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Ants without Umbrella

2016 · 1 season

A gentle, talky slice of life about creative block and old friendship, quietly warm and low-stakes, with a soft melancholic edge.

Created by
Keita Kono
Genres
Drama
Overview
Jun Hashimoto is a sci-fi novel writer, but he isn't popular at all. He lives off of his savings. One day, his editor Tateyama assigns him a job: he is to write a "love" themed short story for a web magazine oriented towards youths. At first Jun refuses, because he has never written a love story before, but Tateyama pushes him to write one. The deadline is imminent. Jun's childhood friend Keisuke Murata then appears in front of him. Jun complains to Keisuke that he can't write, but while talking to him, he comes up with an idea.

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Created by
Keita Kono
Genres
Drama
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • love
  • art
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • home
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
Humour4
Realism8
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Genres
drama
Created by
Keita Kono
Written by
Makoto Ogawa
Starring
Renn Kiriyama, Shigeaki Kato, Rika Adachi, Nao Minamisawa, Masanobu Sakata, Raita Ryu, Ryota Kobayashi, Rena Takeda
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes, 19 min each
Network
Fuji TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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