encyclopedia
forum
username password login remember me | register
menu_news
menu_views
menu_encyclopedia
menu_video
menu_forum
menu_myann

Asatte no Houkou (TV)

Have you seen this? want to / seen some / seen all

[ adapted from Asatte no Houkou (manga) ]

Alternative title:
A Direction of the Day After Tomorrow
В другую сторону (Russian)
あさっての方向。 (Japanese)
後天的方向 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Plot Summary: Karada is a young girl who hates being treated like a child and who wishes to be grown up. Shoko is an aloof, unhappy young woman who has just returned from overseas. When they meet by coincidence one night at a local shrine where they both like to make wishes, they exchange ages.
User Ratings: 455 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 30 votes (sub:26, dub:3, raw:1)
 Excellent: 103 votes (sub:95, Spa.sub:5, raw:2, ?:1)
 Very good: 126 votes (sub:114, raw:4, dub:4, Fre.sub:2, Ger.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 115 votes (sub:111, dub:2, Spa.sub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 44 votes (sub:37, raw:4, dub:2, Ger.sub:1)
 So-so: 21 votes (sub:20, dub:1)
 Not really good: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 825 users, rank: #732
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.611 (Very good-.38), std. dev.: 1.4707, rank: #786
Weighted mean: 7.526 (Very good-.47), rank: #789 (seen all: 7.63 / seen some: 7.06 / won't finish: 5.52)
Bayesian estimate: 7.525 (Very good-.47), rank: #594
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2006-10-05 to 2006-12-21
Releases: We have 1
Opening Theme:
"Hikari no Kisetsu" by Suara
Ending Theme:
"Sweet Home Song" by Yuumao
Trivia: We have 1
In the news 4 times:
You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Katsushi Sakurabi

Series Composition: Seishi Minakami

Screenplay:
Seishi Minakami
Tatsuhiko Urahata

Storyboard:
Hideyo Yamamoto (ep 11)
Katsushi Sakurabi (4 episodes

eps 1, 4, 10, 12
)
Kazuya Komai (ep 3)
Kiyotaka Ohata (eps 2, 8)
Kouichi Takada (eps 5, 9, 12)
Manabu Nakamura (eps 6-7, 10)

Episode Director:
Daisuke Takashima (eps 1, 5, 10)
Kazuo Yamada (ep 12)
Kenichiro Watanabe (ep 3)
Masahito Otani (ep 8)
Masami Furukawa (eps 4, 9)
Toshiaki Miki (ep 6)
Toshikazu Hashimoto (eps 2, 7, 11)

Music: Shinkichi Mitsumune

Original creator: J-ta Yamada

Character Design: Ikuko Ito

Art director: Shichiro Kobayashi

Chief Animation Director:
Shinya Hasegawa
Tomoko Ito

Animation director:
Akiko Nakano (eps 4, 9)
Hiroyuki Kaidou (ep 6)
Kazunori Iwakura (eps 2, 11)
Masahiro Fujii (eps 7, 12)
Mitsuharu Kajigaya (ep 10)
Ryoichi Oki (eps 1, 3, 8)
Shinya Hasegawa (ep 12)
Sumie Kinoshita (eps 5, 10)
Tomoko Ito (eps 1, 3)
Tsuyoshi Kawada (eps 8, 11)

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka

Director of Photography: Kazuya Iwai

Producer:
Katsumi Koike
Ken Ookawara
Kozue Kaneniwa
Rie Tanabe
Shinya Tagashira

2nd Key Animation: Mai Matsuura

3D CG: Kentaro Ono

Assistant producer:
Megumi Tsukada
Yuko Fujino

Background Art:
Akira Kuramoto
Osamu Imai
Yoko Saito
Yoshio Ito

Clean-Up Animation:
Akihiro Nakagawa
Akiko Uchida
Ayako Suenaga
Ayako Takahashi
Kyousuke Ishikawa
Maya Muranaga
Mayumi Misehashi
Miho Kimura
Miyuki Ishida
Noboru Yoneda
Syouko Mori
Tomomi Andou
Yukie Noguchi

Clean-up Inspection:
Kyousuke Ishikawa
Miho Kimura

Color setting: Maya Muranaga

Colour Design: Mayumi Tanahashi

Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama

Ending Animation: Yuko Ito

In-Between Animation:
Emiko Kobayashi
Mami Shimizu
Takehiko Kageyama
Tomoko Kameyama

In-Between Check:
Hiroki Okamoto
Nobuko Hagino
Takako Kawano
Yoshiko Shimizu

Key Animation:
Akiko Nakano
Ayumi Hasegawa
Erika Uchiyama
Hirokazu Hayami
Hiroshi Tomioka
Hiroshi Yoneda
Kazuyuki Ueda
Keiko Umino
Megumi Tokuda
Michio Satô
Miho Kojima
Miki Kato
Noriko Yoshida
Rumi Miyata
Ryoichi Oki
Shinsuke Yasuda
Shougo Yamaguchi
Soichi Higuchi
Sumie Kinoshita
Takeshi Morita
Yukiko Miyamoto
Yuko Ito

Opening Animation:
Fusako Nomura
Hiroshi Tomioka
Katsushi Sakurami
Kazuhiro Koyama
Sumie Kinoshita
Tsuyoshi Kawada
Yuki Imoto
Yuko Ito

Photography:
Hiroshi Hayashi
Jun Shiota
Kazuya Iwai
Yutaka Kurosawa

Planning:
Naohiro Futono
Norihisa Abe
Satoshi Kawano
Shigeru Tateishi
Shunji Inoue
Yoshihisa Nakayama

Planning Collaboration:
Daisuke Kobayashi
Keiko Watanabe
Makoto Hagimori
Yoshimi Nakajima

Publicity:
Mika Saiki
Mizuho Tanaka

Recording Adjustment: Ryoji Kameda

Recording Assistant: Megumi Igarashi

Sound Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama

Special Thanks To: Yuichi Yamada

Theme Song Arrangement:
Kaoru Okubo (OP)
Tomoki Kikuya (ED)

Theme Song Composition:
Michio Igasa (OP)
Yuumao (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics:
BABY FAZE (OP)
Yuumao (ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Suara (OP)
Yuumao (ED)

Video Editing: Akihiro Kanetaka

 

Ayumi Fujimura as Karada Iokawa

Shizuka Itou as Shōko Nogami

Akeno Watanabe as Tōko Amino

Ami Koshimizu as Kotomi Shiozaki

Katsuhito Nomura as Tetsumasa Amino

Satoshi Hino as Hiro Iokawa

Akane Murakami as Restaurant owner (ep 8)

Atsushi Imaruoka as Taxi driver (ep 8)

Azuma Sakamoto as Friend B (ep 5)

Fumi Oda as Harue Amino

Hajime Iijima as Karada's father

Iho Matsukubo as Old lady (ep 3)

Izumi Kikuchi as Yuka Isogai

Jin Domon as Takumi Yoshimura

Kenichi Mine as Staff (ep 7)

Miho Miyagawa as
Child B (ep 5)
Mother (ep 7)

Mio Yasuda as Karada's mother

Naoki Koshida as Customer (ep 6)

Tadahisa Saizen as Masao Okudera

Taku Kimura as
Shipping man (ep 3)
Youth (ep 8)

Takuma Suzuki as Tadashi Isogai

Yoshimasa Hosoya as Night-life man (ep 7)

Yuko Gibu as Child A (ep 5)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: J.C. Staff

Background Art: Kobayashi Production

Broadcaster: TBS (2006-10-05)

Clean-Up Animation:
BJ
cube A motion
Frontline
Nendai Animation

In-Between Animation:
BJ
cube A motion
Frontline
Nendai Animation
TNK
Xebec

Key Animation:
Anime Aru
BJ

Music Production: Lantis

Production: Asatte Production Committee

Sound Production: Rakuonsha

English staff 
English companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster:
Animax Asia
Animax India

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

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited by the users of this site
DISCLAIMER add information report an error lookup sources

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anime anthology