Koi to Yobu ni wa Kimochi Warui (Koikimo)

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Synonyms: It's Too Sick to Call this Love

Japanese: 恋と呼ぶには気持ち悪い

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 5, 2021 to Jun 14, 2021

Premiered: Spring 2021

Broadcast: Mondays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: BS Fuji, Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting, Amusement Media Academy, Ichijinsha, Kanetsu Investment, Sonilude, Toyo Recording, BloomZ, AMG Entertainment, MediaNet Pictures, Christmas Holly, Miyazaki Broadcasting, C-one

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Nomad

Source: Web manga

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Theme: School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.13¹ (scored by 109,737 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #3727²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #1017

Members: 237,847

Favorites: 1,689

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7.13

Ranked #3727Popularity #1017Members 237,847

Episodes: /12

Synopsis

People fall in love in the most mysterious of ways. This statement seems to be especially true for the affluent genius playboy Ryou Amakusa. When he nearly falls off the stairs one rainy morning, a girl named Ichika Arima saves him. As if by fate, Ryou encounters Ichika again later that night; she happens to be the best friend of his little sister, Rio.

Wanting to "thank" her, Ryou attempts to woo Ichika by employing his usual flirtatious tactics only to be immediately shot down, his target creeped out by his behavior. Rather than being discouraged, Ryou instead becomes more enthralled by her, and he begins to do everything he can to steal Ichika's heart despite receiving disgusted reactions each time. However, as time passes by, will Ichika remain repulsed by Ryou's creepy yet dedicated advances?

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Amakusa, Ryou

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Toyonaga, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Arima, Ichika

Main

Kozakai, Yurie
Japanese

Tamaru, Kai

Supporting

Enoki, Junya
Japanese

Amakusa, Rio

Supporting

Hasegawa, Rena
Japanese

Matsushima, Arie

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Masuda

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Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Bartender

Supporting

Amakusa, Zenji

Supporting

Nakata, Jouji
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Saitou, Shunsuke

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Nakayama, Naomi

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Koizumi, Kisuke

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Takayama, Hideki

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Opening Theme

"Monoqlo City (モノクロシティ)" by ACE COLLECTION

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"Rinaria (リナリア)" by Maruritoryuuga (まるりとりゅうが)

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Sep 21, 2023

Grayegoose

Recommended

I just found this show and it's adorable! Yeah, an age difference like that is challenging, especially at those ages, but in another 10 years, it won't matter. I dated someone 28 when I was 18, so I understand her feelings and struggles. If you can get past the age thing, though, it is a really sweet love story! and for all the haters talking about him being a creeper, he was a different person when they first met. He seemed numb to the world and she was his wake-up call. She even called him a creeper up front. Love can change you and for ...

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Apr 23, 2023

mushi_Jyou

Mixed Feelings

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Reason for watching: I went into this thinking it would be more Comedy than Romance, and had thought some negative reviews were exaggerating.
But honestly not much exaggeration.

*Mild spoiler as I do give out the basic premise and gave a general layout of the storyline.

TL;DR at the bottom.

Let me do a quick review and opinion on this:

Visuals: Definitely up my alley. I like the animation of the story, the art style of the animation, the OP, and ED. They are beautiful to me. Of course the animation could be better, but is not like this is some shounen show with lots of action, ...

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Sep 26, 2023

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

It's easy to be offended by a show with a premise like this, but let's just stipulate from the beginning that this is an age gap romance between an adult man and a high school girl. We all know the deal here from the synopsis. If this sort of a thing is a hard no to you, you probably aren't even reading this review. So, taking Koikimo on its own terms, does it succeed at creating a compelling romance? I will spare you the suspense, the answer is an emphatic no.

Before diving into the meat of what went wrong with this series, I think it's ... worth mentioning that the presentation does it no favors. Character designs are bland at best, ugly at worst, and the animation is consistently below average, with characters frequently going off model. This is even worse considering how unambitious the storyboards and layouts are, and the lack of any dynamism or energy from the direction keeps the series feeling listless even when it heads into juicy dramatic waters.

But no amount of inspired direction could have saved this series from its main couple. Yes, male lead Ryo is quite clearly stalking and sexually harassing 17 year old Ichika, but that is not even the fundamental problem here. The real problem is that the series never establishes any sort of convincing reason for why she would suddenly stop being uncomfortable with his behavior and fall in love with him. Really they don't even attempt this. Ryo's behavior ("borderline criminal" in the show's own words) simply continues unabated until a switch flips in Ichika's mind and she somehow realizes she was In Love With Him All Along because she's been Thinking About Him All This Time. It is laughably thin, and combined with their nonexistent romantic chemistry, never gives you any reason to want to see them get together, even if you are into this sort of thing.

The show does briefly threaten to become interesting with the introductions of age appropriate romantic rivals Tamaru (Ichika's classmate) and Arie (Ryo's coworker), but it's no great spoiler to say that they are tin cans being set up only so they can be shot down. The show certainly makes that clear right off the bat. Don't get attached to them, because when they're finished playing their roles as romantic foils, they may as well have vanished into thin air.

The side characters really end up being the oddest part of this whole tapestry, because over the course of the series, many of them find out about Ryo's obsession with Ichika, and every single one of them either accepts it or actively attempts to hook them up, including Ichika's own mother. At the very least they could have included some societal disapproval to put some sauce on the taboo nature of this whole thing, but in the interests of making sure the audience believes that This Whole Thing Is Actually Fine, no character is allowed to utter a word of criticism about any of this. It's both morally troubling AND bereft of any juicy drama that might at least make this soapy and fun.

In the end, I think that's where this series falls the shortest. It is committed to depicting a deeply taboo relationship, but only in the safest ways imaginable. Instead of being shocking or ridiculous, it just feels like any other low effort romcom, but with one of the participants aged up by 10 years. The main couple is extremely boring, both as a pair and as individuals, and if I'm going to ignore my sense of good taste and propriety to watch something like this, I would at least like to be entertained. Instead, Koikimo straddles the fence and ends up being too uncomfortable for normal viewers and too tame for perverts.

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