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Singles

Singles

19930h 30m

Overview

Graduating senior Sakisaka Saki is secretly in love with her older sister Noriko's boyfriend, Kazame Kaname, unaware that Noriko and Kaname have broken up. Saki hopes to escape her dilemma when she goes to college, but she ends up attending the same college as Kaname. During orientation, she is recruited to Kaname's video club. He wants to film her, but so does another boy, Tachibana Daichi, who is secretly in love with her. Can the knots be untangled and true love find its true course?

Directed by Tsukasa Abe
Written by Kenichi Araki
Produced by Masao Maruyama, Tomio Anzai
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Top Cast

Yuko Minaguchi

Yuko Minaguchi

Saki Sakisaka (voice)

Takeshi Kusao

Takeshi Kusao

Daichi Tachibana (voice)

Yasunori Matsumoto

Yasunori Matsumoto

Kaname Kazama (voice)

Yuri Amano

Yuri Amano

Noriko Sakisaka (voice)

Hideyuki Umezu

Hideyuki Umezu

Mr. Sakisaka (voice)

Roko Takizawa

Roko Takizawa

Mrs. Sakisaka (voice)

Themes & Keywords

based on mangaschool lifeshoujoanimelove polygonoriginal video animation (ova)

About Singles

Singles is a animation, romance film released in 1993 exploring themes of based on manga, school life, shoujo, anime, love polygon, original video animation (ova). Directed by Tsukasa Abe, it stars Yuko Minaguchi, Takeshi Kusao, Yasunori Matsumoto. Graduating senior Sakisaka Saki is secretly in love with her older sister Noriko's boyfriend, Kazame Kaname, unaware that Noriko and Kaname have broken up. Saki hopes to escape her dilemma when she goes to college, but she ends up attending the same college as Kaname. During orientation, she is recruited to Kaname's video club. He wants to film her, but so does another boy, Tachibana Daichi, who is secretly in love with her. Can the knots be untangled and true love find its true course?

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