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I have so many issues with this series, yet - I still enjoyed it immensely.

To start - they never established why the Kaiju Eugenicists want to destroy humanity. Why would they do that in the first place? If Kaiju are born of human emotions, wouldn't Kaiju also be destroyed if that happened? Why are the main characters so comparatively chill w/ the villains who genuinely want to destroy the entire human race? How come none of them even ask why they're doing this???

I had a hard time caring about the main plot of the series to be honest, they never really established any kind of ... stakes here, it didn't feel as urgent or world ending as Gridman. Because of that, I found the fight scenes to be kind of underwhelming and wished they would get back to the developing relationships of the characters instead. The entire reason I kept watching is because the characters and character designs were excellent. There were no characters in the whole serious who i mixed up with one another, which is a rarity in modern anime. The eyes on the characters alone were distinctive and detailed. The relationship between Minami and Yomogi was sweet and developed really well, and the plot with Minami's sister was really well done. It's remarkable that a series like this was able to develop its characters more in 12 episodes than a show like My Hero Academia has w/ any of its characters in 5 seasons.

If the characters weren't so likeable, I would be rating this series significantly lower. The plot makes little to no sense, and the villains themselves have no revealed motivation for doing literally anything. That said, the band of misfits roped together by Gauma (an excellent character and design) is charming and made the series worth it. While individually I would rank a lot of aspects of this series fairly low, strung together it creates a charming if ultimately disappointing series.

My rating is pretending as if the show stops after episode 7 (which is what you should watch up to). The initial chemistry and setup is a total blast, and the way Hori and Miyamura come together is unbelievably cute. People seem to be complaining about a lack of a gimmick or something but something a lot of anime fans might not realize is that falling in love in real life doesn't actually mean you have to have a deep seated promise since childhood or used to fight each other all the time or have some kind of magical fated bond. Sometimes people are just ... attracted to each other, and things go from there. Real people aren't actually that interesting a lot of the time - so honestly it was refreshing to see our two leads, despite having their own trials and awkward reconciliations, be honestly very normal. Ishikawa's arc was also sweet at times.

that being said, the rest of the supporting cast was not terribly interesting, which is why I'm choosing to ignore the episodes after 7, because they focus primarily on characters who are not the main two and who are very hard to care about. Further, in these later episodes, the conflicts between the romantic leads become harder to understand and honestly just boring. It's as if the show switched writers or something, because the tone completely shifts and the quality just declines from there.

Still giving this a 7 because of how adorable the first half of the show is.

this is literally anime dawsons creek. dawsons creek rules if you're not a total rube so this anime also rules

melodramatic, self aware, and centering around a group of high school students discovering their sexuality? especially around two teens who were close as children but now have awkward sexual tension now that theyre older? is this sounding familiar?

introducing an arc where a student and teacher are somewhat involved in like the first few episodes? overly supportive parents for the main character? new blonde girl from out of town causing a rift between the two childhood friends? this is dawsons creek.

ok ok in all seriousness - ... the sum of its parts make this show uniquely enjoyable, it's super funny and reasonably well written. if you love this kind of soapy, cringe inducing, brutally honest and awkward romance stuff you will really like this show