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Eren the Southpaw

2026 · 1 season

A quiet, earnest coming-of-age story about art and healing, with gentle emotional stakes and a reflective pace.

Created by
Masayuki Matsumoto, Ryutaro Awabe
Genres
Animation, Drama
Starring
Shoya Chiba, Yumi Uchiyama, Yui Ishikawa
Overview
As high school reaches its midpoint, Koichi Asakura—who dreams of studying design at art school—has his plans shaken by explosive graffiti on a museum wall. The artist is Eren Yamagishi, a left-handed girl who buried her talent after a past incident. Drawn together by art, Koichi pursues design as Eren returns to painting, but fear, ambition, and old scars threaten their paths.

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  • Crunchyroll
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Created by
Masayuki Matsumoto, Ryutaro Awabe
Genres
Animation, Drama
Starring
Shoya Chiba, Yumi Uchiyama, Yui Ishikawa
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • coming-of-age
  • ambition
  • trauma
  • healing
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
animation, drama
Created by
Masayuki Matsumoto, Ryutaro Awabe, Hitoyuki Matsui, Tomo Matsukawa
Written by
Taku Kishimoto
Starring
Shoya Chiba, Yumi Uchiyama, Yui Ishikawa, Akira Sekine, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Yurina Amami, Koji Yusa, Tarusuke Shingaki
Cinematography
Hayao Arimura
Length
1 seasons, 13 episodes
Network
TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TVQ, TV Osaka, TVh, TSC
Country
Japan, Taiwan
Languages
Japanese

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