A beautiful romance filled with everyday distrust, self-doubt and misunderstandings.
Series in more sentences:
A teenage girl has long given up on the concept of making friends and has accepted her status as a bully target, until the most popular guy in school notices her and is immediately smitten. He strives to become her boyfriend and have a proper relationship with her, but it proves difficult to win the trust of an antisocial and unconfident girl.
It was a good average, though the repetition frustrated me at times.
I adore simple romances, but this one got slightly ruined by the characters' never-ending obliviousness for each other's issues and the long silences during their walks home. The girl's excuse is that she's socially messed up, but I don't understand why the super-social, popular kid acted so distant at times. Wouldn't someone like him talk non-stop and try to get his girlfriend involved with his life every second of the day? Maybe not, when all things considered.
A more important question is probably: why is this boy in love with her? It feels like the girl is too much to handle for any normal person and there's little to like about her. She's distant and not someone you'd take with you if you want to have a good time.
As a character, I like her, but as a love interest for this guy who gets no response whenever he's trying his very best, she's painful to watch.
The distrust made sense at the start; when the girl still has to learn who this 7 feet kid is that just threw himself onto her, but when the super modelling plot starts, things turn extremely sour. They pretty much stop hanging out with each other, no idea why, and neither of them take the initiative to, until this bitter plot is finally saved by their friends butting in. Thank shit for them.
In general, the jealous supermodel student using her job to claim the good-looking boyfriend and have him work for her studio is an excellent conflict. She was a good "villain" and I had no problems with her, but what does bother me is that this episode made this otherwise kind and lovestruck boy look like a dick. He never stopped loving the main character, this is what is claimed by the series, so why did he stop meeting up with her at school? What reason did he have to not talk or text her? Why did he choose to have a routinely dinner date at this model's house, who had an obvious crush on him and even announced this to be so the very first time they met? Is he truly that stupid that he didn't think people would follow them after work and find out about this, or just gossip about their work relationship, and his girlfriend wouldn't get confronted by it? While they're attending the most expositional school in existence, where at least one pair of giggly girls are present in every hallway, spitting out gossip at the right moment for the main character to hear? Really?
One of their friends said it best when she called him out on his failure to inform his own girlfriend he's been having dinner at some other girl's place every time.
I found this level of ignorance not to fit his character, and with the long silences already dominating this fruitless love relationship, it didn't feel like it was going anywhere. If you have nothing to root for, the story falls flat.
Then again, the anime argued the boy is a rather spineless slut who does anything to please a girl.. then.. maybe it does fit his character..?
There were many sweet moments, but misunderstandings kept happening, these lovers kept doubting each other, the girl's lack of response to everything was annoying and deafening, these bits were not entertaining to watch.
Lovely intro song, though.
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