Title: The Great Passage (Knitting a Ship)
Japanese: 舟を編む
Release dates: 14/10/2016 (TV series 11 episodes) and 13/4/2013 (live-action film)
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Seinen
Original creator: Shion Miura
Original character designer: Haruko Kumota
Directors: Toshimasa Kuroyanagi (TV) and Yuya Ishii (film)
Written by: Takuya Satō (TV) and Kansaku Watanabe (film)
Music by: Yoshihiro Ike (TV) and Takashi Watanabe (film)
Character designer and chief animation director: Hiroyuki Aoyama
Art director: Yuka Hirama (TV)
Sound director: Yukio Nagasaki (TV)
Director of photography: Takahiro Hondai (TV)
Background art design by: Mamio Ogawa (TV)
Color design: Naoko Satō (TV)
Cinematography by: Junichi Fujisawa (film)
Editing by: Daisuke Hiraki (TV) and Shinichi Fushima (film)
Animation producer: Kiyoshi Shintaku
Producers: Akitoshi Mori (Fuji TV), Soichiro Umemoto (TV), Tomoo Tsuchii, Kimitaka Goka, Fumitsugu Ikeda and Yasuyuki Iwanami (film)
Studios: Zexcs (TV) and Filmmakers Little More Co. (film)
Distributed by: Shochiku (film)
Network: Fuji TV (Noitamina)
Opening theme: "Shiokaze (汐風 / Tide Wind)" by Taiiku Okazaki
Ending theme: "I & I" by Leola
Main cast: Mitsuya Majime (馬締 光也) voiced by Takahiro Sakurai and played by Ryuhei Matsuda
Masashi Nishioka (西岡 正志) voiced by Hiroshi Kamiya and played by Joe Odagiri
Kaguya Hayashi (林 香具矢) voiced by Maaya Sakamoto and played by Aoi Miyazaki
Daitokai staff: Kōhei Araki (荒木 公平) voiced by Tetsuo Kanao and played by Kaoru Kobayashi
Tomosuke Matsumoto (松本 朋佑) voiced by Mugihito and played by Gō Katō
Kaoru Sasaki (佐々木 薫) voiced by Yoshiko Sakakibara and played by Hiroko Isayama
Midori Kishibe (岸辺 みどり) voiced by Yōko Hikasa and played by Haru Kuroki
Supporting cast: Remi Miyoshi (三好 麗美) voiced by Chiwa Saitō and played by Chizuru Ikewaki
Shinichiro Miyamoto (宮本慎一郎) voiced by and played by Shōhei Uno
Take (タケ) voiced by Ikuko Tani and played by Misako Watanabe
Others from live-action: Director Murakoshi (村越局長) played by Shingo Tsurumi
Chie Matsumoto (松本千恵) played by Kaoru Yachigusa
Editor (編集者) played by Kazuki Namioka
Actress on poster (ポスターの女優) played by Kumiko Aso
Synopsis: Araki is a veteran editor for the dictionary department at the Genbu Shobō publishing company. He is looking for a successor now that he's approaching retirement age. After Majime Mitsuya - a salesman who's a poor talker - meets Masashi Nishioka - Araki's coworker who is sociable and frivolous - Araki overhears their conversation and decides to recruit Majime into the department. The "odd couple" work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled "The Great Passage" (Daitokai).
The publication of a new dictionary titled The Great Passage progresses. Mitsuya Majime, originally from publisher Genbu Shobo's sales department, has been recruited by Kouhei Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department who is looking to retire soon. The dictionary department is known internally as the "money-eating insect," but Mitsuya uses his perseverance and attachment to the words in order to become a great editor. Mitsuya, who has poor social skills, finds himself working with another man named Masashi Nishioka, who is able to express himself better.
thought it might be boring by this synopsis, until i saw the cliffhanger in ep.2gdpetti said:Fune wo Amu is an adult story, WTF is it doing on this list?!? :lol: about 2 guys working on some dictionary project... ? Rare to see anything about the adult world in this list.. is there another list it belongs on? Is this list, the entire list of anime for the season? Is such adult fare on a different list?