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Final Approach

Final Approach

Alternative Titles

Japanese: φなる・あぷろーち

Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 3, 2004 to Dec 26, 2004
Duration: 12 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
L represents licensing company

Statistics

Score: 6.981 (scored by 4491 users)
Ranked: #21702
Popularity: #584
Members: 7,484
Favorites: 24
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Popular Tags

comedy romance

Synopsis

Ever since their parents died a few years ago, Ryo and his sister Akane have been living alone together. Despite their difficult situation, they are still living reasonably happy and normal lives. However, everything is about to be flipped upside-down due to a secret government project. Due to increasingly low birth rates in Japan, the Japanese government is testing a program in which two young people are forced to marry. Ryo wants no part of it, but he is given little choice in the matter; his new fiancée, Shizuka, comes to his home late one night with several dozen government issued bodyguards, who are there to ensure the success of the new couple. Unlike Ryo, Shizuka couldn’t be more willing to go along with this new program, and eagerly goes about her wifely duties, despite his objections. With meddling friends, pushy bodyguards, and an overenthusiastic new fiancée, Ryo’s life has taken a turn in a direction the young man certainly didn’t expect. (Source: ANN)

Characters & Voice Actors

Masuda, Shizuka
Masuda, Shizuka
Main
Nogawa, Sakura
Japanese
Nogawa, Sakura
Mizuhara, Ryo
Mizuhara, Ryo
Main
Kishio, Daisuke
Japanese
Kishio, Daisuke
Meno, Yurika
Meno, Yurika
Supporting
Minaguchi, Yuko
Japanese
Minaguchi, Yuko
Mizuhara, Akane
Mizuhara, Akane
Supporting
Matsuki, Miyu
Japanese
Matsuki, Miyu

Staff

Hashimoto, Miyuki
Theme Song Performance
Nishimata, Aoi
Original Character Design


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Jan 15, 2009
VoDKa
Final Approach is a romantic comedy with a total runtime of 2.6 hours (13 episodes X 12 minutes each). I can understand why the anime is short because it would make little sense for it to be any longer since the story and events of this show are quite simple. Although this is not the best anime out there, I have to say that it is not bad at all. It really depends on the audience. I am not really into the whole romantic comedy genre but I do not detest it either. I think this is one of the reasons why I liked this read more
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Jun 19, 2009
cheriipai
Either bashing my cranium against a solid, brick wall because the main character, Ryo Mizuhara, is ceaselessly making stubborn and defiant choices -even though he is completely aware of hurting his fiancée's feelings- or because his fiancée, Shizuka Masuda, is almost annoyingly hell-bent on receiving affection from someone who obviously does not care, I'll have to admit that (most-importantly) my head seems to be in relatively good shape, despite a solid beating(s). And since my skull-bashing proved to be ineffective time-after-time, I could actually sit and enjoy some of the finer moments that Final Approach had to offer.

Yes, it has the long-running and omnipresent anime read more
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Recommendations

Both animes are about a boy who suddenly finds out he is engaged to a complete stranger and the girl that the boy is engaged to trys her best to the boy to like her and towards the end both of the boys end up warming up to the girlz!
Akane-iro ni Somaru saka is to Final Approach as DearS is to Chobits. In other words I forget which is which so can't really tell you much except they are so similar that they both merged into one anime [in my mind] after watching them.

Opening Theme

"Kimiiro Palette" by Sakura Nogawa

Ending Theme

"Love, Fate, Love" by Hashimoto Miyuki

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