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Ocean Waves (special)

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Alternative title:
Flüstern des Meeres (German)
I Can Hear The Sea
Je peux entendre l'océan (French)
Słyszę szum morza (Polish)
Umi ga Kikoeru (Japanese)
Здесь слышен океан (Russian)
海がきこえる (Japanese)
海潮之聲 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: school
Plot Summary: Ocean Waves is high school love story set in Kochi, Japan. Morisaku Taku and Matsuno Yutaka are best friends when a girl from Tokyo named Muto Rikako transfers to their school. Excluding herself from group activities, she’s eventually labeled a snob. Matsuno has a crush on Rikako, so it’s no surprise that he gets a little jealous when Morisaku and Rikako start spending more time together. The rumors around school get worse, but Morisaku still insists there is nothing between him and Rikako.
User Ratings: 378 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 38 votes (sub:35, dub:2, raw:1)
 Excellent: 68 votes (sub:61, raw:3, dub:2, Spa.sub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Very good: 97 votes (sub:87, dub:4, ?:2, Rus.dub:2, raw:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Good: 94 votes (sub:85, Spa.sub:2, dub:2, ?:1, Por.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, raw:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Decent: 43 votes (sub:35, dub:4, Spa.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, Pol.sub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:16, dub:2, ?:1, raw:1, Por.sub:1)
 Not really good: 8 votes (sub:5, raw:1, dub:1, ?:1)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 581 users, rank: #966
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.534 (Very good-.46), std. dev.: 1.582, rank: #878
Weighted mean: 7.473 (Good+.47), rank: #842 (seen all: 7.49 / seen some: 6.55 / won't finish: 5.44)
Bayesian estimate: 7.474 (Good+.47), rank: #642
Running time: 72 minutes
Vintage: 1993-04-10
Premiere date:
1993-05-05 (Japan)
Releases: We have 5
Ending Theme:
"Umi ni Naretara (海になれたら; If I can be an Ocean)" by Youko Sakamoto
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 3
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Tomomi Mochizuki

Music: Shigeru Nagata

Character Design: Katsuya Kondo

Art director: Naoya Tanaka

Animation director: Katsuya Kondo

Original Novel: Saeko HIMURO

Director of Photography: Atsushi Okui

Executive producer: Nozomu Takahashi

Design: Yoshifumi Kondô

Dialect Instruction:
Sumi Shimamoto
Takeshi Watabe

Editing: Takeshi Seyama

Key Animation:
Kenichi Yoshida
Mitsuo Iso

Photography: Youichi Hasegawa

Planning: Toshio Suzuki

Sound Adjustment: Hisanori Ooshiro

Sound Effects: Masakazu Yokoyama

Theme Song Composition:
Shigeru Nagata (ED, music)
Tomomi Mochizuki (ED, lyric)

Theme Song Performance: Youko Sakamoto (ED)

 

Nobuo Tobita as Taku Morisaki

Toshihiko Seki as Yutaka Matsuno

Youko Sakamoto as Rikako Mutou

Ai Satou as Taku's mother

Aya Hisakawa as girl

Hikaru Midorikawa as Tadashi Yamao

Jun'ichi Kanemaru as Okada

Kae Araki as Yumi Kohama

Kan Tokumaru as Kawamura

Kinryuu Arimoto as Rikako's father

Reiko Suzuki as Restaurant Hostess

Sumi Shimamoto as Rikako's father's lover

Takahiro Sakurai as boy

Takeshi Watabe as Principal

Tomokazu Seki as minarai

Toshiharu Sakurai as Male student

Yuri Amano as Akiko Shimizu

Kihachiro Uemura

Mari Maruta

Rin Mizuhara

Takumi Yamazaki

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio Ghibli

Film Developing: Imagica

Ink & Paint:
Studio Killy
Studio Pierrot Fukuoka

Photography: Asahi Production

Production: Studio Ghibli

Recording Studio: APU Studio

Sound Production: Audio Planning U

Supporting Animation:
Anime Torotoro
Group Donguri
J.C. Staff
Madhouse Studios
Oh production
Studio Cockpit

German staff 
(none)
German companies 

Distributor: Universum-Films (ufa Anime)

German cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Deltamac (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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