NieA Under 7

Aired: 2000

A 13-episode comedy anime broadcast on WOWOW from April to July 2000, produced by Triangle Staff. An original work by Yoshitoshi Abe, directed by Takuya Sato. Set in a near-future Japan where extraterrestrials have integrated into everyday society, the series follows Mayuko Chigasaki, a poverty-stricken student cramming for university exams, whose quiet life is upended when NieA — a low-class alien outcast — takes up residence in her closet. Uses gentle comedy and melancholy to explore themes of discrimination and alienation, considered a forerunner of the "slice of life" genre. ©Yoshitoshi Abe/Triangle Staff/WOWOW.