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Anime like The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
Also known as Ookii 1 Nensei to Chiisana 2 Nensei, Oukii Ichinensei to Chiisana Ninensei, Wakate Animator Ikusei Project. Picked from what people who loved The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader went on to love and from what they share with it, like Rural. Show
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Kaze no Matasaburou (Movie)
Recommended by 3 The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader fans on AniList. The same kind of story: childhood summers and schoolyard scars.
A girl moves from the city and goes to school in the country due to some circumstances in his father's job. Her new schoolmates keep her at a distance. There is a boy she'd like to get to know better, but she worries about how he might treat her, and doesn't try to get closer.…
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Welcome to THE SPACE SHOWBoth have Rural.
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Piano no MoriClassical Music, Primarily Child Cast, Coming of Age
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About The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
Masaya wants to be strong like Akiyo and admires her, but one day, something happens that leaves Akiyo in tears.
To lift Akiyo's spirits, Masaya goes trekking to the distant Ipponsugi forest to find the spotted bellflowers that Akiyo loves.
(Source: Anime News Network)
One of the four 2014 Anime Mirai (Young Animator Training Project) films funded by the Japanese government's Agency of Cultural Affairs in order to support training animators.
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