Those Snow White Notes

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• Type — tv series • Director — Hiroaki Akagi • Writer — Kan'ichi Katō • Studio — Shin-Ei Animation • Licensee — * Crunchyroll • Network — MBS, TBS, BS-TBS • First — April 3, 2021 • Last — June 19, 2021 • Episodes — 12

• Type — manga • Author — Marimo Ragawa • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Monthly Shōnen Magazine • First — December 5, 2009 • Last — August 5, 2022 • Volumes — 31

• Ja Kanji — ましろのおと • Ja Romaji — Mashiro no Oto • Genre — Coming-of-age, drama

• Setsu Sawamura (澤村雪, Sawamura Setsu) • Nobunaga Shimazaki • Shuri Maeda (前田朱利, Maeda Shuri) • Yume Miyamoto • Yui Yamazato (山里結, Yamazato Yui) • Reina Kondō • Kaito Yaguchi (矢口海人, Yaguchi Kaito) • Nobuhiko Okamoto • Rai Nagamori (永森雷, Nagamori Rai) • Tatsuhisa Suzuki • Keiko Koyabu (小薮啓子, Koyabu Keiko) • Tomoyo Takayanagi

• Wakana Sawamura (澤村若菜, Sawamura Wakana) • Yoshimasa Hosoya • Umeko Sawamura (澤村梅子, Sawamura Umeko) • Takako Honda • Seiryū Kamiki (神木清流, Kamiki Seiryū) • Yūichirō Umehara • Sōichi Tanuma (田沼総一, Tanuma Sōichi) • Tasuku Hatanaka • Mai Tanuma (田沼舞, Tanuma Mai) • Shiori Mikami • Yuna Tachiki (立樹ユナ, Tachiki Yuna) • Rikako Aida • Ushio Arakawa (荒川潮, Arakawa Ushio) • Fukushi Ochiai • Takaomi Kaji (梶貴臣, Kaji Takaomi) • Yuki Kaji • Sakura Yamano (山野桜, Yamano Sakura) • Yuna Taniguchi • Matsugorō Sawamura (澤村松吾郎, Sawamura Matsugorō) • Tomohisa Asou • Hiroshi Ōtawara (大俵ヒロシ, Ōtawara Hiroshi) • Kyōya Kimura • Taketo (タケト, Taketo) • Tetsuya Kakihara

The manga is written and illustrated by Marimo Ragawa. The series was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine from December 5, 2009, to August 5, 2022. Kodansha compiled its chapters into 31 individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on October 15, 2010 and the final volume was published on October 17, 2022. An omnibus edition with the first three volumes released in Japan on March 17, 2021. Kodansha USA has licensed the manga for digital release in North America.

An anime television series adaptation was announced in the September issue of Monthly Shōnen Magazine on August 6, 2020. The series is animated by Shin-Ei Animation and directed by Hiroaki Akagi, with Kan'ichi Katō handling series composition, and Jiro Mashima designing the characters. The Yoshida Brothers will supervise the tsugaru-jamisen music in the anime. The two opening theme songs "Blizzard" and "Ginsekai" (Silver World) was performed by Burnout Syndromes, while the ending theme song "Kono Yume ga Sameru Made" (Until I Wake From Dreaming) was performed by Miliyah Kato and the Yoshida Brothers. The series aired from April 3 to June 19, 2021, on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, and BS-TBS. Crunchyroll streamed the series outside of Southeast Asia. Mighty Media has licensed the series in Southeast Asian territories.

Those Snow White Notes was nominated for the 4th Manga Taishō, and it was ranked third in the 2012 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey. It also won the 36th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category and an Excellence Award at the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards. The series was nominated for the 23rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2019. Volume 9 has sold 70,223 copies as of October 20, 2013. Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network reviewed the manga's first volume in 2021, giving high praise to the opening "Track 0" chapter for its introduction of Yuna, criticized the story going downhill once she leaves for less interesting characters but felt there was potential going forward in subsequent volumes, concluding that: "There's definitely more for this series than against it at this point, and I'm looking forward to continuing to be proven wrong in my earlier assumptions about Marimo Ragawa as a creator."

Fellow ANN editor Nicholas Dupree placed Those Snow White Notes at number three on his top 5 best anime list of 2021, saying despite being "woefully incomplete", he praised the "heart-wrenching and deeply human journey" of its main character and the "excellently animated instrumentation" throughout the musical numbers, concluding that: "It desperately needs an encore, but only because a really good concert leaves you wanting more."