Danchigai

Danchigai
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Kanji	だんちがい
Genre	Comedy, slice of life
Based on	Danchigai (manga)
Directed by	Hiroshi Kimura
Produced by	Dream Creation
Written by	Kazusa Yoneda (original story)
Music by	Shusei
Studio	Creators in Pack
Original network	TV Saitama, KBS, tvk, Sun TV, AT-X
Original run	July 9, 2015 – September 24, 2015
Episodes	12 + 1 OVA (Episode list)

For manga, see Danchigai (manga).

Danchigai (だんちがい, lit. "Big Difference") is an anime based on a four-panel manga by Kazusa Yoneda.

It was directed by Hiroshi Kimura, with animation by the animation studio Creators in Pack, and was produced by Dream Creation, with audio production by Dax Production. Eriko Itou was in charge of character design, and Masakatsu Oomuro served as the series sound director. The series has four theme songs, one for each female lead. Satomi Akesaka sings "Early Morning", Mikako Komatsu sings "Let a good day", Sora Tokui sings "Gentle Mischief", and Sayaka Horino sings "Princess Durandal".

Plot

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The story focuses on the life of Haruki Nakano and his four sisters, all of whom live together in the same apartment complex. The only boy of five siblings, Haruki lives with his older sister Mutsuki, difficult younger sister Yayoi, and mischievous twins Uzuki and Satsuki.

Characters

Haruki Nakano

Haruki is the only boy among the Nakano siblings and the second oldest. He attends high school as a first-year student. He chose a high school close to home so he could go home and play video games

Mutsuki Nakano

Haruki's older sister with the long black hair. She is very popular at school and has top grades, but acts carefree when she is around Haruki, leading their schoolmates to think they are a couple. She takes care of the household cooking and chores

Yayoi Nakano

Haruki's younger sister by a year. She is in her third-year of middle school. She has short brown hair. She is athletic and is often violent towards Haruki, calling him Baka-Eroki (stupid pervert). She wants to make sure Haruki projects a proper image at school.

Uzuki Nakano

The more active and outgoing of Haruki's younger twin sisters. She has short pink hair. She likes to tease and play pranks on Haruki. She is a third-year elementary school student

Satsuki Nakano

The quieter of Haruki's younger twin sisters. She has dark hair styled in twin tails. She shares his interest in anime and manga but is fonder still of her twin. She enjoys reading manga and watching anime. She too is in her third year of elementary school.

Episode list

No.	Title	Ending theme	Original airdate
1	"Building One: The Yumeno Apartments"	"Let a good day"	July 9, 2015
Haruki wakes up after a night of studying to find himself trapped by a sleeping Yayoi. The twins take this as a chance to torment their brother, which wakes Yayoi. She becomes angry at him, and Mutsuki has to threaten to take away their allowances to make them stop fighting.
2	"Building Two: The Twins' Homework"	"Gentle Mischief"	July 16, 2015
Both Haruki and Yayoi find the twins spying on them. It turns out that the two have a homework assignment requiring them to write about their family.
3	"Building Three: Mutsuki's True Colors"	"Early Morning"	July 23, 2015
Haruki comes home to find Mutsuki asleep in his room. She rapidly changes into her usual formal self when Yayoi and the twins arrive. When he finds her relaxing in his room again after her bath, he bemoans the fact that he is the only one she acts nonchalantly around.
4	"Building Four: Curry and Rice"	"Princess Durandal"	July 30, 2015
The siblings go grocery shopping together. Mutsuki is given a basket of free food after the twins attract customers while praising the store's food samples. Taking offense at Haruki's suggestion that they would need a mild curry mix, the twins insist on buying a spicy one. At dinner, they are surprised to find it palatable; however, Mutsuki reveals that she had secretly purchased a mild one.
5	Building Five: Satsuki's Anime Clock"	"Princess Durandal"	August 6, 2015
Haruki arrives home with a manga magazine and finds Satsuki waiting for him. Uzuki comments that Satsuki doesn't even need a clock to know when an anime is on. Haruki is then surprised when she passes up on watching the first episode of an anime she enjoys to play with Uzuki. Later, however, she watches it three times on reruns, and he wonders why she isn't getting tired of it.
6	"Building Six: The Siblings’ Multiplication"	"Let a good day"	August 13, 2015
Haruki arrives home and Mutsuki offers to help him with his homework. He turns her down because she is bad at teaching (he doesn't tell her this). Helping Yayoi prepare for a math exam, he deduces that her problem is in her grasp of multiplication. When bedtime comes, she is still having trouble. The next day, when she returns from school, she refuses to show Haruki her test results. After a brief struggle, they fall and he lands on top of her, just as Mutsuki walks in, causing a misunderstanding.
7	"Building Seven: The Apartment Complex's Pool Opening?!"	"Early Morning"	August 20, 2015
Yayoi becomes jealous when the twins have swimming practice. She decides to set up a inflatable wading pool in the middle of their apartment and she, Haruki, and Mutsuki all get in it. Later, when the twins get home, they find the three have caught a cold due to the unseasonable swimming.
8	"Building Eight: Definitely Siblings"	"Gentle Mischief"	August 27, 2015
After reading a manga, Satsuki begins to worry that she and Uzuki may not actually be twins due to their dissimilar looks. Haruki convinces her otherwise by showing her that Mutsuki looked very much like her when she was younger. Uzuki then begins to wonder the same thing, but Mutsuki convinces her with a picture of their grandmother. Finally, Yayoi arrives home, bemoaning the fact that she can't be related to any of them due to her receiving poor test scores when they all do very well.
9	"Building Nine: For the Love of Pranks?!"	"Gentle Mischief"	September 3, 2015
Uzuki begins acting strangely over dinner, even switching seats with Yayoi. Haruki catches on and begins to grow paranoid that she has spiked their dinner somehow. After being pressured into taking a bite, he realizes there is nothing wrong with it. After dinner, he finds Uzuki in his room where she asks him to read a book with her. Again growing suspicious, Haruki is put off by her innocent behavior. After she leaves, Satsuki drags him over to show him an anime episode she watched with Uzuki the other day, wherein the younger sister character acts kindly and proclaims her sibling love to her brother, then runs off exclaiming it was a prank. Satsuki believes this is the explanation for Uzuki's unusual behavior, which relieves Haruki that her "prank" is so simple. The next day, Uzuki confirms Satsuki's suspicions while Haruki pretends to be dumbfounded.
10	"Building Ten: Mutsuki’s Request?!"	"Early Morning"	September 10, 2015
Haruki wakes up in the middle of the night to find Mutsuki leaning over him. After he calms down, Mutsuki reveals she has a favor to ask of him: she wants him to kiss her. Despite initial misunderstandings, Mutsuki reveals she has to kiss someone at school as part of a play for the school festival and wants to practice with Haruki beforehand. Haruki desperately tries to get out of his situation. However, Mutsuki remains adamant in her decision to practice with him. Moments before they are about to kiss, Haruki pushes her away, exclaiming that they shouldn't (all the while questioning whether she has incestuous love for him), which causes Mutsuki to run out of the room. Haruki runs after her to apologize, only to find her realizing that she had mixed up the scripts for Snow White and Cinderella (her sudden realization being the cause for her storming out of his room), and that the play she was supposed to be performing didn't have a kiss scene at all.
11	"Building Eleven: How Yayoi Nurses?!"	"Let a good day"	September 17, 2015
Yayoi finds Haruki lying on the floor in the middle of the night weak with a cold. Despite her initial reluctance, she helps him back into bed. The next day, the twins tease Yayoi about how she seems less upbeat due to the lack of Haruki's presence, which she fervently denies. Later, when Haruki wakes up, he finds Yayoi tending to him, as she skipped her after-school activities just to get home early. As she is wiping the sweat off his chest, the rest of the family walk in, misinterpreting the situation as Yayoi kissing Haruki.
12	"Building Twelve: The Bond Between Haruki and His Sisters"	none	September 24, 2015
Yayoi barges into Haruki's room requesting to play a game with him, something which initially makes Haruki nervous as she is not normally this gentle. However, as he goes to choose a game for them to play, he finds that she has fallen asleep on his bed. Yayoi remarks how she wants to sleep in his room, to which a panicking Haruki drags her back to her own bed, assuming she has some kind of fever. As he leaves, the twins drag him to the bathroom demanding that he watch them use the toilet, later calling it a prank. After some waterworks, Haruki finally returns to his room only to find Mutsuki sleeping in his bed. The others soon follow, claiming that they all want to sleep in his room for the night. As Haruki reflects on each the members of his family and the good times he's had with them, he realizes that with his room packed, he himself has nowhere to sleep. The next day, it is revealed that the reason they all slept in his room was due to watching a scary movie the night before.
OVA	"Building Thirteen: I Want to go to the Public Bath"	"Princess Durandal"	September 19, 2015
The Nakano siblings head towards the public baths, with Uzuki and Satsuki looking forward to drinking bottled milk.

External links

• Official website
• Danchigai (@anime_danchi) on Twitter
• Danchigai on Crunchyroll