TV Series2021 · 1 season · 13 episodes · Ended

Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway

Name: Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway
Genre: Animation, Drama
Cast: Kazuyuki Okitsu, Kana Ichinose, Hisako Kanemoto, Kaori Ishihara, Yusuke Kobayashi

Taste attributes: animationdramaromancecomedywholesomelightimaginarylinearglossyemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiplove conquers all

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Boxlist takeAn accessible, larger-than-life animated series: emotional and wholesome. Best if you like escapism over depth.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: wholesome · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

8.3 /10

TMDB · 194 votes

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Season

Season 1

· 2021 · 13 episodesTrailer ↗

Episodes (13)

1The Teenage Girl Beneath the Lamplight5 Apr 2021
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…
2Cell Phone12 Apr 2021
Things are changing quickly for Yoshida, as the girls at work start to take an interest in him. Meanwhile, he tries to get Sayu a cellphone, but she refuses…
3Living Together19 Apr 2021
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.
4Part-Time Job26 Apr 2021
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?
5Reality3 May 2021
Gotou demands to be taken to see Sayu. Is she trying to get a love rival out of the picture, or is she after something else?
6Starry Sky10 May 2021
Sayu has an encounter with a man from her recent past, and his intentions aren't good at all.
7Yearning17 May 2021
As Sayu's family gets closer and closer to tracking her down, she realizes that she may be heading home sooner than she thinks.
8Summer Festival24 May 2021
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?
9Past31 May 2021
Before she goes home, Sayu decides to open up about her terrible past, and what made her run away.
10Proof7 Jun 2021
As Sayu prepares to go home, Yoshida is forced to make a choice. Will he let their relationship end here?
11Resolve14 Jun 2021
Yoshida follows Sayu back to Hokkaido, as she begins to face her past and come to terms with her future.
12Mother21 Jun 2021
Back in Hokkaido, Sayu returns home to confront her mom and decide her future.
13Future28 Jun 2021
It's time for Yoshida to head back home, and Sayu to return to her old life. Can she get by without him, and can he get by without her?

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What lines up

Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Balanced, just how this profile likes it

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Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
Intricacy: Balanced intricacy, where this profile leans smart / intricate

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Synopsis

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.

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