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Kokoro Connect

TV·2012–2012·1 season, 13 episodes·tvk·Animation, Comedy, Drama·24m·6.6

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Five members of the school culture club—Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki—encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch personalities without warning. The same begins to happen to the other club members, throwing their daily lives into chaos. At first the five students find some amusement among the confusion, but this connection also exposes the painful scars hidden within their hearts... When their calm lives are shattered, the relationships between the five students also begin to change!

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Kokoro Connect S01E01A Story That Had Already Begun Before Anyone Realized ItS01E01 · 5.5Being required by their school to be in a club, Yui, Iori, Himeko, Taichi, and Aoki are members of Student Cultural Society. One day, Yui and Aoki come in with a problem... they claim to have swapped bodies last night.
  2. 02Kokoro Connect S01E02Some Fascinating HumansS01E02 · 5.5The Student Cultural Society members have a problem and it seems to be escalating. The group doesn’t know what to do until a mysterious figure explains almost everything.
  3. 03Kokoro Connect S01E03Jobber and Low BlowS01E03 · 5.5As the body switching becomes more common place, the Student Cultural Society members become more adventurous with each other’s body.

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Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2012Aired 5.5Season avg
  1. S01E01Kokoro Connect S01E01Season's bestA Story That Had Already Begun Before Anyone Realized ItJuly 8, 2012 5.5Being required by their school to be in a club, Yui, Iori, Himeko, Taichi, and Aoki are members of Student Cultural Society. One day, Yui an
  2. S01E02Kokoro Connect S01E02Some Fascinating HumansJuly 15, 2012 5.5The Student Cultural Society members have a problem and it seems to be escalating. The group doesn’t know what to do until a mysterious figu
  3. S01E03Kokoro Connect S01E03Jobber and Low BlowJuly 22, 2012 5.5As the body switching becomes more common place, the Student Cultural Society members become more adventurous with each other’s body.
  4. S01E04Kokoro Connect S01E04Twin FeelingsJuly 29, 2012 5.5Inaban is not well and she has been hiding it from the group. Taichi, after switching with her, has felt her physical pain and is determined
  5. S01E05Kokoro Connect S01E05A Confession and Death...August 5, 2012 5.5Heartseed has grown bored with the group. So spice things up he takes over Iori body and jumps from a bridge. He offers the group the abilit
  6. S01E06Kokoro Connect S01E06A Story That Continued Before Anyone Realized ItAugust 12, 2012 5.5After weeks of peace, the members of the group have started hearing voice and once again their lives have been turned upside down.
  7. S01E07Kokoro Connect S01E07Falling ApartAugust 19, 2012 5.5Acting out on their desires is causing members of the StuCS to lose friends and even turn against each other.
  8. S01E08Kokoro Connect S01E08And Then There Were NoneAugust 26, 2012 5.5All the infighting between the club members is beginning the boil over. Good advice comes their way from an unlikely source.
  9. S01E09Kokoro Connect S01E09Can't Stop, Can't Stop, Can't StopSeptember 2, 2012 5.5The group is learning to be more honest with their desires, except for Inaba. Heartseed decides to pay her a special visit at home.
  10. S01E10Kokoro Connect S01E10Putting into WordsSeptember 9, 2012 5.5Heartseed warned Inaba that he would make things interesting. Inaba, Iori, with knives and unleashed desires will leave someone crying.
  11. S01E11Kokoro Connect S01E11A Story That Began as We Realized ItSeptember 16, 2012 5.5With Heartseed gone the group enjoyed some time off, but a visitor to Taichi is set to stir up new troubles.
  12. S01E12Kokoro Connect S01E12Into a Snow CitySeptember 23, 2012 5.5While Kiriyama deals with a friend from the past and the promise she can’t remember. Aoki must decide who he really loves.
  13. S01E13Kokoro Connect S01E13As Long as the Five of Us Are TogetherSeptember 30, 2012 5.5Taichi screws up and everyone pays the price. While dealing with the situation, Iori gets a call from her mother and the team sets out to he

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