Television

A Star Brighter than the Sun 2025

  • Animation, Comedy, Drama
  • 24 min episodes
  • 1 season
  • 12 episodes
  • Returning

Sae Iwata, a slightly tougher-than-average girl, falls for the gentle smile of Koki Kamishiro, a delicate boy, back in elementary school. By the time they enter junior high school, Koki has grown into a charming and popular teen who now feels out of reach. When they are assigned to the sports festival committee together, Sae’s long-hidden first love begins to stir once more.

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Classical in form, contemporary, spare and warm.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • sparerichly built
  • warmbleak
  • earnestironic

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