After graduating from high school, Natsuko Hirose starts her career as an animator. Her talent quickly flourishes, and she makes her debut as a director in no time. Her first anime becomes a massive hit, sparking a social phenomenon and earning her recognition as an up-and-coming genius director. Her next project is set to be a romantic comedy movie themed around first love! However, having never been in love herself, Natsuko struggles to understand the concept of first love, and as a result, she’s unable to create the storyboard, causing the movie production to come to a standstill.
Visual Effects | Shuji Takahara | Supervising Animation Director |
Sound | Yukari Hashimoto | Original Music Composer |
Visual Effects | Kayoko Ishikawa | Supervising Animation Director |
Editing | Mutsumi Takemiya | Editor |
Visual Effects | Kayoko Ishikawa | Character Designer |
Visual Effects | Junko Suenaga | Color Designer |
Camera | Kenta Fujita | Director of Photography |
Directing | Sumie Noro | Assistant Director |
Art | Yoshiteru Tsujino | Concept Artist |
Production | Takahiro Ogawa | Line Producer |
Art | Akio Shimada | Art Direction |
Production | Makoto Tanimura | Casting Coordinator |
Visual Effects | Kazuko Hayakawa | Supervising Animation Director |
Writing | Kimiko Ueno | Series Composition |
Directing | Mitsue Yamasaki | Series Director |
Visual Effects | Etsuko Sumimoto | Supervising Animation Director |