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Mar 16, 2025
I feel that the author mainly wanted to explore Okinawa and the romance was a bolted on plot device they didn't really care about. The story simply plucks random and unrelated situations that can lead to explaining an aspect of Okinawan culture. On to this there is a mildest sprinkling of bashful flirting. However, there is absolutely no character development, our MC is a carboard cut out that is a bit dense and gormless, while very amiable, he has no personality. We have never come to know anything of his internal workings, other than the fact that he likes this one girl, but we don't
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know why he likes her.. Is it just physical attraction? Is it because she is a fire cracker, brimming with enthusiasm? We have no clue. The rest are the same surface deep interchangeable anybodys. The only relationship we delve into is the one between the childhood friend girls, but even that is only used to reenforce the understanding of the cultural reference. For me, the only character with any real motivation is Yae Agena, who wants to help her friend find love, but again, she must only have about 5 minutes of screentime throughout the entire series. I think my point is proven by the fact that the character with the biggest screentime is the mascot Shiisa that explains the cultural references. In the manga, it is fine, because the reference is usually explained within one panel, but in the anime, the cultural explanations can take over half the episode.
To enjoy this you really have to fill in so many details yourself, and maybe there is something to the expression of less is more, as your mind does so much of the work, but for me, there are far too man holes for my imagination to fill in the gaping gaps. As for the cultural references... I don't really care. from word plays and misunderstandings to the natural history of the island, I am so "meh" I am not here to be educated. The title points to human relationships and romance, not the culture, so we are cheated of our expectations.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Mar 14, 2025
This is a weird one. I give it 8/10 but I have to categorise it as mixed feelings, since I love it, but it is flawed.
Where to begin? I love the story. He pushes and pushes and she blocks and parries his advances. Then "because... reasons..." He stops and pulls back. He stops calling her by her first name, which all throws her for a loop. However because of his ceasefire, she has time to contemplate the MC shaped hole in her life and even identifies how his harassment helped change her for the better. She concludes that she misses him and starts her own
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faltering pursuit of him. In a world where most ideas get recycled to death, I've not come across another one like this. Yes there are other break-up and get back together stories, but this one has that unique angle of not breaking up, because they were never together.
I really like the entire female cast of the English dub, but Gabriel Regojo, who voices our MC often irks me with his over annunciation of small grunts and groans. Is it his choices, or is it the script? I don't know, but the overall effect is that he sounds like he has Tourette's minus the swearing. I like his actual voice and he otherwise gives a very rich and interesting performance. Also, the dub often rewrites the story. The plot of him stopping using her first name is gone completely, he just calls her Aika throughout the whole show. Other times phrases are changed, which deflects the narrative away from the original. So watching both subs and the dub will result in different experiences. I find myself cherry picking from both and creating a unique story of my own.
I don't like the execution of the story. At the beginning he stops pursuing her. He starts attracting other women and she starts getting jealous and wants him back at the end, but the 12 episodes this story is spread across is filled with some weird and random plots. While I would not call it a harem, he does, for one reason or another start to draw in other girls, but these relationships are never filled out or explored to any real depth. With many of them, the idea of them actually being interested in him romantically is all very ambiguous. There is also a disparity between the age of the characters and some of their dialogue. With Sajou psychoanalysing some situations like a professional psychologist and certainly not a 17 year old young man. I know this is a common issue with many stories be they WN, LN, manga or anime. Many writers fail to make their dialogue age related, so nothing new here.
As I said at the start, in the absence of any other show doing this story but better, I often rewatch this flawed work and I really enjoy it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Feb 15, 2025
Oh Japan, why do you do this? We have a cookie-cutter, off the shelf MC, who is rather basic and mid, and then we have two separate arcs that would have each made good stories. A. a run of the mill high school romance, which could have fluffed out 60 chapters by either keeping it sweet, or by cycling through all the old classics of yore that we have seen in countless high school romances. Fireworks News year's temple, valentines... etc... Or B. the far more interesting childhood friend arc, with her stalker-esque pursuit of the boy she lost. Which would have been far
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more interesting to follow and explore. But no, this is Japan, so we have both smashed together to bring chaos to our MCs life, with a blob of siscon/loli on top. Japan has two real issues with their pop culture fiction, an absolute lack of subtlety and a total unawareness of the adage "less is more"
Add to this noisy mess, there is another story of why their extended family loath his father and his marriage to his mother and the strained relationship with their auntie. Which could be a good counter story to either A or B. But to have it layered on top of both is just noisy. Additionally, all these threads are in our face and it is all very break-neck pacing.
Overall it seems well planned out and the mysteries are building and there are several interesting characters who I want to know more about, I just wished the pace was dialled back and we had time to breathe.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 8, 2025
Hating on this is like hating a small puppy. It's cute and harmless, even if it has peed on the floor and chewed your newspaper. Depending on your personal mood, you can enjoy this pointless fluff, or you can hate it for being a waste of time, energy and effort. This show will be a mirror to your soul in that moment. Let's be honest, this show is slim pickings and you are only going to get out of it what you put in. Like food, not every meal you eat will fill you with joy or change your view on the world, some meals
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simply fill you up and give you the energy to go on about your day.
As a production, the animation, soundtrack and vocal performances are all slightly above average. The characters are cliché off the shelf, cookie cutter, stereotypes. The story is woefully paper thin and often ridiculous. Like when the house's actual owner comes out of an underground bunker and demands that our pair act out scenes to stimulate her writing creativity, which is just plain bonkers. The series is made up of such pointless, ill thought out vignettes, but at the heart of it is our fledgeling couple, and while it is difficult to plot progression through such an incoherent episodic season, it is just nice to see them getting to know each other.
I can't put my finger on why I like them. She is just your typical mousey, small and quiet soul with not much character going on, but she is sweet and endearing in her own way, while he is a brash, confident recluse who hates the injustice of Charlotte's life and can't help saving her against her will. Look at it like a childhood cartoon like Scooby Doo. There is never any character development over all the decades it has been on TV, but you still have characters you like for reasons you don't know. These two just fit together. Each is what the other needs and that alone feeds my soul and brings me back once in a while to visit old friends. But I am a hopeless romantic and my opinion is probably skewed, but I am what I am. :-)
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jan 31, 2025
I'm going to recommend this one, but only just. My issues are not serious enough to claim I have mixed feelings over it. It is a harmless run of the mill harem show and it does what it says on the tin. What I like about it is the way Natsukawa keeps dipping into Eita's notebook and his unending embarrassment as she reads from it. (I'm a simple man)...
I'm not a fan of the art style. I think Natsukawa in particular doesn't look very human and as such it distracts me. If you told me she was actually a mermaid for example, I'd believe that.
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This flaw also makes her far less emotive than other characters, which detracts from the story. Is she meant to be a cold fish? The overarching story is not very good, but it makes up for it with the details and emotions of individual scenes. Plus we also have the fall-out of it being a harem, and having the majority of viewers being disappointed with who the MC chooses, but that never seems to stop Japan using this trope, so they obviously don't care about the outcome. Overall, watch it, enjoy it, tick it off your list and move on.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jan 31, 2025
It's totally daft, this is not high art, it is a harem with fan service. The wit is sparkling and it had me chuckling many times over. Our MC is no beta simp. While he may look away out of courtesy, he doesn't get nose bleeds or faints. He is happy to look at the female form but he is not pervy about it, so he is quite refreshing. His harem of four (maybe five) is small by modern standards. They are all uniquely different. so pick your fave and place your bets (mine is Karen). So it gets points for not being crude and
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obvious with the fan service, with most of the "smut" being suggestive dialog that makes you giggle. For me it is a show with two sides, a warm hearted romance with the harem with the very witty side of the culture shock of the school girls learning about the commoner's world. it is all handled deftly and I really enjoyed it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Jan 28, 2025
Truly a mixed bag for me. It is a "because...reasons" storyline of MC goes to a girl's school that has just become mixed, but they girls run the school, because...reasons... and all the boys are bullied and forced to wear girls clothes and make-up, because...reasons... All the characters are clichés and while it is utterly ludicrous, it does have a bit of a heart and the harem is deftly handled, so it is not just slapstick chaos. For me the negatives are the woeful plot that changes from boy fights top girls to get a outside pass, to a story of a dangerous adversary
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causing mayhem, with a plot of political power plays thrown in to disguise the fragility of the story. It also has one of the biggest story telling crimes of Japanese story telling with people standing around explaining how dangerous their moves are instead of getting on and using them. I can't tell people if they should watch it or not, because it is such a mixed bag, I am sure there will be lovers and haters and everything in between. You will have to make your own mind up.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jan 26, 2025
The effort employed to keep this one gag going ruins the show for me. I don't mind the character starting out oblivious, but the ability to chew food and breath at the same time should identify a level of brain activity that would prevent the MC remaining that dumb to the very end. It is the very same thing that ruins "Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town" These MCs simply cannot be so impervious to new data!
Rather than trashing it outright, I kinda like the story and supporting characters. I think the dragon is fantastic, so I give
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it 5/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 19, 2025
I get the feeling that there was no budget for this second season, as the back half of it was just people stood around talking while they should have been fighting. You were getting three sword swings and 400 pages of posturing dialog per episode. For example, episode 17 - Mutation Hazard. We had the monster transform out of utter rage only to face-off against the students doing absolutely nothing for 18 minutes of the episode while everyone talked. At no point does the monster consider attacking the kids. It then happens that the kids instigate the first attack. It made absolutely no sense
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whatsoever. It was a sorry fall-off for such a good show. I may try to watch a third season, if they make one, but only to see if it is still an utter car crash like this season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Jan 15, 2025
This story shot itself in the foot, by going from 0 to 100 in the first chapter. You have them living together and planning to get married before they even know each other. So the story has only one place to go and that is to plummet downwards in flames. She loves him for dubious reasons and is very flirtatious at any given opportunity, teasing him incessantly, so Japan being Japan, and this not being 18+, the result is that this good looking and athletic MC turns into the most spineless and simpering beta (more like omega) male possible. This guy is the furthest
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point possible away from being red blooded. He even faints when she gets in the bath with him. This is not fiction, this is incomprehensible fantasy with no grasp on reality. As a man, I find this offensive. I know Japan is caricatured as the home of the chased and the timid, but this MC's nature pushes the envelope to the extreme. This healthy young man should be bristling with testosterone, and in no way would be able to hold out against the FMCs provocation. The fact that he is this mess of contradictions just leaves the whole plot in tatters and on the floor. Is this some fanciful female wish fulfilment fairy tale?
If the MC is supposed to be some "ideal man" then the author is delusional with absolutely unrealistic expectations to expect that such a man could even exist, even in Japan. At best this could be considered as slop. Calling it comedy is also dubious. Maybe the humour is cultural or lost in translation, but I can't recall a single incident that caused the edges of my mouth to curl up one little bit. It has left me frustrated and angry due to my inability to sympathise with this castrated MC.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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