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Plot
The anime main line story revolves around a second year high school student, Riku Aoba, who has just recently transferred to Holy Cross High School, where he notices, upon joining, several unique and funny occurrences, often being the target of a series of events and races administered by the student council and its fun-seeking president.
While at the academy, Riku meets the original Tokimeki Memorial Online characters and the story begins.
Characters
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- A second-year student at class 2-A and Sayuri's classmate. Before transferring to Tsugumi, Riku used to live in a snowy harbour in the northeast of Hokkaido. He is often a target of a series of bizarre events and races administered by the school council. Tsukasa, Sayuri, and Mina compete for his affections.
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- A second-year student at class 2-A. Graceful and intelligent, Sayuri is an extremely popular girl at school, and is talented in academics and sports (and surprisingly video games), often being the subject of admiration from several of the school's male students. Numerous legends have been told of the greatness of her actions in the past year. She falls deeply in love with Riku after noticing he treats her like he treats everyone and she can be herself around him, though she has been hiding her true feelings from everyone's knowledge, including Riku's.
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- A second-year student at class 2-B, Tsukasa is a highly skilled member of the school's volleyball team. She is a believer in destiny, and falls in love with Riku almost immediately after bumping into him one day, declaring that Aoba is her boyfriend from that point on. She is also a bad cook. She successfully changes this by learning from the home economics teacher, but she skips several of the classes afterwards and her cooking becomes terrible again.
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- A first-year student at class 1-C, Mina is a member of the school's swimming team. She loves dolphins and is quite shy. She appeared first in the school library, Aoba helped her reach a book about dolphins. After Aoba agrees to become her coach, she falls in love with him. She is nervous to confess her true feelings to him. Also because of her love of the sea life she quite reluctant to prepare food from the sea.
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- The school council president, who is often engaged in arranging several strange and bizarre events, often involving Riku as the target. He appears to be much lazier or less responsible than expected as he tried to avoid work concerning the Cultural Festival and asked Riku to take part with helping in the Festival (this was possibly to lessen his own work load).
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- Sits next to Riku in class. He appears to be cold and distant from his other classmates even to his teachers, but is far kinder and warmer than he appears. His hobbies include painting and caring for small animals. Riku and him become good friends, which the latter won't actually admit but subtly. When hearing the news that Riku will transfer to another school on the day of the closing ceremony, Inukai is shocked about that.
Episodes
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Theme songs
Opening theme
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- Lyricist: Chihiro Kurosu
- Composition: Takuya Watanabe
- Arrangement: m-takeshi
- Performance: Yuki Makishima
Ending themes
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- Lyricist: Akiko Watanabe
- Composition: Kazuya Komatsu
- Arrangement: Ryosuke Nakanishi
- Performance: Yuki Makishima, Yukako Yoshikawa and Saki Fujita
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- Lyricist: Chihiro Kurosu
- Composition: Takeshi Uehara
- Arrangement: Hiroshi Matsui
- Performance: Yuki Makishima, Yukako Yoshikawa and Saki Fujita
References
External links
- Tokimeki Memorial Only Love at Konami (archived)
- Tokimeki Memorial Only Love at TV Tokyo
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