Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia

High schooler Ganta Nakami has trouble falling asleep most nights. As a result, he is irritable at school, always searching for an opportunity to find a secluded place to doze off. On the other hand, Isaki Magari is a free spirit who is well liked by her friends, but no one is aware of her sleep disorder. She makes use of the school's abandoned astronomy club observatory as her secret sleeping bunker when she needs to get some shut-eye.

As fate would have it, Nakami finds Magari napping in the observatory. When Magari discovers that she and Nakami have something in common, she offers to share her secret sleeping spot with her fellow insomniac. As the two find warmth in each other's company, the struggles they face start to become easier to confront.

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Magari, Isaki Main

Tamura, Konomi Japanese

Nakami, Ganta Main

Satou, Gen Japanese

Shiromaru, Yui Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Kurashiki, Usako Supporting

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Ukegawa, Tao Supporting

Yamashita, Seiichirou Japanese

Kanikawa, Motoko Supporting

Lynn Japanese

Anamizu, Kanami Supporting

Fujiwara, Natsumi Japanese

Magari, Haya Supporting

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Nono, Mina Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire Japanese

Haida, Rui Supporting

Karino, Shou Japanese

Nagai, Chiharu Producer

Kashimura, Emi Producer

Sasaki, Reiko Producer

Ueda, Tomoki Producer

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Jul 7, 2024

lycoping

Recommended

This is a wonderful anime. I can't think of a better word to describe it. Not the absolute best anime I've ever seen, but near the top. Let me tell you why.

This anime is about two teenagers who have insomnia, for different reasons. They find each other by looking for a quiet place to sleep during the day, and throughout this anime, they bond over this shared affliction, growing closer and having adventures while everyone else is asleep.

It took me a little while to identify what makes this anime so good (as I say sometimes about the really good anime), but ... once I figured it out, it was blindingly obvious. This is not a cheesy anime romance. The male MC isn't scared of girls and acting over-the-top embarrassed whenever he even touches one. The female MC doesn't just decide she likes the male MC for whatever reason, aggressively pursuing him until he finally breaks down, and comedic hijinks ensue. No, this isn't like that. This romance progresses realistically. While there is clearly a little awkwardness, as you'd expect from two high schoolers, they navigate their changing feelings for each other slowly, respectfully, and in a realistic way.

And while they're clearly hormone driven, it's not in an unrealistic way, either. They're (mostly) not afraid to touch each other, but they also don't jump into a relationship they're not ready for, even when they're given *plenty* of opportunity to do so. They also talk about their feelings and when they do take the appropriate steps in their relationship (all of which are family friendly) they do so respectfully and with plenty of communication. It's not a relationship based on misunderstandings and embarrassment, but mutual respect and care, that grows as the anime progresses. At one point, they are in a position where they could do, pretty much literally, anything they want with each other with no adults knowing or interfering, but they set up boundaries with each other and respect them. (Normally I'd find the lack of parental involvement to be offputting, but here it's played well. Teenagers will sometimes do stuff behind their parents' back, but that's very different from having no parents involved at all).

Put another way, this is a couple you can imagine spending the next fifty years (or however long they have) together, not just breaking up when one of them does something the other misunderstands.

This is such a breath of fresh air from those other "romance" anime where the male MC doesn't have a spine and the female MC just keeps "accidentally" flashing pantsu and getting embarrassed. Those anime are just annoying.

Artistically, this is a beautiful anime, and perhaps given the subject matter that's to be expected, given that this anime is partly about photography. The character design is well done. The female characters are not done in a cutesy, "moe" style like with many anime, but also not in that semi-realistic somewhat ugly fashion that you'll sometimes see when they're actively trying to avoid the "moe" style. I won't go so far as to say the faces are realistic, but they're, well, more realistic than many. The body types are also much more realistic, I can't think of any female character that has unrealistic, well, assets. The background images are, in some cases, absolutely *gorgeous*. As far as music goes, while the OP and ED aren't the type that I'll put on my playlist (generally I prefer high energy with interesting harmonies and rhythms, and musically they weren't interesting), they are sweet and sweetly done and I didn't always fast forward through.

Put in simple terms, this is one of those anime where everyone involved clearly cared about the product and characters, and that showed.

As far as fanservice goes, well, I won't say there's absolutely *none*, but there's so little that what is actually there isn't really a big deal. As you might know from my previous reviews, I'm not a huge fan of gratuitous fanservice, but if you add the word "gratuitous", well, there isn't any of that. Worst you'll get is some of the girls in reasonably age-appropriate swimsuits, and one accidental boob-bump.... and, well, if I'm going to complain about that, why would I bother watching anime in the first place?

Anyway, my final thoughts: This isn't just a "not bad" anime, this is a "very good" anime. It's not quite at the level of what I'd call a "masterpiece", but it's one of the few I can say unreservedly that's worth watching. Strong recommend from me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Oct 21, 2023

Rian_Rahmat

Mixed Feelings

At first it was a little doubtful because the quality was bad, but it turned out that was only part of the fairy tale, whereas the main story was really good.

For the beginning, the story of this anime is quite good and the relationship between them really makes me want to fall in love too.
But it's a shame that episode 6 onwards starts to get boring, the storyline is filled with things that I don't really like, like telling about the past, telling about cultural festivals and so on, while their intimate relationship is increasingly disappearing in my opinion.

Another drawback is that many scenes ... are filled with motionless images, and I was forced to watch them by speeding up and skipping the motionless images.

It's a shame that I can't say that this anime is recommended, because the story is only good at the beginning and not good until the end.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 29, 2024

Hachiman010

Not Recommended

Inconsistent, Plotless, Complete waste of time.

There is literally no story, the romance is also pretty bland without any drama. Honestly pretty disappointed by the poster. I thought it would be some kind of cool astrologist typo anime with a little bit romance here and there but in reality it was just a sad life story of a highschooler who cant sleep and then he somehow gets into taking idle photos of sky while trying to find a sleeping place in an abandoned club .Would not recommend this to anyone who has this kind of perception going into the anime because you're gonna get your ... time wasted. And it doesnt even deserve 7 let alone 8, maybe the beach scene got people to rate it higher

Even scum wish was better. atleast it had some story

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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