Hell, I was trying so hard to give it a chance when all the supernatural stuff was introduced, even though it caught me way off guard. I can sympathize with a character who is born ability-less in a world full of (unexplainably) gifted people. But the show is just so damn obvious -- you KNOW Miyo is going to be revealed to have incredibly strong powers, because far be it from them to do the interesting thing and have her being a regular person something that she actually has to grapple with till the end. It's just so damn boring. It would have actually been a million times more interesting if they had actually gone the traditional route of befing a non-fantasy, arranged marriage, slow-burn marriage story, with perhaps some revenge elements sprinkled in as Kiyoka learns of how terribly his fiancee's family treated her in the past. It's so, so hard to get a Cinderella story wrong, yet here we are.
Instead, we get people with inexplicable supernatural powers, and a story that starts off sprinting before immediately tripping and falling flat on its face. It's very unfortunate because I do like the character designs and I do enjoy some of the character's relationships. But all I see when I look at this anime is a story that doesn't find itself particularly compelling, so it added all these other elements to shake in front of the audience's face like plastic keys with a baby. It's so lame.
