Nazo no Kanojo X

Not going to lie, this is one of my new favorite anime. I kind of love the idea of two lovers being able to share their inner feelings by swapping spit....and by that I don't mean kissing, like they actually stick their fingers in eachothers' mouths and tastes eachothers' spit. This can lead to interesting situations like the girl understanding the guys inner thoughts about her, and the guy knowing when something makes his girlfriend happy.

Great animation and recognizable character designs. Urabe especially from what I've seen has a little cult following with loads of fanart and fan edits.

Anime with a romance concept that is different from the others, very unique actually, but maybe this anime won't be suitable for everyone according to me, because yes, as simple as sharing saliva it is really strange, anyway I wanted to stop even in episode 1 and it was still in the middle because I felt a little disgusted and freaked out by urabe Makoto's attitude, but I tried to watch it until it was over, it's better but I can't really enjoy the romance, maybe for other people it can be more suitable, until the end I felt like it was lacking, but there ... are positive things that I can conclude, first, every important scene is animated, the visuals are made really good, but after that it's back like other early 2000s anime, this anime is not for me, haven't I read the manga or for example the follow-up s2, like the bokuyaba anime for example but in this bokuyaba anime the character development is good, hah most of the time I think, the point is this anime is okay if you want to watch it, but if you want to skip it, just watch something else, maybe if there is a s2 the chemistry between urabe and tsubaki will be more formed and more enjoyable maybe watching it, but I don't expect much from an anime released 12 years ago, back to each preference anyway, watch it okay, don't watch it too, yes I can't say much because there's nothing to say too, the point is try watching it but if it's not strong just stop, that's all from me, hopefully it will be useful for those who read, (like there will be someone who reads my comments hahaha)

TL;DR: The anime is weird and not in a good way. If focuses far too heavily on a saliva based kink (which involves 0 kissing) and if you aren't interested in that kink it can be hard to watch. The story and characters themselves seem interesting enough however if you aren't interested in the kink I would recommend just staying clear of it because the anime traps you in to thinking there is growth but there never comes any.

So let's get in to it, I stumbled upon this anime through the random function of a site and the first episode is fairly interesting and leads ... you wondering what exactly is going on. At some point we see the fetish rear its ugly head as the main character who's alone at school decides to lick the drool of a fellow classmates desk.

This show then takes a weird turn as the female classmate knows he licked her drool because he's sick, and the reason he's been sick? Because he's in love and hasn't tasted her spit in 2 weeks. Wait, what? So this must have some type of mythical aspects to it, interesting. Each others spit also allows each other to feel/see each others memories, dreams, feelings. She then starts swapping spit with another female in their class. When they first swap spit the female gains the same injuries of the other. Very mysterious indeed.... the problem is that the anime never actually elaborates on this, everyone else is normal, there is nothing mysterious at all going on other some very weird things that are never explained and have no reason to be in the anime other than just being there.

The main character in this anime ends up just being very creepy; he essentially stalked his middle school crush, he saves her hair, he licked drool off of a desk, and essentially se*ually assaults his girlfriend. He's controlling and jealous and doesn't actually show any real redeeming qualities.

On the other side his girlfriend also makes no sense. She doesnt allow him to touch her; no hand holding, hugging, kissing, hand around shoulders, etc... but she openly allows him to grab her breast in an episode no big deal. Early on she tells him she had a dream about how they will have sex and they start dating, but soon after they start dating a guy in their class asks her out and they start swapping spit, no big deal.

In general, the entire show is a complete mess that makes absolutely no sense and even though the anime could have been good, the amount of spit swapping and talking of drool largely holds back this anime for anyone who doesn't have this fetish, the ridiculous situations that aren't explained at all, and the fact there's essentially no character growth hold this back from being good.