STAFF: Based on the Characters and Situations Created by Tsuda Masami(Serialized in LaLa Magazine, published by Hakusensha) Format and Production GAINAX Screenwriter and Series Director Anno Hideaki Animation Character Designs and Chief Animation Director Hiramatsu Tadashi Art Director Sato Masaru Music Sagisu Shiro Animation Production J. C. Staff, GAINAX Theme Song Producer Fujii Fumiya

Series Director's Message: We hope you appreciate the power of this young, vital staff as they work to bring forth all the fun of this high-tension manga. (Anno Hideaki, Screenwriter and Series Director) Staff Representative's Comment: This is a drama, and thus fiction. It is anime, which means it is all told in drawings. The production schedule is also impacted. But it is my hope to fill this work to the brim with the sense that this is what we feel. I hope that this work will touch your hearts and souls. I hope that it will reach you beyond just a sense of cuteness. None of us will ever truly understand anyone else. The bigger our hopes, the greater our failures. Reality has no mercy. But if there is a tomorrow, we will think again on those who matter to us. That means you as well as me. In hopes that we may all meet and fall in love with someone wonderful. (Sato Hiroki, Producer)