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Girls Band Cry

2024 · 1 season

A raw, emotionally charged coming-of-age story where music becomes a lifeline for girls wrestling with loneliness and identity.

Created by: Tomotaka Wakumoto, Yasuhiro Tanabe
Genres: Animation, Drama, Comedy
Starring: Rina, Yuri, Mirei

Overview: Nina Iseri drops out of high school and moves to Tokyo by herself. In front of the station in the suburbs of Tokyo, Nina sees Momo Kawaragi singing alone and is touched by the power of music. Nina decides to form a band with Momo, Subaru Awasu, a girl who hides her true feelings, Tomo Ebutsuka, who was abandoned by her parents, and Rupa, a lonely girl without any family...

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Created by: Tomotaka Wakumoto, Yasuhiro Tanabe
Genres: Animation, Drama, Comedy
Starring: Rina, Yuri, Mirei

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 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
found family
isolation
music
coming-of-age
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
ensemble
animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: animation, drama, comedy
Created by: Tomotaka Wakumoto, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Kenji Imura, Miho Hirayama, Masayuki Iimura, Kazue Otsuki
Written by: Jukki Hanada
Starring: Rina, Yuri, Mirei, Natsu, Shuri, Haruo Yamagishi, Sakura Ando, Ritsu Takahashi
Music: Yuusuke Tanaka
Cinematography: Shinya Kuwabara
Length: 1 seasons, 13 episodes, 24 min each
Network: TOKYO MX, Sun TV, BS11, KBS Kyoto
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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