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Our Love is always 10 centimeters apart is a romance anime based on characters from a separate movie and other source material, I found this anime on Mal after browsing for good romance anime, I decided to give it a watch, and it was pretty decent, it's definitely not one of the best romance anime tho like Sakurasou, Your Lie in April, Afterstory and all that, but it still looked interesting and had a pretty cool premise. It tells the story of a girl named Miou Aida and a boy named Haruki who have been in love since the first year of highschool one being a painter, the other being a movie director, despite their strong feelings towards each other and spending a lot of time together, their romance doesn't progress because they are both shy when it comes to confessing, plus they always end up with a 10 centimeter space away from each other. They enventually encounter a conflict that changes them, but overcomes it with the help of their friends who are also secretly in love with one another as well. The story was pretty decent and enjoyable, it also had a lot of memorable side characters that I really liked, especially Mr Akechi, that guy is a pretty good adviser for these troubled children. I did find a couple of flaws here that really hindered this animes quality for me. The first a minor one where they use basic troupes like the childhood friend etc for the sidecharacters, and I was expecting actual new unique characters, but oh well we get the troupes and cliches for characters once again. Next up is a big one how the characters are so stupid when it comes to making decisions, imma have to state spoilers from here on out so this is your warning, Aida is fucking stupid so is Haruki, Aida straights up thinks that Haruki will hate her because his dead brother saved her, despite his brother actually being a genuinely good person and seeing it as a massive accomplishment. She blames herself for her brothers death, even tho Haruki's brothers death was because of his frail body and fatal illness, feels like Kaori from your lie in april actually, might be the same disease, since they both where bed ridden and ended up dying there. In terms of Haruki, this man ends up in a conflict where he thinks he actually didn't have a dream and was just pretending to follow and reenact his brothers footsteps, despite him clearly being happy doing it, plus him meeting all this wonderful people that ended up changing his life for the better, seriously tho this guy is a freaking moron, like come on, why did this inner conflict even exist in the first place, is it only because we needed a conflict from the other main character, anime you could have done a much more better job than this. The final flaw that pissed me off the most was the immaturity, while the concept was established to be how hard it is to state your feelings for the person you love while being young, according to my experiences it is the opposite, you both love each other just confess, if it doesn't work out move on its that simple, I'm a person that has gone through a lot of relationships, I have had my heart broken many times over the fast years of my life, never once have I had the difficulty of confessing, the same went for my friends, while at first it was true, but it wasn't to the extend that it was last minute and almost just not possible anymore because of lack of time being in final school years and in fear of separating ways after graduation, seriously I was cringing while they make their decisions and go through the most avoidable problems, like I was screaming on the screen on what to do, and how it was perfectly normal to do it, guess what these characters do the exact opposite things like come on men. Anime could have been much more better if it weren't for these obvious awful flaws imo.
Pros:
-Great animation, stunning visuals
-Good score
-Banger OP, decent ED
-Characters blend in well together , they have chemistry and it just made me love them, even the side characters actually felt like amazing people, despite the fact that they all act the same in terms of love.
-Decent premise
-Good Pacing
Cons:
-Has some annoying flaws like immaturity to the maximum, seriously I have never seen nor expected people to be this immature, and also characters being stupid making idiotic decisions
-Ending was predictable
- I Wanted to see more from the other characters but I guess there's a movie and other source material for that, since apparently this is a series, now I don't know if imma continue on this probably not tho.
Overall Our love is always ten centimeters apart was a pretty decent romance anime, that had a cool concept but not executed properly leaving out some obvious and annoying writing flaws, it's a shame the anime would have been a lot bettter if the writers just used common sense and actually made better conflicts rather than just copping out to immaturity leads to idiotic decisions, a true shame for that this anime gets a 7/10 for my overall anime rating.
