“High schooler Shuuichi becomes a monster; Claire blackmails him to find her monstrous sister.”
Gleipnir
グレイプニル
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Synopsis
High schooler Shuuichi becomes a monster; Claire blackmails him to find her monstrous sister.
Shuuichi Kagaya is what one would consider an average high school student, but sometimes, he turns into a monster. He doesn't know how or why he got his abilities, only that he would prefer no one knows about them. One night, he finds a building ablaze with a girl trapped inside. Deciding to save her, he transforms and carries her to safety, but accidentally drops his phone. The next day, the girl he saved—Claire Aoki—finds him and confronts him about his monster identity. She even goes so far as to push him off the school roof to prove her theory after Shuuichi denies her allegations. Desperate to save himself, he transforms, and Claire snaps a picture in order to blackmail him into telling her everything he knows about monsters, which, ironically, isn't much. As it turns out, Claire has a secret of her own: she has been searching for her sister, who also became a monster. She enlists Shuuichi's help to track her down, but they aren't the only ones searching for answers.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 95 sampled reviews
What 95 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.28 · split reception
5.2 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 3.0
↑ 3.66
Running avg · Apr 2020 → Dec 2025
- 7 “This show is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. At the moment Claire is the best part of this show. The MC is kind of like a Shinji (Eva) rip off. He doesn't want to do bad things but has to...”
- 7 “I would say its pretty good compared to what other people say however, it can easily fall flat on its face if the next season doesn't do a good a job finishing the story. I feel like a lot of...”
- 9 “Criminally underrated. Quite literally. I was initially turned off by the meagre 7.1 rating, but I'm so glad I decided to try it out anyway. Gleipnir is one of the best anime I've seen in a long...”
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- Format 13 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 59m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 Spring 2020
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-15171 catalog
Produced by
- Kodansha Producer
- bilibili Producer
- Good Smile Film Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor