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Just Because! (TV)

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Alternative title:
ジャストビコーズ (Japanese)
Genres: drama, romance
Plot Summary: For a group of high school seniors, a chance reunion with a transfer student will change the course of their final year. Eita Izumi has come back to his hometown after four years and encounters some unlikely acquaintances: Haruto Soma, Eita’s childhood friend; Ena Komiya, the photography student who witnesses Eita and Haruto's reunion; Mio Natsume, whose feelings for her middle school crush still linger; and Hazuki Morikawa, a girl who seems uninterested in romantic relationships. When the paths of these five cross, their fates turn in a way none of them could have seen coming.
User Ratings: 165 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (sub:6, raw:1)
 Excellent: 22 votes (sub:17, dub:4, raw:1)
 Very good: 55 votes (sub:42, dub:5, raw:4, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Vietnamese subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Good: 42 votes (sub:37, dub:5)
 Decent: 29 votes (sub:25, dub:3, others:1
1 Russian dubbed
)
 So-so: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 237 users, rank: #3475 (of 9583)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.394 (Good+), std. dev.: 1.3059, rank: #2210 (of 9705)
Weighted mean: 7.306 (Good+), rank: #2357 (of 9705) (seen all: 7.33 / seen some: 6.35 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.319 (Good+), rank: #2063 (of 7286)
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2017-10-05
Opening Theme:
"over and over" by Nagi Yanagi
Ending Theme:
"behind" by Nagi Yanagi
Official website:
Trivia: We have 1
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Just Because! - Complete Collection (Blu-ray) 2019-02-26 (from $74.69)
    Just Because! - Complete Collection (Blu-ray) 2022-12-13 (from $33.29)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Atsushi Kobayashi
Series Composition: Hajime Kamoshida
Storyboard:
Atsushi Kobayashi (9 episodes
eps 1-5, 8, 10-12
)

Erkin Kawabata (ep 11)
Fumio Maezono (ep 8)
Haruki Nagai (ep 2)
Hiroyuki Hata (ep 9)
Hiroyuki Morita (ep 7)
Kouhei Hatano (ep 2)
Masami Shimoda (ep 8)
Miyana Okita (ep 2)
Naotaka Hayashi (eps 5, 10)
Ryohei Takeshita (OP)
Susumu Nishizawa (eps 2, 6)
Taizo Yoshida (ep 4)
Episode Director:
Atsushi Kobayashi (ep 12)
Erkin Kawabata (ep 12)
Kazuomi Koga (6 episodes
eps 2, 5-7, 9, 11
)

Kei Miura (ep 4)
Kouhei Hatano (ep 2)
Makoto Sasaki (ep 8)
Mitsuhiro Yoneda (eps 6, 9, 12)
Naotaka Hayashi (eps 5, 10)
Tatsuya Nokimori (ep 6)
Tsutomu Murakami (ep 3)
Yasushi Muroya (ep 2)
Yayoi Takano (ep 7)
Yūsuke Sunouchi (eps 1, 11)
Yuuta Takamura (ep 10)
Unit Director: Ryohei Takeshita (OP)
Original Character Design: Kiseki Himura
Character Design: Hiroyuki Yoshii
Art Director: Yuka Okamoto
Chief Animation Director:
Akira Takata (eps 3-4, 7, 9)
Kenji Terao (LUNCH BOX; eps 2, 6, 10)
Tetsuo (ep 5)
Animation Director:
Ai Ogata (ep 4)
Anna Yamaguchi (ep 4)
Eiko Mishima (ep 4)
Goro Taki (LUNCH BOX; eps 2, 6, 10)
Hikari Sakano (ep 3)
Hiromi Sakamoto (eps 5, 7-9, 12)
Hiroshi Tatezaki (eps 8, 10-12)
Hiroyasu Oda (LUNCH BOX; eps 2, 6)
Kana Ishida (ep 9)
Keiichi Honda (ep 4)
Keiya Nakano (ep 1)
Madoka Ozawa (eps 5, 8-12)
Maki Fukui (6 episodes
eps 5, 7-8, 10-12
)

Makoto Gohda (LUNCH BOX; ep 6)
Mari Futamatsu (ep 7)
Masahiko Komino (LUNCH BOX; eps 2, 6, 10)
Masahiro Sekiguchi (eps 5, 8-11)
Mayumi Hidaka (eps 5, 8-9, 11)
Midori Nakamura (ep 8)
Miyoko Shikibe (ep 3)
Naoko Minai (ep 4)
Noriyuki Imaoka (eps 9, 11-12)
Shin'ya Segawa (ep 12)
Shoko Muroyama (6 episodes
eps 5, 7-8, 10-12
)

Shuhei Fukuda (LUNCH BOX; eps 2, 6, 10)
Shunryō Yamamura (ep 5)
Tatsuya Urano (ep 10)
Yuki Hishinuma (ep 2)
Yūshi Tanaka (eps 10, 12)
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Director of Photography: Katsuto Ogawa (chiptune)
Producer: Keisuke Fukunaga

2nd Key Animation: Kyoko Yufu (OP; eps 1-2, 9)
Art Setting: Hidetoshi Kaneko
Assistant Animation Director: Noriyuki Imaoka (eps 8, 10)
Assistant Chief Animation Director: Kanna Hirayama (ep 5)
Background Art: Taketo Gonpei (Imagnet; ep 3)
Color design: Yasuji Sakagami
Editing: Megumi Uchida
Foley: Hanae Takagi
Key Animation:
Atsushi Kobayashi (OP; ep 12)
Daichi Nakajima (ep 9)
Hideyuki Satake (ep 4)
Hironori Tanaka (eps 1, 7, 11)
Kyoko Yufu (7 episodes
eps 2, 5-6, 8-10, 12
)

Noriyuki Imaoka (OP; ep 12)
Shū Sugita (OP)
Takeshi Moriyama (ep 5)
Yū Yoshiyama (ep 8)
Yutaka Araki (ep 1)
Music producer: Nagi Yanagi
Production Advancement: Kōichi Naruse (ep 7)
Recording Adjustment: Ayumu Anzai
Recording Assistant: Natsumi Okada
Sound Effects: Tsutomu Ueno
Sound Production Manager: Rie Tanaka
Theme Song Composition:
Katsutoshi Kitagawa (OP)
Nagi Yanagi (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics: Nagi Yanagi (OP, ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Carin Isobe (ED)
Lynn (ED)
Nagi Yanagi (OP)
Yuna Yoshino (ED)
Aoi Ichikawa as Eita Izumi
Carin Isobe as Mio Natsume
Lynn as Ena Komiya
Taishi Murata as Haruto Sōma
Yuna Yoshino as Hazuki Morikawa

Arisa Sakuraba as Yoriko Inui
Daiki Kobayashi as Kaoru Yamaguchi
Junichi Yanagita as Tōru Shimizu
Kōhei Amasaki as Junpei Saruwatari
Reina Kondo as Tōka Suzuki
Sayaka Senbongi as Mayuko Satō
Shōta Yamamoto as Rikuto Ishigaki
Tōru Ohkawa as Watanabe-sensei
Yuka Nukui as Sanae Takahashi

Asuna Tomari as Brass Band Junior B (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 9, 12
)
Ayaka Asai as Mina Natsume (eps 8-11)
Chiaki Kobayashi as
Baseball Club Junior (ep 5)
Junior High School Boy (ep 7)
Daiki Nakamura as Eita's Father (eps 1, 7)
Eizō Tsuda as Yoto's grandfather (ep 5)
Haruka Shiraishi as Brass Band Junior A (5 episodes
eps 1-2, 6, 9, 12
)
Hiromichi Tezuka as
Haru (eps 5, 7)
Teacher (ep 4)
Hiroshi Karasuda as Middle-aged Man (eps 6-7)
Ikuji Nose as Shindo (eps 5, 7, 9)
Keiko Sonoda as Mio's mother (eps 2, 9, 11)
Kengo Takanashi as Nakajima (eps 1, 11-12)
Kenta Sasa as Gondo (ep 5)
Kōichi Sōma as Vice-principal (ep 1)
Kyō Yaoya as Yoto's Grandmother (eps 2-3, 5)
Mami Amano as Yoto's Mother (ep 2)
Mariko Higashiuchi as Female Announcer (ep 7)
Mie Sonozaki as Eita's Mother
Misaki Watada as Mutsuki Morikawa
Mitsuru Ogata as Mio's Father (ep 11)
Nozomi Furuki as Joyo Morikawa
Ryōko Maekawa as Broadcasting Department Manager (eps 1, 3, 10)
Ryou Sugisaki as Komada (eps 5, 7, 9)
Satsumi Matsuda as
Mitsuru Morikawa
Track and Field Club Junior (ep 12)
Tatsuhiro Kikuchi as Saiki (eps 5, 7, 9)
Tomori Kusunoki as Broadcasting Staff (eps 1, 10)
Yasuaki Takumi as Ena's Older Brother (eps 4, 8)
Japanese companies
2D Works: Chiptune
3DCGI: Chiptune
Animation Production: PINE JAM
Background Art:
Atelier Musa (OP; eps 8, 10)
Design Office MECAMAN
E-cho
NARA Animation
PEEC Animation (7 episodes
eps 1-2, 5-8, 10
)

Ending Production: 10GAUGE
Key Animation:
Anihouse Sun (ep 4)
Seven Seas (ep 2)
Studio Nine Lives
Photography: Chiptune
Production Cooperation:
Arvo Animation (ep 3)
Lapin Track (ep 7)
NUT (ep 4)
English staff
English cast
Blake Shepard as Haruto Souma
Brittney Karbowski as Ena Komiya
Greg Cote as Eita Izumi
Luci Christian as Mio Natsume
Patricia Duran as Hazuki Morikawa

Adam Gibbs as Junpei Saruwatari
Andrew Love as Rikuo Ishigaki
Cat Thomas as Yoriko Inui
Christina Kelly as Sanae Takahashi
Josh Morrison as Mr. Watanabe
Mike Haimoto as Kaoru Yamaguchi
Scott Gibbs as Toru Shimizu
Skyler Sinclair as Mayuko Satou
Stephanie Wittels as Momoka Suzuki

Bryson Baugus as Nakajima
Christie Guidry as Musuki
Courtland Johnson as Haru (eps 5, 7)
Ian Sinclair as Komada (ep 5)
John Gremillion as Saeki (eps 5, 7)
John Swasey as Gondo (ep 5)
Kira Vincent-Davis as Mitsuru Morikawa
Maggie Flecknoe as Mina Natsume
Mike Vance as Shindo (ep 5)
Shannon Emerick as Yuzuru Morikawa

English companies
Broadcaster: Animax Asia
Distributor: Section23 Films (North America)
Internet Streaming:
Amazon Prime Video
Anime Strike (United States)
HIDIVE (UK, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands and Scandinavia; Subtitled)
Hoopla
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks
Production: Sentai Studios
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Distributor: Dynit
Internet Streaming: VVVVID
Italian cast
(none)
German cast
German staff
(none)
Benjamin Stolz as Eita Izumi
Betty Förster as Mio Natsume

Amira Leisner as Momoka (8 episodes
eps 1, 4-6, 9-12
)
Annette Potempa as Yoriko Inui
Dennis Saemann as Haruto Souma
Felix Mayer as Junpei (7 episodes
eps 1, 3, 5, 9-12
)
Jana Dunja Gries as Mayuko (8 episodes
eps 1, 4-6, 9-12
)
Michael Borgard as Tooru (7 episodes
eps 1-3, 6, 9-11
)
Nadja Godzina as Sanae (7 episodes
eps 1, 4-6, 9, 11-12
)
Signe Zurmühlen as Hazuki Morikawa
Vivien Faber as Ena Komiya

Ali Marcel Yildiz as Nakajima (eps 1, 11-12)
Hans-Gerd Kilbinger as Haruto's Grandfather (ep 5)
Helen Blaschke as Mutsuki Morikawa (eps 1-4, 8)
Inga Sibylle Kuhne as Haruto's Grandmother (eps 2-3, 5)
Julia von Tettenborn as Haruto's Mother (eps 2, 5)
Kerstin Kramer as Mina Natsume (eps 4, 7-11)
Silke Linderhaus as Eita's Mother (8 episodes
eps 2, 4-7, 9-10, 12
)
Stefan Naas as Eita's Father (eps 1, 7)
Susanne Reuter as Mio's Mother (eps 2, 7, 9, 11)
Thomas Krause as Vice Principal (ep 1)
Thomas Balou Martin as Watanabe-sensei (5 episodes
eps 1, 3, 5-6, 9
)
German companies
Distributor: Kazé Germany
Dubbing: G&G Tonstudios
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE (Brazil)
Portuguese cast
(none)

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