Ride Your Wave (2019)

June 21, 2019 (JP) • Animation, Romance, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy • 95m

Overview

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

Director

Masaaki Yuasa

Writer

Reiko Yoshida

Top Billed

Ryota Katayose

Keywords

surfing beach afterlife coming of age slice of life tragedy accidental death mourning firefighter shoujo anime

Where to watch

Free / Included

HBO Max Amazon Channel

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Top Billed Cast

Ryota Katayose

Minato Hinageshi (voice)

Rina Kawaei

Hinako Mukaizumi (voice)

Honoka Matsumoto

Yoko Hinageshi (voice)

Kentaro Ito

Wasabi Kawamura (voice)

Mami Horikoshi

Hinako's Mother (voice)

You Taichi

Junko (voice)

Mai Nishikawa

Ai (voice)

Daiki Hamano

Chiba Port Tower Public Address Announcer (voice)

Kenji Sugimura

Leader (voice)

Kunihiro Kawamoto

Commander (voice)

Shigeo Kiyama

Captain (voice)

Kento Hama

Man A (voice)

Haruki Ishiya

Man B (voice)

Satoshi Yamazaki

Young Minato (voice)

Hina Kino

Young Hinako (voice)

Kaori Inoue

Old Woman in Chigasaki Cafe (voice)

Shinya Honda

Old Man in Chigasaki Cafe (voice)

Serika Hiromatsu

Woman A (voice)

Arisa Sakuraba

Woman B (voice)

Takuya Makimura

Unit Leader (voice)

Taichi Takeda

Yamashiro (voice)

Kentaro Kumagai

Man 5 (voice)

Takaki Otomari

Man G (voice)

Shunichi Maki

Man H (voice)

Wataru Tsuyuzaki

Leader 2 (voice)

Yuya Hirose

Man C (voice)

Hiroaki Okuda

Man D (voice)

Yukitoshi Kikuchi

Man E (voice)

Sho Nogami

Man F (voice)

Rika Abe

Woman C (voice)

Natsu Yorita

Woman D (voice)

Shuichi Nishitani

Policeman 1 (voice)

Saki Yonemoto

Mobile Phone Automated Voice (voice)

Takuya Yagyu

Man 8 (voice)

Yui Suzuki

Flower Shop Lady 1 (voice)

Reimi Tsutsumi

Flower Shop Lady 2 (voice)

Ako Nagao

Flower Shop Lady 3 (voice)

Crew

Ken Yamamoto

Key Animation

Mika Yamaguchi

Foley Artist

Yoshiyuki Hayashi

Sound Recordist

Takashi Kojima

Supervising Animation Director

Takashi Kojima

Character Designer

Takashi Kojima

Animation Director

Takashi Kojima

Key Animation

Abel Gongora

Animation

Abel Gongora

Key Animation

Ayaka Nakamura

Color Designer

Tomoko Momose

Assistant Art Director

Yuka Okayasu

Producer

Fumitaka Akai

Art Direction

Yukiko Akai

Assistant Art Director

Yusuke Ikeda

Sound Recordist

Makoto Ota

Assistant Art Director

Sayuri Niki

Assistant Art Director

Koji Kasamatsu

Supervising Sound Editor

Yoshihiko Taneda

Executive Producer

Hideaki Abe

Key Animation

Koji Kasamatsu

Sound Designer

Yushi Honjo

Assistant Art Director

Kiyoshi Hirose

Editor

Eunyoung Choi

Producer

Yoshie Ezaki

Animation

Yoshie Ezaki

Key Animation

Yoshihide Ideue

Animation

Junichi Masunaga

Online Editor

Ngoc Tho

Background Designer

Peng Yang

Key Animation

Rodrigo Makoto Matsumura

Key Animation

Park Sang-yeon

Background Designer

Fumitaka Akai

Background Designer

Toma Kimura

Second Unit First Assistant Director

Naruyo Kiriyama

Background Designer

Zhong Quanbin

Background Designer

Tan Xiaohui

Compositing Artist

Reiko Yoshida

Screenplay

Lu Jiafang

Background Designer

Toru Fukushi

Director of Photography

Mayo Suzuki

Compositing Artist

Akira Yamakawa

Background Designer

Akiyo Yamaura

Compositing Artist

Toma Kimura

Key Animation

Eri Kinoshita

Key Animation

Satoshi Nakano

Key Animation

Hisako Tsurukubo

Key Animation

Keisuke Kojima

Key Animation

Fuga Yamashiro

Second Unit First Assistant Director

Tomoko Momose

Background Designer

Atsushi Okubo

Online Editor

Eri Kinoshita

Animation

Kenta Miya

Key Animation

Takayuki Kotani

Background Designer

Kuniaki Nemoto

Background Designer

Wang Han

Background Designer

Hirofumi Okita

Key Animation

Katsu Nozaki

Background Designer

Naoyuki Asano

Key Animation

Yuko Matsui

Key Animation

Shihomi Matsubayashi

Key Animation

Lee Cheon-bok

Background Designer

Yuichi Suehiro

Background Designer

Hiromichi Ito

Background Designer

Shoko Nishigaki

Key Animation

Toma Kimura

Animation

Park Jung-ah

Background Designer

Kaori Fujii

Background Designer

Shoko Takahata

Key Animation

Takayo Nishimura

Key Animation

Hitomi Haga

Background Designer

Shiori Iwahara

Background Designer

Toru Fukushi

Compositing Artist

Nobutake Ito

Key Animation

Lee Mi-jin

Background Designer

Junko Ina

Background Designer

Saho Yamane

Background Designer

Manabu Otsuzuki

Background Designer

Daiki Ito

Background Designer

Mizuki Iwai

Background Designer

Yuma Akasu

Compositing Artist

Yuichi Takahashi

Key Animation

Park Chang-sun

Compositing Artist

Shoko Takahata

Animation

Kenji Zemba

Animation

Hiroyuki Aoyama

Key Animation

Kazuto Izumita

Compositing Artist

Misaki Enokida

Assistant Editor

Takayuki Hamada

Key Animation

Kensuke Watanabe

Key Animation

Xue Ping

Background Designer

Tsuyoshi Nakatani

Background Designer

Karin Noguchi

Key Animation

Naoki Yoshibe

Key Animation

Rodrigo Makoto Matsumura

Animation

Sakura Takayama

Key Animation

Teiichi Kato

Key Animation

Yuki Yonemori

Key Animation

Shinnosuke Saito

Animation

Naoya Wada

Key Animation

Akihiro Sueda

Key Animation

Yoshihide Ideue

Key Animation

Kenji Zemba

Key Animation

Kanchi Suzuki

Key Animation

Soichiro Kubo

Key Animation

Izumi Murakami

Key Animation

Karin Noguchi

Animation

Kunihiko Hamada

Key Animation

Shingo Yamashita

Key Animation

Nozomi Tachibana

Key Animation

Masaaki Yuasa

Director

Michiru Oshima

Original Music Composer

Moaang

Key Animation

Jeong In-seon

Key Animation

Pham Quan

Background Designer

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi

Publicist

Reviews

nihil

⭐ 10/10

July 21, 2019

Got to watch it in Fantasia 2019!

Riding a Wave with You is a touching story on how people live life, drawing some power from visual metaphors along the way.

I personally have watched too much anime, that I can no longer pick up new series without readily detecting the writing patterns the last 10 or so years have tired me with.

Riding a Wave with You, however, breaks away from all these writing weaknesses, and offers you a fresh new … read the rest.

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Ride Your Wave (2019)

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