Himouto! Umaru-chan R

Umaru Doma is a model student who has a hidden side: when she gets home each day, she puts on her hamster hoodie and turns into a sluggish otaku fond of junk food. As Umaru continues these daily antics, the friendship between her and her classmates—Nana Ebina, Kirie Motoba, and Sylphinford Tachibana—deepens, and more and more interesting events begin to unfold.

Of course, these events give rise to numerous questions. What did Nana ask of Umaru's brother Taihei? Who is the mysterious girl with the diamond hairpin? And most important of all: why does this girl seem to know Umaru? These questions and more will be answered in Himouto! Umaru-chan R!

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Doma, Umaru Main

Tanaka, Aimi Japanese

Ebina, Nana Main

Kageyama, Akari Japanese

Motoba, Kirie Main

Shiraishi, Haruka Japanese

Tachibana, Sylphinford Main

Furukawa, Yurina Japanese

Doma, Taihei Main

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Kongou, Hikari Supporting

Minase, Inori Japanese

Motoba, Takeshi Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki Japanese

Kongou, Kanau Supporting

Koshimizu, Ami Japanese

Tachibana, Alex Supporting

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Ebina, Nene Supporting

Asano, Masumi Japanese

Oota, Masahiko Director, Episode Director

Naoya, Takashi Episode Director, Storyboard, Chief Animation Director

Haraguchi, Hiroshi Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Arai, Shougo Episode Director, Storyboard

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Jun 6, 2022

otaku86

Recommended

The second season is a lot better than the first. We're finally past the focus on the paradisiacal and gimmicky otaku life of Umaru and her dual personality. The focus now is the development of the characters' friendship and their daily life together. A lot more time is dedicated to the other girls and their problems and concerns, which actually makes Umaru more relevant and interesting as a character since this time around she can be more than something for her older brother to bear and clean up after it. We get a chance to see her more of her behavior as a friend and ... how she tries to improve the lives of the people around her… except her brother's life that is, she is still a toy hoarder and can't clean up after herself.

Now that Umaru, Kirie, Tachibana and Ebina is officially a group of friends, that's where the series goes; There's a getting together for christmas episode, getting together to go to the poll episode, going to the amusement park together, getting together to see some fireworks, going to the beach together, the works. The interactions are more varied and have a better pace, but don't expect too much. It's a very episodic anime. Like before, all problems the characters have are superficial, it’s either there for a joke or to be easily overcome. Everyone has a kind heart and everything works out in the end. It's good escapism and it doesn't want to be anything else.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 6, 2023

JKrauser

Mixed Feelings

When I watched the first season of Umaru-chan years ago, I found it quite entertaining. But unfortunately I cannot say the same for the second season.

Without making the review too long, I will say that I don't care about Umaru's group of friends, all of whom are very annoying. The entire entertainment value of this anime was the goofy but sweet things Umaru did during the time she spent mostly in her room and the relationship she had with her older brother. While character development is very important in fictional stories, Umaru-chan is not that kind of story and it should have stayed the way ... it was. In short, I would have prefered to watch mostly Umaru herself, just like in the first season, rather than Umaru's three idiotic and annoying friends.

It's not something so hideous that you should definitely not watch it, but I can't recommend it either.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 28, 2018

TheMAM

Not Recommended

I wrote a review for this season, but it was too long since I was mostly venting my frustrations. Instead of talking about specifics, I'll just directly point out the main reason why this season was unbearable:

The brother main character keeps to himself the location and phone number of a brother of one of Umaru's friends, and they've said they've been looking for the whereabouts of that brother for 10 years. The brother MC notices the brother has the same last name as her, has the same hairband as her, acts like her... but doesn't bother simply asking that brother if he was related ... to her or not. Why you may ask? They never explain why. Which makes the brother MC an inconsiderate dumbass, and any shipping with Umaru's friend feel infuriating, when I was happily routing for them the first season.

This season has less funny moments, and more emotional ones, and the emotional ones never lead to any gratifying conclusions. This season tried to shove too much generic, uninteresting friendship sentimentality instead of fun times with Umaru in her room.

This show does not deserve our affection. I liked this show cause it was funny, but if you really want to give me all these emotional moments and have me genuinely like these characters, then no. Umaru is unlikable since she keeps these identities secret from her friends, purple-hair friend is unlikable since she's always spiteful to those around her, blue-hair girl is generic in how happy-go-lucky she always is, and the brother MC, as mentioned before, IS A DUMBASS.

Red-hair girl was this show's saving grace for me, but since they keep shoehorning the romance between her and an idiot, it becomes unbearable.

Less funny, more generic, unsatisfying, uninteresting slice of life bullsh*t. If you want this type of comedy with great characters, just skip this season and watch Lucky Star.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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