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Kotaro Lives Alone

2021–2023 · 2 seasons

A gentle, quietly funny slice-of-life about neighbours slowly becoming family, with a soft ache underneath.

Created by
Kana Matsumoto
Genres
Comedy
Starring
You Yokoyama, Eito Kawahara, Maika Yamamoto
Overview
Shin Karino is an unpopular manga writer and he is single. He lives in an apartment complex that has a rule forbidding children from living there. One day, Shin Karino's doorbell rings. When he opens his apartment door, he sees a small boy. The boy is 5-year-old Kotaro Sato. Kotaro Sato tells Shin Karino that he moved into the neighborhood. Shin Karino makes a weird face, because of the rule of his apartment complex. Kotaro Sato says that he lives by himself. At first, Shin Karino is annoyed by Kotaro Sato, but residents of the apartment building, including Shin Karino, become attached to Kotaro Sato.

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Created by
Kana Matsumoto
Genres
Comedy
Starring
You Yokoyama, Eito Kawahara, Maika Yamamoto
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • found family
  • parenthood
  • isolation
  • friendship
  • healing
Places
  • home
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Created by
Kana Matsumoto
Written by
Rin Eto
Starring
You Yokoyama, Eito Kawahara, Maika Yamamoto, Daigo Nishihata, Kanako Momota, Katsuhisa Namase, Rie Minemura, Koji Ohkura
Music
Daisuke Shinoda
Length
2 seasons, 19 episodes, 30 min each
Network
tv asahi
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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