Anime 9055

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Japanese: たまゆら

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 4

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Sep 6, 2010 to Dec 6, 2010

Producers: Shochiku, TYO Animations, flying DOG, BIGLOBE, RAY

Licensors: Nozomi Entertainment

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Source: Original

Genre: Slice of Life

Themes: CGDCT, Iyashikei

Duration: 18 min. per ep.

Rating: G - All Ages

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Score: 7.18¹ (scored by 15,649 users)

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Ranked: #3413²

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Popularity: #3292

Members: 44,872

Favorites: 129

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7.18

Ranked #3413Popularity #3292Members 44,872

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Synopsis

As a child, Fuu "Potte" Sawatari and her late father would often visit his hometown of Takehara and take pictures of the surroundings together. Now, five years since their last visit, Fuu and her family have moved to the town so that she can start attending high school. Although her father has been deceased for some time, Fuu carries on his legacy through her love of photography and the pictures she takes with his old camera.

Believing that photographs have the power to turn the ordinary into something wonderful, Fuu and her friends grab every opportunity they can to capture the magic of everyday life on film and bring happiness to someone in the world who might need it.

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Adaptation:	Tamayura
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Opening Theme

"Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta Nara (やさしさに包まれたなら)" by Maaya Sakamoto

Ending Theme

	1: "Melody (メロディ)" by Megumi Nakajima (eps 1-3)
	2: "Natsudori (夏鳥)" by Megumi Nakajima (eps 4)

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Aug 13, 2022

Libido_Kamen

Recommended

The work is primarily focused on establishing the main character Fuu's relation with the setting, as it ties into her role as an aspiring camerawoman, which ties in directly to a loose plot intrigue surrounding her father and a memory of a picture that was taken of him and the question of that picture's location. This means that Tamayura does not function much as a slice of like work in these OVAs, but more a series of stories, each with clear beginning, middle, and end, which have tangible takeaways and punchline style resolutions to themes pondered throughout the episode. The characters have enough strong characterization, ...

Mar 29, 2016

PhKay

Mixed Feelings

Tamayura is a short OVA series by Studio Hal Film Maker. The studio adapted the manga into four 18-minute long episodes in 2010. HFM does not receive a lot of attention lately, but Tamayura is mainly a Slice of Life and since this studio blessed the SoL fans of this world with the famous Aria series, I thought I look into Tamayura as well and see what´s going on.

The Anime is about a clumsy and shy girl named Fuu Sawatori who recently moved to her late father´s hometown where she makes new friends and memories together with her new friends and her little brother. As ... she is into photography like her dad who passed away five years ago, she captures the memories she makes with her camera and tries to get closer to her father through this hobby.

Now this anime does not keep you in the dark of what it´s all about for very long. Right from the start, director Satou Junichi makes clear he wanted to produce a little feel good anime. Indeed, it is a perfect show to watch after a stressy day. It´s calm, slightly melancholic and cute…a little too cute to be honest. While overreacting to whatever is going on is very common in anime, Tamayura goes a bit over the top in this regard, turning the girls into annoying human beings at times (Beware of the Cake eating scenes!) Anyway, I did not mind once the story developed. This takes a while I have to say as nothing is going on at all in the first episode. Things get more enjoyable as the series progresses though.

As for the characters, I wished the other girls would get more important roles, but they are treated as supporting cast only and their only job is to help out and accompany Fuu. This is a shame as at first sight they seem to be at least as interesting as our main girl.

Better parts of this anime are definitely the beautiful sceneries. While the animation itself is average, a lot of love for details can be found in the nature and the places the group goes. Those are always accompanied by the most laid back and quiet music playing in the background, creating a very relaxing atmosphere all the way through.

But the best part of Tamayura is that there are many sequels with full length episodes! The whole series consists of much more material then just those four OVAs. They basically just serve as a teaser while still managing to conclude the story of these OVAs at the same time, giving you a chance to spend an hour to see if Tamayura is for you or not.

While it is not the greatest Slice of Life ever, it has its highlights and it is definitely not bad. Just go watch it and then decide if you want or need more!

Dec 24, 2010

du5k

Not Recommended

I must say I'm a fan of slice-of-life series, since I can appreciate the slow pacing of the show and simply enjoy of atmosphere created by the series. I loved Hidamari Sketch and Aria. I even liked series like Sketchbook and Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, though they was never my favourites. But I cannot seem to enjoy what Tamayura has to offer.

First of all, the setting never really got to me. I have a bit of interest in photography, but I've never got the least interested while the cast is on the subject. Secondly, the cast is really, really boring. Fu and Kou are the only ...

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