true tears
True tears is a Ren'ai adventure game, developed and published by La'cryma, a consortium of Broccoli, Circus, GameCrab and the mangaka Rei Izumi.
The plot of the game is focused mainly on the romantic relationships between the cast. It was sold in Japan from March 31, 2006 for the PC on DVD. A manga that is based on the plot of the game, was released on December 10th, 2005 before the release of the game. A completely redesigned anime series of the same title was broadcast on Japanese television in 2008. The issue was also taken up in the form of two radio plays and two internet radio broadcasts.
- 2.1 game
- 2.2 Manga
- 2.3 Anime 2.3.1 synchronization
Action
While the plot of the manga is close similar to that of the game, the plot of the anime is based on barely two predecessors. So even the main characters were exchanged and replaced by others.
Anime
The high school students Shinichirō Nakagami (仲 上 眞 一郎, Nakagami Shinichirō ) has artistic skill and lives with his family in Toyama prefecture. He lives there with his parents and the student Hiromi Yuasa (汤 浅 比 吕 美, Yuasa Hiromi ). Hiromi, who attended the same school as Shinichirō, moved into the house of Nakagami after her father had passed away. At the beginning of the story she has been living there for a year, but it makes for a very Shinichirō oppressed impression when she is at home. At school, however, she is very well known, athletic and talented often seems to be in a good mood. Shinichirō who knows Hiromi already much longer, this is very strange, but does not dare to talk to her about it.
One day he meets at the school on the familiar as strange girl Noe Isurugi (石 动 乃 絵, Isurugi Noe ), which is two classes below him. At their first meeting, she sits on top of a tree and do not know how it will come down. As a result, it can be offset by Shinichirō. After the hard landing, she shows him two chickens. One of them, which she calls Naigomaru should have the ability to fly, while the second chicken Jibeta this can not to because it's not trying to fly. Although Shinichirō she initially holds for completely crazy, he can not stop thinking about her and visited with her the chicken coop again. Once there, they make the determination that Naigomaru was attacked by a raccoon and is no longer discoverable. Despite their grief for the animal they do not shed a tear, because she has lost the ability to cry since her grandmother died.
From this moment Shinichirō they are constantly running behind to him instead of Naigomaru to give the bird food. His school friend Miyokichi Nobuse (野 伏 三代 吉, Nobuse Miyokichi ) finds this quite strange, but takes it with humor. They meet frequently in a Imagawayaki business where Aiko Ando (安藤 爱 子, Ando Aiko ), which has already left school, works as a saleswoman. She is in love Shinichirō, but he knows nothing about it and also be unsuspecting friend Miyokichi tries to get closer to her.
Meanwhile deteriorated Shinichirōs relationship with Hiromi because (石 动 纯, Isurugi June) is being courted by Noes brother June Isurugi. It seems as if there are three relations would develop, with which neither Shinichirō Aiko still be but happy. As a result, there will be various confrontations between the characters, is in the center of which Shinichirō. Ultimately Shinichirō decides to Hiromi, he can win them only after extreme use, and their relationship was a long time in the balance.
Formation and Publications
Game
Developed by La'cryma Ren'ai Adventure was released on 31 March 2006 for the PC. This Circus and broccoli were responsible for the production and distribution, GameCrab for the scenario and Rei Izumi for the character design.
A new edition of the game for the Playstation 2 was released on 7 August 2008 and was produced and marketed by Sweets.
Manga
The manga was published before the release of the game, as a foretaste of this, since 10 December 2005 within the manga magazine Comi Digi. The mangaka Asaki was responsible for both the activity and the drawings. Even after renaming the magazine on 21 April 2006 to Comi Digi , the manganese was continued.
On 21 December 2006, a single anthology ( tankōbon ) of the chapter was published under the name of true tears (ISBN 4-7973-3935-7 ). This volume comprises 210 pages and was published by the publisher Softbank Creative.
Anime
For the 13 -part anime true tears, which was directed by Junji Nishimura and from a screenplay by Mari Okada, the plot and the characters were redesigned. So this has nothing in common with the original, although La'cryma is stated in the opening credits as the original author. true tears was by P. A. Works in collaboration with the company Lantis, which belongs to Bandai Visual produced, where PA Works was responsible for the animation, while Lantis produced the music. The anime first from January 6 to March 30, 2008 after midnight (and thus on the previous TV day ) on TV Kanagawa, and having up to two weeks offset on Kansai TV, Chiba TV, TV Saitama, Tōkai TV, BS11, and Kids Station.
The results were then published on 25 March to 26 September 2008 on seven DVDs. On 26 March 2010 published Bandai Visual Blu-ray box.
The anime was licensed by Bandai Visual USA unusually early for the English localization. Originally, these also appear on seven DVDs in the United States as of May 2008, and due to a restructuring in the course of Bandai Visual USA merged into its parent company Bandai Entertainment, instead, a DVD box set was released by the label Anime Legends, which in August 2009 appeared.
Synchronization
Music
For the computer game, the single Tears was published in snow on 23 December 2005, which was sung by Hiromi Satō.
For a variety of Anime CDs were released. A single release of the theme music Reflectier (リフレク ティア, Refurekutia ) of eufonius appeared on 23 January 2008. This reached number 24 on the Oricon charts and remained in it for 13 weeks. This was followed on February 6, 2008, another single from the credits of Aira Yūki named Sekai no Namida (セカイノナミダ). This reached number 48 in four weeks whereabouts. On 27 February, the first True Tears Original Soundtrack Original Soundtrack was released. On 16 April 2008 came a fourth music publication entitled true tears: Sōnyūka & Image Song Shuu (true tears插入 歌&イメージ ソング 集) for the songs in the series (insert songs = sōnyūka ), at the next eufonius also Rita, yozuca should be * and kukui involved. On 25 June 2008, the radio play TV Anime "true tears" Drama CD followed (TVアニメ「 true tears 」ドラマCD ) and on to the Comiket 75 and a month later, on 30 January 2009 in regular trading true tears Kaette Kita! Kochira Tulip Hōsōkyoku (true tears帰っ て き た!こちら チューリップ 放送 局) based on the same Internet radio show, which ran from December 2007 to May 2008. A mini album called true teas: Image Mini Album - Nostalgic Arietta (true tearsイメージ ミニ アルバム~ Nostalgic Arietta ~ ) followed on 7 April 2010 with pieces of eufonius, Ayahi Takagaki, and Yuka Iguchi Kaori Nazuka. For the third anniversary eufonius published on 8 February 2012, the single prism Sign (プリズム·サイン, Purizumu Sain ).
Franchises
To the game artbook named true tears was in February 2006: First Fan Book (トゥルー ティアーズ ファースト ファン ブック, ISBN 4-86176-220-0 ) published by Broccoli. Decorated in a large format book has a circumference of 63 pages and mainly describes the characters of the game and serves as an introduction to this. In addition to many small details, it also contains the comments of players from the game.