So I’ve seen mixed reviews about this anime. Some people love it, some people hate it. I can understand both perspectives. However, since I watched this and enjoy reviewing anime, I thought I’d give my opinion on it for anyone who cares to listen. It should be evident from my score that I will not be recommending this anime, so if you’re a fan and don’t want to hear me hate on it, stop reading right now.
Please note that I will be rating this based on my personal feelings. I do not weigh everything equally (Story and characters are weighed more than art and sound). This is a biased review. If you want an unbiased score then, well, you're out of luck because there's no such thing as an unbiased review.
Plot: 2/10
The plot makes no sense. Now, if this was nothing but a straight hentai, that would be fine. You don’t need to have a plot that makes sense when the only thing that matters is how good the sex is. But this anime is trying to inject some drama into this. That’s what sets it apart from, say, Sono Hanabira (also Sono Hanabira is just better in general). However, the drama is forced and retarded. The main drama stems from when the main character walks in on her girlfriend fucking her brother. We later learn that she fucked her brother because he asked her to. But she knew that, were the MC to see this, she’d flip out. She knew she was being an idiot and betraying her girlfriend’s trust in her. And who the hell says “yeah, I know you’re my brother and I’m going out with someone else, but let’s go ahead and have sex with each other anyways. I mean it’s not like she’d find out.” You could argue that that’s just her personality, but the show tries to play it so that we’ll feel sorry for her. It doesn’t make any sense. And what about the main character? If she was upset enough to run away and not speak to her, then why would she just be like “whatever, it’s cool”. I mean, there’s literally no consequences for her actions. There’s drama and angst, but nothing comes of it. You would think that if you’re dating someone and then you walk in on them fucking their brother, then that would pretty much destroy the relationship. Anyways, after the main character runs away from her girlfriend some stuff happens and she ends up tied up in the PE shed. As a way of apologizing, her girlfriend ties her up and rapes her. Yes, you read that sentence correctly. And the crazy part is that it actually works. You’d think that raping your partner would just destroy the relationship further, but I guess the author has no clue how human emotions work. That’s the crux of most of the problems with this show. The author doesn’t have any idea how human emotions work.
There’s one more thing I wanted to mention, and that’s the ending. If you’ve read any of my reviews, you’ll know that the ending is the most important thing to me. A bad ending can drop the score from an 8 to a 7, and that’s completely disregarding characters, art, and music. So what happens in the end? Well, basically the main character discovers that she can teleport for some reason and then teleports to her friend. They have some heart to heart and then teleport to another planet and have sex forever and ever. But why can they breathe on that planet? Ignoring the fact that the chances of finding a planet that can support multi-celled organisms is infinitesimally small, there’s the problem of atmosphere. They should not have been able to breathe unless the atmosphere was the same as Earth’s. I personally think it would have been hilarious if the main character had messed up and accidentally teleported them to a planet with an atmosphere made entirely of nitrogen.
Characters: 1/10
The characters in this are so annoying that I would have dropped this if not for the yuri (I have a weak spot for yuri). Their actions are unrealistic, they have less personality than a wooden table, and they’re about as interesting as Kirito. And I don’t mean SAO II Kirito. I mean Kirito from the original SAO. What kind of person says “Yes onii-san, I’ll have sex with you. Nevermind that I already have a girlfriend. I’m sure she won’t care. And I can just make up with her by raping her”? And what’s up with the main character deciding that their relationship is now on it’s way to being healed because she was tied up and raped by the girl who she thought was her trusted girlfriend. You would think that that would destroy their relationship even further wouldn’t you? Even Sword Art Online handed sexual assault with more grace than this anime does.
Art: 5/10
The art isn’t that great, but it isn’t bad either. The girls are cute and that’s really all I care about.
Sound: 5/10
The voice acting was pretty good, as was the music, but neither one of them was spectacular. I can’t remember any of them, which just goes to show how unmemorable the OST for this anime is.
Kuttsukiboshi is an anime that manipulates your brain with fake drama and feels. It’s the kind of anime that you can enjoy if you turn off your brain and just enjoy the yuri. And I completely understand if that what you feel like doing. But if you really want to mindlessly watch some yuri, I’d recommend Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke wo. It’s about 100x better than this anime is and doesn’t unravel when you start to think about it. Unfortunately it’s not as easy to find as it used to be, since it’s been being removed from certain sites, but I think there are still versions out there if you look for them.
