Kotoura-san

Since childhood, Haruka Kotoura's classmates have seen her as a creepy and monstrous person. This is due to her ability to read other people's minds—the same ability that drove her parents away, leaving her alone with her grandfather. As a result, she has grown accustomed to the bitter treatment by the people around her, becoming completely cold and unsociable to others.

However, everything starts to change when Haruka transfers to a new school. While most are off put by her as usual, she meets Yoshihisa Manabe, who finds her power astonishing. Yoshihisa then proceeds to befriend Haruka, promising to never leave her no matter what happens.

Haruka's new experiences of social belonging thus begin, meeting new friends and learning to open herself along the way.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Kotoura, Haruka Main

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Manabe, Yoshihisa Main

Fukushima, Jun Japanese

Muroto, Daichi Main

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Moritani, Hiyori Main

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Mifune, Yuriko Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Kotoura, Zenzou Supporting

Nishimura, Tomomichi Japanese

Kotoura, Kumiko Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Tsukino, Aki Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno Japanese

Oshou Supporting

Nakano, Yutaka Japanese

Onozaki Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru Japanese

WEST GROUND Producer

Ougi, Jiyuu Producer

Fukuda, Jun Producer

Yoshida, Hiroshi Producer

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Oct 23, 2024

Anime-Isekai-God

Recommended

When I first saw this 10 years ago this was one of my favorite romance anime of this genre It lit a spark within my heart. Now after seeing this again 12 years later. This is still as amazing as the day I found you, as the day I first saw you, I will always be forever grateful for your works Enokids. Even after 10+ years since the anime of this came out, and 3 more volumes of the manga that haven't been animated. I will forever love your works and will always be hopeful for the rest to be animated. Well done for making ... my childhood great with your lovely works
when this came out. I thank you from the bottom of my heart (*つ▽`)っ

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 19, 2024

KimuraTheHatoru

Mixed Feelings

Im quite annoyed i can't just recommend this one . The reason is quite simple. The attempted redemption of Moritani and Kotoura's mother. Shoehorning moritani in the cast's "adventures" really put me off. Not to mention the anime's quality after they took that decision also dropped. Like, what she pulled is not something you EVER forgive . Not to mention what role she assumed . Same goes for her mother. You just don't. I can't exactly agree with the president either ,but she gets a pass i guess.

Another thing that pisses me is the whole detective thing. You're telling me with her being tall and ... having big breasts like that, she was some sort of outcast? Even if she had no girl friends because of jealousy, she'd get approached by lots of dudes . For all sorts of reasons. You know it, i know it.

All in all it's a show that you can watch on a whim, as long as you don't really think that much about the details. And are willing to forgive just about anybody no matter how vile they are.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 21, 2025

hbaby1093

Not Recommended

Boy, did this show start out incredibly promising, only to be completely let down by fanservice.

This show centers around the protagonist - Kotoura - who has the ability to read minds. And while typically special abilities are something that are praised in other stories, in this universe, it is not. She is bullied and abandoned by nearly everyone in her life.

Then, she transfers schools, and the story brings us to a new set of characters where we meet the main friends and the love interest.

Kotoura, as the lead, wasn't all that bad, to be honest. She began strong, in fact, but by ... the middle, her development just became stagnant.

Now, Manabe, as the love interest, was actually my favorite character out of the entire show - at least - at first. Initially, he brought the 'comedic relief,' but was also still serious and level-headed. But somewhere after the first couple episodes, his character arc began to spiral, and go down....down...and further down. They made his character so incredibly pervy that he became one of the least liked characters by the end. Completely upsetting and a waste of potential.

This plague of perviness had also spread to other characters, like her Grandpa. Which left me scratching my head wondering what the target audience was that the writers had in mind for this show. Because I cannot imagine anyone enjoying some of the decisions they made for viewers of romance animes.

As for the other characters, fine enough, but I'd argue that none of her other "friends" were really her friends. Everyone at their core wanted something from her, which was just sad.

Overall, I could not believe how unsatisfying this became. Wasted potential all around.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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