TV series

NieA_7

2000 · 1 season

A gentle, quietly funny slice of life about scraping by, with a freeloading alien adding warmth and absurdity to everyday struggles.

Overview: Mayuko Chigasaki is an ordinary girl from the countryside, who now is attending university in big city Tokyo. She struggles each day to make ends meet while studying for her exams, barely scraping up the yen to afford bus fare to and from school. And at the end of the day, she comes home to a gluttonous, freeloading alien living in her closet!
How it feels: Melancholic, whimsical, warm and satirical. Slow-burning and easy to follow.
About: Friendship, isolation, class, identity
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
isolation
class
identity
found family
Places: big city
home
Era: near-future
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Genres: animation, comedy, sci-fi & fantasy
Created by: Takuya Sato, Tomokazu Tokoro
Written by: Takuya Sato
Starring: Ayako Kawasumi, Yuko Miyamura, Akira Okamori, Tomoko Kawakami, Takayuki Sugo, Fumiko Orikasa
Cinematography: Yoshito Kuwa
Length: 1 seasons, 13 episodes, 24 min each
Network: WOWOW Prime
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese