2025 · animation · comedy · fantasy
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara1h 45m2025
Miss Kobayashi, Tohru, Ilulu, and Kanna’s peaceful lives are shaken when Kanna’s father, Kimun Kamui, forces her to return to the Dragon World. As a war brews between the Chaos and Harmony factions, Kanna tries to unite the two worlds, torn between her friends and father. When dragons clash, Ilulu uncovers a hidden force manipulating the war. Can they stop the war before it consumes both worlds?
Our read: Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved (2025) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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