Ao-chan Can't Study! (Season 1)

Ao-chan Can't Study! (2019) is a romantic comedy anime you can watch online on iFILM. The series is produced by J.C.Staff, with voice cast including Juri Kimura and Tasuku Hatanaka, and runs as a short-form show with episodes around 12 minutes each.

Ao Horie wants nothing to do with romance. Her father is a famous erotic fiction writer who named her — A for "apple," O for "orgy" — and she has spent her whole school life trying to live that down. The plan: study hard, get into a top university, escape. Then her popular classmate Kijima confesses his love, and Ao discovers that suppressing a thought is a reliable way to make it louder.

The short-episode format suits the comedy perfectly — each instalment lands its joke before it wears thin, and Ao's increasingly unhinged internal monologue is the real engine of the show. Funny, self-aware, and easy to binge. Stream all episodes of Ao-chan Can't Study! (2019) online on iFILM.