Anime · BS11
Summer Time Rendering
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Natsuki Hanae
Shinpei Ajiro (voice)
25 eps
Anna Nagase
Ushio Kofune (voice)
25 eps
Saho Shirasu
Mio Kofune (voice)
25 eps
Yoko Hikasa
Hizuru Minakata (voice)
25 eps
Jin Urayama
Ginjiro Nezu (voice)
25 eps
Kensho Ono
Sou Hishigata (voice)
25 eps
Maki Kawase
Tokiko Hishigata (voice)
25 eps
Akio Otsuka
Seido Hishigata (voice)
25 eps
Tessyo Genda
Alain Kofune (voice)
25 eps
Yoji Ueda
Tetsu Totsumura (voice)
25 eps
Katsuyuki Konishi
Masahito Karikiri (voice)
25 eps
Misaki Kuno
Heine (voice)
25 eps
Rie Kugimiya
Shiori Kobayakawa (voice)
25 eps
Yuko Sanpei
Ryunosuke Minakata (voice)
25 eps
Syukuko Tsugawa
Etsuko (voice)
1 eps
Marie Oi
Machiko (voice)
2 eps
Sachiko Honma
Shiomi (voice)
2 eps
Masato Toyoshima
Festival visitor (voice)
1 eps
Kazunori Morota
Festival visitor (voice)
2 eps
Takafumi Maeuchi
Festival visitor (voice)
2 eps
Mika Okamoto
Festival visitor (voice)
2 eps
Sakura Nagaki
Festival visitor (voice)
2 eps
Masamu Ono
Mourner (voice)
1 eps
Shohei Tabuchi
Festival visitor (voice)
3 eps
Hideki Kojima
Festival visitor (voice)
4 eps
Ryosuke Hara
Takoyaki stall seller (voice)
3 eps
Mana Nakatomi
Hamaji (voice)
7 eps
Yui Shoji
Shadow mother (voice)
1 eps
Sakiko Kawai
Negoro (voice)
6 eps
Mai Sato
Shadow child (voice)
1 eps
Ellen Taira
Telephone announcement (voice)
5 eps
Ai Yamamoto
Asako Kobayakawa (voice)
6 eps
Rika Hayashi
Akari (voice)
6 eps
Yoshihisa Hosokawa
Tatsuo Kobayakawa (voice)
4 eps
Syota Kaihori
On-board announcement (voice)
4 eps
Toshiki Watanabe
Toru Ajiro (voice)
2 eps
Yasushi Iwaki
Islander (voice)
2 eps
Takehiro Hasu
Nakamura (voice)
4 eps
Arisa Sakuraba
Chitose Hishigata (voice)
2 eps
Serika Hiromatsu
Teru Toudai (voice)
4 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Summer Time Rendering actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Summer Time Rendering 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 often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
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 the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Shinpei Ajiro travels home to attend the funeral of a childhood friend, and finds the remote island plagued by a sinister, supernatural force.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E04
Jamais-vu
Ushio's shadow appears before Shinpei at the summer festival.
- Directed by Ryuta Yamamoto
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E01
Goodbye, Summer Days
Shinpei returns home for his friend Ushio's funeral. She apparently drowned, but something is off.
- Directed by Shinji Matsuda
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E18
Face to Face
A seventy-year-old photograph reveals the truth.
- Directed by Junichi Yamamoto
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E07
Deadly Enemy
In order to defeat the Kobayakawa's shadows, Shinpei and Hizuru join forces with Nezu.
- Directed by Yuu Harima
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E02
Shadows
To find out the truth about Ushio's death, Shinpei and Mio head to Hiruko.
- Directed by Junichi Yamamoto
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E05
Maelstrom
A giant shadow massacres everyone at the Hitogashima Summer Festival and engulfs the whole island.
- Directed by Shinji Matsuda
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
![Still from [I'm Home]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w780/dte47isGfQJnjVyjZRMjwSdE6JX.jpg)
S01E24
Summertime Re-Rendering
- Directed by Jun Shinohara
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E23
Everlasting Night
- Directed by Hanako Ueda
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E21
Shinpei Ajiro's Longest Day
- Directed by Katsuya Oshima
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E20
All is (not) Lost.
- Directed by Yuu Harima
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
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
- Kazuya NoseProducer
- Fumitaka KitazawaProducer
- Satoru ShimosatoProducer
- Fuminari FukinoProducer
- Akihiro SotokawaProducer
- Mayumi KurashimaProducer
Writing
- Hiroshi SekoWriter
Direction
- Katsuya OshimaDirector
- Junichi YamamotoDirector
- Tetsuo YajimaDirector
- Yuri HagiwaraDirector
- Toshihiro MaeyaDirector
- Ryuta YamamotoDirector
Cinematography
- Toshiya KimuraDirector of Photography
Music
- Keigo HoashiOriginal Music Composer
- Ryuichi TakadaOriginal Music Composer
- Keiichi OkabeOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- HuluStreaming
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