I Shall Never Return (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Boku wa Konomama Kaeranai (Japanese)
Our Road of No Return
Нам нет пути назад (Russian)
ぼくはこのまま帰らない (Japanese)
Genres: drama, romance
Themes: yaoi
Plot Summary: It is about Ken Amafuji who longs to tell his best friend Ritsurou Yoshinari, how he really feels. In the way of that admission is Ritsurou's girlfriend, Moeko. After dropping out of high school, Ken gets Ritsurou to live with him. The angst begins when Ken sleeps with Moeko to get to Ritsurou.
User Ratings: 164 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Very good: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Good: 29 votes (sub:27, dub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Decent: 36 votes (sub:32, dub:2, raw:1, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 So-so: 33 votes (sub:31, dub:2)
 Not really good: 21 votes (sub:21)
 Weak: 16 votes (sub:15, dub:1)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 355 users, rank: #2497 (of 8571)
Median rating: So-so
Arithmetic mean: 5.396 (So-so+), std. dev.: 2.011, rank: #7533 (of 8684)
Weighted mean: 5.315 (So-so+), rank: #7658 (of 8684) (seen all: 5.33 / seen some: 4.01)
Bayesian estimate: 5.463 (So-so+), rank: #6293 (of 6563)
Running time: half hour
Number of episodes: 1
Vintage: 1994-06-21
Release dates: We have 1
Ending Theme:
"innocence" by Harukichi Yamamoto
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DVD (Region 1)
    I Shall Never Return (Sub.DVD) 2007-02-13 (from $7.49)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Katsumi Minoguchi
Screenplay: Megumi Sugihara
Storyboard: Katsumi Minoguchi
Music: Harukichi Yamamoto
Original creator: Kazuna Uchida
Character Design: Yumi Nakayama
Art Director: Yoshinori Hirose
Animation Director: Yumi Nakayama
Sound Director:
Fusanobu Fujiyama
Hideo Takahashi
Director of Photography: Katsuyuki Ohtaki
Producer: Kotaro Ran

Background Art:
Akemi Arai
Haruyuki Genda
Sadayuki Arai
Color Designation: Yuko Kanemaru
Editing: Naoyuki Masaki
Finish Animation:
Chiharu Ueno
Hiromi Hagiwara
Jiro Sano
Keiko Yanagisawa
Yuki Nariai
Yumiko Noda
In-Between Animation:
Akiko Funagoshi
Hideo Iwatsuki
Hiroaki Ikehara
Hiroki Okamoto
Hiromi Furuhara
Kazumi Takaishi
Keiko Ijima
Kentaro Tanaka
Masaki Nakaya
Ryuichi Baba
In-Between Check: Takako Kōno
Key Animation:
Hideki Hosokawa
Hiroshi Kosuga
Kazuya Saitō
Mariko Aoki
Misao Abe
Nagisa Miyazaki
Naoko Yamamoto
Shinichi Miyamae
Shinsuke Terasawa
Toshiko Baba
Yoko Kadokami
Yumi Nakayama
Music producer: Sohichiro Harada
Photography:
Hiroshi Takeda
Kohei Utsusaki
Kyoko Satō
Nozomi Sakai
Seiji Uchida
Toyomitsu Nakajo
Yumiko Kobayashi
Yutaka Kurosawa
Production manager: Mitsuo Yagi
Production producer: Tomoko Kawasaki
Recording Adjustment: Yasunori Ebina
Sound Effects: Junichi Sasaki (Anime Sound)
Sound Producer: Kouichi Iizuka
Special Effects: Gō Abe
Theme Song Arrangement: Harukichi Yamamoto
Theme Song Composition: Harukichi Yamamoto
Theme Song Lyrics: Kazuna Uchida
Theme Song Performance: Harukichi Yamamoto
Kazuya Ichijou as Ritsurou Yoshinari
Kouichi Toochika as Ken Amafuji
Yuko Nagashima as Moeko Kobashi

Ai Maeda as Woman C
Kanako Okada as Woman D
Kaoru Morota as Woman B
Kazunari Tanaka as Kazuyoshi Iwasaki
Mariko Okada as Woman A
Miho Yoshida as Ken's Mother
Nobuo Tobita as Furukawa
Yuji Machi as Store Owner
Japanese companies
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Backgrounds: White Map
Film Developing: Tokyo Laboratory
Finish Animation: Studio March
Production: Soft Garage
Recording Studio:
KSS
Studio Echo
Sound Effects: Anime Sound Production
English cast
English staff
Translation: Yuki Urakawa
(none)
English companies
Licensed by: Media Blasters

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