- Theme Tune - playful, features characteristic sound, trumpets and piano
- Royal orchestrial music when talking about how rich Erika's parents are
- Woeful clown music - mistakes
- Triumphant classical music in wedding fantasy - would be rich and happy
- Music cuts out when father arrives - interrupts their status quo
- Heavy metal guitar sound - Kenji's reputation and past
- Violin music - sneaking around, plotting
- Deep danger sound when talk about father coming round
- Jazz sound when plan doesn't go to plan
- Cheerful string music
- Oriental pinging sound when Kenji shouts - true self revealed, authority, anger
- Trumpet flare sound as Erika gets angry
- String music
- Drum roll before cut - something about to happen, a problem to fix
- Oboe/flute music - uncertainty, manipulation
- Silence when she tells him it has been 10 years juxtaposed with his loud outburst of anger
- Piano as dad collapses continues over manga problems
- Sad flute music with tenser piano sounds
- Soft piano music as they talk about jun - tenderness
- Trumpet music starts as Kenji reactsto Yasuko saying she will study abroad
- Jaunty music as limo pulls up
- Jazz highlight as reacts to Tower
- Silence as dad makes his offer to Yasuko
- Sad music as he says that they 'live in different worlds'
- emotional music as Yasuko pretends to be happy
- Intrigued music when sponsor is revealed
- Silence while Yasuko and kenji talk
- Fancy orchestral music at party
- Emotional string music as Kenji interrupts
- Silence after Kenji has left
- Theme song starts as Jun runs out
- aeroplane sound
Sound FX
- Mototrbike and horn sound - Kenji's past in bike gang, Erika's past
- Clatter of Erika being clumsy - building her character
- Cute sounds of Yasuko's youth, clumsiness
- Glittering sound matching with Tsubaki's perfection and how Yasuko sees him as beautiful etc
- Whirl of basketball - talented in different areas, manly pursuit
- Thudding sounds reflect the importance and disastrous effects of the press releases
- Pipe sound that connotes fighting, samurai etc when Kenji is angry/fights people
- Glitter sound mathcing her animated fantasy of Tsubaki as handsome prince
- Picture sound - famous, important
- Glitter as Tsubaki turns Yasuko around - like a princess
- Reaction sounds after father enters - shock
- Impact sounds as Erika and Yasuko realise they have to show Kenji being in love with Erika
- Pen sounds - working as manga artist
- Sound of neck cracking
- Chopping sound - ramen shop
- Sound of bowl being putting on side
- Grabbing Aijaksu by the T shirt and hitting with leek
- Pinging sound as Yasuko gets an idea
- Dinging sound as Kenji reacts to Yasuko saying 'ouch', whipping sound as turns his head, stool knocked
- Sound as he works out she was tricking him
- Flames sound as Erika's eyes become feiry with anger along with horn sound connoting her niker gang - connects her anger and her gang past together
- Sound of the coins he leaves
- Hits with sponge
- Hitting table with anger - trying to be alpha male - showing his definiteness
- Shock sounds matching with CUs of Harvard leaflet
- Rushed knock - concern
- birds as zooms in on their house
- Opening door sound
- High electronic glug sound as Yasuko makes up her mind
- Slamming food down - anger
- Picking up plates - scared of anger
- Whooshing sound as she fall over
- Limo driving and door opening sounds - taken to a different place very different to what she's used to, posh
- Reaction sound as see tower
- Heartbeat sound building up to confession
- Hammer thrown, kicking the table - unsettled, taking out feelings
- Door opening sound interrupts the beginning of Jun's speech
- Rev soumd as Kenji is uncertain how to act
Other
- Whisper - hushed tone, respect, secret that has been kept
- American voice saying 'Ms Yasuko please show us the wedding ring'
- Voiceover of her fantasy
- Tsubaki Saying 'Shall we dance' in english
- Kenji shouting - showing true self
- Yasuko's voice over establishing shot of house
- People stopping covos to bow to Tsubaki dad
- Words in past have echo effect on
- Erika shouting when comes in - urgent, worried
- Clamour of voices around jun - he is wanted, popular
- Voice echoing around hall
- Talk to business people in english
- surprised confused mumbles from extras