Love Tyrant (2017): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2017, Love Tyrant is an animation and comedy series.

What it’s about. A Kiss Note is a powerful notebook that makes anyone who has their name written together will instantly fall in love if they kiss each other regardless of any circumstances. This magical and very familiar item belongs to an angel named Guri whose job as cupid is to create couples. However, she accidentally writes down Aino Seiji, a regular high school student, and unless he kisses someone, Guri will die. She convinces Seiji to go kiss his crush, Hiyama Akane, the school's popular girl who turns out has even stronger feelings for him, bordering on obsessive and psychotic. Eventually Akane and Seiji come together but not before Guri decides that she likes Seiji as well. What seems awesome to most guys becomes hell for Seiji who just wants a normal relationship with girls.

Who’s in it. Love Tyrant stars Manami Numakura as Hiyama, Akane, Yoshino Aoyama as Guri, Kensho Ono as Aino, Seiji and Yuki Nagano as Kichougasaki, Yuzu, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 5.8/10, Love Tyrant has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel and rent or buy it from Apple TV Store. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Love Tyrant page.

If you liked it. Fans of Love Tyrant tend to enjoy Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.