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Looking Up at the Half-Moon

2006 · 1 season

A quiet, tender winter romance that aches with youthful first love and the weight of knowing time is short.

Created by
Hibi Yaro
Genres
Drama
Overview
During the winter, Yuichi was hospitalized due to hepatitis. Randomly he would try to escape from the hospital but would get beat up by the nurse. One day, he happened to meet Rika, a girl of his age, in the next building. He was fascinated by her beauty, but she was very selfish girl. Although she led him by the nose, he began to be attracted by her. However, when Rika told him about her illness, he knew why she acted so selfish; she didn't have long to live.

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Created by
Hibi Yaro
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • death
  • coming-of-age
  • grief
  • healing
Places
  • hospital
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Created by
Hibi Yaro
Written by
Kodama Yoriko
Starring
Atsushi Hashimoto, Miku Ishida, Kimika Yoshino, Takuya Nakayama, Shingo Nakagawa, Kohki Okada
Length
1 seasons, 13 episodes, 25 min each
Network
TV Tokyo
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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