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This anime was complete shit. Do people actually like it or are they ironically rating it this high? I will now tell you why this anime is objectively shit.

One of the main problems with the whole thing was that the drama was so forced it hurt. Nearly every arc focused on one person and made them have a problem for no reason. Iori was probably the worst of the characters for this reason. The only person with a real problem was the girl who was almost raped but that was dealt with early on.

Another problem throughout the whole anime was that the main character was ... such a prefect little Garry Stu that it was ridiculous. He calls himself selfish because he wants to help people so bad. If that isn't the biggest load of shit I ever heard. They could have made it cool by giving him a mental reason to want to help these people, maybe for the sheer satisfaction, but unfortunately writing is too hard for these people so they just made him a perfect character instead.

The body switching arc was bad. You couldn't tell whom was in whom's body because none of the characters have enough personality to give it away. They also made it complete random so it wasn't like Yamada-kun and the 7 witches where one person had to contact the others lips to change bodies. We also learn that the body changing will not be permanent and assume the other phenomena will stop whenever.

The doing desire act was just as bad. It happened like 5 times in total. Everytime it happened nearly nothing went wrong because they were stopped immediately and there was no consequence. The one girl who fought off some male harassers decided to stay in her room for days which just made for an annoying plot. And I hope you like the singling out one person thing because it never stops.

The becoming younger arc was OKAY nothing special. It focused on boring Aori who is confirmed boring in this phenomena. When one of your characters main problems is that the girl he loves looks like another girl he loved, they are a shit character. The cute younger girls made up for this arc so it wasn't as bad.

The last 4 episodes mind reading arc was back to being bad. Iori decides to change into bitch mode for no reason. I hope you didn't want an explanation because you won't get one. At the end of 13 she learns friendship is magic but she is back to thinking the way she was before. Hooray for pointless character development

The only reason I decided to continue this anime after episode 6 was because I wanted to know more about Heartseed/Balloon Vine. But of course there is no frickin' explanation. This was probably the saddest part of the anime for me. We never learn what he was. We never learn what his motivations are other than "for entertainment". We never learn who the other people he talks about are. Overall this anime was just a bad romantic comedy with supernatural stuff shoveled in.

Feel free to say why you liked this anime. Maybe you felt the comedy was good. I'll admit the first masturbation joke was pretty funny but it gets old the 50th time. Some of the later jokes were funny but totally not worth the watch.

Prominent issues I had with the show..

The entire premise of the show is an arbitrary plot device. Kokoro Connect's story is based around a phenomenon that affects a group of friends with an established "villain" pulling the strings. The problem is that none of this is ever given any depth or an explanation.

I'm not trying to act like an emotionless badass here but I could not sympathize with any of these characters. This isn't necessarily a valid criticism when I'm basing it off my own reactions, but I basically tear up to the most mundane crap in anime but felt next to nothing watching ... this show. Everyone's backstory felt either artificial or cliche if not both. The show also had a habit of attempting to build up drama for each character by regurgitating their problem over and over for multiple episodes until it'd finally be resolved in the most anti-climactic manner possible. Not to mention these problems are only present to the audience at face value and, like many other attributes of the show, are never given much of an explanation.

This is somewhat related to the point above but here it is: Basically every main character is bland and boring, especially Aoki and Yui who are more or less main backup characters. Then our protagonist, Taichi, is the generic do-gooder who has multiple girls who want his dick for his kindness and is never given much development himself. The one saving grace out of this lackluster cast was Inaba whose voice actor is just spectacular.

What was with the anime ending without wrapping up anything only to shit out a few more OVAs that add more annoying and cringe worthy drama to only conclude on everyone's forced happy ending in the most unsatisfying way possible? This entire show felt like it lacked any direction.

There were plenty of cute moments in the show that genuinely made me smile but are ultimately overshadowed by some of the worst scenarios possible. Example: Dealing with Nagase's shit again and having Inaba kidnapped in the OVAs was so melodramatic and dumb. Oh, you also can't forget Taichi being attacked out of no where by a high schooler with a pipe just for hell of it. You know, because drama and stuff.

TL;DR
Driving force of the plot is left unexplained, the buildup to events dragged on and resulted in anti-climactic resolutions, the entire cast of characters aside from one are boring and bland, the show completely lacked direction, and its genuinely cute moments are overshadowed by awfully written scenarios.