During the late 1990s and early 2000s Japan’s manga and anime fan community became infatuated with a figurative and literary concept called “moé.” Although the term partially referred to having a burning passion for something, another aspect of moé was a platonic parental affection for charming young girls. Overexposure of moé culture and shifting tastes […]
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Higehiro
Hige o Soru, Soshite Joshi Kousei o Hirou is another of those modern anime afflicted with a paragraph for a title. I don’t understand how we went from…
Higehiro GN 1
Is there actually some insightful character stuff present that looks like it can take full advantage of this arrangement? The answer is surprisingly yes for a good chunk…
Higehiro | Anime Review
Lately, I’ve been paying attention to forums about anime and to what other people have been saying about anime. This is been what I’ve been looking at and…
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Higehiro | First Impressions
What was my first impression? After watching the first three episodes of Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou. (Higehiro), I’d say my first impressions through the three…
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Higehiro | Episode 9 Review
Episode Nine Thoughts Okay, so after watching the episode, I am a little happier. Sayu’s brother seems to be very supportive of her sister and, like Yoshida, is…
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Higehiro Episode 2 Gallery
Gallery from Higehiro episode 2 that you can use as a wallpaper or add to your Pinterest or website.
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Higehiro | Episode 1 Review
Episode One Thoughts Office worker Yoshida has been crushing on his coworker, Airi Gotou, for five years. Despite finally scoring a date with her, his confession is promptly…
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Higehiro | Episode 10 Review
Episode Ten Thoughts First thing I thought was “Damn, Sayu’s family sucks”, her father had affairs and left long before Sayu was born, and her mother only had…
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Higehiro | Episode 11 Review
Episode eleven Thoughts So I am just going to talk about the ending of the episode first then work my way back to the beginning because I am…
Higehiro Episode 3 Gallery
Gallery from Higehiro episode 3 that you can use as a wallpaper or add to your Pinterest or website.
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Higehiro | Episode 12 Review
Episode Twelve Thoughts Man, her mother hecking sucks. I really dislike her a lot. Like I said in my previous blog, Sayu’s mother gets the “Worst Parent of…
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Higehiro | Episode 8 Review
Episode Eight Thoughts What’s interesting to me is how big of a deal they’re making out of Sayu’s brother coming to get her. We do not yet know…
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Higehiro | Episode 12 Review
Episode Twelve Thoughts Man, her mother hecking sucks. I really dislike her a lot. Like I said in my previous blog, Sayu’s mother gets the “Worst Parent of…
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The Truths Behind Higehiro
Higehiro, better known as Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou., is one of my favorite animes of 2021. The compelling morals are what captivates my attention especially…
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Higehiro Episode 1 Gallery
Gallery from Higehiro episode 1 that you can use as a wallpaper or add to your Pinterest or website.
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Higehiro – 07 – What Then?
It’s telegraphed from the beginning of the episode: someone who knows Sayu (or is working for them) has found her. There’s no other reason a suspicious black car…
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Higehiro | Episode 13 Review
Episode Thirteen Thoughts As much as I do not want to say it, I loved episode thirteen because it felt like a proper ending episode. I strongly believe…
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Higehiro – 03 – Fated Encounters
Sayu has a dream about a past night she spent with a man in exchange for a place to stay. She lies under him passively, her eyes devoid…
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The End of KoiKimo and HigeHiro ~Air/My Purest Love for JKs~
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Higehiro – 05 – The Mysterious Woman
I love the series that can replicate the same butterflies in the viewer’s stomach that the characters have in a particular scene, such as when Yoshida takes Gotou…
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Higehiro – 02 – Freedom and Choices
A princess raised in castles is going to act like royalty, like Queen Elizabeth. A princess raised by wolves is going to act like a wolf, like San,…
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Higehiro – 10 – A Warm Place
While Yoshida does his level best to hide it, Mishima and Hashimoto can tell he’s devastated by Sayu’s imminent departure, and how he’s mitigating it by trying to…
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Higehiro – 11 – Someday Is Here
This week begins with Sayu saying goodbye to Asami and Tokyo and taking a plane to Hokkaido with her brother and Yoshida, and ends with her returning home…
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Spring 2021 First Impressions – Higehiro
Streaming: Crunchyroll Episodes: 13 Source: Light Novel Story Summary: Yoshida’s love-life is on the rocks after he’s rejected by a coworker. Drunk and unhappy, he stumbles home only…
Higehiro – 08 – Such Sticky Sweet Sorrow
In hindsight, it was already over for Sayu the moment Issa showed up at her workplace. A man of her brother’s means and drive surely wouldn’t rest until…
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Higehiro – 09 – The Things She Carried
Like Sayu, I was dreading the day someone from her family finally found her and forced her to come home…but that isn’t what happens. It turns out Issa…
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Higehiro | Episodes 6 and 7 Review
Overall thoughts So I’m going to do what I’ve been doing recently, where I just combine both episodes into one big review. Maybe it’s just me, but with…
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Higehiro | Episodes 4 and 5 Review
Similarly to what I did with my 86 – Eighty Six | Episode Three and Four Review blog, I will just be combining both episodes into one greater…
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Higehiro | Episode 2 and 3 Review
Episode Two and Three Thoughts Being completely honest, episode two wasn’t really that eventful. The episode itself was more geared towards Yoshida, as the episode looked to expand…
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Higehiro – 01 (First Impressions) – Inadvertent Guardian
Yoshida had the evening with his attractive co-worker Gotou all planned out in his head. They’d have a nice dinner at a fancy restaurant, and if things went…
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Higehiro – 12 – We Have to Talk
So yeah, things are not off to a great start when the first thing Sayu’s mom does upon laying eyes on her for the first time in half a year…
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Higehiro – 04 – Protective Lies and Different Smiles
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I Shaved. Then I Brought a High School Girl Home. is a crap title. It reads more like a cheap…
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Higehiro – 13 (Fin) – Not the Last Time
With Yoshida having said his piece and even kinda-sorta getting through to Sayu’s awful mom, it’s Sayu’s turn to talk to her. She takes a page out of Yoshida’s…
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Higehiro – 06 – Doing the Best We Can
Trigger Warning: This episode contains a scene of attempted rape. With Sayu now working a part-time job, it was only a matter of time before the show’s first…
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Higehiro is Best When it Doesn’t Make Sense
In episode six of Higehiro, Sayu’s steady growth hits the worst kind of wall as she discovers that a co-worker is one of the guys that had exchanged…
Higehiro: Are You Sure Shinkai Didn’t Direct This?
Studio: Project no. 9 Director: Manabu Kamikita Streaming on: Crunchyroll Higehiro, or After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, is the kind of…
Run Away to Tokyo – HigeHiro Episode 1 First Impression
This is a First Impressions review for Episode one of Hige wo Soru, or the Higehiro anime.
Talking about Real Girl and Higehiro and bad endings
This is a post about the endings of anime, in particular Real Girl and Higehiro. While I don’t think anything I’m going to spoil should ruin your enjoyment,…
Reader’s Corner: Higehiro, True Beauty, and The Saint’s Belated Happiness
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Higehiro: When an Imperfect Route is the Perfect One After All
Higehiro has been a wild ride for me. The tale of a runaway high schooler, Sayu, who finally finds solace by staying with a man, Yoshida, who wants…
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Higehiro is the story of a salaryman who finds a high school runaway on his way home from the bar and decides to take her in.
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Office worker Yoshida finally worked up the courage to ask his boss out, only for her to swiftly reject him. Getting completely drunk, he sees a high school…
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Reader’s Corner: Record of Ragnarok, Higehiro, and Cosplay: The Fictional Mode of Existence
Banished from the Hero’s Party, Vol. 1 (manga) Having been surpassed in power by the members of his party—a group of chosen adventurers ridding the continent of a…
Reader’s Corner: Higehiro, The Holy Grail of Eris, and Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible
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Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway – Episode 1
Higehiro has the potential to be a story about an adult helping a teenage girl , but still has too much rom-com veneer for me to trust it.
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After crushing rejection, Tokyo office worker Yoshida stumbles home, drunk and frustrated, to find a high school girl sleeping on the side of the road. Rejecting her repeated…
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Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, Vol. 1
By Shimesaba and booota. Released in Japan as “Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou” by Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by…
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Freelancer Michael Iaboni dives into this long-titled anime to find out if it’s one worth watching (spoiler: it is). Don’t let the title fool you. Higehiro is a…
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