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I actually really really enjoyed watching this movie, as a shy introvert myself, I could relate to the MC quite well about having difficulty expressing her feelings and finding the right words to say. The bits about the egg was a little strange, and I worried about whether it was actually a fantasy when that tag wasn't even present - but I ended up enjoying those scenes as well, giving a little change to the atmosphere of the movie.

The story was great. Humorous at times, depressing at times, a mix of genres to tell a story about trauma and youth. There's some usual teen drama ... tropes, but I did dislike that one where MC overhears something she's not supposed to. (My god, I hate this one so much.)

There was nothing bad about the art, it was clean and very youth-like. (Kind of reminds me of KyoAni, but I don't know.) The animation was done well too, nothing to criticise.

I quite liked the music. I love all the voice actors here, I didn't hear anything wrong, and Minase Inori's voice was actually beautiful during that climax song. I cried like a baby. Uchiyama Kouki's voice is one of my favourites and it was a pleasure to hear him sing.

Yeah, so the only problem I really have are the romance in this anime. If the movie was about learning to express oneself truthfully, then it should've stayed that way. There was no need to place each character with another to give them a nice happy little ending, because life doesn't always have happy endings, right?

OTHERWISE, DEVELOP THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS BETTER. Oh my god, there was barely any indication of romance between some of these characters, while chemistry between the main characters far exceeded the rest. And I get you want to give it a twist or something, but you can't give a twist when it barely makes sense.

The movie would be perfect if no one got together because they realised they need to improve themselves before starting to date, since, they've all made mistakes that seemed to have hurt people. But fuck it. They're teenagers and they want to date. I get it, hormones. But fuck, if not for the romance, this would've been my favourite movie.

(Also, what was the point of baseball dude asking out long hair perfect girl? Why did that need to happen? I swear the relationships and the chemistry is all over the place.)

Honestly, I never thought I'd ever write a review but I just had such strong opinions on this one, and seeing how there was only one review here that didn't voice my opinion, I am writing this now. I know this is really badly written, but I just really needed to write all this down.

So this is not a storyline we're unfamiliar with: a perfect boy, and an unpopular girl, connected due to a secret. And really, I don't dislike that. It's not a bad plot. Even though it's cliche and overused, if they write it well, it'll turn out amazing.

Unfortunately, that is not ... what happened...

This is supposed to be a romantic-comedy (I think). But there is no romance. There were situations that could appear to be romantic developments, but there were no 'thump thump' or blushes, or any sort of change in behaviour. I read up to chapter 19, and only then did I notice some development in their relationship, though it was still one-sided. Nevertheless, I feel all the chapters before chapter 19 were simply unnecessary.

Due to threatening of the boy to reveal her secret, abuse. Bullying. Sexual harassment. These were all heavily shown in the manga, and very loudly expressed throughout the manga. Yet nobody, none of the adults ever did anything about it even though they addressed it, and apologised? (The only person I can accept was the foreigner guy who came in between, but then he said he kinda missed the president later on, so I take that back.) And the girl just accepted it as well, despite being so bothered by it - because it was a comedy. I don't know about you, but I personally think there is absolutely nothing funny about harassment, nor anything romantic about it, for that matter.

And for the conclusion, I thought they'd make a time-lapse after five years (because that's also a popular clique) and the school president will come back as a changed man, since he's basically ran away from the commotion at school after the reveal of the secret. Then maybe, I'll give him a chance and they can actually have an acceptable romance. But no. That did not happen. They had to cut it short and he returned to school with a slightly better behaviour. If they carried the story from here, I think I would have enjoyed it a whole lot more. Here, he actually had feelings for her, and wasn't treating her like a slave, and there was room for developing feelings of the girl too.

Overall, it was just a love developed one-sidedly, and then forced upon the girl, who even though expresses how much she hates it, cannot stand up for herself and let all the adults in her life control, whom, don't give a shi*t about the bullying, and encourages her to stay with him. I hated this. There was no satisfaction in finishing this, nothing happened. It was only the school president who ended up happier than he was from the beginning, and nothing beneficial for the other main character. It was truly a waste of my time. I'd only rated it 2/10 due to a good premise, some development for the guy, and sympathy for the girl. I personally wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless they have a thing for bullying that's encouraged even when acknowledged.