Art Director: Hisaharu Iijima Color Design: Yoshimi Kawakami CGI Director: Atsushi Takeyama Photography Director: Tomoyuki Sakurada Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama Sound Director: Hitoshi Aketagawa Sound Effects Production: Magic Capsule Music: Megumi Oohashi Music Production: Victor Entertainment Production: Bandai Visual Theme songs Opening Theme: Omoi wo Kanadete (想いを奏でて) Ending Theme: Itsuka Tokeru Namida (いつか溶ける涙) Artist: savage genius Insert song (episode 3): Kono Natsu wo Kakaete Artist: Sachiko & Chino Insert song (episode 3): Zutto Kono Machi de Artist: emiko Reaction The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 compares the series' underlying themes to those of Mahoromatic, noting that the story is "an allegory of the end of childhood and one last vacation before the responsibilities of the grown-up world start to impinge". It criticizes the OVA episode, calling it "a rather pointless rehash that to some minds betrays the elegiac quality of the original series—if everything can be reset and reprised à la Tenchi Muyo!, where's the drama?" References External links Uta∽Kata Official Website 2004 anime television series debuts 2004 manga 2005 anime OVAs 2005 Japanese novels Anime with original screenplays Dengeki Comics Dengeki Daioh Hal Film Maker Hidefumi Kimura Light novels Magical girl anime and manga Seinen manga Sentai Filmworks Television shows set in Kamakura