“Umi helps save her school's clubhouse and falls for Shun, discovering their intertwined pasts.”
From Up on Poppy Hill
コクリコ坂から
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Synopsis
Umi helps save her school's clubhouse and falls for Shun, discovering their intertwined pasts.
Atop a hill overlooking a seaside port sits a boarding house named Coquelicot Manor. Since the building is run by her family, Umi Matsuzaki carries out many of the duties involved in managing the small establishment, such as preparing meals for her fellow boarders. When she isn't at home, she is a student at the local high school—one that is currently dealing with a small crisis. In anticipation of the upcoming Olympic Games, a beloved old clubhouse is set to be demolished to make way for a modern building. As a result, a large part of the student body has banded together, working tirelessly to prevent this from happening. Umi finds herself helping the newspaper club to spread information about this cause where she befriends Shun Kazama, whom she gradually begins to fall in love with. But Shun is an orphan who doesn't know much about his origins, and when the two begin searching for clues to the boy's past, they discover that they may have a lot more in common than either of them could have thought. [Writtten by MAL Rewrite]
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 53 sampled reviews
What 53 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.56 · some divergence
4.3 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 4.0
↓ 1.43
Running avg · Sep 2011 → Sep 2025
- 9 “I like the music. story is a little bit older but music is really amazing. I like the soft sounds to sing the songs. That's really like whisper to you. A simple piano can match the sounds. Overall,...”
- 9 “Though many people don’t like this movie, I have to say I loved it. Theres a really refreshing summer vibe and almost a sense of melancholy portrayed in the film. Years after watching, I still love...”
- 8 “It may not have been the best of the best, but I enjoyed watching this movie. It was completely predictable for me also in terms of the plot twist that the creator wanted to introduce into the...”
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- Format 1 × 95′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 35m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2011 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-6013 catalog
Produced by
- Nippon Television Network Producer
Licensed by
- GKIDS Licensor