Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Fujisaki, Shiori (Main) - Voice Actors: Kingetsu, Mami
• Ijuuin, Rei (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tsunoda, Narumi
• Katagiri, Ayako (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kawaguchi, Masayo
• Kisaragi, Mio (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sekine, Akiko
• Nijino, Saki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sugawara, Sachiko
• Tatebayashi, Miharu (Supporting)

Staff:

• Kamegaki, Hajime (Director)
• Iwanami, Yoshikazu (Sound Director)
• Kingetsu, Mami (Theme Song Performance)
• Shiramine, Mitsuko (Theme Song Lyrics)
• Kudo, Hideaki (Background Art)
• Matsumura, Masahiro (Editing)
• Motohashi, Hideyuki (Character Design)
• Nagasaki, Hitoshi (Art Director)
• Nagaya, Yuriko (Key Animation)
• Nozaki, Hiroki (Sound Effects)
• Ohiwa, Rieko (Background Art)
• Okutani, Shuuko (In-Between Animation)
• Saitou, Hiroshi (In-Between Animation)
• Shiba, Minako (Key Animation)
• Takada, Sachiyo (In-Between Animation)
• Tokiya, Yoshinori (Animation Director, Key Animation)
• Yokomatsu, Norihiko (Background Art)

Reviews:

• User NerdicWarrior (Score: 6/10):
  I'll be honest, I've known of Konami's 1994 game Tokimeki Memorial for a good number of years now. I know it's a dating sim game and I've known of the game's lead female character/poster girl Shiori Fujisaki. That being said, my knowledge of the game stops there since I have never played it. Which means that I pretty much went into the OVA adaptation with no knowledge on the game's story or any of it's characters. After conducting a little research for this review, I learned that the game's story basically bolis down to this: You play as a student at the Kirameki Private High School whichShiori Fujisaki, who is also the player character's childhood friend, also attends. The protagonist also learns of a legend passed throughout the school that couples who confess their love under the school's Tree of Legend (Seriously?) on their day of graduation will be blessed with eternal happiness. From then on, the game basically has you date any number of the game's female characters in the hopes of one of them confessing her love to you in the end.nThe OVA adaptation, released in 1999, pretty much follows the basic plot of the game but puts Shiori in the protagonist role and focusses on her struggles to confess her feelings to a faceless male student at school (basically the player character from the game) all throughout her graduation year. In between Shiori's arc are some insights to the lives of some of the other girls who attend Kirameki High who are also dealing with their own issues, such as the tomboyish Nozomi Kiyokawa who loves swimming and sports and is also struggling with her own feelings of love and Megumi Mikihara, Shiori's boy-shy best friend. Oh, and there's also some mystery girl who keeps mistakenly phoning Shiori who is also struggling with expressing her feelings to the same male student Shiori has feelings for but doesn't specify who the boy she's in love with is which leads to Shiori cheering her on in confessing her feelings to said boy.nnThe story isn't exactly anything special and is pretty much your cliche melodramatic romance shtick of a bunch of cute girls in high school all crushing on the same boy. What keeps this from turning into a typical harem anime is that we never actually get to see the boy the girls are crushing on nor do we see any kind of character interaction with him. Characters don't really get any form of development through the story other than dealing with their feelings and having to pick up the pieces from any inevitable heartbreak that happens. Not to mention the OVA makes sure that every character from the game gets an appearance with some not having any form of involvement within the story and being relegated to simple speaking cameos. But hey, it's not like anime based on fighting games haven't done the same thing.nWhich brings me to another issue of this anime is that it assumes that…

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External Links:

• AniDB
• ANN

Related Anime/Manga:

• Tokimeki Memorial: Only Love (anime - Parent Story)