Makura no Danshi

Whispering sweet lullabies into the ears of the viewers, Makura no Danshi presents the watcher with an experience of comfort. Each short episode features a different boy who will listen to the audience and hold them when they need it.

There are boys to suit all tastes: Merry is a gentle brown-haired boy; Sousuke Tanaka is a mature working man; Kanade Hanamine is a high school student who acts tough, but is frightened by mere spiders; Eiji Kijinami is a sore loser who looks like a punk, but has a tender heart; the shy Ryuushi Theodore Emori loves stargazing; Yuu Maiki is a freshman with delusions of grandeur; Haruto Enokawa is an energetic 5-year-old who refuses to sleep without a bedtime story; Nao Sasayama is a hip college student that is addicted to his smartphone; Shirusu Mochizuki is a librarian that treasures both books and book lovers; Yonaga and Yayoi Chigiri are siblings who are learning flower arrangement; and Yuuichirou Iida is a humorous old man who runs an oden stall.

Though the watchers may be troubled with various issues in life, these boys will softly talk about themselves and coax the audience members into revealing their problems. All the boys have kind hearts and will make the viewers feel special and loved.

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Merry Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Emori, Ryuushi Theodore Main

Umehara, Yuuichirou Japanese

Iida, Yuuichirou Main

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Tanaka, Sousuke Main

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Enokawa, Haruto Main

Murase, Ayumu Japanese

Mochizuki, Shirusu Main

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Maiki, Yuu Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Sasayama, Nao Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Kijinami, Eiji Main

Takahata, Sora Japanese

Chigiri, Yayoi Main

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

Suzuki, Shuuichi Producer

Uesaka, Youichirou Producer

Aoi, Sayo Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Sekine, Ayumi Script

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Apr 29, 2022

BoomBakudan

Recommended

This is hilarious, please watch it.

An absolutely bizarre show that is so uncanny, gratuitous, and over the top, while still being subdued enough to not go completely off the rails and still maintain some sense of cohesiveness.

I thought it was going to be pure fanservice but it's definitely tongue in cheek and parodies a lot of anime and otaku tropes. My favorite parts where when the anime boys directly made fun of it's audience.

The storytelling dropping you in the middle of 2-3 minute scenarios was more like watching some funny improv as opposed to being just boys talking you to as you sleep, which it ... really isn't at all. And i'm glad, because it ended up being very funny.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 28, 2023

Misaki_Mia

Mixed Feelings

I remember watching this as a joke back then. But I feel as it predicted something.
Like this reminds me a lot of ASMR stuff and a lot of things where the viewer loves to interact with the "character". Like the ai character chats? But less interactive.
I am not really diggin the character designs but I don't think they are bad. Just not my style.
I would recommend it for the lolz and funzies, or just to try new things to see that thewre really is all kind of animes.
It's like Dora the explorer for fangirls who like hot guys. If that makes you happy there's ... no shame in it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Apr 11, 2023

cacagorilla

Not Recommended

It took me a ton of breaks to finish this harrassment anime, and now that i've finished it, i can finally say how awful this is.

The main point of this anime is basically that you have boys talking to you while you're supposed to be sleeping? It's very confusing, and I honestly don't know why the creator of this anime wanted to make this. I don't know who is going to enjoy this, but I sure didn't.

The episodes are simple. It starts off with a preview, like the boy talking to you, then the 1 minute long intro which is absolutely ridiculous given the episodes ... are 4 minutes long, then you have a little picture showing the boy's name and his description, and then the guy starts talking to you. And for such a simple anime, how is it so bad??

First of all, the characters are creepy, weird, and make you feel creepy too. In the first episode, there was kind of a jumpscare where the guy's face was just super close and still for a few seconds before going back to normal. In the tenth episode it felt like I was being kidnapped by two creepy ass twins. In the seventh episode, the boy was a literal CHILD. He was 5 YEARS OLD. And his description said he was "hot"? He looked like a baby, not hot.
Some of the characters weren't as bad as the others. The one in the library episode wasn't that creepy, just kind of weird. Watching it didn't make me cringe like the rest, but still a little bit. But sometimes their faces are just... weird.
At one point the boy from the 3rd episode was supposed to play you violin, but there wasn't even violin, it was just a picture of him holding one. Seriously, the creator has something against music.

The episodes were kind of boring, at some points the animators got bored and just put still images. They weren't moving at all, just a still image. Sometimes they would get up in your face and it would be really close to the camera. I didn't really understand the last episode, it was basically just the first guy but babyish and littler. Not much happened at all, it was just weird. That's all this anime is. Weird.

The art was actually not bad. The first character was really creepy and ugly and so were a few others, but not all of them were bad. It's really just wasted on this cringy anime. The art has a lot of potential. You would expect something better from this, but no.


Storyline: 1/10 cause there is none. All you do is sleep and get woken up.
Characters: 2/10. They're terrible. Nothing goes on, just creepy and weird.
Art: 7.5/10. It's not that bad, just wasted talent. Some of them were just ugly though.
Sound: 2/10 cause there was no. music. Literally none. Just the guys talking.

Overall rating: 2/10. The only reason I didn't give it 1 was really just for the art.

I would recommend this to nobody. This is something that nobody is going to like except for teen anime-obsessed girls. You will not like it, please avoid it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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