Kotarou wa Hitorigurashi
English title: Kotaro Lives Alone
Japanese title: コタローは1人暮らし
Alternative titles: Kotaro Lives By Himself
Type: ONA
Source: Manga
Episodes: 10
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 10, 2022
Duration: 26 min per ep
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Studios: LIDENFILMS
Genres: Slice of Life
Themes: Childcare
Demographics: Seinen

One day, manga author Shin Karino is greeted by four-year-old Kotarou Satou, his new next-door neighbor, who gifts him a box of tissues. In Karino's eyes, Kotarou is an odd kid: he speaks in an extremely formal manner, and he lives alone in his apartment—no parents or relatives in sight. But Kotarou neither seems to mind, nor wants to rely on people.

Feeling sympathetic toward Kotarou's circumstances, Karino decides to follow Kotarou to a bathhouse in case something might happen to him and there he comes to understand the little boy is not so different from him. Little by little, Karino—along with the other residents of the apartment complex—grows fond of Kotarou and his antics. At the same time, Kotarou himself might have found something akin to a family in his unique neighbors.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]