is a Japanese
anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...
series produced by
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., based on Konami's popular ''
Tokimeki Memorial
is a dating simulation series by Konami. It consists of six main games in addition to many spin-offs. The games are notable in the dating sim genre for being highly nonlinear. Their nickname amongst their fans is the contraction ''TokiMemo''.
Th ...
'' dating simulation series, specifically ''
Tokimeki Memorial Online
is an MMORPG video game in the ''Tokimeki Memorial'' series.
No game in the series has ever been translated or officially released in the West, though they can easily be purchased from import game stores. In the case of ''Tokimeki Memorial Onl ...
''. It premiered October 3, 2006 across Japan on
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified b ...
. The anime series ended its run on March 27, 2007 with 25 episodes. The DVD release includes an additional episode (occurring between episodes 17 and 18) and a special compilation episode for a total of 27 episodes.
Plot
The anime main line story revolves around a second year high school student, Riku Aoba, who has just recently transferred to Holy Cross High School, where he notices, upon joining, several unique and funny occurrences, often being the target of a series of events and races administered by the student council and its fun-seeking president.
While at the academy, Riku meets the original ''
Tokimeki Memorial Online
is an MMORPG video game in the ''Tokimeki Memorial'' series.
No game in the series has ever been translated or officially released in the West, though they can easily be purchased from import game stores. In the case of ''Tokimeki Memorial Onl ...
'' characters and the story begins.
Characters
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: A second-year student at class 2-A and Sayuri's classmate. Before transferring to Tsugumi, Riku used to live in a snowy harbour in the northeast of Hokkaido. He is often a target of a series of bizarre events and races administered by the school council. Tsukasa, Sayuri, and Mina compete for his affections.
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: A second-year student at class 2-A. Graceful and intelligent, Sayuri is an extremely popular girl at school, and is talented in academics and sports (and surprisingly video games), often being the subject of admiration from several of the school's male students. Numerous legends have been told of the greatness of her actions in the past year. She falls deeply in love with Riku after noticing he treats her like he treats everyone and she can be herself around him, though she has been hiding her true feelings from everyone's knowledge, including Riku's.
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: A second-year student at class 2-B, Tsukasa is a highly skilled member of the school's volleyball team. She is a believer in destiny, and falls in love with Riku almost immediately after bumping into him one day, declaring that Aoba is her boyfriend from that point on. She is also a bad cook. She successfully changes this by learning from the home economics teacher. However she skips several of the classes afterwards and her cooking becomes terrible again.
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: A first-year student at class 1-C, Mina is a member of the school's swimming team. She loves dolphins and is quite shy. She appeared first in the school library, Aoba helped her reach a book about dolphins. After Aoba agrees to become her coach, she falls in love with him. She is very nervous to confess her true feelings to him. Also because of her love of the sea life she quite reluctant to prepare food from the sea.
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: The school council president, who is often engaged in arranging several strange and bizarre events, often involving Riku as the target. He appears to be much lazier or less responsible than expected as he tried to avoid work concerning the Cultural Festival and asked Riku to take part with helping in the Festival (This was possibly to lessen his own work load).
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: Sits next to Riku in class. He appears to be cold and distant from his other classmates even to his teachers, but is far kinder and warmer than he appears. His hobbies include painting and caring for small animals. Riku and him become good friends, which the latter won't actually admit but subtly. When hearing the news that Riku will transfer to another school on the day of the closing ceremony, Inukai is shocked about that.
Episodes
Theme songs
Opening theme
**Lyricist:
Chihiro Kurosu
**Composition:
Takuya Watanabe
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*Takuya Asanuma (born 1971), Japanese guitarist and former member of Judy and Mary who performs as "TAKUYA"
* Takuya Eguchi, Japanese voice actor
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**Arrangement:
m-takeshi
**Performance: Yuki Makishima
Ending themes
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**Lyricist:
Akiko Watanabe
**Composition:
Kazuya Komatsu
**Arrangement:
Ryosuke Nakanishi
is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer best known for his role on the soundtrack of several anime series and video games. His works include the musical scores for ''High School DxD'', ''Kuroko's Basketball'' and ''The Devil is a ...
**Performance: Yuki Makishima,
Yukako Yoshikawa
is a former Japanese voice actress who was affiliated with 81 Produce.
Filmography Anime
*'' Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino'' (Rico)
*'' Penguin Musume Heart'' (Hunting Maria)
*'' Tokimeki Memorial Only Love'' (Tsukasa Kasuga)
Video games
*''Gra ...
and
Saki Fujita
is a Japanese voice actress from Tokyo. She sang the ending theme to the anime '' Tokimeki Memorial Only Love'', "Kiseki no Kakera", (奇跡のかけら) along with Yuki Makishima and Yukako Yoshikawa as well as the opening songs for ''Working! ...
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**Lyricist: Chihiro Kurosu
**Composition:
Takeshi Uehara
**Arrangement:
Hiroshi Matsui
**Performance: Yuki Makishima, Yukako Yoshikawa and Saki Fujita
References
External links
''Tokimeki Memorial Only Love''at Konami
''Tokimeki Memorial Only Love''at TV Tokyo
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