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I wanted to like this. The art style is really nice and lends a lot of charm to the character designs. I think Mei is very cute.

This is a story about a girl who has trust issues. She believes that people only pretend to be your friend and then abandon you. This causes her to shut herself off from everyone around her and assume the role of the class grouch. People tend to stay away from her because she never makes herself appear approachable.

I think there's good potential for what the anime wants to be. Focusing on this girl who slowly learns to ... open up and trust people and find friends that she can grow close to is always a plot point to accompany the romance. If anything, it makes the romance easier to occur naturally.

Which brings me to the problem: The main love interest - I don't care for him. Persistent to a downright fault. I was begging him to just leave her alone. I should be rooting for him to charm her and get her to change her mind about him, but honestly I just wanted him to go away. And the show he made of kissing her in front of her stalker to get the guy to go away is. . . well someone is really gonna like it, but considering how I felt beforehand I grimaced at the screen. I think there should be way more care in establishing the trust between these two characters. But he straight up forces himself on her. The second episode ends with him straight up kissing her RIGHT AFTER she pushes him away and yells at him. There's no build up or tension - he forces himself on her and kisses her. . . THEN explains what KIND of kiss it is. Could have been enjoyable, but the pacing just makes this moment feel so undeserved and I honestly just hated it enough to drop right then and there.

Redeeming notes: The relationship between Mei and the more outgoing girl in the class who gets bullied because of her appearance. I thought it was really sweet how Mei and her grew close and Mei even DEFENDED her when the gyaru bullies started talking smack about her in the bathroom. If there's more of that in the show, I think it has solid potential. But as it is, I can't bring myself to watch more. I just can't.

I thought it would be more interesting than it was since they start off married. They’re not bad characters, but they don’t really engage me to what’s going on. There isn’t really enough humor either for something labelled a comedy.

The antics are mostly because of Tsukasa’s younger sister but she is played out rather swiftly.

Im afraid on their own, this couple just isn’t interesting. Nasa Yuzaki wants to make a name for himself but the show never explores this desire. And to be honest I barely know anything about Tsukasa other than some vague tie-in to the moon. Maybe they’re trying to imply ... she IS Kaguya or has ties to Kaguya but for now she just sorta exists.

I feel like this series would have been better as a movie. The ending is something I would definitely cry over normally, but it didn’t hit me as hard as Id like. I think it’s because there’s only really one character Riko tried being friends with actively and I dunno. It felt kinda so-so?

Riko sucking at the beginning makes sense. Her not improving is probably fine if they didn’t play it as a joke in the final episode. A well-written comedy still needs its moments of seriousness. I think whoever wrote this really struggled with that balance. And speaking of balance, the sense of ... urgency felt pretty skewed.

I guess I dont mind so much that the girls take time to relax, but it doesn’t feel very well used. The girls are out having fun, sure, but there’s no meaningful emotional connection.

If they rewrote this as a movie and focused more on the relationships between the girls and made the lighthearted moments a small breather from the seriousness of the situation, this would have hit way harder and Id have loved it more.

As it is, it’s just okay.