Handa-kun

Everyone loves him...but him.

On BS-TBS, TBS

A lighthearted high school comedy built on a single, sustained misunderstanding—Handa's paranoid conviction that admiration is bullying—that generates warmth and humor without ever turning mean.

Set six years prior to the events of Barakamon, detailing the life of Seishuu Handa as a high school student—and a very interesting life it is. In Handa-kun, Seishuu Handa is admired by his peers as a calligraphy genius and given the utmost respect, but Handa-kun himself is under the mistaken impression that the deference and attention he receives from the other students is actually bullying. Handa just wants to live a quiet life, but hilarity ensues as one character after another challenges his position as the school idol, and somehow comes away as a fan all while Handa is horrified and clueless.