Himouto! Umaru-chan

Description

In public, Umaru Doma appears to be the perfect high school student: hard-working, refined, and totally responsible. But the minute she gets home to her older brother Taihei--and dons her famous hamster hoodie--she devolves into the ultimate bratty little sister! She’s happy to roll around all day in an otaku cloud of games and junk food while her exhausted older brother takes care of everything in the house. In this hilarious comedy about family, friendship, and the nonsense we put up with (from the people we love), Umaru and Taihei will find a way to make it work!

Type

Manga

Related Series

Himouto! Umaru-chan S (Spin-Off)

Akita Imokko! Ebina-chan (Side Story)

Himouto! Umaru-chan SS (Spin-Off)

Himouto! Umaru-chan G (Sequel)

Associated Names

Himouto! Umaruchan

ตัวแสบแอบเกรียน อุมารุจัง

干物妹!うまるちゃん

干物妹小埋

我家有个鱼干妹

我家有個魚乾妹

건어물 여동생 우마루짱

Groups Scanlating

Dragon and Griffin Scans

Latest Release(s)

v.12 c.107 by Nekomancer 2 years ago

v.12 c.206 by Nekomancer 3 years ago

v.12 c.205 by Nekomancer 3 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

12 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1)

Ends at Vol 4, Chap 68 (S1) / Vol 5, Chap 87 (OVA 2) / Vol 8, Chap 139 (S2) Skips chapters

User Reviews

N/A

Forum

2 topics, 2 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7.6 / 10.0 (227 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.45 / 10.0

23%

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17%

Last Updated

July 11th, 2024 1:54pm PDT - 1 year ago

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Genre

Comedy School Life Seinen Slice of Life
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Author(s)

Sankaku Head

Artist(s)

Sankaku Head

Year

2013

Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Young Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Seven Seas (12 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #590

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Monthly Pos #1112

(-441)

3 Month Pos #2212

(-1584)

6 Month Pos #3967

(-1037)

Year Pos #4832

(-1813)

List Stats

On 1873 reading lists

On 452 wish lists

On 114 completed lists

On 81 unfinished lists

On 265 custom lists

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Himouto! Umaru-chan Ends in 3 Chapters

8 years ago

"Himouto! Umaru-chan" TV Anime Gets 2nd Season

9 years ago

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This work is apparently semi-autobiographical, as revealed this month (Dec 2025) on authors YouTube channel.

by MangaAccount74933
2 weeks ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

So, apparently Umaru is based on the mangakas actual little sister, and is a distilled and perhaps somewhat exaggerated (i.e. "cartoonified") representation of their relationship from when she was in high school, etc. There is a cropped IRL photo of her wearing an Umaru shirt in Volume 11 of the manga.

This would mean Taihei (the older brother character) is the author's self-insert.

The author kept this all a secret until this month (December 2025) when he revealed the information in a youtube video he uploaded on his personal channel. This also retroactively explains why he would crash out at people who had drawn violent/guro doujinshi about Umaru. I'm sure that being an otaku himself and understanding the fan industry, he wanted to contain himself but couldn't because of who the character represented in his heart.

She (the real "Umaru") apparently had a terminal illness and died in 2017, a few years after the first season of the anime came out. It seems she likely wasn't able to watch the second season of the anime, or perhaps not all of it, since the second season didn't finish airing until December of 2017 itself.

It appears her brother wasn't able to keep the manga going after her death. Serialization ended in late 2017, the same period she died, and around when the second season of the anime was airing. Whether it ended as planned or was ended early due to his grief over the loss of his muse is uncertain. 12 volumes is pretty long for this style of manga.

I'm glad she was able to read most of the manga and watch the anime to see his feelings about her. I wonder how she really felt about Umaru being a compact version of her and how she was seen through her older brother's "otaku-eyes." I'm sure we'll never know the details, but I'm also sure she felt loved.

This puts a new light on this work and the mangakas feelings for his little sister. I had watched the anime before but never read the manga. I decided to read the manga to experience it from this newly informed perspective. I will also re-watch the anime.

Out of respect for the dead and who this character represents, and me being a giga-imouto-fan (yes, despite having a real little sister and knowing it's not all sunshine and roses and perfect wholesome platonic love), I'm setting aside my personal critical feelings about various details of the work and giving this a 10.

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One of the Best

by hitnty
11 years ago

Rating: 9.2 / 10.0

a great series about a reliable brother and a selfish two-face sister with no wincest. The comedy mostly revolve around the sister doing otaku thing and being a pain in her brother side, while also making the cutest chibi ever. only bad thing is that the chapters are really short, but it doesnt stop it from having great moment along with a little bonding between the siblings.
In the end it is funny, extremely cute, and sometimes very heartwarming.

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So damn cute

by harrysoung
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

alphaGulp is trying to troll the living crap out of everyone reading his review.

This is NOT Oreimo (season 2). It's a slice of life manga that details the relationship between two siblings, NO romance involved. There's love, yes, but not between man and woman but onii-chan and imouto.

It's a legitimate, sweet piece of work that is read for the comedy/cute factor.

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Does not contain incest

by naeddyr
12 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

Unlike other reviews here, I didn't find the brother-sister relationship in Himouto particularly incestuous, even in comparison with just normal manga. Himouto! Umaru-chan is definitely not for people who like incest. There is nearly zero fan-service, the little sister is not sexualised (though side-characters, like her friend who has a crush on the brother, are a bit), 80% of the pages are devoted to chibified gags about the little sister's laziness... In all honesty, the review below is either very mistaken, trolling or just overly sensitive to any brother-sister relationships, which leads to a knee-jerk reaction.

Himouto is a rare-ish brother-sister gag manga without incestuous undertones; the sister's and brother's relationship is mostly a guardian-child one.

Mainly the story is just cute. Not laugh-out-loud funny (at least until now), but I don't particularly mind spending the time reading it.

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