Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

What is Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid about?

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is a TV anime series of 13 episodes animated by Kyoto Animation, adapted from a manga. It aired from January 12, 2017 to April 6, 2017. AniList classifies it as comedy, fantasy and slice of life.

Synopsis from AniList, which credits Funimation. The summary above it is written by FreeAnime.xyz from AniList's data.

Themes AniList users associate with it: Found Family, Anthropomorphism, Dragons, Monster Girl, Family Life, Cute Girls Doing Cute Things, Female Protagonist, Primarily Female Cast, Maids, Magic.

Main characters

Characters AniList lists in a main role, with spoiler-free notes.

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  Kobayashi 小林

  Main character

  Kobayashi is a computer programmer and office worker. She finds herself living with a dragon named Tohru. Even though Kobayashi maintains a cool demeanor, she has been regarded as kind-hearted and reliable among her friends and colleagues.

  Japanese voice: Mutsumi Tamura

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  Tohru トール

  Main character

  Tohru is a female dragon with the ability to transform into a human girl. After Kobayashi rescues her, she falls in love with her and decides to work for her as a maid.

  Japanese voice: Yuuki Kuwahara

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  Kanna Kamui カンナカムイ

  Main character

  Tohru's friend from the dragon realm who got exiled from her world and wound up living with Kobayashi as well. She is very young by dragon standards, equivalent to a primary school student, which she attends as a third-year student bearing Kobayashi's surname later in the series.

  Japanese voice: Maria Naganawa

Supporting characters

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  Fafnir ファフニール

  Supporting character

  An old friend of Tohru, he is a male dragon with a strong distrust for humans which leads to him questioning much of Tohru's actions and ideals in his earlier appearances. He shares some resemblance to the traits of his namesake, such as his cold demeanour and disdainful mentality.

  Japanese voice: Daisuke Ono

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  Riko Saikawa 才川リコ

  Supporting character

  Riko Saikawa is Kanna's friend and classmate in elementary school. A running gag involves her becoming overwhelmingly flushed with bliss every time she and Kanna make physical contact, along with her shiny forehead.

  Japanese voice: Emiri Katou

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  Shouta Magatsuchi 真ヶ土翔太

  Supporting character

  Shouta Magatsuchi is a young boy born into a family of mages in the modern world. He has shown to possess enough knowledge on the arcane arts to attempt summoning a demon. Lucoa came out of a summoning portal Shouta created and starts living with him.

  Japanese voice: Kaori Ishihara

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  Quetzalcoatl ケツァルコアトル

  Supporting character

  Quetzalcoatl often referred to as Lucoa, is a former dragon goddess and an old friend of Tohru. She was exiled from her seat after consuming cursed liquor that led her into a scandalous affair. As a member of the spectating faction, she does not interfere with any events involving the dragons or gods.

  Japanese voice: Minami Takahashi

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  Makoto Takiya 滝谷真

  Supporting character

  Kobayashi's co-worker who is initially believed by Tohru to be a rival for Kobayashi's affections, but is really just an otaku who likes to talk about maids with her. Kobayashi helps him set up during Comiket every year.

  Japanese voice: Yuuichi Nakamura

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  Elma エルマ

  Supporting character

  Elma is a female dragon from the Harmony faction, the opposing faction of Chaos, which Tohru belongs to. She adopts the name Elma Joui as her human alias after she finds that she is unable to return to her world. Elma is the only dragon of the main cast who lives on her own in the human world.

  Japanese voice: Yuuki Takada

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  Georgie Saikawa 才川ジョージー

  Supporting character

  Georgie Saikawa is the older sister of Riko Saikawa. Her real name is Nae Saikawa (才川苗). She likes to pretend to be a housemaid. Georgie wears an orange polka-dot maid outfit with a white apron. She also has a white cap and has her red hair in twin-pigtails. Her stockings are black striped.

  Japanese voice: Yuuko Gotou

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  Damocles ダモクレス

  Supporting character

  Damocles is the father of Tohru and is known as the Emperor of Demise and is considered one of the strongest dragons shown. Damocles is callous and stern, hating humans and viewing them as inferior and evil - a belief he tried to impart on Tohru.

  Japanese voice: Takayuki Sugou

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  Sone 曽根

  Supporting character

  Sone is one of Kobayashi's neighbors.

  Japanese voice: Shinya Takahashi

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  Yana 谷菜

  Supporting character

  Yana is one of Kobayashi's neighbors.

  Japanese voice: Shinya Takahashi

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  Touzoku no Shoujo 盗賊の少女

  Supporting character

  She is a girl that Tohru met back in her world.

  Japanese voice: Haruka Chisuga

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  Kachou 課長

  Supporting character

  AniList has no description for this character yet.

  Japanese voice: Shinya Takahashi