Kuzu no Honkai

To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with.

Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for as long as she can remember, so she is elated to discover that he is her new homeroom teacher. However, Narumi is soon noticed by the music teacher, Akane Minagawa, and a relationship begins to blossom between them, much to Hanabi's dismay.

Mugi was tutored by Akane in middle school, and has been in love with her since then. Through a chance meeting in the hallway, he encounters Hanabi. As these two lonely souls spend more time together, they decide to use each other as a substitute for the one they truly love, sharing physical intimacy with one another in order to stave off their loneliness.

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Yasuraoka, Hanabi Main

Anzai, Chika Japanese

Awaya, Mugi Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Ebato, Sanae Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Minagawa, Akane Supporting

Toyosaki, Aki Japanese

Kamomebata, Noriko Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Kanai, Narumi Supporting

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Kirishima, Atsuya Supporting

Asanuma, Shintaro Japanese

Terauchi, Takuya Supporting

Kobayashi, Yuusuke Japanese

Hayakawa, Mei Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Moriyama, Take Supporting

Kijima, Ryuuichi Japanese

Fujiyama, Naokado Producer

Higa, Yuuji Producer

Komatsu, Shouta Producer

Andou, Masaomi Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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Dec 28, 2024

nagisayamada

Recommended

Despair can sometimes be the only thing we see around us. Sometimes we don't know who we are, or we have the wrong answers, and so we search for our selves in others who are going through the same thing. However that only ever serves to confuse us even more.

Scum's wish is exactly that: a tale of multiple fucked up borderline dissociative people who need others to feel for them or to help them feel. It feels like, with the exception of one or two characters, each person is indeed a scum. You hate them, but you want good things for them; you pity them. ... It's what made it such a compelling watch. And the fact that this is one of those anime's where a "happy ending" isn't guaranteed or advertised just makes you want to find out how each storyline is going to end for the characters. Once again, don't expect to like anyone in this series and expect to be disgusted and annoyed at the character's actions, but I do believe you'll start to feel bad for all of them after a bit. And most importantly, you'll just wish for them to achieve normality instead of whatever the fuck they got going on.

Personally, I enjoyed watching it, but it did make me quite uneasy during and after watching it. It's like I was shown concentrated sadness and despair without an ounce of happiness (or rationality) to make it more pallatable. One critique I have is that it seems so stupid to me how every single character cared more about their romantic lives than ANYTHING else: not their family, friends, jobs, hobbies...And maybe that serves to show how empty they are inside but it's still pretty damn weird. And also so many sex scenes like calm down there were 4 every episode or something.

About the ending, I've seen people say it was really disappointing or bad and to that I say they went in expecting the wrong thing. This is NOT a romantic anime, although it portrays romance. This is a story about finding yourself and learning to love properly, normaly. This isn't about wanting two particular people to end up together, even if you can and I did but alas I still thought the ending was perfect for what this anime wanted to portray and say. I think that, unlike most endings, this one was objectively pretty good and tied up the story in a logical, conclusive and well written way and didn't serve as a final act of fanservice to appease watchers.

I would really recommend this anime to anyone looking for an exploration on deeper, more mature themes and the pursuit of a self you can be proud of. You'll also like it if you're horny and want to see cute anime characters fucking.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 6, 2024

xycid

Mixed Feelings

Funny

i love this anime, 5 years later im 15 now i still do. im still emotionally connected, i just finished rewatching it 3 minutes ago for the 7th time and i feel so much i love nostalgia i love this anime i loved every second and every character and their soul and appearances beauty in it. its 1:05 am now tmrws saturday and i have school im glad i watched this tn, and then im going to finland in 2 days sigh, omg this isnt some journal or blog post, nyway i love the person akane turned out to be too at the end, i ... js love everyone ending was too sad 4 me but it is wht it is i love scum's wish 4 eva
mixed feelings only bc itll make u rly sad im so emotionally connected to it and i stopped being connectd to tv shows like that years ago.

iaaaaaaaaaaaamsohohspppu iwatched scums wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeesh todaywesdbrf i laaaaaaaawe ieeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttt

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 18, 2024

sch1zoid

Not Recommended

Scum's Wish is what would happen if the Disney Channel was allowed to make a rated R show
The concept seems interesting at the start- two broken people finding solace in the other, indulging in their unrequited fantasies. This immediately becomes contrived, as said broken people are clearly mentally handicapped. I enjoy realistic dramas with deeply flawed characters, but unless the entire school is a special ed class none of this could or would ever happen in real life.
The worst and most infuriating part of the show for me was the lesbian rape(s) from a certain character, which not only are never properly addressed, but ... almost feel condoned. She's made out to be both sympathetic and the victim, then they make up and all is forgiven. Despite her ways not changing whatsoever (as we see in the final episode).
Being said, Teacher was hot and I'd let her use me

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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