Product Description

Your chance to get all the romance, guilt and betrayal!

Friendship and faith, love and betrayal…and guilt. Rumbling Hearts weaves a tale not of superheroes or science fiction, but of the silent sufferings of any potential passerby. This is real life. Happy endings are bittersweet at best.

Meet four high school friends - Haruka, Takayuki, Mitsuki and Shinji. Life's promise shines brightly on these companions, until one day a random accident leaves Haruka in a coma. Her boyfriend, Takayuki, cannot forgive himself and seems determined to follow Haruka into a comatose state. Mitsuki dedicates her life to taking care of this tragic young man, and the pair salvage what they can, falling into a self-destructive relationship floundering in guilt. When Haruka awakens three years too late, suffering from anterograde amnesia, everyone has to act as if not a day has passed. Torn between his unhapy real-life train wreck with Mitsuki and the warm and fuzzy daydream high school romance with Haruka, Takayuki watches what little silver lining that was left in life be mercilessly and methodially stripped away.

Box set contains all three Rumbling hearts volumes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94997 in DVD
• Brand: Funimation
• Released on: 2007-08-07
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Box set, Color, Director's Cut, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: 1.15 pounds
• Running time: 350 minutes

Customer Reviews

Wow, simply wow
Okay rumbling Hearts is a series that starts off like any typical shojo anime. In other words cute girl pinning for a guy, confessing her feelings. You know the bit. However unlike most Shojo this one takes a truly tragic turn when the cute girl, Haruka, gets into a traffic accident while waiting for her boyfriend and is servely wounded ending up in a coma. The next episode takes place three years later and shows how her boyfriend and her best friend have done their best to move on. Just as the two finally start to be able to move on, Haruka wakes up and throws a huge monkey wrench into things. Not only does she wake up but she has no idea that she's been in a coma for three years but instead thinks its only been a few days. What is a decent guy to do when his love for a girl he lost to tragedy some back when he already has a girl he cares for? That is the question the main male leads left with, but that's only one of the main plots. There's the guilt striken Best friend, the typical but devoted teenager younger sister, and of course Haruka all trying to find their happiness in a no win situation.

Now for the actual review. First off maybe most noteable is the art work. It is simply amazing. It's fluid, crisp, smooth and well just look at the box cover and you get the idea of just how good it is. The second most noteable is the music which is wonderful and heart felt, from its happy fiddles to the more lonesome guilt struck piano and voilen pieces. Now then is the story line. Why does this take such a low bar? Well because the story doesn't really start until the forth episode. However once it does it draws you in completely. As it is a shojo the story is character based, which for a change is a good thing. Though at first all the characters start off as typical stereo types they quickly change and develope according to their new found situation. What I really loved about the story was that despite most shows, anime or not, tend to focus on the supposed main victum (the person in the coma) this one takes the time to show how such an event makes everyone involved is a victum. It goes that extra mile to show who everyone suffers tremendously. While there are a few truly funny jokes the series has a solemn to even depressing atmosphere to it. The voice acting is extremely well done, though there are times when the main male lead sounds almost drunk but only for a line or two. As excellent as everything is the story is really the gem of the series, which for a shojo is rare.

Now I usually go one about all the stuff with the series and in the case of most Shojo that tends to be a lot. However, I amd more then happy to say this series really doesn't have any errors or flaws in it, at all.

In the end I would have to say buy this series, it's more then worth the money even if it's only 3 dvds long. Now go buy this series!

Rumbling Hearts is awesome I love it now just bring out the video games
Rumbling Hearts is based off of a Japanese video game. I loved this series every single second of it. This is not like some weird fantasy world anime where they have like special powers its just basic human life on what normal humans do for a living and how relationships can be sometimes a real pain. If you love romance, drama, soap operas, about high school life then you should really watch this series. Its kind of like Degrassi in a way since they go to school and then fall in love and then they get betrayed by their partner. I wish Funimation would release the Rumbling Hearts video games here in America I think they would really sell since Rumbling Hearts is like one of the best animes ever made. Sometimes this series has some comedy in it but its mostly depressing but at the same time its great. Plus, who knows maybe if enough people buy this maybe Funimation might just release the Rumbling Hearts video games. I give it a 10 out of 10 and 5 stars. Now lets bring this series to Blu-Ray!

Powerful...
Impacting. Powerful. An account of three friends whose lives are turned upside-down after a tragic event. I loved every second of it. One of my top favorite animes of all time.