Anime · Nippon TV
Real Girl
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Real Girl actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Real Girl reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
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.
The story
What it's about
Tsutsui Hikari (a.k.a "Tsuttsun") is a high school student who is content with his virtual life of anime and video games. One day, he gets stuck cleaning the pool with Iroha, a real live girl who is stylish, sassy and known to be easy with boys ... and she aggressively approaches him! Tsuttsun, who has few friends and lives in his own world, finds himself smitten by the confident and wild Iroha ... and his whole world is turned upside down!! It's the awkward and pure love story of a boy who experiences relationship for the first time.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S02E12
Regarding Her Future and Mine.
S02E10
Regarding My Thoughts on the Sacred Mysteries of Life.
S02E09
Regarding My Choice to Have No Regrets in My High School Life
S02E08
Regarding When My Friend and My Maybe Friend Became Official.
S02E07
Regarding the Troubling Invitation from My Girlfriend.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Taiyo MatsudaProducer
- Atsushi KirimotoProducer
- Keiko TamaruProducer
- Hiroyuki InageProducer
- Shunsuke MatsumuraProducer
- Sota YoshioProducer
Direction
- Nao MiyoshiDirector
Cinematography
- Mitsuhiro KunoDirector of Photography
Music
- Akiyoshi YasudaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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