“Teen track hopeful Hiyori becomes classmate-idols LIPxLIP's manager while juggling school and running dreams.”
Heroines Run the Show: The Unpopular Girl and the Secret Task
ヒロインたるもの!〜嫌われヒロインと内緒のお仕事〜
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Synopsis
Teen track hopeful Hiyori becomes classmate-idols LIPxLIP's manager while juggling school and running dreams.
Freshly graduating middle school, energetic 15-year-old Hiyori Suzumi moves from her coastal hometown to Tokyo, pursuing her dream of being a track and field runner. Unfortunately, as soon as her first high school year begins, she faces an imminent problem that ultimately causes her to find a part-time job to cover living costs. After searching through countless prospective workplaces, Hiyori stumbles upon a posting looking for event staff, to which she gets accepted against all odds. It is revealed that she will be working as a manager-in-training for LIPxLIP, a rising male idol group composed of Yuujirou Someya and Aizou Shibasaki—both of whom are coincidentally her classmates. Despite this shocking revelation, Hiyori is resolved to do her best with balancing her studies, her ambition, and most importantly, her role as LIPxLIP's attendant.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 27 sampled reviews
What 27 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.78 · some divergence
3.6 pts
Recommenders 8.3 · others 4.7
↓ 0.85
Running avg · Jun 2022 → Nov 2025
- 10 “the main strong points are the really great music by honeyworks, the story falls into some clichés sometimes but it's almost always the fact with this genre of anime, so i don't understand why the...”
- 7 “Now I am not usually a fan of idol anime but like Ya Boy Kongming this anime genuinely surprised me with how good it was! It followed our MC Hiyori who is the last person you would think would...”
- 10 “This was a simple story with idols in a school and a random girl with both. I don't know why but I watch it in one night. I very love the story and maybe want a next season? I have nothing bad to...”
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- Format 12 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 36m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2022 – Jun 2022 Spring 2022
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-21047 catalog
Produced by
- Movic Producer
- Futabasha Producer
- U-NEXT Producer
- MusicRay’n Producer
- INCS toenter Producer
- Marui Group Producer
- Lawson Entertainment Producer
- tamakoshi Producer
- flaggs Producer
- Laulea Works Producer
- Alice Producer
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- Crunchyroll Licensor