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Looking Up At The Half-Moon (TV)

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© Tsumugu Hashimoto / Mediaworks•PONY CANYON


Alternative title:
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora (Japanese)
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora - looking up at the half-moon (Japanese)
HanTsuki (Japanese)
半分の月がのぼる空 (Japanese)
半分の月がのぼる空 - looking up at the half-moon (Japanese)
Genres: drama, romance
Themes: hospital, tragedy
Plot Summary: During the winter, Yuichi was hospitalized due to hepatitis. Randomly he would try to escape from the hospital but would get beat up by the nurse. One day, he happened to meet Rika, a girl of his age, in the next building. He was fascinated by her beauty, but she was very selfish girl. Although she led him by the nose, he began to be attracted by her. However, when Rika told him about her illness, he knew why she acted so selfish; she didn't have long to live.
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User Ratings: 2375 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 649 votes (sub:627, dub:9, raw:2, ?:1, others:10
3 Spanish subtitled
2 German subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 823 votes (sub:789, dub:14, raw:2, others:18
11 Spanish subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Italian subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 444 votes (sub:408, dub:10, raw:2, ?:1, others:23
8 Spanish subtitled
3 Polish subtitled
2 Italian subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
2 German subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Russian dubbed
)
 Good: 250 votes (sub:231, dub:9, raw:3, others:7
2 Italian subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 107 votes (sub:100, raw:1, dub:1, others:5
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Vietnamese subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
)
 So-so: 43 votes (sub:42, ?:1)
 Not really good: 19 votes (sub:19)
 Weak: 20 votes (sub:19, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Bad: 12 votes (sub:12)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 3050 users, rank: #355 (of 10072)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.514 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.528, rank: #174 (of 10256)
Weighted mean: 8.432 (Very good+), rank: #184 (of 10256) (seen all: 8.46 / seen some: 7.33 / won't finish: 4.22)
Bayesian estimate: 8.427 (Very good+), rank: #84 (of 7745)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 6
Episode titles: We have 6
Vintage: 2006-01-12 to 2006-02-23
Release dates: We have 5
Opening Theme:
"Aoi koufuku" (青い幸福) by Kotani Nobuko
"Aoi Koufuku" by Nobuko
Ending Theme:
"Kioku no kakera" (記憶のカケラ) by Nobuko Kotani
"Kioku no Kakera" by Nobuko
Links: We have 1
Review:
Looking Up at the Half-Moon Sub.DVD (May 1, 2015)
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North American Anime, Manga Releases, April 5-11 (Apr 7, 2015)
Right Stuf's Lucky Penny Adds Looking Up at the Half-Moon (Nov 12, 2014)
Crimson Star Acquires Looking Up at the Half-Moon Anime (Jun 29, 2013)
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Bost Launches Global Anime Video-on-Demand from Japan (Nov 26, 2007)
Bost Announces Global Anime Video-on-Demand from Japan (Nov 23, 2007)
Press Releases:
Lucky Penny Entertainment Announces Upcoming DVD Release of Looking Up at the Half-Moon (Jan 15, 2015)
Right Stuf, Inc. Acquires Looking Up at the Half-Moon (Nov 12, 2014)
'Direct From the Source' - BOST Launches Anime Video-on-Demand Site (Nov 23, 2007)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Looking Up at the Half-Moon - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) delayed/cancelled
    Looking Up at the Half-Moon - Complete Collection (Sub.DVD) 2015-04-07 (from $33.48)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yukihiro Matsushita
Series Composition: Katsuhiko Takayama
Script:
Katsuhiko Takayama (eps 1-6)
Storyboard:
Kōichi Takada
Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Yukihiro Matsushita
Episode Director:
Katsuyoshi Yatabe
Masayuki Iimura
Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Yutaka Hirata
Music: Shinkichi Mitsumune
Original creator: Tsumugu Hashimoto
Character Design: Makoto Kohara
Art Director: Takashi Nakamura
Chief Animation Director: Makoto Kohara
Animation Director:
Kenji Hattori
Makoto Kohara
Takuji Yoshimoto
Sound Director: Takahiro Enomoto
Director of Photography: Yōichirō Satō
Producer: Tatsuya Ishiguro

Background Art:
Bo Ae Lim
Byung Hee Ye
In Hwan Park
Jun Ho Jang
Kyung Suk Kim (eps 1-6)
Mi Sun Choi
Sun Hak Jeon
Sung Suk Han
Color Check: Kazumi Hasegawa (Studio Toys; eps 1, 3, 5-6)
Color design: Kazumi Hasegawa
Color setting: Kazumi Hasegawa (Studio Toys; eps 1, 3, 5-6)
Digital Paint:
Kumi Nishimura
Shinichi Kaneko
Editing: Yūji Oka
In-Between Animation:
Atsushi Satō
Kaori Yamada (ep 2)
Kazuhiro Ozawa
Kazuya Matsushita
Natsumi Yoshida
Key Animation:
Emiko Shimamura
Hayato Hashiguchi (Wish)
Hirokazu Hayami
Hiroyuki Kamura
Junichi Kigawa (Tanto Doga)
Junko Matsushita
Kaori Nakamura
Kazuhiro Sasaki (eps 1, 4)
Kazuyuki Toshida (Tanto Doga)
Kyoko Kametani
Mamiko Nakanishi (Dogakobo)
Marie Nagano
Masaaki Sakurai
Masahiro Suwa (Tanto Doga)
Mitsuhiro Okumura
Satomi Yamanaka
Shinichiro Suzuki
Toshihiro Kawagami
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Yoshimi Imagawa (Tanto Doga; ep 2)
Yoshinori Takahashi
Yūji Tanaka (Last House)
Yukari Watabe
Yukiko Miyamoto
Music Performance:
Masanori Hirohara (Trombone)
Motoko Fujiie (Violin)
Sachie Ōnuma (Viola)
Planning:
Hiroyuki Kitaura
Naoko Koyama
Theme Song Arrangement: macado
Theme Song Composition: Dai Aizawa (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Dai Aizawa (OP)
Haiji Hirano (ED)
Theme Song Performance: Nobuko Kotani (OP/ED)
Kenichi Suzumura as Yuichi Ezaki
Mikako Takahashi as Rika Akiba

Nobuyuki Kobushi as Tsukasa Sekoguchi
Yuki Kodaira as Akiko Tanizaki

Akira Sasanuma as Tamotsu Yamanishi
Hiroaki Hirata as Goro Natsume
Katsuhiro Kitagawa as Kakusei Chikamatsu (ep 4)
Kōji Yada as Yoshizo Tada
Kotomi Iwamura as
Announcer (ep 1)
Manami Kaneko (ep 5)
Weather reporter (ep 2)
Mami Horikoshi as Rika's Mother (eps 3, 6)
Masaya Takatsuka as Tetsu Sekoguchi (ep 6)
Miyu Matsuki as Sayoko Natsume (eps 5-6)
Sanae Kobayashi as Misako Yosano (eps 4-5)
Tomo Shigematsu as Head nurse (eps 3, 5)
Yoshikazu Nagano as
Attending Physician (ep 2)
Edlery Man
Tajima (ep 5)
Yoshikazu Hirose (ep 1)
Yuichi's Father (eps 3, 6)
Yuki Matsuoka as
Female reporter (ep 2)
Miyuki Mizutani
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
Fan Out
Garan
Muses
Studio Cj
Wish
Animation Production: Group TAC
Background Art:
Studio SEY
Studio Uni
Broadcaster: WOWOW
Digital Paint:
EASIA
Muses
Studio Angle
Studio Cj
Studio Elle
Studio Toys
Tanto
Triple A
In-Between Animation:
EASIA
Group TAC Digital Room
Muses
Studio Angle
Studio Cj
Studio Wanpack (ep 2)
Tama Production
Tanto
Triple A
Key Animation:
Dōga Kōbō (eps 2, 5)
Last House (ep 5)
Studio Cj (ep 5)
Studio Wanpack (eps 2, 5)
Tanto (eps 2, 5)
Wish (eps 2, 5)
Photography: Group TAC Digital Room
Production: Pony Canyon
Recording Studio: Seion Studio
English staff
English companies
Translation: Neil Nadelman
Executive producer: Shawne Kleckner
Producer: Kris Gero

Assistant producer: David Olsen
Packaging Design: Greg Hillsman
Distributor: Lucky Penny Entertainment
Internet Streaming:
BOST Digital Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand; expired)
Crunchyroll
Licensed by:
Crimson Star Media (cancelled)
The Right Stuf International
English cast
(none)

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