Kimagure Orange Road: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Fifteen-year-old Kyosuke Kasuga moves to a new city and becomes enamored by one Madoka Ayukawa, whom often treats him coldly even though she seemed friendly the first time they met, when he caught her red straw hat on the stairs. Kyosuke also must try to avoid breaking the heart of the slightly childish Hikaru Hiyama, who fell in love with him after she saw him make an impossible shot with a basketball and who likes to shower him with affection. Also, just to make things interesting, Kyosuke, his sisters, his grandfather, and his cousins all have various powers (teleportation, psychokinesis, hypnosis, time travel, personality transference) which Kyosuke desperately tries to keep a secret, though some of the other family members have no such qualms against using their powers in public.

Series details

• Title: Kimagure Orange Road
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Anime, Romance
• Premiere date: 1987-04-06
• Final broadcast date listed: 1988-03-07
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NTV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 20989
• IMDb ID: tt0092386
• TVDB ID: 78923

Cast and credited roles

• Hiromi Tsuru — Madoka Ayukawa
• Hara Eriko — Hikaru Hiyama
• Tōru Furuya — Kyosuke Kasuga

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1987-04-06; final listed air date 1988-03-07; episode order: 48.

Source and licence

Adapted from Kimagure Orange Road 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.