It wasn't until the last episode where I finally understood wtf even the story was about. This whole time I thought it was leading up to Arajin getting over Mahoro in order to connect with his childhood friend again, making me really dislike the build up as on every single turn Arajin treated Matakara horribly or just ignored him.
Let me tell you, it is not a good sign when the one thing I am most looking forward to each episode is the gag with business man visiting the bar. Even though the conclusion was obvious, it was one of the few storylines that actually gets a goddamn conclusion of some sort.
There is so much build up with no pay off, I was dreading the last episode as I thought to myself "there is no way they will manage to end every conflict in one episode", and if they did it would be awfully executed and rushed likely. Instead, it seems to be setting up for a second season or perhaps an OVA...which I don't believe will happen any time soon. :/
I feel like a lot of my issues with the story wouldn't exist if the first episode was entirely about Arajin's and Matakara's childhood. As back then, Arajin wasn't such a constant, useless jackass who just goes with the flow and Matakara's relationship was just blossoming with Arajin.
We could've actually understood why Matakara seems to trust him so much and why ,after so many times of blowing him off, he still forgives Arajin so many times and believes they can hang out again.
Also what the fuck was up with Mahoro.
Seriously we get zero clues about why she loves Marito so much and why she sympathizes with Matakara the moment he brings up his own Onii-chan. There seems to be SOME reason but to me it wasn't executed well enough to understand...or maybe it's gonna be explained in the aformentioned second season they seem to be going for? Which...again, I don't see that happening anytime soon or....maybe even ever.
She was such a frustrating character as she was such a prominent character and even has the whole ED dedicated to her, yet she doesn't really do anything worth of note.
This show has a lot more negatives than positives so far, it wasn't god awful but it wasn't exactly pleasant. It had potential that it could've eventually achieved had they not juggled so many characters at once and kept the "serious drama" to a minimum. Seriously it was so much better when it was more comedy focused.
