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This is my first review and it's a bit spoilerish, mostly about the stuff that annoyed me there.

People told me Nazo no Kanojo was good, so I kept watching it despite the ridiculousness of the first episode. It was pretty weird and kind of stupid, but I've seen stuff that had more stupid premises and that was nonetheless very good.
This manga and as such the anime was written by someone who obviously has a drool fetish, but it shouldn't be enjoyable only by people who have that kind of fetish.

The first episode is about the protagonist feeling sick after tasting the girl's drool. The girl ... reveals that he's actually feeling love sick and is in withdrawal after he tasted the girl's drool. Okay. That sounds pretty stupid, but you do feel bad when you miss people you love. Urabe properly explains that her saliva isn't magical, he's only in love with her.

The following eps are then all about generic romance situations, except they solve everything with drool. First date, trip to the beach, situations that look like one of them is cheating ... Everytime, solved by tasting each other's drool. Where in other stories people would struggle to explain their feelings, there, they'd just use their cheap trick.

The art is okay and does the job. It never looks bad, but never pretty either.

The sound was good. Some songs gave some of that MYSTERIOUS feel, and Urabe's voice was a really nice surprise. It's a quiet,husky yet cute voice, which I thought was really fitting.

The characters. The protagonist is as generic he can get. He is not TOO stupid like some protagonist can be though, so i guess he does the job.
Urabe is mysterious. What does that mean ? She doesn't speak much and she has scissors in her panties. Mysterious.
I have no explanation for the X tho.
One thing that annoys me is that the protag just instantly falls in love with Mikoto after seeing her once and tasting her drool once. Similarly, Urabe is foretold that protag would be her first sexual experience, and she just goes along with it. So they start dating.
The side characters include protag's BFF and his girlfriend. That girlfriend also seems to fall in love with Urabe for some reason, going as far as keeping a naked picture of Urabe, but that never bothers anyone.
The protag's older sister looked nice, but she never interacts.

I couldn't enjoy the story and I couldn't enjoy the drool fanservice, hence the 3.