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Kokoro Connect

2012 · 1 season

A quiet high-school drama where a strange gimmick forces friends to bare their hidden wounds, mixing gentle comedy with raw emotional confessions.

Created by
Shinya Kawatsura, Jun Fukuda
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Takahiro Mizushima, Aki Toyosaki, Miyuki Sawashiro
Overview
Five members of the school culture club—Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki—encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch personalities without warning. The same begins to happen to the other club members, throwing their daily lives into chaos. At first the five students find some amusement among the confusion, but this connection also exposes the painful scars hidden within their hearts... When their calm lives are shattered, the relationships between the five students also begin to change!

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Created by
Shinya Kawatsura, Jun Fukuda
Genres
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Takahiro Mizushima, Aki Toyosaki, Miyuki Sawashiro
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • friendship
  • trauma
  • love
  • isolation
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour4
Realism4
Romance6
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
animation, comedy, drama
Created by
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Written by
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Starring
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Cinematography
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