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Kawa no Hikari
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Main Title Kawa no Hikari (a6580)
Official Title ja
Official Title zh-Hans
Synonym River`s Light
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Kaneda Tomoko as Chicchi
Yamadera Kouichi as Otousan
Orikasa Fumiko as Tata

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Original Work: Matsuura Hisaki
Direction: Hirakawa Tetsuo
Character Design: Tannai Tsukasa
Music: Kurihara Masaki
Animation Work: Gallop
Work: NHK NHK Enterprises
* Based on Matsuura Hisaki's serialised novel Kawa no Hikari (River's Light).

The environmental awareness story about a family of rats that set off in search of a new home after losing their habitat to human construction has been serialised in the Yomiuri Newspaper since July 2006.

Note: While the TV broadcast was scheduled for June 20, 2009, an early limited screening was held on July 6 in Otsu City Center.

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7.35 (91)
#8349 (#263)
#8934 (#259)

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Running Time

approx. 1h 15m

Completed

149 (42.6%)

Plan to Watch

194 (55.4%)

Dropped

7 (2.0%)
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· comedyAnime whose central struggle causes hilarious results. These stories are built upon funny characters, situations and events. A comedy anime is laced with humour and sets out to provoke laughter from the audience. Japanese humour can be a bit strange to westerners, so if you`re new to this type of humour, just bear with it; it`ll most likely grow on you if you`re a fan of other kinds of comedy. *
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· · · AsiaAsia is Earth`s largest and most populous continent. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometers. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4.4 billion people.
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· daily lifeThe antics of the protagonists do not take place in some exotic setting or time, but in everyday life. Daily Life is basically a synonym for everything normal, repetitive, and trivial happening to your average person. *+
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Original Work (原作) Matsuura Hisaki
Direction (監督) Hirakawa Tetsuo
Character Design (キャラクターデザイン) Tannai Tsukasa
Music (音楽) Kurihara Masaki
Sound Direction (音響監督) Tanaka Kazuya
Sound Effects (効果) Kawata Kiyotaka
Editing (編集) Nakagawa Masao
Art Direction (美術監督) Yamamoto Nizou
Colour Design (色彩設計) Yokoi Masato
Photographic Direction (撮影監督) Edamitsu Hiroaki
Animation Producer (アニメーションプロデューサー) Wakana Akio
Production Generalisation (制作統括) Kashiwagi Atsuko
安斎昌幸
廣岡篤哉
Animation Work (アニメーション制作) Gallop
Work (制作) NHK
NHK Enterprises
Publication (著作) NHK
Script/Screenplay (脚本) Yoshioka Takao
Storyboard (絵コンテ) Hirakawa Tetsuo
Assistant Episode Direction (演出協力) Hara Keiichi
Animation Direction (作画監督) Kobayashi Ikkou
Tannai Tsukasa
Key Animation (原画) Hiroe Katsumi
Ichii Ippei
Iimura Shin`ichi
Ishida Keiichi
Ishii Kuniyuki
Ishino Hirokazu
Katou Hirotaka
Kuroyanagi Toshimasa
Ono Takaya
Sugitani Kouichi
Takano Noboru
Terada Chigusa
Tsukamoto Tetsuya
Uemura Jun
Yamauchi Shoujurou
Yoshida Mitsuaki
In-Between Animation Check (動画チェック) Fujita Miyuki
Ichinose Ayumi
Nakayama Hiromi
Ogasawara Ayano
In-Between Animation (動画) Inokuchi Ayako
Kaine Hiroyuki
Kodama Tomoko
Matsumaru Tomohiro
Nakamura Shouya
Nakata Akiko
Otazaki Keiko
Ushiro Yuuki
桑原悠里
江口亜紀
Animation Work Manager (アニメーション制作担当) Kawamura Yoshiharu
Colour Specification (色指定) 貝森優一
Finishing/Clean-up (仕上げ) Chiba Youko
Itou Atsuko
Okui Emiko
Sunahara Naoko
出海靖子
小沢美加
柳沼美奈
西村彩
鈴木日咲子
鈴木真理子
Art (美術) Hino Kaori
Inaba Kunihiko
Background Art (背景) Maruyama Tomohiro
Nitta Yuka
Oga Kazuo
小澤玲子
Photography (撮影) Ono Takeshi
小町哲
池田耕士
波瀬正宣
Title Logo (タイトルロゴデザイン) 下り藤敏男
Recording (録音) Tachibana Yasuo

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17.09.2013 HQR complete
1 0 ja HDTV N/A (0) 0
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02.04.2012 TastyMelon complete
1 0 ja ja en hu HDTV N/A (1) 0
02.04.2012 AnimeAddicts complete
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02.04.2012 AnimeAddicts&TastyMelon complete
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13.03.2011 Himi&No complete
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EP Title Duration Air Date Action
75m 06.06.2009