Aharen-san wa Hakarenai

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Synonyms: Aharen Is Indecipherable

Japanese: 阿波連さんははかれない

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 2, 2022 to Jun 18, 2022

Premiered: Spring 2022

Broadcast: Saturdays at 02:25 (JST)

Producers: bilibili

Licensors: Crunchyroll

Studios: Felix Film

Source: Manga

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.29¹ (scored by 141,911 users)

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Ranked: #2793²

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Popularity: #712

Members: 331,648

Favorites: 2,226

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Beginning his first year of high school, all Matsuboshi Raidou wants is to make friends—starting with the cute, tiny, and soft-spoken Reina Aharen, who sits right next to him in class. Unbeknownst to Raidou, Reina shares the same sentiment, but she has a problem. Awkward and timid, Reina is incapable of determining how chummy she has to be when approaching a person.

Due to Reina's complete inability to gauge personal space, the two struggle to spark their unlikely friendship, as even the simplest tasks like talking seem impossible for them. But despite the countless yet pointless challenges that hinder the pair, the overly imaginative Raidou will do whatever it takes to befriend the indecipherable Reina.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Aharen, Reina

Main

Minase, Inori
Japanese

Raidou, Matsuboshi

Main

Terashima, Takuma
Japanese

Toubaru-sensei

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Aharen, Ren

Supporting

Kuno, Misaki
Japanese

Aharen, Eru

Supporting

Hidaka, Rina
Japanese

Ooshiro, Mitsuki

Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Raidou, Younger Sister

Supporting

Nagae, Rika
Japanese

Satou, Hanako

Supporting

Kusunoki, Tomori
Japanese

Miyahira-sensei

Supporting

Kozakai, Yurie
Japanese

Ishikawa

Supporting

Kakihara, Tetsuya
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

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Kamei, Hiroshi

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Hayashi, Tatsurou

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Aizawa, Ryou

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Opening Theme

"Hanarenai Kyori (はなれない距離)" by TrySail

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	1: "Kyori-kan (キョリ感)" by HaKoniwalily (ハコニワリリィ) (eps 1-2)
	2: "AHAREN HEART" by Reina Aharen (CV: Inori Minase) (eps 3)

Reviews

Jun 17, 2022

Gween_Gween

Recommended

I started watching the series because the main character looks like Kanna, I keep watching it because of Raidou’s antics, and I ended up witnessing an emotionally relatable ride through the personal growth of two characters that I could not but cheer for. During its 12 episodes, Aharen-san Is Indecipherable delivers an honest yet comical representation of awkward socialization, portraying how the flaws and abnormalities outlines the beauty of human relationships. The strength of its routine, the constant usage of popular references, the coherence of its foundation, the texture of the cognitive distortions, the weight of the self-love messages, each element fuses to create a ...

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Jun 17, 2022

ZeroMajor12

Mixed Feelings

‘Aharen-san is Indecipherable’ is another one of those slice-of-life anime that came out this season along with its other competitors who so happen to be the same thing as it is. But before I take the time to talk absolute garbage about the anime, let’s take the time to encapsulate what the whole series is like.

Warning: Spoilers ahead.

So, it’s a tale about a dull high-school man named Raido, who struggles to express his emotions because of how expressionless his face is and just sticks with his stone impression for everyone he meets, whether it be his sister, classmates or even random strangers. It unsurprisingly changes ... like in every high-school slice of life ever when he meets a strange girl named Aharen who also wanted to be his friend, though as the title says, she can’t seem to decipher how to approach someone. Now the word indecipherable defined by the first episode shows Aharen, seemingly coming in too close to someone’s face, can’t seem to speak loud enough for the other person to hear, and has no way of knowing boundaries other than being told enough. What’s amusing is that moments of Aharen being indecipherable doesn’t happen anywhere after the first few episodes and just decided to show cutscenes of Aharen and Raido hanging out together.

First of all, the story weaves around Raido unconsciously knowing more about Aharen as time flew by, closely sharing lunches together, playing board games or even chilling by the bench at the park, gazing at the sunset. In other words, it’s just compilations of them hanging out together in an episodic formula. For the comedy, can be amusing at times but most often for me, it was unfunny at best. It recycles the same jokes over and over. For example, Raido lets his mind go crazy about the weirdest things that Aharen would do only to have it all crumble after Aharen just cleared up the misunderstanding a minute after Raido’s ludicrous misunderstanding. It even brought back dead trends like the stupid fidget spinner which I would never expect in a million years to see in a 2022 anime.

Now, the characters, are not exactly the kind of vibrant and fun characters that any slice of life authors would try to replicate in any of their works, they’re quite… bizarre. Like our main couple, the side characters don’t hold back in terms of how creepy their actions can get. Ooshiro, the supposed stalker who watches them at everything they do, Toubaru, the sensei renowned for getting subsequential nosebleeds to the point of fainting in class, or Futaba, who jealously follows her crush because she thinks Aharen is her love rival.

The main duo don’t go too far in terms of… weirdness, but I would say they were refreshing to watch. No screaming, no physical harassment from the heroine, no mean insults from one another, it’s just them being socially awkward people finding each other and having fun in their own way. Every character in this anime is just way too weird and simple to follow, but having a normal love relationship like this for once was a nice surprise this anime pulled.

As for the art, it looks all fine, there are times when it does fall off in terms of production quality, especially the times they use CGI though. But the minimalistic character design grew on me the longer the show went on. Despite that, I would think that the studio served a well-done job to adapt Aharen-san and enough it did.

The music is good though I would say that the opening and ending are alright when I listened to them the first time, it fits the tone of the show, being calm and soothing but I have to say the best part of it was when you hear the recorder. The tune you would listen to when there is something peculiar happening in the everyday life of the main duo, sounds childish yet so addicting to listen to, I wouldn’t mind listening to this almost every day.

In terms of enjoyability, Aharen-san does an alright job to entertain me, not good enough to keep me at the edge of my seat, and not bad enough to make me pause at every moment that is happening due to second-hand embarrassment. If you’re the guy who just wants a wholesome anime that doesn’t make you want to rage or basically avoid melodrama, then you’re in luck with this one. The standard slice of life anime with its culture festival, walking together and looking out the window of your classroom except there are no toxic moments. So have fun with this series.

In the end, it’s a fine anime, one thing I can assure you is that this is definitely a show you won’t regret watching.

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Dec 23, 2022

sirnothing

Not Recommended

I'll keep it brief. This anime is okay.

CHARACTERS = 5/10

The two MC's in this anime, Raidou-kun and Aharen-san, are somewhat likable. If you like small, quiet, cute girls, then Aharen-san is the character for you. The MC's pretty much stick to their initial characterizations and don't show a lot of variety in who they are. While I understand this anime is not to be taken too seriously, it leads to the MC's becoming somewhat boring/repetitive in their interactions with each other. There are other simplistic characters introduced who provide some additional comic relief to the show, but even then they pull the same joke over ...

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