Is Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun (My Little Monster OVA) is a OVA (home-video release) from Summer 2013 by Brain'S Base: 1 episodes, about 30 minutes in total, finished, 7.09/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 30 minutes for the run, 1 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 27 min
- Total time
- about 30 minutes — one evening
- First aired
- Summer 2013
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Brain'S Base
- Score
- 7.09/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- aliens, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, slice of life, friendship, historical, love triangle, ninja, parody, romance, romantic comedy, samurai, school, shoujo, swordplay, violence
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: The Monster Next Door OAD; The Monster Next Door OVA.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun?
- About 30 minutes for all 1 episodes at 27 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun have?
- 1 episode of 27 min.
- Is Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun finished?
- Yes, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun good for a group?
- Yes. Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun is tagged comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun listed?
- Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun: Tonari no Gokudou-kun is on AniList (id 16866) and MyAnimeList (id 16866); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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