Hatsukoi Monster (First Love Monster)

Freshman Kaho Nikaidou is from an influential family, and as such, no one has ever said anything even remotely mean to her, for fear of incurring her household's wrath. Wishing to be around people who will not treat her as special because of her background, she leaves home to live at a dormitory for her new school year. Shortly after arriving, Kaho accidentally wanders into traffic and is saved by a tall, handsome stranger. When she asks for his name, he tells her she is weird and walks away. Having finally met the only person to ever say an unkind word to her, Kaho falls head over heels for her savior.

After meeting her rescuer yet again and discovering that his name is Kanade Takahashi, she confesses her love to him. Kanade says he would like for them to be a couple, but that Kaho may not want to date him after she finds out his secret. To her shock, Kaho discovers the startling truth: Kanade is a fifth grader!

Deciding that she can't date a fifth grader, Kaho intends to break up with him. But as she spends more time with Kanade, she begins to care for him even more and continues dating him. Hatsukoi Monster follows Kaho's first steps into love with Kanade, her immature, yet kind, fifth grade boyfriend.

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Takahashi, Kanade

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Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Nikaidou, Kaho

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Horie, Yui
Japanese

Shinohara, Kouta

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Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Noguchi, Kazuo

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Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Taga, Atsushi

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Ishikawa, Kaito
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Nagasawa, Arashi

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Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Renren

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Aoi, Shouta
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Makurazaki, Munemitsu

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Eguchi, Takuya
Japanese

Sannomiya, Ginjirou

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Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

Nikaidou, Daikoku

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Midorikawa, Hikaru
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Cook, Justin

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Itou, Youhei

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Suzuki, Renta

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Urasaki, Nobumitsu

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Opening Theme

"Innocent (イノセント)" by Shouta Aoi

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"Kimi ni Sasageru Chinkonka (君に捧げる鎮魂歌)" by Renren (Shouta Aoi)

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Sep 18, 2016

Whoahoho

Recommended

Ok, so this retard anime has ended....it maybe a retard anime, but, it's a very good retard anime, since it's anime's genre comedy and romance did played well into it, so how do I rate it?

Storywise, it's not a typical romcom anime, were it involves a typical normal guy and a girl, you see this thing has a twist, it's more of a sotacon romance were the girl is older than the guy, but we're not talking about older girl and younger guy here, cu'z guy here is kid in a teenage body.....or what we call a retard, but then again leave it to ...

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Dec 16, 2016

Mikame-

Mixed Feelings

The really low reviews and ratings on this is what made me curious, I wanted to see what it was all about because the synopsis actually sounded decent to me.

I've never heard wiener said so many times said in an anime, especially just in the first episode.. But I didn't hate it.
It is a little weird hearing 'kids' that look like older teenagers talking and acting like children.

Kaho is adorable, she's been pretty sheltered in her life. People wouldn't do anything wrong to her or talk to her certain ways because of who her parents are, so when somebody finally does she has no ...

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Sep 19, 2016

YumeiNikki

Not Recommended

Let’s make one thing clear. If you love penis jokes, gross indecent crushes and a siscon then this series is perfect for you. If you don’t; welcome to the world of common sense.

*PLOT PART COVERS LAST EPISODE SPOILERS*

Hatsukoi Monster was a show that I was looking forward to quite a bit. I’m a sucker for cute girls in plotless romance series (Ore Monogatari, Orange, etc). You see I don’t need a smashing ingenious plot to enjoy something. What I //do// need is a plot that doesn’t ridicule me. And well. That’s where this show went wrong.

Plot:
While the first few episodes introduce us to our characters ... and how they handle each other. (This actually had me rooting for the show and shunning everyone who dared speak negativity of it.) Soon enough some questionable things got introduced. A girl who steals clothing and lives in the same house as the man she stalks. An elder brother with a siscon so bad that he saves her bathwater to drink from. And a butler who gets nosebleeds from his 10 year old master. To say the least this show went for a shocking approach. By episode 6 it’s safe to say that the plot has little to nothing to do with romance anymore and it’s more about how many shocking jokes we can fit into one ep. Personally I don’t find any of these matters to be joked about. Stalking, paedophilia, incest. Haha I’m having a blast. The great resolve of the romance is also something that I missed I think? We get a daydream. A huge out of character confrontation about everything that didn’t make sense about the show (Why Kanade is so tall. Why he only acts childish when the plot calls for it, etc) and after that promises to be together forever that’s it? Also there’s a dog that feels up an underage boy.

Characters:
Usually I’m a sucker for cute girls. I love moe girls that make me want to protect them. But Kaho is just from another dimension. She’s so dense, yet empty at the same time that after 12 eps I’m not sure what her character is like, minus the fact that she loves Kanade. Kanade himself is this weird crossover between a bishie and a child, which is also all there is to his character. The same goes for most of his friends. They look old, act young. All they do is make penis jokes. There’s a mean dude who doesn’t want Kanade and Kaho to date. There’s a few funky housemates who do have interesting characters yet none of them are ever explored enough to be truly likable. And their relationship to Kanade and Kaho seems to be made of nothing but ‘we live in the same house so we’re friends right?’

Sound:
I’ll be honest. One of the main reasons that drew me in for this show was the cast. I’m an avid seiyu fan and seeing so many talented ones in one show was what got me hooked. That was also all I did enjoy about the show.
The opening is generic and the ending had me wonder what it had to do with a romance anime. The OST is decent. It reminded me of grade school.

Art:
The art is. Decent? I’ve seen worse. I’ve seen better. It’s not striking despite its colour palette. It has it’s good and bad moments. Key moments especially are the generic ‘wow I’m so in love with him’ shots and they’re pretty cute. But they easily get balanced out by laughably bad backgrounders

Overall:
Like I said in the opening you can probably not enjoy this If you like decent plot. I only finished watching it because I was waiting for it to regain the grace it had in the beginning. I can deal with whimsical, weird plots. But the plot has to be there. This show completely gave up around episode 4 and sailed onwards with nothing but penis jokes and drama that had me laughing more at being expected to believe it than actually enjoying it. Add to that the risky/downright gross subjects brought up and I personally can’t believe this series is supposed to be anything but an insult to the people who spend time on it.

If, on the other hand, you love series that need you to turn your brain off to enjoy it. By all means this is the series for you.

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