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“Utility pole Elemi falls for repairman Takahashi, sparking forbidden romance amid societal warnings and identity revelation challenges.”
Elemi
電信柱エレミの恋
6.22
9,395 rank · 3,829 viewers · 9 favorites
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Synopsis
Utility pole Elemi falls for repairman Takahashi, sparking forbidden romance amid societal warnings and identity revelation challenges.
Elemi, known as a responsible hard worker, is one of many utility poles servicing a small city. One day during maintenance, she is emotionally touched by Takahashi, the young man who repairs her. She decides to thank him and begins calling him regularly, masquerading as a human. Days go by and soon all the utility poles in the city are aware of Elemi's budding romance. Elder utility poles urge her to put an end to it. Even if Elemi is able to win the blessing of her society, she still has to face the challenge of revealing her true identity to Takahashi. In a time before cell phones, when all calls were carried by utility poles, Denshinbashira Elemi no Koi tells the story of the tragic romance between a utility pole and and a utility worker.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
6.7
/10
What 6 viewers settled on.
83%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 2.75
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.75 · split reception
The polarity gap
6.8 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 1.0
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Score over time
↓ 0.33
Running avg · Mar 2014 → Feb 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Very symbolic. So true. The two random deaths were very smart and well placed. Totally coherent. INFP and ISFP couple, so true! My favourite character was the cat. He was so handsome!!!!!!!!! I...”
- 7 “You know, I wasn't expecting much out of this. I was expecting something bad, but I got something that genuinely touched me in a way I didn't expect. The characters felt like they each had their...”
- 7 “Genuinely touching and sweet. My only warning is that there's an extended sequence of looking at a (claymation) cat corpse after it's hit by a car. Everything else was very thoughtfully constructed...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 17%
Long · 17%
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A Movie Production
Sovat Theater.- Format 1 × 44′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 44m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2009 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-5112 catalog