Scum's Wish (Season 1)

Scum's Wish (2017) is a Japanese anime drama you can watch online on iFILM. High-schoolers Mugi and Hanabi look like the perfect couple, but their relationship is an act.

Both are hung up on someone unreachable: Hanabi pines for an older family friend turned teacher, while Mugi can't let go of his former tutor. To dull the loneliness they strike a deal and play happy couple under three rules — break up the moment either gets the real thing, never fall for each other, and satisfy the other's physical needs. Keeping that distance proves harder than it sounds.

Adapted from Mengo Yokoyari's manga, the show is an unflinching, uncomfortable study of teenage desire, jealousy and the habit of using people as stand-ins for the ones you actually want. Twelve episodes in cold pastel colors and zero sugar — grown-up drama for viewers after the underside of romance rather than the fairy tale. Stream Scum's Wish online on iFILM.