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(Hi! Please read this review at anilist DOT co/review/20115 as it was intended. I've used many images and the formatting is suited for anilist's html. I've just copied and pasted it here but the review is mine.)

For starters, yes, I'm the odd one out here. I didn't like Paradise Kiss as much as I initially thought I would, but I didn't exactly hate it either. In Summation: it has its problems and in the end I decided to give it 6/10. Which, in my opinion, is pretty fair. There __WILL__ be spoilers in this review, so beware!

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Paradise kiss is about 18 year old Yukari Hayasaka, ... who's a senior in high school and taking extra classes for the college entrance exam. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life and is only doing so because of her uptight mother, who always expected her to be the best student in her class and, to be honest, _is a really bad mother_. But oh, how I wish that her mother was the only problem in this manga!

Yukari then cross paths with the Paradise Kiss crew, a group of teenagers from a fashion school who were in desperate need of a model. Yukari is a lean, tall and beautiful young lady, so naturally, she's a match. But here is where one of my major problems with the story begins:

#__~~~George.~~~__
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George is one of ParaKiss and probably is considered its leader. He is an excentric boy and quite frankly, not at all a good "hero" for this story. Before meeting George, Yukari was (supposedly) "in love" with Tokumori-kun:

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(Okay, yeah, CLEARLY the good choice is Tokumori-kun. But! I'm getting ahead of myself here. *a-hem*)

Only a few chapters in and suddenly, she's all about George! And okay, this is a shoujo (even though many consider it to be josei) and there's a love triangle tag ~~(that I didn't check beforehand but that's on me)~~, but I kind of expect love triangles to... make sense?

As in: I expected her to take a little longer to uh, "switch" sides. I expected her to show more love towards Tokumori, considering that she had a picture of him on her wallet. I wasn't expecting her first love to be so... shallow.

But okay, she immediately gets smitten by George, and I was hoping that George would be a good person, but...

__he's a terrible person.__

0 emotional availability or responsability, never calls her (waits for her to call him, ALWAYS), unavailable for serious conversations and only really available when he's kissing/having sex with her OR dolling her up with his outfits and makeup.

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The amount of times he makes her cry in this story is abysmal. The amount of times he does something to rectify that (or even just say that he's sorry) is, literally, __ZERO__.

He's a terrible person and a terrible boyfriend and I'm nowhere near done with this review yet.

Meanwhile, Hiroyuki Tokumori is a hardworking student from the same class as Yukari. He's honest, he's reliable and he's... actually in love with one of Parakiss' members, his childhood friend Miwako:

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Who's actually been dating their childhood friend, Arashi:
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And hey, we got ourselves... a love sextuple?!?! I think that's the word. It's basically two love triangles, but they're interwoven together. (And utterly unnecessary, but ANYWAY).

Those three were childhood friends and have had issues since then. Miwako has admitted to loving both of them, but since Arashi gets insanely jealous, she decided __to stop talking to Hiroyuki altogether__. (Also, mind you, this stuff happened BEFORE THE EVENTS of Paradise Kiss, I think this is better explained in Gokinjo Monogatari).

As unhealthy as this is, he complied with her wishes and we only find out through Yukari, who arranged for a meeting of the two without them knowing. Upon finding out about his feelings for Miwako (who became a very dear friend to Yukari), I expected... drama. I expected a little bump on the road of their friendship but, THANKFULLY this time, I was happy to be wrong. Miwako stays strong with her choice of Arashi and even said that she'd be happy for Yukari if she ended up with Tokimori.

But.

Yukari immediately deflects that by telling her she actually thinks she's in love with George. *Sigh*.

And here's another problem I have with this manga: clearly, since the beginning, Ai Yazawa was planning for Yukari to end up with George. Tokumori was supposed to be a "mentor", just a good male friend. Which is a shame to me, considering he'd be a fantastic male lead, but then the story gets _worse_.

Out of NOWHERE, Tokumori says he's in love with Yukari (but by then, she was already in a toxic relationship with George). You'd think this would make me happy, but it didn't. Even though this story only has 48 chapters, I think there should have been enough room for things to happen in a natural progression. The way that things happened in Paradise Kiss were way too fast, with little to no time to develop its own characters, let alone a satisfactory relationship between them.

One chapter she likes Tokumori, the next she's madly in love with George. One chapter she's in love with George, the other she decides to tell him to fuck off, then she's back to being on her knees begging for him again. We see Tokumori being a nice friend and being worried for Yukari, but I don't think the little we've seen of him was enough for him to develop romantic feelings for her (especially since he was hung up on Miwako for so, so long). George is a dick to Yukari again, but the next minute he's being a slightly decent person. Really, I think the timing of Paradise Kiss was a huge mess and it got on the way of my enjoyment.

Another (perhaps minor) complaint I have is with the 4th wall breaking. If it was fun and/or had any plot reason for that, I'd like it, but...

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Instead of laughing at the times they break the 4th wall (which are many), I was unamused. And I think it got in the way of the "flow" of the chapter. Here I am, trying to take this story seriously, and suddenly the characters are acknowledging they're only characters in a manga. And they just gloss over that fact, like it was no big deal.

Moving forward to other problematics, there's Ai Yazawa trying to bring LGBT characters to the story but without further fleshing out them. They're... George and Isabella.
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George is Bissexual, and at first that made me REALLY excited because 1) I hardly ever see bi characters in anime/manga, or at least it's handled poorly and 2) I happen to be bissexual myself.

Sadly, what we got was this:

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This isn't flirtation, this is harassment. Arashi is clearly uncomfortable, but all these situations are played for laughs. Instead of laughing, I was also uncomfortable. This is a caricature of what most straight people think being bissexual is like.

And then there's Isabella.

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She's a lovely trans woman who acts as the mother of the group. Too bad she _barely_ shows up.

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She's such an underused and underappreciated character. Whenever she shows up, it's always in the background and/or being nice, rarely did we get more insights on her thoughts and her character. There was ONE flashback chapter with her but that was it.

I can't help but think about the chapter amount. If only we got more chapters. If only Ai Yazawa knew how to properly manage those chapters. I know that Isabella is a supporting character, it's natural that she gets less screentime than the MCs, but out of all the supporting cast, she's the one with the very least amount of screentime. The only characters showing up less than her are the parents, who naturally weren't that important for the plot to start with.

There's also a hint of her maybe having feelings for George, but I couldn't say for sure due to her being severely underdeveloped.
~! img(https://i.imgur.com/oEOGFsy.png)
she does go with him to Paris, though. !~

Lastly, I'll be complaining about the ending of the manga, but it'll be in a long spoiler bubble so don't worry.

~! George doesn't become a better person (in my opinion), but he decides to go to Paris to pursue his dream of becoming a fashion stylist. He asks Yukari to come with him, but she decides to stay in Japan to focus on her own dream: becoming a model.

Not what I expected to happen, but not why I'm complaining either. This was a smart move. What I didn't like was this:

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there's a timeskip and then we're presented with Yukari being engaged to Tokumori. __OUT OF NOWHERE__.

We didn't see her getting over George nor him getting over Miwako. We didn't see either of them going on a date or confessing. We didn't see a kiss. We didn't see anything about their relationship and how they got together, we just got the aftermath of that.

Even me, who liked Tokumori since the beginning, who saw that he was the best choice, didn't like this ending. Yukari even blatantly asked him if he ever got over Miwako and he said he didn't!

To me, this feels like Yukari never got over George and Tokumori never got over Miwako. But they couldn't be with their loved ones, so they decided to get together. And that's bullshit.

Through the entire time I was reading, the story felt rushed. So I should accept this rushed ending, I suppose. But I can't get over the fact that Paradise Kiss had a lot of potential and it was all wasted.
!~

Overall, I can't give this a worse rating because I did have some moments of fun while reading. And I did read worse things before lol trust me. But yes, Paradise Kiss was a huge disappointment for me. Thank you if you read this review till the end :)

Honestly, all of these short stories are interesting and could be very promising, but... they never amounted to anything.

It's kind of that formula "monster of the week" (which in this version it's like "villain of the week"), but without a bigger villain or bigger... plot?

The MCs don't have a common goal, in fact, they don't have a goal at all. Mana and Yuta teamed up because, well, she had nowhere to go and apparently neither did he? But like... they have nothing in common. And this could've been better explored, but oh well... no time for character development when we have to create a brand ... new villain every week, huh? lol

No wonder this was "cancelled". But really, if Rumiko wanted to, she could've made this into a GREAT story.

This is less of a review for others and more of a: >my< thoughts on Peach Girl.
So it DOES include spoilers!!!!! (but if you’re familiar with the TokyoPop version, you know about the titles. And if you know about the titles, I’m sure you can at least guess where I’m going at).

~INTRODUCTION~

Listen, Peach Girl means a lot to me. It was the first shoujo I ever read, the first manga I ever collected and the first manga that I bought completely “blind”: all of the other mangas I bought I had already watched the anime adaptation first and knew at least a little bit about ... the story.

All I did was look at the cover and the art style, which are VERY PRETTY and appealing to me, so I bought it.

Today, I’m 25 years old and have finished rereading this story. And while I still hold it dear to my heart, I gotta admit this is a very problematic story.

~SEX~

First, I think that while it is considered a shoujo, it is definitely more suitable for late teens (like… 18+). Sex is an important feature in this story, even though there are NO sex scenes. There’s a bit of nudity, there’s /almost/ sex scenes, there’s RAPE ATTEMPTS (!!!!!!) (though this concerns more violence) and more. I first began reading it when I was about 8 years old, so I definitely shouldn’t have.

There were no warnings concerning this in the cover and while I am in no way a prude, I think that the reader needs to have at least a little bit of maturity to understand what is really going on.

~RAPE~

As I mentioned previously, there are rape ATTEMPTS. More than ONCE, even. This could potentially trigger a percentage of readers who have been through something similar. And, to a younger audience, it could potentially “teach” them wrong notions about it.

By the time I reached this part in the story, I was around 15 years old. Much older than when I first started reading, but still not that mature enough. I understood that those were rape attempts but I didn’t understand what rape really was about.

~LOVE TRIANGLES~

As a kid, I liked the idea of two handsome men fighting for the love of… well, me. As a teen, I thought that it was an unrealistic idea, but I just shrugged it off. As an adult… I HATE love triangles.

This trope is more used to bring drama into the story, and in this case, it brought ALL the (unnecessary) drama. To the point that you start to wonder: did Momo ever really love ANY of those guys?

As alluded in the subtitle of vols 8-18 (“change of heart”), Momo starts to love Kairi instead of Toji. As a “Team Kairi” person since a kid, I was ecstatic to read that. But when I found out HOW that turned out… oof. Big oof.

I’ll comment more about the couple’s lack of conversation in the next topic, but in this one I’ll focus on all the shifts the story had with Toji and Kairi:

Momo starts with Toji > Toji breaks up with her, she dates Kairi > bullshit happens (lol) and she goes back to Toji > even more bullshit happens and she gets confused as to “who to pick” (???) > She ends up with Kairi.

Look. I’m happy that she ended the story with my prefered character, but it seemed so far-fetched. She had at least 3 CHANCES to pick Kairi (in the last few chapters) and in all 3 she chose Toji. At the very last moment, as if she was an actress in a movie and had just remembered that the script told her she had to choose Kairi, she sprints towards that ending.

I already said that love triangles are unrealistic, but this manages to top that. There were several times in my reread that I was furious with Momo’s indecision and that, had I not known the ending, I’d have dropped the manga.

I understand that she was fragile when the whole switcharoo started to happen, but wow. A side character tells Momo that to her it didn’t matter who she ended up with, as long as someone “showed up”. I kinda think she’s right.

(Not to mention: the whole love triangles trope is inconsiderate towards the “unchosen one”. One of these people will always have to give up the person they love and in Toji’s case, I think the way Momo handled the situation was VERY inconsiderate.)

~LACK OF CONVERSATION~

Toji breaks up with Momo to protect her from Sae. Did he really need to do that? Answer: NO.

He could’ve just talked to her and told her that Sae was blackmailing him. He could’ve tried a better way to protect Momo, instead of having to do what Sae wanted. But nope. “I’d rather take decisions by myself about my relationship without even talking to my girlfriend”.

Many chapters later, Momo was now with Kairi and they had an agreement. “I’ll wait for you for 5 minutes and if you don’t come by then, I’ll know your answer”. Something comes up, Kairi CALLS HER and DOESN’T SAY WHAT HAPPENED and expects her to still wait for him.

Like??? He already called her, he SHOULD have said what happened and why he’d be late. He could’ve told her everything by the phone and she’d have waited for him, but instead, he did exactly what Toji did in the beginning: didn’t. Talk. to. Her. about. Important. Stuff.

At least 80% of the drama in this story could’ve been prevented by having a conversation. That drove me mad.

~THE GOOD POINTS (AND CONCLUSION)~

There are many many other little points that I’d like to share but I think I’ve already said the most important ones and I already gave too many spoilers, so I’ll wrap it up:

With these many flaws, how can I still LIKE this story and give it a somewhat high rating?

Peach Girl, while flawed and problematic, is entertaining. Even though I already knew how it ended, it had me avidly reading page after page, on the edge of my seat, hoping that it would all end okay for my favorite characters.

Momo is kind and good-hearted, even though she should hate Sae’s guts and wish her harm, she keeps worrying about her and even considers her a friend. Sae starts off as a bitch but through character development she gets better and even helps Momo and Kairi towards the end. Toji is a good boy despite everything. Kairi starts off as a funny guy, perfect even, but through character development and his backstory we can see a whole new side of him.

Many points of the story are absurd to the point of being unreal, but at least the characters are very real to me.

Plus: it was fun! True, I did have waaay more fun reading it as a kid/teen than I did as an adult, but it was still nice.

Would I still love it if I read it for the first time as an adult?
Probably not. I probably would’ve dropped this a long time ago lol

Should you read this, after this monstrous review?
I don’t know. You tell me. If you don’t, I won’t blame you. If you do, I hope you can grow to love these characters as much as I did :)

I first found out about Peach girl through its manga, when it was licensed in my country in the very beginning of the 2000s. Years later, I found out there was an anime adaptation, but I postponed watching it because I wanted to reread the manga and experience it alongside the anime.

That was a MISTAKE. Comparing both of them at the same(ish) time only made the anime’s flaws WORSE.

The original manga has its problems (which I’ll discuss when I write my manga review), but the anime’s far surpasses those!

Almost nothing about the anime is worth:

– not the animation;
Which is ugly, broken, lazy, not at all ... like Miwa Ueda’s cute art style. Many animations from the early/mid 2000’s were kind of like that, but this just looks waaaay worse than what you’d usually see. The result of this animation looks like a bunch of college kids who just learned how to animate took a dive into their very first official job.

I don’t know any other anime made by Studio Comet – I think I’ve never watched anything by this studio – but I sure hope that they have improved. Otherwise, I won’t be watching any more of their stuff.

– not the music;
Boring and forgettable, neither the opening nor the ending were entertaining enough. I just skipped to the episode all the time.

– not the adaptation changes;
Yes, there ARE adaptation changes. Tons of it!!! They try to tame the story a lot, but how do you tame a story that was originally intended to be a bit risqué? Sex is a big part of this story (there are no sex scenes per say, but it's still important for the development of some characters/some relationships/the story itself), if you try to censor that because there might be kids watching, it will feel like a botched up version of the original work.

I felt that those changes were pointless and all they did was make me dislike this anime adaptation more and more.

Now, I may be sounding way too harsh so I will say two of the things that I actually liked about it:

– The VAs;
Everyone did a great job to portray these characters. Even though I read the manga in portuguese (and later in english), I could definitely match the anime’s voice actors with the voices I had given them myself. Sae sounded very sae-ish, Kairi was super kairi-ish, Momo sounded very fine and Toji was… well, Toji. I’m not a big fan of Toji lol

– The fact that this is a COMPLETE adaptation:
This caught me completely off guard, seeing as most anime adapted from a source (be it manga, light novel, visual novel, etc) have no “proper” ending or they make their own ending. In Peach Girl’s case, while the adaptation was poorly made, it was indeed a complete adaptation. With many changes, but the ending (and most of the important parts) were still the same!!

Even so, I still think watching this anime was a huge waste of time. If you want to experience Peach Girl, I strongly recommend for you to only read the manga.

Wow. This is so silly and dumb sometimes, but it's also one of its greatest assets!!! I absolutely love Neda's comedy and to be honest, it baffles me how little popular this is and how many low ratings it got. REALLY????? THIS IS COMEDY GOLD RIGHT HERE!!!

*a-hem* of course, to like and even want to read this spin-off, you have to first be acquainted with the characters of bnha. But even so, I think the comedy is funny enough even to the more "casual" fans.

All of the characters' personalities are slightly exaggerated (for comedic purposes), but even so, they're all very much "them". I didn't ... feel like any of them were ooc (even though they were written by somebody else) and the moments that they were "off" were explained by some villain's quirk making them change.

Not to mention: this has fan-service for everyone!! especially ship-wise. Neda was very generous in this aspect (whether he did it consciously or not), so every ship (popular, rare or in-between) had at least one moment.

Now, it is true that his art style is... kind of... amateur-ish. Sorry, Neda. But still, I couldn't care less about it, because all of the rest is top-notch quality.

If you like bnha and are able to get yourself a copy of smash!!, please do so. You won't regret it!

[Very little spoilers about only one of the chapters, but it's not a big deal]

!!!!!!!!!!This is a review of the FIRST VOLUME ONLY. I don't know if this gets better later or not!!!!!!!!!

This was basically fanfiction written by a man who's never written fanfic before and for which i had to PAY TO READ

Some characters were kinda.... ooc??? not entirely, but their characteristics were either watered down or way too exaggerated. You could tell hori didn't write this.

Not to mention that you have the opportunity to write whatever you want with the characters and yet you dedicate A LOT OF PAGES to mineta and kaminari ... hunting down girls. really???? I'd much much much MUCH rather read midoriya fanboying on that hero exposition he went to. or iida and tokoyami having fun in the park. or like, ANY other character doing anything. mineta was extra annoying in this, way more than he ever was in the original works (which is already saying a lot!!!)

So... there were some moments that I liked, but I feel like the writer needs to practice a lot more before this can actually become good.

[THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!]

To be honest, the only redeeming quality about this is the art.

For me, a slice of life is only successful if you CARE enough about the characters to want to know what happens in their life. And the characters from Solanin? ugh. I couldn't connect to ANY of them!!!

Meiko and Taneda's relationship didn't seem real to me. They didn't seem like they liked each other, it just felt like they were together out of necessity, like "I have no one else here in Tokyo so I'll just have to stick with you". That's... not romance. That's not what a relationship is supposed ... to be like.

[!!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!] and naturally, since I didn't care about the characters nor the romance, when Taneda died I was just like "oh ok"[!!!!!!!!!!END OF SPOILER!!!!!!!]

And the drama... I mean, it's pretty much the same problem as slice of life. For me to care, I need to like the characters. I didn't.

So this has just been a huge waste of time FOR ME. If you like drama and slice of life manga AND are a fan of Inio Asano, this could probably be a pretty good story for you.

so let me get this straight about this manga

- the fat chick is SO UGLY to the point that she's bullied by her classmates
- her only family is her mother, who doesn't treat her well either
- she has NO FRIENDS
- in the very first chapter she TRIES TO KILL HERSELF

and yet *somehow* she's THE VILLAIN of the story???????? and the beautiful, thin main character, who has a boyfriend and lots of friends, is the UNDERDOG????????????

did I get it all right or am I hallucinating??? I know I only read 3 chapters but that's pretty much the idea I got from it. I already disliked it ... from the get go, but I still gave it a chance and the more I read it, the more pissed off I got.

The literal ONLY good thing about this is the art, but that's not enough to keep me from not dropping it.

What if I told you that

- I'm a guy
- But as a kid I used to crossdress
- Also my family has this weird "condition" that makes the guys slowly turn into girls if they're kissed before they're adults and the only way to counteract this sorcery is if the person that they kissed keep kissing them and making them hot and bothered, which in turn increases the level of testosterone but not enough to fully turn them back into guys
- ?????? uuuuhhhhh... I lost my train of thought

This is the basic (LOL "BASIC") premise of this manga. Since I read this in the middle ... of the night, I couldn't be bothered to remember their names, so let's just call them: "Lesbian" and "Transperson".

What interested me in this manga is because Lesbian is afraid of men and yet her crush IS one, even though he looks like a girl. Then I found out that he was BECOMING a girl and he needed her help to be in an in-between state: basically, a girl with no boobs and a penis.

And the way the manga treats this is that the thing between your legs is what dictates your gender.

Look. Transperson was a cisboy and still identifies as a boy, so I let that slide. But that was the first problematic signal I caught from the manga.

The second one was that the manga treats girls as fragile beings (physically speaking). **Look**, it's true that guys *tend* to be stronger (physically) than girls, but that doesn't mean that it's a "rule". There are many guys that are weak, there are many girls that are strong and there are many people with roughly around the same strength. But in this manga, **EVERY GIRL** is automatically weak, even Transperson (!).

Also, let's backtrack a bit: remember the premise, about that weird family disease? Not that this is problematic per se, but it's SO BADLY WRITTEN that it's actually laughable lmao

This could easily be explained by a curse or some supernatural/paranormal explanation. But no, this is "normal" for his family (and ONLY his family, no other human being goes through that). Also, the "fix" is very specific: it HAS to be the first person they kissed and it HAS to happen every day or else by midnight he'll turn into a "full" girl forever (basically, a cis girl).

It's obvious that the author wanted Lesbian and Transperson to have an excuse to make out every day and nearly every chapter. And that's fine by my book, that's pretty much why I read it anyway! BUT. If you're gonna try to introduce plot into the mix, would it kill you to come up with a believable scenario?

Every plot point in this manga is crazier than the one before, AND YET.

**AND YET**.

I liked it. It was easy for me to ship Lesbian and Transperson. The tension moments made me keep reading, my eyes glued to my phone, wanting to know how this could possibly end. The kissing scenes were very hot and if I was rating this based ONLY on that, I'd give it a 9 (not a 10 though, 10 would be if there was a sex scene :P). The drama parts made me feel bad for the characters, so I suppose they weren't just stereotypical figures with cute faces, they actually had some layer of depth.

And I absolutely adored the art, it's very much a 10/10 to my tastes.

In the end, if the story was:
- longer (it has just 12 chapters, which I personally think that were not enough to properly develop... what needed to be developed)
- not problematic at all (the things I pointed out in this review)
- and better-written plot-wise (i.e: a better explanation about the "boy turns into girl" thing, among other things)

This could've been SO MUCH BETTER. But even as it was, I enjoyed it.

From episodes 1~3 it's a really interesting story and it makes you fall in love with the characters (mostly Bunny Senpai). You know the drill: girl is invisible, boy is the only one able to see her, they start to bond and he somehow wants to (and is able to??) stop the ~curse~ and she's visible again!!

Yes, all of that happens in the lapse of 3 episodes. This anime has 13 episodes. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENS IN THE REMAINING 10 EPISODES?!?!?!

I was already kinda skeptical before going to episode 4. I mean, it all moved SO fast... the romance (it was basically: episode 1 they ... meet and find out about her "condition" -> episode 2 they spend the whole time together and trying to figure out how to reverse it/who else is able to see her -> episode 3 everything works out in the end), the resolution itself (it all happened in episode 3 and HONESTLY, it all felt like a series finale), the half-assed explanation as to what this syndrome is... But hey, I figured, I'm still in the beginning.

So in episode 4 they basically reintroduce an extra from episode 1 and they're like "remember that syndrome? this chick has it too, except hers is different" and the male MC is like "welp. guess i gotta help HER out now, then."

See, I didn't like this girl, I thought she was very lukewarm (personality-wise as well as plot-wise). And not just that, but she sort of became the focus for a while. I have a theory that every girl that shows up in the opening will inevitably have the puberty syndrome and alas, the ONLY one able to save them is... yep! MC-kun!

*sigh* this anime seems to be taking the turn I didn't want it to take. I thought it'd be mostly a comedy with some slight angst/drama but, well, apparently it is a HAREM.

So this is definitely not for me. If anyone watches the rest of this and it gets good, feel free to message me to talk about it. Otherwise, I'll just drop it.