"To Heart" (1999) TV series

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Naohito Takahashi

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

1 April 1999 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Comedy | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Flashback Sequence | Outcast | Girl Next Door | Human Relationship | Witch

Cast

Jessica Calvello	...	Shiho Nagaoka (13 episodes, 1999)
Wayne Grayson	...	Masashi Satou (13 episodes, 1999)
Mai Hoshikawa	...	Matsumoto (13 episodes, 1999)
Junko Iwao	...	Ayaka Kurusugawa / ... (13 episodes, 1999)
Carol Jacobanis	...	Serika Kurusugawa / ... (13 episodes, 1999)
Tara Jayne	...	Multi HMX12 (13 episodes, 1999)
Elizabeth Johnson	...	Ayaka Kurusugawa (13 episodes, 1999)
Akiko Kimura	...	Okada (13 episodes, 1999)
Amy Kincaid	...	Kotone Himekawa / ... (13 episodes, 1999)
Lenore Lenore	...	Multi HMX12 (13 episodes, 1999)
Rich McNanna	...	Hiroyuki Fujita (13 episodes, 1999)
Anna Morrow	...	Okada / ... (13 episodes, 1999)
Ikue Ootani	...	Rio Hinayama (13 episodes, 1999)
Lisa Ortiz	...	Tomoko Hoshina (13 episodes, 1999)
Debora Rabbai	...	Akari Kamigishi (13 episodes, 1999)
Mie Sonozaki	...	Yoshii (13 episodes, 1999)
Veronica Taylor	...	Aoi Matsubara (13 episodes, 1999)
Karen Thompson	...	Lemmy Miyauchi (13 episodes, 1999)

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Series Directed by
Naohito Takahashi		(unknown episodes)

Series Writing credits
Hiroshi Yamaguchi		(8 episodes, 1999)
Shinzo Fukuta		(5 episodes, 1999)

Series Original Music by
Kaoru Wada		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Direction by
Shichirô Kobayashi		(unknown episodes)

Series Sound Department
Jun Watanabe	....	recording director (unknown episodes)

Series Animation Department
Yuriko Senba	....	character designer (unknown episodes)
Minazuki Tooru	....	original character designer (unknown episodes)

Production Companies

• Aqua Plus
• KSS

Runtime:

Japan:25 min (13 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:15 (DVD rating)

Company:

Aqua Plus

Trivia:

Based on a Japanese dating simulation video game.

Soundtrack:

Feeling Heart

A group of friends who are just pleasant to each other

To Heart is based on a Japanese console 'dating simulation game', not unlike the Sentimental Journey series, so it's not a typical anime. While missing action, profanity, chauvinism, violence, blasphemy, sex and nudity - this series is not entirely boring. True the primary two member cast Akari and Hiroyuki, do meet a different girl in every episode and they help each one out as best they can. The situations are also rather idealised with the characters almost never becoming angry at each other. Each episode leaves you with a good feeling inside and even though some episodes may be just a little too sweet (but who said that is bad?), the series overall is a better than average anime series, mainly because of the feel good factor and the absence of all the negative things I listed above.