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The movie is very cute, as one would expect. It seems as if the entire story and all of its characters were created just to be as cute as possible. The only problem is, it ends up being the story of an abusive relationship that is portrayed as very happy and loving.

Allow me to explain: Yuuta Togashi is a serial domestic abuser. There is almost no chance that he and Rikka would be able to live together happily. He constantly berates her, physically hurts her when she does something he doesn't like, and tries to control every aspect of her life. He shows no signs ... of caring about her in the slightest.

When he hits her or pulls her hair or flicks her eye, there is no playful intent. She is genuinely hurt by his punishments. When she tells him that he has hurt her, he never apologizes.

He drives a wedge between her and her family, degrades her friendship with Dekomori, and forces her to maintain the personality he wants when she desires to change, and she doesn't change only for the fear of losing his affection, a fear which he does nothing to dissuade.

The movie, and the show as a whole, had the potential to be a fairly good comedy about teenagers acting like idiots and living in their own world. Instead, it's an awkward romance between two characters who have no business being in any kind of serious relationship with anyone.