It however is far from 'only' being a love, love, love and romance series. It's way more than that. Throughout the review I'll explain the 'why' to you; as well as other dislikes and likes about this Anime so you can watch or not watch this Anime with a determined heart.
I started Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~ with no particular expectations; I was open minded and neutral. The first episodes seemed to be fairly interesting; as it had a lot of things I liked about it. It was animated nicely; had comedy that made me laugh and a bunch of interesting characters.
I swiftly changed to the second episode after the fist episode finished; and after that swifted on and on until I finished the series.
The thing about this series is that it's so well worked out; it's scary.
There are no highlights at all. Just episode 01 to episode 25 being pure enjoyment. There was development however; so it wasn't anything utterly useless.
The comedy is great; especially this weird yellow fluffy thing (won't tell what it is, I don't want to spoil things now would I?).
There were events in school; funny ones by that. There were no complaints about Tokimeki Memorial; who had both romance and comedy brought out into a funny story. There was no particular story; just a guy being transferred to a school where he falls in love, same as some girls fall in love with him.
The concept is easy to get and doesn't expects much of you; it just wants you to sit back and enjoy. Which is what I did.
But was there really nothing to dislike about this series?
There sure were. Some episodes were sort of crappy; some episodes were sort of lame. However, in overall it was good.
There was just ONE thing that bothered me incredibly.
The feeling that you've wasted time. Even though the Anime is pretty good and enjoyable; I did feel like I've wasted time. You start a series, and once watching it want certain things to happen or appear. However, Tokimeki Memorial didn't gave me this; no reward for following this through for 25 episodes.
The ending, is not what I wanted it to be. The title makes sense if you've watched and completed the series. So if you don't like bad endings; don't watch the series, or watch it until episode 23 or so. For any other Anime fan out there; this relax series is fun and can fill your time with ease without problems. So this is definitely worth checking out for almost anyone.
