Nourin

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Alternative Titles

English: No-Rin

Synonyms: Agriculture and Forestry

Japanese: のうりん

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 11, 2014 to Mar 29, 2014

Premiered: Winter 2014

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Frontier Works

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Silver Link.

Source: Light novel

Genres: Comedy, Parody, Romance, Ecchi, School

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.85¹ (scored by 57,664 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #4148²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #947

Members: 136,099

Favorites: 203

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Winter 2014TVSilver Link.

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Synopsis

Idol-obsessed Kousaku Hata is left devastated when his favorite, Yuka Kusakabe, unexpectedly announces her retirement at the peak of an illustrious career. As Yuka’s biggest fan, this news proves to be more difficult than he can bear. Shaken to his very core, he sinks into depression and places himself in self-imposed isolation. However, on the day his friends managed to convince him to attend school again, he gets a pleasant surprise.

It turns out that his beloved idol, under the guise of Ringo Kinoshita, has transferred into his class. This miraculous development fills Kousaku with newfound resolve, as he dedicates himself to take advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With the support of his teacher and friends, Kousaku works toward getting close to the girl of his dreams and uncovering the reason for her retirement from the entertainment industry.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kinoshita, Ringo

Main

Tamura, Yukari
Japanese

Nakazawa, Minori

Main

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Hata, Kousaku

Main

Asanuma, Shintaro
Japanese

Kamatori, Kei

Main

Hatano, Wataru
Japanese

Bekki, Natsumi

Supporting

Saito, Chiwa
Japanese

Yoshida, Kochou

Supporting

Inoue, Marina
Japanese

Suzuki, Akari

Supporting

Ootsubo, Yuka
Japanese

Wakadanna

Supporting

Katou, Emiri
Japanese

Kanegami, Torao

Supporting

Higashiuchi, Mariko
Japanese

Hanazono, Kaoru

Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou
Japanese

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Staff

Oonuma, Shin

Director

Satou, Hikaru

Episode Director

Tamamura, Jin

Episode Director, Storyboard

Nihei, Yuuichi

Storyboard

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#1: "Cordless☆Dere☆PHONE (コードレス☆照れ☆PHONE)" by Yuka Kusakabe (Yukari Tamura) (ep 1)
#2: "Himitsu no Door kara Ai ni Kite (秘密の扉から会いにきて)" by Yukari Tamura (eps 2-11)

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#1: "Himitsu no Door kara Ai ni Kite (秘密の扉から会いにきて)" by Yukari Tamura (eps 1, 12)
#2: "Mogitate ♥ Fruit Girls (も・ぎ・た・て♥フルーツガールズ)" by Ringo Kinoshita (Yukari Tamura) and Minori Nakazawa (Kana Hanazawa) (eps 2, 4-7, 9)
#3: "Minori no Zokkon Mirai Yohou (みのりのぞっこん未来予報♥)" by Minori Nakazawa (CV: Kana Hanazawa) (ep 3)
#4: "Ponytail no Shijuu (ポニーテールの四十)". by Bekki Natsumi (CV: Chiwa Saito) (ep 8)
#5: "Kimi to New Day (君と＊にゅう＊DAY♡)" by Kochou Yoshida (CV: Marina Inoue) (ep 10)
#6: "Cordless☆Dere☆PHONE (コードレス☆照れ☆PHONE)" by Ringo Kinoshita (CV: Yukari Tamura) (ep 11)

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May 10, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

MarcoAlencar81 (All reviews)

301 people found this review helpful

The anime is more comedy than "romance". It has some parts with kind of drama/romantic themes but the main thing here is the comedy borderlining silly and nonsensical. Every episode was fun to watch. The characters are interesting, the main is well balanced between wacky and serious, the support characters are interesting. The main theme is very interesting, the references and self awareness are good too. I really enjoyed and I wish there was another season or more episodes.

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Mar 28, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

PyraXadon (All reviews)

101 people found this review helpful

In life, there are things that are misleading, such as commercials on TV, ads on the internet, and even, anime. There are certain things in anime that I require in order for me to really like it, and that is a good exposition, a decent amount of character development, and a nice end in the last few minutes of the series to wrap it all up. Nourin here...broke every single one of those foundations I set down for myself. In any case, here's the review.

Story (3.43/10): The story of Nourin is set in an agricultural school, where a student by the read more

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Jun 17, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Dontaskme (All reviews)

61 people found this review helpful

Who knew farming could be filled with so much passion and fun? Well, probably not as much in real life, but certainly in anime anything can be made fun, even something as mundane as farming. And oh boy, did I have fun watching this one.

With unique characters and strange, humorous twists at every episode, I was grinning most of the time. The personalities of the characters were simply and elegantly presented, allowing for easy understanding of where they were coming from and the kind of person each character was. Well, except a few. A bonus was that, amidst all of the fun, there was a read more

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Nov 1, 2014

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

Lord_Rutsah (All reviews)

30 people found this review helpful

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

Hate it! Hate it hate it hate it!

Why? The story is somewhat original, the jokes are pretty funny, the music and the animation are on pretty ok levels, the fanservice is good. But the ideology makes me want to burn rainforests, preferrably filled with endangered species.

The anime begins with our protagonist, Kosaku, 100% obsessed over a certain pop idol in Tokyo, far away from the countryside where our protagonist attends a Farmer's School (something like a regular high school with lots of focus and special lessons about various aspects of farming). The pop idol on the other hand, Ringo, is going through depression due to being forced to smile all day. After a certain point she has a mental breakdown and can't show emotions anymore. (By the way, did I mention she's practically a loli? We're talking emotionless loli here! (Y) ). She decides to take a break from the world of showbuis, and visits the place where one of her fans sent her vegetables from (reaaaaaal smooth Kosaku... Send tomatoes to the person you admire.) Anyway, she rerolls at the protagonist's school where she's trying to learn about farming in order to get over her depression (And yes it's a fact. Freud just came back from the dead so he can commit suicide!).

The supporting cast consists of the rest of the school's students, most notable of which is a classmate of the protagonist (with rediculously large b.. cleavage ... No, screw it. Her boobs are huge.) who has a crash on him and an eyeglasses dude that from the beginning to the end you will suspect of being homo. As the loli (Ringo) attends the farming school, the show throws at us the "wisdom of country folk" with Ringo learning their ways.

Let me be clear with this: I do not have anything against people from villages, farmers etc. But the way the anime is trying to force on us the "wisdom of nature and countryfolk" is making me puke. First of all, Ringo has lived in Tokyo, doing a pretty hard job there too. And after leaving Tokyo she comes to a place where she is practically taught that the ways of the "ignorant folk" in the cities are wrong (obviously the anime never 100% puts it like that, but it is kind of the general message). Most of all, I am angered by the fact that Ringo accepts this instead of reminding them that practically none of them has dared stepped out of their small community (as in, never). People, you shouldn't get life lessons from someone who hasn't left the safety of his neightbours & family for his whole life. Seriously, it's not smart.

I HATE the "noble savage" idea. I get that staying close to nature and respecting it is the right way and all that, but unless Peter Jackson directs it history has shown that our "evil corrupt civilizations" have repeatedly kicked "a$$ while a few billion "good respectful nature folk" have gone extinct. I don't have a problem with the show questioning our morals, or saying that life in the big cities may be stressfull for some, but presenting us as morons I will NOT stand for.

The animation and sound are definitely well done, the sub-plots are interesting (so long as you can avoid puking) and the fanservice is acceptable. But I really, really can't stand the idea of a pop idol dirtying herself and sweating to plant a potato while some random guy keeps giving her monologues about how the potato represents life and the ground feeds us and by-the-gods-shut-up-already!. If I were in Ringo's position I would be burying something else beneath the soil.

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