Digging a bit deeper into the expansive Funimation catalog, Crunchyroll has now added another show thanks to their partnership with No-Rin now streaming on the service. It’s in its original Japanese language with English subtitles while the dub remains on Funimation’s site. Availability for it is pretty good as it’s not an older show so it’s open to viewers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, and Premium in Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Check out our review of the series here.
The show comes from original creator Shirow Shiratori and was animated at Frontier Works. The series was directed by Shin Oonuma based on scripts and composition by Michiko Yokote.
Plot Concept: When the national idol Kusakabe Yuka suddenly retired from the entertainment business, it shocked the world and it devastated teenager Hata Kosaku. Kosaku was Yuka’s biggest fan and her departure left him depressed. His classmates at the Tamo Agriculture School finally are able to get him to leave his room and attend his class, but to everyone’s amazement, Kusakabe Yuka (her stage name) comes into the class under the name Kinoshita Ringo as a transfer student. Kosaku realizes he has the once in a lifetime opportunity to get to personally know his dream girl and, together with his group of friends, try to find out why she is here and become closer than just classmates.
