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How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
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Signature profile
How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? reads strongest on Bingeability, Humour and Character Depth.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Hibiki Sakura’s love for food is starting to affect her size, but training at her local gym is pretty intimidating! After meeting her handsome personal trainer, Machio, Hibiki bites the bullet and starts her quest for a hot bod!
The run
Seasons
1 season · 12 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20192 episodes
Specials included on the How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? DVD/BD volumes 3 and 4, respectively. They are completely new extensive versions of exercise sessions normally seen at the end of each TV anime episode.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201912 episodes
6.5IMDbBest episode · S01E08 What If We Get Lost?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E08
What If We Get Lost?
Two more teachers from Hibiki's school join Silverman Gym. A field trip goes bad when Hibiki's group gets lost. How will they survive?
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E05
What's Your Sports Day Event?
Hibiki embarks on a special training regime in preparation for Sports Day. After the event is over, she hatches a plan to win the grand prize in the Silverman Gym raffle.
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E12
How Heavy Are the Barbells You Lift?
Hibiki and the other regulars at Silverman Gym take a trip to the tropical paradise of Nikunoshima over spring break. Who among them will claim the title of Miss Nikunoshima?
- Directed by Mitsue Yamasaki
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E09
Have You Seen God Before?
The daily routine at Silverman Gym is interrupted by the arrival of a man from Machio's past.
- Directed by Tatsuya Nokimori
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E11
How Are You Spending New Year's?
Hibiki and her friends visit an unusual shrine for New Year's, encounter difficulties when planning their first workout of the year, and enter an amateur talent show.
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E07
Want to Be an Idol?
Hibiki, Akemi, and Ayaka hold a welcome party for Zina. Tachibana-sensei deals with the consequences of Zina discovering her secret hobby. The gang enters an idol competition.
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E02
Silverman Gym Intense Training Course, Part 2
S00E01
Silverman Gym Intense Training Course, Part 1
S01E12
How Heavy Are the Barbells You Lift?
- Directed by Mitsue Yamasaki
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E10
Do You Like Christmas?
- Directed by Akira Toba
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
S01E09
Have You Seen God Before?
- Directed by Tatsuya Nokimori
- Written by Fumihiko Shimo
Behind the series
Created by
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The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yuuji SatouProducer
Writing
- Fumihiko ShimoWriter
Direction
- Mitsue YamasakiDirector
- Tatsuya NokimoriDirector
- Akira TobaDirector
Cinematography
- Kunihiko ItoDirector of Photography
Music
- Yukari HashimotoOriginal Music Composer
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