Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included

ワンルーム、日当たり普通、天使つき。 (One Room, Hiatari Futsuu, Tenshi-tsuki.)

7.0(38,322)

MAL Score

Ranked #4683

Popularity #2523

Comedy
Romance
Supernatural
Harem
Mythology
School

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Apr 6, 2024 to Jun 22, 2024
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Shintarou Tokumitsu is a regular high schooler enjoying the quiet freedom of living alone in a small studio apartment—until one morning he discovers an unexpected visitor on his balcony: an angel from Heaven. Towa, gentle and guileless, has been sent by God to the human world to observe how people live and connect. Drawn to Shintarou’s kindness, she quickly grows attached, and he ultimately agrees to let her stay.

Sharing a cramped apartment leaves little room for privacy, and keeping Towa’s true nature out of the public eye is easier said than done. As Shintarou adjusts to daily life with his heavenly roommate, meeting other girls only adds new complications to an already unusual situation.

Otaku Consensus

Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included lands as a soft-focus supernatural rom-com whose strongest asset is its low-stress pacing: Kenta Oonishi and Okuruto Noboru lean into the iyashikei side of a harem setup rather than chasing constant escalation. Its MAL 7.04 and AniList 69/100 reception point to a show viewers found pleasant and neatly packaged across 12 episodes, with the most common limitation being that its harem and school-comedy beats stay highly conventional rather than surprising.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want a harem rom-com that behaves more like comfort food than a battlefield. Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included scratches the same gentle cohabitation itch as Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, but with a lighter shounen-harem structure and a far more compact 12-episode commitment. The appeal is not twisty plotting; it is the specific blend of angel mythology, school routine, and cramped-apartment intimacy, filtered through an iyashikei sensibility that AniList users strongly recognized. If you like supernatural girls entering ordinary life but do not want heavy lore, tragic stakes, or aggressive fan-service-first pacing, this is built for that lane.

Key Characters

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Shintarou Tokumitsu
Shintarou functions best as a deliberately plain shounen-romcom anchor, giving the more fantastical cast members a grounded human baseline instead of competing with them for eccentricity.
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Towa
Towa is the title’s tonal signature: an angel written less as a distant divine being than as a guileless source of warmth, awkward social learning, and domestic comedy.

What Makes It Stand Out

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The show’s tag profile is unusually explicit about its hybrid identity: AniList marks it as Female Harem at 97% and Angels at 83%, but also Iyashikei at 70% and Cute Girls Doing Cute Things at 72%, positioning it as a soothing harem rather than a high-conflict one.
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Okuruto Noboru handled the animation production for a single-cour, 12-episode run, giving the adaptation a compact Spring 2024 footprint from April 6 to June 22 rather than stretching the material across multiple cours.
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The credited creative chain is tightly defined: Kenta Oonishi directed, Shougo Yasukawa handled series composition, and Yuuya Uetake adapted the characters for animation, making it easy to read the series as a staff-shaped interpretation of Matoba’s original work.
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Its reception numbers tell a clear story: with 37,715 MAL votes, a 7.04 score, rank #4646, and popularity #2531, it reached a broader audience than its critical ranking suggests, typical of accessible seasonal rom-coms with strong genre tagging.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The Japanese title, One Room, Hiatari Futsuu, Tenshi-tsuki., foregrounds the mundane apartment condition before the supernatural hook, which matches the anime’s domestic-comedy emphasis.
Fun fact 2: Matoba is credited as the original creator, while the anime’s series structure was assigned to Shougo Yasukawa rather than the director, a common division of labor in TV anime adaptations.
Fun fact 3: The background and image pipeline credits are unusually transparent in the staff list: Daisuke Negishi served as art director, Toshiko Kaizu handled art design, Hayato Yoshida handled color design, and Mutsuki Aoki directed photography.
Fun fact 4: AniList users gave the series a 69/100 score and 640 favorites, closely mirroring MAL’s 7.04/10 reception and suggesting a stable cross-platform response rather than a site-specific outlier.
Fun fact 5: Despite the angel premise, AniList’s Mythology tag sits at only 40%, indicating that viewers classified the show more by rom-com and harem mechanics than by deep supernatural worldbuilding.