Kudasai Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) It's a slice of life anime that's only 14 episodes long Spoiler It's about a guy who was supposed to go out on date with this girl but the girl didn't show up because she was in a accident and is now in a coma. Years go by and and the guy is dating and with her best friend. She soon comes out of her coma and everyone has to pretend that life was the same as is before otherwise she'll have a psychotic breakdown, despite the fact that at the accident she had younger sister that's now all grown up and now in high school. Anyway the guy finds out this and keeps visiting her in the hospital all the while neglecting his current girlfriend. His girlfriend gets pissed and ends up sleeping with the guy's best friend. This show has two different endings scenarios, the first is he stops seeing coma girl and goes back to his girlfriend. The second is he dumps his girlfriend for coma girl. That's the cliff notes version of I just need the name of the show. Edited December 27, 2019 by Kudasai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudasai Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 Rumbling Hearts, of course now I remember after posting this long winded incoherent thread 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 34 minutes ago, Kudasai said: Rumbling Hearts, of course now I remember after posting this long winded incoherent thread 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudasai Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 32 minutes ago, Gojira Claus said: Fixed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avec Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 3 hours ago, Kudasai said: Rumbling Hearts, of course now I remember after posting this long winded incoherent thread This sounds full of dramaaaa *added to list 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kudasai Posted December 27, 2019 Author Share Posted December 27, 2019 5 minutes ago, lesans_muse said: This sounds full of dramaaaa *added to list I love the credits theme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Glad you remembered, never heard of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 8 minutes ago, Daos said: Glad you remembered, never heard of it. I've heard of it but only knew the name and box art, would not have known what it was from the op. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cidz Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 ah good u rmb it. i instantly knew what you meant but couldnt rmb the name. man that anime was full of drama and i loved it haha. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) I assume this was based on a visual novel(prob of the 18+ only variety)? It looks/sounds like it. Maybe I'll check it out next time I have Funi if they still own it. Edited December 27, 2019 by Gojira Claus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Actually while we're on the topic of old anime we can barely remember.... Does anyone remember an anime where a rich girl.. like 10 years old or so... falls in love with a young homeless man, like 20ish... and makes him her personal assistant or something? I only saw 1 or two episodes of it 20 years ago, I just remember thinking wow... this is weird as hell. I can find no evidence that this anime ever existed from trying to search it since I have only the vaguest memory of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Daos said: Actually while we're on the topic of old anime we can barely remember.... Does anyone remember an anime where a rich girl.. like 10 years old or so... falls in love with a young homeless man, like 20ish... and makes him her personal assistant or something? I only saw 1 or two episodes of it 20 years ago, I just remember thinking wow... this is weird as hell. I can find no evidence that this anime ever existed from trying to search it since I have only the vaguest memory of it. Hayate the Combat Butler, maybe? I know next to nothing about it but that sounds like the general synopsis. It's only like 11 or 12 years old though. Edited December 28, 2019 by Top Gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Top Gun said: Hayate the Combat Butler, maybe? I know next to nothing about it but that sounds like the general synopsis. It's only like 11 or 12 years old though. No I'm thinking it's around 20 years old, maybe from when G4 was airing Crest of the Stars. The anime was more... adult looking than Hayate and the male MC had dark hair I think. If I do a search for "anime young girl makes homeless man her assistant" I get nothing but porn. "little girl reading book forced to suck adult man's cock" It was one of those shows where the little girl talks endlessly about marrying the guy when she grows up. I've never heard a thing about it or seen it mentioned so it's probably obscure and forgettable. It was English dubbed though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Was it something you saw on TV? This is a list of all the series that aired on Anime Unleashed, but nothing there seems to match your description. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) It definitely was none of those and was definitely on TV. From what I could tell from the little I saw of it, it was pure slice of life, which is rare to see on TV now, and pretty much unheard of back then. Ok I did an assload of looking and found what it was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodocha Kodomo no Omocha (Japanese: こどものおもちゃ, lit. Child's Toy), also known as Kodocha for short, is a manga series by Miho Obana. The series was adapted as an OVA by J.C. Staff and released on December 16, 1995 by Shueisha under their Ribon Video label. An anime television series was produced by NAS and TV Tokyo, animated by Studio Gallop, and broadcast on TV Tokyo every Friday from April 5, 1996 to March 27, 1998. In 2002, the manga was published in North America in English by Tokyopop as Kodocha: Sana's Stage. In 2006, Tokyopop lost the license to the manga, leaving it out of print.[2] In 2005, the first half of the anime series was licensed for North American distribution by Funimation Entertainment and has been released on DVD. In 2012, Funimation announced that their Kodocha DVDs will be going out of print.[3] Both the manga and anime have been well received by publications for different media for the character interactions and the comedy. The manga won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.[4] At the American Anime Awards held in 2007, it was nominated for best comedy anime.[5] The rich girl I remembered was..... Sana Kurata (倉田紗南 Kurata Sana) Voiced by: Chisa Yokoyama (OVA), Shizue Oda (TV series) (Japanese); Laura Bailey (English)[6] Sana is an 11-year-old child star at the beginning of the series. She is an exuberant and cheerful girl. She began sixth grade and is having a hard time at school, because a boy named Akito Hayama is causing chaos in her classroom, and she sets out to stop him and bring peace to her world. However, she soon learns that there is more to Akito than it seems. Her biological mother abandoned her after her birth and was found by Misako who then adopted her. Sana learned this when she is five years old but doesn't say anything until her mother publishes a book about it. After this, she meets her biological mother and half-sister for the first time. While she is energetic and always has a smile on her face, she has a temper and fierce determination. She never backs down from a fight, especially against Akito, who is considered to be her rival, friend, and later on, her lover. Initially, she thought that her manager, Rei, was her boyfriend, but after a fight with her mother, she realizes that she simply loved him in a platonic way. Sana began her acting career at the Komawari Theater Troupe when she was five years old, and now stars in a popular variety program called Child's Toy, and several commercials. During the course of the series, her career flourishes, and she stars in TV dramas and a feature film among other projects. Sana also deals with many ups-and-downs of show business, such as competitive co-stars, rabid fans, zealous paparazzi, false rumors in tabloids, ruthless talent managers who try to poach her, and in the anime, even an imposter. From the beginning of the series, she developed a strong friendship with Akito and gradually falls in love with him but doesn't realize it after he starts dating Fuka. They eventually start dating when they are in middle school. In a 2009 one-shot called Deep Clear, Sana asks for help from a detective.[7] In Deep Clear, Sana is separated from Akito because Akito told her to divorce him if she chooses to have the baby, but she longed to raise the baby with him. They reconcile when their daughter is born. Although they are married, Sana and Akito still argue. The homeless guy she liked was .... Rei Sagami (相模玲 Sagami Rei) Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (OVA), Ryō Naitō (TV series) (Japanese); John Burgmeier (English) Rei is Sana's manager. After being dumped by his girlfriend, dropping out of college, and his parents' death, he hits rock bottom and becomes a homeless person. While begging on the streets, Sana finds him and brings him home much like she does with stray dogs. Misako decided to keep him around the house, and he has lived there ever since, working as Sana's manager. Sana declares him as her "pimp" after reading a book which included the word, although she does not understand what it really means. In addition, Sana thinks of Rei as her boyfriend. Later, Akito tells Sana that Rei is playing with her, and sees her simply as a little girl wanting to play. Misako also tells Sana that Rei cannot be her boyfriend. This leaves Sana devastated. But after she gets over her heartbreak, Rei remains her manager and her friend. Through out the series, Sana looks up to Rei as a surrogate father as Rei looks up to her as his own child. Edited December 28, 2019 by Daos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 There's no anime I've forgotten about, mostly because I keep track of all the stuff I watch. My "I don't know what this media is" efforts are instead focused in the "late '90s/early '00s children's public broadcasting" realm, and not even /co/ has the answers to what I'm seeking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gina Szanboti Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 What are you seeking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Glad you asked! Since it's off-topic to the board, the details are under the spoiler tab. Spoiler The show I'm looking for was broadcast sometime in either the late '90s or early '00s, can't remember which decade. It aired on my local PBS station - WOSU-34 in Columbus, Ohio - at around 11 in the morning. It was part of a nameless programming block that aired between the early morning showings of PBS Kids and the 11:30/noon broadcast of Sesame Street, which consisted of syndicated low-budget educational-focused programming. I don't remember the name of the show, nor can I recall any catchy theme song. All I remember is a giant green dragon puppet - the type where the actor gets inside to control it, a la Big Bird - and a live-action male librarian in his 30's/40's with glasses, talking about the joys of reading/going to the library in rhyme. There were also several live-action kids. I tried asking around in lost media threads on /co/ a couple of times, but the only answer anyone seemed to have was Eureeka's Castle, which I knew wasn't it because the green dragon was the only puppet there and it didn't look nearly as goofy as Magellan (at least, I don't think). There's a chance it might've been Eureeka, but who knows for sure? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daos Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 It wasn't this was it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avec Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 On 12/27/2019 at 8:59 PM, Daos said: It definitely was none of those and was definitely on TV. From what I could tell from the little I saw of it, it was pure slice of life, which is rare to see on TV now, and pretty much unheard of back then. Ok I did an assload of looking and found what it was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodocha Oh wow, I would have never guessed it was Kodocha. It was a really long series following their lives that I really enjoyed. Hm, may need to look at this a little more critically on a second watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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