Anime 3125 Tokimeki Tonight

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Heart-Thumping Tonight

Japanese: ときめきトゥナイト

Information

Type: TV

Episodes: 34

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 7, 1982 to Sep 22, 1983

Premiered: Fall 1982

Broadcast: Thursdays at 19:00 (JST)

Producers: TOHO

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Group TAC

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Theme: Vampire

Demographic: Shoujo

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG - Children

Statistics

Score: 7.20¹ (scored by 2,594 users)

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Ranked: #3319²

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Popularity: #6400

Members: 9,930

Favorites: 48

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7.20

Ranked #3319Popularity #6400Members 9,930

Fall 1982TVGroup TAC

Synopsis

Fifteen-year-old Ranze Etou lives a normal life for any girl her age—except for the fact that she resides in a castle with a vampire father and a werewolf mother who constantly worry about her lack of powers.

On her first day at a new school, Ranze meets the beautiful Shun Makabe and falls head over heels for him. While he remains oblivious, this does not stop Yoko Kamiya, the daughter of a yakuza boss, from becoming jealous. Furthermore, Ranze's parents despise the idea of her dating a human. On top of all that, Ranze has to cope with the manifestation of a new power—the ability to shapeshift into anything she bites!

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Background

Since the television series ended years before the manga, the writers were free to write an original ending for the anime.

Related Anime

Adaptation:	Tokimeki Tonight
Summary:	Tokimeki Tonight Recaps

Tsukase, Noriko
Japanese

More staff

Staff

Sasagawa, Hiroshi

Director

Fujiyama, Fusanobu

Sound Director

Mochizuki, Tomomi

Episode Director, Storyboard, In-Between Animation

Sugii, Gisaburou

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Opening Theme

"Tokimeki Tonight" by Harumi Kamo

Ending Theme

"Super Love Lotion" by Harumi Kamo

Reviews

Jan 23, 2019

Basicpleb420

Mixed Feelings

Tokimeki Tonight is not a well-known anime (which is why there are no reviews for it). It's fallen to the wayside since it finished airing 35 years ago. Is it fair or is there more to this series than what's on the surface?

Story:
If you ever wanted an anime version of the Addams Family with your typical shoujo clichés thrown in, this is the closest you're going to get.

Due to the episodic nature of the series, don't expect any significant progress. Yes, even after the dramatic events of episodes 25 and 26, everything turns back to normal when the credits roll. Also, don't be surprised ...

Jul 21, 2021

Fritz_Monorail

Not Recommended

Preliminary (9/34 eps)

I want to preface this by saying that I did not finish this anime but I’m writing this because I’ve got plenty to say about what I did see. This review is pretty subjective and if the points I make don’t personally bother you then you might Like Tokimeki Tonight and I recommend heading over to YouTube where the whole series has been uploaded in pretty good quality.

At first glance the premise is really cool. The protagonist Ranze is an average 15 year old girl except for the fact that her mother is a werewolf and her father is a vampire ... (It's sort of like the Munsters if it was a shojo). Ranze’s parents are by far the best part of the show, and if the show was just about vampire dad and wolf-mom I probably wouldn’t have had a problem finishing the series. The problem is I think that's where it stops being interesting (at least for me.)

For the most part Tokimeki Tonight is your typical 80's shojo/gag anime. The main focus of the story is the bland protagonist girl, and her infatuation was a slightly less bland boy who won’t even give her the time of day. But this is the early 80’s and this type of plot is a shojo mainstay, especially in the early days so I won’t be too harsh on that aspect. I figured that this was just the type of mind numbing fluff my brain needed at the end of the day so I kept going. The real problem for me (and the reason why I didn’t finish it) is more complicated.

Ranze, as I've said, is a 15 year old girl. She’s in love with her classmate Shun. This would be totally fine if that weren’t her only concrete characteristic. The only other female character her age (who gets screen time) is Ranze’s classmate Yoko. It is the dynamic between these three characters that made the series unbearable for me. Ranze doesn’t do anything besides try to win the affections of Shun. She has no hobbies of interest or even any friends. Yoko’s only purpose is to serve as a rival for Shun’s affections. If Ranze had at least one female friend then maybe I could have gotten past her flaws but that's just it. The only interactions between female characters involve petty jealousy fighting over a guy who doesn’t even notice them half the time. Maybe it’s my modern sensibilities but I can’t watch a whole series where girls do nothing but fight each other like that. All i’m saying is girls shout support girls and this series made me want to watch legally blond to scrub it from my memory. You want a good old Shojo then look to the works of Ryoko Ikeda because this just isn’t it.

Because I hate to end this on a down note I will say that the opening and ending theme songs are absolute bangers and they are the whole reason why I even knew about this series to begin with. Seriously look them up; the ending in particular is way better than it has any right to be.