| Title: | sola (TV)
そら (Japanese)
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| Overall: | Buy |
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2007, Action, Action Drama, Dark, Depression, Drama, Fantasy, Magic, Romance, Supernatural, Surreal, Swordplay, Tragedy, TV, Violent
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| Notables: |
FUJIWARA Keiji
HONDA Youko
KANEDA Tomoko
KOSHIMIZU Ami
NAKAHARA Mai
NOTO Mamiko
R1 License - Bandai
R1 License - SUB Only
SHIMIZU Ai
YAHAGI Sayuri
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Sola's story revolves around Yorito Morimiya, the main protagonist, who is a young boy attending high school. He loves taking pictures of the sky at any time of day and any time of the year. One day, Yorito decides to take a picture of the sunrise overlooking the bay, but is deterred when he meets a strange girl trying to force a vending machine that stole her money to give her what she tried to buy — a can of tomato juice. Yorito helps her with forcing the machine while attempting to strike up conversation with her, despite it being four in the morning. Yorito tells her why he is here, but by the time he has forced the can out of the machine, the girl has mysteriously vanished.
The next day, Yorito goes to visit his older sister Aono in the hospital with his friend Mana and Mana's little sister Koyori. Despite it being Aono's birthday, Yorito leaves soon after to take a photograph of the setting sun near an old church on the roof of the hospital. That night, Yorito leaves to buy groceries when it begins to rain and stops on the way home to wait for the rain to stop; while waiting, he runs into the strange girl he met from yesterday again. They talk longer this time and Yorito finally learns her name — Matsuri Shihō. A few days later, Yorito goes looking for the girl in the old church and finds a man wielding a sword before Matsuri, and then the girl flying away...
from Wikipedia, covering just the events of episode 1
[TV series, 2007, 13 episodes + 2 DVD specials, 24 min; Animation by Nomad, and the result of a collaborative effort from the story writer of Kanon and the character designer of Da Capo.]
This anime was voted "Best anime of the year" by 2 million Japanese voters at Yahoo Japan at the end of 2007, beating Lucky Star, Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn! and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai in the process.
Image left to right: Tsujidou Takeshi (back, with glasses), Kamikawa Mayuko (blonde hair), Morimiya Yorito (front); Shihō Matsuri (black hair); Morimiya Aono (light blue hair); Ishizuki Koyori (back) and Ishizuki Mana (front)
The Japanese name "そら" ("sola"; "r"/"l" is ambiguous in this language) of this series is actually derived from the female form of the Italian/Spanish word for "alone"; it has also a homophone in Japanese meaning "sky" (which is an key notion for at least half of the important characters in this series), and even the Christian concept of "anima sola (wiki)" may somehow be present in this story as well (given the nature of the yakabito).
1:37min Series Opening - YouTube Video
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