“Kazuma's rural move brings romance, mishaps, and forgotten memories with Ui, Ibuki, and classmates at Yorozuyo Inn.”
A Bridge to the Starry Skies
星空へ架かる橋
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Synopsis
Kazuma's rural move brings romance, mishaps, and forgotten memories with Ui, Ibuki, and classmates at Yorozuyo Inn.
Kazuma Hoshino is preparing himself for a new stage of his life as a teenager. Because of his brother Ayumu's weaker than average health, their parents thought it best for the family to move out from the city to a more rural environment. Now the two brothers are off to the Yorozuyo Inn where they’ll be staying until their parents can settle affairs back in the city and set up their new home. Their arrival to the inn doesn't go as planned though when they catch the wrong bus, wind up in the middle of nowhere, Ayumu gets his hat stolen by a wild monkey, and Kazuma gets lost in the woods trying to track the animal down. It all leads to a chance encounter with a spirited young girl named Ui, who Kazuma ends up accidentally falling onto and kissing while she tries leading him back to the bus stop. This hardly sits well with Ui’s friend Ibuki who swiftly kicks Kazuma and sends him on his way. Much to Kazuma's continued horror, his bad luck is perpetuated at the inn thanks to its landlady Senka and her slightly perverted sense of humor, and then finding out that two of his classmates are the girls he embarrassed himself in front of back in the woods! Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi finds Kazuma adapting to his new school, dealing with the multiple women who have entered his life, providing emotional support for his younger brother, and coping with living with his new landlady. However, for some reason, something about this place is bringing whispers of the past into Kazuma's mind. Small flashes back to a more innocent time and a friendship long forgotten. What could this déjà vu mean?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 28 sampled reviews
What 28 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.68 · some divergence
5.9 pts
Recommenders 7.9 · others 2.0
↑ 0.14
Running avg · Jun 2011 → Jun 2025
- 8 “The story feels fairly similar to other school/harem/ecchi anime in that things play out more or less as you might expect. So don't go into this expecting to find something you have never seen...”
- 10 “i have to say, when i finished this anime, i didn't go rushing to find a season 2, or some kind of continuation of the story. not because i didn't like it. in fact, i LOVED it. i did not, however,...”
- 10 “This will be a short review. In many ways this anime is average, but yet at the same time far superior to 99.999999% of all harem/romance/comedy series. Why? Despite some shortcomings, the story...”
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- Format 12 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 5h 00m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2011 – Jun 2011 Spring 2011
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-6038 catalog
Produced by
- Dentsu Producer
- Sotsu Producer
- Marvelous Entertainment Producer
- Pony Canyon Producer
- feng Producer