
As these five friends face many different phenomena at the whims of a mysterious entity known as «Heartseed», their friendship is put to the ultimate test. One day, they begin experiencing a phenomenon in which they randomly swap bodies amongst themselves. The story involves five high school students, Yaegashi Taichi, Nagase Iori, Inaba Himeko, Aoki Yoshifumi and Kiriyama Yui, who are all members of the Cultural Research Club. I didnt watch the show and didnt follow the news pieces, so I dont really know the specifics, and its hard to tell what actually happened and in. This lead to a pretty substantial boycott effort.

These episodes adapted the first four novels of Kokoro Connect. There were several news articles during the airing of Kokoro Connect regarding some sort of a controversy during the production of the anime. A 17-episode anime adaptation was made by Silver Link the first 13 aired in July 2012 and the last 4 aired in December 2012.

The same begins to happen to the other club members, throwing their daily lives into chaos. The series is complete with 11 volumes (8 main volumes and 3 side-story volumes).Īn ongoing manga adaptation under the same name was written by the original author and illustrated by CUTEG in October 2010. Five members of the school culture clubTaichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aokiencounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch personalities without warning. Anda entered the first novel in the series, originally titled Hito Tsunagari Te, Doko e Yuku (ヒトツナガリテ、ドコへユク?), into Enterbrain's 11th Entertainment Awards in 2009 and the novel won the Special Prize. Kokoro Connect (ココロコネクト) is a Japanese light novel series written by Sadanatsu Anda, with illustrations by Shiromizakana.
