Nisekoi or False Love is just another cliche animes right there. Its all about promises, girls that are involve to a guy's harem, the guy being oblivious to his crush's feelings for him and fake relationship. What can you expect? Raku Ichijou, a yakuza's father son is forced to have relationship to a rival gang's daughter, Chitoge Kirisaki to avoid war between the two for 3 years. They have this 'hate at first sight' relationship. How can they manage their relationship if his classmate-ex-crush Kosaki Onodera (who likes him too but can't manage to confess her feelings for him) is aware to their relationship? What if everyone finds that out? And what if there would be intruders to their relationship?
Just because this anime is cliche doesn't means that I don't like it. For a romantic comedy anime, SHAFT managed this one. Who remembers Bean Sprout and Gorilla? Shaft did a great job to this one and their phenomenal head tilts are here. If you want rom-com shows, give this one a try. 7/10
Oh what can I say about the art? Fantastic! The animation is vivid and colorful with a taste of slow motion techniques in some scenes. Like what I said, thank you Shaft for animating this one, although it was surprising, you didn't disappoint me. 10/10
The sounds. The OST's are decent and both OP and ED are great. The two Openings (CLICK and STEP) by ClariS are both and very suitable for the series and the ending themes, I personally liked Heart Pattern (by Nao Touyama a.k.a Chitoge) and Hanagonomi (by Kana Asumi a.k.a Marika Tachibana) the other two are also good too, its a pleasure to hear them all.
The voice acting, I thought that Kana Hanazawa did a great job for voicing Onodera. Also, Nao Touyama delivered well Chitoge's tsun-tsun personality and Kana Asumi for Marika's sweet but scary voice. I can't remember clearly Raku and Tsugumi's voice and others but they did a great job and one that stood out in my ears is Yuki Kaji in his pervert role (again) to Shu Maiko. 9/10
Most of the characters didn't developed that well in my opinion.
Raku Ichijou. Always expect to a harem show that the main guy is dense and true indeed to this guy. He may be a jerk often times but he is a jerk with a heart of gold.
Chitoge Kirisaki. Many male viewers hate her for her tsundere personality but the truth is she is just a innocent girl that doesn't know a lot of things about love and she just express her feelings in a violent way. She had the biggest character development throughout the entire series.
Kosaki Onodera. Completely opposite of Chitoge as many male viewers find her cute and charming. She is just like Raku that is oblivious to his feelings for her but somehow she's a girl that will inspire you.
Tsugumi Seishirou. Another tsundere character that is in denial to her true feelings. Because her appearance is becoming lesser as the shows goes by, her development is weak.
Marika Tachibana. Your sweet and classic girl that is expressive to her feelings but the truth is she is fragile and scary inside. But still, you will like her. 9/10
I enjoyed this anime a lot though the characters didn't had the development that I wanted and also, this may be irrelevant to the story but the Paper Plane in the OP sequence... I remembered its manga's one-shot story. Just sayin'
Overall, Nisekoi is focused on how relationship grows and how you relate your self by the characters here. If you noticed grammar mistakes here, just let met know because I can't calm when I'm typing this. Anyways, again if you love romantic comedy animes that is wrapped in an harem anime, give this one a shot, because the episodes will sure surprise you. 8/10
