Synopsis

Hakubo revolves around the daily life of Sachi Koyama, a high school violinist with promising talent. Although Sachi is content with her school life and retains friends within the music club, her favorite pastime is appreciating the scenery around her neighborhood in Iwaki, Fukushima while walking to her bus stop alone.

However, during one of Sachi's after-school walks, she has an unexpected meeting with Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy whom she often notices on her bus ride home. After offering to help Kijinami find a perfect view of the evening landscape—the subject of his next painting for his art club's exhibition—the two forge a bond over their mutual admiration of the beautiful scenery bathed in sunset. This chance encounter brings together these two souls who yearn to cherish the present, knowing full well how easily it can all slip away.

(Source: MAL)

Background

Hakubo is the final installment in Yutaka Yamamoto's Tohoku Trilogy, a series of films produced to aid in the restoration efforts following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The charity project was intended to be crowd-funded, but the campaign did not raise the funds it was aiming for.

Characters

Yuusuke Kijinami Main

Sachi Koyama Main

Matsumoto-senpai Supporting

Hii-chan Supporting

Rina Supporting

Staff

Yutaka Yamamoto Director, Sound director, Script, Original creator

Haru Yamada Sound director

Tomoyuki Aoki Background art

Sunao Chikaoka Character design

Keiichi Ishida Key animation

Eiichiro Oda Music

Ryouko Kawamura Key animation

Tomonori Kogawa Key animation

Hideaki Matsuoka Key animation

Eriko Miwa Key animation

Videos

ED 1 (Artist ver.)

Announcement 1

Announcement 2

Trailer 15-second version

Trailer 45-second version