1 Litre no Namida (TV series)

Fifteen-year-old Ikeuchi Aya is an ordinary girl, soon to be high school student and daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop. As time passes, unusual things start happening to Aya. She begins falling down often and walking strangely. Her mother Shioka, takes Aya to see the doctor, and he informs Shioka that Aya has spinocerebellar degeneration - a rare disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat. A cruel disease, as it does not affect the mind. The story revolved around the time from when Aya was 14-20 before a big time skip. When she died at 25, her family carried her wishes for her body to be donated for medical research purposes.

• Aya and family's last name changed to Ikeuchi.
• In reality, Aya also has another younger brother called Kentaro, but he was not in the series.
• According to Shioka's book, "Hurdles of Life", written after Aya's death, her husband is an office worker, and doesn't own a tofu shop.
• All places names are fictional. Aya grew up in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture
• Both Aya's were diagnosed in 9th grade (3rd year of middle school), but Aya Ikeuchi didn't not show first symptoms until she was sitting her entrance exams, and switched schools after official diagnosis. They both moved to a special-needs school whilst in their first years of high school.
• Only Aya Ikeuchi played basketball pre-diagnosis from middle school.
• They were both conductors in school choirs.
• Aya Kito had never been in a relationship. Haruto Asō and his father are fictional characters created by the family's request.
• Aya Ikeuchi's primary doctor is male instead of female.
• The series is set in the mid-2000s so the public pay phones are in button form instead of rotary form. They use cell phones instead of pagers and letters.
• Aya Ikeuchi was set to be born in 1989, a year after Aya Kito's passing, she was admitted to hospital in 2009, and died in 2014, so her death was set in the future. Both died at 12:55 am. The series ended in 2015, a year after Ikeuchi's passing. Photographs of Kito was also shown at the end of the series.
• In the final picture, the Hiragana board is in reverse direction (from left to right), and does contain numbers, but does not in the series.
• Like the original, Ako graduated from the same high school that Aya left, and both her and her mother work in healthcare.
• Both Ikeuchi and Kito were in biology club.
• The base colour for the high school uniforms of Aya Kito is dark-coloured, but is in white for the Ikeuchis.

According to the final pictures of the drama:

• Ako graduated from the same high school that Aya left, and both her and her mother work in healthcare.
• Hiroki went on to graduate from the same high school, and is now a community policeman.
• Rika went on to graduate from the same high school, and is now a supplementary teacher in early childcare, similar to a teacher aide.
• Their parents became motivational speakers and ambassadors for the disease.

Indonesian Production House SinemArt's[2] drama, titled Buku Harian Nayla[3] (Nayla's Diary), plagiarizes 1 Litre of Tears. The series bears some striking resemblances, like the name "Aya" being replaced with "Nayla" (Chelsea Olivia) and Moses (Ralph Glenn Alinskie) in place of Asou. The series aired in RCTI as a special Christmas series. The comparison between the two series have been discussed by the show's audience.[4] The scenario was written by Serena Luna (or sometimes called Chevyra Edenia).

Indonesian fans of 1 Litre no Namida have reported this admitted act of plagiarism to Fuji TV and the Indonesian mass media, but there has yet to be a response. What most upsets the fans is that RCTI failed to credit or acknowledge Fuji TV and 1 Litre of Tears, from which the story is presumed to have been adapted, and noted that "This story is fictitious: the similarities of names, characters, places, and times are purely coincidental."

Amrita TV is to dub 1 Litre no Namida and Chinese drama Tears of Happiness is based on this drama.

The Turkish remake of this drama aired on Kanal D, titled Bir Litre Gözyaşı in 2018.

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

1. littoru no namida -Main Theme-
2. hurdle wo koete
3. anata ga oshiete kure tamono -ai no Theme-
4. yasashisa ni tsutsumarete
5. anji
6. kimi e no Long Pass
7. rakujitsu
8. shinobiyoru byouma
9. furi aoge ba aoi sora
10. namida no imi
11. senkoku
12. mou utae nai
13. te wo nobase ba anata ga
14. kunou no senritsu
15. nagare yuku jikan
16. sagashi te goran
17. nigiyaka na danran
18. toumei na sekai
19. seimei aru kagiri -Sub Theme-
20. Only Human (Piano version)
21. konayuki (Piano Version)
22. Only Human (Cello version)
23. K - Only Human
24. Remioromen - Konayuki
25. Remioromen - sangatsu kokonoka (9 March)

• Ichi rittoru no namida at IMDb
• 1 Litre of Tears at Fuji TV (in Japanese)