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Tada Never Falls in Love (Japanese: 多田くんは恋をしない, Hepburn: Tada-kun wa Koi o Shinai) is a Japanese romantic comedy original anime television series produced by Doga Kobo. It aired from April 5 to June 28, 2018, for 13 episodes. The series is licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks while Muse Communication in South and Southeast Asia as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan.
| Tada Never Falls in Love | |
Tada Never Falls in Love key visual | |
| 多田くんは恋をしない (Tada-kun wa Koi o Shinai) | |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy[1] |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Mitsue Yamazaki |
| Produced by |
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| Written by | Yoshiko Nakamura |
| Music by | Yukari Hashimoto |
| Studio | Doga Kobo |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, TVA, KBS, SUN, TVQ, BS11 |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 5, 2018 – June 28, 2018 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Light novel | |
| Tada-kun wa Koi o Shinai Teresa Wāgunā no Jijō | |
| Written by | Nakamura Tadako |
| Published by | Kadokawa |
| Published | June 1, 2018 |
The story follows Mitsuyoshi Tada, a boy who has never known love. He is taking pictures of the cherry blossoms in full bloom when he meets Teresa Wagner, a transfer student from Larsenburg (ラルセンブルク, Rarusenburuku) which can be assumed means Luxembourg, a European country. She got separated from her travel companion upon arriving in Japan. Tada helps her and brings her to his grandfather's coffee shop. Teresa's travel companion and bodyguard Alec arrives and beats up Kaoru mistakenly thinking Kaoru was flirting with Teresa. They discover the hotel they're supposed to be staying at is actually next to Tada's cafe. The next day, they enroll in Tada's school and are in the same class. Alec agrees on joining the Photography Club on Teresa's request she wants to learn to take great pictures. Mitsuyoshi is actually an aspiring photographer and wants to follow his father's footsteps to be a famous photographer. Mitsuyoshi lost his parents in a car accident during his childhood. The one last photo his father took and his camera were the only things he has left from his parents. The story focuses on the adventures of Tada and his friends and their building relationships.
The 13-episode original anime television series by Doga Kobo aired from April 5[6][7][8] to June 28, 2018. The series is directed by Mitsue Yamazaki, with series composition by Yoshiko Nakamura, character designs by Junichiro Taniguchi and music by Yukari Hashimoto. The opening theme is "Otomodachi Film" (オトモダチフィルム, Otomodachi Firumu) performed by Masayoshi Ōishi, and the ending theme is a cover of the Sambomaster song "Love Song" (ラブソング, Rabu Songu) performed by Manaka Iwami as her character Teresa Wagner. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the series and streamed it on Hidive outside of Asia[9] while Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia as well as Taiwan ang Hong Kong.[10]
| No. | Title [11][b] | Directed by [c] | Written by [c] | Storyboarded by [c] | Original air date [12] | |
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| 1 | "I Can't Just Leave You" Transliteration: "Hottokenai Darō" (Japanese: ほっとけないだろ) | Mitsue Yamazaki | Yoshiko Nakamura | Mitsue Yamazaki | April 5, 2018 | |
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Mitsuyoshi Tada, a boy who comes to take a picture of the cherry blossoms in full bloom with a camera in his hand, meets a foreign girl, Teresa Wagner. Teresa, who had studied abroad from a country called Luxembourg in Europe, is lost as soon as she arrived in Japan and is separated from her companion who comes with her. Mitsuyoshi, who helps Teresa because of her circumstances, takes her to the Tada's coffee shop in Ginza, Tokyo, where his grandfather runs. | ||||||
| 2 | "Well, She's Not Wrong" Transliteration: "Mā, Machigatcha Inai" (Japanese: まあ、間違っちゃいない) | Satoshi Toba | Yoshiko Nakamura | Sumie Noro | April 12, 2018 | |
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Teresa and her companion, Alexandra Magritte (commonly known as Alec), come to Koinoboshi High School attached to the Galactic University, where Mitsuyoshi and her childhood friend, Kaoru Ijūin, attend. Since there is a school rule that students of Koinoboshi High School must belong to club activities, the two of them visited various clubs with Hinako Hasegawa, the chairman of the same class, and Mitsuyoshi. Come to the photography club to which they belong. In the photography club room, the president, Hajime Sugimoto, is screaming. | ||||||
| 3 | "You Love That" Transliteration: "Sore, Sukida nā" (Japanese: それ、好きだなあ) | Fujiwara Yoshiyuki | Yoshiko Nakamura | Kiyotaka Suzuki | April 19, 2018 | |
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The mascot of the Tada coffee shop is a domestic cat of the Tada family. Nyanko Big, a popular cat who is also active in blogs as a horrifying Nyanko Big. When he was a kitten, Mitsuyoshi picked him up while he was singing in the garden. For him, Mitsuyoshi is a lifesaver and should be watched over by Mitsuyoshi's late parents. As usual today, Nyanko Big begins to act to wake up Mitsuyoshi who is still sleeping. | ||||||
| 4 | "I'll Pretend I Didn't See This..." Transliteration: "Mina Katta Koto ni Shiyō......" (Japanese: 見なかったことにしよう......) | Mitsue Yamazaki, Fujiwara Yoshiyuki, Takafumi Fujī | Yoshiko Nakamura | Fujiwara Yoshiyuki, Kim Seong-hyun | April 26, 2018 | |
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Hajime Sugimoto, the president of the photography club, commonly known as Pin-senpai, is in a frenzy. This is because he wins the lottery for the first photobook handing over by HINA, a gravure idol he loves. HINA has never appeared in public until now. He has a valuable chance to meet her in person, but when he imagines he will meet her, Pin-senpai is nervous and trembles and couldn't speak anything. Mitsuyoshi proposes to practice meeting for the time being. | ||||||
| 5 | "It's Okay. They Don't Exist" Transliteration: "Daijōbu da. Inai kara" (Japanese: 大丈夫だ。いないから) | Daisuke Hiramaki | Yoshiko Nakamura | Daisuke Hiramaki | May 3, 2018 | |
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The day of the memorable "10th Kaoru Ijūin Show" has arrived. The "Kaoru Ijūin Show" is like a fun party where Kaoru organizes various events every year and welcomes Mitsuyoshi and Yui at the Tada coffee shop. Since he joins the photography club, Hajime and Hinako have also participated. With the addition of Teresa, Alec and Kentarō Yamashita this year, Kaoru, who was even more enthusiastic, has prepared a special project. | ||||||
| 6 | "I'm Not a Rain-bringer" Transliteration: "Ame Otoko, Janai zo" (Japanese: 雨男、じゃないぞ) | Sumie Noro | Yoshiko Nakamura | Sumie Noro | May 10, 2018 | |
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Taking advantage of the university's summer vacation, Teresa's childhood friend, Charles de Loire, comes to Japan. Charles also visits Koinoboshi High School, saying that he wants to see Teresa in Japan. The members of the photography club are nervous at first, but Charles is such a nice person that he can quickly get to know him. The next day, Mitsuyoshi happens to see him at a party invited by Kaoru. Next to that, there are beautifully dressed up Teresa and Alec. | ||||||
| 7 | "It's Better Than Crying" Transliteration: "Nakareru Yori wa Īdarō" (Japanese: 泣かれるよりはいいだろ) | Sumie Noro, Satoshi Toba, Yoshiyuki Fujiwara, Takeshita Ryohira | Yoshiko Nakamura | Akitoshi Shimadzu | May 17, 2018 | |
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One day, Nyanko Big disappears while going out. Mitsuyoshi wonders if something hard has happened because Nyanko Big has not touched the food he will not normally leave behind, and Mitsuyoshi cannot find him that he has been using since he is a kitten. Yui is in a hurry. While encouraging Yui to worry that it is okay because it is Nyanko Big, Mitsuyoshi and his friends go looking for Nyanko Big. | ||||||
| 8 | "Did You Say You Were a Rain-bringer?" Transliteration: "Ame Onna dattakke?" (Japanese: 雨女だったっけ？) | Yoshiyuki Fujiwara | Yoshiko Nakamura | Yoshiyuki Fujiwara | May 24, 2018 | |
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All the members of the photography club come to the overnight training camp in the car driven by Charles to take pictures of the stars who applies for the competition. But unfortunately, the sky is a little cloudy. The pictures of the stars are taken from midnight to dawn, so Mitsuyoshi prays to the shrine that the clouds will clear up by then. Mitsuyoshi and his friends, who draw fortunes there, are excited about the story of love, while being overwhelmed by the written fortune. | ||||||
| 9 | "I Don't Have One Now..." Transliteration: "Ima wa, mō, nai......" (Japanese: 今は、もう、ない......) | Tomoaki Koshida | Yoshiko Nakamura | Machio Fukuda | May 31, 2018 | |
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Teresa sees off Charles returning home with Alec at the airport. She cannot continue her words there because she is once again asked by Alec for her readiness. That night, Teresa remembers her words from her nanny, Rachel, when she decided to study abroad in Japan. She is now worried that she does not even think of it at that time. But she decides to act as if she has not done anything and she will work hard in the new semester beginning the next day. | ||||||
| 10 | "It Isn't the Real One" Transliteration: "Honmono, Janai yo na" (Japanese: 本物、じゃないよな) | Machio Fukuda | Yoshiko Nakamura | Akitoshi Shimadzu | June 7, 2018 | |
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Under the Tokyo Skytree, Mitsuyoshi and Teresa come to the event "Reinbo Shogun Exhibition" to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Reinbo Shogun. They play at various attractions of the exhibition and have a fun time. When they climb the Tokyo Skytree, it gets cloudy and starts to rain. Watching the rain, Mitsuyoshi suddenly begins telling Teresa about the day his parents had the car accident. | ||||||
| 11 | "Not Really" Transliteration: "Toku ni wa Nani mo" (Japanese: 特には何も) | Yoshiyuki Fujiwara | Yoshiko Nakamura | Mitsue Yamazaki | June 14, 2018 | |
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Teresa and Alec suddenly return to Luxembourg without telling Mitsuyoshi and others. Ijūin rings the door bell of the room of Grand Palace Ginza where they lived, but there is no response and they can't even call her phone number. Mitsuyoshi and his friends are depressed because they don't know what had happened and can't even get in touch. After that, they heard nothing of Teresa and Alec until winter. | ||||||
| 12 | "Sorry for Surprising You..." Transliteration: "......Totsuzen, Gomen" (Japanese: ……突然、ごめん) | Sumie Noro | Yoshiko Nakamura | Sumie Noro | June 21, 2018 | |
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Mitsuyoshi manages to get to Luxembourg after boarding an airplane with the determination of death. He rests his exhausted body and heads for the address given by his grandfather. Just before Christmas, the city is beautifully decorated. Mitsuyoshi walks through the Christmas market and reaches the address, a huge palace. However, the gate is tightly guarded by unresponsive guards, so Tada doesn't know where to enter. He is wandering around without giving up and is called out from behind by Rachel, Teresa's nanny. | ||||||
| 13 | "I'll Never Forget It, Either" Transliteration: "Ore mo, Isshō, Wasurenai" (Japanese: 俺も、一生、忘れない) | Mitsue Yamazaki | Yoshiko Nakamura | Mitsue Yamazaki, Akitoshi Shimadzu | June 28, 2018 | |
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Mitsuyoshi is overwhelmed by the truth revealed by Teresa. He can't even say what he wants to say when he is told that everything has been decided since she was born. Kaoru rushes to see if that's okay, but Mitsuyoshi tells him he doesn't know what to say. And he says it is just annoying to tell. Kaoru hits Mitsuyoshi with the thoughts he has hidden in his heart. | ||||||
A novel adaptation titled Tada-kun wa Koi o Shinai Teresa Wāgunā no Jijō (多田くんは恋をしない テレサ・ワーグナーの事情) was published by Kadokawa under their Kadokawa Beans Bunko imprint on June 1, 2018, Tadako Nakamura as its author, Junichiro Taniguchi as the cover illustrator and Eri Kagami as the text illustrator.[13]
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | June 1, 2018[13] | 9784041070246 |
The first three episodes of the anime received generally positive reviews by various critics.
Rose Bridges from Anime News Network wrote the anime "grabbed her" from its first moments stating that "It was a show you could really root for". She praise the first episodes by tackling how tourist interact with their "idolized place" versus how locals see them. Her review of the second episode in the other hand is quite mixed noting that the episode introduces a bunch of new characters "who are all fairly unmemorable anime archetypes". She called the third episode "show's best episode yet" saying that it "turned things around" after the last episode, noting that "Nyako Big" is the "best character" in the show and "Not everyone's going to be as much of a cat lover coming into this show, but it's admirable to see Tada Never Falls in Love take risks like this. That attitude could be key to the show's success as a memorable comedy." She concluded Tada Never Falls in Love is "always has a bright and peppy feel" and "always a visual marvel" but noting that "The character and gag writing needs to catch up."[14]
Dee from Anime Feminist wrote that anime is a "puzzle" saying that the "charming comedic and character beats periodically interrupted by broad slapstick and tropey anime cliches". She heavily criticize the second episode pointing out that it features "obnoxiously horny teen dudes who kept interrupting the nice club antics to shout about nude ladies and check out the girls’ chests." She commented that the third episode "won her back" stating that it is a "start-to-finish delight".[15]
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