Keikenzumi na Kimi to, Keiken Zero na Ore ga, Otsukiai suru Hanashi.

To the shy and reclusive Ryuuto Kashima, associating himself with his popular classmate Runa Shirakawa is nothing but a distant fantasy—or so he thought. After losing a bet with his friends and being coerced into confessing to Runa, Ryuuto's world is flipped upside down: instead of the cruel rejection he was expecting, Runa agrees to go out with him!

But dating Runa proves to be overwhelming for Ryuuto, who requests that their relationship remain a secret known only by their closest friends. His decision, however, leads to a series of mishaps that he fears will doom the relationship. As they work through their misunderstandings, Ryuuto reveals his insecurities stemming from his past experiences, and the two grow closer together.

Just when things are getting back on track, Ryuuto's middle school crush, Maria Kurose, transfers to his class and begins to stir up a fuss. At the same time, terrible rumors about Runa spread around the school, prompting Ryuuto to take desperate measures to protect her.

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Shirakawa, Runa Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Kashima, Ryuuto Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Kurose, Maria Supporting

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Yamana, Nikoru Supporting

Fukuhara, Ayaka Japanese

Tanikita, Akari Supporting

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Nishina, Ren Supporting

Sakaguchi, Daisuke Japanese

Ijichi, Yuusuke Supporting

Ochiai, Fukushi Japanese

Kurose, Mao Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

KEN Supporting

KUN Japanese

Sekiya, Shuugo Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki Japanese

Tokumura, Kenichi Producer

Nishimae, Shuka Producer

Sawahata, Kouji Producer

Shibayama, Chiho Producer

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Jan 12, 2025

connor1487

Recommended

The show does a surprisingly good job of showing the emotions of first love, something anime often glosses over. It approaches the themes from a fairly mature perspective including insecurity, doubt, and sex along with the excitement of finding the one for the first time. The main couple, Runa and Ryuto are charming together. Some of these themes may not be appreciated by the younger crowd but for the more mature viewers who remember their first love it's a satisfying watch.

Most romance anime shows portray a watered down version of romance and first love as though written by someone yet to actually experience it ... and they are giving a fairy tail type version. This show is more realistic in showing the emotions experienced by the characters. Very Well done.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 29, 2024

Snaiy

Mixed Feelings

Ah sh*t, here we go again.
So, this anime is about an introvert kinda gamer boy, who is also shy and never had a girlfriend (original, am I right), who one day on a dare asks out the most popular (pretty fake) gyaru girl from his class (and possibly the most popular in school). He is ready to be rejected as he has feelings for her (a crush), but to everyone's suprise she says yes, and to lest give it a chance.

So, I will try to continue to write without spoilers from now on.

Story: I liked that in the story, the writers sometimes present a more ... mature and realistic way of romance and relationships (loke talking about sex in a healthy, not pervert way, talking about the need to support each other and help with each others past traumas, 16 year olds having the body of adults but not mature enough so they get i to 2-3 months realtionships mostly for sex), the romance between the main couple actually feels well paced and organic for like 10% of the time.
And now comes the remaining 90%.
Like damn, the writers really did not k ow what to do here. Lets start by saying that the Fmc is a 16 year old whore (okay, okay, she just had some issues, which was never expanded upon so I can cut her some slack, but I will write about this more in the characters section).
Most of the time, instead of the more mature and honestly way better starting attitude to romance, the series devolves into indirect kiss and handholding, aint no way (you maybe get pregananananat).
Its hard to write without spoilers, but as you have seen above with the Fmc, this is a very "I have zero idea whats going on" moment from the writers.
Then you have moments, where you just look at the window after watching them, and think like "Am I that stupid, or they are", moments where the story is so forced into drama and conflict, or forced to get out of conflict that it physically hurts to watch.
I would have more about the story, but for the sake of spoiler free review, lets move on to the characters (Not that there is really a coherent story anyway). Have I ever mentioned how stupid the story and the things that keep happening are?
No, well, they are.

Characters: Generic, 2d, average maybe even bad, plain stupid, thats how I could desribe them. The generic fake gyaru Dmc, with the generic kind introvert gamer nerd Mc. The show shows some promise in this department in the first few episodes, as we see that their actions have some semblance of motives, past traumas that needs to be conquered, the characters are not only what they look like, but it is left hanging, as these are never expanded upon, you can make a hedcanon out of them, but no depth was given to the characters.
On that note, the side characters are as generic as they can be, not to mention they only are there when the story needs them, they dont really exist outside of that, or at least not shown.
Generic I will hurt you if you hurt my bestfriend but in gyaru form - check
Generic introvert gamer nerd friends, who piss themselves when a girl talks to them - check
Generic everyone talks about me behind the main couples back (except their friends) background characters - check
Generic other love interest, who tries to steal Mc - check (to be fair, she is the most well tought out character in the whole show, but its still very weakly written and never expanded upon, so that says something).

Music: To be fair, the bgm and op and ed were good, nothing out of left field, but they made the show much better.

Art: This is another department the show lacks, the character designs are simple, which would not be bad, but they are either moving very awkwardly or only be seen in still shots, and the background looks like someone throw a paint bucket at a canvas most of the time, so pretty bad all in all.

So, this series is another let down, it showed some promise at the beginning, but it was probably never the writers intention to make a masterpiece out of this, only to make some quick buck from lonely weebs who got no otber romance anime in the season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 29, 2024

kuriikata

Not Recommended

3/10 If i can describe this anime is The Loser’s Perfect Wet Dream Fantasy, The loser that somehow gets the school’s top huzz?? And his first love is actually his GF twin?😱Alright, tbh this is quite realistic plot to begin with. excluding the FL twin part, that unrealistic AF. I’ll break it down what makes it bad.

-Please Watch Other Romance Anime If You’re Clueless About Woman. Don’t Learn From This One-

A few anime these past years has done a similar plot and made it out decently. But this isn’t one of them. Initially the first few episode i score this an 5/10 because its still ... somewhat relatable. I swear i’ve been there, done that personally. But, oh no the rate keeps dropping and felt less and less relatable.

Why? because this is simply not realistic, annoying and its starting to get confusing. I didn’t even know how could i not dropped this and watched it till the end. maybe i had a little bit of hope that it would turn out decent. Well, it doesn’t.

Before i get to why i hate this, theres only one dialogue thats good about from this anime. When the FL says shes stressed, feels sorry, regrets and shameful that she isn’t his first time in anything. I’ve handled that talk before, so i can say thats TOTAL RESPECT, It hits well right at home. But other than that? straight garbagé~~

First of all, this anime has too many unnecessary fan service. Is the anime selling point is to show some highschool racks to forget how bad the story is? Nah, this is just oversexualizing the character just for some weirdos to goon hard.

From the start till the end, anything else after the ML finally moved on i don’t found ANY character development AT ALL. The only change is the fat dude become slim. THATS IT.

It is realistic that 1st love is full of confusion, and full of fear. But at that point the anime is just go full ignorance. The huzz lets herself be used by random dudes is the main stress point of this anime. I respect the ML a bit because he has some boundaries that he doesn’t want to cross, yet.

I’m dumbfounded by the ML and FL because they’re too dumb to begin with. The ML is a no experience loser that have a chad friend that plays around with too much girl, the FL have a friend that was in relationship with that player and knows the FL is so bad at relationship and still let her get hit by random dudes? And yet both are doing nothing for their friend to solve anything that stressed them out??? Nah dawg, those aren’t what you call friend, those are what you call THE OPPS.

How is she’s still that pure when shes getting hit by randos frequently IN HER OWN HOUSE and she aint a slut? that doesn’t make sense.

I don’t find any appeal for this anime at all.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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