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Waiting in the Summer

7.7 / 10

2012

1 season

12 episodes

AnimationComedyDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

While testing out his camera on a bridge one summer night, Kaito sees a blue light streaking across the sky, only to be blown off the railing seconds later. Just before succumbing to unconsciousness, a hand reaches down to grab ahold of his own. He woke up the next morning wondering how he ended up back in his own room with no injuries or any recollection of the night before. As he proceeds with his normal school life, Kaito and his friends discuss what to do with his camera, finally deciding to make a film with it over the summer break. Noticing that Kaito has an interest in the new upperclassmen Ichika Takatsuki, his friend Tetsurou decides to invite her, as well as her friend Remon Yamano, to join them in their project. In what becomes one of the most entertaining and exciting summers of their lives, Kaito and his friends find that their time spent together is not just about creating a film, but something much more meaningful that will force them to confront their true feelings.

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Cast

Haruka Tomatsu

Nobunaga Shimazaki

Kaori Ishihara

Hideki Ogihara

Kana Asumi

Yukari Tamura

Rina Hidaka

Aya Hisakawa

Yui Horie

Ai Kayano

Yuka Iguchi

Fuyuka Ono

Seasons

1.I Can't, Senpai
6.0
10-01-201224m
While testing his high-speed film video camera, second year high school student Kaito Kirishima sees a bright blue light, then an impact has blown him off of his footing and beyond...
2.Together With Senpai...
8.5
17-01-201224m
In this episode Ichika is revealed to be an alien journeying to look for a certain scenery that she has been seeing in her imagination. She crash lands on Earth when her spacecraft...
3.Senpai Says...
8.5
24-01-201224m
Kaito seems to be frustrated with his failed attempt to confess to Ichika, so he decides to ditch school, telling her to leave him alone for awhile. Worried, Kanna goes to visit hi...
4.Senpai Was Amazing
8.5
31-01-201224m
Things turn awkward the next day, but they try to put it behind them. More complications arrive when Manami, Tetsurō's married sister, takes a homebound Kaito for shopping. Ichika...
5.Senpai Is the Heroine
8.5
07-02-201224m
Ichika becomes the heroine of the independent film the gang were planning before summer break. Kaito agrees, while helping Ichika look for that particular place she is looking for....
6.Senpai Has a Rival
8.5
14-02-201224m
As Ichika is pondering on what Tetsurō told Kaito that night, thanks to Tetsurō's sister, filming for their movie goes to Okinawa, where Kaito meets a childhood friend, and Tetsurō...
7.Senpai's Feelings
8.5
21-02-201224m
Ichika's worries are banished when she gets to the root of what's going on with Kaori and Kaito; while Miu does her best to protect Tetsurō from a ravenous Chiharu--to a point of r...
8.Senpai's Pinch
8.5
28-02-201224m
After Ichika enjoys her first Japanese festival, Lemon pops out of nowhere to challenge everyone to a test of courage at a dark shrine. During the test Rinon appears to Ichika, tel...
9.Senpai
8.5
06-03-201224m
After the incident involving the rescue drone Ichika reveals her true identity to Kaito and the gang, and reveals her true intentions on Earth, namely "looking for that place in he...
10.Senpai and Our...
8.5
13-03-201224m
As Ichika and Kaito spend some time close together (which Ichika credits to Kanna), a depressed Kanna shuts herself in her room after a visit from Tetsurō, who tells everyone that...
11.Don't Go, Senpai
8.5
20-03-201224m
Emika is retrieving Ichika because the latter is on a planet where contact with its lifeforms is forbidden under their Federation laws, and the only solution is for her to leave th...
12.Waiting There, in the Summer
8.5
27-03-201224m
Some unexpected allies have joined the cause to help Ichika and Kaito, and they pack firepower. But if Ichika and Kaito make it to the spot in her dreams, what will they do then?

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