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Yuumi Kawai

Mizuki Yoshida

Yoichiro Saito

Kota Oka

Kureha Maki

Koya Yoshihashi

Takeshi Miyajima

Daisuke Takahashi

Jun Ito

Kaori Takeuchi

Masumi Taira

Rina Endou

Taisei Miyagishi

Minori Takanami

Shinnosuke Tokudome

Nanaka Shougaki

Haruto Shima

Sakura Tsutsumi

Seira Ina

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Maaya Sakamoto

Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Kiyoshi Sameshima

Kazuto Izumita

Maya Kusumoto

Eriko Kimura

Kiyoshi Hirose

haruka nakamura

Hidekazu Ohara

Toshiyuki Inoue

Yuuya Geshi

Takuya Niinuma

Katsuhiko Kitada

Ayako Hata

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Takashi Omori

Yoshio Harisaki

Yoshihiro Oyabu

Masayo Kushida

Mari Suzuki

Kensuke Hosokawa

Aichi Minami

Hiroaki Ota

Shota Yaso

Kazuto Matsumura

Aoi Kobayashi

Shinji Iriyama

Tatsuki Fujimoto

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"Fujino" is the class favourite when it comes to her four-scene manga that she draws for the weekly school newsletter. Then one afternoon her teacher asks her if she wouldn't mind letting "Kyomoto" have a go. She's never at school - indeed she's routinely called the truant, but he thinks that this might be a way of getting her more involved. How good can she be, thinks "Fujino"? Well it turns out that she's actually pretty good - but she still never shows up. At graduation time, "Fujino" is tasked with delivering the certificate to her unknown rival and that's the start of something that neither girl could readily have anticipated. It's quite an emotionally powerful animation, this one, taking a look at ambition and isolation amongst young people craving for acceptance, purpose and friendship as they start to emerge from childhood and face a much less sympathetic world. The girls have synergies and differences - at times they act as one, at others - well, anything but - and as the short story develops and the timelines shift about a little, we get to know a little of the enigmatic nature of their personalities and just what makes these girls tick. There is a lot of information on the screen - even if you do understand Japanese, and though I'm usually loathe to recommend dubbed versions, it might make it slightly easier to follow if you are not trying to read the top and the bottom of the screen at the same time as watching the simply effective animation. I'm not sure it needs a big screen, but it's worth a watch.

Official Trailer 2 [Subtitled]

Official Trailer [Subtitled]

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Cast

Yuumi Kawai

Mizuki Yoshida

Yoichiro Saito

Kota Oka

Kureha Maki

Koya Yoshihashi

Takeshi Miyajima

Daisuke Takahashi

Jun Ito

Kaori Takeuchi

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