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“Hopelessly stupid Yoshiko drives everyone crazy, except her violent childhood friend A-kun who tries to control her.”
AHO-GIRL
アホガール
6.71
6,297 rank · 529,239 viewers · 1,194 favorites
Comedy
Gag Humor
School
Shounen
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Synopsis
Hopelessly stupid Yoshiko drives everyone crazy, except her violent childhood friend A-kun who tries to control her.
Yoshiko Hanabatake is an idiot beyond all belief. Somehow managing to consistently score zeroes on all of her tests and consumed by an absurd obsession with bananas, her senseless acts have caused even her own mother to lose all hope. Only one person is up to the task of keeping her insanity in check: childhood friend Akuru "A-kun" Akutsu. Though he bemoans the ridiculous behavior he has to endure, the studious but terrifying A-kun is always ready to put an end to any stupidity Yoshiko gets up to, with no qualms about using physical force. Unfortunately, no matter how many times he attempts to knock some sense into her, the girl bounces right back to her usual shenanigans, even dragging in some other eccentrics along for the ride. Try as he might to rein in her nonsense, every moment is unpredictable with Yoshiko and her profound idiocy on the loose.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 118 sampled reviews
6.9
/10
What 118 viewers settled on.
86%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 2.11
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.11 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.5 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 2.5
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Score over time
↓ 1.07
Running avg · Jul 2017 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “The comedy succeeds in keeping me laughing with its sadistic, dark, and perverted humor, and the characters work well enough together to deliver the gags effectively. However, there is no real...”
- 8 “Yoshiko's characterization offers a compelling psychological depth regarding how childhood adjectives shape identity, specifically that being told she is silly since youth made her internalize this...”
- 8 “There are two general types of idiots on opposite ends of a scale, on one end it's just such an annoyance you want their entire bloodline erased from history, on the other end everything they do is...”
Verbosity
Short · 53%
Medium · 30%
Long · 18%
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- Format 12 × 12′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 24m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2017 – Sep 2017 Summer 2017
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-12286 catalog
Produced by
- Nihon Ad Systems Producer
- Kodansha Producer
- Movic Producer
- KlockWorx Producer
- Sony Music Entertainment Producer
- King Records Producer
- BS11 Producer
- Animatic Producer
- Marui Group Producer
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- Discotek Media Licensor