This is a romance anime with barely any romance in it. And when romance parts do happen, they are done for the wrong reasons and just to push unnecessary, predictable and poorly written drama.
This anime has 26 episodes, 23 min per episode. That's roughly 10 hours. That is a lot of time for some. So I warmly suggest you to spend few minutes to read my review, and then decide if you want to commit 10h of your time to this anime.
First I will talk without spoilers, but later I will jump into spoiler territory (I will emphasize it).
I don't like giving it a low
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rating of 1 and I'm always looking for something positive, so I can avoid giving the worst rating if possible.
But this anime definitely surprised me.
The story is very simple, a young boy moves from the country to Tokyo to start a new life at high school, and then falls in love at first sight. That's it. But that's not the main problem of this anime. The real problem are the main characters. They are so badly written that I would be doing time in prison if I was to ever hung out with them. Especially Yamato. Whenever I see him on screen I just want to strangle the bastard. He's so dense, pathetic and hopeless it's mind-boggling. On top of that, in episode 18 you will find out that he's actually retarded. He went full retard. No joke. (I will explain in spoiler section).
You will facepalm every 2 minutes if you decide to watch this anime. In addition, the chemistry between two main characters is nonexistent. Keep in mind this is a romance anime. Another big problem this anime has is that it's extremely predictable. When I only watched first 3 episodes, I immediately figured out 100% of plot and what's going to happen. After finishing episode 26 I did not make a single mistake in my prediction. And I am far far from romance/drama anime expert. Similar to this, I have a problem with this anime name and name of episodes (I will explain episode naming problem in my spoiler section).
For example. There is a main character (Yamato) and two love interests (Suzuka and Honoka).
What do you think, who's going to win when the name of the anime is Suzuka??
Asahina Suzuka is: pessimistic, aggressive, abusive, arrogant, rude, impulsive, jealous, disrespectful...etc. Just the absolute abomination of human being.
Sakurai Honoka is: optimistic, loving, caring, helpful, thoughtful, supportive, kind, honest, respectful, grateful...etc. The kind of girl that you would gladly die for.
Now you tell me, which one of these two girls would you pick?
Because Yamato is like: Asahina, Asahina, Asahina, Asahina, Asahina.. Asahina! Asahina? Asahina! Asahina? ASAHINA!!
The guy just can't get her out of his head. He's constantly thinking about her, follows her everywhere and just can't go past her without addressing her.
Now you might think to yourself, what the hell did this girl do to make Yamato so obsessed with her and what made him fall in love at first sight? Well.. she jumped.. she jumped over a pole. . . Amazing right?
Now the ultimate question that you might ask yourself is "Ok, but does Suzuka like Yamato?" I can only answer that in spoiler section below.
--- SPOILERS ---
I will address issues here that I did not want to talk about in non-spoiler section so I can be respectful to people who haven't watched this anime yet.
First thing is naming of episodes. This is obvious, but I will give you just one example. In episode 13 Yamato and Honoka actually enter a relationship (Not that pathetic way like in most anime where they ask each other to be together and nothing happens, no, they actually kiss and start going out together). Episodes 13, 14, 16 and 17 are the best episodes in this anime in my opinion. But, even at the start of ep 13, I immediately knew that's not going to last. You know why? Because the name of the episode 19 is "Break Up". Now can you guess what's going to happened in that episode?? And this counts for every episode, this is just one example. That's why I hate this anime name and naming of episodes.
Remember above that I called Yamato a retard?
In ep 18 "Present" (can you guess what's going on in that ep?) It's Honokas (his gf) birthday and brain dead Yamato decides to go with Suzuka (girl that Yamato is obsessed with, and everyone in this anime knows this, especially Honoka) alone to buy her a gift. Let that sink in. And Yamato sees nothing wrong with this. He's clueless. Even in ep 16-17 he said to himself that he will do everything in his power to not hurt Honoka and make her happy. And then he proceeds to do this. Insane.
Now.. there's one more thing left.
The ultimate question of this anime.
Does Suzuka like Yamato?
Yes.. but (in my opinion) for a wrong reason. She likes him because he reminds her of a guy that she liked in the past, but he died in the accident. I did not like this at all. I would never allow myself to be with a girl that likes me because I remind her of someone else. Doesn't matter, alive or dead.
So to make long story short. She is afraid to love Yamato because she's afraid to experience love again. And that's pretty much it. But the problem here is that she does not gradually let go of her ex and then gradually accepts Yamato. No. She hates him from ep. 1 to 25. even for whole ep. 26. Only at the very end of episode 26 she suddenly and totally lets go of her ex and completely accepts to be Yamatos girlfriend. It felt incredible forced and unrealistic.
--- END of SPOILERS ---
I do not recommend this anime to anyone.
I didn't even know that this anime existed. I was originally planning to watch Fuuka, but I saw that it has a prequel named Suzuka.
Which surprised me. I like to watch anime in order and I don't like to give up on them once I start. But this was a painful experience.
I wish that I had never found out about this anime and I lost all interest in watching Fuuka.
This is my first review, so thank you for taking your time to read it.
I appreciate it and wish you all the best.
Take care.
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Aug 9, 2022
This is a romance anime with barely any romance in it. And when romance parts do happen, they are done for the wrong reasons and just to push unnecessary, predictable and poorly written drama.
This anime has 26 episodes, 23 min per episode. That's roughly 10 hours. That is a lot of time for some. So I warmly suggest you to spend few minutes to read my review, and then decide if you want to commit 10h of your time to this anime. First I will talk without spoilers, but later I will jump into spoiler territory (I will emphasize it). I don't like giving it a low ... |
