Anime · Iwate Menkoi Television
Scum's Wish
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Chika Anzai
Hanabi Yasuraoka (voice)
12 eps
Nobunaga Shimazaki
Mugi Awaya (voice)
12 eps
Haruka Tomatsu
Sanae Ebato (voice)
12 eps
Shiori Izawa
Noriko Kamomebata (voice)
12 eps
Kenji Nojima
Kanai Narumi (voice)
12 eps
Aki Toyosaki
Akane Minagawa (voice)
12 eps
Aya Hisakawa
Hanabi's Mother (voice)
3 eps
Juri Kimura
Noriko's Mother (voice)
1 eps
Kohei Amasaki
Mirai Yamamoto (voice)
2 eps
Haruki Ishiya
Tatsuya Mifue (voice)
1 eps
Kaoru Sakura
Elementary School Student A (voice)
1 eps
Eri Suzuki
Elementary School Student B (voice)
1 eps
Mariko Higashiuchi
Elementary School Student C (voice)
1 eps
Asuna Tomari
Elementary School Student D (voice)
1 eps
Ryuichi Kijima
Isamu Moriyama (voice)
3 eps
Yukiyo Fujii
Mei Hayakawa (voice)
3 eps
Minami Tsuda
Santo (voice)
1 eps
Ayaka Asai
Ayumi (voice)
1 eps
Naoko Komatsu
Childminder (voice)
1 eps
Yusuke Kobayashi
Takuya Terauchi (voice)
3 eps
Kentaro Kumagai
Junior High School Boy B (voice)
1 eps
Risae Matsuda
Senior Girl A (voice)
1 eps
Junya Enoki
Saito (voice)
1 eps
Maria Naganawa
Miyo (voice)
1 eps
Airi Ootsu
Senior Girl B (voice)
2 eps
Miyu Yoshimoto
Yumi Motoyoshi (voice)
1 eps
Ikuji Nose
Teacher (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Scum's Wish actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Scum's Wish reads strongest on Character Depth, Emotional Weight and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
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
Seventeen-year-old Mugi Awaya and Hanabi Yasuraoka appear to be the ideal couple. They are both pretty popular, and they seem to suit each other well. However, outsiders don't know of the secret they share. Both Mugi and Hanabi have hopeless crushes on someone else, and they are only dating each other to soothe their loneliness. Mugi is in love with Akane Minagawa, a young teacher who used to be his home tutor. Hanabi is also in love with a teacher, a young man who has been a family friend since she was little. In each other, they find a place where they can grieve for the ones they cannot have, and they share physical intimacy driven by loneliness. Will things stay like this for them forever?
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E12
Two Stories
- Directed by Masaomi Ando, Yoshifumi Sasahara
- Written by Makoto Uezu
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
- Go WakabayashiProducer
- Shota KomatsuProducer
- Naokado FujiyamaProducer
Writing
- Makoto UezuWriter
Direction
- Yoshito HataDirector
- Yohei FukuiDirector
- Yoshinari SuzukiDirector
- Masaomi AndoDirector
- Yuu KinomeDirector
- Takuma SuzukiDirector
Cinematography
- Tomoyuki KuniiDirector of Photography
Music
- Masaru YokoyamaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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