Reviews

This anime is pretty mid for me. Maybe it's because it's one of the first romance anime I've ever watched, and I'm starting to delve into a genre that I was not accustomed to, but I felt this anime was quite corny and cliche at times. It just felt like a generic romance anime, even though I just said I don't really watch romance, but I just felt like it was. It's not like I don't understand anything about love, but as someone that never felt romantically attracted to someone, I just feel like a lot of scenes in this anime are overly dramatic and emotional. Like I said, I'm no expert in love of any kind, but I still think that you can express it in a more subtle way than a 5 minute speech about how you're going to treasure your partner for the rest of your life. I just think it's pretty corny is all.

What bothers me the most about this anime though is the very first episode and how everything is set in motion. Imo the first episode was so bad that I was really planning on dropping the show, but then I decided to give it another chance. I feel like every sitaution in the first episode was very conveniently set so that the two main characters could be together. Firstly, Amane gifts a girl he doesn't know from anywhere (at the time) an umbrella because she's in the rain. I thought that was kind of weird, but ok. She returns the umbrella in the following day, and so far so good. But then you find out they actually live right next to each other. What a huge coincidence. Oh, and they both also happen to live by themselves with no family. Makes total sense for 14/15 year olds. How come they never met before if they literally share a wall? They only met, conveniently, after he gifted her the umbrella? Then she decides to cook for him as thanks for the umbrella. Ok, that's a nice gesture I guess. But then she cooks for him EVERY SINGLE DAY from then on, she even cleans his house like just two days after meeting him. Like, the whole house, not just his room. And soon they're pretty much living together and she's cooking for him every day at his apartment. She pretty much doesn't spend any time in her own apartment any longer. It all happens so fast.

I will say that the way their relationship develops is pretty nice and really wholesome. They start off kinda awkward with each other but by the end of the season they're all lovey-dovey and it's pretty nice, but I really can't excuse all the convenient things that happen to set the events.

I think this anime is pretty mediocre, it's quite cliche, corny and cringe at times, with the first two episodes being especially conveniently weird, but I do think the relationship between the two main characters is pretty wholesome, so I won't give this anime a negative score. Maybe one day I'll look back at this anime more fondly, but it just happened to be my first romance watch. If it weren't maybe it would be rated differently.