Momokuri

After taking one hundred secret photos and observing him from afar for months, second-year high schooler Yuki Kurihara has finally mustered up the courage to ask out her first-year crush Shinya "Momo" Momotsuki. Although taken by surprise, the bashful Momo accepts; however, he does not know the profoundly abnormal truth. As her strait-laced friend, Norika Mizuyama, has observed, Yuki has developed some unnerving—but nonetheless sincere—habits: taking pictures of Momo in secret, doing extensive research into his personal life, collecting his used straws, and even going "Momo watching."

Though Momo remains blissfully unaware of his new girlfriend's peculiar habits, he does notice some oddities in their daily conversations. Still unsure and nervous about his first relationship, Momo finds himself regularly getting into awkward interactions due to his inexperience, but nevertheless resolves to make his new girlfriend happy.

Momokuri follows Yuki and Momo as they shyly explore their newfound love, and also deal with the problems that arise from it.

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Kurihara, Yuki Main

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Momotsuki, Shinya Main

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Mizuyama, Norika Supporting

Oozora, Naomi Japanese

Shimada, Yuzuki Supporting

Nakaya, Sayaka Japanese

Sakaki, Rio Supporting

Maeda, Rena Japanese

Sawaguchi, Ema Supporting

Takumi, Yasuaki Japanese

Usami, Seiichirou Supporting

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Shizuka, Shouta Supporting

Nagatsuka, Takuma Japanese

Usami, Ikue Supporting

Takeshita, Reina Japanese

Sawaguchi, Rihito Supporting

Yamaya, Yoshitaka Japanese

Shioya, Yoshiyuki Producer

Yoshie, Terushige Producer

Iwamoto, Masako Producer

Morita, Daijirou Producer

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Aug 31, 2016

xXfilthycasualXx

Recommended

tldr; this is a moe anime and it makes you feel moe well, so it's good. 9/10.

This anime ain't gonna make you feel. It ain't gonna make you be amazed with intricate story plots and heart wrenching scenes. This ain't that type of anime.

It's a moe anime. If you're looking to say "d'awww" and be smiling while watching these two lovebirds be shy and cute, this is the anime for you!

Don't listen to the other reviews where they rate it badly because of the lack of story or they don't find an intricate plot where there's not meant to be any. This anime is ... meant to make you smile and have a good time with the moe, and it does that exceedingly well.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jul 26, 2016

MetaThPr4h

Mixed Feelings

You know this type of anime that are so cute that one can't help but say "awww, this is adorable!"? Momokuri is one of it's finest examples.

Yuki Kurihara is a girl that is absolutely obssesed with Momo, mainly just because he's extremely cute due to his short height and a bit girly looking, calling Yuki a stalker doesn't make justice to her character, she knows everything about him: what he does, what he likes and dislikes... all before they start their relationship during the first seconds of the anime and without him knowing about it.

While this might look creepy and the perfect concept for a ... yandere anime, Momokuri focuses in the cute parts of this, and gives us a lighthearted, happy, and absolutely adorable romance between this two characters. The side characters are also pretty good and represent well and realistically their paper of friends of the main duo.

Both art and pretty average, but fit well with the anime, special mention to the opening of the TV version, that I personally like a lot.

If you enjoy lighthearted SoL romances, or you're simply attracted to the "cute stalker girl" that Yuki is, Momokuri is totally worth the try.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 20, 2017

summitsama

Not Recommended

Preliminary (10/26 eps)

Momokuri is just a show that's trying really hard to be the cutest thing you've ever seen. Shy kids having a clumsy relationship full of forced misunderstandings and awkwardness. And that's it. There is nothing else to this show, once sentence is literally all you need to describe everything.

But while it's not depth incarnate, it does succeed in portraying some legitimate heart warming cuteness. At first you may find the gags make you giggle or at least smile. The chibi style drawings are pretty adorable and the voice work is excellent. There's some goofy recorder music ... here and there to add to the joyful ambiance, as in most similar shows.

The problem is that it's just not enough. The jokes are really sparse, and the rest of the show consists of, well, nothing. Inner monologues, casual conversations about casual shit you don't care about, boring characters doing boring normal things. All the "filler" produces no entertainment, and doesn't progress the story, since there is none, really. Even the jokes are problematic, because as time passes, you will realize that you are just watching a slightly different flavor of the same gag.

The characters are pretty much reduced to their gimmick, as is often the case in low quality animes. But they're still decently lovable, so i can tolerate it here. My issue with these characters, as that if you didn't know their school year, you'd have a really hard time speculating on how old they are. Sometimes they act like grade schoolers, sometimes like teens, their appearance is overly childlike. There's no adult characters which sucks some more realism out of the setting.

Don't bother with this, it's just not funny enough for its lack of substance.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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