I love slice of life animes, I try to look for them whenever I can, and when I say Slice of Life i mean true Slice of life, not Slice of life in space or slice of life with magical powers. What I love about slice of life animes is the realism with the stories in characters, I love watching things that could possibly happen in real life. Sadly there are too many supernatural stories listed as Slice of life. So when I read the description for Kimi to Boku I was really happy, a true slice of life story FINALLY! I was eager to sit down and watch.
The first episode introduce us to the characters who had been friends for many years blah blah. I won't go into the details because you should know the story by now from reading the description.
The first episode wasn't that exciting, but I forgave its lack of excitement because it was the first episode and we were just getting to know the characters and at first I thought the random cat shots were odd, but they grew on me and actually it is the only thing about this show that is interesting.
Don't get me wrong, the show had some good episodes, such as the one with Yuki playing with a foreign boy when they were young. It was cute and just shows that even if kids can't speak each other's languages they will find ways to get around that and have fun.
However, the good is not enough to keep me glued to the story..why? Because there is no story. So far each episode is more like a "this happens in this episode" type of deal. Such as Episode five can be wrapped up as "Girl loses key chain" The fourth episode was "Kaname gets sick" this is really a nothing happens show. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the characters were interesting, but they aren't. They are all stereotypes you can find in other animes like Ouran Host Club, except Ouran host club characters were actually fun to watch.
Not only are the characters uninteresting but the overuse of flashbacks really weigh the show down because they have nothing to do with anything that is happening in the episode, but then again since nothing is happening in the episode the flashbacks seem even more pointless. Flashbacks should enhance the story while giving the audience important info. Do we really need to know for the one millionth time that Kaname had a crush on his Kindergarten teacher? I think we have had four flashbacks on that alone. yep four on just that and we are only on episode five. (Although, thankfully there were none in the fifth) this show relies heavily on flashback storytelling, but the flashbacks leads to nowhere. i found myself not really looking forward to the next episode and I only watched the fifth episode to give it a decent chance.
Here are my pet peeves that really makes me not want to continue:
That little girl is annoying. What is up with animes that either have the super sweet boring girl or the annoying brat b**ch? Like girls are all one extreme or the other. Why can't they just have a cool girl to hang out with, who is regular and likes to play around too?
Shun, the pink haired boy is the male version of the super sweet boring chick. Now look, I don't mind girly boys but don't throw a girly boy into the mix and then not give me some sort of a gay storyline. at least attempt a coming out story (although I'm sick of those at least it is something) and no he doesn't have to fall for one of his friends (although at least there would be an actual story here). seriously, this kid is just gay, so gay his pillow was pink and had ruffles on it when they were kids. If they try to make him straight by giving him a female love interest (and no that annoying little brat is not a love interest) then I would just laugh cause he obviously does not like Va***as and neither does Yuki(one of the twins) for that matter. But he just stands around as the sickeningly sweet mother figure of the group.
Chizuru Tachibana. Soooo he was a German (I had to correct this, I thought Russian at first) boy who could not speak Japanese, yet not he is the most Japanese like out of all of them. And his name irks me more than anything. Why couldn't the writer look online or something and find a name suitable to his nationality?? I didn't know he was half Japanese until i read the synopsis here but it still irks me because why does he have to be half Japanese? Oh yeah so they wouldn't have to waste time looking up foreign names.
Okay I've said enough. But this all leads back to my first sentence. I'm not some yaoi maniac that NEEDS yaoi in every story, but since there is no plot going on here they might as well give us some BL to make this worth looking at.
