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[I wrote a review like this for my school's newspaper and just felt like sharing it here too, lol- minus the spoilers :P]

“Mom, there are particularly frightening male princesses in this world… strong, beautiful male princesses.”
I’ll be honest: after thinking about this story's plot, I started feeling a little perplexed as to why I was so madly intrigued by this anime. After all, it does sound like any other common romance drama—a young, timid girl accidentally meets a handsome boy who finds her interesting and decides to bother her when all she wants is for him to leave her alone. However, after much thought, I ... found that it was because of this cliché that this anime was able to get the audience to truly embrace the unique stories behind both characters.
My favourite part about this anime would probably be how the two main characters were able to comfortably adjust to each other's opposite lifestyles. While one was an anti-social and awkward young lady living off of her pocket money, the other was an eccentric cross-dressing son of a politician. They actually sound like pretty cheesy and overused "rich boy and poor girl" character descriptions but the way they played on it was very interesting.
Kuranosuke would give Tsukimi multiple chances to transform her appearance—as well as the rest of the crew, to be precise—but he didn’t want to change the group’s entire outlook on the way they dressed. Instead, he just wanted them to know how to use the simplest of things, such as fashion, to their advantage. In this case, he made them realize that in order to be deemed as a legitimate resident of Amamizukan, they had to dress seriously. In a literal sense, he wanted them to “dress to impress”. But of course, once the task was done, everyone was allowed to go home to their own comfort zone and return to their normal selves. This, to me, was probably one of the best twists Kuragehime had to offer because it turned an overused scenario from a romantic love story to a lesson that could be be learned by anyone.
Now, while the beginning-middle parts were great, I didn't particularly enjoy the ending- it seemed a little too open-ended. I mean, the ending to the two protagonists themselves gave pretty good closure, but there was also this side story involving Kuranosuke's brother and the female landmark developer, and the way they ended that was just...... eh. Nonetheless, since I wouldn't say that I'm interesting in continuing the manga, I'd say the anime did a pretty good job overall.

My overall rating: 10 ^_^ Maybe even +1 because the OP and ED were perfect,