I feel as if this is the most realistic romantic comedy/drama anime I've seen. I'm not sure about how realistically the amnesia is handled, but it felt real enough to fool a person like me who knows little to nothing about it. The best thing I can take away from this anime is that you can have realistic emotions and characters portrayed in a story without it being overly dramatic or boring.
Characters -
They are brash, impulsive, stupid and most importantly flawed. They feel like real life people. Imperfect real people who know exactly what to do at times and have no clue how to handle things at times. Sometimes those actions pay off and sometimes they don't just like in real life.
Relationships -
The relationships between friends and lovers is handled realistically as well. There are no forced situations between them and they handle situations in a mature manner and sometimes in a not so mature manner, again just like in real life. Also, it's refreshing to see characters act their age.
Story -
The story is well written and the screenplay is great, but there are times when you feel like nothing is happening and they could've easily done away with it, but I feel that it added to the feeling of the character's life being mundane at times. The pacing seemed fine although I feel that there was a lot of repetitive dialogue between the characters where they discussed exactly the same thing they did a few episodes ago. Again, I feel it added to the realness of the relationship and characters where in real life we too often discuss the same things over and over again.
Animation and music -
Animation is top notch and so is the voice acting. I didn't care much for the music though, but I think the background score was good enough.
Enjoyment -
I thoroughly enjoyed the journey of Tada Banri and the people around him. What I got sick of was him saying his name over and over and over again.
Final thoughts -
To me the story and characters felt real unlike in most anime where you know that this situation would never take place or a character would never do anything like that. That doesn't mean that it was boring and/or devoid of joy, it was anything but that.
