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Tokimeki Memorial Only Love(ときめきメモリアル Only Love,Tokimeki Memoriaru Only Love) is a Japanese anime series produced by Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., based on Konami's popular Tokimeki Memorial dating simulation series, specifically Tokimeki Memorial Online. It premiered October 3, 2006 across Japan on TV Tokyo. The anime series ended its run on March 27, 2007 with 25 episodes. The DVD release includes an additional episode (occurring between episodes 17 and 18) and a special compilation episode for a total of 27 episodes.
The anime main line story revolves around a second year high school student, Riku Aoba, who has just recently transferred to Holy Cross High School, where he notices, upon joining, several unique and funny occurrences, often being the target of a series of events and races administered by the student council and its fun-seeking president.
While at the academy, Riku meets the original Tokimeki Memorial Online characters and the story begins.
Main characters
Riku Aoba(青葉陸,Aoba Riku)
Voiced by: Mamoru MiyanoAn anime original character as the main protagonist of the story. A second-year student at class 2-A and Sayuri's classmate. Before transferring to Tsugumi, Riku used to live in a snowy harbour in the northeast of Hokkaido. He is often a target of a series of bizarre events and races administered by the school council. Tsukasa, Sayuri, and Mina compete for his affections.
Sayuri Amamiya (天宮小百合,Amamiya Sayuri)
Voiced by: Yuki MakishimaOne of the main heroines. A second-year student at class 2-A. Graceful and intelligent, Sayuri is an extremely popular girl at school, and is talented in academics and sports (and surprisingly video games) , often being the subject of admiration from several of the school's male students. Numerous legends have been told of the greatness of her actions in the past year. She falls deeply in love with Riku after noticing he treats her like he treats everyone and she can be herself around him, though she has been hiding her true feelings from everyone's knowledge, including Riku's.
Tsukasa Kasuga (春日つかさ,Kasuga Tsukasa)
Voiced by: Yukako YoshikawaOne of the main heroines. A second-year student at class 2-B, Tsukasa is a highly skilled member of the school's volleyball team. She is a believer in destiny, and falls in love with Riku almost immediately after bumping into him one day, declaring that Aoba is her boyfriend from that point on. She is also a bad cook. She successfully changes this by learning from the home economics teacher. However she skips several of the classes afterwards and her cooking becomes terrible again.
Mina Yayoi (弥生水奈,Yayoi Mina)
Voiced by: Saki FujitaOne of the main heroines. A first-year student at class 1-C, Mina is a member of the school's swimming team. She loves dolphins and is quite shy. She appeared first in the school library, Aoba helped her reach a book about dolphins. After Aoba agrees to become her coach, she falls in love with him. She is very nervous to confess her true feelings to him. Also because of her love of the sea life she quite reluctant to prepare food from the sea.
Second-year students
Yūsuke Kayama (加山優介,Kayama Yūsuke)
Voiced by: Hiroyuki YoshinoAoba's classmate and friend. He collects and stores data on several girls of the school on his laptop, and often has numerous legends about Sayuri to share with Riku and his friends. He appears to be the typical anime otaku. He also has a strange fascination with girls who are in sports.
Itta Suzuki (鈴木一太,Suzuki Itta)
Voiced by: Anri KatsuAoba's classmate and friend, nicknamed Icchi, often seen with Yūsuke.
Ayame Shiina (椎名あやめ,Shiina Ayame)
Voiced by: Saori GotōSayuri's classmate. She is a member of the school's volleyball team, and is good friends with Sayuri, Tsukasa, Yūka, Sakura, and Tsubaki, often concerned with their well-being.
Yūka Fujikawa (藤川優花,Fujikawa Yūka)
Voiced by: Sayuri YahagiSayuri's classmate. She is good friends with Sayuri, Ayame, Sakura, and Tsubaki.
Sakura Shinjō (新条さくら,Shinjō Sakura)
Voiced by: Yuka IguchiSayuri's classmate. She is a member of the school's swimming team. She is good friends with Sayuri, Ayame, Yūka, and Tsubaki.
Tsubaki Yoshino (吉野椿,Yoshino Tsubaki)
Voiced by: Ai ShimizuSayuri's classmate. She is an honor student. She is good friends with Sayuri, Ayame, Yūka, and Sakura.
Kyōhei Dōjima (堂島凶平,Dōjima Kyōhei)
Voiced by: Takashi NagasakoAoba's classmate, who sits next to Riku in class. Very large and muscular, he often wears a shirt with the name Maddog etched on it. Swearing to protect Sayuri from other boys, he introduces himself to Riku by trying to hurt him, (but is instead severely beaten by Hiyokokko), thus being convinced that Riku is worthy enough to protect Sayuri. Before hand, Aoba and his friends were afraid of him, however, later on he became very close with them and vice versa. He shares Yusuke's fascination of girls who play sports.
Kōya Inukai (犬飼洸也,Inukai Kōya)
Voiced by: Hiroki TakahashiSits next to Riku in class. He appears to be cold and distant from his other classmates even to his teachers, but is far kinder and warmer than he appears. His hobbies include painting and caring for small animals. Riku and him become good friends, which the latter won't actually admit but subtly.
Third-year students
Haru Sakurai (桜井晴,Sakurai Haru)
Voiced by: Ryōhei NakaoThe school council president, who is often engaged in arranging several strange and bizarre events, often involving Riku as the target. He appears to be much lazier or less responsible than expected as he tried to avoid work concerning the Cultural Festival and asked Riku to take part with helping in the Festival (This was possibly to lessen his own work load).
Ichirō Ishiuchi (石打一郎,Ishiuchi Ichirō)
Voiced by: Kishō TaniyamaThe captain of the school's baseball team. Extremely hyperactive, he is an extremely determined sportsman not willing to concede defeat to anyone. He has a very dangerous fastball pitch.
Ryōichi Kamino (神野領一,Kamino Ryōichi)
Voiced by: Katsuyuki KonishiThe captain of the school's track and field team. An extremely fast runner, Kamino is a narcissist who thinks extremely highly of himself.
Koayu Utsumi (内海小鮎,Utsumi Koayu)
Voiced by: Miyu MatsukiThe captain of the school's swimming team. A fast swimmer, skilled in the butterfly stroke, she is quite sensitive on the subject of her large and plump breasts, which are often the object of deep admiration from several of the school's male students, who queue up behind the swimming complex inching to get a glimpse of her. The extra episode on the DVD release is focused on her.
Hiromi Otama (大珠裕美,Otama Hiromi)
Voiced by: Megumi ToyoguchiThe captain of the school's female volleyball team. A strict leader, she is highly skilled in volleyball and has a very powerful spike. The least eccentric of the 3rd year sports captains (for instance, when the other 3rd year sports captains schemed on recruiting Riku Aoba by any means necessary, Hiromi refused to participate, however, this was due to the fact that Aoba is a male and her team is a FEMALE team).
Staff
Haruka Wakatake (若竹遥,Wakatake Haruka)
Voiced by: Hekiru ShiinaThe homeroom teacher of class 2-A. Very supportive and gentle, she gets along very well with her students. She plays the Community Game Tokimeki Online (A play off the series itself and the original online game). She fell in love with one of the online players named Adachi Sumio. However, she believed that the player was Sayuri after noticing the same character on the computer screen that Sayuri was using and her initials are the same as the character. She finds out straight from Sayuri it wasn't. In actuality it was Matsuoka-sensei who created the character. This, however, is unknown to her. Naomi, Harinui, and herself are shown to be good friends.
Yūko Harinui (針縫由布子,Harinui Yūko)
Voiced by: Mai KadowakiThe home economics teacher, who is quite supportive and gentle. She has helped Tsukasa improve her cooking skills. She apparently loves to drink alcohol. Haruka, Naomi, and herself are implied to be good friends.
Ryuichi Yagen (薬研粒一,Yagen Ryuichi)
Voiced by: Daisuke KishioThe science teacher. Often wearing a surgical mask, he is apparently quite concerned with the students' health, often designing numerous experimental drinks to assist them. He's also quite the inventor, as he made an advanced robot sphere-shaped garbage collector, but it went out of control and was possessed by an evil spirit. He is also tends to over do any task given to him as he made the haunted house tent five times bigger than it should have been.
Misao Kurotokage (黒十影操,Kurotokage Misao)
Voiced by: Nobuo TobitaThe drama and music teacher. A cross dresser. Quite harsh on the assessment of his students' singing and acting abilities, he believes Riku has potential to be a talented actor.
Fumihiko Kinosaki (城崎文彦,Kinosaki Fumihiko)
Voiced by: Atsushi ImaruokaThe literature teacher, who appears to be quite ill almost everyday. However this could be a ruse as Naomi, the school doctor, pointed out that he appears to be in good health.
Hiromi Akaboshi (赤星浩美,Akaboshi Hiromi)
Voiced by: Atsushi ImaruokaThe gym teacher. Armed with a massive temper and a wooden kendō stick, the students have nicknamed him Akaoni-sensei(赤鬼先生, lit. Red demon teacher) including the teachers such as Haruka.
Jun'ya Matsuoka (松岡純也,Matsuoka Jun'ya)
Voiced by: Takashi MitoThe computer science teacher. Very supportive and intelligent, he gets along very well with his students. Appears to be the most sane amongst the school staff. He is a user of the Community Game Tokimeki Online using a character named Adachi Sumio (A Japanese take on the name Adam Smith). After playing online with Haruka's character, he becomes interested with her. However, he does not know it is Haruka controlling the character and neither does Haruka know it is Matsuoka.
Naomi Hoshina (保科直美,Hoshina Naomi)
Voiced by: Masumi AsanoThe school's female doctor, who is quite calm and composed, yet with an attitude. Haruka, Harinui, and herself appear to be good friends. She always butting in people's business.
Chairman's secretary (理事長秘書,Rijichō hisho)
Voiced by: Mitsuki SaigaThe woman with the largest chest in the whole school and is actually in charge of the high school instead of the headmaster. She always cutting off the vice principal when he tries to make a statement or speech
Vice-Headmaster (教頭先生,Kyōtō-sensei)
Voiced by: Kunihiro KawamotoThe school's headmaster. An old man with thick glasses and a reddish nose, he is often interrupted by the secretary when trying to speak.
Shop lady (購買部のおねえさん,Kōbaibu no Onēsan)
Voiced by: Chiwa SaitōThe young cafeteria lady, who often wears a kind smile while making lunches for all the school's numerous students, who affectionately call her Onē-san(おねえさん), a respectful word for sister. She can be subject to a dark streak of anger when her food is damaged. She tends to con the customers and students into buying faulty merchandise or jobs.
Voiced by: Hazama MichioThe school's chairman who gave the commencement speech in the graduation ceremony in the last episode. As the Secretary and Vice-Headmaster opposed the final event, the Chairman allowed the event to pass as the students enjoyed it. Kazumi Bakuretsuzan is also the headmaster of Hibikino Highschool from Tokimeki Memorial 2.
Other characters
Hiyokokko (ひよこっこ)
Voiced by: Mai KadowakiA tiny, intelligent and extremely strong baby chicken, which has the ability to speak by saying Peeyo. It often helps and assists Riku, who is the only one can understand its speech. Also, it shows up various times throughout the show to beat up Dōjima; eventually being feared by him.
Momo Aikawa (愛川桃,Aikawa Momo)
Voiced by: Rie KugimiyaA first year female student and Mina's classmate. She was saved by Inukai from a group of delinquents, who tried to accost her in a park, and thus seems to have developed a crush on him. She tries to win his affections, but he continuously rejects her. She is affectionately called Mo-chan(もーちゃん) by her friends. She is good friends with Mina.
Goddess of Incineration (焼却炉の女神,Shōkyakuro no Megami)
Voiced by: Kikuko InoueA mysterious magical goddess who has a mission to cleanse evil spirits away and helps people in need. Kind of a klutz, she accidentally bumps or tips the piled-up garbage and falls on her, which she lost her memory from shock according to Naomi Hoshina, who took care of her. She recovered her memory when one of the robotized, sphere-shaped garbage collectors, which it was possessed by an evil spirit, discharged an old T.V. set at her, knocking her down almost senseless. Later, she cleanses the evil spirit from the robot by using her magic, when it was about to harm Tsukasa, Riku and Mina. Later, she is asked by Riku if she could summon ghosts for the Super Haunted House for their cultural festival. She has an afro, however this was possibly caused by the robot who gave afros to those it attacked. During the preview for Episode 13, she is asked by Mina her age which she responds she is seventeen years old. This is an inside joke to her voice actress who gives the same answer whenever asked of her age.
Yukari Higashino (東野ゆかり,Higashino Yukari)
Voiced by: Yukari TamuraRiku's childhood friend and very popular teen magazine cover model who just "transferred" to Tsugumi. However this was a ruse created by Kurotokage in order for Sayuri to experience how express one-self in acting. With that said, Kurotokage was Yukari's original drama teacher. Yukari claims that she had a great and memorable childhood with Riku, but Riku objects and say otherwise about his childhood with her. Also claims, when speaking with Sayuri, when she quits being an idol, she might make Riku her boyfriend, despite her supposed original treatment of him. She appears in episode 14.
Metal Ryuk (メタルリューク,,Metaru Ryūku)
Voiced by: Metal RyukA rockstar in the school's cultural festival. He appears in episode 17.
Natsumi Nishida (西田奈津美,Nishida Natsumi)
Voiced by: Natsumi NishidaA female singer in Metal Ryuk's concert. She appears in episode 17.
Production team
Executive producer: Kuniaki Kinoshita
Planning: Kengo Nakamura, Shiro Sasaki
Original plan: Konami Digital Entertainment
Director: Nobuhiro Takamoto
Series composition: Akira Watanabe
Supervision: Metal Ryuk (Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.)
