# Where to Watch Kids on the Slope

**Kids on the Slope streams on Crunchyroll and HIDIVE. It's one of the most effortlessly rewatchable coming-of-age stories in anime — a jazz-soaked drama about friendship that earns every one of its feelings.**

## Where to Watch

- [Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/kids-on-the-slope)
- [HIDIVE](https://www.hidive.com/tv/kids-on-the-slope)

Crunchyroll and HIDIVE both carry it, so this one comes down to which subscription you already have. If you're choosing fresh, HIDIVE's catalog leans into exactly this kind of drama, while Crunchyroll wins on breadth.

## Synopsis

Kaoru has moved so many times he's stopped bothering to make friends. His latest transfer drops him in a seaside town in the jazz-loving sixties, where the school delinquent everyone avoids — Sentaro — turns out to be a drummer with more warmth than menace. Kaoru's classical piano training collides with Sentaro's raw swing, and in the basement of a record shop run by the family of their classmate Ritsuko, the two start playing together. Sessions become friendship, friendship tangles into love triangles, and the music keeps pulling them back to each other even when everything else falls apart.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 12
- **Premiered:** 2012
- **Studio:** tezuka productions co., ltd., mappa co., ltd.
- **Score:** 8

## If You Liked This

- **[Your Lie in April](https://hozuna.com/anime/your-lie-in-april)** — Your Lie in April is the obvious next step — classical music, adolescence, and feelings that hit like a freight train. Keep tissues closer for this one.
- **[Sound! Euphonium](https://hozuna.com/anime/sound-euphonium)** — Sound! Euphonium trades jazz for concert band and turns the craft of playing music into gripping drama. The most honest anime ever made about practice.
- **[Samurai Champloo](https://hozuna.com/anime/samurai-champloo)** — Samurai Champloo shares this show's director and its musical soul — hip-hop instead of jazz, swordsmen instead of schoolboys, the same impeccable rhythm.
- **[Frieren: Beyond Journey's End](https://hozuna.com/anime/frieren-beyond-journey-s-end)** — 
- **[Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc](https://hozuna.com/anime/chainsaw-man-reze-arc)** — 
- **[Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood](https://hozuna.com/anime/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood)** — 
- **[Re:Zero Season 4](https://hozuna.com/anime/re-zero-season-4)** — 
- **[Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2](https://hozuna.com/anime/attack-on-titan-season-3-part-2)** — 

## FAQ

### Where can I watch Kids on the Slope?

It streams legally on Crunchyroll and HIDIVE.

### How many episodes is Kids on the Slope?

Just 12 episodes — a tight, complete story you can finish in a weekend.

### Do I need to like jazz to enjoy it?

Not at all. The music is the vehicle, but the show is really about friendship, first love, and growing up. The performance scenes are so well animated they win over people who've never touched an instrument.