While North American fans can ow the True Tears TV series thanks to the Discotek Media license rescue in the summer of 2016, the streaming for it hasn’t had too many options. That’s now changing as Crunchyroll has added the complete run of the show in its original Japanese language form with English subtitles. Availability for it is as you’d expect wit hit being open to viewers in the US and Canada due to how it was licensed. The show was part of the winter 2008 season and ran for thirteen episodes and saw release in North America previously through Bandai Entertainment. Bandai Visual brought it out for streaming on Hulu back in 2013. The original series from PA Works was directed by Junji Nishimura based n the series composition from Mari Okada. Yumehito Ueda handled the original character designs while Kanami Sekiguchi adapted them for the show itself.
The Japanese cast includes Ayahi Takagaki as Noe Isurugi, Kaori Nazuka as Hiromi Yuasa, Makoto Ishii as Shinichirō Nakagami and Yuka Iguchi as Aiko Andō.
Check out our review of the series here.
Plot concept: Shinichiro Nakagami is a high-school boy who lives with his parents and his childhood friend Hiromi who has been taken in by the Nakagami family one year ago. But he wonders why she’s always so reserved at home while she’s so active at school… One day, Shinichiro meets a strange girl – Noe (who has climbed up a tree in the school backyard and is unable to get down). She confesses to him that she has been unable to cry since a specific happening in her childhood…The changes from that day on in Shinichiro’s relation with Hiromi, Noe and his other friends will be depicted in an utmost delicate way, with detailed & beautiful views of their city on the Japan-sea.
