Maarui Kanojo to Zannen na Kareshi

Since I've read a bit into a manga with a similar premise (plus size girl gets liked because of her kind and funny personality), I became interested in this anime and was looking forward to how this particular title will handle the plus-size topic.

Putting aside the fact that his anime had barely any budget so the animation is very low quality, it really didn't deliver on what it was supposed to deliver. I want to preface this by saying that the concept of creating an anime where a plus-sized girl can have a regular romance like any other girl, is definitely something good to have ... and something that should be supported. However, that whole purpose was defeated when, even though this was supposed to be a story SPECIFICALLY about the main character's good personality, halfway through the 6 episodes she is already assuming pretty bad malice and plotting revenge based on that unconfirmed assumption (and it's not even in a funny haha way). Not only that, but even though in the beginning she has a really admirable and respectable personality that does not break or bend under anything that could be taken as rude, once the potential romance picks up, this anime completely loses any sense of what it's supposed to be and the main character starts to act like any bland shoujo romance main character. So to sum it up, this anime had a great concept that it completely gave up on following through halfway through its runtime.

To comment on the voice acting - which could pretty much be the only thing that saves this -, the voice actors are doing a good job, but that's about it, in my opinion. Personally I found the main character's voice acting too forced, which instead of making her funny personality likeable, made her rather slightly irritating. And as for the love interest's voice actor, while he had a silky smooth voice, whenever he was trying to act endearing, it felt fake - I could imagine that that was the intention of the voice directing (that the love interest always has this air of perfection to him), in which case though it completely took away from the original intent of the anime to show that this love interest genuinely falls in love with the main character.

All in all, I really wanted to like this anime, and I thought I had adjusted my expectations appropriately, but this failed to deliver on what it promised. I do feel the good intent and the effort of the team despite the budget constraints, which is why I am setting this as "mixed feelings", but recently more and more plus-size themed manga are coming out, and I can't help but think that anything else you pick up will be more interesting and well--thought out than this.