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“Five students form a club and face body-swapping chaos, exposing secrets that threaten their friendship.”
Kokoro Connect
ココロコネクト
7.72
1,326 rank · 885,526 viewers · 7,966 favorites
Drama
Romance
Supernatural
Love Polygon
School
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Synopsis
Five students form a club and face body-swapping chaos, exposing secrets that threaten their friendship.
When five students at Yamaboshi Academy realize that there are no clubs where they fit in, they band together to form the Student Cultural Society, or "StuCS" for short. The club consists of: Taichi Yaegashi, a hardcore wrestling fan; Iori Nagase, an indecisive optimist; Himeko Inaba, a calm computer genius; Yui Kiriyama, a petite karate practitioner; and Yoshifumi Aoki, the class clown. One day, Aoki and Yui experience a strange incident when, without warning, they switch bodies for a short period of time. As this supernatural phenomenon continues to occur randomly amongst the five friends, they begin to realize that it is not just fun and games. Now forced to become closer than ever, they soon discover each other's hidden secrets and emotional scars, which could end up tearing the StuCS and their friendship apart.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 211 sampled reviews
8.1
/10
What 211 viewers settled on.
93%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 1.74
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.74 · some divergence
The polarity gap
5.1 pts
Recommenders 8.8 · others 3.7
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No
Score over time
↓ 0.91
Running avg · Jul 2012 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Just want to say this was probably one of the besttt anime I've freakin seen in a while. The character development in this anime by far surpasses that of most and I can truly say I made a...”
- 10 “To put it simply, there are spome scenes/aspects/themes/what-have-you in this series that are super, SUPER cute, just flat out adorable, though that's my opinion. The number of times I squee'd to...”
- 10 “Sighhh I don't know what to say about this anime I just gave it a try ...but couldn't stop watching it!! The story is umm "out of the box" It really made me think..think of the friendships I...”
Verbosity
Short · 23%
Medium · 40%
Long · 37%
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- Format 13 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 5h 12m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2012 – Sep 2012 Summer 2012
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-6630 catalog
Produced by
- Starchild Records Producer
- Enterbrain Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor