Kokoro Connect

Five members of a high school culture club, Taichi, Iori, Himeko, Yui, and Aoki, suddenly start swapping personalities and inner selves without warning. What begins as a confusing, sometimes funny disruption to classes and friendships soon peels back the layers each student keeps hidden, exposing fears, secrets, and unresolved pain. The group is forced to handle awkward body changes, shifting loyalties, and new intimacies while trying to keep everyday life going. As the phenomenon continues, their relationships change in unexpected ways, testing trust and forcing honest conversations about who they are and what they mean to one another.

This is the 2012 anime adaptation of Sadanatsu Anda's light novel series, with Fumihiko Shimo credited for series composition. The show brought the novels to television audiences that year, translating the supernatural premise and character drama into an animated format.

It didn't collect major industry awards, though it developed a solid fanbase and has been noted in genre discussions. Critical and fan attention focused more on character dynamics than on trophy recognition.

Critical reception was mixed to positive, reflected in a 6.7/10 user rating from available votes. Reviewers praised the way the show mixes humor with heavier emotional beats, and some viewers found the tonal shifts uneven. Central themes include identity, consent, the complexity of adolescence, and how trauma and secrecy shape relationships, all shown through supernatural episodes that force characters to confront private truths.

Among anime fans the series is remembered for its bold use of body and personality swapping to raise tough questions about intimacy and responsibility. Several scenes and confrontations have stuck with viewers, and the show keeps coming up in conversations about relationship-focused supernatural anime, especially when people discuss how to portray emotional honesty and the consequences of supernatural interference in ordinary lives.