Best tv shows like Legendary Idol Eriko
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Plot Summary:
Idol Densetsu Eriko is a Japanese anime series by Ashi Productions. It ran in Japan from 1989 until 1990, spanning 51 episodes. The story has been adapted into a 3-volume manga series by Ayumi Kawahara. The main character, Eriko Tamura, is actually a Japanese idol in real life. She performs the opening theme, and the last episode's ending theme.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Music Girls (2018)
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Haru Chitose, Eri Kumagai, Sarasa Ryuuouh, Kiri Mukae, Uori Mukae, Sasame Mitsukuri, Miku Nishio, Hiyo Yukino, Shupe Gushiken, Kotoko Kintoki, and Roro Morooka are the eleven members of "Music Girls," an idol group produced by Pine Records. However, they're a third-rate idol group that can't seem to sell CDs at all. But even though they're obscure and constantly in debt, the members and their producer, Ikehashi, are all trying their hardest. Ikehashi gets the idea that Music Girls needs a new member—an idol who can light a fire under them so that they can grasp success!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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Lemon Angel Project (2006)
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Lemon Angel was once the greatest girl band of Japan, but then it broke up and most of its members vanished. When a music producer decides to put together a new Lemon Angel, average high schooler Tomo Minaguchi is approached to audition for the group. Little does she know of the mystery behind the original Lemon Angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Emily of New Moon (2007)
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Based on the Emily of New Moon novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Emily is an orphan who gets sent to live with her relatives on Prince Edward Island, after her father dies. In New Moon she lives with her Aunt Elizabeth, Aunt Laura, and Cousin Jimmy, and learns to adapt with the help of her imagination and new friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Animation, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime
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Eternal Boys (2022)
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“The Mature Idol Project” - The latest project proposed by Manpuku Entertainment Productions, in a bid to revive the company. Experienced in the successes and failures of the business world, 6 middle-aged men now face the many hurdles of age and physical ability, whilst pursuing their goal to become idols. In an effort to prove that old dogs can learn new tricks, and that you can still learn to shine no matter your age, these middle-aged men, at the end of their ropes, are taking a stand!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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THE iDOLM@STER (2011)
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THE IDOLM@STER follows 13 girls from the 765 Production Studio, whose sole goals is to become the top idols in the Japanese entertainment industry. Along with the laughs, struggles and tears that are inherently part of this journey, you will cheer for the girls of iDOLM@STER as they climb their way to the top!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, sincere, uplifting, touching, captivating, inspirational, 2d animation
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Sensual Phrase (1999)
Plot Summary:
An anime about a rock band who's lead vocalist falls in love with a high school girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Myself; Yourself (2007)
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Hikada Sana returns to his home town after living away in Tokyo for five years. Although some time has passed the town has not changed much. On a detour to his apartment, he notices that a shrine maiden is watching him as he visits the shrine. The following day at school, Sana is surprised to find out that this girl is actually Yatsushiro Nanaka, a good childhood friend, whom he gave a bracelet before he left so many years ago. And even to this day, she is still wearing it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, depressing
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Save Me! Lollipop (2006)
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Nina, thinking it was a lolly, swallows an object called "Crystal Pearl". But the candy turns out to be a test for the magicians. To retrieve the crystal, a special medicine has to be made so now Zero and Ichii, the magicians, have to protect her from others while waiting for the medicine to be completed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Animation
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Loving Angel Angelique (2006)
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A young girl named Ange is summoned to a Sacred Land and is chosen as the Legendary Etoile, whose mission is to save the newly-born Cosmos of the Holy Beast, which has recently fallen under a crisis. With the support of nine Guardians (who have the power of nine elements), she embarks on a journey to save the dying land of the Holy Beast and to discover her true self.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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My Roommate is a Cat (2019)
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The story of Mikazuki Subaru, a novelist who is shy and struggles in relationships with other people, and a cat who was dumped by humans and lived a tough life on the streets. Through a twist of fate, the two of them end up living together. This heartwarming tale illustrates day-to-day life through the eyes of both man and cat. These moments seem trivial, but as they build upon themselves, the two become family and find happiness in their life together.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo, funny, light, atmospheric, sweet, iyashikei
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Idoly Pride (2021)
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After a successful audition, high school student Kotono Nagase and her best friend move into a dorm with eight other aspiring idols. They quickly realize it takes more than cute choreography and cute outfits to reach the top—it will take blood, sweat, and tears to advance in the idol-ranking VENUS program, where the top spot is held by superstar Mana Nagase... who happens to be Kotono’s older sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating
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I★Chu: Halfway Through the Idol (2021)
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Youths aiming to become full-fledged idols enroll in the Étoile Vio School where the students are called IChu. But soon after they begin, Kuma Kocho gets them off to a rocky start with a single phrase...?! As they each work toward their individual goals, their activities as idols make the IChu begin to wonder... "What is an idol?" In their struggle to find an answer, the springtime of the IChu's lives is whittled out in glittering moments and flashes of brilliance. Their story begins now!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, inspirational, sweet
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22/7 nanabun no nijyuuni (2020)
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One day, Miu Takigawa suddenly receives a letter notifying her that she has been chosen as a member of a brand-new project. Half in disbelief, she heads over to the location stated on the letter. There, she finds seven other girls summoned there in the same fashion. The girls behold a giant, top-secret facility. They stand in bewilderment as they are told: "You are going to debut for a major record label as an idol group." A new kind of idol, never-before-seen, is about to be born here.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, 2d animation
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Bokura ga ita (2006)
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Nanami Takahashi is a high school student entering her first year. Immediately on her first day however, she becomes the victim of a practical joke by the school's most popular guy, Motoharu Yano, who coincidentally also ends up in her class. While the two get off to a rocky start, they soon find themselves falling in love with one another and begin dating. But their relationship is marred by Yano's past which includes the death of Yano's previous girlfriend, Nana Yamamoto, and the betrayal surrounding her death. To make matters more complicated her younger sister, Yuri, is in the same class as Yano and Nanami. As Yano struggles to come to grips with Nana's death and his unresolved feelings for her, so too must Nanami learn to understand Yano if the two hope to continue their relationship with one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Heroines Run the Show (2022)
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What would you do to pursue your passion? For Hiyori Suzumi, it’s leaving her simple rural hometown for the bustling city of Tokyo to join Sakuragaoka High School’s track team. Between being a manager-in-training for two cutthroat schoolboy idols, track, and friends, Hiyori shows no signs of slowing down.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Sound of the Sky (2010)
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On the outskirts of the country of Helvetia rests the tranquil town of Seize. Upon its cobbled streets, citizens go about their daily lives, undisturbed by the increasingly tense military relations between Helvetia and the neighboring Roman Empire. It is under these circumstances that the 1121st platoon of the Helvetian army, stationed at the Clocktower Fortress in Seize, receives a new recruit in the young and spirited Kanata Sorami. Having joined the military to fulfill her dream of learning to play the bugle, she excitedly accepts the tutelage of the Sergeant Major, Rio Kazumiya, who happens to be a skilled trumpeter. Working alongside them are the aloof mechanic, Noël Kannagi, the feisty gunner, Kureha Suminoya, and the compassionate Captain Felicia Heideman; together, they experience the beauty of life in Seize and the lasting joy of a community that has persevered in spite of the crumbling world around them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Tari Tari (2012)
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At Shirahamazaka High School, a special recital is held every year in which music students are able to showcase their talents in front of professionals and prestigious guests. A student, Konatsu Miyamoto desperately wants to sing in her last year of high school.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, touching, semi serious, captivating, stylized, realistic, super sentai
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Carole & Tuesday (2019)
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Fifty years have passed since mankind began migrating to the new frontier: Mars. It's an age where most culture is produced by AI, and people are content to be passive consumers. There's a girl. Scrapping a living in the metropolis of Alba City, she's working part time while trying to become a musician. She's always felt like something is missing. Her name is Carole.There's a girl. Born to a wealthy family in the provincial town of Herschel City, she dreams of becoming a musician, but nobody around her understands. She feels like the loneliest person in the world. Her name is Tuesday. A chance meeting brings them together. They want to sing. They want to make music. Together, they feel like they just might have a chance. The two of them may only create a tiny wave. But that wave will eventually grow into something larger.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, psychological, light, captivating, adult anime, feel good, 2d animation
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Those Snow White Notes (2021)
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Sawamura Matsugorou is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Sawamura Yuki, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Yuki finds himself in Tokyo in search of a new sound to love. Tachimura Yuna, who works at a club, hooks him up with a gig to play there as a warm up act. Yuki imbues the sound of his shamisen with his many thoughts and feelings he has of others, still searching for his own sound and his own feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, sincere, captivating
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Magical Angel Creamy Mami (1983)
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Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel is a magical girl anime series by Studio Pierrot which aired from 1983 to 1984 on Nippon Television. It went on to have five OVA adaptions and featured in other Studio Pierrot special presentations. A three volume manga was released during the original TV run, with the story written by Kazunori Itō and art by Yuuko Kitagawa. This was the first of five magical girl anime to be produced by Studio Pierrot, and the first of these to feature the designs of Akemi Takada. In 2005, the web-poll for TV Asahi's top-100 anime of all time saw Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel poll 82nd. The series is currently streaming in North America via Yomiuri Group's planned Anime Sols video service, as of spring 2013. Thus far, a limited DVD release of the first thirteen episodes has been successfully crowd-funded at Anime Sols, with the second set of episodes currently in crowd-fund mode.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shoujo
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Million Doll (2015)
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Suuko has the special ability to make any idol popular just by writing about them on her blog! One day, while being forced to go to the supermarket by her sister, she happens to see a live performance from the dol group “Iotrio”. Suuko decides that she will do everything in her power to push them into stardom. Unfortunately, she has to compete with the charismatic otaku blogger Ryuu-san who supports the underground idol Mariko!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Bibliophile Princess (2022)
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When book-loving Lady Elianna spots Prince Christopher—her betrothed in name only—consorting with another noble lady, she realizes the recent rumors must be true. The prince has someone he truly loves, which means the annulment of their engagement is both inevitable and fast-approaching. What she doesn't realize is that this is merely a surface ripple—one of many where the truth runs deep, in a conspiracy surpassing her imagination!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime
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Shine Post (2022)
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Although the idol group TiNgS is chasing after big dreams, so far their accomplishments have only been small — and now, suddenly, they're facing a potential break up! Hope seems lost, but when a new manager with a special skillset takes them under his wing, the members of TiNgS find themselves shooting for the stars all over again.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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B-PROJECT (2016)
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Tsubasa is a new hire in the A&R department of the major recording company Gandala Music. Tsubasa is immediately assigned to oversee the idol unit "B-PROJECT," which is made up of three idol groups: Kitakore, Thrive, and MooNs. This is Tsubasa's first job, and she gets involved in various incidents and accidents as she deals with this group of young men who each have their own differing personalities.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, disturbing, shoujo
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TsukiPro the Animation (2017)
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SOARA, Growth, SolidS, and QUELL are four groups belonging to Tsukino Entertainment Production (AKA TSUKIPRO). The slice of life music anime "PRO ANI" depicting their music overflowing with uniqueness and the drama surrounding their lives begins now! Will you open this glittering treasure box of music?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Animation, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Starmyu (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ayanagi Academy: home of musical dreams and insane competition. New student Yuta Hoshitani dreams of being in show business, but to get there he'll have to gain acceptance from the Kao Council (Cherry Blossom Flower Council), Ayanagi Academy's five highest ranking students. For Yuta and his friends to do well in the music department, they'll have to get onto a Star Team, lead by the Kao Council members. Though the newcomers are struggling, they catch the interest of one of the Kao Council members, which just might send them on the starlit journey they've been dreaming of! From director Shunsuke Tada (Kuroko's Basketball and Prince of Tennis) comes a new show that will have you dreaming of stardom.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
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Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: anime, sentimental, sincere, humorous, touching, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, shounen
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La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo (2006)
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Hino goes to a school that specialises in music and has two streams: the normal stream and the music stream, where the music students are regarded as the more elite. She was running late for her class one day when she saw a tiny fairy, who seemed really excited that she could see it. The next day, the entrants in the music competition, who are decided by the school, are announced. Hino's name appears on the list - except she doesn't play an instrument. The fairy gives her a magical violin that can be played by anyone. Reluctantly, she enters into the competition and is forced to deal with the prejudices of her peers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, serious, exciting, humorous, captivating, shoujo
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Wake Up, Girls! (2014)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas 2013, the band Wake Up, Girls plays their debut song to a small audience without much fanfare. After the concert, the group’s manager takes off with the money, leaving Green Leaves Entertainment on the verge of closure and the band without a future. Despite this tumultuous beginning, the girls get a second chance, thanks to a mysterious benefactor and a shady business proposal. From here it’s a rocky climb to the top, but it’s a climb the girls are ready to make. Wake Up, Girls! follows the internal and external struggles of being a small-time idol girl band, from finding and accepting gigs to competing in popularity against other pop bands. Through the band, the girls come to accept their pasts and become more certain about their futures. Faced with increasing stakes and popularity, each of the band’s seven members must find the strength and courage inside herself to give her all to the band.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, entertaining, satirical, super sentai
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Uta no Prince-sama (2011)
Plot Summary:
With dreams of becoming a composer and someday writing a song for her favorite idol, Haruka enters the Saotome Academy, a prestigious performing arts school. If successful there, she’ll be able to join the Shining Agency after graduation. However, it won’t be so easy when Haruka is already surrounded by potential idols and composers. On top of that, her homeroom teacher is a current idol, the headmaster was a record-breaking singer, and the academy itself is a chaotic place where anything can happen. Which prince of song will be paired up with Haruka?! Uta no Prince Sama is an exciting, coming-of-age romantic comedy that will be like sweet music to your eyes and ears!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: shoujo, anime, humorous, captivating, feel good, light, sincere, manga, touching, realistic