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Miru Tights (みるタイツ)

Miru Tights (みるタイツ) is a Japanese original net animation (ONA) series produced in 2019 by the studio Yokohama Animation Lab, in which three high school girls go about everyday life while the camera dwells on their tights. It consists of twelve episodes of about four minutes each, plus a thirteenth cosplay-themed special episode, and was created from the illustrations of the artist Yom rather than from a manga or novel.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Original net animation, 12 episodes of about 4 minutes plus a 13th special episode²^•¹
Original run	May 11, 2019 to July 27, 2019²
Original creator	Yom, from his tights-themed doujinshi Yomu Tights³
Director / script	Yuuki Ogawa (director); Fumiaki Maruto (series composition and script)⁴
Studios	Animation by Yokohama Animation Lab; production by TRUSS⁴
Main cast	Haruka Tomatsu (Ren), Yoko Hikasa (Yua), Aya Suzaki (Homi), Ai Kayano (Yuiko)¹
Genre	Ecchi slice of life centered on tights, legs, and feet²

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Premise

The series opens on a rainy April morning at the start of a new school year, when high school students Ren Aikawa, Yua Nakabeni, and Homi Moegi discover they are in the same class again. Each episode is a short vignette of their daily life, with the presentation of tights as the constant focus: rain-soaked tights wrung out at the shoe lockers, cosplay selfies, changing for swim club, working a cafe shift, studying, and a Valentine's episode.¹^•⁵

The three leads have distinct dispositions that the writing ties to their legwear. Ren is the serious one and works part-time at a cafe; Homi is the cheerful girl from a wealthy family who likes jumping in puddles on rainy days; Yua devotes herself to cosplay and posts photos to a large Twitter following. Their homeroom teacher, Yuiko Okuzumi, appears in several episodes and is the main character of one of them.⁶^•⁵

Characters and cast

Ren Aikawa (藍川レン), voiced by Haruka Tomatsu, the earnest member of the trio who works at a cafe.¹
Yua Nakabeni (中紅ユア), voiced by Yoko Hikasa, an enthusiastic cosplayer active on social media.¹
Homi Moegi (萌黄ホミ), voiced by Aya Suzaki, the lighthearted rich girl of the group.¹
Yuiko Okuzumi (奥墨ユイコ), voiced by Ai Kayano, the girls' homeroom teacher.¹

Origin

The project began with Yom, an illustrator who had built a large following with tights-themed artwork. At a friend's suggestion he published a doujinshi (self-published fanzine) of tights illustrations titled Yomu Tights, and its popularity led to the offer of an anime adaptation. Yom recalled in an interview that he initially had only illustrations and no story, which is why the anime was built around an original script.³ The official website and Twitter account opened on December 29, 2018, with the main staff announced the same day.⁷

Production and staff

Fumiaki Maruto, known as the author of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, wrote the series composition and scripts, and director Yuuki Ogawa had made his directorial debut on Saekano itself; Ogawa described series director Kanta Kamei as his mentor and said Kamei introduced him to Yokohama Animation Lab, the studio producing the series.³ Yukari Hibino handled character design and Shade composed the music.⁴ Each episode closed with an illustration card by a different guest artist, including Yom himself, Hidari, NOCO, 40-hara, and Hisasi.⁸

The tights themselves received unusual attention. The main characters wear subtly different tights in color and thickness, and the animation renders sheerness, gloss, texture, and runs in detail; the voice actresses even wore tights during post-recording sessions.⁵^•⁹

Release and availability

The twelve main episodes ran from May 11 to July 27, 2019, and the thirteenth episode, Cosplay Satsuei Tights (a cosplay photoshoot story), followed as a special; the Blu-ray box was released on August 23, 2019.²^•¹ In Japan the series was offered through d Anime Store, the niconico Channel, and Video Market.¹ A German Blu-ray edition from polyband anime followed on July 10, 2026, rated FSK 16, with a German dub and a roughly 40-minute compilation cut of the thirteen episodes in addition to the roughly 65-minute episode run.⁵ Availability elsewhere has been limited; as of 2026, JustWatch lists purchase options in Germany but no free streaming options.¹⁰

Reception

Reviewers generally treated the series as competent genre entertainment with a narrow appeal. A German retrospective praised the friendship of the three leads, the detailed tights animation, and the German dub, while judging that the heavy ecchi focus limits the audience to viewers already interested in the subject.⁵ An English review rated it a solid 7/10 and noted the series' real Twitter accounts for the main girls, which extended scenes from the episodes onto social media.⁶ A Japanese reviewer gave it 50/100, admiring the obsessive variety of tights depictions across the twelve episodes while finding the situations increasingly niche.¹¹

Namesakes

The title is easily confused with two unrelated Japanese properties. Miru: Paths To My Future (未ルわたしのみらい) is a 2025 anthology television anime produced by Yanmar Holdings about encounters between people and a robot, made by five animation studios and broadcast from April 2, 2025.¹² FIGHTERS MIRU is the paid official video channel of the Nippon-Ham Fighters baseball team.¹³ Neither has any connection to Miru Tights.

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Anime and manga › Anime series, episodes, and franchises › OVAs, ONAs, and streaming-original anime

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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