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Aoharu x Machinegun

2015 · 1 season

A bright, fast-paced sports anime that mixes school comedy with tense survival-game shootouts, easy to dip into and cheer along with.

Created by: Tokihiro Sasaki, Hideaki Nakano
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Tomoaki Maeno, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Mikako Komatsu

Overview: When Hotaru moves into a new apartment alone, there's a mysterious man standing nearby the apartment. Hotaru decides to confront the man, who turns out to live in the neighboring apartment. The next day at school, Hotaru's best friend Kanae tells Hotaru that a host tricked her out of her money. When Hotaru goes to confront the host, he happens to be none other than Hotaru's neighbor, Masamune?!

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Created by: Tokihiro Sasaki, Hideaki Nakano
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Tomoaki Maeno, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Mikako Komatsu

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Tone: lightstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
identity
coming-of-age
survival
loyalty
Places: school
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	6
Horror	1
Humour	5
Realism	4
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: animation, comedy, drama
Created by: Tokihiro Sasaki, Hideaki Nakano
Written by: Kenji Konuta
Starring: Tomoaki Maeno, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Mikako Komatsu, Eri Kitamura, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Ryohei Kimura, Yui Horie
Music: Asami Tachibana
Cinematography: Shigeki Asakawa
Length: 1 seasons, 12 episodes, 24 min each
Network: TBS
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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