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Take your average well-intentioned but misunderstood girl and place her in a friendship with one of the most popular boys in class, and what do we have? Despite the general cliched feeling the anime originally gives off, Kimi ni Todoke is actually quite a pleasant but at times exceptionally frustrating anime with, yeah, a couple of cliches but quite an emotional feeling and absorbing cast, especially when it comes to the supporting cast.

Our protagonist is naive but generally a wholehearted person, which at times proves irritating due to the problems her lack of self esteem and ability to misunderstand everything cause. Despite this, the ... supporting cast makes up for it more than enough, while providing comedic relief and all-round humor to the anime, and the supporting cast quite honestly push the anime that little bit further.

We follow Sawako (mistakenly nicknamed Sadako) as she originally sets out to befriend her classmates and attempts to follow Shota's (her eventual love interest) example of being a 'popular, refreshing person.' Eventually, she goes on to try to pursue a relationship with Shota. Despite the general simplicity of the plot, there are an endless amount of interferences and misunderstandings between the two, which causes this anime to be really, really frustrating to the point of me cringing whenever they attempt to talk to each other.

The art, particularly the background art, had a very soft feeling, as though the characters were in a watercolour painting, which gave the anime a very delicate beautiful feeling, especially combined with the fragile soundtrack and the scene of the anime. I will admit everything was pieced together beautifully, the music, the art and the characters fitted together like a jigsaw, the animation was fluid and the voice acting was quite good.

In the end, despite how angry i can get at the characters, I've already watched this anime twice and will again someday. It's quite a precious thing to watch and you will grow quite attached to it - felling quite satisfied with the ending, but a little sad to see it go.