Citrus

During the summer of her freshman year of high school, Yuzu Aihara's mother remarried, forcing her to transfer to a new school. To a fashionable socialite like Yuzu, this inconvenient event is just another opportunity to make new friends, fall in love, and finally experience a first kiss. Unfortunately, Yuzu's dreams and style do not conform with her new ultrastrict, all-girls school, filled with obedient shut-ins and overachieving grade-skippers. Her gaudy appearance manages to grab the attention of Mei Aihara, the beautiful and imposing student council president, who immediately proceeds to sensually caress Yuzu's body in an effort to confiscate her cellphone.

Thoroughly exhausted from her first day, Yuzu arrives home and discovers a shocking truth—Mei is actually her new step-sister! Though Yuzu initially tries to be friendly with her, Mei's cold shoulder routine forces Yuzu to begin teasing her. But before Yuzu can finish her sentence, Mei forces her to the ground and kisses her, with Yuzu desperately trying to break free. Once done, Mei storms out of the room, leaving Yuzu to ponder the true nature of her first kiss, and the secrets behind the tortured expression in the eyes of her new sister.

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Aihara, Yuzu Main

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Aihara, Mei Main

Tsuda, Minami Japanese

Taniguchi, Harumi Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Mizusawa, Matsuri Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Tachibana, Sara Supporting

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Momokino, Himeko Supporting

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Tachibana, Nina Supporting

Matsuzaki, Rei Japanese

Aihara, Shou Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Aihara, Ume Supporting

Ueda, Kana Japanese

Maruta, Kayo Supporting

Hayama, Ikumi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Nagatani, Takayuki Producer

Kaneko, Hirotaka Producer

Oomori, Shinji Producer

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Jan 21, 2024

Alchemitsu

Recommended

This anime will always be my guilty pleasure. The relationship between Mei and Yuzu is so good(in a toxic way) and I forever defend the anime adaptation. The pacing is solid with consistent fan service and lovers quarrels to keep viewers engaged. The character cast is fine, albeit underdeveloped (besides Yuzu and Mei). Yuzu is extremely well developed and her mission to understand her and Mei's feelings is very genuine an beautiful. Mei is a bit more linear, being the 2nd protagonist, but this is not to say she does not make significant changes over the course of the show. The first "antagonist" is meh ... but not great and the 2nd one is downright filler and is only their to force a divide in the romance. The show is strongest when its focusing on the romance and not external situations. Many discuss the ethics and morality of Yuzu and Mei's relationship, and while I understand the thought, this is a show meant to portray an unrealistic and taboo love. Attempting to morally condemn the show is a misunderstanding of the point. To conclude, this show just does everything for me, and while I understand the hate, I just cannot bring myself to not love this one. Overall: not for everyone, but a favorite of mine.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 11, 2024

Dii8

Mixed Feelings

This is absolute beutiful in therms of animations, characters, style, and that's why i liked it .
About the story, this anime is about 2 girls who fall in love, and that's ok!! but the fact that they are sisters but went for it, is crazy, and as i watched it there was scenes that made me realize that this anime was made by mens and FOR mens, as some scenes in the middle of the story didn't had to be there and it was just so people stick more(bc the scenes are mostly sexualized). Besides that, this anime is good, great animation, the develope ... of the characters is good, the places are beutiful.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Dec 24, 2024

Neremeno

Not Recommended

I'm going to write this review coming from the manga, a manga which I liked in spite of its flaws, in spite of its disturbing aspects.

In a nutshell, the manga tells the tumultuous relationship between two very different high school girls:
- Yuzu is a deeply kind girl, capable of selfless acts but still immature and somewhat fragile emotionally. She also has some rebellious streak and is depicted as a gyaru at school.
- Mei is a very disturbed girl, who was taught to bury her own sense of self and to always behave according to her environment's expectations. She's shown to be talented, rigid and uncaring, ... but she's also self-loathing and cut from her own emotions.

Although some of those points aren't obvious at the beginning of the story, they explain most of the toxic aspects of their relationship: Yuzu perceives early on that Mei is in distress but the way she tries to help is often awkward, and her own feelings toward Mei tend to confuse the issue even more. Mei robotically acts according to what she believes Yuzu desires, but brutally backpedals as soon as it brushes her inner stuggle, or fails to understand the consequences of her actions. Yuzu is hurt, forgives, bouces back to action. Rince and repeat until Mei's truth is laid bare.

Unfortunatly, the anime misses every mark and re-interprets all of the protagonists' actions in a simplistic way that destroys whatever depth the original story had.

Yuzu is reduced to a dumb and klutzy girl. All the complex and toxic situations that happened because of Yuzu's and Mei's clashing personalities are turned into Yuzu's mere blunders.

Mei is no longer a tortured teenager unable to cry for help, and that hurts Yuzu to avoid acknowledging her own struggle… Instead, she's just a bright girl that harasses Yuzu for no reason, or as retaliation for the other girl's blunders (or shock value, or fan service, take your pick).

In other words, anime's Mei is just a "perfect" girl and everything is anime's Yuzu's fault. And because of that, the anime loses everything that made the story interesting. In a way, it's fortunate that it cut the story short and adapted only the beginning of the manga… Otherwise it'd have quickly become obvious that it had no story to tell, nowhere to go.

If it's not too late, don't waste your time with this pathetic excuse for a yuri story and go read the original manga. It's noticeably more disturbing, but the characters have depth, evolve and converge in a well-thought ending.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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