Golden Time (novel series)
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Golden Time light novel volume 1 cover.
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ゴールデンタイム (Gōruden Taimu) |
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| Genre | Drama, Romantic comedy |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Yuyuko Takemiya |
| Illustrated by | Ēji Komatsu |
| Published by | ASCII Media Works |
| Demographic | Male |
| Imprint | Dengeki Bunko |
| Magazine | Dengeki Bunko Magazine |
| Original run | September 10, 2010 – March 8, 2014 |
| Volumes | 11 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yuyuko Takemiya |
| Illustrated by | Umechazuke |
| Published by | ASCII Media Works |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Dengeki Daioh |
| Original run | October 2011 – present |
| Volumes | 9 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Chiaki Kon |
| Written by | Fumihiko Shimo |
| Music by | Yukari Hashimoto |
| Studio | J.C.Staff |
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| Original network | MBS, Tokyo MX, CTC, tvk, TVS, TVA, BS11, AT-X |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 3, 2013 – March 27, 2014 |
| Episodes | 24 |
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| Golden Time: Vivid Memories | |
| Developer | Kadokawa Games |
| Publisher | ASCII Media Works |
| Genre | Visual novel |
| Platform | PlayStation Vita |
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Golden Time (ゴールデンタイム Gōruden Taimu?) is a Japanese light novel series written by Yuyuko Takemiya, with illustrations by Ēji Komatsu. The series includes 11 novels published by ASCII Media Works between September 2010 and March 2014, and incorporates romantic comedy and supernatural themes. A manga adaptation by Umechazuke began serialization in the October 2011 issue of Dengeki Daioh. A 24-episode anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired on MBS between October 2013 and March 2014.
Banri Tada is a newly admitted male student at a private law school in Tokyo. Due to the after-effects of a fall from a bridge shortly after his high school graduation, he has lost all of his memories prior to the accident (retrograde amnesia).
Banri finds himself completely and utterly lost after the big opening ceremonial event and tries to find his way to the freshman orientation. Along the way, he runs straight into another lost and confused freshman from the same school, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, and they immediately hit it off. Somehow arriving at their intended goal just in time, there appears in front of them a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses, who congratulates Mitsuo on getting into the school then hits him across the face with them before tossing the bouquet into his lap and leaving. This stylish, well dressed, and obsessive woman is revealed to be Mitsuo's childhood friend, Kōko Kaga. As children, they had promised to marry each other one day, something she has taken to heart this entire time. Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this private college in order to escape from her, but she used her connections to find out about it and enrolled in the college herself.
Banri meets a second-year student named Linda; unbeknownst to him, she was his best friend in high school, and holds herself responsible for his memory loss. As the series progresses, Banri deals with his slowly re-emerging memories, which often come into conflict with a relationship that blooms between him and Kaga.
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