# Where to Watch Kotaro Lives Alone

**Kotaro Lives Alone streams exclusively on Netflix. It's a short, deceptively cute series that will absolutely wreck you — a four-year-old renting his own apartment sounds like a comedy setup, and it is one, right up until the show lets you understand why he's alone.**

## Where to Watch

- [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81275353)

Netflix is the only place to watch it, and it's a quick commitment — ten episodes you can finish in a weekend, though the emotional aftertaste lasts a lot longer.

## Synopsis

Kotaro is a small boy who moves into a run-down apartment building entirely by himself — paying rent, doing his own shopping, speaking in weirdly formal samurai-drama Japanese. His next-door neighbor, a broke manga artist named Karino, gets reluctantly pulled into keeping an eye on him, and so does the rest of the building's cast of misfits. The comedy of a tiny kid out-adulting the adults around him slowly gives way to something more tender: the neighbors piecing together the neglect that made Kotaro so self-sufficient, and quietly becoming the family he never had.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** ONA
- **Episodes:** 10
- **Premiered:** 2022
- **Studio:** liden films inc., lidenfilms
- **Score:** 8.1

## If You Liked This

- **[Barakamon](https://hozuna.com/anime/barakamon)** — A city calligrapher exiled to a rural island gets adopted by the local kids — the same adult-and-child chemistry, with the healing flowing both directions.
- **[March Comes in Like a Lion](https://hozuna.com/anime/march-comes-in-like-a-lion)** — A lonely professional shogi player slowly thawed out by a family of three sisters. Slower and heavier than Kotaro, but it's the same story about found family filling an empty room.
- **[To Your Eternity](https://hozuna.com/anime/to-your-eternity)** — If the quiet heartbreak under Kotaro's comedy is what got you, To Your Eternity is that feeling as an epic — an immortal being learning what it costs to love people.
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- **[Re:Zero Season 4](https://hozuna.com/anime/re-zero-season-4)** — 
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## FAQ

### Where can I watch Kotaro Lives Alone?

It's a Netflix exclusive — you won't find it on other streaming services.

### How many episodes is Kotaro Lives Alone?

Ten episodes, each around twenty minutes — very bingeable in a weekend.

### Is Kotaro Lives Alone sad?

It's genuinely funny most of the time, but the backstory it gradually reveals is heavy. Expect to laugh, then get blindsided.