When I started watching this, judging from the picture at anime newsnetwork, seeing all the girls, while reading the main protagonist is a boy, I expected a harem anime. It was already obvious from the start that Sana and Nanaka were gonna get together. However, in the beginning, it looked a bit like Aoi-chan was in love with Sana too when she was blushing in front of him and such. So the when Sana met Hoshino-san and Nanaka got all jealouse and stuff, it fellt like the starts of just another love triangle. But after a few episodes, I became happily suprised.
Most of the time, 12-13 episode-animes don't really capture me. They're just too short to really get to feel with the characters, but this one did a pretty good job in that. First, it was a nice, enjoyable anime, nothing more though. Things like Nanaka being depressed for unknown reasons, Hinako having a crush on Shuusuke, Shuri bullying the guys and Aoi-chan being way to hyperactive and screaming "Tanoushii this" and "Tanoushii that" with her sqeaky voice got a little annoying after a while, and I started wondering if this was going anywhere.
When Nanaka's past came out, things got a little more interesting, although the scene of Nanaka crying in Sana's arms and Sana saying stuff like "We'll always be together from now on." still felt a little cheesy to me. As for me, the series really started blooming when the Shuu/Shuri-arc started. From that point on, the several plot-twists and character development really surprised me. For example Hoshino-san's story justified a lot of those things that annoyed me earlier on, because they all made sense all of a sudden, plus, because they made it look like a love triangle at first, the truth was an even bigger shock.
In the end, the character I felt most connected with was Shuri, and I felt a strange desire to have a twin brother like Shuusuke. I kinda missed them during the last two episodes. Nevertheless, the ending did satisfy me a little. =]
