Movies and TV shows like End of Summer 1994

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End of Summer (1994)
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End of Summer (1994)
Original name: 同級生 夏の終わりに
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: End Of Summer tells the story of one young man's relationship with five women in a frank and sensual manner seldom explored in even the most daring of live action films. Although the hero, Wataru, wants only to score with Mai, the girl of his dreams, he must first deal with four other young women scattered in his path like land mines. There is infatuated and juvenile Miho, tomboyish athlete Misa, naive Kurumi, and the caustic Satomi, who works in the restaurant where Wataru hangs out and whose personal life become hopelessly intertwined with Wataru's.
Style: anime, melancholic, romantic comedy, ecchi, sex comedy, hentai
Plot: teenager, youth, summer, summer vacation, male protagonist, coming of age, friendship, first love, love triangle, unrequited love, desire, boys and girls, high school, sexual awakening, slice of life, bittersweet, pursuit, college student, swimming, jealousy, conflict, intimacy, nostalgia, small town, sexual attraction ...
Time: 90s

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