If I could rename this anime, I would rename it to „Tenohira o kao ni ateru ni junbi“, which means „Prepare to facepalm“. Yes, I have never facepalmed as much as in this anime. And that is not enough, there were plenty of episodes, where I facepalmed more than once in single episode. Now that is something unique. So, preparation word for you: if you are going to watch it, prepare yourself for facepalm. Just in case, put something soft on your desk, as you might deskpalm and that might actually hurt.
Story
Now this is something, what was one of those: so fantastic idea, that creator must be genius or opposite; so bad that I simply have no description. To make it more confusing, I will answer it, it is both, what I mentioned. Story is so stupid, but at the same time so original. It makes you think things, what you might never think, during any other animes. It is really hard to explain, but once you have watched it, you will understand.
Story is about country dude, who falls in love with girl. That girl, whose name is Yuzuki, actually lives in Tokyo, but since her hating sister pretty muck kicks her out, she searches way, to live on. She does find that dude, whose name is Haruto, and falls in love with her. While that dude loves another girl, Yuzuki tries to help that dude with his love. Obviously what happens is obvious: she loves him and he falls in love her, thus he forgets about his childhood love and wants to go out with Yuzuki.
If you think that’s the whole story, then no. Worst happens: Yuzuki leaves Haruto countless of times and Haruto tries to get her attention, with huge failure. The funny part is, both still love each other. So, when Yuzuki bitches and says “We can’t meet anymore”, with very emotional voice, Haruto finds new cool girlfriend, who actually cares about him.
Now if you think that’s end, of course not. Almost like destiny, Haruto meets Yuzuki again and well, rest should be obvious.
I simply cannot tell whole story, as it would be spoiling everything. When I did watch it, I thought one thing: “How much more drama can be in one anime?” If I would describe this anime with another anime, I would say one title, with small modification:
“School Days, with no murders”
Story receives 8/10, because it was different, but not that good, that it would receive more.
Animation
Yuck, awful. Seriously, I haven’t seen that bad animation for a while. Oh, before you start arguing, let me fix that part first: by awful, I don’t mean graphical part. Graphic was more than okay, but the exact: animation.
I don’t know how many times, there were points, where characters talked, but their mouths didn’t move. Please, at least do the basic, make the mouth move. How hard is that? I understood who talked, but it was so disturbing.
Secondly, there were too many motionless moments, where picture was still and absolutely nothing moved. It almost made feel; like it was done with hurry or creators were lazy. I mean, even naruto/one piece fillers have more animation, then this whole series.
It cannot receive more then 5/10. Animation was poor, but credit goes to visual pictures, some of them did look very good.
PS: The intro kissing was really strange and weird for me. Made Yuzuki look like B*atch, simply because of content...
Sound
If I think about sound, first thing what I remember is intro. Its music was rather good, while everything else wasn’t anything special, but nothing bad either. Well, most of the anime was without music, but they did put enough effort into background sounds. Since the story took place in countryside, we did hear a good countryside noise. You know, the typical one, which is rather easy to find, if you google a bit.
The amount of background music was rather poor thought. They did have some instrumental music at important parts, but if I am correct, they had total of music (including intro and outro) around 5, which is ridiculously small amount. But well, regardless of that, they did rather good job, what they did use. I didn’t really miss soundtrack, as I was facepalming too much anyway.
Thus, since it doesn’t have anything amazing, but nothing bad either, I give it 7/10.
Characters
If there was something good in that anime, it is that category. Every single character was developed so well. I mean, they all had unique traits, personalities. Who were for countryside, had accent, what actually was from that area. Some of them were cheerful, some of them were cool-type, everything felt well from that part.
If we think about the main characters, I must say that both of them were rather idiots, in their own way. I guess idiots do recognise each other. But both of them had also rather charming part of personality. I mean, Haruto never made up his mind. While he looked like cool character, he made so many idiotic choices, that when new episode released, first few comments were how idiot he was. I would even say that he was similar to Makoto from school days, except he didn’t think about sex and how many girlfriends he could have. But a lot of hate was around him.
And at the same time Yuzuki wasn’t better. He did have one excuse at one point, but after that excuse was eliminates, he yet again was a huge idiot and did something, what made me faceflippingpalm (don’t ask how I did that).
So basically, characters were so unique that it deserves 10/10. Creators really accomplished on putting us hate the main characters.
Overall
Now, I did give a lot negative critism, even after all of that, it is still anime, what is worth of watching. It is simply very unique, interesting and entertaining. All the bad actually gives you back with laugher and facepalms. How many times I have said facepalm already? So, by all means, if you like drama, want to be entertained and love love-stories; it might be just for you!
Total score: 7,5 / 10.
