My Cherish Time -- Golden Time

 

Konnichiwa! How are you people! Hope you all are fine. I am sorry that I have taken sometime to update my blog here. Today I would like to introduce a new J-anime series which I am watching on TV currently. The name of the anime series is called "Golden Time". It is adapted from a light novels  series written by Yuyuko Takemiya. Then it is made into the manga series too.

 

The "Golden Time" has 24 episodes while the manga series is still going on. I am yet to read the manga series yet but I guess I would read it if I would have the time. Anyway, the story of the "Golden Time" is about a boy named Banri who has lost his memory after an accident on the day of his high school graduation. Then he has entered into a university in Tokyo and has met new friends to start his life. However, one of his female friends, Linda who was his senior was actually his girlfriend during his high school day but he has already dated with a girl named Kaga-chan already.

 

 

 

Title         : Golden Time

Genre      : Romance, Comedy, Drama

Episodes  : 24 (Completed)

Volumes  : 5 (Ongoing for manga series)

 

Story       :

Banri Tada is a newly admitted male student at a private law school in Tokyo. Due to the after-effects of a fall from a bridge shortly after his high school graduation, he has lost all of his memories prior to the accident (retrograde amnesia).

Banri finds himself completely and utterly lost after the big opening ceremonial event and tries to find his way to the freshman orientation. Along the way, he runs straight into another lost and confused freshman from the same school, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, and they immediately hit it off. Somehow arriving at their intended goal just in time, there appears in front of them a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses, who congratulates Mitsuo on getting into the school then hits him across the face with them before tossing the bouquet into his lap and leaving. This stylish, well dressed, and obsessive woman is his childhood friend, Kōko Kaga. As children, they had promised to marry each other one day, something she has taken to heart this entire time. Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this private college in order to escape from her, but she used her connections to find out about it, took the law school entrance examination, and enrolled in the college herself in order to be with him.

She meets Banri Tada and a number of other students through Mitsuo, who chafes at her constant advances. Eventually he gets very fed up and tells her off, crushing her hopes. Banri Tada who has become good friends with her since the term began offers her a shoulder to cry on. Eventually their mutual friendship blossoms into a romance and they become a couple. Meanwhile, Banri meets a college sophomore named Nana Hayashida, better known to everyone as "Linda". He and Kōko join Linda's school club without realizing that Linda is, in fact, a former high school classmate of Banri's whom he had confessed to just prior to his accident. (The reason she is a sophomore and Banri is a freshman is that he essentially lost a year of his life while recovering from the accident).

 

Characters :

Banri Tada (多田 万里, Tada Banri)

Banri is the protagonist and is a freshman studying law in a private university in Tokyo. His hometown is in Shizuoka Prefecture, and he now lives alone in a small apartment. The day after his third-year high school graduation ceremony, he fell from a bridge, and now suffers from severe retrograde amnesia, unable to remember anything from before the accident. He missed the college entrance exam and one year of school because of his hospitalization. He later meets Kōko Kaga, and falls in love with her.

 

 

Banri's Spirit (万里の霊魂, Banri no Reikon)

Declaring himself to have died at 18 years of age, he is a being seeming to be Banri's spirit. He possesses his memories from before the accident. Without anybody noticing, he has followed after Banri and has been watching over things especially how Banri always focuses on Kōko when the spirit is still in love with Linda.

Kōko Kaga (加賀 香子, Kaga Kōko)

Kōko is a freshman law student at Banri's university. She is extremely popular among boys, but has few friends, due to people being intimidated and scared to talk to her because of her beauty. To all appearances, she is the perfect lady. Since elementary school, she has been obsessed with Mitsuo, her childhood friend. In that time, she made a promise to marry Mitsuo, and ever since had been making her plans so that everything would come out perfect. After Mitsuo finally makes her understand that her feelings are not reciprocated she starts spending more time with Banri, falls in love with him and they start dating.

 

Linda (リンダ, Rinda) / Nana Hayashida (林田 奈々, Hayashida Nana)

Linda is a second-year student and member of the Japanese Festival Culture Research Society. Leaving out the details, she invites Banri and Kōko to join. She and Banri were best friends in high school, and Banri was in love with her. Although he has no memory of her, she was the reason he was on the bridge he fell from, waiting for her to either reject or accept his love with "yes" or "no". It is later revealed that she still has feelings for Banri when she met him outside the hospital he escaped from while her being represented to have enormous guilt towards Banri's accident before losing his memories. She even tells him it was already too late for her to reach him and save him by holding his hands tight. When Banri asks her what message she wants him to deliver, Linda talks about supporting him to do his best yet she adds she must not talk that way and therefore changing what she wants to tell him afterwards. Banri currently doesn't remember her final words, however.

 

Mitsuo Yanagisawa (柳澤 光央, Yanagisawa Mitsuo)

Mitsuo is a freshman studying law in the same university as Banri. After the entrance ceremony, heading for freshman orientation, he gets lost on the campus, and meets and befriends Banri. Banri calls him "Yana-san" (ヤナっさん). He has been the target of Kōko's obsessive, one-sided affection since their elementary school years. He secretly took the exam to this university in an attempt to escape from her. He lives alone in an apartment three train stops away from Banri's. Mitsuo has a crush on Chinami and even confessed to her at a party, only to be rejected, since she thought it was an alcohol-fueled joke. He later becomes romantically interested in Linda.

 

 

Chinami Oka (岡 千波, Oka Chinami)

Chinami is a short female student, and member of the Film Research Society. She is a voice actress, voicing very young girls. Chinami is the object of Mitsuo's desire who confessed to her at a party, but she turned him down later saying it "doesn't count as a real confession." She is despised by Kōko a lot, although she knows Kōko actually doesn't want to admit Chinami is now a friend because of her pride. She is later shown to be always approached by Kōko as if the two girls are best friends already. She later falls in love with Mitsuo after realising his crush on Linda.

 

Actually I like this J-anime series as the story is interesting and the art is good. All the characters are nice, especially Banri and Kaga is pretty and cute. Sometimes I feel pity for her as she did not have any friends as only chase after Mitsuo in the beginning. Later I am happy that she has found her truth love, Banri! :)

 

Another character I like is Chinami, as she is a petite person and she looks cute. Overall, all the characters have their own characteristics! :P

 

OK, let us take a peek of "Golden Time" below.

 

 

The reason I like to the "Golden Time" is its story is attract me and I also like the art of the anime series as I think it is beautiful. Thus, I introduce to you all. I am enjoying watching it and I hope you all would do so.

 

Should you want to watch the Cherish time of the couples, click into Golden Time. Well, if you would like to read the manga series, you may read  Golden Time Manga Series.

 

Hope you would enjoy watching/reading! ^.^