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Scum's Wish

2017 · 1 season

A quiet, aching watch that lingers on longing and loneliness, making you feel the weight of unspoken desires.

Created by: Yoshito Hata, Eiichi Kuboyama
Genres: Animation, Drama
Starring: Chika Anzai, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Haruka Tomatsu

Overview: Seventeen-year-old Mugi Awaya and Hanabi Yasuraoka appear to be the ideal couple. They are both pretty popular, and they seem to suit each other well. However, outsiders don't know of the secret they share. Both Mugi and Hanabi have hopeless crushes on someone else, and they are only dating each other to soothe their loneliness. Mugi is in love with Akane Minagawa, a young teacher who used to be his home tutor. Hanabi is also in love with a teacher, a young man who has been a family friend since she was little. In each other, they find a place where they can grieve for the ones they cannot have, and they share physical intimacy driven by loneliness. Will things stay like this for them forever?

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Created by: Yoshito Hata, Eiichi Kuboyama
Genres: Animation, Drama
Starring: Chika Anzai, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Haruka Tomatsu

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 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
loneliness
obsession
coming-of-age
identity
Places: school
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex strong

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	7
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: animation, drama
Created by: Yoshito Hata, Eiichi Kuboyama, Yoshifumi Sasahara, Masaomi Ando, Yasuhiro Minami, Yuu Kinome
Written by: Makoto Uezu
Starring: Chika Anzai, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Haruka Tomatsu, Shiori Izawa, Kenji Nojima, Aki Toyosaki, Aya Hisakawa, Juri Kimura
Music: Masaru Yokoyama
Cinematography: Tomoyuki Kunii
Length: 1 seasons, 12 episodes, 23 min each
Network: Fuji TV, Iwate Menkoi Television, Sakuranbo TV
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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