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I’m Not Going Back Now (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Boku wa Konomama Kaeranai (Japanese)
I Shall Never Return
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: shounen-ai, 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: 166 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, edit.dub:1, 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: 23 votes (sub:23)
 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 358 users, rank: #2725 (of 10145)
Median rating: So-so
Arithmetic mean: 5.380 (So-so+), std. dev.: 2.0046, rank: #9042 (of 10317)
Weighted mean: 5.298 (So-so+), rank: #9174 (of 10317) (seen all: 5.31 / seen some: 4.01)
Bayesian estimate: 5.456 (So-so+), rank: #7452 (of 7759)
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

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: Kōtarō Ran

Background Art:
Akemi Arai
Haruyuki Genda
Sadayuki Arai
Color Designation: Yūko 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
Kentarō Tanaka
Masaki Nakaya
Ryūichi 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
Yōko Kadokami
Yumi Nakayama
Music producer: Sohichiro Harada
Photography:
Hiroshi Takeda
Kōhei Utsusaki
Kyoko Satō
Nozomi Sakai
Seiji Uchida
Toyomitsu Nakajō
Yumiko Kobayashi
Yutaka Kurosawa
Production manager: Mitsuo Yagi
Production producer: Tomoko Kawasaki
Recording Adjustment: Yasunori Ebina
Sound Effects: Junichi Sasaki (Anime Sound)
Sound Producer: Kōichi 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 Ichijō as Ritsurou Yoshinari
Kōichi Tōchika as Ken Amafuji
Yūko 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
Yūji 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 staff
English companies
Translation: Yuki Urakawa
Internet Streaming: OceanVeil
Licensed by: Media Blasters
English cast
(none)

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