Series synopsis
Gravitation, also known as グラビテーション is a Japanese animation drama comedy television series that premiered on WOWOW Prime on October 4, 2000. It ended on January 10, 2001. It stars Tomokazu Seki, Kazuhiko Inoue, Yasunori Matsumoto and Ai Orikasa.
Aspiring singer Shuichi Shindo and his band, Bad Luck, work to become Japan's next musical sensation, while he struggles to capture Eiri Yuki's attention.
Premise
Aspiring singer Shuichi Shindo and his band, Bad Luck, work to become Japan's next musical sensation, while he struggles to capture Eiri Yuki's attention.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Tomokazu Seki as Shuichi Shindo (voice)
- Kazuhiko Inoue as Eiri Yuki (voice)
- Yasunori Matsumoto as Hiroshi Nakano (voice)
- Ai Orikasa as Toma Seguchi (voice)
- Fujiko Takimoto as Suguru Fujisaki (voice)
- Kappei Yamaguchi as Ryuichi Sakuma (voice)
- Ryotaro Okiayu as K (voice)
- Takehito Koyasu as Sakano (voice)
Supporting cast
- Haruna Ikezawa as Noriko Ukai (voice)
- Hideo Ishikawa as Tatsuha Uesugi
- Rie Tanaka as Ayaka Usami (voice)
- Shin-ichiro Miki as Taki Aizawa (voice)
- Hiromi Tsuru as Mika Uesugi (voice)
Guest cast
- Atsuko Tanaka as Kaoruko (voice)
- Rie Kanda as Woman (voice)
- Mie Odagi as Employee (voice)
- Kenta Miyake as Delinquent (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 2 seasons with 15 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 2 | July 23, 1999 | September 22, 1999 |
| Season 1 | 13 | October 4, 2000 | January 10, 2001 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OVA 1 - Lyrics of Love Bad Luck's lead singer and lyricist, Shindou Shuichi, is a total wreck. With deadlines for the band's next album looming, the pressure is on, but the normally energetic Shuichi has become listless and fallen into a writing slump. It's all because Yuki - the great love of his life - has suddenly become cold and distant. Depressed and anxious, Shuichi doesn't want to think about lyrics - he just wants to know how to get Yuki to talk to him! Now, thanks to Shuichi's big mouth bragging to the press about how talented he is, the band can't even hire someone else to write the lyrics for them. If they don't manage to break Shuichi out of his slump soon, it could mean the end of Bad Luck for good! |
July 23, 1999 |
| 2 |
OVA 2 - Lyrics of Love Bad Luck's lead singer and lyricist, Shindou Shuichi, is a total wreck. With deadlines for the band's next album looming, the pressure is on, but the normally energetic Shuichi has become listless and fallen into a writing slump. It's all because Yuki - the great love of his life - has suddenly become cold and distant. Depressed and anxious, Shuichi doesn't want to think about lyrics - he just wants to know how to get Yuki to talk to him! Now, thanks to Shuichi's big mouth bragging to the press about how talented he is, the band can't even hire someone else to write the lyrics for them. If they don't manage to break Shuichi out of his slump soon, it could mean the end of Bad Luck for good! |
September 22, 1999 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Gravitation Shuichi Shindo is the main vocalist of the new band "Bad Luck". One night as he was walking home through the park, his lyric sheet flew out of his hand, and was caught by a mysterious blond haired man. He makes a snide comment, and this leaves Shuichi anxious to find out who he is. He later sees the same man in his car and jumps in front of it to stop him so he can confront him about his nastiness. The man takes him home and gives him a towel and more insults. When Shuichi comes back to confront him again, he gets a kiss... Is this a new beginning for Shuichi or just a quaint misunderstanding? |
October 4, 2000 |
| 2 |
Live in Soul When Shindou is taken out of his band practice, Yuki's sister asks a favour from him, if he can get Yuki to spend more time with his family, they will give his band more commercial access. Yuki finds out and asks Shindou why he did it, but Shindou demands that he didn't do it for the commercial access, he wanted to know more about Yuki, will Yuki accept it or will he suspect? |
October 11, 2000 |
| 3 |
Stray Heart After the performance they had given last night, Mr. Touma decided that there should be another member added to the Band because he felt that there was something strongly lacking in their performance. And Sakano was fired as the Band's manager, but later in the episode he is told that he can become the bands producer. Shuichi can't understand why they aren't good enough and can't accept another member in the band which he and Hiro have been members of for a while, He believes that a new member would mess up what they already have. Hiro and him get in a fight when Hiro believes that a new member would improve them and Shuichi runs away into the park. Ryuichi and K ("Nittle Grasper's" previous manager, he now currently the manager of Ryuichi) find him crying and try to calm him down. Shuichi goes to see Hiro but confronts a little boy on the way that claims to be the new member in Bad Luck. That night Shuichi tells Yuki all his problems and Yuki tells him he's being very foolish and childish and tells him to leave. The next day he finds out that Fujisaki Suguru, the new member in the band ends up being very talented. Shuichi suddenly lost confidence in him, and even worse! The new guy is trying to change his song! This hurts Shuichi's pride and leaves him depressed... at least until Hiro goes and tells Yuki to give Shuichi some confidence. Can Shuichi accept the new member? Can Yuki convince him? Who's to know; you have to find out yourself!!! |
October 18, 2000 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | WOWOW Prime |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 4, 2000 |
| Last aired | January 10, 2001 |
| Runtime | 22 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Wednesday at 18:30:00 |