My Little Monster (TV)

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[ adapted from Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (manga) ]

Alternative title:

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (Japanese)

となりの怪物くん (Japanese)

Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Themes: friendship, school

Objectionable content: Mild

Plot Summary:

Bookworm Shizuku Mizutani has few interests besides her grade and future career. Requested by her teacher, Mizutani brought handouts to Haru Yoshida, a boy who should have been seated next to her but was suspended due to injuring another student in a fight on the first day of school. Because of the favor, Yoshida now considers Mizutani a friend, and she also learns that Yoshida is in fact a very nice, gentle guy.

Shizuku Mizutani only one goal in life, to secure a lucrative career, and to that end she dedicates her life to studying to get good grades. She is bribed by her teacher to deliver homework handouts to Haru Yoshida, a boy who should have been seated next to her but was suspended due to injuring another student in a fight on the first day of school. Because of the favor, Yoshida now considers Mizutani a friend, and she also learns that Yoshida is in fact a very nice, gentle guy has no social skills and who is prone to violence at the drop of a hat. Mizutani has to decide if she will let Yoshida into her life to be friends, or perhaps more than friends.

User Ratings: 724 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 55 votes (sub:53, dub:1, others:1

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Excellent: 204 votes (sub:194, raw:2, dub:2, ?:2, others:4

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Very good: 232 votes (sub:217, dub:7, others:8

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Good: 150 votes (sub:139, dub:5, others:6

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1 French subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
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Decent: 51 votes (sub:48, ?:1, dub:1, others:1

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So-so: 15 votes (sub:14, others:1

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Not really good: 10 votes (sub:10)

Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)

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Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)

Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)

Seen in part or in whole by 1194 users, rank: #806 (of 5563)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.912 (Very good), std. dev.: 1.3484, rank: #623 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 7.817 (Very good−), rank: #633 (of 5553) (seen all: 7.84 / seen some: 8.09 / won't finish: 5.60)
Bayesian estimate: 7.813 (Very good−), rank: #434 (of 4226)

Running time: half hour per episode

Number of episodes: 13

Episode titles: We have 13

Vintage: 2012-10-01 to 2012-12-25

Opening Theme:

"Q&A Recital!" by Haruka Tomatsu

Ending Theme:

"White wishes" by 9nine

Official website:

アニメ「となりの怪物くん」オフィシャルサイト (Japanese)

テレビ東京・あにてれとなりの怪物くん (Japanese)

Trivia: We have 2

Review:

My Little Monster Episodes 1-7 Streaming (Nov 20, 2012)

News: Show: 3 9

Say, "I Love You"., My Little Monster Manga to Bundle Unaired Anime (Dec 25, 2012)

Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, November 19-25 (Nov 27, 2012)

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun Anime Slated for October 1 (Aug 9, 2012)

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Japanese staff

Japanese cast

Director: Hiro Kaburaki

Series Composition: Noboru Takagi

Script:
Deko Akao (eps 5, 8, 10)
Noboru Takagi (7 episodes

eps 1-4, 7, 12-13

)
Sawako Hirabayashi (eps 6-7, 9. 11)

Storyboard:
Hiro Kaburaki (eps 1, 13)
Kotomi Deai (OP, ED; eps 7, 12)
Kyōhei Ishiguro (ep 8)
Masayuki Kojima (eps 5, 13)
Norihiro Naganuma (eps 2, 11)
Shinobu Tagashira (eps 6, 9)
Toshiyuki Yahagi (ep 3)
Yui Umemoto (eps 4, 9)
Yuichiro Yano (ep 10)

Episode Director:
Atsushi Nakayama (ep 5)
Hiro Kaburaki (eps 1, 13)
Kotomi Deai (eps 7, 12)
Kyōhei Ishiguro (ep 6)
Norihiro Naganuma (eps 2, 11)
Sayo Aoi (ep 3)
Takatoshi Suzuki (ep 8)
Tomohito Naka (ep 10)
Yui Umemoto (eps 4, 9)

Unit Director: Kotomi Deai (OP, ED)

Music: Masato Nakayama (Elements Garden)

Original creator: Robico

Character Design: Tomohiro Kishi

Art Director: Chikako Shibata

Chief Animation Director: Tomohiro Kishi

Animation Director:
Atsushi Aono (eps 3, 6)
Masayuki Yoshida (eps 4, 9)
Mika Saitou (ep 8)
Miori Suzuki (eps 5, 11)
Nahoko Iiyama (ep 11)
Natsuko Kondou (eps 2, 7, 12)
Noritomo Hattori (ep 10)
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 12)
Orie Tanaka (ep 13)
Tomohiro Kishi (OP; eps 1, 13)
Yumenosuke Tokuda (ep 8)

Art design: Yukie Inose

Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura

Producer:
Akiko Yokoyama (Aniplex)
Makoto Shiraishi (TV Tokyo)
Reiko Sasaki (NAS|ADK)
Sawako Hamano (Kodansha)

2D Work: Chie Nishitani

2nd Key Animation:
Akihiro Ōtake (9 episodes

eps 1-3, 6-9, 12-13

)
Akitsugu Hisagi (ep 12)
Atori Ozawa (8 episodes

eps 2, 6-10, 12-13

)
Ayano Fujii (ep 12)
Chie Ōtsuki (ep 3)
Chinami Sekine (ep 9)
Fumiyo Kimura (ep 13)
Hikaru Kodama (ep 12)
Hiromi Ariga (ep 4)
Issei Sakamoto (Big Owl; ep 5)
Jun Maeda (4 episodes

eps 4, 8, 10, 13

)
Kaoru Yokota (eps 10, 12)
Kazune Sugano (ep 8)
Kozue Horauchi (eps 4, 8-9, 13)
Masato Okada (ep 7)
Masayuki Yoshida (ep 12)
Mika Hironaka (eps 4, 7-8)
Mina Ōtaka (ep 10)
Minami Okamoto (ep 6)
Miyuki Kobayashi (eps 4, 9)
Miyuki Oshiro (ep 4)
Nana Watanabe (Big Owl; ep 5)
Natsuko Kondou (ep 13)
Norihiro Naganuma (eps 12-13)
Nozomu Shimazaki (eps 11-12)
Rumi Abe (ep 9)
Sadao Ōshima (ep 11)
Satomi Uchida (ep 11)
Senzō Shima (ep 10)
Shouta Yoshida (eps 11-12)
Taidou Hanafusa (eps 1, 4, 8)
Tomoaki Chishima (ep 7)
Toshiko Inada (ep 10)
Wataru Sekimoto (ep 3)
Yukie Ōji (ep 8)
Yukiko Shimizu (ep 10)

Animation Assistant:
Eri Yamazaki (ep 10)
Natsuko Kondou (ep 10)
Orie Tanaka (ep 10)

Animation producer: Yumi Satou

Assistant Director: Norihiro Naganuma

Assistant producer:
Kumiko Kato
Yumi Handa

Background Art:
Chigusa Orishiba (Studio Canon)
Chika Takemura (Telecom Animation Film)
Daisuke Jinba (Telecom Animation Film)
Eun Seong Cho (Studio Forest)
Hiroshi Gouroku (Telecom Animation Film)
Hiroshi Nitta (Telecom Animation Film)
Hisashi Ikeda (Studio Canon)
Ikuko Tsukidate (Production AI)
Ju Hee Lim (Studio Forest)
Junko Nagasawa (Production AI)
Keiichiro Shimizu (Telecom Animation Film)
Ki Hwan Jung (Studio Forest)
Kinichi Okubo (Studio Canon)
Kyoko Miyashita (Production AI)
Naoki Aoyama (Production AI)
Naomi Kigure (Studio Forest)
Riemi Matsuzawa (Production AI)
Rina Yonezu (Studio Forest)
Samuel David King (Studio Forest)
Saya Fukuda (Studio Canon)
Se Jun Yun (Studio Forest)
Shōgo Sakuma (Studio Canon)
So Hyang Yoo (Studio Forest)
Su Hun Park (Hyoin Entertainment)
Sung Mok Kwon (Hyoin Entertainment)
Takako Saito (Studio Forest)
Tomohiro Morishita (Studio Canon)
Tomohiro Nakau (Production AI)
Tomomi Kato (Production AI)
Yasuhiro Yamako (Telecom Animation Film)
Yasunori Hishinuma (Production AI)
Yukako Ogawa (Studio Canon)
Yukiko Ogawa (Production AI)
Yukiko Tadasumi (Telecom Animation Film)
Yūko Washio (Telecom Animation Film)

Board Assistance: Akira Ito

CG Producer: Norikazu Kamibayashi

CG Production:
Mitsuyasu Okita (Octigraphica)
Shigeru Tanabe (Octigraphica)

Color design: Hiromi Miyawaki

Color setting:
Jinko Suzuki
Kiyoka Sawada
Koji Hirano
Mizuho Yamada
Tomoe Nakagawa
Tomoko Saito

Editing: Daisuke Imai

Editing Assistant: Yasutaka Ikeda

Ending Animation:
Chie Nishitani
Hitoshi Tamura
Kyoji Asano
Norihiro Naganuma
Reiko Sakai
Takaaki Chiba
Tomohiro Kishi

Finish Animation:
Ayako Saito (Office fu-u)
Emi Hayakawa (Office fu-u)
Emi Okamura (Digital Network Animation)
Jinko Suzuki (Office fu-u)
Kaori Shimuta (Office fu-u)
Mizuho Yamada (Digital Network Animation)
Rie Iijima (Office fu-u)
Tomoe Nakagawa (Digital Network Animation)