Kao ni Denai Kashiwada-san to Kao ni Deru Oota-kun

With a smirk, Oota disregards his single-digit test scores and searches for a new source of amusement. He is soon captivated by his classmate Kashiwada, a mysterious student who consistently wears a blank face. Oota conspires to break her placid demeanor through scares and mischievous schemes, though his tactics always seem to backfire.

Oota is known as the class clown and is constantly disciplined by his teacher, who claims "his face gives it away." To no fault of his own, he lacks control of his emotions and facial expressions. Kashiwada, on the other hand, seems perpetually emotionless and unreadable—no one knows what she is thinking!

Oota and Kashiwada are complete opposites, but that does not stop a unique relationship from developing between them. As they realize their feelings for each other, it raises an important question: do opposites really attract?

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Kashiwada-san Main

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Oota-kun Main

Natsume, Kyouhei Japanese

Odajima-san Supporting

Mineda, Mayu Japanese

Oota's Sister Supporting

Mikami, Shiori Japanese

Oniwarada-sensei Supporting

Miyake, Kenta Japanese

Kashiwada's Brother Supporting

Kishio, Daisuke Japanese

Tabuchi-san Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Youta Supporting

Fujiwara, Natsumi Japanese

Yuu Supporting

Itou, Ayasa Japanese

Narrator Supporting

Yokoo, Mari Japanese

Higashi, Mao Producer

Ozawa, Fumihiro Producer

Kuroda, Kenji Producer

Mizutani, Yutaka Producer

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Dec 20, 2025

BrotherCoa

Recommended

This was one nice and cute romance anime about expressive boy and inexpressive girl, and it was fun ride from 1st to last episode. People say that this is similar to Aharen anime and I must agree on certain points, although boy character is much different than one from Aharen and becasue of that the dynamic is better at least imho.

Animation and sound: pretty good. Animation is fluent with no quality drop and music is fine with no noticeable soundtracks.

Overall: animation and music are industry standard, not bad and not good.

Characters: Main duo are Oota and Kashiwada, their entire dynamic is what makes this ... show good. Oota is a middle school boy who is energetic, prideful and loves challenges. Kashiwada is shy, nice and goodhearted girl. Because of her unique skill to not show any emotion on her face regardless of the situation, Oota made it his life goal to put a reaction on it no matter what it takes. Joining them are Sata and Takodoro, who are Oota's male friends. These two are always by Oota's side, occasionally helping him in some regard but most of the time they exist to comment on his actions. Later we are introduced to Tabuchi-san who is class representative and a gigantic fan of Koshiwada, tryign to "protect" her from Oota. And last, but not least, Odajima-san who joins to crew a little late but is only one that can read Kashiwada's expressions. When you mix all of them together you get expected amount of slice of life enjoyment.

Overall: Main duo is entertaining and supporting cast is good addition to spice things up a bit.

Story: it's rather simple - a boy is teasing a girl in order to get emotion from her. That's it. Rather than being long arc storyline the episodes cover one chapter short stories from manga. There is no real sense of progress, only different scenes which include all the cliché situations that we have all come to love or hate depending on your taste. I came into this anime expecting nothing more than cute and wholesome moments and I was not disappointed.

Overall: story is very simple and it revolves around the main theme of the show, nothing more and nothing less.

Overall grade: 8, I gave it a 10 as that how much personally I enjoyed it. But realistic grade is around 7.5 to 8. It is a decent wholesome slice of life show and it plays that card very safely. If you come into that expecting only this then you will have very enjoyable time.

In the end I am recommending it, it's one of those shows you watch at once for weekend in order to heal your exhausted soul with much needed positive energy.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jan 13, 2026

Raiusu

Recommended

This show feels like a mix of teasing takagi san and nagatoro without the bullying if you enjoyed those, you’re probably enjoy this even though it’s more directed as the first show I listed that being said you get about three mini story bits per episodes each about eight minutes

It has everything you’d like to see in a show like this and most importantly, it is quite funny which is really good. The show is listed as a romance but it’s like nothing builds gets built with this show it’s expected but it was enjoyable

Not much to say about it if you liked the ... shows that I mentioned or casual shows, I’m sure you’re like this

6/10 nothing special but it was fun

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Dec 28, 2025

clown_sniper

Not Recommended

This show should've been called "pathetic, angry jerk relentlessly bullies an autistic classmate."

I'd have given this a much higher rating if it weren't for the insufferable male lead, Oota. Kashiwada is a perfectly loveable oddball as the female lead, and the supporting cast of their fellow classmates/friends are all colorful and interesting characters. And the premise of the show, an expressive boy trying to get a reaction out of his stony-faced classmate, sounds like a fun time with silly antics and some light romance.

But Oota is such an irredeemable piece of shit. Nevermind the fact that Kashiwada doesn't seem to mind his constant picking on ... her, but he always ends up going overboard and saying or doing something so off the wall cruel to her, then just tells everyone around him to shut the hell up when they call him out for his nasty behavior while refusing to acknowledge the guilt he feels over taking his bullying too far. In fact I think out of all the awful things he says and does to Kashiwada, he only actually offers an apology once, and he obviously didn't grow as a character because in the very next bit he's right back to being nasty to her again.

The only person who really seemed to have Oota pegged for the punkass he is was Kashiwada's older brother. Beyond him, Oota is never really taken to task and held accountable for his behavior. He just goes on right up to the end of the final episode being awful to Kashiwada, who for reasons completely unknown just continues to crush on him. Just a frustrating experience all throughout.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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