Anime · MBS
Golden Time
When you're in a four-sided triangle and haunting yourself, how can things get even MORE complicated?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yui Horie
Kouko Kaga (voice)
24 eps
Makoto Furukawa
Banri Tada (voice)
24 eps
Ai Kayano
Nana Hayashida (voice)
24 eps
Kaito Ishikawa
Mitsuo Yanagisawa (voice)
24 eps
Ibuki Kido
Chinami Oka (voice)
24 eps
Takahiro Hikami
Nijigen-kun (voice)
24 eps
Saori Goto
Sao-chan (voice)
5 eps
Shizuka Itoh
Shi-chan (voice)
5 eps
Harumi Sakurai
Reina (voice)
3 eps
Shino Shimoji
Female student C (voice)
1 eps
Risa Taneda
Recruiter (voice)
2 eps
Akari Harashima
Female student A (voice)
1 eps
Kouji Takahashi
Man A (voice)
1 eps
Yumeha Kouda
Tea club member A (voice)
1 eps
Mari Shiraishi
Tea club member B (voice)
1 eps
Atsushi Kosaka
Male senior A (voice)
10 eps
Daiki Yamashita
Freshman 1 (voice)
1 eps
Satomi Sato
Nana-senpai (voice)
11 eps
Taishi Murata
Koba (voice)
4 eps
Takayuki Kondo
Kosshii-senpai (voice)
12 eps
Maina Shimagata
Female student 2 (voice)
2 eps
Takako Honda
Banri's mother (voice)
6 eps
Hironori Saitoh
Faculty staff (voice)
3 eps
Kanehira Yamamoto
Police officer 2 (voice)
2 eps
Meiko Kawasaki
Nurse (voice)
1 eps
Kengo Kawanishi
Male student (voice)
3 eps
Yusuke Shirai
Male senior B (voice)
8 eps
Tetsuo Kanao
Kouko's father (voice)
3 eps
Saori Onishi
Female senior B (voice)
7 eps
Shizuka Ishigami
Female senior D (voice)
4 eps
Ayaka Suwa
Female senior A (voice)
6 eps
Yusuke Kobayashi
Student (voice)
4 eps
You Taichi
Female student 1 (voice)
1 eps
Junichi Yanagita
Hosshii-senpai (voice)
7 eps
Haruki Ishiya
Male senior D (voice)
2 eps
Ryota Takeuchi
Ani (voice)
2 eps
Mai Nakahara
Fiancée (voice)
1 eps
Eiji Takeuchi
Male senior C (voice)
3 eps
Itaru Yamamoto
Fourth-year student B (voice)
9 eps
Yohei Azakami
Fourth-year student A (voice)
3 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Golden Time actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Golden Time reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Banri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, which leads him to the beautiful, yet obsessive, Kouko Kaga.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Springtime
Banri Tada, a freshman law student at a Tokyo university ended up arriving late for his entrance ceremony.
- Directed by Sega Kajii
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E23
Resignation
- Directed by Yoshitaka Koyama
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E22
Paradise Lost
- Directed by Tomohiro Matsukawa, Chiaki Kon
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E21
I'll Be Back
- Directed by Sega Kajii, Chiaki Kon
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E19
Night in Paris
- Directed by Yoshitaka Koyama, Chiaki Kon
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Ryutaro KawakamiProducer
- Kotaro SudoProducer
- Takaaki YuasaProducer
Writing
- Fumihiko ShimoWriter
Direction
- Hideaki NakanoDirector
- Tomohiro MatsukawaDirector
- Masako SatoDirector
- Sega KajiiDirector
- Takashi YamazakiDirector
- Riki FukushimaDirector
Cinematography
- Yutaka KurosawaDirector of Photography
Music
- Yukari HashimotoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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