Diamond Daydreams
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| Diamond Daydreams | |
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| 北へ。～Diamond Dust Drops～ (Kita e ～Diamond Dust Drops～) |
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| Genre | Shōjo, Drama |
| TV anime | |
| Directed by | Bob Shirohata |
| Studio | Studio DEEN |
| Network | AT-X (TV Tokyo's satellite station) |
| Original run | 20 January 2004 – 5 April 2004 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
Diamond Daydreams (original Japanese title Kita e ～Diamond Dust Drops～ (北へ。～Diamond Dust Drops～?)) is an anime series adapted from a dating sim. It follows the story of what at first seems to be unrelated stories of six girls living in Hokkaido, Japan. The series is licensed in the US by ADV Films
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[edit] The Story
The story is about six different girls from different lifestyles living on Hokkaido in Japan. Each girl believes in a myth of snow turning into diamond dust, and if one makes a wish on the diamond dust, their wish is 100% guaranteed to come true. Another myth about diamond dust is that if a boy and girl meet under the dust, they're guaranteed happiness and marriage later in life. Each of the six girls have some stubborn moments and awkward stages in their lives, but looking into themselves and others will help them get back on their feet. When these six girls meet, their lives will change dramatically for the better as the snow begins to fall.
[edit] The Cast
[edit] Atsuko Akanagi
Atsuko is Hakodate-born and Hakodate-bred. She lives inside a food store with her mother. The store and the family are deep in debt and her mother forces Atsuko into an arranged marriage with Minoru Jinguji, a wealthy, yet friendly young boy. Atsuko runs away and finds herself running into a man named Joji Kurata, a local musician who was once married. Kurata helps Atsuko out with her situation the best that he can.
[edit] Karin Shiraishi
Karin is stricken with an illness and lives mostly in the hospital. Her big brother Mitsuru comes by occasionally from college to help cheer her up. She also has her own laptop in which Karin only suppose to go on for only two hours, though she sneaks on at night. Karin has her own homepage were she occasionally updates and writes about her dreams. One young doctor named Amakasu thinks Karin is spoiled rotten and critices her causing Karin to lose her temper. In truth, Karin is scared to have an operation because her father died during surgery. Suddenly, she gets an e-mail from someone named "Your Fan" who encourages her to stay strong. Karin spectated that Doctor Amakasu was sending her the e-mails and attached photos of Hokkaido. Soon after Karin finds herself in love with Dr.Amakasu as well. She later finds out that Nurse Yuki and Dr.Amakasu have been seeing each other since high school. It was revealed that Yuki was sending her the e-mails. Her intentions were trying to open up to Karin and convincing her to go through operation. A few days later afterwards, Karin brother was sent to the hospital when he fell unconscious at work. Her brother was working to help pay the expensive hospitalization fees. He worked to hard, trying to lighten their mothers load. Karin then realized then that she was spoiled and decided to go through operation if only Dr.Amakasu would watch over her during the time.
[edit] Kyoko Asahina
Kyoko is a young filmmaker who loves to capture life's given moments on film. Her closest friends and fellow colleagues begin to worry about Kyoko's wild career as it distracts her from other things like finding true romance. They also tend to object to Kyoko's selfish pursuit of perfection in her work, not understanding the consequences. However, Kyoko's willing to sacrifice everything to achieve the perfect picture. That is, until she learned the hard way that friends are more important than winning.
- Kyoko tells a story about a girl named Charinka who forsaken Yoshitsune while living on an island, but when Yoshitsune leaves the island, Charinka regretted her cold-heartedness, but it was too late. Charinka got what she deserved.
[edit] Suomi Kitano
Suomi loves ice skating and is a natural performer. When Suomi was young, she and her friend Hanna Janinen made a promise to each other. Now that she's grown up, she hopes to fulfill her promise. Suomi was chosen to be part of Finland's figure skating team, but Hanna accidentally bumped into her causing Suomi to injure her leg, causing rumors that Hanna did it on purpose and it earned her the moniker of "The Cold-Hearted Queen of the Ice". Because of that, Hanna blamed Suomi. Suomi almost gave up skating until she met a young boy named Haruto who is also an ice skater and had the same falling out with his best friend, Kuda. Now, Suomi hopes to get back into ice skating and complete her promise with Hanna.
- Hanna is an actual Finnish name, but Suomi simply means "Finland" in Finnish.
[edit] Shoko Saibara
Shoko hosts a radio talk show in Sapporo called "Cappuccino Break" where she discusses romantic issues with her audience. Every love story Shoko hears is fuel for her talk show. Secretly, Shoko is dating her closest friend Takeda whom she loves, but Takeda is already married with a wife and daughter and warns Shoko as a friend not to make unexpected scenes. Elsewhere, Shoko receives gifts from someone called "Radio Boy", which got the production staff worried that Shoko might have a potential stalker after her.
[edit] Akari Harada
Akari lives with her father ever since her mother died. Akari is a hard worker at Ryuon Confectionaries trying to help support her father through troubled times. Most of the time, her father drinks a lot of alcohol hoping to ease the pain of losing his wife. He's also unsuccessful in trying to pan for gold dust. Akari does most of the work in her house because her father is too weak and depressed to help. Suddenly, her father becomes very ill with brain cancer. The doctor mentioned to Akari that her father diagnosed brain cancer six months ago and was recommended to go to a university hospital that had the proper equipment. As of now, it would be impossible for the surgeons to operate on his tumor. Akari must find a way to ease his pain. In order to do so, *Kurokawa, her father and herself go to a river in search of gold dust. Akari also runs in with *Kurokawa, a supposed delinquent trying to hit on her, but harbors a secret love to Akari, but can't express it to her while she's working. Kurokawa has troubles putting any effort into working until Akari's father shows him the way.
[edit] The Final Episode
Diamond Daydreams has 12 episodes with 2 episodes each of the 6 girls. After the final girl's story, a preview of a 13th episode shows up where a young man named Juurota Toukibi is the announcer, explaining the end of summer and the beginning of winter festival. All the girls from the previous 12 chapters meet in Sapporo and finally see the diamond dust that has been talked about throughout the series. The name of the last episode is "Diamond Dust Drops", the original name of the series itself.
