Kuzu no Honkai is a very mature (basicaly soft-core porn) romance anime set in high school (duh!). In very first episodes you can notice that this is not your average slice of life rom-com with very light and mostly only hinted actual romance.
First impression that this show made on me was quite good, good enough to write my original 9 out of 10 review where I praised finally handling romance rom-com differently. It isn't most genious story out there, simply two high-schoolers having kinda weird crushes so they decided to be each other's substitutes. The way how together with fantastic art and music portlayed it was unique at least. The cast doesn't act as 12 year olds blushing and getting embarrased. Well, actually there is not a lot of anime having so much of intimacy as this.
But is this alone enough for a good anime ? Nope.
After first episodes made you feel very excited about all the possibilities this anime could go, as each new episode, I got more bored and dissapointed. When I initially praised anime for it's way of handling romance, I don't know that this will be only thing handled here and how poorly when inital suprise of "wow they actually kissing" wear off.
I mean seriously, you won't find anything else here. 100% of runtime consist of static characters just talking or thinking about who to f*ck, if they are not doing so. Super-clever looking monologue doesn't help making story deeper than this.
It also won't help that initial pretty innocent premmise of woman MC "I like A but I can't be with A so I will seek banging in B" became in the middle "...So I will date B but I will meanwhile I go to bed with C because why not (yuri FTW!) and will try to f*ck D and make him fall for me and meanwhile A and B..."
It's simply a nonsense. It's so artificial, so unnatural that you quickly stop care about them. Because they simply can not exist in our world. I can more identify with those generic rom-com situations that I was making fun of in my first review. Characters are simply the worst. Almost every one of them. Not just one antagonist, they all just morons thinking only screwing everybody around (literally and also metaphorically). No fun, no develompent, any plot that would hold up that romance. That's also the reason why I don't have much to talk about besides this.
At the end, I must give credits for trying something different, for very good first episodes and for unique art and sound. That's it. As a manga reader, I know that this will go even futher downhill. So if you like this premise and you are masochist, then this is for you, otherwise you are going for mediocre ride at best that won't give you anything that other soft core and hentai can't.
