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TV PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Barakamon
ばらかもん · 2014
An angry calligrapher gets exiled to island life.
StatusFinished Airing
SeasonSummer 2014
StudioKinema Citrus
SourceWeb manga
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Synopsis
Seishuu Handa is a talented young calligrapher with a temper problem, and after punching a respected critic who called his work boring, he gets shipped off to a remote island village to cool down and think about what he's done. What he finds instead is a community of relentlessly nosy neighbors, chief among them a six-year-old girl named Naru who treats his house as her personal playground. Slowly, and against his own considerable resistance, island life starts sanding down his ego and teaching him something about art that no amount of technical perfection ever did.
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Adapted from Satsuki Yoshino's manga by Kinema Citrus, Barakamon earned praise for its warm, funny handling of creative burnout and the specific loneliness of chasing technical mastery at the expense of everything else. Its rural setting, based on the Goto Islands, is rendered with genuine affection, and the local dialect used by the village characters became a notable part of the show's charm. It's frequently recommended to viewers wanting a slice-of-life comedy with real emotional substance underneath the jokes, and it holds up as one of the more grounded portrayals of an artist's creative crisis in anime.
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1442nd Key Animation28
ADR Director1
Animation Director10
Art Director1
Assistant Animation Director4
Assistant Producer4
Background Art2
Character Design1
Chief Animation Director3
Color Design2
Director1
Director of Photography1
Episode Director8
Executive Producer1
In-Between Animation4
Key Animation46
Music1
Original Creator1
Planning1
Principle Drawing1
Production Manager1
Series Composition1
Sound Director1
Sound Effects1
Special Effects1
Storyboard8
Theme Song Arrangement2
Theme Song Composition1
Theme Song Lyrics1
Theme Song Performance2
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