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Flowers For Algernon

2002 · 1 season

A quiet, tender tearjerker that lingers on longing and dignity, asking you to sit with sadness rather than rush past it.

Genres
Drama
Overview
Abandoned as a child by his mother, Hasumi Sachiyo, Fujishima Haru is a mentally challenged man that has grown up and worked at the Sakurai Bakery as a baker. Working with him at the bakery is the owner Sakurai Kyoko and Tashiro Miki, a girl who is also mentally challenged and is like a sister to Haru. At night, after the bakery is closed, Haru and Miki attend a night class with other mentally challenged adults. Their teacher at the class is Toya Erina who not only is their teacher but also their friend. One day, Erina is approached by her old friend Kobayashi Rumiko about a candidate in the research she is conducting with professor Tatabe Shinichiro and Tokunaga Atsushi that could possibly increase the intelligence of the mentally challenged. Reluctant at first, Erina changes her mind when she sees the resolve in Haru to become smarter so that his mother will come back for him. With the success of the surgery,
How it feels
Melancholic, earnest, warm and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About
Identity, isolation, family, loneliness
Content
Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Created by
Renpei Tsukamoto, Takehiko Shinjo
Written by
Yoshikazu Okada
Starring
Yusuke Santamaria, Miho Kanno, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Tomoko Nakajima, Kanako Enomoto, Ayumi Ishida
Music
Tamiya Terashima
Length
1 seasons, 11 episodes, 54 min each
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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