Love and Lies (Season 1)

Love and Lies (恋と嘘, 2017) is a Japanese animated series you can watch online on iFILM. In a near-future Japan, the government has replaced personal choice with a compatibility algorithm: at sixteen, every citizen is assigned a spouse by the state, with real consequences for anyone who defies the match.

Yukari Nejima is fifteen and considers himself completely ordinary. He confesses to his long-time crush, Misaki Takasaki, just hours before his official notice arrives — matched with someone else entirely. That someone, Ririna Sanada, turns out to be more intrigued by the forbidden romance than offended by it. Voiced by Kana Hanazawa, Yui Makino, Ryota Osaka and Shinnosuke Tachibana, the series uses its speculative premise to hold one question open: what does a feeling mean when the state has already decided for you? Stream Love and Lies on iFILM.