Anime · AT-X
Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kazuyuki Okitsu
Yoshida (voice)
13 eps
Kana Ichinose
Sayu Ogiwara (voice)
13 eps
Hisako Kanemoto
Airi Gotō (voice)
13 eps
Kaori Ishihara
Yuzuha Mishima (voice)
13 eps
Yusuke Kobayashi
Hashimoto (voice)
13 eps
Natsumi Kawaida
Asami Yūki (voice)
13 eps
Miki Hasuda
Izakaya Customer (voice)
1 eps
Mirika Kawa
Izakaya Customer (voice)
1 eps
Takeshi Shimada
Izakaya Customer (voice)
1 eps
Chinami Hashimoto
Clerk (voice)
1 eps
Mari Kawano
Customer in Department Store (voice)
1 eps
Yuriko Hanamiya
Customer in Department Store (voice)
1 eps
Takushi Fujikawa
Customer in Department Store (voice)
1 eps
Tsubasa Miyoshi
Customer in Department Store (voice)
1 eps
Saki Kobari
Other Customer (voice)
1 eps
Marina Shibasaki
Other Customer (voice)
1 eps
Naoki Kuwata
Other Customer (voice)
1 eps
Kazuki Miyagi
Other Customer (voice)
1 eps
Aoi Goda
People Around (voice)
1 eps
Takahiro Ayase
Background (voice)
2 eps
Mayu Iizuka
People Around (voice)
1 eps
Yuna Ogata
People Around (voice)
1 eps
Sayaka Kaneko
Customer (voice)
1 eps
Ryota Osaka
Kyōya Yaguchi (voice)
5 eps
Miho Wataya
Old Brother (voice)
1 eps
Yuka Nukui
Young Brother (voice)
1 eps
Kotaro Shinohara
Audience (voice)
1 eps
Souru Saito
Audience (voice)
1 eps
Manaka Iwami
Yuuko Masaka (voice)
2 eps
Manatsu Murakami
Girl (voice)
1 eps
Yurina Uchiyama
Girl (voice)
1 eps
Ayaka Takamura
Girl (voice)
1 eps
Shota Yamamoto
Office Worker (voice)
1 eps
Yu Okano
People Around (voice)
2 eps
Akito Obune
Background (voice)
1 eps
Kengo Kawanishi
Endō (voice)
2 eps
Kento Shiraishi
Employee (voice)
1 eps
Taito Ban
Employee (voice)
1 eps
Anna Yamaki
Voice Guidance (voice)
1 eps
Kanako Sakuragi
Clerk (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
On his way home from drinking his sorrows away after being rejected by his crush, 26 year old salaryman Yoshida finds a high school girl named Sayu sitting on the side of the road and ends up letting her stay at his place overnight. Not having the heart to put the runaway out on the streets, Yoshida allows her to stay at his place... And so began the awkward, irritable, and slightly heartwarming relationship between a runaway high school girl and a salaryman living together.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E08
Summer Festival
Sayu's brother has tracked her down, and she realizes it's only a matter of time before she has to go home. She's forced to reflect; what did she learn since she ran away, and what will she take home with her?
- Directed by Hodaka Kuramoto
- Written by Deko Akao
S01E03
Living Together
Yoshida settles into his new life with Sayu, but the people around him are quick to notice the change, and very curious about what's going on.
- Directed by Hodaka Kuramoto
- Written by Deko Akao
S01E01
The Teenage Girl Beneath the Lamplight
A young salaryman finds a teenage girl sitting under a lamp post on his way home. She offers to sleep with him in exchange for a place to stay. He turns her down, but gives her a place to stay anyway. Their strange life together begins…
- Directed by Geisei Morita
- Written by Deko Akao
S01E06
Starry Sky
Sayu has an encounter with a man from her recent past, and his intentions aren't good at all.
- Directed by Yuya Horiuchi
- Written by Satoru Sugisawa
S01E04
Part-Time Job
Sayu picks up a part-time job, which leads her to make a new friend. The new friend wants to come over, but what if she finds about Sayu and Yoshida?
- Directed by Akira Kato
- Written by Yuusuke Kaneko
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Fumihiro OzawaProducer
- Teppei NojimaProducer
- Mitsuhiro NanbaraProducer
- Atsushi YoshikawaProducer
- Yutaka KashiwagiProducer
- Motohiro OdaExecutive Producer
Writing
- Satoru SugisawaWriter
- Yuusuke KanekoWriter
- Deko AkaoWriter
Direction
- Akira KatoDirector
- Yasuyuki OoishiDirector
- Geisei MoritaDirector
- Manabu KamikitaDirector
- Aya KobayashiDirector
- Hodaka KuramotoDirector
Cinematography
- Tomoya KamijoDirector of Photography
Music
- Tomoki KikuyaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- CrunchyrollStreaming
- Crunchyroll Amazon ChannelStreaming
If you liked this
Similar Series
Series that share this one's texture, not just its genre tags.
Violet Evergarden
2018
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
Toradora!
2008
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
Love Is Indivisible by Twins
2024
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless...
2025
Animated ambition · Similar storytelling style
Horimiya
2021
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
Redo of Healer
2021
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
My Dress-Up Darling
2022
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
The Rising of the Shield Hero
2019
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
O Maidens in Your Savage Season
2019
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
The Saint's Magic Power Is Omnipotent
2021
Animated ambition · Similar storytelling style
Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF
2024
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
Days with My Stepsister
2024
Character-driven drama · Animated ambition
Where to go from here
Watch Next
Our editors' suggestion for the show you should start tonight — and why.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
2021
Continue the epic fantasy journey with another world worth getting lost in.
Off Campus
2026
A natural next watch: same ambition, different world.
Bleach
2004
If the world-building is what held you, this is the next map to walk.
Detective Conan
1996
Take the questions with you: this one rewards the same attention.
Flinderella
2004
Need something lighter afterwards? Start here.
The Rookie
2018
A crime story told with the patience of a novel.
Never stop watching
Related Collections
No related collections yet
This title isn't in a published Nutevio collection yet. It will appear here automatically as soon as it is.
Join the conversation