
Liz and the Blue Bird(2018)
In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.



Airi Eino
Airi Hayashida (voice)

Kaya Okuno
Kaya Kikuma (voice)

Mayu Yoshioka
Mayu Shimada (voice)

Minami Tanaka
Minami Katayama (voice)

Miyu Takagi
Miyu Okamoto (voice)

Nanami Yamashita
Nanami Hisami (voice)

Yoshino Aoyama
Yoshino Nanase (voice)

Shintaro Asanuma
Kouhei Matsuda (voice)

Noriko Hidaka
Junko Tange (voice)
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