Noting that myself ; yourself only has 13 episodes to play with, how it spent its episodes were rather unproductive by introducing too many sub-plots irrelevant to the main story. While these sub-plots give minor characters a fair amount of screentime and a bit of personality and development, it all becomes irrelevant when the story decides to simple leave said characters behind. If that wasn't bad enough, itfs merely the tip of the iceberg. The minor plot themselves were forcefully introduced by events which seemed to drawn from slips of paper that were randomly pulled from a box of suggestions. One of the ideas pulled from the box was this: Five minutes of screentime are given to minor character Suusuke Wakatsuki walking home from school and saving an elementary school girl from being picked on by a group of other teenage boys. For the next three episodes, let's put aside the main plot to tell a love story about how an elementary school girl had fallen head over heels for a boy twice her age. Myself ; yourself continues to do this for the next six episodes or so.
Consequently this creates a mess of unnecessary melodrama which started from nothing and ending abruptly. Of course, no melodrama would be complete without the genetic love triangle. Except myself ; yourself's love triangle threw in a twist by having one of our characters telling us "oh I wasn't involved in that love triangle lol". It gets points for the unexpected twist but loses points for misleading the audience and wasting time developing something it didn't need too. Oh wait, the entire show was like that.
For characters and development, as previously mentioned, our lead character, Sana, isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer. Unfortunately, this does not change as the show progresses. Then again, can we blame him? After all, he barely had any screentime to develop his character. Throughout the show, we're fed bits of his traumatic past and his bits of our lead female, Nanaka's past. When the two come together for a "resolve", we see a five minute exchange of dialogue which ends abruptly (this show has a tendency to do that) to jump 10 years into the future.
As disappointing as myself ; yourself was, the twists does somewhat drive the story. Since not all events of the story was laid out perfectly, the story threw a bit of a mystery genre in there to keep viewers watching. It's just a shame that the outcomes of said events were far less exciting as the mystery leads one to think due to poor pace and inadequate development.
