# My Deer Friend Nokotan (2024)

> A perfect honor student's secret delinquent past is put at risk when she collides with Noko, an antlered girl who brings chaos to her picturesque high school life.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/164291

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 12
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy
- Network: TOKYO MX, BS Nippon TV
- Cast: Megumi Han, Saki Fujita, Rui Tanabe, Fuka Izumi, Kohsuke Toriumi, Yurika Kubo, Rio Tsuchiya, Chinatsu Akasaki
- TMDB rating: 6.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32332970/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: deadpan, absurd, breezy, whimsical, playful

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series as mixed, appreciating its absurdist slapstick and charming central duo while finding its gags uneven across the single season.

## Synopsis

My Deer Friend Nokotan (2024) is a Japanese animated comedy series created as a WIT STUDIO and Twin Engine production for TOKYO MX and BS Nippon TV, adapted from a manga. Its single season of twelve twenty-four minute episodes follows Koshi Torako (voiced by Saki Fujita), a model high school student whose classmates have no idea of her delinquent past, and Noko Shikanoko (voiced by Megumi Han), an antlered girl whose presence keeps wrecking Torako's carefully kept image. The engine of each episode is the gap between Torako's composed public face and the escalating chaos Noko leaves behind, with supporting classmates such as Anko Koshi (voiced by Rui Tanabe) and Meme Bashame (voiced by Fuka Izumi) drawn into the mishaps. Built on slapstick, parody and absurdist gags, the show balances its surreal premise with an everyday school routine, producing a light, breezy and deadpan register. Its episodes are self-contained gag sequences, with the wider mystery of who Noko is kept in the background. Fans of Nichijou, Gintama and Lucky Star will find resonance in its playful anime comedy and slice of life charm.

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