  4. "Studio feel. Reveals Visual, Expanded Character Descriptions for Tsuki ga Kirei Original Anime". Anime News Network. February 20, 2017. Archived from the original on May 12, 2019. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  5. "Funimation Announces English Dub Casts for Tsukigakirei, Tsugumomo Anime". Anime News Network. May 5, 2017. Archived from the original on May 6, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  6. "Tsuki ga Kirei TV Anime Reveals Video, Visual, More Cast". Anime News Network. March 13, 2017. Archived from the original on June 24, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  7. Listed as producer at AnimeJapan 2017.
  8. "Studio feel.'s Tsuki ga Kirei TV Anime Premieres on April 6". Anime News Network. March 8, 2017. Archived from the original on November 29, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  9. "オリジナルTVアニメ『月がきれい』最新キービジュアル&番宣PV公開&主題歌決定など、5大ニュースをお届け!". アニメイトタイムズ (in Japanese). animateLAB Corporation. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  10. "Crunchyroll to Stream Tsukigakirei Anime". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  11. "Funimation Announces English Dubs for 8 More Simulcast Titles, Brave Witches (Updated)". Anime News Network. April 25, 2017. Archived from the original on April 29, 2017. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  12. "The Moon is Beautiful" (in Japanese). Tokyo MX. Archived from the original on January 9, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2017.

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