Horimiya (Season 1)

Horimiya (ホリミヤ, 2021) is a Japanese romantic comedy-drama anime series you can watch online on iFILM. CloverWorks studio adapted Hiroki Adachi's manga into thirteen episodes about two high-schoolers whose classroom personas share nothing with who they actually are.

Hori aces her grades and runs with the popular crowd, but after school she's running a household — cooking, cleaning, minding her younger brother while both parents work. Miyamura barely registers at school, quiet and overlooked by everyone. Under that collar he hides tattoos and piercings. A chance street encounter blows their covers and, unlike most rom-com plots, neither of them spends half the season pretending it didn't happen. Haruka Tomatsu voices Hori; Kouki Uchiyama brings Miyamura to life.

The series moves at an unusually honest pace for the genre — feelings are named, not buried. Stream Horimiya online on iFILM.