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God, I tried my best to make it through this movie. I thought it might be cute, a normal-ish couple who ended up a couple through working together after working through some differences in their personalities, but I couldn't even get that far. I had to stop watching because it was irritating me.

Some spoilers, but it doesn't matter because I didn't make it to the end.

The main character is an insufferable twat. I can tell they added the mental asides for him meaning for them to be cutesy (hence the cute chibi version of the character representing his mental voice), but I really just ... wanted to strangle him. In fact, adding in the main character berating other characters in his head for infractions like (gasp!) daring to think he's a decent guy, really just serve to make him more unlikeable, and I found myself wishing he'd get hit by a bike or something. When he didn't get hit the first time, my disappointment was immeasurable.

Neither of the main characters are enjoyable to watch. One is an asshole, and one is a boring nothing character whose only personality trait is 'openly bisexual'. I've found more personality in the nearly cardboard representations of characters in other barely coherent anime.

The one redeeming trait to this movie is that the art is pretty good and the characters are portrayed as normal looking dudes instead of the stereotypical uke and seme portrayals in nearly every other BL anime. However, at one point I looked away and looked back (because I got bored) and suddenly had no idea which character was which. There's a serious lack of diverse characters in this, and by that I mean I literally couldn't tell some of them apart. And I've watched Osomatsu-san.

My number one main complaint for this entire thing is that it's just...so boring. I couldn't force myself to pay attention. And after seeing a couple reviews that say not to watch past 45 minutes, and finding out that this movie falls right back into the harmful BL stereotypes that make it so hard to find decent gay representation in anime, I couldn't let myself watch any more. It's shameful that anyone could see yet another rape scene and still find the movie charming. I thought we were better than this.

Very cute and with really good animation (though at times it was a little stilted and weird), if you liked the first season of Attack on Titan you'll enjoy all the little references to the show that are in this. Very funny but honestly one of the worst cases of character reductionism and Flanderization I've ever seen. If you can handle viewing the characters of Attack on Titan as one-dimensional and with none of the depth they enjoy in the original series, you'll like this. Its practically required to have seen the first season of Attack on Titan to understand many of the references in ... this series.