Hensuki: Are you willing to Fall in Love with a Pervert, as long as she's a Cutie?
可愛ければ変態でも好きになってくれますか？ (Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka?)
- Comedy
- Ecchi
- Romance
- Harem
- School
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 23 min per ep
- Aired
- Jul 8, 2019 to Sep 23, 2019
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Keiki Kiryuu dreams of finally getting a girlfriend, and it seems like his luck is about to change when an anonymous love letter arrives. The confession is signed only as “Cinderella”—and comes with an unexpected extra: a pair of white panties.
Determined to learn who’s behind the message, Keiki starts looking into the girls around him, including upperclassman Sayuki Tokihara, underclassman Yuika Koga, and classmate Mao Nanjou. His search quickly turns complicated as each potential “Cinderella” reveals a hidden, decidedly perverted side beneath an otherwise innocent façade.
Otaku Consensus
Hensuki lands as a divisive ecchi harem whose best material comes from Itsuki Imazaki’s fast, gag-first direction and Kenichi Yamashita’s mystery-of-the-week structure, which turns each heroine into a different romantic-comedy malfunction rather than a standard route. Fans who stick with it often point to the later heartfelt beats as more sincere than the title suggests, while the most common criticism is equally clear: the fetish humor is intentionally abrasive and can read as gross before it reads as clever.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Hensuki if you want the harem formula treated like a chaotic fetish audit rather than a clean wish-fulfillment romance. It scratches a similar itch to To LOVE-Ru or Mayo Chiki! in its school-club ecchi setup, but its hook is more puzzle-box parody: each romantic candidate comes with a specific kink, and the comedy comes from Keiki trying to stay rational while the show keeps sabotaging normal courtship. The appeal is not polished prestige animation or emotional restraint; it is the contrast between cute character designs by Yousuke Itou and jokes that deliberately escalate into bondage, feet, tsundere mind games, and meta harem commentary. If you like ecchi that knows exactly how ridiculous it is, this is built for you.
Key Characters
- KKeiki Kiryuu
Keiki works because he is less a blank harem lead than an increasingly exhausted straight man, forced to judge whether romantic attention is worth the psychological paperwork attached to it.
- SSayuki Tokihara
Sayuki stands out as the upperclassman whose polished, senior-student image is used as a comic pressure point against the show’s more extreme fetish material.
- YYuika Koga
Yuika gives the underclassman archetype a sharper edge, turning the expected cute kouhai dynamic into one of the show’s more openly manipulative romantic games.
- MMao Nanjou
Mao functions as the classmate route with the most familiar rom-com surface, which makes her a useful contrast against the series’ deliberately abnormal courtship logic.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
Geek Toys handled the animation production, giving the series a clean TV-comedy look that prioritizes readable reaction faces, fetish reveals, and quick-cut punchlines over elaborate action or visual spectacle.
- 2
The series composition by Kenichi Yamashita uses a harem-mystery framework: the romance candidates are not just introduced as routes, but as suspects in an ongoing identity game, which gives the 12-episode run more structure than a loose sketch-comedy ecchi.
- 3
AniList’s high Parody and Meta tags reflect how often the show toys with harem conventions rather than simply following them; its jokes rely on the audience already knowing the usual school-romance playbook.
- 4
The fetish spread is unusually explicit for a mainstream school harem comedy, with AniList tags calling out Bondage, Feet, Tsundere dynamics, and even Calligraphy as notable ingredients rather than background flavor.
- 5
The music side is split between Youichi Sakai’s score, Yasunori Ebina’s sound direction, an opening performed by Ayaka Oohashi, and an ending by Mia REGINA, giving the production a distinctly idol-anime-adjacent pop sheen around its raunchier material.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Hensuki is adapted from Tomo Hanama’s light novel series, with sune credited for the original character designs and Yousuke Itou adapting those designs for animation while also serving as chief animation director.
- Fun fact 2
- The anime aired as a complete 12-episode summer 2019 TV run from July 8 to September 23, placing it in the same seasonal window as several other high-profile late-2010s rom-com and isekai adaptations.
- Fun fact 3
- Its reception numbers show a sharp split between visibility and approval: on MyAnimeList it sits at a 6.46 score and rank #8207, yet its popularity rank of #764 shows that a large audience still sampled or tracked it.
- Fun fact 4
- AniList gives it a similar middle-of-the-road reception at 62/100, but the 1,426 favourites indicate a dedicated niche audience beyond its broader mixed reviews.
- Fun fact 5
- Official streaming listings highlighted Japanese audio with subtitles in English, German, Latin American Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese, reflecting how widely the title circulated despite its intentionally niche ecchi premise.
Studios
- Geek Toys
