Heroine Tarumono! Kiraware Heroine to Naisho no Oshigoto

Freshly graduating middle school, energetic 15-year-old Hiyori Suzumi moves from her coastal hometown to Tokyo, pursuing her dream of being a track and field runner. Unfortunately, as soon as her first high school year begins, she faces an imminent problem that ultimately causes her to find a part-time job to cover living costs.

After searching through countless prospective workplaces, Hiyori stumbles upon a posting looking for event staff, to which she gets accepted against all odds. It is revealed that she will be working as a manager-in-training for LIPxLIP, a rising male idol group composed of Yuujirou Someya and Aizou Shibasaki—both of whom are coincidentally her classmates. Despite this shocking revelation, Hiyori is resolved to do her best with balancing her studies, her ambition, and most importantly, her role as LIPxLIP's attendant.

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Suzumi, Hiyori Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Someya, Yuujirou Main

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Shibasaki, Aizou Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Nakamura, Chizuru Main

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Hattori, Juri Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Setoguchi, Hina Supporting

Asakura, Momo Japanese

Narumi, Mona Supporting

Natsukawa, Shiina Japanese

Narumi, Sena Supporting

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Akechi, Saku Supporting

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Enomoto, Kotarou Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Saitou, Shunsuke Producer, Planning

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Yonai, Noritomo Producer

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Jan 2, 2023

Gregory_Senpai

Recommended

I started watching this when it was airing, but didn’t get around to finishing it until it’s already an entirely new year. Where did 2022 go? I regret putting this off. I wasn’t immediately grabbed by the premise, or how the plot got set up in the first few episodes, but it got so much better and better as things progressed. I don’t want to spoil anything in terms of actual events that take place in the series, but I think it’s OK to say a few things that were NOT in this show.

If you look at the genre tags and find “romance” missing, don’t ... worry, you’ve not made a mistake. When I saw this pop up in my feed initially I thought for sure it was going to turn into some weird romantic love triangle thing between the country girl and the two male idols, but I was very, very wrong.

Hopefully that’s not a spoiler, just a set of expectations.

“Heroine Tarumono!” is a unique slice-of-life, drama/comedy, and I suppose you’d call it an “Idol” anime, but I’m not too sure how it fits into that niche, since I haven’t watched many shows in that vein before.

What did I like about this show so much? Well, let me tell you…

A lot of it comes from the characters.

Hiyori, the protagonist, was incredibly loveable. I adored her character design, especially the bushy eyebrows. Her accent was great.
The male idols she becomes acquainted with Aizo and Yujiro started off pretty annoying, but they experience ACTUAL character development over the course of the show, just like the heroine does. I ended up liking both of them pretty equally by the end. I would have liked to see a bit more of them to be honest. Feels like there was more there than we got to see, especially with Yujiro and his family’s background.

The plot of the show is also really good. I won’t elaborate further to avoid spoilers. Just go with it.

I didn’t give it a 10/10 for a few reasons. For being an “Idol” anime, which features a lot of music, I found the songs to be the weakest point; especially the OP, which I ended up skipping most of the time. I guess good music and idols aren’t really synonymous… hmm. It also did take 4-5 episodes to really hook me in, which is kind of slow to be honest. Most people will drop something by episode 3 if they’re not all aboard by then.

All that said, definitely recommend this one. Solid stuff.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 8, 2023

Nineaxk

Mixed Feelings

From mediocre to completely downfall after what happened in last 3 episodes. I expected some romances between FMC and the idols but nothing actually happened and that's fine. As the story goes on, you can feel the wholesomeness and warm feeling about both of them very hardworking wanting to pursue their own dreams. When the unnecessary dram unfold, the story becoms melodramatic and the way everything was handled is so painfully dumb and somehow most of the important details from before completely forgotten.Most of the characters don't have anything standout for and Hiyori " the main character" in this show is probably the highlights. ... In short, another ruined show due to its last episodes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 14, 2022

4BitsComic

Not Recommended

Honestly I am shocked how much a series with a fun character dynamic can take such a quick nose dive in quality.

Spoilers but the last handful of episodes basically introduces a stalker problem that gets resolved in a terrible way. Theres a big message of being able to appreciate your fans because they have your best interest at heart but that doesn't really work when that appreciation ends up malicious. The whole situation does get resolved but not without any damage... that gets heavily sweeped under the rug. The main character who was the most heavily affected by the situation's outcome seemingly doesn't feel very ... bitter at all towards what happened and the stalker themselves never say they feel bad for the MC but instead for hurting the idol group. The MC also gets physically hurt by the stalker as well among other things and somehow the viewers are meant to not completely despise this character that gets off extremely easily.

TLDR, a fun little series with some really nice character dynamics that ended on a poor execution.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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