Tayutama: Kiss on My Deity

タユタマ -Kiss on my Deity-

6.7(31,120)

MAL Score

Ranked #6633

Popularity #2955

Romance
Supernatural
Harem

Episodes: 12
Duration: 23 min per ep
Aired: Apr 6, 2009 to Jun 22, 2009
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Yuuri Mito looks like an ordinary high schooler—until you learn he helps with motorcycle repairs and takes part in exorcisms at his family’s shrine. While exploring the woods, he comes across an ancient relic and is warned off by a mysterious goddess, but the seal is broken all the same, releasing dangerous tayuti that had been held in stasis.

With the supernatural now spilling into his everyday life, Yuuri finds himself drawn into the conflict surrounding the entities he unwittingly freed. Complicating matters further, a striking goddess takes a keen interest in him and declares her intention to marry him, leaving Yuuri caught between looming spiritual turmoil and an increasingly tangled romantic situation.

Otaku Consensus

Keitarou Motonaga’s brisk one-cour direction and Makoto Uezu’s series composition give Tayutama a pace fans often found refreshingly free of filler, while SILVER LINK.’s cute character art, costume work, and settings remain the adaptation’s clearest strengths. Its most effective material comes from the emotionally lopsided Mashiro-Ameri rivalry and supernatural-romance set pieces rather than complex mythology. The verdict remains mixed because the route-derived story relies on familiar harem machinery and frequently illogical connective tissue, leaving much of its potential underdeveloped.

Why You Should Watch

If you want a compact, sincere supernatural harem without dense lore or endless romantic stalling, Tayutama is built for that mood. Its 12-episode run prioritizes Mashiro’s fox-eared moe appeal, Ameri’s bruised romantic frustration, and bursts of action over complicated plotting. The combination of shrine imagery, school-life comedy, and an unusually visible motorcycle motif gives the familiar 2009-era formula a distinct texture. It scratches much the same itch as Omamori Himari—protective kemonomimi heroine, supernatural danger, and romantic crowding—but with a softer, more openly sentimental center. SILVER LINK.’s cute character art and Yutaka Minobe’s music make it especially suited to viewers who value atmosphere and heroine chemistry over airtight mythology. The tradeoff is real: expect familiar harem beats and logic that bends to emotion, not a rigorous supernatural system.

Key Characters

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Mashiro Mito(VA: Noriko Rikimaru)
Mashiro is the fox-eared centerpiece of the series’ moe appeal, with her intense attachment to Yuuri making her both the romantic favorite and the source of its sharpest harem friction.
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Ameri Kawai(VA: Asami Shimoda)
Ameri attracts sympathy as the emotionally bruised rival whose repeatedly frustrated feelings led viewers to wish the adaptation gave her more agency and attention.
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Yuuri Mito(VA: Satoshi Hino)
Yuuri stands apart from many passive harem leads through his practical mechanical competence, although the compressed adaptation often uses him more as the axis of romantic conflict than as a deeply examined protagonist.

What Makes It Stand Out

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SILVER LINK. favors soft, ultra-cute character rendering over visual grit, an approach contemporary criticism specifically praised for its solid presentation, costume design, and appealing settings.
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Director Keitarou Motonaga and series composer Makoto Uezu fit the material into 12 episodes with little perceived filler; even favorable reviews that found the plot simple highlighted its direct, easy-to-follow momentum.
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Motorcycles are prominent enough to carry a 60% AniList tag, giving the school-and-shrine aesthetic a mechanical accent rarely emphasized in supernatural harem anime.
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Yutaka Minobe supplies the score, while the theme-song credits connect performers Ui Miyazaki and Kicco with opening-theme composer Chiyomaru Shikura.
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The central romantic tension is deliberately uneven: Mashiro receives the strongest narrative spotlight, while Ameri’s recurring disappointment became one of the most discussed sources of both sympathy and frustration among viewers.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Makoto Uezu handled both series composition and script duties, creating a strong central authorial hand; Yuuko Kakihara is separately credited for the script of episode 3.
Fun fact 2: Chiyomaru Shikura composed the opening theme, while Ui Miyazaki and Kicco are both credited as theme-song performers.
Fun fact 3: The route-based source material has PC and Nintendo Switch releases. NookGaming praised its individual new scenes and memorable moments but found experiencing every route cumbersome, a structural issue that helps explain the anime’s selective, compressed feel.
Fun fact 4: Reception differs only slightly across major databases: the series holds a 6.72/10 from 31,108 MyAnimeList votes and 62/100 on AniList, where it has 75 recorded favourites.