Itazura na Kiss

When her newly-built home is razed to the ground by an earthquake, low-achieving, clumsy, and troublesome third-year high school student Kotoko Aihara is forced to share a roof with the school's—and possibly Japan's—smartest student, Naoki Irie. Kotoko is not actually a complete stranger to Irie-kun; unfortunately, a single love letter that she tried to give him in the past has already sealed her fate as far as he is concerned. Throw in some quirky friends and a meddlesome mother, and Kotoko might not even have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the older Irie boy's heart. Yet Kotoko remains optimistic that, because she now lives in his house, her unattainable crush on the genius since the beginning of high school has never been more within reach.

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Episode 25 was first aired back-to-back with episode 24 on CBC TV on September 25th, prior to its first airing on TBS (September 27th).

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Characters & Voice Actors

Aihara, Kotoko

Main

Mizuki, Nana
Japanese

Irie, Naoki

Main

Hirakawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Irie, Noriko

Supporting

Matsui, Naoko
Japanese

Irie, Yuuki

Supporting

Park, Romi
Japanese

Ikezawa, Kinnosuke

Supporting

Sakaguchi, Shuuhei
Japanese

Irie, Kotomi

Supporting

Kaneda, Tomoko
Japanese

Robbins, Christine

Supporting

Gotou, Yuuko
Japanese

Kamogari, Keita

Supporting

Canna, Nobutoshi
Japanese

Shinagawa, Marina

Supporting

Inoue, Marina
Japanese

Matsumoto, Yuuko

Supporting

Masuda, Yuki
Japanese

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Yamasaki, Osamu

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Nagasaki, Yukio

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Kanasaki, Takaomi

Episode Director, Storyboard

Tsuda, Naokatsu

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"Kimi, Meguru, Boku (キミ、メグル、ボク)" by Motohiro Hata

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	1: "Kataomoi Fighter (片思いファイター)" by GO!GO!7188 (eps 1-12)
	2: "Jikan yo Tomare" by AZU (eps 13-23)
	3: "Kimi, Meguru, Boku (キミ、メグル、ボク)" by Motohiro Hata (eps 24)

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Mar 5, 2024

Shabo-kun

Recommended

After watching ItaKiss my conclusion was, that classical shoujo anime isn’t necessarily my cup of tea. Still I’m gonna try to be as
much transparent as it’s possible and it would be a lie to tell, that I disliked show overall. Some elements were annoying or disruptive which quite meessed up my point of view. There were repetetive aspects which were used often in terms of character traits and relationships as such. Fortunatelly final part of the anime and it’s last episodes saved show in my opinion and I found them most enjoyable. ItaKiss is basically cliché shoujo romance with solid execution which is easy ...

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Apr 22, 2021

nutelalala

Mixed Feelings

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This is the ONLY review I've ever written for an anime, because I think it's important to write this. (note: there are no real spoilers.)

You need to be very careful taking something away from this show, especially as a young person trying to figure out what a healthy relationship is.

This show is hilarious and has some cute, honest moments that don't always show the positive side of people but show the truth. The lead male's mother in particular made me laugh more than anyone.

However. This anime has more red flags than I've ever seen. Treatment of friends, of family, of girlfriends and wives and everything ...

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May 3, 2022

TDL538

Not Recommended

I was really excited to watch this anime because I knew this, along with the live-action version were really popular romance animes. Unfortunately, I had little to no enjoyment when watching it. I'm not against the enemy's to lovers troupe but, this entire show was pretty much just enemies to a one-sided love. I know that with Irie, his whole thing is that he's "Cool" but he treats her like absolute trash and literally only gets better in the last two episodes. I think the show also made it a running gag to have every other character point out that he treats her terrible and ...

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Poll: Itazura na Kiss Episode 7 Discussion ( 1 2 3 ) zvuc - May 15, 2008	115 replies	by lanepaires »» Feb 16, 11:08 AM
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What do u think guys if this Anime get a reboot version 🤔 like Fruits basket, Sailor moon Chhaya_j27 - May 18, 2023	18 replies	by Raegal1 »» Nov 15, 2023 1:59 PM
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