Clinginggiant

So this is about some non ideally attractive guy getting a cute derp of a girlfriend. Now that's not too bad sounding, well maybe the derpy girlfriend part is. Honestly, I expected to at least be somewhat amused here, but hope was pretty small going in, and eventually I discovered this was just a complete let down after the first 3 episodes. The episodes are all pretty much the same after 3.

Story

Generic romance set up but the twist and what makes it original is that instead of the pretty boy getting the girl, it's his hulking friend. Takeo is used to not getting the girl he likes, who all proclaim their love for his handsome best friend, Sunakawa, just when he's getting around to opening up to them about his feelings. Well not to worry, as here comes little ol' Yamato, who as fate would have it, is interested in big ol' Takeo. After a few miscommunications, they end up together. The story pretty much goes all downhill from here, just repeating the same formula almost every episode. Anyway, since when has rom-com relationships actually worked out so fast and gone on with almost no downs at all to them. Also something convenient (but inconvenient) happens everytime someone is doubting Takeo for good boyfriend material and he's able resolve the problem, putting himself in a good light among his doubters. Like a building mysteriously catches fire and he saves people, or some beam is about to fall on Yamato and here he comes to the rescue with strength far exceeding human limits. Way too random and with no explanation. I thought this was suppose to be a rom-com, not spider-man where danger lurks around every corner of the city.

Characters

The story goes nowhere because the characters go nowhere. This was clearly suppose to be driven by its characters, so you would expect them to at least put some effort here. Well they didn't, and hardly anyone other than the main couple gets any screen time and even they lack developement for most of the series. They just seem to be at a constant high with hardly any issues, or at least what issues they have end up being so minor that it only spins them in a circle, going nowhere. Between Takeo making his obnoxious grunting noises, and Yamato just trying too hard to be the cutest thing you ever saw, they only end up coming off as extremely annoying. Takeo's friend, Sunakawa, gets the most screen time after the two leads and acts as Takeo's support, though somehow he is the definition of non developement. He remains an emotionless wall all throughout the anime even though he was given plenty of opportunities to be developed. Since most of the 24 episode run is about Takeo and Yamato's relationship basically repeating the same thing everyday, there should have been enough time to drift attention away from them, and focus on other characters and not just cram it somewhere at the end of the series, like they did. Potentially interesting characters are floating around in this series, such as the guy with the afro, Kurihara, and the funny stalker girl, Amami. It's just as I mentioned earlier, no one cared to explore them more.

Animation

The animation is great, It's pretty hard to find a Shoujo with poor animation these days. They all go overkill on the gloss, twinkles, and what-not. Not that it's really to my personal liking, but I'm not going to complain about it. I know what I was in for when I decided to watch a Shoujo, and it's what I expected.