Himegoto

ひめゴト

5.9(63,563)

MAL Score

Ranked #11614

Popularity #1962

Comedy
Ecchi
Crossdressing
School

Episodes: 13
Duration: 4 min per ep
Aired: Jul 7, 2014 to Sep 29, 2014
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Hime Arikawa is stuck paying for his parents’ reckless debts, leaving him perpetually dodging loan sharks. When he’s cornered while wearing a maid outfit imposed on him by his pursuers, Shimoshina High School’s student council steps in and clears what he owes—no questions asked.

Their help comes with a steep condition: Hime must transfer to their school and serve on the student council. Bound to their demands and required to keep crossdressing throughout his high school life, he tries to endure the council’s relentless treatment while navigating classmates who push boundaries and finding solidarity with other crossdressers around campus.

Otaku Consensus

Himegoto works best as a short-form provocation: Yuuji Yanase’s direction and Kazuho Hyoudou’s scripts keep the gag rhythm fast enough that its more outrageous student-council chaos rarely has time to sit still. Its defenders praise the compact comedic timing, cast chemistry, and unapologetically unsanitized ecchi angle, while the dominant criticism is equally clear: the jokes are repetitive, the fanservice is narrow, and the series offers little depth beyond its central gender-bending gimmick.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Himegoto if you want a one-sitting burst of school ecchi comedy that treats embarrassment, crossdressing, and absurd student-council power dynamics as a rapid-fire gag engine rather than a character drama. It scratches a similar itch to the sharper school-club chaos of Seitokai Yakuindomo or the gender-play comedy of Maria Holic, but in a much smaller, more disposable format: 13 short episodes built for quick punchlines, not emotional payoff. The ideal viewer is someone who likes messy, boundary-pushing anime shorts and wants fanservice comedy without a long seasonal commitment. If you need nuanced LGBTQ+ writing or sustained plot development, this is not the show; if you want compact, ridiculous, low-filter anime chaos, it knows exactly what shelf it belongs on.

Key Characters

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Hime Arikawa(VA: Yuuki Kuwahara)
Hime is the straight-faced stress center of the comedy, with Yuuki Kuwahara’s performance giving the surrounding chaos a reactive anchor instead of letting every joke float unmoored.
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18-kin(VA: Yuka Saotome)
18-kin’s very name signals the show’s blunt, knowingly trashy ecchi-comedy register, making her feel less like a grounded school character and more like a walking punchline.
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Albertina II(VA: Hisako Toujou)
Albertina II stands out through the sheer oddity of her naming and presentation, matching the anime’s parody-leaning habit of making the cast feel deliberately overdesigned for nonsense.
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Unko(VA: Saki Ono)
Unko is part of the ensemble energy that fans point to when praising the show’s chaotic cast chemistry, especially in a format where personality has to register almost immediately.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Asahi Production produced Himegoto as a 13-episode short-form series, a structure that makes the comedy depend on quick setup-and-release timing rather than conventional episode arcs.
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The series leans unusually hard into crossdressing as its core identity: AniList tags it at 98% Crossdressing, with Femboy at 76% and Gender Bending at 72%, making the angle more central than incidental.
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Yuuji Yanase’s direction pairs with Kazuho Hyoudou’s scripting for an episodic gag format, reflected in AniList’s 82% Episodic tag and in viewer praise for the show’s fast comedic timing.
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The music branding is unusually unified for a short: Genki Mizuno wrote the lyrics, Shuuhei Mutsuki composed both the opening and ending themes, and I My Me Mine performed both.
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Its reputation is sharply split: aggregate scores sit low at 5.88 on MyAnimeList and 55/100 on AniList, while enthusiastic user reviews single out the ridiculous humor, cast chemistry, and short runtime as the exact reasons it works.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Himegoto aired during the Summer 2014 season, running from July 7 to September 29, 2014, and finished at 13 episodes.
Fun fact 2: The anime is based on work by original creator Norio Tsukudani, with Masaaki Sakurai credited for adapting the character designs for animation.
Fun fact 3: Kouhei Hashimoto is specifically credited for key animation on episode 4, a narrow production credit that stands out in the available staff data.
Fun fact 4: The English translation credit in the research data goes to Michelle Tymon, a useful detail for viewers tracking localized versions and subtitle work.
Fun fact 5: Despite its niche premise, the series is not obscure: MyAnimeList lists it around popularity rank #1962 with more than 63,500 votes, while AniList records 288 favourites.