There isn't really much to this show. Just an adorable fox-girl and cute things happening. Let's be honest though, it doesn't need much more.
12 Reviews
Adorable
invisibleunicornninja10 June 2019
Fun to Watch
abraradityap1 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The show is actually pretty nice; unique characters and great storyline.
The animation style is flawless, Senko's personality just fits perfectly to the story.
I think it's a really fun anime to watch at your free-time.
It's totally cute if you need a feel good anime
Irishchatter27 June 2019
All I can try to say is please try not to be put off by a fox girl (said to be aged at around 800 years old) who looks like a little girl and always pampering a grown 30 year old salaryman. You'll be surprised that there is more to its description and like it's so adorable. However if you still aren't comfortable by what I'm trying to say, try other anime that matches to your tastes....
It's just fun, and that's all that matters
TheGreatGreenBadger19 August 2020
Got nothing to do? Are you sad and lonely? Well, Senko-san will definitely cheer you up! This anime is just funny and its a pure joy! The characters are adorable and really hard to forget! This anime is all about fun!
Best thing to come out of 2019
kldemartinoportal6 December 2020
It's So Fluffy, I'm Gonna Die
robinsonaustin-0749026 June 2019
Another show that provides you with the warm fuzzies. The show revolves around salaryman Nakano and his stressful life. One day, a fox girl named Senko appears in his apartment and for whatever reason, she wanted to pamper him as a means of destroying the darkness that was manifesting. The series starts out with a rather simplistic: Nakano gets stressed, and Nakano gets pampered by Senko. Or, you would have a fellow fox girl Shiro who would often show up to cause mischief. What I can say though is that it is not all the series has to offer. The later episodes get more into why exactly Senko is so devoted to pampering Nakano which stems from some actual trauma on her part. Once you find out what it is, it reevaluates everything that you thought you knew about the show. It stems from that human side of us that wish that we did something differently, we would've gotten different results. So in short, it starts off formulaic, but later becomes more poignant the more you know Senko.
The opening and ending themes oozed with warmness and they are also very much of an earworm. It only further adds onto the tone of this being a feel good anime. As for the animation, it also reflects well with the premise. The character designs look soft and cuddly. The backgrounds often look gorgeous, particularly in the remaining episodes. My only complaint is that with the Spirit World that Senko comes from...it could've been more outstanding. It felt lacking in depth aside from there being clouds and screens that would appear whenever Lady Sora or Shiro would be peering through to see how Senko was holding up on Earth. For something like the Spirit World, I felt that the animators could've done more to make it look grand, but otherwise, no complaints on animation.
Lastly, characters. Nakano starts off as your typical downtrodden salaryman who gets yelled at by his boss or often is made to sleep in the office whenever he had to work overtime. But despite all of that, he is a good man. When Senko first comes into his life, he was unwilling to allow Senko to pamper him to a degree and later feels that he should do something in return for Senko's service. His relationship with Senko is also adorable. He gradually saw her as important to his overall life, and cares deeply for her. His attraction towards her tail is also hilarious with Senko allowing him to fluff it for a majority of the episodes' runtime.
Senko herself is a nice 800 year old fox demigod who volunteers to "cure" Nakano of the darkness due to some tie to his family. She is adorable; doting; and immensely determined. It isn't until later on in the anime where you get more into her reasons for helping Nakano, and it comes off as largely tragic. Just the fact that she wanted nothing in return for all of the care that she showers on Nakano is simply noble.
Other characters such as Shiro and Kouenji also add a nice touch to the story. Shiro is a fox girl who is often self-absorbed because of how she takes great pride in her status and can often be childish and absolutely loves trolling others. But beneath that, Shiro truly does care for others such as with Senko. Kouenji is a university student who is Nakano's neighbor. She also comes off as bubbly and gets adorably excited over subjects that she enjoys. Her relationship with Shiro is odd, but at the same time kind of endearing. There was lastly Lady Sora/Yozora who serves as the two fox demigods' boss, but ironically is probably no bigger or slightly taller than both of them. She is seductive, flirtatious, and has this mysterious aura to her. As the anime reached its end, I was even suspecting her of being the show's main antagonist but in what way, I did not know. The only downside is that she is the least developed out of a relatively small cast, where I felt that there should've been more to her than what we had gotten.
Overall, The Helpful Fox Senko-san is one of those shows that while lacking in an overarching story nevertheless makes up for it by objectively being a cute show that anyone can watch when they're feeling down.
The opening and ending themes oozed with warmness and they are also very much of an earworm. It only further adds onto the tone of this being a feel good anime. As for the animation, it also reflects well with the premise. The character designs look soft and cuddly. The backgrounds often look gorgeous, particularly in the remaining episodes. My only complaint is that with the Spirit World that Senko comes from...it could've been more outstanding. It felt lacking in depth aside from there being clouds and screens that would appear whenever Lady Sora or Shiro would be peering through to see how Senko was holding up on Earth. For something like the Spirit World, I felt that the animators could've done more to make it look grand, but otherwise, no complaints on animation.
Lastly, characters. Nakano starts off as your typical downtrodden salaryman who gets yelled at by his boss or often is made to sleep in the office whenever he had to work overtime. But despite all of that, he is a good man. When Senko first comes into his life, he was unwilling to allow Senko to pamper him to a degree and later feels that he should do something in return for Senko's service. His relationship with Senko is also adorable. He gradually saw her as important to his overall life, and cares deeply for her. His attraction towards her tail is also hilarious with Senko allowing him to fluff it for a majority of the episodes' runtime.
Senko herself is a nice 800 year old fox demigod who volunteers to "cure" Nakano of the darkness due to some tie to his family. She is adorable; doting; and immensely determined. It isn't until later on in the anime where you get more into her reasons for helping Nakano, and it comes off as largely tragic. Just the fact that she wanted nothing in return for all of the care that she showers on Nakano is simply noble.
Other characters such as Shiro and Kouenji also add a nice touch to the story. Shiro is a fox girl who is often self-absorbed because of how she takes great pride in her status and can often be childish and absolutely loves trolling others. But beneath that, Shiro truly does care for others such as with Senko. Kouenji is a university student who is Nakano's neighbor. She also comes off as bubbly and gets adorably excited over subjects that she enjoys. Her relationship with Shiro is odd, but at the same time kind of endearing. There was lastly Lady Sora/Yozora who serves as the two fox demigods' boss, but ironically is probably no bigger or slightly taller than both of them. She is seductive, flirtatious, and has this mysterious aura to her. As the anime reached its end, I was even suspecting her of being the show's main antagonist but in what way, I did not know. The only downside is that she is the least developed out of a relatively small cast, where I felt that there should've been more to her than what we had gotten.
Overall, The Helpful Fox Senko-san is one of those shows that while lacking in an overarching story nevertheless makes up for it by objectively being a cute show that anyone can watch when they're feeling down.
Nothing happens here
ham-ma24227 March 2020
Ok so to start off, I have no idea why it has such a high rating for an anime with no plot and no development whatsoever (maybe 1%). The dialogues are same lines used over and over in every episode with almost no new addition. It's terrible.
I thought it would be interesting so I kept watching it and then still nope, nothing. There were some additions of the characters (even though they were spoiled at the very start), but overall every episode is the same. It's a repetition of the same thing over and over. Of course there is a tiny bit of scenery change, but 99% of the time everything happens in main character's apartment.
The idea might be nice overall and juiced into something better, but the creators literally have no fkn imagination, not that they don't have it, but they have negative points on imagination stat. Watch something else, please for the love of yourself.
I thought it would be interesting so I kept watching it and then still nope, nothing. There were some additions of the characters (even though they were spoiled at the very start), but overall every episode is the same. It's a repetition of the same thing over and over. Of course there is a tiny bit of scenery change, but 99% of the time everything happens in main character's apartment.
The idea might be nice overall and juiced into something better, but the creators literally have no fkn imagination, not that they don't have it, but they have negative points on imagination stat. Watch something else, please for the love of yourself.
The Helpful Fox Senko-san
Tweekums5 July 2019
Salaryman Kuroto Nakano leads a tiring and stressful life with long hours. When he finishes work he returns to an empty apartment. Then one day when he gets home he is greeted by what appears to be a young girl... with fox ears and a tail! She explains that she is actually and eight hundred year old demigod and she has come from the spirit world to help relieve his stress. She cooks for him, tidies his apartment and even lets him fluff her tail... something she finds mildly embarrassing. Strangely Kuroto has a feeling that he has met Senko before but can't remember when. Over the course of the series Senko meets Kuroro's neighbour, Yasuko Koenji, an aspiring manga artist who assumes Senko is a cosplayer. They are also regularly visited by Shiro, another fox spirit Senko's age and occasionally by the much older, and rather seductive Yozora.
This is one of those series where not much happens but leave you with a warm feeling inside. You don't need a stressful life like Kuroto to sympathise with his initial situation and understand why Senko makes him happy. Senko is an utterly adorable character and it is refreshing that there is nothing sexual about her relationship with Kuroto... his desire to stroke her tail is because it is soft and fluffy. There aren't too many characters and all of the main ones are likeable and fun to watch. The animation is good and the characters have distinctive; the fox demigods are particularly cute. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to anybody wanting a feel good anime series.
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.
This is one of those series where not much happens but leave you with a warm feeling inside. You don't need a stressful life like Kuroto to sympathise with his initial situation and understand why Senko makes him happy. Senko is an utterly adorable character and it is refreshing that there is nothing sexual about her relationship with Kuroto... his desire to stroke her tail is because it is soft and fluffy. There aren't too many characters and all of the main ones are likeable and fun to watch. The animation is good and the characters have distinctive; the fox demigods are particularly cute. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to anybody wanting a feel good anime series.
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.
Bad
tonytruong-024906 October 2020
Love it
TheSquareTiger13 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
So I watched this 2 years ago or last year and this was so cute, though I wish they continued doing the anime but understand that it was done at Kyoto Animation studios and will miss everyone who was involved in the tragic arson attack at Kyoto Animations Studio, what else is to say than definitely recommending this anime if you haven't seen it.
Story starts with a salaryman named Kuroto Nakano and he gets tired and stressed with work and as he comes home one night, he notices a fox girl/ spirit called Senko and she tells him that she's there to cook food and help around the house and basically look after him, then they hang out after this and Nakano gets used to having Senko San around until one day Senko leaves for good but then decides to come back and also each episode has a short video at the end so don't skip the end, the video basically puts you as Nakano and can imagine Senko talking to you.
Story starts with a salaryman named Kuroto Nakano and he gets tired and stressed with work and as he comes home one night, he notices a fox girl/ spirit called Senko and she tells him that she's there to cook food and help around the house and basically look after him, then they hang out after this and Nakano gets used to having Senko San around until one day Senko leaves for good but then decides to come back and also each episode has a short video at the end so don't skip the end, the video basically puts you as Nakano and can imagine Senko talking to you.
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