The Spring 2026 Anime Preview Guide

The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt

Tōgo Sakuradaimon is a member of the discipline committee who checks the students' appearance in front of the school gates every morning. Poemu Kohinata is a high school girl whose skirt is deemed too short and who is stopped every morning during the checks. The two, who seem like oil and water, suddenly bump into each other one day during extra lessons. Sakuradaimon, whom everyone thought was serious and strict, is actually a useless member of the disciplinary committee who can't study at all. Although they are complete opposites, as they get to know each other, the distance between them gradually closes.

The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt is based on the Ponkotsu Fūkiin to Skirt Take ga Futekisetsu na JK no Hanashi manga series by Takuma Yokota. The anime series is streaming on Crunchyroll on Mondays.

In the interest of full transparency, I have docked this episode half a star for Sakuradaimon's initial comments to Kohinata. Yes, he's the class monitor, tasked with making sure that everyone is in compliance with school dress codes. Yes, Kohinata's hair is bleached and her skirt is quite short. Does that give him the right to slut-shame her? Absolutely not. To say that I was put off by him blaming her for his own attraction to her is putting it mildly. That's not him being “klutzy,” it's him being an absolute pig.

Things do get better from there, fortunately, but it's a hell of a way to start a series. The thinking behind it seems to be that neither Sakuradaimon nor Kohinata are exactly who their appearances would make them seem to be – he's not all that bright and she's very smart. They're both basically nice people. They have to learn to see past his overenthusiasm for rules and her sartorial choices in order to become friends or to fall for each other, whichever way this series is going to play that.

When the humor doesn't rely on Sakuradaimon being at his worst, it does have some entertaining moments. The reveal that they live fifty yards apart and somehow never realized it is good, and Izubuchi, the former delinquent turned health (and dignity) representative works much better as a funny character than Sakuradaimon does, with his delinquent long jacket (embroidered on the back, of course) and his penchant for doing whatever it takes to keep people healthy. The scene where he interrupts the principal's droning speech (which is appropriately inane, as I remember all principal speeches being) in order to pass out fever patches to the fainting student body is great. It captures the absurdity of both the high school experience and the characters, which is what I suspect the entire episode is attempting to do.

I like the bold look of the show, with its thick outlines, bright colors, and simple character designs. It doesn't do much that's beyond serviceable with its animation, but that works for it, because this is really all about the dialogue. I do think it could've been a short instead of three shorts mashed together into a full-length episode, but I wasn't checking the counter every three minutes, so it works well enough. It really doesn't put its best foot forward, though, and in a premiere, that's a major problem.