My Monster Secret

Main characters

• Asahi Kuromine (黒峰 朝陽)
• Asahi is a second year high school student who seems to be unable to keep a secret, so much his nickname is "leaky basket". He often acts as the narrator through his inner monologues. Asahi is also susceptible to projectile nosebleeds when confronted with perverse situations, earning the nickname "Eromine" from Yōko. He has a younger sister named Mei, who is barely mentioned in the story until much later on.
• Yōko Shiragami (白神 葉子)
• Yōko is a classmate of Asahi and the daughter of a human and a vampire. Although she has long canine teeth, many other typical vampiric characteristics are downplayed, such as only getting tanned in sunlight or feeling guilty when entering a room uninvited. Yōko speaks in Kansai dialect, using honorifics to not expose her teeth. Despite initially coming across as haughty, she is bubbly and absent-minded on the outside.
• Nagisa Aizawa (藍澤 渚)
• Nagisa is a classmate of Asahi and Yōko as well as small alien riding a human-sized robotic exoskeleton of herself. She is usually meticulous and serious with her actions, though loses her composure when dealing with embarrassing situations. Nagisa has an older brother, Ryo, whom she initially respects and draws inspiration from, before learning he is less reliable than she initially realized.
• Mikan Akemi (朱美 みかん)
• Mikan is a childhood friend of Asahi who always bullies him. She is president of the Newspaper Club and has used her position to turn it into a supermarket tabloid. However, most of the time, the newspaper club members do all the work for her. Mikan secretly likes Asahi, but perceives her lack of femininity as a barrier she cannot overcome, and prefers instead to bully and tease him. She has two younger brothers who occasionally appear in the series.
• Shiho Shishido (紫々戸 獅穂)
• Shiho is the dominant personality, and is aware of everything occurs when Shirou is in control of her body. While Shirou has a crush on Yōko and attempts to discover if Asahi is aware of her secret, Shiho is more playful and amorous, deriving enjoyment from being perverse. She often tries to force Youko into admitting her true feelings towards Asahi, and having a perverted crush on Asahi, and tries to expose herself to him. While her father is also a wolfman, her mother is only shown in silhouette and is referred to as the "Charismatic Female Pervert".

Supporting characters

Ryo Aizawa (藍澤 涼) Yuika Momochi (桃地 結香) Mei Kuromine (黒峰 鳴) Saki Minagawa (水奈川 咲)

• Shirō Shishido (獅狼)
• Shishido is Yōko's childhood friend and a wolfman. Initially appearing as Shirō, an intimidating man with sharp teeth. Upon seeing any depiction of The Moon, he transforms into Shiho, a busty, self-proclaimed pervert.
• Akane Kōmoto (紅本 茜)
• Principal of Asahi's high school and a thousand year-old demon who has the body of a young girl with demonic horns. Despite her age, she is often quick to exhibit childish tendencies, such as playing large-scale pranks on the people at school and quickly getting excited whenever she believes sweets are nearby. She takes special delight in ruining Akari's life when given the chance. As a demon, Akane is capable of magically transforming herself and others around her, as well as multiplying herself.
• Akari Koumoto (紅本 明里)
• Asahi's homeroom teacher and former delinquent known as "Akari of the Hundred Visits" due to responding violently after apparently being rejected by 100 boys across different schools. She is Akane's great-great-granddaughter. Her short temper and strong fighting ability allows her to rein in Akane's misbehavior.
• Rin Kiryuin (黄龍院 凜)
• Rin is a first high school student. She is secretly Asahi's and Mikan's time traveling granddaughter from the future. Rin is protective of Asahi, whom she treats like a grandfather, not adapting her behavior to his younger appearance.
• Okada (岡田), Sakurada (桜田), and Shimada (嶋田)
• Okada, Sakurada, and Shimada are Asahi's three male friends.
• Genjirō Shiragami (白神 源二郎) and Tōko Shiragami (白神 桐子)
• Yōko's father and mother who had a high school romance similar to Yōko and Asahi. Genjirō is over-protective of his daughter, while Tōko often ends up reining in his behavior through serious situations.
• Karen Shirogane (銀 華恋)
• Introduced as a demon, Karen is a fallen angel who lost her halo, which Akane uses as a light bulb without her knowledge. Honest and gentle to a fault, her attempts to be demonic are often seen as angelic yet annoying. She was Genjirō and Tōko's classmate, as well as current student council president, having retained the position for over 20 years at the request of Akane. Her feathers can invoke one of the seven deadly sins in whoever gets stuck with them.

• Nagisa's older brother, Ryo moves around in an exoskeleton in is the size of a human body. His exoskeleton is the body of a girl 'ghost' so Nagisa would not know he was in there. He is usually the victim of Shimada's continual flirtation, even to the point of almost kissing him.

• Yuika is a ninja from a different time-period who tends to fall in love with the first guy she bumps into, including Asahi and Okada. However, her use of ninja equipment usually intimidates anyone she tries to attract. Revealed to be Shimada and Shiho's time traveling granddaughter.

• Mei is Asahi's younger sister who is Yuika's somewhat supportive friend.

• A student representative of Mei and Yuika's class, Saki is a succubus who drains men's energy when seducing them. However, Saki herself has little in the way of skills or experience doing so.
• Sen Kiryuin
• Sen is Vampire-Hunter who has no intention of actually hunting vampires. He occasionally imparts some advice to Asahi on how to deal with Yōko's vampire problems.
• Shirayuki (白雪姫)
• The principal of Morobare high school from Genjirō and Tōko's past, Shirayuki is a cruel person who feels absolute disgust at the thought of human and non-human species can coexist, believing it goes against the pride of non-humans.

Manga

Written and illustrated by Eiji Masuda, My Monster Secret has been serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Champion from January 31, 2013, to February 16, 2017, and collected into 22 volumes by Akita Shoten. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the manga for North America under the title My Monster Secret and published the first volume on January 12, 2016.[5]

Volume list

Anime

The anime adaptation of My Monster Secret premiered on July 6, 2015, in Japan and streaming to North American audiences via Crunchyroll as Actually, I am.... the same day. The opening theme is "Himitsu o Chōdai" (ひみつをちょーだい) by Ars Magna and the ending theme is "Ienai Ienai" (言えない言えない) by Hilcrhyme. Additionally, three character song volumes were released: Volume 1 featuring Yōko Shiragami (Yū Serizawa) and Shiho Shishido (Aya Uchida), Volume 2 featuring Nagisa Aizawa (Inori Minase) and Mikan Akemi (Reina Ueda), and Volume 3 featuring Akane Kōmoto (Mao Ichimichi) and Akari Kōmoto (Emi Nitta).

The anime is licensed by Discotek Media. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray in February 2017.[32]

Episode list