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Format
TV
Episodes
12
Episode Duration
22 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Winter 2017
Aired
2017-01-13 to 2017-03-31
Source
Manga
Rating
R+ - Mild Nudity
Genres
Drama
Romance
School
Seinen
Love Polygon
Studios
Lerche
Producers
Aniplex
Dentsu
Square Enix
Studio Hibari
Fuji TV
Kyoraku Industrial Holdings
Kansai Telecasting
Licensors
Sentai Filmworks
Kuzu no Honkai (クズの本懐)
To the outside world, Hanabi Yasuraoka and Mugi Awaya are the perfect couple. But in reality, they just share the same secret pain: they are both in love with other people they cannot be with. Hanabi has loved her childhood friend and neighbor Narumi Kanai for as long as she can remember, so she is elated to discover that he is her new homeroom teacher. However, Narumi is soon noticed by the music teacher, Akane Minagawa, and a relationship begins to blossom between them, much to Hanabi's dismay. Mugi was tutored by Akane in middle school, and has been in love with her since then. Through a chance meeting in the hallway, he encounters Hanabi. As these two lonely souls spend more time together, they decide to use each other as a substitute for the one they truly love, sharing physical intimacy with one another in order to stave off their loneliness. [Written by MAL Rewrite]