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Sakura Diaries (OAV)

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[ adapted from Sakura Tsuushin (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Sakura Mail
Sakura Tsuushin (Japanese)
桜通信 (Japanese)
櫻通信 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: A Keio University (one of the top three colleges in Japan) exam candidate, Touma Inaba, is interupted when a cute young girl, Urara Kasuga, arrives at his hotel room door. She later turns out to be his cousin who he barely remembers from his childhood. Urara, who had felt something special for him (an other-than-cousinly-love), invites Touma to live with her since he has no place to stay other than the hotel room. Before taking the test, Touma meets Meiko Yotsuba, a beautiful, sophisticated woman also trying to get into Keio. Meiko gets into Keio but Touma does not, due to a cold Urara had given him shortly before. Although he did not make it, he pretends he does to earn the respect of Meiko. Touma is caught up in a love triangle with Urara and Meiko, while struggling to keep Meiko believing he's really a Keio student and still be there for Urara at the same time.
User Ratings: 289 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 7 votes (sub:4, dub:3)
 Excellent: 23 votes (sub:16, dub:4, Ita.dub:1, edit.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Very good: 54 votes (sub:36, dub:15, Spa.sub:2, ?:1)
 Good: 90 votes (sub:58, dub:24, Por.sub:3, ?:2, Spa.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, raw:1)
 Decent: 55 votes (sub:39, dub:14, Spa.dub:1, Por.sub:1)
 So-so: 15 votes (sub:13, dub:2)
 Not really good: 16 votes (sub:13, dub:3)
 Weak: 17 votes (sub:12, dub:4, ?:1)
 Bad: 5 votes (sub:3, dub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 639 users, rank: #883
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.4913 (Decent+.49), std. dev.: 1.9723, rank: #2519
Weighted mean: 6.3561 (Decent+.35), rank: #2513
Bayesian estimate: 6.39531 (Decent+.39), rank: #2244
Running time: 24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
1997-05-21
1998-11-09 to 1999-09-30 (TV broadcast)
Releases: We have 6
Opening Theme:
"Kimi no Mado Kara (From Your Window)" by Takako Kuwata
Ending Theme:
"Love Rides on the Wind" by Takako Kuwata
Comment:
Series was released in two formats in Japan. It was first released on the video market in Japan with nudity that is more comparable with those of the manga it is based on, and later it was aired on TV with certain scenes in the first three episodes cut or edited to bypass broadcast censors. There are Region 1 releases for both of these versions.
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Related releases:
    Sakura Diaries - Collector's Edition (DVD) 2001-12-04
    Sakura Diaries - Secrets & Lies (DVD 1) 2005-09-27 (from $22.49)
    Sakura Diaries - Love & Kisses (DVD 2) 2005-11-29 (from $22.49)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Tsuguo Ozara

Screenplay: Takefumi Terada

Music: Mitsuo Hagita

Character Design:
Kunitoshi Okajima
Toshiaki Kobayashi

Art director:
Hitoshi Nagao
Yukiko Nishimaki

Animation director:
Hideko Saito (OP)
Hiroyuki Yanagise
Keiji Sasaki
Masayuki Yanase (ED)
Nobuyuki Takeuchi
Tsuguo Ozawa

Sound director: Yasunori Honda

Executive producer:
Hideaki Kaneko
Hiroshi Wakao (Shaft)
Shoji Himuro
Toru Taga

Producer: Kunitoshi Okajima

Color design: Yoko Mitsuhashi

Music Composition: Keiichi Sogabe

Music Director: Meri Kanbayashi (Victor Entertainment)

Music producer: Hideaki Kaneko (Victor Entertainment)

Original Concept & Story: Ujin

Planning: Hiroshi Tazumi

Theme Song Performance: Takako Kuwata

 

Kyoko Hikami as Urara Kasuga

Mitsuaki Madono as Touma Inaba

Mako Hyoudou as Koumi Natsuki

Rumi Kasahara as Meiko Yotsuba

Kunihiko Yasui as Tatsuhiko Mashu

Masa Saito as Touma's Mother

Masamichi Ota as Keisuke

Miho Yamada as Girl on TV (Ep. 1)

Mizue Ohtsuka as Mother A (Ep. 1)

Naoki Tatsuta as Koji Akimoto

Osamu Hosoi as TV Announcer (Ep. 1)

Sho Saito as Touma's Mother

Takayasu Usui as Coach

Japanese companies 

Animation: SHAFT

Backgrounds: Studio Tulip

Film Processing: Imagica

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Production:
Kitty Films
Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.
Victor Entertainment

Recording Facility: AVACO Creative Studios

Sound Production: Arts Production

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director:
Charles Campbell
Gary Dehan
Janice Williams (2005 dub)

Art director: Laura Attwell

ADR Script:
Clint Bickham (2005 dub)
Don Foreman
Lowell B. Bartholomee

Executive producer: John Ledford

Producer:
Charles Campbell
Gary Dehan
Lowell B. Bartholomee

DVD Producer: Sharon Papa

Editing: David Grundy

Logo Design: Hiroko Fukumori

Production Assistant:
Akiko Yoshii
Andrew Kent
Kelly Jean Beard
Maki Nagano
Masami Takahashi

Production Coordination: Janice Williams

Production manager: Lisa J. Miller

Production Secretary: Anna Bechtol

Project Translator: Stephanie Box

Promotion: Rod Peters

Sound Design: Paul Killam

Subtitle Script: Lowell B. Bartholomee

Subtitle Timing: Neal Barnes

Lauren Worsham as Urara Kasuga

Mariela Ortiz as Urara Kasuga (2005 dub)

Martin Burke as Touma Inaba

Robert Martinez as Touma Inaba (2005 dub)

Monica Rial as Mieko Yotsuba (2005 dub)

Rebecca Davis as Meiko Yotsuba

Alton Hebert as Choro's Teacher

Carie Esquenazi as Concession Stand Clerk

Charleton Hoffman as Grubby Guy

Chris Ayres as Koji Akimoto (2005 dub)

Chris Patton as Mashu Tatsuhiko (2005 dub)

Christopher Pryce as Kiyomichi Tashiro

Cyndi Lou Williams as
Alicia
Touma's Mother

Daniel Joseph Staub as Touma's Baseball Coach

Dara Aylor as Erika

Don Toner as
Mieko's Father
Opposing Coach

Gray G. Haddock as Mashu Tatsuhiko

Guy Roberts as Ken

Heather Barfield as
Kohmi's Teacher
Mashu's Party Guest

Helmut Dirkenschneider as TV Anchorman

Jeff Baird as Choro

John Bull as Touma's Father

Jon Wiley as Fila Man

Judi Becker as
Aunt Ari
Becker
Judi

Kelly Manison as Touma's Mother (2005 dub)

Ken Webster as Urara's Father

Kira Vincent-Davis as Koumi Natsuki (2005 dub)

Larissa Wolcott as Koumi Natsuki

Les McGehee as Koji Akimoto

Luci Christian as Erika (2005 dub)

Meredith Robertson as
College Advisor
Mashu's Party Guest

Mike Bradecich as Ryo

Samantha Inoue-Harte as Students

Traci L. Goudie as TV Porn Star

Walter Dow as Mashu's Party Guest

Anne Iverson

Boon Sheridan

Charles Campbell

Christa Kimlicko Jones

Gary Dehan

J.P. Stingley

Judi Becker

Kyma Priess

Lana Dietrich

Marco Noyola

Margaret Hoard

Markell Pool

Shelley Calene-Black (2005 dub)

Shelly Lange

Stephanie Ila Silver

Stewart McGregor

English companies 

ADR Production: Monster Island

Broadcaster: The Anime Network

Distributor: ADV Films (UK) (UK)

DVD Authoring: AIX Media

DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C. (Director's Cut)

Licensed by: ADV Films

Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios


French staff 
(none)
French companies 

Distributor: Dybex

French cast 
(none)
Spanish staff 
Spanish companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Locomotion

Spanish cast 
(none)

Italian cast 
Italian staff 

Executive producer: Francesco Di Sanzo

Alessandro Quarta as Touma Inaba

Barbara De Bortoli as Meiko Yotsuba

Federica De Bortoli as Urara Kasuga

Alida Milana as Komi

Francesco Bulckaen as Tatsuhiko

Luigi Ferraro as Koji

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: Cultoon (from March 2009)

Distributor: Dynamic Italia

Dubbing: Dynamic Italia

Portuguese staff 
Portuguese companies 
(none)
 

Broadcaster: Locomotion Brazil (Subbed)

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

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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