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My Little Monster (TV)



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Alternative title:
Le garçon d'à côté (French) 
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (Japanese) 
となりの怪物くん (Japanese) 
鄰座的怪同學 (Chinese (Taiwan)) 
Genres: romance 
Themes: school 
Objectionable content: Mild 
Plot Summary: Shizuku Mizutani has learned to deal with life's disappointments by repressing her emotions and trusting no one but herself. She has only one focus and that is academic achievement. Haru Yoshida throws himself at life with every ounce of emotional power he has which would not necessarily be a problem except he deals with deep seated rage issues. He has seriously hurt several students over the years and consequently everyone is afraid of him. Shizuku sees no point in engaging the world around her and Haru doesn't know how to engage the world around him. All that begins to change when the two first meet and find themselves almost immediately attracted to each other. Their unlikely pairing leads both of them to begin to break out of their lonely, little worlds to see what life really has to offer. 
Ratings: 1457 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 119 votes (sub:112, dub:4, raw:1, others:2
1 Turkish subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 328 votes (sub:299, dub:8, raw:5, ?:2, others:14
6 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Chinese mandarin subtitled
)
 Very good: 472 votes (sub:441, dub:13, raw:2, ?:1, others:15
8 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Czech subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Good: 333 votes (sub:303, dub:15, raw:1, Eng:1, ?:1, others:12
5 Spanish subtitled
2 German subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Tagalog dubbed
1 Vietnamese subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Decent: 128 votes (sub:117, dub:5, ?:1, others:5
3 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 42 votes (sub:39, dub:1, others:2
1 Italian dubbed
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Not really good: 17 votes (sub:17)
 Weak: 11 votes (sub:11)
 Bad: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2475 s, rank: #457 (of 9996)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.783 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.3827, rank: #1118 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 7.687 (Very good−), rank: #1218 (of 10154) (seen all: 7.70 / seen some: 7.96 / won't finish: 5.10)
Bayesian estimate: 7.686 (Very good−), rank: #928 (of 7635)
Running time: half hour per episode 
Number of episodes: 13 
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2012-10-01 to 2012-12-25 
Opening Theme:
"Q&A Recital!" by Haruka Tomatsu 
Ending Theme:
"White wishes" by 9nine 
Trivia: We have 3
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Blu-ray
    My Little Monster - Complete Collection [ Edition] (Sub.Blu-ray +DVD) 2015-06-30

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hiro Kaburagi 
Series Composition: Noboru Takagi 
Script:
Deko Akao (eps 5, 8, 10)Noboru Takagi (eps 1-3)  (eps 4, 7, 12-13)Sawako Hirabayashi (eps 6-7, 9. 11) 
Storyboard:
Kotomi Deai (OP, ED)  (eps 7, 12)Masayuki Kojima (eps 5, 13)Shinobu Tagashira (eps 6, 9)Yui Umemoto (eps 4, 9)Yūichirō Yano (ep 10) 
Episode Director:
Kotomi Deai (eps 7, 12)Yui Umemoto (eps 4, 9) 
Unit Director: Kotomi Deai (OP, ED) 
Music: Masato Nakayama (Elements Garden) 
Original creator: Robico 
Character Design: Tomohiro Kishi 
Art Director: Chikako Shibata 
Chief Animation Director: Tomohiro Kishi 
Animation Director:
Atsushi Aono (eps 3, 6)Masayuki Yoshida (eps 4, 9)Miori Suzuki (eps 5, 11)Natsuko Kondou (ep 2)  (eps 7, 12)Yumenosuke Tokuda (ep 8) 
Art design: Yukie Inose 
Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura 
Producer:
Shuko Yokoyama (Aniplex) 

2D Work: Chie Nishitani 
2nd Key Animation:
Akihiro Ōtake (9 episodes
eps 1-3, 6-9, 12-13
)Atori Ozawa (8 episodes
eps 2, 6-10, 12-13
)Jun Maeda (4 episodes
eps 4, 8, 10, 13
)Yukiko Shimizu (ep 10) 
Animation Assistant:
Orie Tanaka (ep 10) 
Animation producer: Yumi Satō 
Assistant Director: Norihiro Naganuma 
Assistant producer:
Yumi Handa 
Background Art:
Yūko Washio (Telecom Animation Film) 
Board Assistance: Akira Itō 
CG Producer: Norikazu Kanbayashi 
CG Production:
Shigeru Tanabe (Octigraphica) 
Color design: Hiromi Miyawaki 
Color setting:
Tomoko Saitō 
Editing: Daisuke Imai 
Editing Assistant: Yasutaka Ikeda 
Ending Animation:
Tomohiro Kishi 
Finish Animation:
Tomoe Nakagawa (Digital Network Animation) 
In-Between Animation:
Yukari Ishii (Digital Network Animation) 
In-Between Check:
Satomi Igarashi 
Key Animation:
Akitsugu Hisagi (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 6, 9, 13
)Eri Yamazaki (OP; 6 episodes
eps 1, 6, 8-9, 12-13
)Miyuki Kobayashi (5 episodes
eps 2, 6, 8, 12-13
)Miyuki Oshiro (9 episodes
eps 1, 3, 6-9, 11-13
)Yuu Takahashi (eps 5, 11) 
Music Performance: Hideyo Takakuwa (Flute) 
Online Editor:
Yuki Honda 
Photography:
Yuichiro Tozawa (Graphinica) 
Planning:
Toshiyuki Hiraoka (TV Tokyo) 
Planning Assistant:
Tomoe Yamamoto 
Planning Manager: Junya Ishimoto (TV Tokyo) 
Post-Production Director: Hiro Kaburagi 
Production Advancement:
Yusuke Katsuragi (ep 10) 
Production Cooperation:
Shinpei Kawamura 
Production manager: Yayoi Saitō 
Program Publicity: Kazumi Noguchi (TV Tokyo) 
Prop Design: Naoko Kouda 
Publicity: Shizuka Kurosaki 
Recording Adjustment: Shōji Hata 
Recording Assistant: Naomi Fujita 
Setting Assistance: Eri Yamazaki 
Sound Effects: Emi Takanashi 
Sound Production Manager: Junichi Inaba 
Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa 
Subtitling: Miyuki Oshiro 
Theme Song Performance:
Haruka Tomatsu (OP) 
Trailer: Norio Yamada 
Web Manager:
Kōji Uetsuji 
Haruka Tomatsu as Shizuku Mizutani 
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Haru Yoshida 

Atsumi Tanezaki as Asako Natsume 
Atsushi Abe as Mapo 
Kana Hanazawa as Chizuru Ōshima 
Nozomi Sasaki as Saeko-sensei 
Ryōta Ōsaka as Sōhei Sasahara 
Takuma Terashima as Kenji Yamaguchi 
Tomoyuki Higuchi as Mitsuyoshi Misawa 
Yūichi Nakamura as Yūzan Yoshida 
Yūki Ono as
Nagoya 
Tomio 

Ai Orikasa as Kyoko Misawa (ep 7) 
Akane Fujikawa as Female student B (ep 5) 
Asuka Nishi as Female student A (ep 4) 
Atsushi Tamaru as
Male student (ep 11) 
Male student A (ep 4) 
Teacher (ep 1) 
Aya Suzaki as Female student B (ep 6) 
Ayumu Murase as
Haru Yoshida (young; eps 7, 11) 
Takaya Mizutani (ep 3) 
Daisuke Motohashi as Male student (ep 8) 
Eri Kitamura as Kenji Yamaguchi (young; ep 11) 
Ikumi Hayama as Yayoi (ep 9) 
Junichi Yanagita as Seta (eps 2, 7, 12) 
Kanehira Yamamoto as
Examiner (ep 7) 
Lecturer (ep 11) 
Samejima 
Teacher (ep 1) 
Mami Sakamoto as Female student B (ep 1) 
Manami Shirakawa as Female student F (ep 4) 
Minami Takahashi as
Female student (ep 8) 
Yuka (ep 9) 
Miyuki Sawashiro as Yūzan Yoshida (young; ep 11) 
Momo Asakura as Yumi (ep 9) 
Natsue Sasamoto as Yumeko (ep 13) 
Nozomi Yamamoto as Female student A (ep 6) 
Ruriko Aoki as
Female student C (ep 4) 
Maki (ep 9) 
Ryōta Asari as Murakami (eps 7, 12) 
Saori Hayashi as Female student A (ep 1) 
Sayuri Yahagi as Yū Miyama (eps 10-13) 
Shiina Natsukawa as Female student D (ep 4) 
Shiori Izawa as
Female student B (ep 4) 
Store clerk (ep 10) 
Sora Amamiya as Female student E (ep 4) 
Takehito Koyasu as Takashi Mizutani 
Yō Taichi as Female student A (ep 5) 
Yūichi Iguchi as Shimoyanagi 
Yusuke Shirai as
Male student A (ep 1) 
Male student B (ep 4) 
Terashima (eps 7, 12) 
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
Xing Yue Animation 
Animation Production: Brain's Base 
Background Art:
Telecom Animation Film 
CG Production: Octigraphica 
Finish Animation:
Xing Yue Animation 
In-Between Animation:
Xing Yue Animation 
In-between Check: Digital Network Animation (eps 5, 11) 
Key Animation:
Studio Konamon (ep 5) 
Logo Design: Kouhei Nawada Design Office 
Music Assistance: TV Tokyo Music 
Offline Editing: Brains Base Editing Room 
Offline Editing Assistance: Jay Film 
Online Editing: Q-Tec 
Photography: Graphinica 
Photography Assistance:
SILVER LINK.  (eps 9-10) 
Production:
TV Tokyo 
Production Assistance:
JIN (ep 10) 
Recording Studio: Sound Team Don Juan 
Sound Production: Ai Addiction 
English staff
English cast
Executive producer:
Toru Iwakami (Sentai digital release) 
Producer:
John Ledford (Sentai digital release) 

Production:
Son Phan Le (Sentai digital release) 
Production Assistant:
Ryan Anthony (Sentai digital release) 
Subtitling: Neal Barnes (Sentai digital release) 
Supervising Translator: Natalie Jones (Sentai digital release) 
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch (Sentai digital release) 
(none)
English companies
Broadcaster: Animax Asia 
Distributor: Cinedigm 
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (via Sentai Filmworks) 
Licensed by:
Sentai Filmworks (2021; Digital & Streaming only) 
Production: Sentai Studios (Sentai digital release) 
French cast
French staff
Dubbing Director: Julien Dutel 

Adaptation: Julien Dutel 
Marc Wilhelm as Haru Yoshida 
Sarah Cornibert as Shizuku Mizutani 

Amandine Longeac as Chizuru Ōshima 
Damien Laquet as Tomio 
Dany Benedito as Saeko Ninomiya 
Delphine Saroli as Asako Natsume 
Julien Dutel as Mitsuyoshi Misawa 
Justine Hostekint as Sōhei Sasahara 
Michaël Maino as Yūzan Yoshida 
Pascal Gimenez as Kenji Yamaguchi 

Laurent Pasquier 
French companies
Distributor: Black Box (DVD & BRD) 
Dubbing: PILON Studio Son 
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming:
Netflix (Latin America; expired) 
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks (Latin America and Spain) 
Spanish cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Brazil and Portugal) 
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks (Brazil and Portugal) 
Portuguese cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Mighty Media Co., Ltd. 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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