Golden Time: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Tada Banri, a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo, found himself completely lost after the opening ceremony, trying to find his way to the freshman orientation. At that moment, he ran into another lost freshman from the same school, Yanagisawa Mitsuo, and they hit it off at once. Somehow arriving at their intended goal just on time, there appeared in front of the two a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses. The girl then whacked Mitsuo across the face with the bouquet and handed the flowers over to him. "Freshman, congratulations", was all she said, and then left. The stylish, well dressed, perfect woman that had swung at Mitsuo was his childhood friend, Kaga Kouko. As children they had promised to marry each other one day, fulfilling their dreams. In order to escape from her, Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this well known private colle.

Series details

• Title: Golden Time
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Anime, Romance
• Premiere date: 2013-10-04
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-03-28
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Chiba TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 12157
• IMDb ID: tt3105452
• TVDB ID: 272138

Cast and credited roles

• Yui Horie — Kaga, Kouko
• Makoto Furukawa — Tada, Banri
• Kaito Ishikawa — Yanagisawa, Mitsuo
• Saori Gotou — Sao-chan
• Shizuka Itou — Shii-chan
• Takayuki Kondou — Kosshii-senpai
• Hikami Takahiro — Satou, Takaya
• Ibuki Kido — Oka, Chinami
• Satomi Sato — Nana-senpai
• Ai Kayano — Hayashida, Nana

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-10-04; final listed air date 2014-03-28.

Source and licence

Adapted from Golden Time on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.