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Looking Up at the Half-Moon

2006 · 1 season

A gentle, bittersweet hospital romance that quietly builds emotional weight, mixing light comedy with a pervasive sense of fragility and impending loss.

Created by
Masayuki Iimura
Genres
Drama, Animation, Comedy
Overview
Even though Yuuichi Ezaki is in the hospital recovering from an illness, he's constantly sneaking out. One day he's caught by the head nurse, who makes a deal with him: she'll overlook his future excursions if he's willing to befriend a new patient, Rika Akiba. Due to a serious heart condition, Rika has spent most of her life in the hospital, and doesn't really have any friends. As Yuuichi and Rika spend time together and learn more about each other, their relationship soon blossoms into romance...

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Stream in the US
  • Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
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Created by
Masayuki Iimura
Genres
Drama, Animation, Comedy
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • death
  • healing
Places
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism6
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, animation, comedy
Created by
Masayuki Iimura
Written by
Katsuhiko Takayama
Starring
Nobuyuki Kobushi, Kenichi Suzumura, Mikako Takahashi, Koji Yada, Yuuki Kodaira, Hiroaki Hirata, Akira Sasanuma, Yuki Matsuoka
Cinematography
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Length
1 seasons, 6 episodes, 25 min each
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