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My Little Monster

★ 7.1 6K votes 2012–2012 1 seasons · 13 episodes Ended TV Tokyo
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 9/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 8/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 7/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Haruka TomatsuTatsuhisa SuzukiAtsumi TanezakiRyôta ÔsakaTomoyuki HiguchiYuki Ono
Starring
Haruka TomatsuTatsuhisa SuzukiAtsumi TanezakiRyôta ÔsakaTomoyuki HiguchiYuki Ono
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"Two social misfits stumbling toward feelings"

An emotionally closed-off top student gets dragged into the orbit of a violent, feral transfer boy who decides she's his friend after one chance encounter. What follows is a lopsided, funny, occasionally tender look at two people who don't understand feelings trying to figure out what they mean to each other. It's breezy and bright, powered by odd-couple chemistry and a supporting cast of equally strange classmates, with pacing that favors small character beats over big romantic drama or plot momentum.

Watch it for

the oddball chemistry between two emotionally stunted leads who genuinely make each other better.

Maybe skip if

you want a fully resolved romance arc rather than a slice-of-life character study.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12012
7.51K13
A sensible bookworm with no friends or hobbies finds herself drawn to a brilliant but socially awkward bad boy -- and an unlikely romance.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
1Sitting Next to Yoshida-kun7.8
119
2Strange7.9
99
3Nuisance7.5
86
4Summer Break7.5
80
5Yoshida Family Matters7.5
77
6Girls Feeling Melancholy7.5
76
7The Distance Between Us7.3
72
8Come Down to Shoyo Festival7.3
72
9All or Nothing7.2
71
10Christmas7.4
72
11The Yamaguchis' Son, Kenji7.4
72
12The Year Draws to a Close7.5
73
13Spring Is Near7.2
72

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Haruka Tomatsu Shizuku Mizutani
Tatsuhisa Suzuki Haru Yoshida
Atsumi Tanezaki Asako Natsume
Ryôta Ôsaka Sohei Sasahara
Tomoyuki Higuchi Mitsuyoshi Misawa
Yuki Ono Tomio, Nagoya
Takuma Terashima Kenji Yamaguchi
Kana Hanazawa Chizuru Oshima
Atsushi Abe Mabo
Nozomi Sasaki Saeko Ninomiya

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