Suzuka

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Japanese: 涼風
English: Suzuka
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Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 7, 2005 to Dec 29, 2005
Premiered: Summer 2005
Broadcast: Thursdays at 01:00 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Studio Comet
Source: Manga
Genres: DramaDrama, RomanceRomance, SportsSports
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.181 (scored by 5445054,450 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #34242
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1862
Members: 116,380
Favorites: 648

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Synopsis

Teenager Yamato Akitsuki has moved from the Hiroshima countryside to Tokyo to begin his high school career. In return for room and board, he has agreed to help his aunt and cousin run their bathhouse and the adjacent girls-only dormitory where he will be staying. On his way to meet his relatives, he passes by a local high school track and is mesmerized by a high jumper practicing her technique.

Later on, Yamato finds out that the high jumper is not just another resident of the dorm, but is also his neighbor. Suzuka Asahina is a heavily scouted track and field athlete who is attending the same high school he is enrolled in. A perfectionist by nature, Suzuka is put off by Yamato's clumsy and carefree attitude and finds it difficult to be near him.

Determined to win her over, Yamato joins the track team after discovering his hidden talent for sprinting. Through his interactions with the track team, his classmates, and the ever-inebriated college students in the dorm, Yamato finds the resolve to become a better athlete and a more suitable companion to Suzuka, even if it means pushing himself to the point of exhaustion.

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Background

Suzuka aired weekly on TV Tokyo from July 7, 2005 to December 29, 2005. The anime closely adapts the first 72 chapters of the manga, but particular changes were made to accommodate younger audiences. <br /> <br /> The anime was licensed by Funimation in North America. The company released six DVDs containing English dubbing from June 12, 2007 to January 8, 2008. Philippines TV channel Hero aired the series dubbed in Tagalog starting on December 3, 2006.

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Staff

Fukutomi, Hiroshi
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard
Hamano, Kazuzou
Sound Director


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"Start Line" by COACH☆
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Ending Theme

1: "Aoi FIELD" by COACH☆ (eps 1-14)
2: "Kimi no Koto" by COACH☆ (eps 15-26)




Reviews

Aug 10, 2023
Suzuka is one of my favourite animes. Even though its concept is really cliché i still can't get it out of my mind and move on. It is everything you can want from a romance drama with its heartwarming SoL moments to the track competitions which almost makes it feel like a shounen anime to heartbreaking drama, this anime is a masterpiece in my eyes. Objectively, it has a lot of flaws (which is why i gave it an 8). Its story is really cliché, sometimes it stretches the drama like rubber band and gives its characters unnecessary background drama most of the time. But ...
Feb 25, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Suzuka is a sporty take on the classic high school romance of its era. Its 2005 animation is retro for the modern day, along with many of its episodic plots, but the relationship between the two main leads is engaging and unique. The story utilizes a slightly melodramatic tone throughout, but never to the point of frustration.

The main female lead, the titular Suzuka, maintains her likability through the ups and downs inherent in early 2000s anime while never feeling like a flat character. She is certainly best described as a tsundere character however, which may not be appealing to every viewer. Meanwhile, our protagonist Yamato ...
Jan 27, 2023
This is a romance anime with barely any romance in it. And when romance parts do happen, they are done for the wrong reasons and just to push unnecessary, predictable and poorly written drama.

This anime has 26 episodes, 23 min per episode. That's roughly 10 hours. That is a lot of time for some. So I warmly suggest you to spend few minutes to read my review, and then decide if you want to commit 10h of your time to this anime.
First I will talk without spoilers, but later I will jump into spoiler territory (I will emphasize it).

I don't like giving it a low ...

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