Murai no Koi

Murai is a second-year student at Takebe Gakuen High School enrolled in the college preparatory course. His homeroom teacher, Tanaka, summons him to her office after he declares that his post-high school plans are to marry her. Tanaka rejects Murai, telling him that she would never be interested in a boy with long, black hair. Secretly an otaku, she has eyes only for Hitotose, a character from an otome video game. The next day, Murai appears before Tanaka a changed man. Having cut his hair short and dyed it blond, Murai looks exactly like her beloved Hitotose. Tanaka is unable to hide her shock at this sudden development and tries to distance herself from Murai, while Murai presses on in his attempts to romance his teacher.

(Source: Disney+)

Murai Main

Takanashi, Kengo Japanese

Tanaka, Ayano Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Kiriyama, Akifumi Supporting

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Yamakado, Yoshiki Supporting

Matsukaze, Masaya Japanese

Hirai, Shinri Supporting

Ishiya, Haruki Japanese

Fukunaga, Yayoi Supporting

Hirose, Yuuki Japanese

Nishifuji, Hitomi Supporting

Sasaki, Mikoi Japanese

Nishifuji, Yuka Supporting

Gotou, Saori Japanese

Vice Principal Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Principal Supporting

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Kikuchi, Ruriko Producer

Matsuo, Kousuke Producer

Yamakawa, Yoshiki Director

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

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May 15, 2025

Leioka

Recommended

Short and simple review.

1.Domestic girlfriend but with a good ending.
2.The premise may sound sus but it turned out good. I think it's satisfying. See it for yourself.
3.One of the good example of not to judge an anime by it's animation. (Seriously, it's just moving stickers but it was so damn fun to watch)
4.the characters are really fun and bright. The decisions made arent bad enough that i can recall it as I'm writing this
5.comedy works for me.
6.dialogs don't suck, made the anime watchable - The english dub that is.
7.fmc is so pathetic and yet so adorable at times. I wish women actually exist though.

If ... it had good animations though, i could see this anime getting like 7.95-8.15 star or something.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Nov 8, 2024

rvcvb

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (10/12 eps)

This is the first time ever I make a review. I hope it's useful for someone out there looking for a short - somewhere in the middle of subjectivity and objectivity - review:

I think it's the most absurd anime I've ever seen, and I loved it. It's very funny, it leaves you with an extremely simple story, without complicating life too much, and you really think “I don't need more than this”. All the characters involved have their simple raison d'être, no deux ex machina, no complicated plot and pulled out of the cloth. In 10 episodes it tells you what it is and what ... it isn't, and that's it. They take a random cliché and make it comedy with a photographic animation.

Of course, its biggest disadvantage I dare say is both the animation itself (which understandably is intentional) and the writing of Tanaka's character which lacks of drive I think it collides with Murai. Th character of Murai lacks background and I sincerly hope that for the next season they give it to us so we can understand better his intentions and motivations.

Overall, an anime to watch when you have nothing to do and need some real quick dopamine discharge.

7.8/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 19, 2025

Aobaaaaaa

Not Recommended

Murai in Love
A Cringe-Filled Disaster with PowerPoint Animation Vibes

I went in expecting a cute, funny love story.
What I got was a full-blown cringe fest with animation that looks like it was made in PowerPoint by someone half asleep.

So here’s the “plot”:
A blonde dude named Murai falls in love for the first time in his life with his dumb, annoying teacher, Tanaka – whose brain is clearly on airplane mode.
But wait... it gets worse.

... Turns out Tanaka is obsessed with a fictional character, and our simp king Murai decides to copy that guy just to impress her.
This man has zero self-respect and will literally chase her like a puppy no matter what.

Their romance doesn’t even feel like romance.
It’s more like a forced relationship, where the MC is literally pushing himself onto a brain-dead FMC, and for the sake of the plot, she just goes along with it.
There’s no chemistry, no emotions – just a weird one-sided obsession turned into a creepy love story.

And guess what?
After a few episodes of acting like a clueless clown, Tanaka suddenly “realizes” she likes him too – just because he keeps chasing her around like a stray dog.
I swear, this ain’t romance – it’s psychological torture.

The whole story tries to pass off brain-dead behavior as humor, with characters doing the dumbest things possible in every scene.
And let’s not ignore the “animation” – if you can even call it that.
It’s literally like watching a manga slideshow with background music.

In short:
Murai in Love is a hot mess where the MC gets treated like a loyal idiot, running after a teacher with the personality of cardboard and no proper character arc.
They slapped on some “gag humor” to cover up how boring and cringey it actually is.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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